Places

Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

Date: 1968

By: Stiles & Company

Reference: Eph-A-FREEMASONS-1968-01

Description: Illustrated booklet with the order of proceedings for the seventh presentation of the Exemplification by the United Masters' Lodge. "The ceremony is a realistic and completely authentic Exemplification of the Masonic ceremonies of the period (circa 1760)". The authentic costumes (complete with white wigs) used were from the collection of the late Brother N B Spencer of Auckland. The centre page spread gives the names of all participating brethren, and a list is also given of the organising committee and officers. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, each 222 x 140 mm.

Date: between 1934 and 1935

Reference: PAColl-6619

Description: 46 images of the Duke of Gloucester's tour of New Zealand in 1934-5 including: nine of his visit to Rotorua including Maori kapa haka; one of veterans at the bridge of remembrance in Christchurch; one of him opening Tekapo bridge and another of the party at Tekapo House hotel; one of him in a crowd outside the railway station in Hokitika; one of him inspecting a parade of nurses; one of him visiting a traditional whare; two of him as a jockey at a race meeting; three of the felling of a kauri tree; seven of his stay at Longbeach sheep station, Ashburton County; and two of him at the Waitangi memorial. Photographer unidentified but possibly Hall Raine. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-019066 to 019078, 019082 to 019107, 019111, 019113, and 059505 to 059509 Quantity: 46 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: 10 July 1926

From: Wellington Savage Club Inc :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-0842

Description: Large group of Wellington and Auckland Savage Club members. Photograph taken outside a large single story wooden building (caption reads `before church'). Name of photographer and exact location are not recorded. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 250 x 412 mm with mount 405 x 558 mm

Date: ca 1900s

From: Wairakei Album

Reference: PAColl-0710-1

Description: Eighteen photographs on two loose pages from the Wairakei album showing a large group of men and women picnicking next to a river, smaller groups of men in seated or standing poses, a group of young women and boys with two dogs, cattle in a field, a man fishing in a stream, and scenic views. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Possibly donated by R McKnight.

Date: 1906 - 1908

From: Low, David Alexander Cecil 1891-1963 :[Man with moustache wearing tails; and, Bearded man in top hat and overcoat. ca1907?]

Reference: A-279-015

Description: A standing portrait of a man with a large moustache in formal clothes holding a sheet of paper. Probably a well-known Christchurch identity, possibly a conductor On verso: pencil sketch: [Bearded man in top hat and overcoat]. Drawn while the artist was resident in Christchurch Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - D. LOW. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and wash 244 x 135 mm.

Date: [ca1895-1920]

Reference: PAColl-6759

Description: Scenes of returned soldiers being given instruction in agricultural techniques. They include a photograph of the syllabus offered, men in the field tending crops and cows and views of the men in a group eating from billies. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-028842 to 028851 Quantity: 10 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: Harding, William James 1826-1899 :W. J. Harding. [Wellington], Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited, 1984. (Imagers of a new land, series 3).

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988

Reference: C-106-014

Description: Shows top-hatted man with long (legal?) collars standing in front of narrow hanging and holding open book. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 259 x 213 mm, on sheet 415 x 350 mm.

Date: 1911 - 1912

By: Smith and Caughey Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1911-01

Description: A sales catalogue listing products for sale, including dress fabrics, clothing, umbrellas and sunshades, underwear, hosiery, art needlework, quilts, lace, handkerchiefs, belts, patent medicines and toilet requisites, men's sports clothing including riding breeches, oilskin coats, and raincoats. The first page shows a group photograph of the 170 male members of Smith & Caughey's staff in the firm's furnishing department on October 9th, 1911. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Coverless booklet of 64 pages, 270 x 212 mm.

Date: 1850-1890

By: Harper, Arthur Paul, 1865-1955; Moberly, Patricia, active 1990s

Reference: PA1-f-207

Description: Album probably compiled by the mountaineer and explorer, A P Harper. Harper was also probably the photographer for many of the prints, especially those of mountains and mountaineering. There are Harper and Ackland family photographs which include interior and exterior views and views of the garden, of Ilam, the family mansion in Christchurch. The other main group of photographs relate to A P Harper's activities as a mountaineer and explorer in the Fox and Franz Joseph glacier regions. Some of the climbers active in the Southern Alps during the 1880s and 1890s are depicted. W S Green and his two Swiss guides, and at least one photograph taken by Green during his unsuccessful attempt to reach the summit of Mount Cook in 1882. Fitgerald, Zurbriggen, Mannering, and Dixon were all men that Harper was associated with as a mountaineer. As an explorer he was associated with Charles Douglas, and there are photographs of Douglas, Leonard Cockayne the botanist, and John Roberts of the Westland district survey. There are also many photographs of the mountains, glaciers, rivers, and gorges of the Southern Alps. Some of the English photographs at the beginning of the album may be associated with A P Harper's brother Charles who became an Anglican priest. He may have been the C C Harper who was at Keble College and Cuddesdon theological college, Oxford. There are two interiors of "C C Harper's room at Keble College", and a number of photographs of family groups taken in the grounds of the vicarage at Patea where Charles Harper was vicar from 1894 to 1900. The album ends with A P Harper and his house at Thames, and more British photographs, in particular several pages of Jersey taken about 1897 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [1900s]

By: Brookes, L V, active 1962

Reference: PA1-o-070

Description: Album of photographs relating to the Cable Bay Station, including group portraits of the post & telegraph staff, staff quarters, the telegraph instrument room, and aspects of daily life. Inserted in the front of the album is an undated newspaper cutting with news of the wedding of Miss Dorcas Vivian Ingram to Vincent Brookes of the Post & Telegraph Office, Wanganui. The wedding was held at St Matthew's Church, Masterton. The photographs in this album were probably taken by Vincent Brookes. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Maroon cloth album "Photographs", 24 x 19 cm Provenance: Donated by L V Brookes, Lower Hutt, 1962

Date: [Circa 1900 to 1905]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-300

Description: Photographs probably taken by George William Barltrop, between 1900 and 1905. The images follow on from McIntosh album 15, (these are pages 815-835) starting at Opunake (a church building). Pihama (a memorial to members of the crew of the barque Lizzie Bell which was wrecked off Oeo, 24th July 1901), a view of the Oeo Hotel (F. Morgan, proprietor), and a view of the mast of the Lizzie Bell standing as a memorial at Pihama. These are followed by a panorama of Parihaka (p. 822-823), and a portrait of a man named Ruru, at Parihaka. The rest of the album has scenes in the Auckland area, including a view of Queen Street in which the chemist shop of Charles J Ratgen is clearly visible. A series of images show various Maori artifacts on display at the Auckland Museum. Scenery in Auckland includes the Auckland Domain, Epsom, Tamaki, Auckland Harbour, Rangitoto, St Heliers, Mount Hobson and Mount Eden. Two church buildings are seen, one at Opunake, and the remains of a stone church at Tamaki. A group of photographs show horse-drawn carriages decorated with flowers for a floral fete (p 835-838). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, entitled `Photographic views'; 20.5 x 17.5 cm

Date: [Circa 1920s]

Reference: PA1-o-441

Description: Album of photographs taken circa 1920, by an unidentified photographer. None of the images have inscriptions; only a few places have been identified. Identifiable buildings and locations have been listed above. Many of the scenes are of a two-storey English cottage in the Arts & Crafts style, showing exterior and interior views. There is one of a viewing tower with windows and gables, possibly in the garden of the same house. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, entited "Photo-graphs"; 22.0 x 17.5 cm

Date: 1916-1917

From: Firth, Pauline J, fl 1977 :Photograph albums of New Zealand and of World War I

By: Whitaker, Arthur, active 1916-1940?

Reference: PA1-o-174

Description: Snapshots of a group of friends, mostly in the Days Bay area, particularly at a house known as `Angel's Rest'; also a series of holiday photographs taken in Palmerston North at Christmas 1916. Two of these show soldiers marching in the Christmas Day Parade, and there are two views of a man posed beside a large cannon. People are identified only by their Christian names. Collection created by Arthur Whitaker. Inscriptions: Album page - Volume 2. More sunny memories. Arthur Whitaker. 12/12/16 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey cover, with inscription in black ink on front cover; 15.5 x 11.5 cm

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: [ca 1887-1891]

By: Gant, Robert, 1854?-1936

Reference: PA-Group-00058

Description: Two albums of photographs taken mainly in Masterton about 1887-1891, probably by Robert Gant. Most photographs of individual men and groups of men, often posed in tableaux, and including men dressed as women. Many subjects appear to be homosexual men. Most photographs have captions. Some landscape scenes of Masterton, Wellington, Woolwich and other overseas locations. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchase, 2007. Albums belonged to Jennifer Blackburn, great-grandaughter of Charles Blackburn (the 'CB' of the photograph captions). Jennifer Blackburn given the albums by her Aunty Coll (Colleen)

Date: [ca 1910s-1950s]

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6866

Description: 152 views and portraits. They include: at least 22 of Picton and and the surrounding area showing boating in the harbour, people pic-nicking on the waterfront, people watching a rowing race, a speedboat called Pelorus Jack racing in the Sounds, and ferries coming in to the terminus; 10 images of the geothermal area around Wairakei inlcuding mud pools and geysers; nine images of a Studebaker Commander 6 either parked at scenic views or driving along country roads; eight images of men talking possibly at race meetings; six of the timber industry particularly the building of a timber boom; four aerial views of a liner coming into Auckland harbour; three views of groups of well-dressed men and women wearing what are possibly conference badges in an area decorated with bunting; three similar images of a large group of women photographed at Te Aro School near the Carillon also with conference badges; three general views of Wellington harbour; three images of the Spa Hotel, Taupo; two images of two women in bathing suits; two views of the railway station from The Terrace, Wellington; two views of a girl in Wellington Botanic Gardens; a scene on board the RMS Mononwai with a woman being photographed framed by the life belt; two of Aorangi; one of the ferry Cobar in Wellington Harbour; two of children riding on donkeys; two of the same elderly couple outside their house; two of young men on the boat Starlight; a group of what are probably sheep shearers outside their shed; Aotea Quay, Wellington; the yacht Ilex in Wellington harbour; children playing on swings; a large wooden gothic style house (location unknown); sheep droving; two women on a Bell Bus Company tour; various scenes on board ship including passengers watching an entertainer, a boxing match and a crossing the equator ceremony; a ship's officer climing down a rope ladder on the side of a ship; two of kauri trunks being transported on the Roxen, 1932; and a small child looking at an overturned carved wooden statue. The majority of the remaining images are of unidentified landscapes. Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-030982, 030983, 030985, 030992 to 030996, 030998, 031005, 031007 to 031010, 031012, 031013, 031016 to 031045, 031049, 031051 to 031059, 031154 to 031192, 031198 to 031203, 031205 to 031217, 031227 to 031248, 031737, 031739, 031740, 092294 to 092305 Quantity: 114 b&w original negative(s) film. 38 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1972

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-134-250

Description: The scene is the exchange section of a menswear shop after Christmas. Norman Kirk is leaving, having exchanged some items. One of the assistants behind the counter is asking another who the person exchanging the clothing is. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 286 x 400 mm Provenance: Donation: .

Date: 1926

From: Wellington Savage Club Inc :Photographs

By: Webb, Steffano Francis Pavlovich, 1880-1967

Reference: PAColl-D-0843

Description: Group of 16 men taken in the studio of Steffano Webb in 1926. Includes photograph of A Dey (inset beneath) All names indexed in Name Field Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Title; Recto - beneath image - Names Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 265 x 375 mm with mount 455 x 555 mm

Date: [Circa 1919-1923]

By: Lints, William, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-320

Description: Album of photographs relating to William Lints' Reveille Company, presented to Beeban Annadale McKnight after her marriage to John McKnight. Beeban Annadale MacDonald performed with the company for five years before her marriage in 1923. Many of the photographs are of her at various sites on the tours around New Zealand. Others include one of Gladys Moncrieff and one of Mae Baird, both selling Reveille programmes in Christchurch. William Lints himself appears in a number of the photographs. Inscriptions: Album page - Reminiscences of Our Reveille, from the producer, to Mrs John McKnight. 1923. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with soft brown card cover; 14 x 19 cm