Places

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: 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: 2002-2006

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000487

Description: Photographs of Buller, West Coast. Includes photographs of the Buller Gorge road, Buller towns and shops, Denniston, views of rivers and coastlines around the Buller district. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (Buller)" Quantity: 143 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2002-2003

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000492

Description: Photographs of Granity, West Coast. Includes photographs of Granity Sands Backpackers, beach, shops and surrounding views around Granity. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (granity)" Quantity: 107 digital photograph(s).