Places

Date: [Circa 1900s to 1910s]

From: Mercer, Robert, fl 1964 :Photographs and albums of Maori, New Zealand views, and illustrations

Reference: PA1-o-338

Description: Album of photographs taken in the Otago and Southland Regions, by unidentified photographers. All the locations are well identified. Some of the images are related to railways, including railway tunnels (e.g. The Caversham Tunnel when under construction circa 1909), and the Hunts Road Tunnel; the Clutha Railway Bridge; the Wingatui Signal Box; the Balclutha Railway Station, railway yards, and sales-yards; railway barns; D-class engine (New Zealand Railways steam-engine No. 355); the Owaka Express; and bush tramway tracks, one sawmill typical of small mills in the Catlins area. Many of the images are taken with an emphasis on atmosphere, including sunsets, stormy days on the coast near Dunedin, evening at Ocean Beach, storm clouds at Lawyer's Head, and "By beach and sand-hill". There are a large number of views of the Dunedin Botanic Gardens and the Winter Gardens, and the Dunedin Reservoir. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover, gold lines down spine and across corners; 19.5 x 26.5

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

By: Hunter, Norman Mitchell, 1859-

Reference: E-328-f-008-1

Description: A view of Dunedin from Ocean Beach showing 'Goat Hill'. The latter appears to be no longer in use as a local name Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Dunedin from the `Ocean Beach'. Goat Hill. 24/8/82 Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (in two parts). Physical Description: Pencil 102 x 351 mm

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

By: Hunter, Norman Mitchell, 1859-

Reference: E-328-f-012-1

Description: A view of Ocean Beach Dunedin showing `Lawyers Head' Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Lawyers Head Ocean Beach Dunedin 2/9/82 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 118 x 180 mm

Date: 1924-1925, 1928

From: Johnston, Phyllis, 1904-1998: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1895

Description: Photograph album formerly belonging to Phyllis Johnston. Contain images taken during visit to South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and a North Island road trip. Compiler of albums, and photographer(s), are unidentified. Album is extensively captioned. - Images of Dunedin area are taken during a holiday to the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition in 1924-1925. Photographs of sights include a bus trip to Waipori via Outram (including the Waipori River and power station), St Clair Beach (including the Baths and Tomahawk), waves at Ocean Beach, Dunedin Botanic Gardens, Portobello, Harbour Ferry, Octagon and Cathedral, Dunedin Train Station, Stewart Street Cable Car, Otago University Clock Tower, Otago Boys High, Evansdale river scenes, and North East Valley. Exhibition photos show the Exhibition Buildings, the grand court water feature, 'Maori House', and Amusement Park 'The Three Castles' (including the entrance and the 'Ye Old Mill River Caves' roller coaster and 'Giant's Mouth' rides). - Album also covers a January 1928 North Island road trip in a Model T Ford, departing from Levin. Camping grounds, camping sites, the preparation of meals and washing up, car with camping awning erected and camping gear packed on side, picnics, and tourist sites are featured. The route travelled, as suggested by the order of the images, is via Hastings, Napier, Taupo and lake area, Wairakei thermal area, Rotorua and Ohinemutu and lake area (including Rotoiti, Tarawera, and Rotomahana), Hamilton, Auckland (including Titirangi, Henderson, and Devonport), Waitomo, New Plymouth, and Inglewood. Notable sights and activities photographed include: Hastings Garden entrance with Maori carvings; Taurangakuma River; Mohaka River; Lake Taupo scenes from boat tour; Huka Falls; Aratiatia Rapids; various thermal sights including the Opal Pool and Eagles Nest Geyser at Wairakei; Whakarewarewa thermal area with model pa, tour group, and children diving for pennies; Boiling Lake and other sights in Waimangu Valley; Rotorua Sanatorium including Bath House and entrance to Government Gardens; Okere Falls; Hinemoana's Bath; fish at Fairy Spring; hunting for oysters, Titirangi; Albert Park, Auckland; polar bears at Auckland Zoo; tourist series of Waitomo Caves; Mokau bridge; Pukekura Park and Paritutu Rock, New Plymouth; and an unidentified house and tennis match. - Album contains portraits of two children called Joyce and Beverley. Joyce is also photographed at the South Seas Exhibition with a woman identified only as 'B.G.K' [Miss B G Kirk?]. The North Island Road trip images include numerous image of three unidentified women; this series also includes a family portrait of the Bailey Family beside a car. - Loose prints show Whitianga (Mercury Bay and Buffalo Beach), an unidentified group by pool of fish [Fairy Spring, Rotorua?], a print with two images (Ball Hut and Lake Pukaki), and an unidentified city scape [Dunedin?]. Source of information - for identifying BGK as Miss B G Kirk see album caption in album reference number PA1-o-1896 Arrangement: Loose prints have been collated and put in an acid free folder at the front of the album. The original pages in which they were interleaved bear no known relationship to the images. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown leather album with pastoral scene of hay rickets and cottage tooled on the leather, 15 x 22 cm

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: 1884 - 1885

From: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm) :[Sample album of greeting cards, produced by A D Willis of Wanganui. ca 1885]

Reference: E-936-f-025-4

Description: Shows a view looking north along the coastline at Dunedin, with people dotted along the beach. THe message included top right reads 'A merry Christmas' Ocean Beach is a long sandy beach which stretches for some three kilometres from Saint Clair in the southwest of Dunedin City along the coast of Saint Kilda to the foot of Lawyer's Head in the east. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 73 x 105 mm

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

By: Hunter, Norman Mitchell, 1859-

Reference: E-328-f-014

Description: A view of Lawyers Head, Ocean Beach, Dunedin showing a man on horse-back riding on the beach Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Ocean Beach, Dunedin; Recto - bottom right - Lawyers Head - 31/8/82 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 231 x 330 mm

Date: between 1890-1930s

From: Head, Samuel Heath, 1868-1948 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-007173-G

Description: Ocean Beach, Mount Maunganui, photographed by Samuel Heath Head between 1890s-1930s. Looks over rocks and wet sand, towards sand hills. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [1938-1939]

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: 1/4-091516-F

Description: View of Ocean Beach photographed by Robert E Wells, in 1937-1938. Caption - Ocean Beach - Whangarei - headland - tall [from photographer's negative register] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [1938-1939]

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: 1/4-091515-F

Description: View of Ocean Beach at sunset photographed by Robert E Wells, in 1937-1938. Caption - Ocean Beach - Whangarei - sunset and wave [from photographer's negative register] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1900

From: Artist unknown :[Seventeen watercolours by a passenger on the SS Kaikoura. ca 1900]

Reference: A-428-003

Description: Shows a view of a long curved beach with two low offshore rocks at the right. On the left are tussock covered sand dunes, and two areas of rocky shore reaching into the sea on an otherwise sandy shore. There are two figures in the left foreground. Other Titles - March Inscriptions: (On accompanying caption card): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 164 x 248 mm.

Date: [1938-1939]

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: 1/4-091517-F

Description: View of Ocean Beach photographed by Robert E Wells, in 1937-1938. Caption - Ocean Beach - Whangarei - headland - broad [from photographer's negative register] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [ca 1984]

From: Thompson, Paul David, 1951- : Photographic negatives, transparencies and prints, also papers

Reference: PA12-1316-21

Description: View of a pale blue bach with a red roof at Ocean Beach, Palliser Bay. The photograph has been taken from the back of the building showing shrubby growth on the left, and the beach and sea beyond. Photographed by Paul Thompson in 1984 or 1985. Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparency, 35mm, in plastic mount

Date: 1878

By: Eastwood, James, 1846-1937

Reference: A-468-017

Description: A view from the southern end of Ocean Beach, better known as St Clair Beach, or Second Beach, of the newly-built Cargill's Castle ('the Cliffs'), sitting atop the cliff. A large outbuilding can be seen to the west of the house. The painting is taken from the dunes of the beach, and the figures of people, including one on a horse, are visible 'The Cliffs' was completed in 1877. Later images show the extensive planting in front of the house, which was built in concrete to withstand the elements. The landscape in this image is relatively bare Inscriptions: Backing board recto - centre - Ocean Beach Dunedin 1878 by J E [in pencil, on separate piece of brown card adhered to backing] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour enhanced with pencil, on paper 128 x 184 mm

Date: 1883

From: Hodgkins family :[Album of sketches 1880s, 1890s]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-312-q-061

Description: A view from the hills looking down onto Ocean Beach Dunedin Ocean Beach shown is the local name for the beach front of St Kilda Beach extending from Lawyers Head west to St Clair Beach Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - WMH The Ocean Beach Saturday 22 Mar 1883 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 125 x 235 mm