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: Early 1950s

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: PAColl-6552

Description: 13 images (and 5 duplicate file prints) of Chateau Tongariro and the nearby roads. Includes the junction of state highways 47 and 48 with a chrysler parked at the side of the road, and one of the Tongariro National Park sign. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015096 to 015108 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: April 1923

From: Loftus, Helen :Photographs of climbing Mt Tapuaenuku and a trip to Kaikoura

By: Gunn, George Alexander, 1895-1968

Reference: PA1-o-1218

Description: Record of a trip made by George Alexander Gunn and friends along the Kaikoura coast to Kaikoura and south to about Oaro. Photographed by George Alexander Gunn in April 1923 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1909-1925]

By: Morrison, John M, active 1883-1951

Reference: PAColl-6494

Description: Photographs of Takapuna and Milford. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-016625 to 016630, 1/2- 031823 and 101744 Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: Manuscript material now held at qMS-1398.. Processing information: The majority of the prints do not have negatives.

Date: 1936

From: New Zealand Railways: [Ephemera relating to railways, railway trains, rail timetables, rail travel in New Zealand. 1920-1969]

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: Eph-B-RAIL-1936-01

Description: Front cover shows rail car driver at the controls, and the view in front. Inside are pictures of models of rail car, West Coast hotels, and a map of the road and air connections to Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers from Hokitika. Extended Title - Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Pamphlet, folded in four, each section 285 x 114 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1880

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :Album. [1860s?]

Reference: E-297-029

Description: A swift-flowing river between rocky banks, two men on the near left side of the river contemplating the river, a bridge with stone reinforcing at each end and a dwelling or hotel on the far side of the bridge to the right. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph 139 x 197 mm glued to album page 177 x 225 mm

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

Date: 1842 - 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870; Hutchison, Alan James Hanna, 1905-2000

Reference: A-259-039

Description: Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-023-1

Description: 'Kai Warra Warra Hutt Road near Wellington'. View looking north along the waterfront towards Petone, with a low bridge in the foreground and the Kaiwharawhara Hotel and other buildings viewed from across the stream. The Hutt Road continues in the distance. There are groups of Maori seated and standing in the foreground. The view probably predates January 1855, when the land in this area was uplifted by the earthquake Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour, 160 x 258 mm

Date: 1956-1958

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-3

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1956 to 1958. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Most prints relate to the West Coast Region, but also some images of Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago regions. Identified people are: Kopara Sawmill workers Bill Brown, Owen Jacobs, Morry Pullman, Hans Van Ruyven, Jimmy Birchfield, Doug Macalister, Joe Kavanagh, Neil McLean, Archy Fluerty, saw doctor John Henry Ord, Ted McGhie; licensee of Nelson Creek Hotel D Graham; Dorothy Debenham; Mick Bowie, and chief guide at Mt Cook Hermitage. Unidentified people include a female French tourist and some children. Featured natural environments include Karamea beach scenes, mining and sawmilling sites, and Buller Gorge. Featured town sequences include Reefton and Nelson's Creek houses and businesses, many of which are derelict. Further images (and series of images) of note include: a series of images of the Kopara Sawmill with forests, exterior felling scenes, lumber yard, processing of timber, and workers; spectators at a Cobden soccer match; crib-logging on the Wataroa River; various road works and maintainence scenes; locomotive at Ngahere sawmill site; images relating to various mining activities; church buildings; municipal buildings; and some mountaineering prints. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1959-2007

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-4

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1959 to 2007. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Identified people are: Senior Sergeant George Christopher Donnelly of Hokitika police; Ivy Harper and Bert Birchfield; Mike Armstrong and Jim Daken; Mary and Heather Cornwell; Charleston coal mine operator Neil Mouat; Mack Heinz; Tex Smith; Mike Armstrong; Henry Heveldt and M Bennett of Nolan's Mill; Garth Graham; meat shooters Mike Bennett and Kevin Blythell; John 'Opo' Angus, the Eggling brothers; helicopter pilot Ben Morris and Les's wife Mary Cleveland; and Johnny Hewer, Claire Easterbrook and Liam Easterbrook in front of the Neils Beach school house. Featured natural environments include the hot springs at Welcome Flat and the Karangarua Valley, River, Ranges, and the view from the Sefton bivouac, Ocean Beach, and Neils Beach, including car wrecks at the rubbish dump. Other images (and series of images) of note include scenes from the Kumara races; environmental damage (slips and road works at Milford Tunnel, Inangahua River road, and Haast and Jackson's Bay area; open face coal mining at Charleston; deer hunting, largely based in Mussel Point; Central Otago Hotels (Cardrona, White Horse, and Vulcan); Post Offices and boxes (St Bathan's, Outram, Ophir, and Dunedin) and a Pacific Films crew on Fox Glacier. Also includes images of James Heveldt's grave (Jackson's Bay), Peregrine Vinyard, a new house in Bannockburn, a girl in a Westport ice cream parlour, women in a Carter's Sawmill shop, a Hokitika cake stall, and various shop fronts and signage in Dunedin, Gore, and on the West Coast. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 80 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-006/008

Description: View looking south from the hill at Lowry Bay towards the seal the Aglionby Arms and surrounding houses alongside the Hutt River, with a Maori canoe in the foreground; a rocky foreshore at Porirua, looking south towards the hills Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: [914-1920], ca 1928

By: Tiller, R J (Mrs), active 1975

Reference: PAColl-0188

Description: Photographs taken by unidentified photographer(s) circa 1928 showing views of various parts of New Zealand from the north to the south, probably relating to holiday trips and sight seeing. Includes photographs of towns, cities, tourist spots, and accommodation: Fleming's Hotel, Tauranga; Waiwera Hot Springs Hotel; The Square, Palmerston North; the hospital and band rotunda in Taihape; the railway station, reservoir and other landmarks in Dunedin; the main street of Putāruru; a motor car outside Tawera Hotel; and people beside sheds and stream at Okoroire Thermal Resort. Includes scenic views in various locations: views taken around Queenstown, Laka Wakatipu, Paradise, and Glenorchy. Lake Hayes; Franz Josef Glacier (including its reflection in Lake Mapourika); Lake Tāupo; bush clad hills between Toa Toa and Motu; views of road from Turanga kumu highest point on road between Napier and Tāupo; view from Paekakariki Hill, Kapiti; Manawatu Gorge; Lake Te Pohue; Lake Wanaka; fishing vessels at Whangarei; landscape views taken from Takapu looking at Waipukurau; Days Bay, Wellington; Avon River, Christchurch; Gisborne Harbour; rail bridge at Karangahake Gorge; a traffic bridge at Hamilton; landscape views taken of Napier city buidlings and lagoon; Huka Falls; and Milford Sound. Includes three very faded copy prints pf photographs possibly taken between 1914 and 1920 showing"Herbert [W?] Williams, Russell" near a smoke billowing from a hillside; a solider [possibly in World War One uniform] standing near square pools of water and cypress trees "cistern at [Ain Hoyle?] in the Jordan Valley"; and a view of horses amongst a scrubby field "The day [?] was taken, A.W.R in wady kelt" [probably Wadi Qelt valley in the West Bank near Jordan River]. Some photographs are annotated on reverse with name of location and persons.Most photographs do not feature people. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059195 to 059286 and 1/2-076308 Quantity: 91 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Small black and white snapshots of varying sizes Processing information: Photographs have been grouped by the archivist in separate envelopes where images were taken in the same location. Envelopes have been annotated by archivist with the location name. Access statement was changed from "Curator required' to 'No access restriction" in July 2022 when record was enhanced.

Date: 1899

Reference: PA1-o-858

Description: Views taken on coach trip through Buller Gorge; also views showing the crossing of the Mohaka River, Taupo, Aratiatia, Wairakei, Hamurana Springs and Tikitere. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1908

By: Buck, William Seldon, 1846-1919

Reference: MapColl-832.47enc/1908/Acc.9768

Description: Surveying map of the area from the Wellington and Napier Railway, adjacent to the Hutt Road, and including the Ngauranga Government trig. The site for the stationmaster's house is noted as land be acquired for railway purposes, and is in Part section No. 8, Harbour District - Belmont S.D. Blk. XII. This is adjacent to an area of land marked as a right of way and a note states that it is land to be acquired for road purposes. Includes acreages. Both plots of land to be acquired have a joint note which states that these areas are to be shown separately on Proclamation Plan. Adjacent is the Ngaraunga Defence Works which is also Part section No. 8, Harbour District. The site of an hotel is marked. Signature at bottom right: William S. Buck Stamp in top right corner: 2027 Other Titles - Ngauranga, proposed site for stationmaster's house Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colourwash on paper, coloured, scale [1:394], 46.8 x 36.1 cm.

Date: 1860-1865

By: Bryant, James, 1812-1902

Reference: MS-Papers-1583

Description: Daybook kept by Bryant while a lessee of the Ames' Arms Hotel, Johnsonville, 1860-1863, including list of customers and accounts. Also record of employees' hours and wages, and costs when he was contractor of the coach road from Johnsonville to Ohariu Valley, 1862-1865. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 11 Mar 1868

From: Carroll album

Reference: PA1-o-094-39

Description: Otira Gorge Hotel, 11 March, 1868. Shows native bush on the hill behind, a road in the foreground, and two horse drawn coaches. Photograph taken by Daniel Louis Mundy. Note on back of file print reads: "Otira Gorge Hotel with Cobb's coach leaving for Christchurch. Walter Ray was the licensee. Photo taken by D L Mundy and Shepard driving the coach." File print differs from original item. Date on file print is April but photographers inscription is March. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Mundy N Z No 46 11/3/68; Album page - beneath image - Hotel Otira Gorge Westland Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 18.8 x 24.2 cm, on album page 24.4 x 32.1 cm

Date: 2002-2003

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

Reference: PADL-000492

Description: Photographs of Granity, West Coast. Includes photographs of Granity Sands Backpackers, beach, shops and surrounding views around Granity. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (granity)" Quantity: 107 digital photograph(s).

Date: ca 1870s

From: Tingay, Mrs : Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003772-G

Description: Day's Hotel, Sumner, Christchurch, photographed circa 1870s. Looks along a road alongside a beach, towards a two storied, wooden building by a rocky hillside. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 2001-2003

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

Reference: PADL-000507

Description: Photographs of South Westland, West Coast. Includes photographs of the Franz Josef and Haast villages and glaciers, coastlines and lakes in the southern region of the Westland district. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (south Westland)" Quantity: 170 digital photograph(s).