Places

Date: ca 1898-1905

By: Parker, Daniel, active 1890-1911; Main, William, 1934-2023

Reference: PAColl-7431

Description: Photographs of Kamo (Whangarei), Rodney County and Coromandel, taken, probably in the 1900s, by Daniel P Parker of Coromandel. Includes views of the construction on a timber dam (probably in Coromandel), Coromandel Public Hospital, Kennedy Bay (Coromandel), a stream crossing between Opitonui and Coromandel, bush camps in the Coromadel district and a traffic bridge in Rodney County. Daniel P Parker is recorded in the Wise's Post Office directories as an engineer in Coromandel from 1902 to 1930. Between 1906 and 1911 he is also recorded as a photographer. Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1972

From: Dellow, Ronald Graeme, 1924-2004 :Photographs of musicians, musicians groups, singers and choirs

Reference: PA12-5665

Description: City views of Wellington and Auckland. Hamilton Music School. Auckland University South Island trip. View of North Road, Waimea. All probably photographed by Ronald Dellow in 1972. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: Between 1910s and 1930s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-f-002

Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.

Date: 1987

By: Stevenson, Margaret Forbes, 1920-

Reference: MS-Papers-5415

Description: Stevenson wrote her account in 1987 and begins by describing her family and their situation from when she was born in Pahiatua in 1920 until the 1950s when her marriage ended. She describes the daily life and routines of the family, the various moves they made - to Wellsford, Hamilton, back to Pahiatua, Ongarue, Makokomiko and Wellington - the work her father did which included selling books for the Seventh-Day Adventists and being a farm manager - and of life at the various schools she and her sisters attended. She describes working in Wellington at the Sanitarium Health Food vegetarian cafe, her marriage to Bob Woods, various events in their family life and their subsequent separation when she began working at the Odeon picture theatre in Auckland. She also discusses the role of religion in a person's upbringing. Stevenson and her husband narrowly missed being on the Tangiwai train and she elaborates on this. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (48 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs M F Stevenson, Pt Chevalier, Auckland, November 1995 Line drawings of the mill at Ongarue where the family lived and the area after a fire, of a camp oven and a diagram of their living quarters; photographs of the family and houses they had lived in and of the Pohangina Post Office and Store

Date: ca1900-1956

By: Bailey, Colin Lennie, 1906-1997; Bailey, Sue, active 1998

Reference: PAColl-6025

Description: Views of Westport, Denniston, Blackball, Ngakawau, Millerton, Inangahua Junction, Seddonville, Dunedin, Gore, Milford Sound, Greymouth and Taupo Quantity: 10 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 12 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. Provenance: The late Professor C L Bailey, from the VUW Department of Education, collected photographs and other items relating to New Zealand history from members of the public.

Date: 1930 - 1939

From: [School exercise books of octavo size. 1800s-]

By: Veale, Jocelyn Edith, active 1940-1950s

Reference: Eph-A-SCHOOL-EXERCISE-BOOKS-1930s-01

Description: Front cover shows title and space for the pupil to fill in name, standard and subject. At top is the advice: This book is not to be covered or mutilated in any way and is to be used for HOME-WORK subjects only. The covers inside and out, carry advertisements for Otorohanga businesses: Gordon M Fraser (surgeon dentist), Innes' Drinks, Miss G MacEwen (dressmaker and designer), Taylor the plumber (Otorohanga Plumbing Works), McDonal Ice Cream, H Addison & Son (grocer and general provider), Kehely's Sports Dept Otorohanga. The remaining pages, are filled with names and addresses. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Ruled exercise book, 7 leaves remaining, 206 x 167 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms Kay Hawk, Auckland, in 2011.

Date: 1927

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-1-037

Description: Photo of ten school children and teacher, Hazel Sampson, taken outside Mangatoi School at the Mokau River. Photo taken by Vera Sampson, one of the pupils, in 1927. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Mangatoi School 1927. Same as in boat. Teacher Hazel Sampson. Photo taken by Vera Sampson (pupil). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 9.2 x 14.4 cm

Date: 1900, 1923 - 1933, 1938, 1947

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

By: Wells, Robert Ernest, 1905-2006

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-2

Description: Quantity: 74 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1920-1943]

By: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962; Deste, Eileen, 1909-1986; Hastings Public Library (N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-0365

Description: A collection of photographs including views of Nelson by F N Jones, buildings and earthquake damage in Wellington in 1943 and others from around the country including three hand-touched photographs of Napier and Hastings. The photographs of Wellington are captioned with the building the weather conditions when the photographs were taken and whether flash was used. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1863-1899, 1977

By: Bluck family

Reference: MS-Papers-2556

Description: Collection consists of the journal of Alfred Bluck covering his voyage from England to Lyttelton on the `Zealandia', 31 August - 8 December 1863, active service as a Taranaki Volunteer 1863-1866 & farming at Tuakau to 1867; Edgar Bluck's journal, June 1888-April 1889 written as a letter to his brother Frederick recounting his travels in Queensland & gold-mining in New Guinea; one photograph of Agnas Bluck, one letter from Lucy Bluck, 1 March 1877, to the Secretary of the Canterbury Board of Education requesting equipment for the newly-opened Harrisville School where she was the first teacher; pamphlet, Harrisville school centennial 1877-1977. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts, printed matter, photograph

Date: 13 July 1896

By: Jones family

Reference: MS-Papers-4320

Description: Letter describes in detail the town and harbour at Whangapoua, the schoolroom and his living quarters, the availability of food supplies, his cooking habits etc. Thomas R Jones taught for one year in 1896-1897 at the small school at Whangapoua on the Coromandel Peninsula. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2pp on 1 leaf). Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Found in book bequeathed to donor by Mrs MJ Conway (nee MacLarin, ca 1985) Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs C Goggin, Wellington, 1990

Date: 1940

By: Pukekohe East Primary School

Reference: MS-Papers-2950

Description: Jubilee brochure and 2 letters from Nellie and J W Robinson to W J Comrie (their uncle), 26 Feb 1940 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (7 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, printed matter

Date: 1955-1976

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6470

Description: Lake Rotoiti. Lake Waikaremoana. Ruatahuna. Tree decorated with lights, Napier. View from the Wairoa highway. Hereworth boys school, Havelock North. Tutaekuri River. Te Mata Peak. Moere Springs Scenic Reserve. Coastal views, Kawhia Harbour. DC10 at Auckland Airport. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: [1960-1964]

From: Hansen, Raymond Ernest, 1910-1985 : Papers

Reference: 84-204-07

Description: Papers relating to Beeville setting up its own school; includes correspondence with Maurice Wilsie; clipping re registration; statement re proposals passed by Trust Board; notice re weekend school, `The Child at school' by A Grey; submission, `A Community school' by Dan Hansen (1963); `Beeville bulletin, n149; extracts from letters relating to the community school project including from Barbara Taylor, Italy, Kripp Sexton, Los Angeles, and Chester McQueary, Colorado, and songs by Derek Strahan (1963); and notes toward writing about the school Other Titles - Beeville bulletin (n 149) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: April 1984

Reference: PAColl-4689

Description: Two duplicate photographs of the teachers and parents on the Te Awamutu Intermediate Silver Jubilee Committee. The names are: Mrs Maureen Brain (PTA), Mrs Ann Mellor, Mrs Vivienne Sanders (parent), Mr Tony Crowe, Mr Bill Hewitt (headmaster), Mrs Delaine Langdon, Mrs Pam Groube (parent), Mr Noel Gregory (Chair), Mrs Tricia Wallace (Treasurer), Mrs Phillipa Murray (parent), Mrs Cathy Asplin. Absent - Mrs Carol Taylor (present teacher). Quantity: 2 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca1955]

From: Dellow, Ronald Graeme, 1924-2004 :Photographs of musicians, musicians groups, singers and choirs

Reference: PA1-o-1327

Description: Photographs taken at the Cambridge Summer School of Music in about 1955. They include a group photograph of participants, people practicing and playing instruments inside and in the grounds of a school, and orchestral and other group performances. People who appear in the album include Winifred Stiles, Arthur Broadhurst, Larry Pruden, Bill Walden-Mills, and Maurice Till. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: This album came to Ronald Dallow from the estate of viola player, Joe Spring.

Date: 1872-1879

By: Alexandra School (Alexandra, N.Z.)

Reference: qMS-0052

Description: Minutes of school committee meetting for the first five years of the existence of a public school at Pirongia (then called Alexandra). Includes details of costs, salaries, general conditions, staffing, dismissal of the teacher for cruelty to a child etc. William Gilbert Mair was chair for a time. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (164 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms (32 cm, cream linen in green buckram slip-case) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Reg Bell, Pirongia, 1972

Date: [ca 1910-1925]

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Winkelmann, Henry, 1860-1931

Reference: PAColl-0603

Description: Postcards of New Zealand scenes mostly in Waikato and Northland, including the new Awanui Wireless Station at Kaitaia; a steam locomotive on the railway bridge next to Victoria Battery; the interior of Union Battery; view of Whakatane with Regan's Commercial Hotel on the left and a billiards hall at the end of the street; a view over Port Chalmers; Mount Ruapehu covered in snow; a steam ship docking at the wharf at Tauranga; a steam ship pulling away from the wharves at Whangarei; view over Dargaville from Mount Wesley; view down Victoria Street, Dargaville looking towards the railway station; view over Kaitaia from the hotel; sheep mustered next to the Kaeo River; the road and rail bridges over the Waikato River in Hamilton; the Hauraki Pumping Plant in Thames; the extension works at Waihi Grand Junction Battery; the steam ship Clansman at the wharf at Mangonui; the Mokau Coal Mines on the Mokau River with boats moored at the jetty; the school and church at Mangonui; the Topeheihei Falls near Morrinsville; a crowd of people outside the mountain house with Mount Taranaki in the background; Marine Parade, Napier looking north; view over Petone towards Somes Island showing the carriage works and the mill next to the jetty; Glaxo factory at Matamata; a viaduct near Te Kuiti; a train on the Rimutaka Incline; and three views from the Northern Steam Ship Company's annual summer cruise of Port Fitzroy, Whangaroa, and Doubtless Bay. Quantity: 50 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1988

From: New Zealand Council for Educational Research : Educational reminiscences

Reference: 88-005-16

Description: Mrs Marie Taylor of Pukekohe re Komakorau and Tomarata schools, ca 1916-1917; Geoff Tunnicliffe re Waitekohe and Katikati schools, 1926-1933; R J Vernon re education in the Te Mata District, ca 1870-1961. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph; typescript

Date: 1948-1957

By: Kaarup, Mavis, active 2001

Reference: PAColl-6404

Description: Photographs relating to the town of Mangakino and the school, and the hydroelectric projects of Maraetai and Whakamaru. Photographed by an unknown photographer about 1949 Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s).