Places

Date: [ca 1970-ca 1979]

From: Giles, T Rex, 1929-2006 :Photographs of deer farming and hunting, opossum hunting, taxidermy, and mining.

Reference: PAColl-8752-2

Description: Photographs of deer carcasses being processed for export at Consolidated Traders Ltd's works at Rongatea and Rotorua. Also featured are carcasses of wild pigs awaiting processing and frozen goat carcasses bagged and ready for export. Several photographs show bales of deer pelts packed and covered with hessian. Deer photographed on Rex Giles' farm, Forest Park, at Maroa north of Taupo. Most of these photographs were in albums of plastic sleaves and were probably used as promotional material for the company. The prints were removed from the albums as the type of plastic bonds with the emusion of the print. Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1889 - 1914 - 1930 - 1939

By: Gear Meat Processing Ltd

Reference: Plans-2002-014-001/007

Description: Includes: 001. Gear Meat Co.y's works, Petone. [1889] (Ink drawing) 002. Gear Meat Company's works, Petone, 1914 (Blueprint) (Same as Plans-82-0093, but better preserved) 003. The Gear Meat Co. Ltd Petone. Plan of works. [1920s?] 004. Gear Meat Processing Co Ltd. [Plan. 1930s?] 005. Gear Meat Co Ltd. General plant layout. DRG no 38-0-400 [1977?] (Same as Plans-82-0092) 006. Gear Meat Coys Works Petone / Frank J Hibell, insurance surveyor. [19--?] 007. Gear Meat Coys Works Petone. [19--?] Quantity: 7 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo, blueprint and ink plans, sizes varying. Transfers: From Cartographic Collection - Transferred from Cartographic Collection in 2002 and June 2003..

Date: 1903

Reference: Plans-82-0218

Description: Details of flue and damper Stamped: The Gear Meat Preserving & Freezing Co. Ltd, Wellington NZ and dated 6.3.03 Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on linen

Date: 1975

From: Crane, Wendy Vivienne, 1936-: Photographs of New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, and India

Reference: PA12-1843

Description: Freezing works at Tokomaru Bay, the wharf and ruins of Hicks Bay freezing works, and the Marae at Tokomaru Bay Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [Circa 1900s to 1910s]

From: Mercer, Robert, fl 1964 :Photographs and albums of Maori, New Zealand views, and illustrations

Reference: PA1-o-338

Description: Album of photographs taken in the Otago and Southland Regions, by unidentified photographers. All the locations are well identified. Some of the images are related to railways, including railway tunnels (e.g. The Caversham Tunnel when under construction circa 1909), and the Hunts Road Tunnel; the Clutha Railway Bridge; the Wingatui Signal Box; the Balclutha Railway Station, railway yards, and sales-yards; railway barns; D-class engine (New Zealand Railways steam-engine No. 355); the Owaka Express; and bush tramway tracks, one sawmill typical of small mills in the Catlins area. Many of the images are taken with an emphasis on atmosphere, including sunsets, stormy days on the coast near Dunedin, evening at Ocean Beach, storm clouds at Lawyer's Head, and "By beach and sand-hill". There are a large number of views of the Dunedin Botanic Gardens and the Winter Gardens, and the Dunedin Reservoir. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover, gold lines down spine and across corners; 19.5 x 26.5

Date: [ca 1915-1919, 1970s?]

From: Dangerfield, Leonard Joseph, fl 1988-2002 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9308

Description: Comprises: Photographs of early Petone and Wellington, in particular: Wellington Municipal Abattoir, Ngaraunga; Priest & Son hairdressers & tobacconists; Peace Arch in Jackson St, Petone, 1918-1919; members of Petone Cycling Club; Albert Ramsden and his wife in an automobile, 1915. Also includes elevated view of Mokau Colliery, Taranaki. Shows Hutt Valley floods, possibly 1976. Views of submerged roads, wrecked cars, landslips in Stokes Valley and damaged houses there and in Belmont. Also shows people cleaning up debris and mud. Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Provenance: Donated by Leonard Joseph Dangerfield, Lower Hutt, 1995 Transfers: Transfers - From Published Collections.

Date: 1981

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-135-763

Description: Shows a woman talking to her neighbour over the fence as her husband walks towards the house, looking dejected because he had gone to work on Labour Day. Refers to the productivity agreement being negotiated at the Longburn freezing works, where Borthwick-CWS planned to introduce a four day week due to the introduction of new technology. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 455 x 325 mm.

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039560-G

Description: Waitara Freezing Works. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: ca 1880

Reference: 1/4-008635

Description: A group of seven members of staff outside the Ocean Beach Freezing Works. They are wrapped up in their warm work clothes. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [circa 1899-1902]

By: Barr, Benjamin John, 1883-1939

Reference: PA1-o-034

Description: Photographs of Ashburton taken by B J Barr, circa 1900s. Views include various churches (Anglican, Presbyterian, Wesleyan and Roman Catholic); public buildings including the Ashburton County Council, Post and Telegraph Office (with places for clocks in a tower, lacking the clock faces), the Bank of New Zealand and the Union Bank of Australia, the Somerset Hotel, railway station, the Lodge Ashburton Masonic Hall, and the Working Men's Club. There is a view of the Ashburton Cemetery, with the gravestone of John Morgan Furze, husband of Hannah Furze, who died at Buccleugh, Mt Somers in March 1901. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth album 190 x 245 mm

Date: 10 August 1985

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1985/3580-F

Description: Arthur Tonan gutting sheep at the Longburn Freezing Works, Longburn, Manawatu. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin 10 August 1985. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacitate film negative, 35mm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2464-F

Description: Panoramic view across a road and a railway line to the Hawke's Bay Farmers' Meat Company buildings, which have several sections. On the left a tall chimney stack, then a wing with two rows of pillars downstairs, and there are two large brick buildings partly two-storeyed, on the left of the image. Three men are standing near a doorway at the meatworks. Small shed beneath eucalyptus trees in the centre of the image, two cars parked nearby (Number plate on the nearest car: HA2432). A woman and child carrying shopping baskets are on a road centre right near paddocks. Three children are crouched down in long grass and there are three other children in the right foreground, all facing the camera. Houses in the middle distance on the right. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Wakatu [i.e. Whakatu]; Marginal notes on negative - Hawke's Bay Farmers; Marginal notes on negative - 7 7 7 7 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 128.0 cm

Date: 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2476-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down across the Patea River to the Patea township, and a bridge over the river centre left. Peep of sea at the river mouth beyond the bridge in the distance. Masonic Hotel visible in the centre middle distance. Railway line on the near side of the river on the far right. Two large factories, the Patea Freezing Works, and the Patea Grader Cool Store, are seen near the river mouth in the left middle distance. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Date taken from R P Moore's own numerical sequence. Image RPM-0303 was taken in 1923 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Panorama of Patea. No. 301 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 106.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1708-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over a narrow valley, row of trees in the foreground with houses visible below, and the Milburn Lime and Cement Works in the centre of the image. A quarry is visible behind the factory. Railway line in front. There are other factories just visible on a hill in the distance on the right, one of which is the New Zealand Refrigerating Company's building at Burnside. Farmland on cleared hills in the background. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 109.5 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2165-F

Description: Panoramic view of Borthwick's meatworks at Waitara. A branch of a railway line is seen between a brick building on the far left and various large buildings centre left. Cattle yards with smaller buildings behind on the right. A road and single-storeyed building behind a fence on the far right with another railway line nearer the meatworks. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - R P Moore's circular business stamp; Marginal notes on negative - Borthwick & Son. Waitara Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 98.2 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2198-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down from the Belmont Hills over the Gear Meat Company's factory in the centre of the image. Petone foreshore and Petone wharf behind. Matiu/Somes Island in Wellington Harbour, with the Wellington Heads visible in the distance. Petone township on the left. Hills in the background. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. See Pan-2196 for the lower end of the valley Inscriptions: Marginal notes on tape - [On brown adhesive tape] Gear Meat Coy. Petone Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 110.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1459-F

Description: Panoramic view of the North Canterbury Sheepfarmers' Co-operative Freezing Works at Kaiapoi. The factory consists of a row of brick buildings across the picture with a high chimney stack smoking in the centre. Lawn in front, shrubs in a bed on the lawn on the left, herbaceous border and shrubs along far right. Sheep in pens outside one of the buildings on the left. Railway line in from the left. Cars parked outside. Smaller brick building in front of the factory on the right. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - North Canterbury Sheepfarmers Co-op. Freezing Co. Ltd.; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] North Canterbury Sheepfarmers' Co-op Freezing Works Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 104.5 cm

Date: 1977, 1980-1981, 1992, date unknown

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11666

Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Some slides are not dated. Arrangement: The first of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1880 - 1895

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :Sketchbook. ca 1880-1895.

Reference: E-594-025

Description: A sketch of a freezing chambrer in an abattoir, with carcasses hanging on hooks. Some at near right may be rabbit carcasses and fish. Extended Title - From his Sketchbook, 1880-1895. Page 25. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil drawing, on page, 182 x 270 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Bill Power, grandson of the artist, via Dunbar Sloane, Auckland, in July 2001.

Date: [ca 1890-1900]

By: Foster, Susan E, 1946-; Beckett, Ethel Mary, active 1890s; Beckett, Amy Middleton, -1964; Beckett, Thomas Wrench Naylor, 1839-1906; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6244

Description: Photographs, mostly of the South Island, from the collection of the Beckett family. Most were taken by Ethel Mary Beckett, with some being the work of Amy Middleton Beckett. The work of Wheeler & Son, of Christchurch, and Albert E Winzenberg of Masterton is also represented. A photograph of Palmerston Atoll, in the Cook Islands, is included in the collection. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-181858-G to 1/2-181894-G Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s). 37 b&w original negative(s).