Places

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-043

Description: A red clay road on a steep hillside through dense bush, including tree ferns. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: [ca 1890-1927]

From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); France, J W, active 1890s

Reference: PAColl-0348

Description: Mounted photographs by the Burton Brothers of the junction of Eden and Tees Streets, Oamaru showing St Luke's Church, shops, tram lines and part of the Council Chambers; looking down on the wharves of Port Chalmers with the Presbyterian Church in the right foreground; and the Kakahi Falls, near Tawhata on the Whanganui River. Two smaller mounted photographs of a river in the Catlins District. Three pages from a photograph album holding five photographs of the building of the Arapuni Dam on the Waikato River including the buried forest exposed by the Waikato River diversion. Three loose prints by J W France of an early settlers' cottage made of ponga with a turf roof and with the family outside; a group of six workmen standing on the road they were building with long handled shovels and a boy and a dog in front of them; and the funeral procession of Sir John MacKenzie in 1901 led by a pipe band up the main road in Oamaru working. Finally a loose print of the bridge over the Waiho River. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-68928 to 1/2-068934. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.

Date: 1956-1958

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-3

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1956 to 1958. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Most prints relate to the West Coast Region, but also some images of Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago regions. Identified people are: Kopara Sawmill workers Bill Brown, Owen Jacobs, Morry Pullman, Hans Van Ruyven, Jimmy Birchfield, Doug Macalister, Joe Kavanagh, Neil McLean, Archy Fluerty, saw doctor John Henry Ord, Ted McGhie; licensee of Nelson Creek Hotel D Graham; Dorothy Debenham; Mick Bowie, and chief guide at Mt Cook Hermitage. Unidentified people include a female French tourist and some children. Featured natural environments include Karamea beach scenes, mining and sawmilling sites, and Buller Gorge. Featured town sequences include Reefton and Nelson's Creek houses and businesses, many of which are derelict. Further images (and series of images) of note include: a series of images of the Kopara Sawmill with forests, exterior felling scenes, lumber yard, processing of timber, and workers; spectators at a Cobden soccer match; crib-logging on the Wataroa River; various road works and maintainence scenes; locomotive at Ngahere sawmill site; images relating to various mining activities; church buildings; municipal buildings; and some mountaineering prints. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1924-1928

By: Hill, Ivon Johnstone, 1897-1962; Hill, Bernard, active 2002; Tuckwell, Judith, active 2002

Reference: PA1-o-1174

Description: Photographs of the east coast road just north of Gisborne, and of journeys inland from Gisborne to Otoko, and Motu. Scenic views make up most of the subject matter in this album; willows overhanging a stream at "Otonga" in the Waimata Valley; Twin waterfalls in the bush near Otoko; the road over Tatapouri Hill just north of Gisborne; a station homestead in its plantations and valley, Otoko; the Motu-Opotiki road passing through stands of native forrest; a nikau palm grove at the Morere hot springs; bridges, streams and rivers; the town of Motu under snow in 1926; Waikanae Beach, its tearooms and the dredge Korua. There is one photograph of children sitting with their dolls, and another of a child, a man and a dog. Photographed by Ivon Johnstone Hill from 1924 to 1928 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1840 - 1972 - 1850

From: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869 :Five early views of the Hutt and Wairarapa. [Wellington], Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1972.

Reference: C-028-036

Description: Two men resting beside a narrow road newly cleared through native bush, including a tree fern, with a river to the left. More likely to be the Hutt road, somewhere between Petone and the Taita Gorge, during the making of the road in 1842, than the Karori or Porirua possibilities. For original watercolour see B-009-013 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 234 x 328 mm on sheet 510 x 330 mm

Date: [1908-1946]

From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5960-1

Description: Correspondence relating to Furkert's work as an engineer and his position on the Standards Council Quantity: 1 folder(s). Two diagrams in typed letter, Furkert to Murray, illustrating effect of snow on trees (1946); and copy of PWD 23934 of plan for groynes on the Manawatu River (1908)

Date: 1917-1924

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: 73-128-127

Description: Identified persons entered under Name; includes papers relating to power development, flooding of the Waikanae River, the Wellington-Palmerston North main road over the Paekakariki Hill, war memorial proposal, Rimutaka proposals, sawmilling proposition for Akatarawa, acquisition of Barton's Bush by the Government, and discharged soldiers and land at Te Horo Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1933-1956

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-229

Description: Panoramic and aerial photographs taken for publication in New Zealand Free Lance, 1930s-1950s. Clearing native forest along banks of the Haast River to construct road to link Central Otago and South Westland, 1950; inter-city bus enroute around eastern side of Lake Taupo, 1950 (Whites Nos 25739/25740); plane at Lake Ohau, Oct 1951 (Whites Nos 29447/29448); The Square, Palmerston North, 1938; earthworks at Nehotipu Dam, 1947; New Plymouth, 1936; Halfmoon Bay, Stewart Island, 1933; Oban, Stewart Island, 1947 (Whites No 6590); massed display of the National Military Reserve bands and athletes at the National Fitness Rally at Rugby Park, Invercargill, Oct 1940. Members' stand at Trentham Racecourse, 1956 and undated; aerial view of Alexandra Park, Epsom, Auckland (includes Greenlane Hospital), 1948 (Whites 11698); aerial view of Ellerslie Racecouse, Auckland, 1948 (Whites 11700). New Zealand Bowling Association's annual championships held at Sydenham, Christchurch, 1950. Large crowd of spectators watching teams on the green. Five photographs relating to New Zealand Cup (photographer Weigel), 1959 [?]. One photograph shows J Smyth (owner of the winner False Step) receiving his trophy from Mrs W M Olliver, wife of the president of the Metropolitan Trotting Club. Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-017

Description: A road leading towards a gate, possibly the front gate of Mt Peel Station, with bush beyond the gate. Two tall conifers flank the gate and hills and snow-clad mountains are in the background. There is part of a tennis net to the left and small specimen trees set in lawn, suggesting that the view is from the station's front garden, looking out. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: [Circa 1910s]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000729-G

Description: View of the Otira River in the Otira Gorge, with the road running alongside. Snow-covered mountains are visible in the background. Photograph taken by William Archer Price Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Otira Gorge. [No.] 1745B Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [ca 1910-1930]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000396-G

Description: View of a man in an open tourer parked on the road after fording the upper reaches of the Waiaua River. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Crossing the upper reaches. Waiawa River. No 3728 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1910 - 1913

By: Baker, William George, 1864-1929; Godsland, L St. J, active 1920s-1990s; Bristol and Dominions Producers' Company; Wellington Meat Export Company

Reference: G-497

Description: A steep valley with bush-clad hills, dropping to a river with a bridge in the middle distance and a road to the left, with a carriage being pulled by four horses. There are telegraph poles beside the road and the rata is in flower on the hills. The horse-drawn carriage is very small relative to other features in the foreground. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Otira Gorge. W.G.Baker [in red-brown brushpoint] Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 595 x 900 mm (sight) Provenance: According to the donor the artist "painted six canvases of scenes in New Zealand which were to grace a pavilion in an exhibition due to be held at the opening of the Panama Canal. They were painted about 1912, but due to the commencement of the 1914-1918 War the exhibition was never held. The pictures were then bought by a Mr Cooper, a director of the Wellington Meat Export Co., who retained one, giving the other five to the Bristol and Dominions Producers Company ... The Company went into liquidation in 1920 and my father, who was one of the Bristol directors - other Directors were situated in New Zealand and Australia - bought the five paintings which were dispersed following his death. I acquired "Otira Gorge" amd "Dusky Sound" is in the possession of my sister. Three of the paintings have disappeared."

Date: Between 1910 and 1920s

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Gilmour Brothers (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-000957-G

Description: Mile Bush near Waingaro, Raglan District. Possibly taken by Gilmour Brothers (lettering compared with images taken by the Gilmour Brothers). Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Mile Bush Waingaro 46 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: Aug 1955

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-8163-26

Description: View showing a mother and two children standing beside a convertible car on a dirt road before a bridge crossing, looking up towards Pohaturoa, a rock outcrop rising 245 m above the Waikato River, south-west of Atiamuri. The rock is planted with forestry pine. Photograph taken in August 1955, by an unidentified photographer for the Free Lance. Inscriptions: Verso - top right - File / Photo [... illegible]; Verso - top centre - 1/12 x 3 1/14 Friday 5/8/55; Verso - bottom centre - Published 17 Aug 1955 Page 34 [publication stamp]; Verso - bottom centre - REMARKABLE ROCK FORTRESS. "As we approached Atiamuri there came into view the old Maori stronghold, Powhateroa [sic: Pohaturoa], round whose feet the river runs. Pine forest clothes its cone-shaped sides and out of them, as though the top had been pushed up by a giant's finger, rise sheer cliffs capped again with pines. `Like the head of a Fijian warrior' was the description we heard." [Glued-on clipping from original publication] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.7 x 16.8 cm

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 14

Reference: PAColl-6585-56

Description: Road construction, Waipoua Kauri Forest, circa 1920s. Photographer, and road workers, unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.8 x 20.1 cm, mounted on to card

Date: 1935

By: Weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: B-059-025

Description: Shows a man standing beside his motorcar on a country road, overhung with trees, a rata vine growing over the trees and making an archway over the road. There are several tree ferns at the side of the road. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 395 x 277 mm, on sheet 459 x 315 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2007.

Date: 1890 - 1900

By: Kirkwood, Henry William, 1854-1925; McKenzie, Joan Christie, 1918-1995; Rawson, Joan Whiteley, 1910-1992

Reference: G-234

Description: Shows road in foreground leading off into distance, with bushcovered hill in right background. On the road a cowherd follows three cows walking away to background. Dated 1890s on the basis that Kirwood exhibited with the NZ Academy of Fine Arts from 1889 to 1895. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - HWK (in red paint); Verso - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 oil(s) framed.. Physical Description: Oil, 222 x 150 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Miss Joan Whitely Rawson.

Date: 8 May 1963

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-60224-F

Description: Aerial view of the upper Hutt Valley looking north east. Includes Manor Park, Manor Park Golf course, Haywards, Haywards electrical sub station, the railway line and Silverstream railway bridge, the Hutt River, Keith George Memorial Park, and in the distance Upper Hutt and the Tararua Range. Photographed 8 May 1963 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13.8 x 13.2 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation Box Blue 231, Lower Hutt.

Date: 1906

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0187-1/2-G

Description: View of a bridge over the Hautapu River, with unsealed road visible on either side of the river. Photographed in 1906 by A P Godber. Description in album at Pa1-o-197 (Vol 105, p 5): "Hautapu River bridge". Original print at Pa1-o-197 (Vol 105, p 5). Date from other items in the album. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches