Places

Date: 1916

By: Smith & Anthony Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Canterbury-1916-01

Description: One side of the folded sheet shows a bird's eye view of "The road to Hanmer from Christchurch, with labels for Papanui, Styx, Belfast, Chaney's Corner, Whites Bridge, Kaiapoi, Woodend, Waikuku, Saltwater Creek, Leithfield, Amberley, Greney's Road, Glasnevin, Waipara Bridge, Weka Pass, Waikari, Hurunui, Culverden, Montrose, Upper Waiau Ferry, and Hanmer. Also marked are the following hotels (in order from Christchurch to Hanmer): Papanui, Phoenix, Belfast, Royal Hotel (Woodend), Royal Hotel (Leithfield), Railway Hotel and Crown Hotel as well as Frew Brothers Garage (all Amberley), Great Northern Hotel and Star & Garter Hotel as well as Mercer's Garage (all Waikari), Hurunui Hotel, Culverden Hotel, and Jollie's Pass Hotel and St Helen's Station (Hanmer). Rivers are named or shown: Waimakariri, [Kaiapoi], Ashley, Saltwater Creek, Kowai, Waipara, Hurunui and Waitohi, Waiau. The verso includes advertisements for Star Motor Petrol, the 1916 Overland, Ford cars, Goodrich tyres (from E W Pidgeon & Co Ltd), Motorol oils, Dunlop Tyres, Culverden Hotel, W D Berry & Co Garage in Christchurch. Also shown are photographs of the Troopers' Memorial Amberley, Weka Pass, Hurunui Hotel, and Culverden Hotel. Dated from an advertisement for the 1916 Overland, Colonial model. Other Titles - The road to Hanmer from Christchurch Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Photolithographs on sheet, 235 x 990 mm, folded inside cover to 235 x 110 mm.

Date: May 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1271

Description: River Avon, Christchurch. Print with hand-applied colouring made from negative taken May 1955 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print with hand-applied colouring, mounted on board, 38 x 68 cm

Date: 1924-1937

From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 :Photographs of Hydro schemes and the Murchison and Hawke's Bay earthquakes

Reference: PA1-q-769

Description: Opens with views of the site of the Arapuni Hydro scheme and the Paturuahine Gorge which was flooded to form Lake Arapuni. This is followed by images of the repairs to the one of the water channels that took place in 1932. The rest are photographs of the dam at various stages of construction, the dam completed, views of the new lake, water flowing over the spillway, and the Arapuni falls created below the dam Two views of Atiamuri show the Pohaturoa Rock in the background Ten images of Stewart's Claim, a location south of Okarito, show scenic views some with gold dredging equipment lying around, a beach and a river estuary on which is a barge loaded with pipes. Eight images record before and after effects of controlled blasting on a limestone bluff at Cobden Quarry, Greymouth, photographed on the 15th of January, 1932 The last section are views of the construction of the Waitaki Hydro, and the new Lake Waitaki. There are also several images of the Mokau Falls at Waikaremoana Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-8077

Description: Photographs of Glynn Wye homestead, North Canterbury, and surrounding countryside including the Waiau River, taken ca 1900 by Edmund Wheeler & Son of Christchurch. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Purchase, Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, 2004

Date: 1861

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-146

Description: Righthand section of a panoramic view of mountains with Kowai River in foreground, looking from south to north (right). Peaks are numbered 121 to 135. Include Benmore Lefthand section is C-097-146-1 Other Titles - Russells Creek Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink, 130 x 660 mm

Date: 1861

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: C-097-146-1

Description: Lefthand section of a panoramic view of mountains with Kowai River in foreground, looking from south to north (right). Peaks are numbered 101 to 120. Ben More and Castle Hill Peak are identified. Righthand section is C-097-146 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title; Verso - centre - Kowai. Mt Torlesse. Big Ben Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink, 130 x 660 mm

Date: [1930-1939]

From: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946 :Prints and negatives of New Zealand wildlife and scenery

By: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946

Reference: PA7-47-18

Description: View of snow-covered mountain from the Hooker Valley. There is a wire footbridge suspended across the river in the foreground. Copy of a photograph taken by Thelma Kent. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom centre - Title. 438 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 30 x 23.8 cm

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: 1933

From: Peter, Juliet, 1915-2010 :Photographs

By: Cowan, James Robson, 1918-2006

Reference: PA6-759

Description: View of the Waimakariri River, valley, and surrounding mountains photographed by Roy Cowan in 1933. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) panorama. Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 58 x 12.8 cm

Date: [ca 1890s-1900s]

Reference: PAColl-9669

Description: An album page with views of Otira Gorge and Mount Cook. Shows horses pulling a carriage on the Christchurch and Hokitika Road in Otiria Gorge. Shows Mount Cook from the Hooker Glacier. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album leaf with 2 b&w original photographic prints. Physical Description: 41.5 x 31 cm mounted album page

Date: 1860 - 1866

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: C-097-145

Description: Shows a cross sectional/panoramic view from Craigieburn Range to Puketeraki Bay (on right). Named features are: Craigieburn Range, Hogsback, branches of Bracken River, Broken Hill, Wimsing [?] Creek, No Mans Creek, Stevens Creek, Single Tree Hill, Blackwater Creek, Waimakariri, Puketeraki/Puketiraki Bay. Compass bearings and additional text beneath section. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink, 84 x 625 mm

Date: 1925

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1052

Description: Album recording a motoring and camping holiday through the South Island of New Zealand. This took in the New Zealand South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and included the West Coast, Otago, and Canterbury. The central part of the album has images of Khandallah, Wellington, and the family home in that suburb. Family photographs include Doug on his Norton Motorcycle, and Jack and Neville similarly posed on a Douglas Motorcycle. Rene and Frank stand at the net holding tennis rackets, and mother has several images with young Joyce. The last part of the album recordes something of a holiday to Auckland where the family camped at Brown's Bay and took a trip to Kawau Island. A group shot on Mt Messanger on the way back and some views of Pukekura Park New Plymouth complete the album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1925

From: East, Pamela: Photographs of groups visiting the Canterbury outback, family portraits, and Maori

Reference: PAColl-6917-2

Description: The people in these photographs look like tourist groups who have just got out of a bus. They are photographed aginst scenic backdrops of forest covered hills, river valleys and mountains; they are showen picnicing in similar locations; some of the locations are identifiable and include Otira, Otira Gorge and Tunnel, Arthurs Pass, and the gravel reaches of the upper Waimakariri River. Some of the images show groups of people associated with corrugated iron huts. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1925

From: Panoramic photographs of New Zealand taken by R P Moore

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-160

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: August 1909

From: Page Collection :Christchurch and general New Zealand towns and scenes; costume. ca. 1880-1910

Reference: PA4-0735

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Avon River, Christchurch, taken by an unidentified photographer August 1909. Inscriptions: Verso - In ink: River Avon Christchurch, Aug 09. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

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: 1860 - 1866

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-144

Description: Shows a cross sectional/panoramic view from Little Mount Peel to Mount Somers (on right). Named features are: Little Mt Peel, River Rangitata, Canterbury Plains, Southern Hinds, Gawlers Downs, Northern Hinds, Two Hinds, River Ashburton, Mt Somers. Compass bearings and additional text beneath section. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink, 120 x 610 mm

Date: May 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1109

Description: River Avon, Christchurch. Print with hand-applied colouring made from negative taken May 1955 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print with hand-applied colouring, mounted on board, 38 x 68 cm

Date: [ca 1930-ca 1940]

From: Webb family: Transparency slides of new Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-6796

Description: Tourist boats on the Whanganui River. Paddock of sweeds. Children showing lambs. Otahuna (house), Taitapu, Canterbury. Mount Tarawera. Flowering pohutukawa. Sharks. Men and luggage on stony bank. Milford Sound. Man and woman on rocky coast. Birds (black robin?) feeding from tin containers. Mount Sefton. Trout, Rainbow Springs, Rotorua. Ice skating partners,. Shovel ray fish. Eroded hill country. Lava hills, Waimunga, Rotorua. Aircraft in flight. Quantity: 23 b&w original transparency/ies 3 hand coloured images. 1 colour original transparency/ies Dufaycolor.

Date: 1916

From: Smith & Anthony Ltd (Christchurch) :The panoramic road to Hanmer / compiled & lithographed by Smith & Anthony, Ltd, Ch-Ch [1916]

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Canterbury-1916-01-inside

Description: Shows a bird's eye view of "The road to Hanmer from Christchurch, with labels for Papanui, Styx, Belfast, Chaney's Corner, Whites Bridge, Kaiapoi, Woodend, Waikuku, Saltwater Creek, Leithfield, Amberley, Greney's Road, Glasnevin, Waipara Bridge, Weka Pass, Waikari, Hurunui, Culverden, Montrose, Upper Waiau Ferry, and Hanmer. Also marked are the following hotels (in order from Christchurch to Hanmer): Papanui, Phoenix, Belfast, Royal Hotel (Woodend), Royal Hotel (Leithfield), Railway Hotel and Crown Hotel as well as Frew Brothers Garage (all Amberley), Great Northern Hotel and Star & Garter Hotel as well as Mercer's Garage (all Waikari), Hurunui Hotel, Culverden Hotel, and Jollie's Pass Hotel and St Helen's Station (Hanmer). Rivers are named or shown: Waimakariri, [Kaiapoi], Ashley, Saltwater Creek, Kowai, Waipara, Hurunui and Waitohi, Waiau. Dated from an advertisement for the 1916 Overland, Colonial model. Extended Title - From The panoramic road to Hanmer [1916 Quantity: 1. Physical Description: Photolithograph on sheet, 235 x 990 mm