Places

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: 1913

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-o-1224

Description: Mainly a series of holidays, tramping trips, and local excursions. The first is a trip to the head of Lake Te Anau and Milford Sound via the Milford track. It begins on the road between Glenorchy and Paradise, then through the valley of the Route Burn River to the Hollyford Valley where the party camped on the shores of Lake Howden. From there they passed Lakes Fergus and Gunn into the Eglinton River Valley and on to Te Anau, and then onto the Milford track to Milford Sound via the Clinton River Valley. Images on the way include Mount Balloon, Mount Elliott, Routeburn Hut, and Lake Ada. There is a view of Mitre Peak, Mount Tutoko, and the Pembroke Glacier from Milford Sound. The second series relates to a camping trip to Wanganui and the Whanganui River. This includes a game of golf and visiting friends in St John's Hill. There are views of the party's camp and a number of images taken during a canoeing trip up the Whanganui River in what looks like a Maori dug out canoe. Two other images in this group are of men standing beside the trigs on Mounts Holdworth and Dundas in the Tararua Ranges. The third series is of family and friends at home in Eastbourne and in the bush at Muritai; Girdlestone, a friend, and two women on motor cycles on the coast road; views of Eastbourne from the hills above the suburb; women on the beach and reading at home. The fourth series relates to a trip to the Volcanic Plateau during which the party climbed Mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe. There are two group photographs of the whole party, one taken in front of the Waihohonu Hut, and the other on the summit of Mount Ruapehu. The fifth series shows a party of men and women on a walk and a picnic in the beach forest in Gollan's Valley near Eastbourne. The sixth series is a record of a holiday to Queen Charlotte and Pelorus Sounds taken by a group of men over Christmas 1913. There are views of the sounds and surrounding landscape, of Portage where the party stayed, and of boat and fishing trips that they made during their stay. The seventh series is of a tramping trip to the Orongrongo River Valley. The views are of native forest, the river and the mountains, and one of two men boiling a billy beside their tent in the bush. The eighth series consists of two photographs of the wreck of the "Devon" on the rocks at Pencarrow Heads, Wellington harbour. This occured on the 25th of August 1913. The ninth series is a group of photographic postcards of the Te Anau, Milford region, and probably relate to the trip recorded at the beginning of this album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1907-1909

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-915

Description: Most of the images relate to a survey team (or teams) operating in the hill country west of the main road between Raetihi and National Park, centred in the area around Ruatiti. The two names in the album for the area are the Ruatiti Block which includes the Ruatiti Stream and the Manganuioteao River, and the Riariaki Block and trig immediatly to the north. There are images of team members, camp life (ie storing food, cutting hair, living quarters, rod fishing, and swimming), groups out on the job (ie cutting trees, making survey pegs, moving through the bush with packs and equipment, on horse back, returning from the hunt, packing in supplies, making observations, and constructing the Maungaroa trig station), and views of the native forest, and rivers. Interspersed among these photographs are others which include social occasions such as farewelling a survey team member, a motoring trip associated with a large house called "Pihautea," an amateur instrumental group, a cricket game in Nelson, and a group in Albert park Auckland. There is a farmyard with woman, hens and horses, a buggie fording the Mangaturuturu Stream, views of Island Bay, Mount and Lake Tarawera, the Makatote bridge, and the Ohakune Railway Station Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-2439-F

Description: Panoramic view looking up a driveway leading to the Glacier Hotel, with an angled view of the front of the two-storeyed building in the centre of the image. A group of five men and a dog are beside a car outside a portico. A van with canvas cover is parked to the left. Another car visible further to the right of the hotel. A cleared area in the right foreground, trees, including tree ferns on the far left, centre and right of the image. Mountains in the background centre right. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Glacier Hotel. Waiho; Photographer's title on negative - "Glacier" Hotel. Waiho. Sth Westland, New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 102.6 cm

Date: [c 1960s]

From: New Zealand Association of Waterfront Employers :Photographs of ports, docks and shipping around the world.

Reference: PA12-8652

Description: 24 transparency slides relating to the New Zealand Association of Waterfront Employers, taken in the early 1960s. Some shots taken in Waitaki, remaining shots are most likely New Zealand. General shots of sea and landscape, aerial views of mountains from aircraft, sea view of wharf, boats being loaded and unloaded, machinery and cranes, goods packed and stored. One exterior view of the Waitaki Hotel. Quantity: 24 colour copy transparency/ies. Physical Description: 35mm colour slides

Date: 1925

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

By: Mackintosh, William, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1849-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a large flat paddock, haystacks in the centre at the back of the field. Single-storeyed wooden farmhouse, arched verandahs. Windmill behind the house on the left. Garage to right of the house with an open touring car parked outside. Farm buildings behind a high hedge in the centre middle distance. Shelter belt of trees behind the buildings. Snow-capped mountains in the background. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "White Rock Mains" 1925; Marginal notes on negative - Wm MacKintosh "White Rock Mains" 1925. Rangiora. 2 B&W 1 oils. White house. Iron roof. Tussock hills. Print up snow mountains; Marginal notes on negative - 8 8 8 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 111.0 cm

Date: 1890s-ca1923

From: Brusey family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-974

Description: The first and largest section of this album records a trip in Canada and possibly the United States, made by a young man with a motor car about 1923. The second section are photographs taken on a visit to possibly Hawaii or Tahiti. Local people are recorded as well as a number of yachts tied up along the waterfront of a town, and a white warship. The third section include family photographs taken in Britain in the 1890s, and several shipboard views, two of which show what are probably crossing the line ceremonies involving a canvas swimming pool. Towards the end of the album a group of family photographs are associated with a large wooden New Zealand house. There is no information with the album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1921-1929

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: PAColl-9752-1

Description: Includes - Mountaineering trips in the Southern Alps. Car fitted with Edgar Williams' automatic gear box. Motorbike and side car. Public Works Department camp relating to the Harper River diversion, 1921. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 73 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1848, 1862, 1898, 1927 - 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Anderson, G D, active 1934; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; Whites Aviation Ltd; De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Pickard, D, active 1940s-1950s; Johnson, W E, active 1927; Robertson, David Ogilvie, 1850?-1920

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-030

Description: Photographs of the West Coast of the South Island, Otago and Southland, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1927 to 1950. Includes a painting of the `Philip Laing' and `John Wickliffe' in Port Chalmers in 1848, painted by D O Robertson in 1898 and photographed by De Maus. Also includes a photograph of Gabriels Gully, Lawrence, in 1862, and later photographs of memorials to Gabriel Read. Photographers include W E Johnson, J D S Roberts, G D Anderson, D Pickard, Whites Aviation, D A De Maus and L A Inkster. Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: circa 1880, 1934 - 1955

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Powell, Arthur Walter, 1893-1970; Wade, Keith Reginald, 1920-1992; Dunstan, Harold J, active 1939-1947

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-029

Description: Scenic photographs of the North Island, 1934 to 1955. Includes Manawatu - Wanganui, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Taranaki, Northland and Auckland Regions. Also includes photographs of the first school in Palmerston North and the Bank of Australasia Corner, Palmerston North, circa 1880. Photographers include W. Hall Raine, Keith R. Wade, Harold J. Dunstan, J M S Beale, A W Powell, and aerial photographs by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 77 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1929-1935]

Reference: PAColl-6901

Description: A largely miscellaneous collection including: looking towards Government House on Bowen Street with Government Buildings on the left; two of the junction of Featherston and Stout Streets looking towards Lambton Quay (these three probably taken from the Railway Station); a pretty rural cottage; two of a grasshopper like insect on a leaf; three of unidentified rural scenes; the Government Life Insurance office on Customhouse Quay; looking down the Terrace towards Bowen Street with St Andrew's Church on the left; the University of Canterbury buildings showing the entrance to the Observatory Tower; six of a bridge over the Avon River flowing through Hagley Park; five of Mount Taranaki; a waterfall possibly near Mount Taranaki; and Auckland looking towards the harbour with St Patrick's Cathedral on the right. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-038652 to 038654 and 038656 to 038678 Quantity: 16 b&w original negative(s) glass. 10 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 7

Reference: PAColl-6001-11

Description: Looking out over Lake Pukaki, circa 1910. Tussock grass and a motor car are in the foreground. Snow capped mountain ranges are in the background. Clouds are also visible. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 2001-2003

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000507

Description: Photographs of South Westland, West Coast. Includes photographs of the Franz Josef and Haast villages and glaciers, coastlines and lakes in the southern region of the Westland district. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (south Westland)" Quantity: 170 digital photograph(s).

Date: [late 1950s]

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-091561-F

Description: View of cars on Ngamotu Beach and Mt Egmont in the background photographed by Robert E Wells in the late 1950s. Caption - Ngamotu Beach - cars and Mt. from tea house - for S Price [from photographer's negative register] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [late 1950s]

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-091562-F

Description: View of cars on Ngamotu Beach, with yacht in the water and Europa oil storage tanks and Mt Egmont in the background photographed by Robert E Wells in the late 1950s. Caption - Ngamotu Beach - cars and Mt. from wharf - for S Price [from photographer's negative register] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

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

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Collings, F H, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-2395-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across tussock fields and rolling farmland to a single-storeyed farmhouse in the left middle-distance. Verandah over the entrance. Young macrocarpas and pine trees planted around the house. Driveway on the left coming from road on the far left through lawns in front of the house. Large touring car parked beside another car which is covered with a tarpaulin on the left of the house. Fields behind filled with stooks of newly-harvested hay and two large haystacks behind the house on the right. Hills and mountains, some snow-capped in the background. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - F.H. Collings. Pembroke. 3 B&W. Get small rise of hill on right in; Marginal notes on negative - 15 15 15 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 118.3 cm