Places

Date: [Between 1938 and 1940]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-061

Description: Album of publicity photographs, and photographs of posters and advertisements taken by unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways. Many of the images in this album were taken for a series of articles written by Oliver Neal Gillespie between January 1939 and June 1940, published in the New Zealand Railways Magazine. The series was entitled "Buy New Zealand goods and build New Zealand. New Zealand Industries Series". These contribute the largest group of images in the album, covering a wide range of industries. They include men's and women's clothing manufacturers; electrical engineering companies such as Pallo Engineering (petrol pumps), National Engineering (Neeco electric ovens), Standard Engineering Company; tobacco factories; potteries; Nugget shoe polish factory; brushware factories; and companies associated with the manufacture of food products (eg Watties canneries, Edmonds Baking Powder, Griffins and Bycrofts biscuit makers, and Whittome & Stevenson sauce and pickle makers. There are other sequences of images, including newly built state housing in Lower Hutt, with some houses still under construction beside the Hutt River, a streetscape, and a children's playground (p 7-8); a large crowd joining in a send-off of R.S.A. men to Australia in April 1938; a train laden with boxes of oranges from Rarotonga, the "Special orange train from Auckland"; and photographs of charts showing the progress of the New Zealand Government Railways, with railways workshops staff organisation charts (for Otahuhu, Addington, Hutt & Hillside Workshops (p 28-29). On p 35 there are views of a new hangar at Rongotai Aerodrome, under construction, then views of the completed exterior and the interior with a row of Blackburn B-5 Baffin bi-planes. Several images show collection of Railway sports trophies (including cups for their cricket teams), and two views of New Zealand Railways staff member Neil Edwards, a tennis champion who represented New Zealand in Britain in 1939. Pages 39-41 show the construction of a large dredge on the West Coast; p 57 show a burst watermain on Waterloo Quary, wellington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous 7'; 41 x 61 cm

Date: 1931

From: Lewis, Mr : Photographs taken after the Napier earthquake, 1931

Reference: PAColl-0153-12

Description: Building which was damaged during the Hawke's Bay earthquake of 1931. Some of the interior of the building is showing. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1931

From: Lewis, Mr : Photographs taken after the Napier earthquake, 1931

Reference: PAColl-0153-04

Description: Napier after the 1931 earthquake, taken from Shakespeare Road. Widespread damage to buildings can be seen, with some reduced to either shells or piles of rubble. Some of the area is hidden from view by a clump of trees which cover the left hand side of the image. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Napier from Shakespeare Rd Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1936, 1940, n d

From: Daniell, Frederick Charles, 1879-1953 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-3763-4/5/24

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca1930

By: Fuller, Cecil Edward Keith, 1927-2011

Reference: PAColl-5620

Description: Parliament Buildings, showing a queue extending from the statue of Richard Seddon, up the steps and into the building. It is possible that the the people are queueing to view the body of Sir Joseph Ward who died in July 1930 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1938-1940

By: McKenzie, Albert Lindsay, active 1940; McKenzie, Andrew E, active 1998

Reference: PA1-o-909

Description: Album of photographs taken by Albert Lyndsay McKenzie, showing Haywards substation, Centennial Exhibition, Union Airways aircraft at Rongotai airport, and views of war memorials, other monuments, some buildings and parks and gardens in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. There are also some scenic views of rivers and landscape, and one photograph of bee keepers at work on hives. Albert Lyndsay McKenzie, the father of the donor, was born in Christchurch. He started an apprenticeship as a process art engraver, which was interrupted by World War 2, and never completed. He returned to Christchurch after the war. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Circa 1929-1939]

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

By: Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966; Springboks (Rugby team)

Reference: PA1-o-112

Description: Album of images collected and partly photographed by Gerald Rainsford Craddock. Images include clipping from newspapers and magazines, and postcards (chiefly of Akaroa, Wellington, Sydney and Perth). The photographs include family photographs, mountaineering trips, scenery in various parts of New Zealand, interior views of the Union Bank of Australia (Wellington Branch) where Gerald Rainsford worked from 1936-1939, and several views of the first Springbok test at Athletic Park in 1937. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "Photographs", 26 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1931

From: Lewis, Mr : Photographs taken after the Napier earthquake, 1931

Reference: PAColl-0153-03

Description: View of the rubble of a building that was demolished by the Napier earthquake in 1931. There is one overhead power pole standing next to the demolished building, and there are unidentified people just looking at the rubble. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1933-1934

From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 : Papers

Reference: MSX-4636

Description: Paper presented by Furkert to the Institution of Civil Engineers on the effects of the Murchison and Napier earthquakes on engineering structures in both regions. The volume also includes `The Influence of earthquakes on structural design' by Herbert Cecil Edgar Cherry and `The Design of an earthquake-resisting structure: the Domionion Museum, Wellington, NZ, by John James Booth. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1920 - 1939

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

Reference: Plans-93-0268/0269

Description: Includes ground, first and second floor plans, elevation to street, plan of attic, sections, half inch detail of wall. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on ink-impregnated paper, sizes varying

Date: [1930]-1985

From: Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9258-16

Description: One photograph of the original chapel in the four storied convent building. The rest relate to the gothic chapel designed by John S swan, and built in 1931. Included are are sequence of colour photographs taken during the closure of the chapel in 1985. Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s). 12 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: February 1931

From: Daroux, James Henry, 1870-1943 :Collection of negatives and prints

Reference: 1/4-021395-G

Description: Hawkes Bay Farmers' Cooperative Association building, Waipukurau, after Hawkes' Bay earthquake, 1931. The external brick wall is cracked, and plate glass is broken, but the building was not considered dangerous (information from album PA1-f-145). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [1930-1931]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-055

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways circa 1930 to 1931 by unidentified photographers. Some subjects have images dotted throughout the album, including the arrival in New Zealand of Lord and Lady Bledisloe in March 1930; the arrival in 1931 of Sir Francis Chichester after his crossing of the Tasman in his bi-plane; various activities at the Hillside Railway Workshops, including a group portrait of staff; and various images relating to Railways ticket offices, advertisements for railway tours and excursions, photographs of tickets, and an advertisement for house removals by train. A series of views show athletic sports including running races, hurdles, cycle racing, and long-jump. There are scenes showing the international sportsman Dr Otto Peltzer winning the 880 yards, handicap race at Wellington, on 8th February 1930. Team sports are shown in two views of a women's hockey team playing on the field below Victoria University College, and a series on rugby football, including views of the 5th test between Britain and New Zealand at Athletic Park in 1930. Railways head office picnic, including races by men, women and children (p 35-36), and a huge crowd at Paekakariki Beach, picnicking and swimming (p 70). Official occasions include scenes of the Empire and Australian Farmers' Tour, a view of the cortege at Sir Joseph Ward's funeral outside Parliament Buildings, the opening of Massey Memorial, and various views of unidentified railway officials in personal and group portraits, including one of the members of the New Zealand Railway Commission. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book. C1'; 36 x 52 cm

Date: [ca 1907], February 1931

By: New Zealand Post Office

Reference: PAColl-4616

Description: Photographs of the interior of Napier Telegraph operating room ca 1907 and of Napier Post Office immediately after the earthquake of February 1931. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1919 - 1931 - 1932

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

By: Edmund Anscombe, H McDowell Smith and Associates; Hodge, Ernest R, active 1930s

Reference: Plans-2007-030-0549/0553

Description: Includes sheets 2, 3, 5 and 6 of the original plans, showing front side and rear elevations, sections AB and CD, a ground floor plan and a first floor plan. The later plan by E R Hodge is sheet no 2 and shows elevations from all four sides. Collected by architect Martin Hill as part of Project 787. Quantity: 5 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, 490 x 695 mm.

Date: 1938

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

By: E A & L G Williams (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0811-02-32

Description: Automobile Association building (architects: E A and L G Williams) constructed during 1938. Date of photograph and photographer unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1931

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-0573

Description: Shows the detail of chimney construction: cross section, upper part of stack, plan at hearth line. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo blueprint, 315 x 475 mm.

Date: 1938

Reference: PA1-q-052

Description: Album chiefly shows members of a Lands & Survey team surveying boundaries etc, in the Chatham Islands, and in South Canterbury, circa 1938. Residents of the Chatham Islands, various locations in the islands and activities such as sheep transportation from the islands to Lyttelton and Wellington by ship are shown. Another sequence shows drainage and irrigation procedures in South Canterbury. The photographer is probably Russell Gladstone Dick, later the New Zealand Surveyor-General. Other - Source of descriptive information - Card inserted in album which reads "Ample evidence this is a 1938 Lands and Surveys team surveying boundaries etc ... The photographer is shown in photos 126, 127 and 112, and is probably Mr Dick, later NZ Surveyoe General ..." Signed "Rhys Richards". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark blue cloth-covered album, 35.5 x 22.5 cm

Date: [Between 1930 and 1934]

By: New Zealand Railways; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm); Mitchell, Lindsay, active 1930-1942

Reference: PA1-f-058

Description: Album of publicity photographs including designs for advertisements for use in the new Zealand Railway Magazine; designs for posters for use in Railways Ticket Offices and one for a large neon lighting sign "Suggested `Claude Neon' Display for New Zealand Railway Publicity Department, Wellington. `Travel by train'". One photograph is entitled "`Post' corner 1880. Now site of King's Chambers". A number of images show a [Labour Day?] parade of marching people, and floats some of which are advertising NZ Railways holiday destinations, with slogans reading `Come to Rotorua', `Come to Waitomo', `Come to The Chateau Tongariro'. There are designs of title pages for the New Zealand Railways Magazine; a view of a commemorative key with a sheaf of corn on the handle in a presentation box; and designs for a programme of events surround the laying of the foundation stone for the new Government Railway Station, Wellington, N.Z. by HRH the Duke of Gloucester, December 17th 1934. These are followed by photographs taken during the Duke's tour of New Zealand, including crowd scenes in Wellington, Maori celebrations of welcome at Ngaruawahia, and scenes in the Rotorua thermal area. There are a few individual and group portraits of the management and administrative staff of New Zealand Railways, most unidentified. Most of the images relate to the 1930s, but there are a few copies of earlier photographs. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, maroon spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C4'; 42 x 59 cm

Date: 1931 - 1999 - 2001

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996; Percy, Kevin, active 1990s

Reference: E-592-069

Description: Shows a fashionably dressed woman and child in the right foreground beside a new car, with the new nurses' home, of Spanish Mission style, in the background. The original painting won the New Zealand Technical College art prize, where contestants were required to depict a modern building,modern car, and modern fashion. Seven nurses lost their lives when this building was destroyed in 1931. Other Titles - Don McNab Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 120 x 177 mm. Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..