Places

Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

Date: 1882

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

By: Hunter, Norman Mitchell, 1859-

Reference: E-328-f-011-3

Description: A view of Princes Street, Dunedin showing Colonial Bank, government buildings and Cargill Monument Other Titles - Princes Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Princess Street showing Colonial Bank and government buildings; Recto - bottom left - Cargill Monument Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 55 x 85 mm

Date: [1912-1929]

From: Lithgow, Robert William, fl 1980s :Photographs of buildings constructed by the Hansford & Mills Construction Co., and of the Kairuru marble quarry

By: Lithgow, Robert W, active 1980s; Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942

Reference: PA1-q-144

Description: Photographs of construction projects undertaken by Hansford & Mills Construction Company. The most important section consists of views of Parliament Buildings in Wellington, with a large number of images, both exterior and interior. Much of the detail relates to the marble columns and veneer, the marble sourced from the Kairuru Quarry in the Takaka Hills. Interior views show details of various areas, including the Legislative Council Chamber, the House of Representatives, the Maori Committee Room, the lobby for the members' lounge, and marble decoration in the main vestibule, the first floor, and the staircase. There are a number of images of the Kairuru Quarry, showing methods of quarrying the marble, transportation of the marble to Wellington, and machinery used for cutting and shaping the stone once it had arrived in Wellington. One scene also shows the incline at the old quarry at Sandy Bay. Other buildings, all only exterior views, or views of steel construction in early stages, include the State Fire Insurance Building (Featherston Street), Magnus Motors (Wakefield Street), the steelyard in Cable Street, the Ford Building (for Colonial Motor Company), and the Wellington Gas Company buildings, all in Wellington. Also two views of the Christchurch branch of the Wellington Woollen Company. Inscriptions: Album page - Photographs of buildings erected by The Hansford & Mills Construction Co., Ltd., Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark blue cloth-bound album with red leather spine; 30 x 23 cm

Date: [ca 1873-1875]

By: Gaul, John, -1876; Lindt, John William, 1845-1926

Reference: PA1-q-330

Description: Includes views New Zealand, Pacific and Australia, including images of indigenous houses and plantations, and a series of 12 studio tableau portraits of Aboriginal Australians, taken by John William Lindt in 1873-1874. Kai Colo (Fijian people) - name for the people who live in the mountainous interior of Fiji. It's literal meaning is something like "mountaineer". This information was given by Dr Vicki Lukere (Luker), specialist in South Pacific history, Victoria University, 1997. A series of 12 studio tableau portraits of Aboriginal Australians by John Wiiliam Lindt, including three not found in this album, are at Library reference PA1-q-1317 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album. Provenance: Written comments in the album indicate that it might be associated with Commodore J Goodenough RN, who was appointed as a commissioner by the Crown to investigate the events that led to the annexation of Fiji. This album was compiled by an unidentified member of the Australian Division of the Royal Navy based at Sydney in the mid 1870s. The Australian Naval Station was responsible for policing the Pacific and supporting Britain's interests in the region. The one date associated with the album (1875) as well as some of the images, suggest that it was compiled soon after the cession of Fiji to the British Crown. The two ships associated with the album, HMS Blanche and HMS Pearl, were both stationed at Sydney and both were involved with events in Fiji before and during cession. HMS Pearl was Commodore Goodenough's flagship. He was the officer in charge of the Australian Naval Station at that time. He also played an important political role in the process of cession in Fiji. In the album he and his officers are shown swimming on Ovalau. The compiler of the album on the other hand, seems to have been personally associated with HMS Blanche. There are two pictures of this ship in the album as well as pictures of memorials erected by the captain and crew to one of their members. HMS Blanche had been active against the traffic in cheap labour in the South Pacific. In 1873 her paymaster, Lieutenant Nettleton, had acted as temporary British Consul in Fiji after the recall of E B March.

Date: 1921

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7888-136

Description: Original papers relating to land allotments for the town hall and other buildings of the Papakura township. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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: 1870s - 1880s

From: Crawford family :Photographs of James Coutts Crawford and family

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920

Reference: PA1-q-059

Description: Album of views of New Zealand and Europe. The New Zealand views were mostly taken by James Bragge, during the 1870s and 1880s, and were chiefly of the Wellington Region. One loose photograph inserted in the album shows the laying of the foundation stone at Scots College, Wellington, by Mr. Aitken, in April 1918. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, 37.5 x 29.2 mm

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: ca 1905

By: Whitehead, N J, active 1976

Reference: PAColl-0181

Description: View of Makara, Wellington [only possibly] and portrait of a group of people inside a public hall, taken ca 1905. 1/2-066903 to 066904 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Aug 1850

From: Vigors, Philip Doyne (Lieutenant), 1825-1903 : Private journal of a four months cruise through some of the South Seas Islands and New Zealand in HMS Havannah

Reference: qMS-2081-016a

Description: Vigors' sketch ("No. 7") provides a view of Government House, Auckland, showing fences and surrounding outbuildings, with Mt Eden in the distance. Sketch has been fixed to an inserted page following p 16 in Vigors' journal of his voyage on HMS Havannah. Lieutenant Philip Doyne Vigors was an officer with the 11th Regiment of Foot. Quantity: 1 page. Physical Description: Ink and grey wash 130 x 178 mm

Date: [1870s]

From: Christie, Hettie Florence (Miss), fl 1973 : Photograph albums

By: Allen, Joseph Weaver, 1821-1886; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-053

Description: Album of pressed ferns, and photographs of Dunedin buildings, taken in the 1870s by J W Allen. Includes one postcard "Maori land. The Maori portraits are originals taken from life" taken by the Burton Brothers. Other Titles - New Zealand ferns Inscriptions: Album page - G.S. Christie, Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, 3rd June 1968 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album in dark green cover entitled "New Zealand ferns", 37 x 29 cm

Date: ca1930

By: Fuller, Cecil Edward Keith, 1927-2011

Reference: PAColl-5620

Description: Parliament Buildings, showing a queue extending from the statue of Richard Seddon, up the steps and into the building. It is possible that the the people are queueing to view the body of Sir Joseph Ward who died in July 1930 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-661-001/061

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 61 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size

From: Feickert, P :Album compiled by Mira Feickert

Reference: 1/2-036308-F

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

Date: [1890s-1900s]

From: Harris, Esme Enid, 1913-1993 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-115

Description: Album containing family photographs (mostly unidentified); photographs of life in Wellington and the region nearby, including two group portraits of school children, views of public buildings in the city, the Kelburn Cable Car, shipping in the harbour, and views of fire fighters, the fire brigade building in Newtown, and fire fighting equiment. In the Wellington region are views of the Porirua Hospital, and the Maori meeting house at Otaki. Source of descriptive information - Biographical information for M E Coulter from Library client, 2007 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with ochre coloured buckram cover, entitled `Sunny memories'; 33 x 28 cm

Date: 1950

By: New Zealand. Embassy (United States)

Reference: PAColl-4551

Description: Two photographs of an ANZAC Day parade in Wellington in 1950. The first shows a military band and returned servicemen walking past the war memorial at the bottom of Bowen Street with spectators lining the streets. The second shows bands, including pipe bands, coming from the direction of the Hotel Cecil and Molesworth Street towards the memorial (which is not in the picture) also watched by spectators. The Artcraft Theatre can be seen on the right. Photographer unidentified. Photograph of people sun-bathing on Kaiteriteri beach ca 1950s with the printed caption "Kaitere Beach, Nelson, South Island, New Zealand". Photographer unidentified. A stamp on the reverse of the prints reads: To Be Returned To New Zealand Embassy 16 Observatory Circle N W, Washington 8, D C. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1929]

Reference: PAColl-6887

Description: 16 views of Wellington and Murchison including: Oriental Bay from the west and the east; a park on Oriental Bay looking towards the harbour with a family with a pram pic-nicking; two of J O Smith's gentleman's outfitters on the corner of Lambton Quay and Bowen Street, one with the Government Buildings in the background and one taken from them; the Carillon from Buckle Street; the Hikitia lifting a buoy in Wellington Harbour; Seatoun taken from the north; the steamer Cowan (location unknown); three men, one in a uniform, standing next to a car with Newman Bros Ltd on the windscreen; a display for visiting dignitaries in the form of a human Union Jack possibly in Athletic Park for the Duke of York's visit; the Public Library building on Mercer Street with the Technical College and the Town Hall in the background and Wakefield Street to the right; Willis Street looking south; and three showing the damage after the 1929 earthquake to H J Hodgson & Co General Merchants and Ross's Hotel in Murchison and Nelson Boys' College. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044200 to 044215 Quantity: 16 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1935 - 1950

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to Rotorua as a tourist destination. 1940-1949]

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Rotorua-1940s-02

Description: Wallet of twelve concertina-folded photographs of Rotorua showing the Bath House, the Municipal Buildings, Fairy Springs, Pohutu Geyser, Boiling mud, Guide Rangi, Maori babies, entrance to Whaka[rewarewa], Ohinemutu from Hospital Hill, Poi dancers, "Tama-te-Kapua" carved house, and the entrance to the Government Grounds. Dated 1940s, as the Municipal buildings were newly built in 1940 when the Rotorua Library moved in there. No corroborating documentation in Wises directories 1930-1950s. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph strip 445 x 145 mm, folded into wallet envelope 85 x 145 mm. Provenance: Donated by Michael Clements, Wellington, in 2011.

Date: [ca 1930], 1946-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-175

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, ca 1946-1959 Kapiti coastline (including view looking north from Paekakariki); Lower Hutt - St James' Church; council buildings; Riddiford Baths; library; St Stephen's Presbyterian Church; aerial view of southern end of Lower Hutt (over Moera); elevated view of Naenae (showing Rata Street School in foreground). Rimutaka Hill Road; Kaitoke, 1948 (shows swing bridge); filtration plant site (Hutt River) re Kaitoke Waterworks construction; bridge at Pakutatahi; Akatarawa Valley road (with Morris Minor at roadside); house in Akatarawa Valley; Hutt Valley Pony Club members with their ponys on Akatarawa Road; Kapiti coast looking north from Paekakariki. Middle Run, Gladstone in Wairarapa - Daffodils in paddocks at Middle Run (owned by Mrs W H Booth), and view of homestead Elevated view of Miramar looking south-west; Lambton Quay with Kirkcaldie & Stains on left; Pigeon Park; Wellington Botanic Garden and tulip beds; view from Mount Victoria looking towards the Basin Reserve, Mount Cook and Brooklyn, with houses in Mount Victoria in foreground (taken ca 1930). Demonstration house at Karori designed and built by The Architectural Centre, 1949 Quantity: 44 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: ca 1933

By: Pirritt, (Mrs), active 1974

Reference: PAColl-0071

Description: Views of Parliament, Oriental Bay and Cenotaph Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).