Places

Date: 1909 to 1918

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

Reference: PA1-f-008

Description: Photographs supplementary to the 3 MS foolscap volumes of Annals of the Tararua Range (Vol 1, figures 1-146). Images show geology, topography, physiography and flora of the Tararua Ranges. Views of the Tararua Ranges, with peaks named (figs 1-6); ascent of Mt Waiopehu (3588 ft.), 22 Jan 1909 (figs 8-10); 1st crossing of the Tararua Range from Levin to Masterton, 13-19 Feb 1909, finishing on a campsite on the farmland of Alfred Deal at Waingawa, also a view of Mr Deal's house, and views of Masterton, including the Masterton Post Office and public gardens (figs 11-45); visit to the High Fall on the Poruriri Ridge near Tokomaru, 30 Oct 1910 (figs 46-49); ascent of Mt Tawirikohukohu (3455 ft) via the Ohau Rover, 18 Dec 1910 (figs 50-52); 3rd ascent of Mt Waiopehu, 3-6 Jan 1911 (Figs 73-76); across the Tararua Range via Palmerston North-Pahiatua Road, 22-23 Jan 1911 (figs 73-76); visit to the Ohau-Mangahao divide via the southern branch of the Ohau River, 12 Feb 1911 (figs 77-83); 2nd crossing of the Tararua Range from Levin to Masterton, 9-17 Feb 1911 (figs 84-128); ascent of Te Paki trig station on the Tararua foothils east of Shannon, 10 Dec 1916 (figs 129-132); topography & physiography of the valley of the Makahika, tributary of the Ohau River, 6 Jan 1918 (figs 133-134); 2nd ascent of Te Paki & topography of the Upper Tokomaru Valley, 28 Apr 1918 (figs 135-136); 1st visit to the No.1 gorge on the Mangahao River, 29 Feb 1919 (figs 137-138); topography & physiography of the Waireka & Wainui valleys, 13 Apr 1919 (figs 139-142); physiography of the Poruriri Ridge & Mangaharakeke Falls, on the Tararua western foothills near Tokomaru, 24 Aug 1919 (figs 143-146).

Date: 1870

From: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918 :[South Island sketches, 1870-1888]

Reference: A-120-013

Description: Upper view: Jamestown and Gravel cove, Lake McKerrow, shows a single small house and a tent amidst thick bush at the edge of the lake. Hills in the background and a small steamer and a rowboat at the water's edge. Lower view: Steamer Charles Edwards snagged in Hollyford River, Feb, 1870, signed lower left, J. Welch, 1870, shows the half-sunk paddle steamer in the river, hills beyond. In: Welch, J. S. [Album of Sketches] 1876 Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolours with scratching out 140 x 226 mm and 139 x 226 mm glued to a single sheet.

Date: 1881

From: Hobson, Henry, fl 1881 :Album [of military photographs, cartes de visite and watercolours, Armed Constabulary, Taranaki. 1881-1882].

Reference: E-814-007

Description: Photograph showing the tents and whare occupied by the Armed Constabulary Field Force, at Pungarehu in 1881. Title written in pencil on the surface of the photograph. Other Titles - Armed Constabulary Field Force Other Titles - Companies Extended Title - From Henry Hobson's Album of military photographs, cartes de visite and watercolours, Armed Constabulary, Taranaki, 1881-1882, page [7] Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph, 200 x 250 mm, stuck to page of album

Date: 1920 - 1939

By: Busby, Dorothy Blanche, 1887-1952; Busby, Miriam Dow, 1954-

Reference: E-792

Description: A booklet with a typescript story and watercolour illustrations about Dot Chaplin, Lynly Glen and family camping in the rain. The group gets blown and rained out of their tents. Dated 1920-1930s. There is mention of "John" making a comment; that may have been the artist's son John (born 1916). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Carbon typescript and watercolour drawings on pages of sketchbook, 170 x 243 mm., tied with black ribbon

Date: [ca 17 Nov 1986]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1986/5797-F

Description: Tent outside Government House, Newtown, Wellington, a temporary dining room pitched by the army, for the many guests staying with the Governor General and his wife, Sir and Lady Reeves, over the weekend. Photographs taken circa 17 November 1986, by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1870 - 1871

From: Various artists :Sketches [sketchbook of works by J.W. M[arcroft], and A.E.B. 1870-71].

Reference: E-564-002

Description: Shows beginnings of a sketch, with a tent pitched, and assorted spades, an axe, and wooden basins on the ground in front of it. Artist likely to be A E B. Other Titles - Whakapirau [?] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 190 x 260 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Keith A Wright of Brisbane, in 1997.

Date: 1897

From: Clarke, David fl.1897 :[The Wanganui River; sketch and story/ written by Margaret Bullock; sketches by David Clarke. Wanganui, A.D. Willis, 1897].

By: Clarke, David, active 1897

Reference: E-416-001

Description: Shows Shakespeare's Cliff, Wanganui, on far side of Wanganui River. On near bank in left foreground are Maori tents, canoes, mother and baby, 5 other figures, and dog asleep. Extended Title - From: Bullock, Margaret. "The Wanganui River; sketch and story" / written by Margaret Bullock; sketches by David Clarke. Wanganui, A.D. Willis, [Christmas 1987]. Page 1. Inscriptions: Illustration has title below image; unsigned and undated. ATL has another copy of pamphlet at PAM [1897] BUL. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 192 x 169 mm. Finding Aids: Shelf-list/Inventory available..

Date: [Circa 1930-1935]

From: Birrell, Kenneth Stewart (Dr), b 1909 :Albums of photographs taken by Kenneth Stewart Birrell

Reference: PA1-q-030

Description: Family photographs, and scenic views of New Zealand taken by Kenneth Stewart Birrell. Most are taken in the South Island, particularly around Dunedin, and Queenstown. Several are dated, taken in the 1930s. Images include the old cob cottage at Taioma, the "Waianakorua Camp", and Kawarau Dam. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth-bound album labelled "Enlargements", 230 x 295 mm

Date: [ca 1914-1915]

By: Fletcher, H A, active 1914-1915

Reference: PAColl-2507

Description: Photograph of a group of men at a camp, taken ca 1914-1915 during a tramping holiday Mr H A Fletcher took in the Franz Joseph area. Twelve men are holding equipment and posing in front of three tents. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 10.6 x 15 cm Provenance: Purchased from Quilters Bookshop, Wellington, 1992 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MSX-3471 : Fletcher, H A : Diary of a trip to Franz Joseph Glacier.

Date: 1900

Reference: PAColl-D-0708

Description: Birds eye view of the 5th Contingent's camp at Newtown Park taken looking north. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Fifth Contingent Welln Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: 410 x 570 mm on card

Date: 1938

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Loose prints, drawings and paintings; and two albums of prints and drawings. 1924-1991]

Reference: A-424-037

Description: Shows a tent pitched among pine trees. The tent flap of the tent is partially drawn back to reveal the interior. Photographed in E-918-q, 255/219. Listed in Rod Cook's notebook at E-918-q Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 255 x 360 mm.

Date: [Between 1914 and 1918]

From: Sullivan, Romola Frances, 1923- :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9077

Description: Photograph of group of men in front of a tent, probably at Featherston Army Camp, taken ca 1914-1918 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 8.8 x 14 cm

Date: 1852 - 1853

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905

Reference: E-106-f-049-2

Description: Scene showing five miners working on a stream bed cradling with a `long Tom', a cradle and shovels. There are low banks behind the men covered with dense native bush including tree ferns. A tent is on a bank above the stream. Engraving by E Evans from painting by Charles Heaphy. Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Vol 23, no 465. Dec 3 1853, p 465 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 150 x 230 mm

Date: 1916

From: Ferguson, D (Mrs), fl 1975 :Photographs relating to World War I

By: Ferguson, David, 1887?-1974; Daroux, James Henry, 1870-1943

Reference: PA1-o-157

Description: Album containing photographs relating to New Zealand soldiers during World War I. Most images were taken by David Ferguson in New Zealand, showing scenes of soldiers marching up the Rimutaka Hill Road; views at the Featherston and Trentham Military Camps; and views of the Waitemata (HMNZ Troopship) leaving New Zealand. Soldiers are not identified in this album. A few images were taken by James Henry Daroux. Album includes a sports card listing members of the C. Company, 15th Reinforcements "The lambs" Association Football Team; and a programme card for a dance to farewell the 15th Reinforcements at Trentham, 18/7/1916. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Grey album with embossed pattern, 24 x 30 cm

Date: 1850 - 1974 - 1851

By: Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-037

Description: View looking down onto Lyttelton Harbour in 1850, with a family in the foreground shaking hands with the builder of a house, and other new immigrants making their way up the Lyttelton side of the Bridle Path. Washing on a line to the right, tents and houses, with Mr Godley's house and emigration barracks noted, along with the Sumner Road. The first four immigrant ships to Canterbury are also shown in the harbour, the Charlotte Jane on the left, the Randolph, the Cressy (with sails unfurled) and the Sir George Seymour. Number 6 of an edition of 1000 Originally published in Four illustrative views of the Canterbury settlement. London, 1851, plate 2. Reproduced by courtesy of the National Library of Australia Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 227 x 380 mm on sheet 430 x 556 mm

Date: 1870 - 1871

By: Marcroft, J W, active 1870-1918; Wright, Keith A, active 1997

Reference: E-564

Description: Contains pencil sketches of Neils Flat [or Flax?] Mills (by A E B), Wakaperau Camp, Our camp at Hunts Bush May 1870 (by A E B), Mr Hunts residence May 1870 (by J W M), and untitled sketches of church buildings, sailboats, and European scenes of ponds, churchyards (by A I C?) and J W M. Wakaperau may be Whakapirau, or possibly Whakapara; both are farm localities in Northland. Newspaper cutting from "The Dominion" 21 March 1928, page 6, confirms that J W M, is likely to be J W Marcroft. The donor's letter at AT 10/14, gives additional biographical information about Marcroft. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - (on front cover): J.W.M. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Soft covered sketchbook, 190 x 260 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Keith A Wright of Brisbane, in 1997.

Date: 1852 - 1979

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-041

Description: Prospectus for Anthony Murray-Oliver's folio-sized volume of Charles Heaphy's paintings, including a full-sized reproduction of a watercolour from the collection of the British Library, 'Committee at Pata Pata [Coromandel], 1852, showing a large gathering of Maori and some Pakeha in the foreground, among houses and tents, with canoes pulled up at the fore, yachts in the harbour and two ranges of hills in the background, shortly after the discovery of gold in the Coromandel. The gathering was to finalise the sale of the Coromandel gold fields. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 260 x 333 mm, on one of four pages

Date: 1911

By: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918; Daniell, Charles Edward, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-188

Description: Views of the Mangatarera Stream and Mount Holdsworth opens a record of a climb to the summit of Holdsworth. The party consists of six women and about five men. There are views of the stream and the swing bridge leading to the Holdsworth track; several shots of the Mountain House with the climbing party arranged along the veranda, and Mr McGregor's party who had arrived on horseback to fix the water tank; the climbing party grouped in the bush on the way up the mountain and on the open alpine ridges; a surveyors tent in the alpine tussock; the party eating beside the Holdsworth Trig; views of the Tararua Ranges from the summit of Mount Holdsworth. Interspersed among the main image groups are photographs of a trip to Rotorua. This involved a group of people in two motor cars. There are images of the Hamurana Stream and Springs at Rotorua, and of children diving for pennies at Whakarewarewa. Views of mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe, the Mangaehuehu Stream, the Crater Lake and the crater on Ngauruhoe, and mountaineers crossing the ice field on Ruapehu and climbing Ngauruhoe. There is a view of Matterhorn Peak the name of which was changed to Girdlestone Peak in 1922. Two images of a surveyors' camp in the Waimarino Bush. The Tern Arch and Little Hawke's Crag on the Buller Gorge road. A view of Lake Tarawerea from the top of Mount Tarawera. The final photograph is a view along the beach to Pencarrow Head, Wellington. Pasted inside the front cover is a cutting from `The Weekly News', Wednesday, December 26, 1945, entitled `New Zealand's highest memorial' by JWG, describing the renaming in 1922, of Matterhorn Peak (Tongariro National Park) to Girdlestone Peak in honour of Hubert Earle Girdlestone after he was killed in action in August 1918. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - To Mr and Mrs Daniell with kindest recollections from a very old friend, Hugh Girdlestone, March 1911 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brownish green cover, 25 x 20 cm Provenance: The album had been presented to Daniell in March 1911 by Hubert Girdlestone.

Date: [1900s]

By: Brookes, L V, active 1962

Reference: PA1-o-070

Description: Album of photographs relating to the Cable Bay Station, including group portraits of the post & telegraph staff, staff quarters, the telegraph instrument room, and aspects of daily life. Inserted in the front of the album is an undated newspaper cutting with news of the wedding of Miss Dorcas Vivian Ingram to Vincent Brookes of the Post & Telegraph Office, Wanganui. The wedding was held at St Matthew's Church, Masterton. The photographs in this album were probably taken by Vincent Brookes. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Maroon cloth album "Photographs", 24 x 19 cm Provenance: Donated by L V Brookes, Lower Hutt, 1962

Date: [1900]

By: Dunford, Graeme Wilmor, active 1980-1981

Reference: PAColl-D-0056

Description: Military camp at Newtown Park, Wellington for soldiers of the 2nd Contingent to the South African War. Taken by an unidentified photographer, January 1900. View taken from a hillside looking down over the camp and towards houses on the opposite hillside. In the foreground are rows of tents and tethered horses. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Second Contingent, Welln. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: 43 x 58 cm