Places

Date: 1947-1955

By: Shaw, Geoffrey Conrad, active 1947-1966

Reference: PAColl-6596

Description: 14 photographs of tramping huts and general views: Waerenga hut and Baines hut in the Orongorongo valley; Flora hut on Mt Arthur; ATC huts on Mt Ruapehu and Moumoukai valley; Ketetahi hut on Mt Tongariro; Black Horse Hotel in Nelson; Upper Takaka Hotel, Takaka; a view of Collingwood; two views of the Hutt Valley from the Wainuiomata Hill; band playing in the sound shell at Wellington Botanic Gardens; a street in Kawhia; a hotel in Upper Takaka; and a view of Wellington from Brooklyn. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-018137 to 018150 Quantity: 14 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1868

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096133-G

Description: View of Shortland, showing the New Caledonia Hotel, photographed in 1868 by Daniel Manders Beere. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 67 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: 1985

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-478

Description: The first scene shows the horse standing on the red carpet being introduced to an enthusiastic crowd who are clapping and cheering. The second scene shows a corridor and the horse being led past the bar. Inside the bar one of the patrons can be seen telling the barman that he won't have anything more to drink because he thought he'd seen a horse and was worried he'd be seeing 'pink elephants next'. Extended Title - No doubt shareholders reacted with enthusiasm - but what about some hotel patrons? Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: 298 x 429 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 25 June 1971

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

Reference: EP/1971/2823-F

Description: Artist Julia Lynch (Sister Mary Lawrence) painting a portrait of Upper Hutt Arts Society president, Eric Brown, in the lounge Bar of the Quinn's Post Hotel, Upper Hutt. The artist is surrounded by mirrors which allowed views of her at work to be observed by the audience. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 25th of June 1971. This event was staged by the Upper Hutt Art Society and the city's Save The Children Fund sub-branch to raise money for the fund. Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strips comprising 6 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negatives, 35mm

Date: 1862-1906

Reference: MS-Papers-0173

Description: Mainly applications for publican and accommodation licences, judgment summons, and plaints. Also some papers from the magistrate's court, Napier, and a copy of a statement made by Hohaia Ngahiwi, 1885. There is also a court book, written in English and Maori recording charges and verdicts of Maori offenders heard in the courts in the Taupo district, 1863-1873; cash book of the magistrate's court, Taupo, 1871-1878; and a general order book of the Taupo police station containing copies of circulars and memos, 1883-1906. Language - Court book written in English and Maori Quantity: 26 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 4 Dec 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile.. Provenance: Previously in the collection of Henry Thomas Hill (1849-1933).

Date: 1880 - 1889

Reference: MapColl-v832.1291bje/[188-?]/Acc.25356

Description: Cadastral map of the Parnell Borough of Auckland, from Mechanics Bay, St. Georges and Judges Bay down to Hobson's Bay, including the Waikato and Kaipara railway routes. Shows the Parnell rise and the road to Manukau and Epsom, Gladstone and Avenue Rd, St. Stephens, Ayr and Brighton, as well as the Domain. Sections 1-4 and 95 are shown, and numbered blocks and lots within each section. Grammar School, St Stephen's School, an orphan home, a cemetry, a sawmill the Alexandra Hotel, Windsor Castle. a cattle market and reclaimed land are also shown. A private road is shown off St. Georges Bay Road leading to the only named property, that of Mr Aitken, Section One, (84) - 538. Stamped 'Boylan and Lundon, Civil Engineers' and on the linen 'Imperial tracing cloth' with trademark. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, scale [1:1 684], 167 x 107 cm.

Date: ca 1925

By: Mold, M (Mrs), active 1982

Reference: PAColl-0165

Description: Photograph of the supply boat used for bringing supplies to the Kawerua Hotel ca 1925. Accompanying material - Newspaper clipping with information on Kawerua, the coast and the Hotel Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-039

Description: The essay details the background and life of Henry and Martha Mackintosh (nee Holmes) and their children Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

By: Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA7-26-44

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1953, 1956

From: Given, Bruce B :Photographs of Charleston and Lindis Pass

By: Given, Bruce, 1916-2001

Reference: PA12-0086

Description: Photographs of the European Hotel, Charleston, taken in 1956, and a stone hut on the south side of Lindis pass, taken in 1953, after reorientation of the highway brought the road alongside the hut. Quantity: 3 colour original transparency/ies 35mm slides.

Date: 1970 - 1979

From: [Ephemera relating to hotels, motels, hostels and other accommodation in places beginning with H. 1900s onwards ]

By: Fotocentre Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Haast-1970s-01

Description: Front of postcard shows three images, identified on the verso as: Haast Hotel, Haast South Westland NZ [exterior view]; Waiatoto Room [interior view of dining room]; Arawata Room [interior view of carpeted bar room with seating] Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on postcard, 99 x 146 mm. Provenance: Donated by Jenny Middlemass, Wellington, 2013. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance housed in Photographic Archive (William Middlemass photographic prints).

Date: [ca 1960s-1970s]

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2952

Description: Ttransparencies taken by Cyril Beavis circa 1969 showing views of Mount Ruapehu, New Zealand. Also includes transparencies taken by Beavis circa early 1970s showing staff and customers of the Royal Hotel bar, possibly Featherston or Lambton Quay, Wellington. Also includes a transparency taken by Beavis in 1968, showing a scenic view of Tolaga Bay, Gisborne. Transparencies showing views of Tolaga Bay, Gisborne are continued at PA12-2953. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in May 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-90.

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: Jun 1967-Mar 1978

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 : Papers

Reference: MSY-5364

Description: Scrapbook of clippings, photographs and brochures relating to tourism and Vacation Hotels, especially Queenstown Quantity: 1 volume(s). Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Loose photographs.

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-097

Description: The essay covers the period 1830-1950s and details the lives of George and Tryphena Beer, from their marriage in Wiltshire, time spent of the Victorian goldfields, then to their arrival in New Zealand in 1860s onto the goldfields of Otago. They settled at Queenstown where seven of their eleven children were born. The essay also details the parallel wanderings and adventures of George Beer's brothers Henry, William and John, and sister Sarah Kyle. The story of `The Beers of Mossburn' begins in 1887 when George Beer transfers his hotel from The Elbow, Castle Rock, by teams of horses to Mossburn. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Tryphena and George Beer; Mossburn Railway Hotel; wedding photo of Tryphena Beer and John William Oram, 1908; family of John Alexander Beer and Elizabeth McGowan Henderson, ca 1920; Golden Wedding of John and Elizabeth Beer (nee Henderson), Oct 1950 (photocopies)

Date: 1958 - 1962

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Southland-1960-01

Description: Shows a view of a lake and snowy mountains seen through a window with flowers in a vase on the sill, and curtains stirring in the breeze. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on brochure cover.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 228 x 102 mm.

Date: 1979

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[51 volumes of architectural plans]

By: Gabites, Alington & Edmondson (Firm)

Reference: E-928-f-051

Description: Includes an external perspective drawing, site plans, floor slab plan, floor plan, reflected ceiling plan, roof framing plan, roof space plan, sections, elevations, exterior finishes, schedules for interior finishes doors and windows, plumbing and drainage schedule, electrical services schedule, and an interior perspective drawing and elevation of the bar counter. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Bound volume of diazo prints, pink spine, 600 x 310 mm.

Date: Apr 1978-Feb 1979

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 : Papers

Reference: MSY-5365

Description: Scrapbook of clippings, photographs and brochures relating to tourism and tourist hotels, particularly Vacation Hotel, in Queenstown and the Otago Region Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: Between 1950 and 1959

From: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.): Photographs

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Works; Whites Aviation Ltd

Reference: PAColl-0811-08-02

Description: 3 exterior view and 1 interior view of the Tourist Hotel at Milford Sound constructed circa 1950-1959. (architects: Ministry of Works (Government Architect)). Photographs taken circa 1050-1959, by White's Aviation Limited. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1938 - 1939

By: Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd; R Powley & Company Ltd; McNeish, James Henry Peter (Sir), 1931-2016

Reference: Eph-E-HOTEL-Dunedin-1938-01

Description: Lists hotels alphabetically, states location and the names of past and present owners. About 250 hotels are listed. Lower corners advertise "Bell's afore ye go". Dated from the latest date of recorded ownership of each hotel. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Letterpress on poster 970 x 665 mm.