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Wills, Mary, 1859?-1942 :Te Kumi Road. 1914
Date: 1914
From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]
Reference: B-199-012
Description: Shows a dirt road with grass and trees, including kahikatea trees, alongside it. A small white building with a red roof and one chimney is visible in the background. Behind the house are hills. A person is shown walking on the road carrying a basket. They appear to be wearing a blue dress or long jacket and a yellow headscarf Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 270 x 280 mm
Avon commercial slides of New Zealand
Date: [ca 1950-1970]
From: Edwards, Muriel, 1907-1981: Slides taken around New Zealand
Reference: PA12-10643
Description: Avon Commercial slides taken circa 1950s-1960s, and collected by Muriel Edwards. Images include a map of the South Island, the Tomo shaft at Waitomo Caves, a van parked on Pinchers Bluff on the Skippers Canyon Road, and view over Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu to the Remarkables. Quantity: 5 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies
Wellington, Desert Road and Rotorua
Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]
From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey
Reference: PA12-7813
Description: Transparency slides of Wellington, Desert Road, and Rotorua, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides.
Spencer, Charles S, 1854-1933 :Ruapehu from the service road above the spiral
Date: [ca 1905]
By: Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933
Reference: PAColl-8369
Description: View of Mount Ruapehu from the service road above the spiral, showing flax bushes and small buildings, taken circa 1905 by Charles Spencer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.2 x 16.6 cm
Pohaturoa rock outcrop, south-west of Atiamuri
Date: Aug 1955
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-8163-26
Description: View showing a mother and two children standing beside a convertible car on a dirt road before a bridge crossing, looking up towards Pohaturoa, a rock outcrop rising 245 m above the Waikato River, south-west of Atiamuri. The rock is planted with forestry pine. Photograph taken in August 1955, by an unidentified photographer for the Free Lance. Inscriptions: Verso - top right - File / Photo [... illegible]; Verso - top centre - 1/12 x 3 1/14 Friday 5/8/55; Verso - bottom centre - Published 17 Aug 1955 Page 34 [publication stamp]; Verso - bottom centre - REMARKABLE ROCK FORTRESS. "As we approached Atiamuri there came into view the old Maori stronghold, Powhateroa [sic: Pohaturoa], round whose feet the river runs. Pine forest clothes its cone-shaped sides and out of them, as though the top had been pushed up by a giant's finger, rise sheer cliffs capped again with pines. `Like the head of a Fijian warrior' was the description we heard." [Glued-on clipping from original publication] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.7 x 16.8 cm