Places

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: 1905

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-7465

Description: A train on the railway tracks next to the main street in Ngaruawahia at the corner with Jesmond Street; horses and carts waiting at Hamilton Railway Station with a train at the platform; people on the platform at Frankton Junction Railway Station with an advertisement for Standard Tea on the railway building and a train waiting; and a train at the platform at Mercer Railway Station. Photographer was Muir & Moodie. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca 1900-1912

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-7586

Description: Two photographs of Duntroon Railway Station with Campbell Street next to it; men working on the railway near Duntroon railway bridge; the railway bridge at Duntroon; the bridge over the Mangaroa River with some old track next to it; looking down the platform at Palmerston North Railway Station with goods trains in the yards, a passenger express train at the platform, the Railway Hotel on the right and in the distance the businesses of Barraud & Abraham and A Loufresne, builder; Middlemarch Station with the Railway Hotel and a Billiard and Sample Rooms on the right; Fairlie Station with a coal train on the left; and steam locomotives including the Rotorua express at Morrinsville station. Photographer was Muir & Moodie. Two have a stamp, or part, in German on the reverse. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-007953 and 007960 (duplicate at 1/2-105892) 1/2-007952 and 007959 are probably part of this collection too. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca 1907

By: William Beattie & Company

Reference: PAColl-6542

Description: 7 negatives from prints of Karangahake lent by Mrs Donaldson. Two of the images are by W. Beattie & Co Auckland. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015110 to 015116 Quantity: 7 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: [Circa 1932]

By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984

Reference: PA1-f-131

Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Roland James Searle, circa 1930s. The first subject is the opening of the Wellington Citizens' War Memorial (Cenotaph), and includes a programme of the dedication and handing over on Sunday 17th April, 1932 (p 001-012). That is followed by the consecration ceremony for the National War Memorial and War Memorial Carillon (again with a copy of the programme), held on Anzac Day, April 25th, 1932 (p 015-023). Pages 029-033 show the arrival of the Wellington Jubilee Dock in 1931, the floating dock which was towed from England by two Dutch tugboats. The next sequence is entitled "The Express pulls out - Thorndon", and follows the Express to Wanganui where views show a river-boat trip up the Whanganui River (p 037-056), and include a map of historical areas on the river compiled by Annabell & Marchant, surveyors of Wanganui (p 055). The train trip is continued in the next section, and includes an illustrated diagram of the Raurimu Spiral, then arrival at the new Beach Road Auckland Railway Station. Photographs of Auckland include the Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland University, Grafton Bridge, a sailing ship at the wharves, and the Auckland Zoo. Further North there are scenes of ploughing, a mine entrance, rock formations at Waro, and the Taheke Falls; before travelling to Rotorua and the surrounding thermal regions. A number of images were taken at Whakarewarewa, including photos of Paul Thomas and his wife, along with scenes showing women washing clothes in hot pools, a woman with a baby on her back holding a rope with a food basket cooking in the pool, children in a hot pool, and men at work carving. Paul Thomas wrote to thank Searle for sending him copies of photographs (p 101, written on May 1st 1932). Later photographs again with the train often in view show timber felling and milling, and views of the Arapuni hydroelectic power station. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured grey cloth cover, entitled "Snapshots"; 28.5 x 39.0 cm

Date: 10 Apr 1914

From: Atkinson, J :Photographs taken in the Middle East during World War I, and postcards of New Zealand

Reference: PA5-0056

Description: A view of Morrinsville Junction showing two trains on the platform and commercial buildings in the background. Verso contains letter from Errol to Chrissie, Morrinsville 10/4/14 and mentions Hazel and Ruby. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 85 x 135 mm

Date: [ca 1910-1925]

From: Sworder, B H, fl 1985 :Photographs relating to the Sworder family and postcards of New Zealand scenes

Reference: PAColl-0599

Description: Postcards of Victoria Avenue, Wanganui looking towards Durie Hill with much carriage, automobile and bicycle traffic; Wanganui from Durie Hill showing Victoria Avenue and the businesses along the water front; Te Kuiti Railway Station showing a bill poster for the Rosenbergs; and two nurses in the grounds of Palmerston North Hospital. Three of the postcards have been used. Quantity: 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Postcards

Date: ca 1900

Reference: 1/2-003392-F

Description: Two passenger trains at Morrinsville Junction with goods trains on the left and a few people on the platform. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [ca 1860-1914]

By: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944

Reference: PAColl-0341

Description: Photographs of various scenes: two of the convoy in Wellington Harbour in October 1914 (one from Field album VIII); the Field children outside a dilapidated house in Waikanae; a photographed captioned "mother and Peter" of two women, four children and a man in the mouth of Karori tunnel; a train passing through Te Aroha (Field album V); Auckland from the north shore (Field Album V); Sir George Grey's house at Momona Bay, Kawau (Field album IX); an excursion train meeting a river boat (Field Album XV); a house next to a small lake captioned New Plymouth (Field album IX); two of the visit by the Duke and Duchess of York in 1901 (one from Field Album VI); Mrs Edward and her mother on the verandah of their house in Khandallah; a post card of the station at Manakau; farm horses in harness eating at a trough (Field Album XV); Maori men, women and children around a meeting house for a tangi in Manaia, Coromandel - above the door is written Rahera Titia (Field Album V); Hot Springs Hotel beside the lake at Waiwera (Field Album V); looking down the Waimakariri from what is now Glacier Hotel at an old homestead and two of Mitre Peak and Milford Sound (stuck to the same piece of card Field Album IX); large two storey house (Field Album XVIII); and a panorama of Dunedin showing Rattray Street in the foreground and the wharves behind (Field Album VIII). Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-115913 to 115936 Quantity: 42 b&w original negative(s). 25 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [between ca 1910s-1920s]

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Aldersley, David James, 1862-1928; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PAColl-0879

Description: Photographs of thermal crater at Wairakei; Queenstown viewed from across Lake Wakatipu; Otira Gorge; men punting a boat on the Whanganui River with a steamer on the opposite bank; the Punch Bowl Falls in Bealey Gorge; railway station at Otira; women greeting each other with a hongi; Maori whare and storehouse, Whakarewarewa; interior of St Faiths Church, Ohinemutu. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Provenance: Donated by Mr D Hicks, Australia, date unknown

Date: [ca 1870s-1920s]

Reference: PAColl-9494

Description: Collection comprises tourist and scenic views of New Zealand, including envelopes of collectible souvenir photographs of New Zealand cities Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 12 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) stereoscopic images. 7 b&w original photographic print(s) stereoscopic images. 93 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]

From: New Zealand Centre for Photography :Photographs

By: Hoy, Douglas George, 1937-1992

Reference: PAColl-9528-3

Description: Photographs of railway scenes taken by Douglas George Hoy. Includes photographs of trip to United Kingdom in 1980, and railways in New South Wales. Accompanying material - Negative index Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001337-G

Description: View of Pukekohe looking across an intersection, to a fenced area and newly planted (fenced) trees towards the railway yards in the middle distance and Pukekohe township beyond. The Pukekohe Hotel (with name on the roof) is on the left. Photograph taken ca 1910 by William Archer Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Pukekohe. 2601D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1921

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0815-1/2-G

Description: Otorohanga railway station, 1921. Three men stand on the platform, including the photographer's son Bill Godber (on the left), the station master, and a passenger? Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. Original print in Godber Album Vol 109, p 141 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - Bill. Otorohanga Station. /21. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [between 1910-1930]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001515-G

Description: Tuakau township, photographed by William Archer Price, possibly between 1910 and 1930. In the foreground flax fibre is laid out for drying and bleaching. In the middle distance is the railway station and yards, with the main street in the distance. The Creamery can be seen near the tall trees in the middle distance. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Tuakau. NZ. No 1519D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001041-G

Description: View looking across a swamp to the railway station in the middle distance and the Waikato River and hills beyond. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Mercer Railway Station. NZ. 2863D [?] William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1910s]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001745-G

Description: View of Huntly, looking West. The railway line runs through the centre of the image, with the railway station visible centre right, and the Waikato River running parallel with the the railway line, to the left. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, circa 1910s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Huntly looking West. 203 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1090-1/2-b-F

Description: Porootarao railway station, circa 1910. Two railway guards and a dog stand on the platform. Advertisements for South British Insurance, Arthur Nathan's reliable teas, and DCL scotch whisky, are visible. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. Note on back of file print reads "Poto-o-tarao station is on Main Trunk line 28 miles north of Taumarunui. It is close to the northern portal of the long tunnel, 3515 ft, known by the same name. The altitude of the station is 1128 ft. Poro-o-tarao means the butt end of Tarao, this chief with his followers climbed the high hill, now pierced by the tunnel. The name is really a little jest of his men, as they climbed in single file, after Tarao." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001331-G

Description: View looking up the street from the railway station with the Pukekohe Hotel on the left opposite the gate leading to the station. The premises of Endean & Holloway, barristers and solicitors, are on the right near the gate. A horse and buggy are entering the yard and a boy with a handcart is nearby. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Pukekohe. From Railway Station. 2550D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [1925-1930]

From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-007113-G

Description: Steam train arriving at Ngaruawahia Railway Station, taken by an unidentified photographer between 1925-1930. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative