Places

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

From: Commons family :Assorted negatives, photographs and postcards relating to the Commons family

Reference: PA5-0070

Description: Road through the Buller Gorge showing a horse-drawn vehicle Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 89 x 137 mm Provenance: Donated by Commons family 1976

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-386

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm

Date: ca1890s

By: Bracefield, Mark, active 1977

Reference: PAColl-1764

Description: Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s) in two folders.

Date: 5 June [19]05

By: William Beattie & Company

Reference: PA5-0059

Description: View of Main Street, Waihi, showing Martha Hill in the distance and two horse-drawn carriages on the street, taken by W Beattie & Co. Verso contains letter addressed to Mrs? M White, Cambridge from A White. Note on back: no neg Date taken from postmark on card Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 87 x 139 mm

Date: [ca 1909-1925]

By: Morrison, John M, active 1883-1951

Reference: PAColl-6494

Description: Photographs of Takapuna and Milford. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-016625 to 016630, 1/2- 031823 and 101744 Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: Manuscript material now held at qMS-1398.. Processing information: The majority of the prints do not have negatives.

Date: circa 1890-1910

From: Shaw, G W :Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna

By: Wilson, Alex R, active 1900s; Shaw, Helen M G, active 1976

Reference: PA1-q-269

Description: Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna. William M Wilson was born in Glasgow in 1868, coming to New Zealand when 8 years of age. He was apprenticed to John Fitchett, coach builder in Wellington, then with other firms including Rouse & Hurrell. He was employed by Wilfred Woolf in Eketahuna in 1894, and subsequently bought his business, and entered the firm of Kibblewhite and Wilson. See Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Wellington Provincial District, Eketahuna. Includes dwellings; carriages; group outings and portraits; 1 of the Club Hotel of F D Pelling; 3 of the Ryan family at Tawa Flat; 1 of a house at Island Bay, 1 of a thatched whare at Plimmerton, a Ghuznee St boarding house; 2 relating to the Burnett family; 2 scenes in Manakau; 1 of D A Greenlees store; 2 of Rarotanga; 2 relating to the business of Lyon & Blair, steam printers and lithographers; 1 of a group outside a house in Eastbourne; 3 relating to the Manson family; 1 of a military camp in New Zealand in preparation for the South African War. Also includes a pocket on the inside back cover containing newspaper clippings, and a photocopy of a letter written by the donor Mrs Helen M G Shaw, which gives some information about the album. Inscriptions: Album page - Alex R Wilson, Central Terrace, Kelburne, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover; 28.5 x 20.5 cm

Reference: PAColl-0156

Description: Picture of the mail break at Whakataki on the Castlepoint to Masterton run. The cart could be driven by William Harvey who owned a local carrying business. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1890s-1910s?]

By: Quartermain, Leslie Bowden, 1895-1973

Reference: PA1-q-190

Description: Photographs relating to the Quartermain family, none of which have captions. None of the people or places are named. Of interest are a number of views of the ruins of a house, with only the chimneys standing; several of the new St John's Church, Hororata, including laying the foundations, building construction, and the completed church with lychgate; one of the tombstones of Sir John Hall, and his wife, with the new St John's Church partially visible in the background (for which Sir John Hall bequeathed the money); and one photograph of a steam tractor fording a river with difficulty, with a tow-rope leading to three laden wagons on the far side of the river. A number of photographs show Leslie Bowden Quartermain as a boy, and as a young man Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mid-blue cover, entitled "Sunny memories"; 32 x 28 cm

Date: [ca 1900]

Reference: PA4-0621

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Otira Gorge Hotel, showing a horse-drawn coach with passengers. Photograph taken by B W Kilburn ca 1900. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Otira Gorge Hotel, New Zealand; Verso - Photographed and published by B W Kilburn.... Littleton N.H. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: [Between 1940 and 1954]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-208

Description: Album of photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1940 and 1954. The sequence of images is not chronological. Slip attached to spine reads: Trips - Bold Peak, 1943, Mt. Arthur tbld, Marlb. Sounds, Mt. Algidus, 1946, Honeymoon, 1948. 7th Pacific Sc. Congress. West Coast. The album opens with views taken on a trip to the West Coast in January 1954; followed by a West Coast museum trip, February 1940; a Neslson-Westhaven expedition, November 1952; John and Pam Salmon's honeymoon in the South Island in December 1948; and a trip to Mt. Algidus, February 1946. The next trips in the album were the Mt. Arthur tableland museum expedition, February 1946, and again in February 1948; the Bold Peak district, February 1943; trip around the Sounds on "The Alert", August 1948; air trip over the Sounds in April 1949; and then the South Pacific Science Congress, Auckland-Christchurch, February 1949. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

Date: [ca 1890s]

Reference: PAColl-7053

Description: Views mostly in and around New Plymouth but including clergymen gathered for Archdeacon Govett's jubilee in 1898, crowds in Pukekura Park for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubliee in 1897 and a Floral Fete in 1896, a homestead called Tokotahi near the Tiraumea River in Pahiatua County, the old mountain house on Mount Taranaki, and an area called Grant's Braes (now Waverley) in Dunedin. All the views are captioned. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-002136 to 002173 Quantity: 38 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film 1/2 plate copy negatives

Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

From: Nairn, Douglas, fl 1973 :Photographs of New Zealand and Fiji

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA1-q-167

Description: Album of photographs taken between the 1860s and 1890s by various unidentified photographers, with one identified as being possibly by Daniel Louis Mundy, and one by James Bragge. Two early photographs, one of `Oakbourne Station', the home of John Davis Canning was taken circa 1860s, and one of `Orua Wharo' the home of John Johnston, and later his son Sydney Johnston, was taken circa 1870s, before the new house was built in 1879. Page 7 contains pressed ferns. Non-New Zealand photographs include several of Fiji, including Levuka, Taveuni, and an avenue of palms; one of the carving on Sir Joshua Reynold's bed at Tarrington; one of an Elizabethan glass cup; a carved overmantel; two views of Arundel House at Brighton, and one of Heston Church near Osterley Park. In the North Island, apart from the views of Oakbourne and Orua Wharo in the Hawke's Bay region, there are several views of the Pink and White Terraces, two showing the White Terraces both empty and full, Clay Island beneath the White Terraces; two views of the Manawatu Gorge and Seventy Mile Bush; and a view of Wellington City. South Island views include Milford Sound, Stewart Island, Braida Crags, the Wyndham River; a large group of people at celebrations surrounding the laying of the foundation stone for St John's Church in Invercargill; and two views of an exhibition of a Japanese village displaying such things as banners, lanterns and furniture, held in a hall in Invercargill. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown leather cover, gold decoration; 31.0 x 27.5 cm

Date: [1900s]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-1620

Description: Burton Brothers album 'Land of Loveliness: New Zealand". Inclues views of Lyttelton, Sumner, Rakaia (showing Rakaia Butchery & Bakery of A. Chamberlain est 1873), Fendalton, Avon and New Brighton. Also shows a street view of an unknown township with Victoria House, Dimant & Coe, general drapers and clothing store. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 13 x 16.5 cm Provenance: Purchase, 2000

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-050-1

Description: A rural scene showing several horse-drawn coaches and passengers outside a building. Probably a West Coast scene, near or at Hokitika Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - coaches Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 150 x 203 mm

Date: [Between 1868 and 1895]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-044

Description: Images of New Zealand, including the first photograph in the album made up of a collage of Maori portraits entitled "Maori land". Photographs taken by the Burton Brothers of Dunedin. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black covered album, 30 x 25 cm

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-39-23

Description: View of the Cargill monument in The Exchange, Princes Street, Dunedin. The clock tower of the Post Office can be seen left of centre. Several horse-drawn trams are in The Exchange area; one at the bottom of High Street. Groups of men are standing and sitting around the monument which has gas lamps on all sides. Photograph taken by Burton Brothers, ca 1880s. From `New Zealand through the camera' series of photographs Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 7723 - Princes St, Dunedin; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15 x 20 cm on mount 22.6 x 29.2 cm

Date: [ca 1875]

Reference: 1/1-132922

Description: Part of a 2 part panorama showing ford over the Waiohine River, ca 1875. A horse-drawn vehicle, a man on horseback and dwelling houses can be seen across the stream. There is a pile of drift wood on the riverbed. Image of other part of this panorama to be found at Neg. no., G. EP. 1/2-1491 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

Reference: PA5-0156

Description: Mahuri Gorge Ford Pahiatua, showing a horse drawn vehicle crossing Verso contains message from Grace and addressed to Miss Cramp?, Waiwetu, Hutt Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 88 x 138 mm

Date: ca 1890

From: Campbell, Eve, fl 1976 :Stereographs

Reference: PA4-0701

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a scene at the Palmerston [North] show, showing a large crowd, motor cars and horse-drawn vehicles. Photograph taken by Peter A Eade of Wellington. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Premier arriving - Palmerston show; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Recto - left of image - Peter A Eade - Wellington Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by Mrs E Campbell, July 1976

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Moir, John Paterson, -1941

Reference: Pan-2387-F

Description: Panoramic view across a field to a collection of farm buildings. There is a road on the far left and a driveway from it leading to a garage. A car is parked outside the garage (Number-plate: NZ-82-921) beside which three people are standing; a man wearing overalls and a woman with a small girl. Behind them are several small buildings and a larger barn. In the centre of the image are several wheeled farm implements and a man (just visible) in the middle of a pile of hay on a laden cart drawn by four Clydesdale horses, dogs alongside. Two men are by a large haystack on the right, one on the far side high up with a pitchfork, the other on the near side standing at the foot of a ladder. A few sheep in one of several sheep pens centre right; single-storeyed building behind the pens. Flock of sheep in paddocks in the middle distance, farmland all around. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - J.P. Moir, Hillend, Balclutha. 3 B&W Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 118.5 cm