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Date: 1880s

From: Three albums of New Zealand views

Reference: PA1-o-983

Description: Views of New Zealand, comprising Mt Egmont from New Plymouth Domain, Napier, bullock team hauling wool at Cheviot, Wellington, Manawatu Gorge bridge, Manawatu Gorge, Rimutaka railway, Mount Alexander, Otira Gorge, Lyttelton breakwater, Armagh Street bridge in Christchurch, and Christchurch Cathedral. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Circa 1880s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Lomer, Albert, active 1862-1900; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-262

Description: Album of Australian photographs of Brisbane and Tasmania, and views of a range of sites in New Zealand, taken by various photographers circa 1880s. Names and places identified in the album are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: [Circa 1937]

Reference: PA1-f-054

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways between 1937 and 1938 by unidentified photographers. Photographs in the North Island include tours between Stratford and Ongarue; Ngaruawahia celebrations in 1938 (including views of King Koroki's house which was built in 1938); Rotorua and six lakes trip; and opening ceremonies for the Hutt Railway. In the South Island views include Caroline Bay with events at the soundshell; in Timaru, views of a two-storied clubhouse and men playing bowls, a person practising croquet, and several games of tennis on a series of tennis courts; areas in Queen Charlotte Sound, Portage, Pelorus and Kenepuru Sounds and Blenheim Aerodrome; Tasman and Franz Josef Glaciers; Milford Sound; Punakaiki; and Cromwell. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, dark green spine, entitled `Tours 5'; 40 x 60 cm

Date: 1972

From: Jones, Edward George Thomas, 1939- : A brief history of my family in New Zealand

By: Jones, Edward George Thomas, 1939-2011

Reference: MS-Papers-1482

Description: Contains first version of Jones' `A brief account of my family in New Zealand'. Covers history of his family from arrival of Riordan family, Taranaki, and Jones family, Canterbury, in the 1870s. James Riordan served with Armed Constabulary in Taranaki, in the Police Force in Napier before coming a carrier in Taihape, 1907. Mention of Dodunski, Goodwin, Fisher families. Notes on settlement in Taranaki of Polish immigrants; maps Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-4739 - a second, updated version of this account Quantity: 1 folder(s) (58 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

By: Walker, A (Mr), active 1968; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; C M (Photographer), active 1905; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Pratt, A A, active 1900s

Reference: PAColl-6639

Description: Postcards of ferries at wharves in Auckland, interior and exterior of St John's Cathedral in Napier, Waihi from Martha Hill, bowling green on the Domain at Te Aroha, Lyttelton at regatta time, Lyttelton harbour, Opera House, St Luke's Danish Church and All Saints Church and the Municipal Buildings, Palmerston North; the Triangle, Dunedin; Auckland Hospital, Grafton Road; Palmerston North Post Office; a view over Auckland from Mount Eden; the bridge over to the Cafe Continental; Hastings Street, Napier; Perry Street, Masterton with a hall on the right; tea kiosk in the park, Masterton; two carts on the road to Lansdowne, Masterton; the tramline to Onehunga, Auckland; Queen Street, Auckland; and Auckland harbour and wharves. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negative at 151877 Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 14 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Postcards

Date: 1923, nd

By: Nelson, George W, active 1909-1964

Reference: MS-Papers-3467

Description: Paper read under the auspices of the Canterbury Progress League, Christchurch. Also voting paper for poll taken on proposal to borrow money to build public saltwater baths on Marine Parade, Napier. Annotated on reverse. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (16 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter

Date: ca 1970s-1990s

From: New Zealand Post Primary Teachers' Association :Photographs

By: New Zealand. National Publicity Studios; Westra, Ans, 1936-2023

Reference: PAColl-8028-05

Description: Photographs of the micrarium Microworld of Inner Space, the woollen factory at Mosgiel, Napier, the National Film Unit, children and a ranger in a National Park, students at Ngata Memorial College in Ruatoria, preschooler at Nga Tapuwae, nurses striking outside Wellington Hospital, boys watering plants at Opononi Area School, students and buildings at Otago Girls' High School, teachers' training outpost at Napier, Panguru High School, physical education, floods at Pleasant Point, preschools, Queen Charlotte College, Rangitahi College, and Reporoa College. Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s) (proof sheet). 15 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1905-1909

From: Berwick, S W (Mr) :Albums of New Zealand scenes and coastal towns

Reference: PA1-o-833

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1949-1958

By: Tyrell, Norman, -1994; Hayward, Margaret Jane, 1940-

Reference: PA-Group-00367

Description: Photographs of holiday excursions and job sites taken ca 1949-1958 by railway engineer Norman Tyrell. Covers hydro-electric dams and their construction, bridges and their construction, the construction of a septic tank at Palmerston, cities, ports, Auckland Zoo, tramping and mountains and scenic New Zealand. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives in registers at F 71104 1/4 - F 71731 1/4 Photographs taken by Norman Tyrell, railway engineer, d 1994 Quantity: 627 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4779 to PA-Group-00367 in 2009.

Date: [ca 1944-1949]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-037

Description: Photographs mainly relate to Disabled Servicemen's Centres in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Napier. Shows men (including ex-Maori Battalion) in the various workshops and therapy rooms undertaking cane-work, bootmaking and repair, basketry, embossed leather work, weaving, rug making, toy making, upholstery, cabinetry, carpentry, clock making and mop making. Photographs of men making artificial limbs and an amputee being fitted with a new limb; blind returned servicemen in the Occupational Therapy Room learning to read in braille. Photograph of Mr Tom W Cameron, who trained at Disabled Servicemen's Centre at Wellington, outside his jewellery shop with watchmaker R T Dixon; returned serviceman buying new clothes in a department store (Wellington); cafeteria at Christchurch Disabled Servicemen's Training Centre building, and Hawke's Bay Training Centre, Napier; frontage to a boot repair shop in [Wellington?]; NZ Rehabilitation Camp at the Old Park Camp, Dover showing Private Sheeran playing table tennis with M Rosenfeld; Hon C F Skinner, MP (Minister of Rehabilitation) laying foundation stone for Christchurch Branch of Disabled Servicemen's League, 30 Oct 1944 (Lt Colonel J Murphy, Chairman of the League). Photograph of an [opening?] ceremony held in front of a large concrete building with a bowling green in front. Backdrop looks like Wellington but locality and building unable to be identified. Photograph of Disabled Servicemen's Vocational Training Centre in Anzac Street A G W Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd took a number of the Auckland photographs. View of artificial limb workshop; men recuperating on the verandah of the military hospital across the road from Lake Rotorua. Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-182

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1939-1953 A.N.A. Dance (group of men from United Services), undated; Otago Patriotic Council committee at a social and dance at the Town Hall (includes Mayor of Dunedin, A H Allen & Mrs Allen and others, all named on verso), Aug 1940; Lord Montgomery accompanied by Dr J Kennedy Elliot, examines work being done by W Greenbank at Returned Servicemen's Training Centre, Wellington; Patriotic Fund drive for funds at Hamilton, 1940 (parade), and Dunedin, Oct 1940 (archery competition); playhouse built and furnished by an Invercargill firm to be raffled to raise funds for London victims of air-raids, 1940; send-off for Hastings soldiers; fond farewell at Timaru station, Oct 1939; Timaru soldiers led by Municipal Band marching down the main street, Oct 1939; volunteers enlisting at Auckland, Sep 1939; crowd at Wellington Railway Station waving goodbye from the platform, Oct 1939. Special force in training at Trentham; members of Marlborough branch of National Reserve on guard duty at a military depot; civic farewell for Marlborough soldiers at Blenheim, Oct 1939. Dunedin recruits departing from railway station for training for the Special Force; New Plymouth volunteer at railway station before Special Force left town; Canterbury men for Special Force marching; funeral of Lance-Corporal James Thomas Nelson held at Invercargill includes members of the Special Force, Dec 1939. Napier volunteer nurses who won the Collins Cup V.A.D. competition, and Wellington team who were runners-up; Red Cross nurses at Burnham Military Camp, Dec 1939; training of members of Auckland Calliope Sea Scouts Troop which reformed in Oct 1939; painting a merchant ship `battleship-grey' as a war precaution, Sep 1939 Army Stage Recruiting Rally in Featherston Street, Wellington; Mayor of New Plymouth with waste material collection, Sep 1940; washing-up at Camp; wet canteen; outdoor wet canteen at Burnham, Dec 1939; dental tent, Nov 1939. Patriotic Fund related photographs: Boys' war effort at Westport, 1940 - Collecting pine cones, collecting beer bottles, fretwork, chopping firewood; children's `shop' at Terrace end, Palmerston North, 1940; decorated bicycle at Levin, 1940; horse and cart in main road of Gisborne during petrol restrictions, 1939; stock sale at Waipukerau to raise funds, Dec 1940; Home Guard display at Hastings Watty Nelson (singer) photographed at Otaki with brothers Jack and `Hec' Merrylees (formerly of Dannevirke) of third Echelon, Aug 1940 Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1929-1948

By: Kendall, Leslie Frank, active 1920-1950

Reference: PA1-o-717

Description: Album compiled by Lesley Frank Kendall. The first section relates to tramping and the Mount Egmont Alpine Club. This includes - A large group of people on a mountain tramp ca 1929. Climbers on Mount Egmont. Building the first Syme Hut on Fantham's Peak, Mount Egmont, 1930. Military training camp at Long Bay. Emerson Street, Napier, in ruins, 1931. Two men on a motorcycle holiday. Group of photographs of the Wairarapa and Tararua Ranges. This includes - Men hunting in the Palliser Bay area. Views of the Rimutaka Range and road. Climbers on Mount Hector, Tararua Range, and at Kime and Field's huts. View of the Balclutha road bridge (built between 1933 and 1935). Kendall family members and a motor holiday in Central Otago ca 1936. This group also includes Queentown, the Buller Gorge, the DH 86 aircraft `Karoro,' and Canterbury. Views of Napier rebuilt. Sports matches include - New Zealand versus India, hockey, 1938. Otago versus Canterbury, rugby (probably Ranfurly Shield) 1938. Photograph group relating to a holiday in Auckland. Photograph group relating to a holiday at The Portage, Kenepuru Sound, Marlborough. Family gathering. Lesley Kendall in military uniform and Norma Clout on their wedding day, ca 1940. Group of photographs of unidentified children, people and places. Pig hunting trip, locality unidentified. Group of photographs of Lesley and Norma Kendall's first baby. Holiday on the South Island's West Coast. Wanganella on Barrett Reef, Wellington Harbour, 1948. Views of Ohinemutu and Whakarewarewa. Group of photographs relating to the Royal New Zealand Air Force training school at Levin, Second World War. Family photographs, views of Wellington, the Putangirua Pinnacles Palliser Bay, and Picton. Groups of people on holiday at Paraparaumu, 1930s. Groups of people on a day out at Ohariu Valley, Wellington, 1930s. Wellington College Mod. VB class, 1929. Lesley Kendall with athletic trophies for the 1929-1930 season. Family photographs, 1920s-1940s. House on Maungakiekie Avenue, One Tree Hill, Auckland. Group photograph of a dance party, Mount Eden, Auckland, 1930s. Two photographs of New Zealand Air Force groups, Second World war. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1858-1878

By: Sealy, Henry John, 1838-1922

Reference: MS-1859-1866

Description: Record of voyage to New Zealand on the Clontarf; details of farming life in the Napier area; surveying and farming life in South Canterbury; domestic activities and meetings with people, including the Haast family Source of title - Transcribed Arrangement: MS-1861-1863, and MS-1864-1866 are boxed together Quantity: 8 volume(s). 0.16 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (16-19cm, maroon covers and hinged lid boxes)

Date: 1880-1889

From: Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898?-1980 :Photographs

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-q-116

Description: Album compiled by Arthur Lagden Haylock, containing views of Lyttelton, Christchurch, Wellington, Nelson, New Plymouth, Tauranga, Ohinemutu, Mangarewa Gorge, Pink & White Terraces, Napier, Timaru, Porters Pass, Castle Hill (West Coast Road), Craigieburn, Waimakariri River, Arthur's Pass, Otira Gorge, Otira, Jacksons, Taipo River, Mount Alexander, Dillmanstown, Hokitika, and Greymouth. Also includes photographs of ships Annie Bow, Ganymede, and City of Perth and Benvenue stranded at Timaru in 1882. Photographs taken 1880s, by James Ring, Burton Brothers, Wheeler & Sons (including prints made by Wheeler from the negatives of D L Mundy) and others. Other Titles - Ramblings through New Zealand. By A.L. Haylock Quantity: 1 album(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Brown album with gold borders, entitled `Ramblings through New Zealand. By A.L. Haycock', lettered in gold; 36.5 x 31.5 cm

Date: [Between 1920s and 1930s]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: Pa1-f-053

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways, chiefly taken circa 1936, by unidentified photographers. The main sequences cover views in the Christchurch area, the Southern Alps and West Coast in the South Island; and Gisborne, East Cape, and Taranaki in the North Island. Many of the images were used in the New Zealand Railway Magazine which is available in full-text on the internet at http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-railways.html Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled Tours, Book 4; 39 x 59 cm

Date: December 1903-January 1904

From: Teale, Edmund Oswald (Sir), 1874-1971 : Birell album

Reference: PA1-o-037

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by Sir Edmund Oswald Teale, who visited New Zealand to attend a meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science in Dunedin between December 1903 and January 1904. Images include a number showing geological formation along the route between Napier and Taupo; images of hot springs and mud pools, and the Aratiatia Rapids; Napier and Wellington. Views of the South Island include many in the Mount Cook region, and show various glaciers, including the Tasman Glacier, Hochstetter Glacier, and the Hooker Glacier; geological aspects of moraines, crevasses and moulins associated with glaciers; Lake Pukaki; alpine flowers in the Tasman Valley; a carriage and horses near the Hermitage, with Mount Sefton visible behind; the Mataura River and Bluff. A collection of duplicates are filed in a pocket at the front of the album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, 235 x 185 mm

Date: [Between 1870s and 1880s]

By: Hart, Campbell & Company; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hart, William Paterson, active 1870s-1900s

Reference: PA1-o-390

Description: Early photographs of New Zealand, most taken by Hart, Campbell & Co, and Wheeler & Son. Inserted in a pocket attached inside the front cover are two items. One an old print of a hut at Milford, taken by Hart, Campbell & Co, and the other a newspaper cutting (Evening Star Friday March 23, 1934), of Dunedin from View Street, and Dunedin from Dowling Street, both taken in 1861. The photograph of a Cobb & Co. coach at Palmerston, has the caption `2. Cobb's coach. E Devine, driver. Palmerston, Otago, N.Z. 1876' and the photographers are named as Hart, Campbell & Co. One set of photographs have no captions and no identification of photographer. They follow a group of men travelling along a river bed, with small rowing boats, on river banks, and at the foot of waterfalls. Another sequence shows native bush, tree ferns and rivers. Two views (pages 8, 10) show Linnburn Station. One is unidentified in the album, but identified from the same image at Te Papa (digital view on the internet), the other closer view of the homestead has a caption. Relationship complexity - The photograph of Cobb's Coach at Palmerston (p. 7), is the same image as one at PAColl-7344-54 (Box 16), with the same caption `2. Cobb's coach. E Devine, driver. Palmerston, Otago, N.Z. 1865', but the photographers are identified as Hart, Campbell & Co. on this image, but identified as Burton Bros. on the PAColl copy. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with very dark blue-green cloth cover, black corners and spine, entitled `New Zealand views' in gold lettering; 24.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1970

Reference: Eph-A-OPERA-1970

Description: Includes: Undated 1970s?: Southern Opera Ensemble. "The old maid and the thief", by Menotti. Director Effie Cockburn; musical director Ian Page. [1970-1980s?]. Programme "Amelia goes to the ball", by Menotti. Opera School demonstration, Wellington, 26-30 November [1970]. Programme (2 copies) North Shore Operatic Society. Rogers & Hammerstein's "Carousel" by arrangement with Chappell & Co. Producer Alan de Malmanche; musical director Ian Harvey; choreographer Doreen Yalland. North Shore Teachers' College, 13-27 June 1970. Programme Sacred Heart Girls College, Napier Boys' High School. "Free as air", by Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade. Produced by Mr J Beardsell. Boys' High School Hall, 30 April - 5 May 1970. Programme Auckland Operatic Society. "A funny thing happened on the way to the forum", by Stephen Sondheim. Produced by Robert Alderton; musical director Derek Firth; choreographer Robert Young. Set design Neil McGough. Auckland Festival February 1970. Programme (2 copies) Light Opera Club (Inc) proudly present a Glbert and Sullivan season of "The gondoliers". Auckland Grammar School Centennial Theatre, May 1970. Programme Auckland Operatic Society. "Kismet", by Robert Wright and George Forrest. Producer Robert Alderton; musical director Neil McGough; choreographer Robert Young; wardrobe Joan Maynard. His Majesty's Theatre, commencing 24 June 1970. Programme NZ Opera Society Canterbury Branch. Recital by senior students in conjunction with the Institute of Registered Music Teachers. (With Shelley Spang, Catherine Johnstone, Bryan Botting, David Vine, Carol Dodge, Tanya Pekelharing, Annaliese Pekelharing, Jill Pears, Felicity Ward, Sarah Watkins, Murray Lennox, Bernadette Richardson). State Trinity Theatre, 16 September [1970]. Programme Light Opera Club. "Pink champagne", by Johann Strauss. Produced by John Atha; musical director Gordon Cole; choreographer Doreen Yalland. Auckland Grammar School Centennial Theatre, October 1970. Programme 1970s?: The Flute group presents Mozart's "The magic flute". Producer Warner Haldane; guest conductor Gillian Bibby. Gisborne War Memorial Theatre, 10-15 February [1970s?] Programme (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Programmes, sizes ranging under 250 mm. Provenance: One programme donated by Roger Flury in 1998; one by Ross Harland, Wellington, in 2011; one by Morva Croxson, 2015.

Date: ca1946-ca1949

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

By: Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986

Reference: PA1-o-1031

Description: Most of the images are records of holidays taken in the late 1940s. The first is a winter trip on motorcycles to the south Island showing Christchurch, the mountains and the countryside under snow. The next, also by motorcycle is a North Island trip first to Hawkes Bay and Napier via the Manawatu Gorge, then north to Rotorua and the thermal areas, then back through the central North Island taking in the Huka Falls and the Chateau. Next there is a fishing trip to the Marlborough Sounds which includes a visit to Blenheim, and a few images of a camping trip. The other theme is social. A birthday party for Theo's brother Jack. This includes detailed images of the guests, cutting the cake, beer drinking, and chess playing. Another group of images appears to be a card party combined with a meal and cash for gambling. One page of images shows the destruction of a building by fire photographed at night Arrangement: Proof sheets of the North Island trip can be found at PAColl-7167-10-25 to PAColl-7167-10-27 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1875-1916]

Reference: PAColl-4516

Description: Postcard of Victoria Arcade on Queen Street with carriages in the street and a telegraph pole with a large number of wires and cables; St Patrick's Cathedral, Monroe Street, Napier; Municipal Opera House, Napier; three men of a bush felling party having lunch probably near Dargaville; newspaper clipping of an old photograph of a crowd in Victoria Square with the old Post Office behind it ca 1875. Quantity: 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: One print at PAColl-4223.