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Scenic photographs of New Zealand complied by the Scenery Preservation Board
Date: [ca 1880-1910]
From: Scenery Preservation Board :Scenic photographs of New Zealand
By: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Scenery Preservation Board
Reference: PAColl-0444-1
Description: Photographs of the following: a set of seven photographs by Collis and annotated by F P Corkill, land agent, re landholding around the Waiwhakaiho River; scenic views such as waterfalls, lakes, and the Pink and White Terraces; bridges with annotations re height etc; sixteen numbered photographs mounted two to a card of scenic views in the Taranaki Region, Rotorua and the far north (including ones of Taumaha Gorge, Taranaki and Lake Ora - location unidentified); a set of seven photographs of the Waipu Caves including Lot's wife, the anvil and the sugar loaf in Morrison's Cave; a clipping of St Paul's Cupola and a photograph of Kauri Gully, Northcote with annotations on resolutions passed re the establishment of reservations; a panorama in two photographs of Flagstaff Hill, Dunedin with annotations re a potential reserve; and two of a tramping party of three men and five boys resting at a waterfall. Includes a recent hand-written list of the photographs. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted prints
Chevalier, Nicholas, 1838-1902 :Upper Rangitikei, 1868. [Postcard depicting] watercolou...
Date: 1970 - 1868 - 1975
From: [Various artists] :[Postcards depicting works of art]. National Art Gallery. Wellington, N.Z. [1970s]
By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902
Reference: E-278-q-043
Description: Postcard depicting Chevalier's watercolour of the Rangitikei River, painted in 1868 Gift to National Art Gallery by Mrs Caroline Chevalier, artist's widow, in 1912 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-lithograph, 150 x 105 mm
Brophy, Jenny, fl 1990 : Interviews concerning Manawatu Youth Orchestra
Date: 1986
By: Brophy, Jenny, active 1990
Reference: ATL-Group-00754
Description: Jenny Brophy interviews Gary Brain, Jim & Shirley Chesswass, Alpha and Alan Ramsay, John Schwabe and Harry Weston regarding the Manawatu Youth Orchestra. Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Quantity: 5 audiocassette(s). 4 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres.
Isobel Coulston - From Bow Bells to Forty Mile Bush
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-076
Description: An account of the life and times of the Hopkins family, in particular George and Adelaide who emigrated with five children in 1874 on the Golden Sea. Seven more children were born in Masterton. The writer follows the life of the seventh child Charles, on the land and during World War I, and married life Publication - Essay published in `Our lesser stars' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Family photographs including one of pupils at Kohinui School 1932
Autobiography
Date: 1966-1980
From: Andrews, Reginald Percy, 1899-1987 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6153-2
Description: Describes early life in Napier, employment, involvement with Labour Party, local politics in Wanganui where he was mayor, 1962-1974 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Proposed Maori community centre for Palmerston North as a memorial to the Maori Battali...
Date: 1964
From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to Maori. 1960s].
By: Universal Printers Ltd
Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1964-01
Description: Booket outlining the Palmerston North Maori War Effort organisation activities in World War II, with proposals to erect a new community centre on an adjacent site. Contains photographs and clippings from the Manawatu Standard, 29 June 1964 about the opening of the memorial. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopied booklet of 12 pages, 210 x 148 mm.
Major, Charles Edwin 1859-1954 : Seventy years of life in New Zealand
Date: [ca 1874-1944] (1953)]
By: Major, John Edwin, 1859-1954
Reference: qMS-1232
Description: Accounts of life in Wellington, Manawatu, Gisborne and Taranaki, and many political recollections and comments. There is a chapter on old-time racing, including the days before the book-maker was banned. There are also references to visiting celebrities, among them Mark Twain, Frank Bullen and Paderewski, and memories of many theatrical shows. Included is a summary of the career of the late Henry Hayward, a pioneer in cinema entertainment in NZ. Source of title - Transcribed He was a store-keeper, law clerk and land agent; member of Parliament for Hawera for six years; mayor of Hawera for thirteen years and member of other local bodies in Taranaki. He was a noted runner; played Rugby football for these provinces; and as owner and spectator was keenly interested in horse-riding. He was one of the founders of a number of clubs and societies, including the Philatelic Society and the Polynesian Society. He was also a friend of the Maori and a student of his culture Quantity: 1 volume(s) (273 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (26 cm; blue linen)
Borieson, C. W., fl. 1889 :Blocks 1, 3, & 6 Levin, 9, Horowhenua Block [map with ms ann...
Date: 1888 - 1890
By: Borieson, C W, active 1889; Ashcroft, Albert Edward, 1862-1942; Humphries, Thomas, 1841-1928; Halse, Frederick James, 1863-1936; Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922; General Survey Lithographic Office; Roe, J E, active 1910-1912
Reference: MapColl-832.43gbbd/1888/Acc.35292
Description: A cadastral map of rural and suburban sections open for sale and selection of the area from Lake Horowhenua to Koputuroa Road, and bounded by the Kawiu and Makomako Roads. This cadastral map has numbered sections, some coloured, and include acreages and owners' names handwritten in some sections. The Wellington - Manawatu Railway is marked as are a school and a waterworks reserve. Streets and the Koputuroa Stream are named. The base maps are of sections in the Blocks I, II & VI, Waiopehu Survey District. Sections marked with red are large settlements open for sale or selection and are referred to in a key. Schedule of the suburban sections and rural lands in this district include the section number, acreage, value and rent. Terms and conditions of sale or selection of the Levin village settlement include the statement 'Drawn by F.J. Hales'. Includes a written description of rural land and the application date of 18 March 1889 at the Crown Lands Office, Wellington and includes J.W.A. Marchant's name. The inset map is a locality plan of Levin. Handwritten names listed are: Seager, Hewit, J. McGowan, G.H. Gower, Ingram, Borieson, Brown, Blair, R Prouse, Dalrymple, Toxward, Lancaster, Stuckey. Title part stamped and part handwritten on verso Signature centre top: C.W. Borieson, Contractor, Wellington Inset: Levin locality plan. Scale [1:506 880] Base map: Plan of rural and suburban sections Horowhenua Block, situated in Blocks I, II & VI, Waiopehu Survey District / Surveyed by A.E. Ashcroft & T.L. Humphries, assistant surveyors. Wellington, N.Z., General Survey Office, 1889. Handwritten note on bottom right: Next unit to be paid 1 Jany 1890. Note it will be needful to write Govt. to inquire the amount as the leases make it ... See units number of acres required for felling to comply with ... of residence [handwriting difficult to decipher] Quantity: 2 map(s) on one sheet, including a locality plan. Physical Description: Ink and colourwash on paper, linen backed, coloured, scales vary, 42 x 56.6 cm. Provenance: Donated by Mr. J. Roe, 30.03.1977
[Calendars for the year 1975, of approximately A3 size. 1974].
Date: 1975
Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1975
Description: Includes calendars: Seatrans Consolidated (NZ) Limited, December 1974-January 1976. (Art work is six colour reproductions of plates from Walter Buller's `A History of the Birds of New Zealand' supplied by the Turnbull Library). (2 copies). Palmerston North 1975 Calendar. (Art work consists of six black and white reproductions of pen drawings by Wilhelmina G Irving). (2 copies). Chatham Islands Jockey Club Centennial, 1874-1974 - December 1974-January 1976. (Six reproductions of colour photographs of Chatham Islands scenes by an unidentified photographer). (2 copies). Wellington 1975 Calendar. (Six black and white reproductions of pen drawings by Wilhelmina G Irving). The National Bank of Australasia Ltd. (Art work consists of 13 colour prints of suburban scenes in early Australia from 1827-1885 by various artists). The Pelorus Press Ltd [Auckland] - December 1974-January 1976, plus a calendar for 1976 in small print at the back. Auckland City Art Gallery: calendar for August 1975 to July 1976. (Art work is a colour reproduction of `Fishing in the Spring' by Vincent Van Gogh). Quantity: 7 calendars, and 3 duplicates.. Physical Description: Offset lithographs, varying sizes.
Photograph album relating to Tongariro Tramping Club, Raetihi and the Mosen family
Date: [ca 1930's]
From: Mosen, Neville Herbert, 1914-2004: Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-1867
Description: Photograph album created by Neville H Mosen of Raetithi. Contains views related to trips taken by the Tongariro Tramping Club and views related to the Mosen family and friends. Taken by Neville Mosen circa 1936 to 1937, and possibly some taken by other unidentified photographer(s). Contains scenic views and views of the Club members on bush walks and skiing in Tongariro National Park, featuring Ruapehu, Tongariro, Ngauruhoe and surrounding environs, the Pinnacles at Blue Bluffs, Ruapehu crater lake, Tama Lakes, The Chateau, Whakapapa glacier, Karioi Lakes, Mangawhero River and various tramping huts. Bruce Davis, an amateur photographer who lived in Raetihi is identified. Also includes views of Raetihi township and Horopito locality, Napier, Tauranga (rail bridge and The Strand), and Ngauruhoe erupting (possibly 1937 eruption). Also includes views of Tom Parker posing with the fountain he gifted to Napier in 1936 and scenes of a parade and bonfire in Raetihi to mark the coronation of King George VI in 1937. Also includes the wedding of Gwen Wise (circa 1930s) 5 loose prints have page numbers noted and are in an envelope at the front of the album. Source of title - title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black album bound with string and featuring an embossed image of mountains and a sun and the word 'Photographs' on the front cover, 21.5 x 27 cm
Tramping in the Rimutaka and Tararua ranges and a trip to the West Coast
Date: 1914
From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing
Reference: PA1-q-914
Description: Opens with a group of men on a tramp into the valley of the Orongorongo River in the southern Rimutaka Ranges. Included are views of the river and surrounding mountains, in particular Mount Matthews which they climbed posing for a photograph at the Mt Matthews trig station. There are views in the native forest and one looking over the Wainuiomata Valley. One image shows a group of men standing on the Fernside Railway Station labled as the "Mt Hector Party". This probably relates to a group of photographs later in the album recording a tramp in the Taraua Ranges. A group of five photographs records a trip to the Dawson Falls on Mount Egmont. There are views of the road leading to the falls through native forest, the group sitting on a huge rock below the falls, and the falls themselves. The other images in this group show the party on the Mountain, and loaded onto a cart at Eltham. Two pages of views of Days Bay, Lower Hutt, showing individual houses, Croyden School, and coastal scenes. A surveying trip to Kapiti Island. Views of the western cliff face of the island, the caretaker's house and surroundings, a tame deer, nautilus shells, and H E Girdlestone standing beside an 8 inch micrometer on a tripod. Views of the Volcanic Plateau showing Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro and the surrounding plains. The departure of the Main Expeditionary Force from Wellington during the First World War. The focus of these images is on the transports moored at the wharves, and the two escorting warships, the Japanese "Ibuki" and the British H M S "Minotaur", in the harbour. A group of women playing golf on the Waiwhetu golf links Family and friends at Eastbourne. Trip to the West Coast and the glaciers. Views of the main road south of Ross passing through heavy native forest, the Franz Josef Glacier and people climbing its ice fields, Mount Tasman, the Toaroha Rapids, and the Fox Glacier. There are also views of the Pelorus River and Bridge, the Buller Gorge, the Buller River, and the bridge on the road between Lyell and Inangahua. A general view of Greymouth where the party stayed with friends whoes two children were photographed driving peddle cars. A southern crossing of the Tararua Ranges. The route was by way of Mount Reeves, then down into the Tauherenikau River valley, along the river, then up to Mount Alpha and along the ridges to Hector and out again along the Waiotauru River to Otaki Forks. There are two photographs of members of the tramping party, as well as general views of the ranges, the rivers, a mountain tarn, and the Waihoanga Bridge. A visit to the Army training camp at Trentham. Photographs of individual soldiers and groups of soldiers and visitors. Three views of a man on horseback and a dog in the Manganuiateo River. Three images of surveyors making observations at a trig station using an 8 inch micrometer. Views of the Southern Alps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Photographs of school groups and activities at Turakina Maori Girls College
Date: 1905-198-
From: Turakina Maori Girls' College: Records
By: Turakina Māori Girls' College; Denton, Frank James, 1869-1963; Illingworth Toska Studios; Tesla Studios
Reference: Series-7115
Description: Comprises photographs of students and activities at Turakina Māori Girls College taken by various photographers between 1905 and 1990. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm-18755 to 35mm-18793; transparencies are at PA12-0257 to PA12-0264 Quantity: 128 colour original transparency/ies 35mm slides. 62 b&w original negative(s). 17 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. 16 b&w original photographic print(s). 16 b&w copy photographic print(s). 14 colour original negative(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-0116 : Turakina Maori Girls College : Records. Processing information: Reference number changed from PAColl-2130 to Series-7115 on 21 February when all materials of same provenance were added to the ATL-Group-00941 collection.
Denne, Archibald Harry, 1900-1972 : Reminiscences
Date: nd
By: Denne, Archibald, Harry, 1900-1972
Reference: MS-Papers-10887
Description: Includes reference to his teaching at Taihape and Oxford, experiences in Maori schools in the Northland and on the East Coast, relations with Sir Apirana Ngata and others, and experiences in Fijian and Chatham Island schools. Includes some sketch maps of the areas mentioned Denne was an inspector of Maori schools 1933-1937, inspector of schools 1938-1947 and senior inspector of schools in Hawke Bay 1947-1948 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (85 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescript Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - One cartoon entitled `AHD inspects the sewing'.
Turakina Maori Girls College :Plans 1927, 1943, 1959 & 1975
Date: 1927-1975
From: Turakina Maori Girls' College: Records
By: Prince and McCallum (Firm); Page, William Meek, 1881-1953
Reference: Plans-94-009-001/021
Description: Plans for the buildings and various alterations between 1927 and 1975. Quantity: 21 plan(s). Physical Description: Various media and sizes
Adkin album 26
Date: 1909 to 1918
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-f-008
Description: Photographs supplementary to the 3 MS foolscap volumes of Annals of the Tararua Range (Vol 1, figures 1-146). Images show geology, topography, physiography and flora of the Tararua Ranges. Views of the Tararua Ranges, with peaks named (figs 1-6); ascent of Mt Waiopehu (3588 ft.), 22 Jan 1909 (figs 8-10); 1st crossing of the Tararua Range from Levin to Masterton, 13-19 Feb 1909, finishing on a campsite on the farmland of Alfred Deal at Waingawa, also a view of Mr Deal's house, and views of Masterton, including the Masterton Post Office and public gardens (figs 11-45); visit to the High Fall on the Poruriri Ridge near Tokomaru, 30 Oct 1910 (figs 46-49); ascent of Mt Tawirikohukohu (3455 ft) via the Ohau Rover, 18 Dec 1910 (figs 50-52); 3rd ascent of Mt Waiopehu, 3-6 Jan 1911 (Figs 73-76); across the Tararua Range via Palmerston North-Pahiatua Road, 22-23 Jan 1911 (figs 73-76); visit to the Ohau-Mangahao divide via the southern branch of the Ohau River, 12 Feb 1911 (figs 77-83); 2nd crossing of the Tararua Range from Levin to Masterton, 9-17 Feb 1911 (figs 84-128); ascent of Te Paki trig station on the Tararua foothils east of Shannon, 10 Dec 1916 (figs 129-132); topography & physiography of the valley of the Makahika, tributary of the Ohau River, 6 Jan 1918 (figs 133-134); 2nd ascent of Te Paki & topography of the Upper Tokomaru Valley, 28 Apr 1918 (figs 135-136); 1st visit to the No.1 gorge on the Mangahao River, 29 Feb 1919 (figs 137-138); topography & physiography of the Waireka & Wainui valleys, 13 Apr 1919 (figs 139-142); physiography of the Poruriri Ridge & Mangaharakeke Falls, on the Tararua western foothills near Tokomaru, 24 Aug 1919 (figs 143-146).
Frank Mason & Son Ltd: [Catalogue of roses. 1931-1990s]
Date: 1931 - 1962 - 1984 - 1956 - 1974 - 1995
By: Frank Mason & Son (Firm)
Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Mason
Description: Mail order catalogues listing roses for sale from this Feilding nurseryman. Years held are: 1931 (2 copies), 1937, 1943, 1949, 1953, 1955, 1956 (2 copies), 1962 (2 copies), 1963 (2 copies), 1964 (2 copies), 1965, Spring 1966, 1969, 1970 (2 copies), 1972, 1973 (2 copies), 1974 (2 copies), 1984, 1985 (2 copies), 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 (2 copies), 1990 (2 copies), 1991, 1992 (2 copies), 1993, 1994, 1995. Quantity: 26 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, each around 215 x 140 mm. Transfers: Collection received in Ephemera. Alouette catalogues for Spring 1984 and Autumn 1985 offered to Serials (which has others).
Avenue Nurseries :Roses [Catalogues. 1956, 1960s, 1979-1995].
Date: 1956 - 1960 - 1979 - 1967 - 1995
By: Avenue Nurseries
Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Avenue
Description: Mail order catalogues for rose plants, including roses of all kinds: bush roses, climbing roses, miniature roses, miniature standards, standard roses. Years held are: 1956, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1979-1995 Quantity: 25 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 215 x 150 mm.
Frank Mason & Son Ltd: [Rose and fuchsia price lists and catalogues. 1970-1990s]
Date: 1974 - 1993
By: Frank Mason & Son (Firm)
Reference: Eph-B-HORTICULTURE-Mason
Description: Mail order catalogues listing roses and fuchsias for sale from this Feilding nurseryman. Includes lists (some of a single page, some a whole booklet) for the years: 1974, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1993 Serials and monographs to be passed on to NZ&P and Serials. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mimeographed lists, stapled, sizes up to 340 mm.
[Horticultural ephemera and sales catalogues for firms beginning with the letters Br. 1...
Date: 1947 - 1994 - 1969
Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Br-1900s
Description: Includes: John Bright's Nursery (Palmerston North). "The garden glorious". [Catalogues] 1957-1958, 1958-1959, 1960-1961 A M Brljevich & Sons, nurserymen, 9 Waipa Street, Birkenhead, N.5. Alpe Bros & Co., printers, Auckland [May 1947] M E Brogden, daffodil specialist, Normanby, Taranaki. Daffodils for delivery February-March 1969. A E Brough & Son Ltd. Brough's Floral Studio, Bridge Street; Waterdale Nurseries, Brook Street, Nelson. Ornamental trees and shrubs, roses, climbers, fruit trees and bushes, hedge & shelter trees. 1952 A E Brough & Son Ltd. Brough's Floral Studio, Bridge Street; Waterdale Nurseries, Brook Street, Nelson. Supplementary rose catalogue 1956 D & P.J. Brown, growers of fine plants, 79 Vernon Road RD 1 Tauranga (David and Pauline Brown). Catalogue 1, Autumn 1994 (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 200 x 150 mm. Provenance: Catalogues donated from various sources, including Helen Smith, Lower Hutt, in 2015.
Brett Printing & Publishing Company Ltd :The Wanganui River, New Zealand. [ca 1910?]
Date: 1905 - 1915
By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd
Reference: Eph-B-TOURISM-Wanganui-1910-01
Description: Shows a complete overview of the river, with photographic illustrations (by photographer Denton) all around, including views of: Taumarunui, Te Rerenga-o-ko-Inaki, Otuiti Falls, Ohura Falls, Kirikiriroa, a Maori village, early morning on the river, a narrow gorge, a quiet reach, The Ladder scene, Tarepokiore, Paparoa rapids and waterfall, Parinui, The Caves, Ngaporo Rapids, Pipiriki Landing, a bend above Atene, Mangaio Creek, Hiruharama, Moutoa Island, Parikino Reach. Cove Wanganui, Upper Ohura Falls, River steamer wharves Wanganui. Dated by reference to other products of the Brett Printing Company. Cartographic has a copy at MapColl-832.41 atu [190?] Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on folded sheet, 960 x 270 mm, in blue folder cover 140 x 300 mm.