Places

Date: 1856

By: Holmes, William Howard, 1825-1885

Reference: B-139-017

Description: Shows a view along the Wellington shoreline, looking north. Part of Barrett's Hotel is shown on the extreme left, beside a classical revival building. There are shops in the distance. A red-coated soldier leans against the door to Barrett's Hotel. A small rowboat is in the sea to the right of the road Title on engraved plate on frame. Artist attributed because of similarity of subject to Holmes' "Wellington Beach 1856" (A-032-040). The work is not as finished as that one however. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 241 x 343 mm (sight) Provenance: Prior to that in the collection of Mr Charles Levin of Sanson, descendant of W. H. Levin.

Date: 1 August 1910

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

By: Green & Colebrook (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-000176-G

Description: Great South Road, the main street through Ngaruawahia, looking South. On the left an unidentified hotel is partially visible, with the business premises of Green & Colebrook beyond. A number of people are on the street outside the hotel. Photographed by G & C Ltd (Probably Green & Colebrook, merchants, with a branch in Ngaruawahia) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Main Street looking South. Ngaruawahia. 115; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - G & C Ltd. Protd 1.8.10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: ca 1890s

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 17

Reference: PAColl-7489-60

Description: A view looking down Ballarat Street with a woman and three children standing outside Eichardt's Hotel on the right with a shop selling pictorial postcards next door ca 1890s. Photographer unidentified.. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1858

From: Douglas, Charles Edward 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast Sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. identified]

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895; Forrest, Isabel K, active 1969; Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916

Reference: E-059-q-065

Description: View along Invercargill's main street showing a number of houses and businesses. The earliest known view of Invercargill Between 1969, the time of acquisition by the Library, and 2010, attributed to W B D Mantell, based on handwriting, style of drawing and the fact that Mantell worked with Douglas, and was involved in the early settlement of Invercargill. However Mantell was in England in 1858, the date of this drawing. The drawing was earlier owned by Gerhard Mueller, who arrived in New Zealand in 1859, the year after this drawing was made. The `Pearson' whose house is drawn is W H Pearson, Commissioner of Lands, 1857-1884. `Grief' the butcher was J M Grieve. The Albion Hotel was also known as Linds Accommodation House. Other Titles - Douglas, Charles Edward Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - title in pen and ink. Along top, identifications of buildings include Whites store, Collins store, Collins Goods, Grief Butcher, Pearsons House, Butchershop, Royal Hotel. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) loose in group of works by Charles Edward Douglas. Physical Description: Ink on brown paper, 150 x 210 mm.

Date: 1924

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

Reference: APG-1640-1/2-G

Description: View of a street in Tauranga, with the Tauranga Hotel (proprietor, J A C (Cyril) Fleming), and the Farmers' Union Trading Company visible. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, in 1924. Named and dated from Godber File in Photographic Archives (Under 76. Tauranga street. Tauranga. 1924). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 2001-2006

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

Reference: PADL-000493

Description: Photographs of Greymouth, West Coast. Includes photographs of suburban homes, city centre, bridges, coastlines, and views of the surrounding area. Includes a Christmas greeting image of Santa Claus on a scooter in the sky above Greymouth. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (Greymouth)" Quantity: 165 digital photograph(s).

Date: Circa 1910

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

Reference: 1/2-001157-G

Description: View of the the Waipa Hotel at Ngaruawahia, with the railway station centre left. Photographed by William Archer Price circa 1910. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Ngaruawahia. 2398 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1842

By: O'Mealy, John Bonfield, 1810?-1876

Reference: MapColl-832.1291gbbd/1842/Acc.22934

Description: Map depicting early settlement of Auckland's Commercial Bay, Official Bay, Point Britomart, detailing buildings on Victoria and Lower Queen Streets, Shortland Cres, and Emily Place. A reference key indicates building types, such as the position of military barracks,the Surveyor General and the Colonial Secretary's office, five hotels, an inn, a post office, jail, court house, bank and a church, Includes undated pencil annotations of streets after reclaiming of land in Commercial Bay, such as Custom House St and Commerce St, as well as the streets Albert and Hobson. Bottom right corner is written '936a'. (Pencilled: 8B9.14). Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, watercolour and pencil on card, linen backed, 56 x 67 cm.

Date: ca 1890

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10x8-0736-G

Description: Looking over the settlement of Lyell, West Coast Region. In the centre is the Welcome Inn. Also shows the Criterion Hotel (above Welcome Inn); the Commercial and Empire Hotels (to right, rear views) and the Alhambra (pale building, on the spur). Taken by the Tyree Studio circa 1890. Source of descriptive information - Information about hotels from Library client, 2007 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - LYELL BULLER RIVER TYREE PHOTO NELSON 5201 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1 October 1912

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-002715-F

Description: Looking along Fitzherbert Street, Featherston. On the left is a partial view of the Royal Hotel and alongside is the garage of Arthur W Harmer. Taken by Muir & Moodie on 1 October 1912. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 4175 Fitzherbert St Featherston Muir & Moodie prot 1.10.12 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [between 1910-1930]

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

Reference: 1/2-001521-G

Description: Photograph by William Archer Price in early 1900s. View looking down Tuakau Road, Tuakau. Shows wooden commercial buildings lining the street including Green & Colebrook Ltd, Tapper Bros, a fruiterer, Tuakau Hotel, Clifton House and the premises of Mrs Moor. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Tuakau Road. 2093 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1900s]

Reference: 1/2-077406-F

Description: View of buildings in Egmont Street, Patea. Mount Taranaki is visible in the distance. Taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1900s. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s) (copied from original negative). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: ca 1868

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-002555-G

Description: View of the Royal Hotel, Port Chalmers, and the brick stables alongside, looking across George Street. Photographer unidentified. See similar image in "Port Chalmers and its people" by Ian Church (p 40); and also neg. 1/2-003222. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - [(Photographers?) inscription] Old Port Chalmers, No 7 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: ca 1878

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/4-050252-G

Description: Market Place, Wanganui, circa 1878, photographed by William James Harding. Moutoa Gardens are on the left. Note on back of file print reads: "on neg bag: 'Harrison Pl and Moutoa Gardens and boating sheds' Note on back of file print reads "The piece of building just showing on the left...is the Court House (built 1871). Judging from the pine plantation along the edge of the Moutoa Gardens on the left, this picture was taken about 1878. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-046482-G

Description: Part 2 of a 3 part panorama of Dunedin, looking over towards Princes Street. Houses, factories and shops can be seen in this part of the panorama, and the Southern Hotel can be seen in the distance on Princes Street. The spires of two churches can also be seen in the distance. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Forms a panorama with 1/2-046481 and 1/2-046483 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Dunedin NZ. S C Smith Photo 'Prot'; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - D. No 3A; Marginal notes on negative - top centre - T Box 39 D 3A D 3A 3 pr pano of Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 2001-2003

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

Reference: PADL-000506

Description: Photographs of Reefton, West Coast. Includes aerial photographs of the township, frost and icicles, men cooking over an open fireplace and boiling water in a kettle over coal. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (reefton)" Quantity: 48 digital photograph(s).

Date: 14 May 1929

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: 1/1-011440-G

Description: Two rows of Newman's buses and service cars filled with passengers, Murchison. The vehicles are parked in parallel lines. One line is parked outside Ross's Hotel and the other outside McNee & Co. The Commercial Hotel can be seen on the corner diagonally across from the photographer. Photograph taken by Frederick Nelson Jones during the 1920s. Occasion identified as a tour of Canterbury farmers around the Motueka and Riwaka areas (Papers Past, Nelson Evening Mail, 14 May 1929, similar photograph in New Zealand Herald, 19 June 1929) Formerly identified as 1927 Royal Tour by Duke and Duchess of York. (Very similar photograph published in Graeme Carter's book Travelling with Newmans (Wanganui, GT Carter Travelling Books, 2006), pp. 16-17 has idenified it as this); and as buses carrying passengers from Kawatiri who had arrived by train to mark the opening of the Glenhope-Kawatiri section of railway and who were transported to lunch to Murchison by Newmans Service Cars. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [191?]

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

Reference: 1/1-006301-G

Description: Group of people outside the Kaitaia Hotel, Kaitaia, Northland. Horses are tethered outside the hotel, one of which has a small boy being held in the saddle. Photographed circa 1910s by the Northwood brothers. Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of file print Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1876

Reference: 1/2-094379-F

Description: Photograph by unknown photographer, dated 1876. Shows two panoramic views of the Tauranga waterfront probably The Strand, including Ellis's Commercial Hotel, J Bodell and The Strand auction houses, Grey's Timber yard and other retail stores. Several small boats are also pictured. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [1911-1912]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-019555-G

Description: Looking east along Courtenay Place, Wellington, 1911-1912. Shows commercial buildings in the foreground and the houses on Mount Victoria in the background. Blair Street is on the left and the City Hotel is towards the right, on Kent Terrace. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).