Places

Date: 1953-1959

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

Reference: PA12-6454

Description: Views of the summit ridges of Pirongia Mountain. Rock formation near Lake Aarapuni. View of the Waihou River. Pokaiwhenua Falls near Arapuni. Fishing on the Waipa river. Old kauri timber dam, Kaueranga River area. Views of copper mine, Mansion House, and Bostiquey Bay, Kawau Island. Carpenter's shop and abandoned house. Track clearing in the Wairongomai Valley. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: 1930s

From: Mead, Arthur David, 1888-1977 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1169

Description: The pumping station and lake at Western Springs, Auckland. Streams, native forest, native plants and localities in the hills and Hunua ranges between Manukau and the Firth of Thames. Auckland coastal sandstone cliffs showing their strata formations. Views of the Waihou River Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1925

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1052

Description: Album recording a motoring and camping holiday through the South Island of New Zealand. This took in the New Zealand South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and included the West Coast, Otago, and Canterbury. The central part of the album has images of Khandallah, Wellington, and the family home in that suburb. Family photographs include Doug on his Norton Motorcycle, and Jack and Neville similarly posed on a Douglas Motorcycle. Rene and Frank stand at the net holding tennis rackets, and mother has several images with young Joyce. The last part of the album recordes something of a holiday to Auckland where the family camped at Brown's Bay and took a trip to Kawau Island. A group shot on Mt Messanger on the way back and some views of Pukekura Park New Plymouth complete the album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1948

Reference: MapColl-832.1aj/1948/Acc.11,959

Description: Drawn on a published map, the annotations depict river discharge limits into the sea and seasonal limits of sport fishing areas. A handwritten reference key denotes river and smooth water limits of river mouths, major harbours and straits in blue. The red shaded area denotes extended and partially smooth limits of outer harbours, part of the Hauraki Gulf, Firth of Thames, the top of the Coromandel peninsula and around Great Barrier Island. Two semicircles outlined in green are not included in the reference key but probably denote extreme limits. One extends from Sail Rock around the Mercury and Alderman Islands to a point south of the Tairua River, while the second extends from a point south of Bream Tail around Little Barrier Island to the vicinity of Motuora Island. Green lines, drawn from Bream Tail eastwards and northwards, extend to the latitude of Wide Berth Island which denote an area of seasonal sports fishing, including dates. Base map: Maunganui Bluff to Manukau Harbour and Tutukaka Harbour to Mayor Island including Hauraki Gulf / surveys by Captain A.G.N. Wyatt, Captain W. Pudsey Dawson and Commr. J.W. Combe. London: The Admiralty, 1908, new ed. 23 Nov. 1945. Source of title - Supplied by Library Relationship complexity - Other maps on the same topic are located at the same classification and catalogue records can be searched on the first seven words. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, coloured, scale indeterminable, 64.5 x 98 cm.

Date: [ca 1900s-1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6758

Description: 12 images: five of Auckland ferries and seven of a mountain ridge and a river in what may be the Tongariro area. Three of these show a man with a square pack over his shoulders and carrying a case similar to a doctor's bag. Photographer and location unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-028789 to 028791 and 1/4-028800 to 028808 Quantity: 12 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: 1901-1916

By: Mellor, C W (Mr), active 1901-1917

Reference: PAColl-9559

Description: Collection comprises: Album pages of New Zealand scenes including views of Dunedin, Invercargill, Wellington, Whanganui River, Rotorua, Rimutaka Incline, Christchurch, 1901. Some of the photographs are attributed to C W Mellor. Group portraits of officers during World War I, including C W Mellor Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). 17 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009

Date: [ca 1890-1950]

From: Smytheman, V :Photographs from World War II and an album of New Zealand scenes

By: Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970

Reference: PAColl-0531-1

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand including a number of the glass houses and parks of Wanganui and New Plymouth. There are also an old photograph of W Stack's Hotel in Hastings with men and horses outside (in poor condition); a woman in what may be a 1930 Chrysler Plymouth with another snow away from the tyres; the gravestone of Julius von Haast; Queen's Wharf, Wellington showing a recently returned troop transport ship; an orchestra performing at the 1907 Christchurch exhibition; men of the No. 19 Platoon with a car at the summit of the Rimutakas; postcard from P B Davis to Mr A French showing a group of First World War soldiers with the message that they are about to leave for France; and six children at the base of a large Maori carving with a bell attached at Ohinemutu. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-053380 Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Between 1948 and 1949

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-003

Description: "Illustrating geological observations, Vol 3". Black & white photographs of geological and geomorphological aspects of New Zealand. Includes images taken on a second visit to the Rotorua area (Oct 4-12 1948), showing lakes, thermal areas, mountain rifts and other geological formations. A boring plant testing the ground on the line of the proposed Rimutaka Tunnel; views of The Terrace, Wellington showing the office building of the New Zealand Geological Survey at 156 The Terrace; Mangaroa Basin plain; Hutt River valley; the Wellington fault scarp along Grant Road; the geology of the Paekakariki area of coastal lowland; the new Wellington City number 2 water supply tunnel from the upper Hutt River (14 Jan 1949). Also shows images taken when attending the Seventh Pacific Science Congress held in New Zealand, January-February 1949, including views of Auckland; "Birchlands" (home of Sir Frank Mappin, Mt Eden, where the Congress garden party was held); Mount Mangere; Auckland Ferry Wharf; an excursion in the Wellington area for the Congress to Baring Head & Orongorongo. Water supply in Paraparaumu, March 25 1949; Visit to East Wairarapa beyond Martinborough (a Victoria University excursion led by Dr A R Lillie and R A Couper), showing Dr Lillie, John Marwick, Thomas Ludovic Grant-Taylor); Castlepoint & the Matapihi Trig Station on the Ruamahanga River, April 14-17, 1949; inland pumice deposit at Waitarere Beach (11 Oct 1949); official inspection of the lower course of the Otaki River (21 Oct 1949) showing the Otaki Railway Bridge with piles beneath the piers exposed by erosion; coast of the Miramar Peninsula.

Date: 1946 - 1950

By: New Zealand. Post and Telegraph Department

Reference: MapColl-832.12/1946-50/Acc.6693

Description: Map showing Waitemata Harbour, from Whau Creek north to Hobsonville Road. Includes Auckland's main network of roads from between these points and some detail along the harbour. Sheets adjoining this sheet include 48, 51, 57. A.4290L. Sheet 52. '713'. Note on map reads 'See Auckland City and Suburbs northern shore sheet 1 A2015a. Crown copyright reserved. Other Titles - survey district Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, scale [ca. 1:7 920], 63 x 64 cm.

Date: 1991

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

Reference: PA12-6634

Description: Gannet colony, Muriwai (September 1991). Trip to the Awatere River Valley, Marlborough (November 1991). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard mounts.

Date: 1946 - 1950

By: New Zealand. Post and Telegraph Department

Reference: MapColl-832.12eac/1946-50?/Acc.6710

Description: Map showing Auckland's northern shore road network including Mairangi Bay and north of Brown's Bay. The main district roads and the Riverlea and Whenuapai wharves are shown; Riverhead State Forest is included. Map reads 'Auckland city and suburbs, northern shore sheet 1. A2015 - R.' Other Titles - survey district Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, scale [ca. 1:7 920], 205 x 40 cm.

Date: 1946 - 1950

By: New Zealand. Post and Telegraph Department

Reference: MapColl-832.12eac/1946/Acc.6702

Description: Map showing Hauraki Gulf, Okura River, Weti River, Silverdale, and Auckland's network of roads from Main North Road south to Glenvar Road and a small cluster of streets off Glenvar Road immediately south of Awaruku Creek. Sheets adjoining this sheet include 48, 43, 40 and 41. A.4290L. Sheet 44. Other Titles - survey district Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, scale [ca. 1:7 920], 205 x 40 cm.

Date: 1858 - 1892

By: New Zealand. Māori Land Court; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922; Cussen, Laurence Carroll, 1844-1903

Reference: MapColl-832.1gmbh/[1858-1892]/Acc.4484-4492

Description: A collection of map information from various sources from 1858-1892. The maps no. 1-6 and 8 contain information from Native Land Court plans of the 1880's, Survey Office road plans, Lands and Survey's first amendment (Mr Cussen's topographical survey), a map by S. Percy Smith, and the Sub-Atlas committee. The information has been added in different pens and hand writing eg "Plan marked from Hokianga" or "no track here shown by Mr Cussen". The map marked no. 7 shows military information from the New Zealand wars eg "Troops to be sent to Waikaremoana via Ahikereru - Ruatahuna Huiarau from Taupo". Shows some native tracks eg "from Heruiwi" and corrections or previous omissions. Map no. 9 shows tracks on N.L.C. plans, one of which "is away at the Court". The maps show very little signs of any settlement, except No. 3 and 6 "Tapuaeharuru Pa" and "Te Pueto Stn". A mission station, a native settlement and a school are also indicated. The maps cover the region from Hokianga, Kawhia Harbour, Mokau River, Waikato River, Tirau, Taupo to Rotorua on maps 1-6, 8 and Rotorua to Waikaremoana to Poverty Bay on maps 7 and [9]. All maps depict rivers. Map 7 and [9] are maps with annotations. They are on the published base map "Four-mile sheet, No. 10" (Wellington, New Zealand Lands and Surveys, 1935). The others no. 1-6 and 8 are tracings of an unknown map. Quantity: 9 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copies, scale indeterminable, various sizes.

Date: 2002

By: Auckland (N.Z. : Region). Regional Council; Gasteiger, Arno, active 1993

Reference: Eph-D-HISTORY-NZHP-2002-01

Description: Poster showing a photograph of a stream flowing swiftly between rocks in the vicinity of Te Maketu or Peach Hill, at Ramarama, where there is a Maori Pa. Text at lower left gives information about the history of this pa, which was built by chief Noia of Te Waiohua in about 1740. In about 1869 a church was built there and priest Father James McDonald established a school in the church. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster, 595 x 420 mm.

Date: 1910

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-100

Description: Shows part of a green belt in Mayfield, now called Glenfield, on Auckland's North Shore Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on loose page of sketchbook, 127 x 173 mm

Date: 1888

From: Hoare, E A, fl 1887-1888 :Drawings, watercolour sketches, photographs and notes of E A Hoare, Artiste, on board 'S S Tongariro'. December 1887 to March 1888

Reference: E-955-f-015

Description: A view of the Puhoi River, from the bank. The picture is unfinished in the bottom left and right corners. A boat can be seen on the river. The artist has signed his initials in the bottom left corner, with a pointing hand to the North indicating a Maori settlement, probably Te Rapa or Kakaha Pa Other Titles - Greenwood's Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, 165x 250 mm, on sketchbook page 255 x 370 mm

Date: 1924

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Roe, Thomas, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-2048-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a large paddock to a single-storeyed wooden farmhouse centre left. In the field there are three children, a man holding a horse by the bridle, another man holding three horses by the reins and two more horses in the centre of the image. A man and a woman are standing behind a fence in front of the house which is partly hidden by shrubs. There is a large stand of trees on the left of the driveway to the left of the house. Various trees along a stretch of the Whau River in the middle distance to the right of the house. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Mr T. Roe; Photographer's title on negative - "Bell Trotting Stud Farm" Avondale. Auckland. 1924. No. 29 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 136.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Robertson, G, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-2047-F

Description: Panoramic view looking up across a sloping paddock to a large two-storeyed farmhouse partly hidden behind a hedge and amongst trees in the centre left middle distance. A man is standing in front of a high trimmed hedge which surrounds the house. Two cows in the paddock. Two Norfolk pines to the left of the house, macrocarpas on the right. Bushy area with farmland beyond on the right, marshy area centre right with the Whau River beyond on the far right. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape, detached from image] G. Robertson. Avondale, Auckland; Photographer's title on negative - Riverside Avondale No. 25 Relationship complexity - Print at PA6-358 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 129.7 cm

Date: [ca 1955-1969]

From: Conley, Peter Vaizey, 1924-2000 :Transparency slides of New Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-8869

Description: Colour transparency slides of North Island scenes, taken ca mid to late 1950s and 1960s by Peter Vaizey Conley. All are unidentified but the photographer describes this set as 'Marsden Point', 'Kerikeri', Wellington trip', 'Auckland', and 'Fairmont'. Contains: Several views of energy-generating complexes, including Marsden Point oil refinery, and a large dam. Two exterior views of the Leopard Inn, Marine Parade, Napier. One photograph of a sign at Karangahake gold camp. Two waterfront scenes, probably Auckland, showing large ships docked at wharfs, and a small seaplane. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: [ca 1955-1969]

From: Conley, Peter Vaizey, 1924-2000 :Transparency slides of New Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-8861

Description: Colour transparency slides of New Zealand scenes, taken ca mid to late 1950s and 1960s by Peter Vaizey Conley. This set is chiefly of Auckland Harbour Bridge under construction, also shows several large ships in Waitemata Harbour. Other scenes include a suburban street, and two views of a river; both locations are unidentified. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm