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Album of photographs depicting Joseph Gordon Coates and others on tours to various part...
Date: ca1922-ca1926
From: Barr, John Manson, 1904-1993 :Photographs of Joseph Gordon Coates
By: Coates, Marjorie Grace, 1892-1973
Reference: PA1-o-851
Description: Gordon Coates and his wife on tour. Most of these photographs relate to Coates' as MP and Minister of Public Works. Most of the events record the trials and tribulations of journeying to remote parts of New Zealand to open bridges, post offices, power plants etc. The album also records some of the social and recreational events associated with the tours. According to Gordon Coates' daughter, Mrs Sheila Pryde, this album belonged to Gordon Coates' wife Marjorie, who collected, and may have taken some of the snaps when she accompanied her husband travelling in various parts of New Zealand. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
[Photographer unknown] :High Street - Christchurch. [1882]
Date: 1882
From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]
Reference: E-328-f-041-1
Description: A view of High Street Christchurch showing the Post Office straight ahead and businesses on the left. Those that can be identified are: J Sheen (Boot and Shoe Depot); C W Duckworth (Grocer); J Taylor (Draper) and on the right; W S King (Upholsterers and Manufac[turers] and C Hydes (Boot Factory). Also shows horse drawn vehicles on the street. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - High Street - Christchurch Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 139 x 215 mm
Aberhart, Laurence :Photographs of Northland post offices at Waiharara and Te Kao
Date: 26-1-1988
By: Aberhart, Laurence, 1949-
Reference: PAColl-3738-1
Description: Exhibited in 'Within Memory' Exhibition at the National Library Galley, 6 April - 16 July 2006. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).
[Smith, William Mein] 1799-1869 :[The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Welling...
Date: 1842
By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: G-653
Description: Shows Thorndon and Te Aro, stores, houses, hotels, wharves, flagstaff, the Exchange, customhouse office, post office, man on horseback, settlers, Maoris, and ships in the harbour Original of: Day & Haghe. The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington. Published in Wakefield, E.J. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, 1845. Plate 4. For identification of buildings, refer to text of this publication. Smith was a New Zealand Company employee at the time of painting this oil and it was probably painted for the Company or as a promotion for colonisation of Wellington. Dimensions including frame: 460 x 1195 mm. Earlier frame, replaced in 1986 and again in 1990 included rounded upper inner corners. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 320 x 1060 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull?