Places

Date: [Between 1880s and 1890s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-079

Description: Views of the Otago Region taken by unidentified photographers, circa 1870s to 1895. Many show buildings in Dunedin, including one house `Lisburn House' built for the Fulton family in 1865; also commercial buildings, church buildings, school buildings (Otago Boys' High School), and Dunedin Gaol. The church buildings include the Chapel in Leith Street, the Chapel in Great King Street, and the Baptist Chapel. Beyond Dunedin there are views of Naseby, Butchers Gully, Port Chalmers, Cromwell, Kyeburn, Shag Valley, and Lake Hayes, Lake Wanaka and Lake Hawea. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover decorated with gold birds, lettering and decorations outlined in black; 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Date: 1950 - 1985

Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-Till-Undated

Description: Includes programmes and fliers for: 1950s?: New Zealand's own pianist Maurice Till presents a fine programme of piano music ...[1950s?]. Pamphlet The New Zealand pianist Maurice Till. Programme (beginning with "Air with variations" by Handel). [1950s?] (2 copies) The New Zealand pianist Maurice Till. Programme (beginning with "Sonata in K" by Mozart). [1950s?] (2 copies) Whangarei Music Society recital. Phyllis Mader, soprano; Maurice Till, piano. [1950s?]. Programme Glenda Raymond, Australian soprano; Maurice Till pianist. Tour sponsored by Adult Education Department University of Canterbury [1950s?]. Programme (2 copies) Song recital by Honor McKellar, assisted by Maurice Till, pianist [1950s?]. Programme. Maurice Till pianoforte recital. [ca 1950s?]. Programme - black & white (2 copies) Maurice Till pianoforte recital. [ca 1950s?]. Programme - black & red on white (2 copies) University Trio recitals of chamber music. Gladys Vincent violin; Francis Bate 'cello; Maurice Till piano. Tour arranged by Department of Adult Education, University of Otago. [1955?] Programme (2 copies) 1960s?: A Festival piano recital. Maurice Till. Dunedin Town Hall, Thursday 31 January [1960s?]. Programme (2 copies) Orchestra (Dunedin Civic Orchestra). Guest conduxctor Alex Lindsay; leader Joan Gardiner. Alexandera concert. War Memorial Hall, 3 August [1968??]. ProgrammeSong recital. Helen Charlton soprano; Maurice Till piano. The Chapel, Music Centre of Christchurch 140 Barbadoes Street, Wednesday 13 November [1968?]. Programme 1980s?: Maurice Hasson violin; Maurice Till piano. Two different programme [ca 1986?] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed programmes, up to quarto size, some illustrated. Provenance: Donated by Richard Till, from the papers of his father Maurice Till. These programmes are duplicate to those held at Hocken Library as part of Maurice Till's papers.

Date: 1973

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to gay and homosexual people, issues, events and organisations in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-GAY-1973-01

Description: Flier advertisiing Gay Pride Week for 1973. The recto is an arrangement of text with a male and female symbol at lower left. The verso lists the events happening during the week. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on two sides of flier. Physical Description: Offset print, 275 x 222 mm. Processing information: Subject headings updated in February 2024 as part of reparative description work.

Date: [ca 1900-1930]

From: Knight, Frederic Hardwicke, 1911-2008 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1726

Description: Album containing 45 photographs taken between ca 1900-1930 by various photographers, showing houses, churches and other buildings in Dunedin, probably designed by architect James Louis Salmond. Some houses are identified by owners: A C Hanlon on Pitt St, Arthur Sidey, J L Salmond on Bellevue St, Holdsworth (family?) at Waikouaiti, Charles Begg on Smith St, Dr Batchelor on London St, Charles Speight on York Place, Douglas (family?) on Eglington Rd, Salmond (family?) on Albert St, Jones (family?) at Warrington. Also includes terrace houses beside tramsheds and on Stuart St Also includes: Chalet Hospital on High St, Roslyn Church, Working Mens' Home on Roseberry St, Waitahuna Church, Kaikorai Church, Burns Hall Identified locations additional to those listed above comprise: Elgin Rd, Napier St, Little Bourne Rd, High St, London St Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown and black leatherbound album, 24.5 x 31.2 cm

Date: [ca 1860-1889]

From: Knight, Frederic Hardwicke, 1911-2008 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1713

Description: Album of carte de visite photographs. These include - Landscapes. Views of Dunedin. Business premises. Rothsay on the Island of Bute, Scotland. Portraits taken in Otago and Britain. Taken ca 1860s-1880s by various photographers. Most Otago photographs were taken by James Weaver Allen (b 1822). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

Date: 1908

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-1908

Description: Includes: Auckland Liedertafel; male chorus of sixty voices. Grand smoke concert tendered to the men of the United States Battleship fleet in the Military Hall, 11 August 1908. Programme. Wright & Jaques. Mr Leo Buckeridge and Miss Hardinge-Maltby's invitation recital, assisted by Mr Stewart Maclean, Mrs Natusch and pupils. St Peters Hall, 16 October 1908. Programme. Clara Butt and Kennerley Rumford. New Zealand tour 1908. Town Hall Wellington, 21 January 1908. Programme (2 copies, one green cover, one white) Clara Butt and Kennerley Rumford. New Zealand tour 1908. Town Hall Wellington, 23 January 1908. Programme. Clara Butt and Kennerley Rumford. New Zealand tour 1908. Town Hall Wellington, 25 January 1908. Programme. Clara Butt and Kennerley Rumford. New Zealand tour 1908.His Majesty's Theatre Christchurch, 29 january 1908. Programme. Clara Butt and Kennerley Rumford. New Zealand tour 1908.Town Hall Wellington, 3 March 1908. Programme (2 copies - 1 grey cover, one white) The Cherniavski concerts. British Empire tour 1908. Mr Edward Branscombe presents Leo, Jan and Mischel Cherniavski in a series of concert recitals, assisted by Madame Marie Hooton (contralto) and Mr Percival Driver (baritone); Mr Nigel Brock (manager). Booklet with photographic portraits. Town Hall Wellington. The Cherniavski concerts. Mr Edward Branscombe presents Leo, Jan and Mischel Cherniavski, assisted by Madame Marie Hooton and Mr Percival Driver. Programme (folded pamphlet) Dunedin Orchestral Society, hon conductor Mr James Coombs. Second concert, twenty-first season. Garrison Hall, 18 June [1908]. Programme Gisborne Orchestral Society. 1st subscription concert. His Majesty's Theatre Gisborne, 14 July 1908. Programme. Gisborne Orchestral Society. Second subscription concert. His Majesty's Theatre, 6 october 1908. Programme. Mark Hambourg. His Majesty's Theatre Christchurch, 26-30 October 1908. Programme. Wellington Choral Society. Handel's "Messiah". Town Hall, 4 December 1908. Programme. Wellington Musical Union. First subscription concert. "The golden legend" (Sir Arthur Sullivan). With Rosina Buckman, Mrs Barber, Mr E J Hill, Mr John Prouse, Mr F Laycock. Town Hall, 19 June 1908. Programme and book of words (2 copies) Wellington Musical Union. Second subscription concert. "Faust" (Gounod). With Charles Saunders, Rosina Buckman, Hamilton Hodges, P Hockley, Mrs F P Wilson, F Laycock. Town Hall, 17 August 1908. Programme and book of words. Wellington Musical Union. Third subscription concert. "The revenge" (Sir Charles Villiers Stanford). With Mr Charles H Stephens and Miss Phoebe Parsons. Town Hall, 27 October 1908. Programme and book of words Mrs Charles Willeby, who will interpret the songs of her husband, Charles Willeby, the famous English composer (With pianists Madoleine Webbe, Gertrude Spooner, violinist Peggy Bain). Choral Hall [Auckland], 14 December 1908. Programme Quantity: 17 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Printed programmes, up to octavo size, some illustrated. Provenance: Some programmes donated by E Speden 1995; J Barsby 1989, P Jesson 1996.

Date: [1950s]

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

Reference: PA1-q-032

Description: Album contains coloured photographs with views of New Zealand, and some unlabelled family photographs, taken by Dr Ken Birrell, circa 1950s. Images also include three of Oregon and the Oregon State University. New Zealand views are concentrated mainly in the Wellington area including the Wairarapa, Milford Sound and the Dunedin area. Note handwritten at top right-hand corner of the cover reads "Aerial. Qtn-Milford 1957 & Chch-Qtn. (Air & bus)" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue covered album, with "Photographs" lettered in gold, 255 x 380 mm

Date: 1901

Reference: PA1-f-064

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901. Scenes include the arrival of the royal visitors at various places, by ship, Royal carriages, and Royal train; ceremonies and rites welcoming them; views of triumphal arches erected for the tour, including Marble Arch (Queen Street, Auckland), the Auckland Harbour Board Arch, the Citizen's Arch (Wellesley Street), and the Government Arch (City of Wellington). Other ceremonies are associated with the presentation of war-medals; the laying of foundation stones (Victoria College for Maori Girls, Parnell, Auckland), the Wellington Town Hall, and the Queens Memorial Statue in Dunedin); and the march past and inspection of various guards, troops and veterans. One photograph shows Lord Ranfurly in Auckland, reading the proclamation extending the boundaries of the colony to include the Cook Islands (p 16). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "Visit of Duke of Cornwall and York (King George V.). 1901. Maoris - Auckland. Wellington. Christchurch". Hand-printed in ink on slip attached to front cover.

Date: [ca 1990-1996]

From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-8154-038

Description: Photocopy of the diary of Margaret Bain, with annotations, underlinings and notes by McNeish. Also typescript tribute to Robin Bain, detailing his curriculum vitae. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 10 August 1979

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

Reference: EP/1979/2805-F

Description: Residents of Christie Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, carrying pets and belongings salvaged from their homes. They are (from left) Kay Anderson, John Prestney, Ray Wilson, and Judith Wilson. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 10th of August 1979 On the 8th of August 1979 a landslide destroyed part of the suburb of Abbotsford, Dunedin. Over 50 houses were wrecked and many more damaged Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: [1880s-1900s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-o-167

Description: Family photographs, chiefly taken by William Hughes Field. Many of the views are unidentified, as are many of the portraits and group portraits. Some family members are identified, and a few taken in Botany Bay, Sydney, show Richard John Seddon and James Carroll speaking at a function. One image is a reproduction of a cartoon by William Hodgkins entitled `Mark Twain at the City hall Dunedin, on original sin (The watermelon story) ... A sketch from the stalls by W M Hodgkins' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green covers, 24 x 31 cm

Date: ca 1870s

Reference: PAColl-4511

Description: Photographs of Queen Street, Auckland; sailing ships moored in Auckland harbour; Government House, Auckland; the Auckland Supreme Court; Lyttelton, with a church in the middle distance and commercial buildings in the foreground; Dunedin Hospital (built in 1864); view looking down Princes Street towards the Exchange Building (built as the Post Office but never used as such) with business premises on either side of the street and a sign for a dentist's on the right; the Exchange Building with a horse and cart to the left; and the town reservoir, Dunedin. Photographer unidentified but they have similar captions below the image. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-002193, 002206, 002207, 002215, 002367, 002368, 002370, 002379, and 002838 Quantity: 9 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1875 - 1885

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] 1860 [- ca 1890?]

Reference: E-405-005

Description: Studies of two men. The man on the left is standing, his hand resting on a bar or high table, a cigar between his fingers. The right hand man is possible in the street, delivering something heavy in a large basket balanced on his left shoulder. A note on his chest indicates that he is wearing a blue jumper. Inscriptions: Recto - 'Blue jumper' [written on the chest of the right-hand figure] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch in album, page size 113 x 818 mm

Date: 1887

Reference: Eph-B-DRAMA-1887

Description: Includes: Bland Holt. "The world!", by Paul Merritt, Henry Pettitt & Augustus Harris. Princess Theatre Dunedin. First time since 1882 [1887]. Programme (dated from an open letter from a mayoral candidate William Dawson, in the margins of page 2) Willamson Garner and Musgrove present the Royal Comedy Company in "Betsy!" by F C Bernand. New Opera House Wellington. [1887?] Programme. Williamson Garner and Musgrove present "Human nature", by Henry Pettitt and Augustus Harris. Opera House Wellington. 26 December 1887. Programme. Williamson Garner & Musgrove Royal Comedy Company. "The magistrate", by Pinero. In Wellington for the first time. [February 1887?].To be followed by "Hasel Kirke" by Steel Mackaye; "Betsy", by F C Burnand, and the charming comedies "Nita's first", and "Written in sand". Wellington Opera House, 1887? Programme Mr George Leitch assisted by Mr H C Sidney and Miss Alice Norton in "Harbour lights", by G R Sims and Henry Pettitt. New Opera House Wellington. Monday November 21st [1887?]. Programme. Wybert Reeve and his very popular Comedy Company. Farewell return to Wellington for a short season. "Impulse". Opera House Wellington [January 1887]. Programme. (Also advertises concert by Signor Carmini Morley). Quantity: 6 programmes. Physical Description: Letterpress items, varying sizes up to quarto. Provenance: One programme donated in 2002 by Paul Orsman, Holmes estate.

Date: February 1955

From: University of Otago. Wellington School of Medicine & Health Sciences :Photographs of medical groups

Reference: PAColl-D-1100

Description: Group photograph of participants in the first New Zealand congress in obstetrics and gynaecology held in Dunedin in February 1955. Photographed by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 25 x 19.5 cm, on mount 50 x 45.5 cm

Date: 2008

Reference: ArtEph-2008-M-01

Description: Although principally known as a painter Colin McCahon engaged in an array of design activities. Examples of his design work showcased in this exhibition include museum display and exhibition signage, jewellery making, illustration, stage design, book cover design, print-making and coloured glass design. This show compares areas of McCahon's practice to folk art and, in its exploration of how McCahon became involved with design, draws attention to particular folk that encouraged his involvement with design. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 31 pages, 20 cm

Date: 1878-1883

From: John Martin, Solicitors of Edinburgh : New Zealand letters

Reference: MS-Papers-6509-08

Description: Letters and papers re estate of W G Maitland and the release of the Crescent property. Includes correspondence from the law firm of Kenyon and Hosking, and letter from J P Maitland (Crown Lands Department) re his father's estate. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1876

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Five sketchbooks with views of Dunedin and district and manuscript notes]

Reference: E-017-3-035

Description: Three sets of notes, one or two about property sale, one mentioning a watercolour: "H G Ste...[illegible] b[ough]t in 1860 a lot of properties in Dunedin ... from Charles Thompson ... Robinson says be sent ... Water colour for Naseby Church". Quantity: 1 holograph. Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook, 64 x 216 mm (page size)

Date: [ca 1968]

From: Thorn, Benji, fl 2005 :Colour slides taken on holidays in the South Island

Reference: PA12-3430

Description: Views of Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchurch. Photographed by an unknown photographer about 1968. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm