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Date: 1849 - 1855

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Taranaki Museum; New Plymouth Public Library

Reference: A-284-031/035

Description: Show Taranaki scenes: Interior of George Curtis' house, Omata; Exterior of George Curtis' house, Omata; Alpha flourmill, Huatoki Valley and Victoria Road from Marsland Hill, New Plymouth; Henui (Weekstown) from the coastal dunes; Unidentified New Plymouth outskirts (possibly now Tukapa St / Westown). Attribution based on style. George Curtis arrived in New Plymouth in 1849 on the 'Pekin'. "As soon as a raupo house could be erected by the Maoris at Omata, George Curtis and his family went to live on his farm". (NZ Biogs, 1967, vol. 1, p. 53). Supplied titles. Inscriptions: Unsigned and undated.; Recto - beneath image - [Titles as supplied by donor]. Quantity: 5 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies, black and white, varying sizes. Provenance: Original drawings in New Plymouth Public Library tipped into a book, until 1992, then transferred to Taranaki Museum.

Date: ca 1860s-1890s

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Spencer, Harriet Dyke, 1866-1948; London Stereoscopic Photographic Company

Reference: PAColl-4721

Description: Photographs on album pages: photograph of Mount Peel Station, its interior and grounds including Mr Acland in his study, his daughters and their friends identified by inititals, including one of L D Acland and B B Acland, the latter knitting a sock, and the Church of the Holy Innocence viewed across a field of hay stacks with the forest planted by Acland behind it; more of the same women boating and picnicking, including a view of a gorge taken by Harriet Acland, a church interior and Bishop Harper playing cricket with a young boy; Ilam homestead covered in clematis with balconies and verandahs and extensive grounds next to the Avon River, and the Watts Russell family group at Pareora August 1894 with their dog and saddled horses in the background; the West Coast Times printing office with the men outside it, C G Tripp and family and a Centerbury view; and two views of Tripp's homestead at Orari. Photographs mounted on card: a studio portrait of Dr Shortland; John Charles Watts Russell taken by the London Stereoscopic Company; Rev R H Codrington's garden in Norfolk Island while a missionary in the South Pacific with eight local men, either Solomon Islanders and New Hebrideans; five interior views of a well-furnished house (possibly Wildwood, Christchurch) with heavy wooden furniture and fireplaces, gas lamps, drapery, paintings (including a copy of The Order of Release by Millais) etc.; the officers of HMS Invincible on the deck of their ship next to the lifeboats; a view looking down a street of two boats in "the bay of Taranaki" (probably near New Plymouth) one named SS Taupo ca 1860s; and a view over buildings near the shore in New Plymouth ca 1860s. Loose prints of: a brick-built house with a verandah, and a duplicate of the officers of the Invincible. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. 28 b&w original photographic print(s) on loose pages from an album. 2 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.

Date: ca 1960

From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-599

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [1894-1900?]

From: Denton, Frank J, 1869-1963 :Collection of negatives, prints and albums

Reference: PA1-o-132

Description: Photographs, chiefly of the Wellington area, probably taken by Frank J Denton. A number show the house `Fernhill' in Woolcombe Street (now part of The Terrace), Wellington, views from the house and its gardens. Portraits in clude Laurie Denton, Tom Tolley (locksmith), Alfred Bennett and his family, Mrs Denton Snr, Mrs Waters (had a grocery shop in Dixon Street), G L Adkin (as a boy), Miss Dixon (of the aerated water family, the Dixons of Dixon Street), George Butler (artist), and Beaglehole (David Ernest Beaglehole, father of Professor Ernest Beaglehole, and Professor John Cawte Beaglehole). Also includes photograph of a portrait painted by George Edmund Butler of his father Joseph Cawte Butler (maternal grandfather of John Cawte Beaglehole). Other Titles - Wellington I Album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Maroon cover decorated with painted leaves, 22 x 26 cm

Date: 1870-1890

From: Saxby, Stephen Hector, 1907- :Photograph albums

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Ring, James, 1856-1939; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-q-213

Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand and Pacific scenes, compiled ca 1870s-1880s. Includes views of Nelson. Bridge over the Waiau River near Hanmer. Hutt Valley (showing junction of Belmont Road), Manaia (showing Dr Hector, and oysters in foreground). James Hector's house `Ratanui,'near Petone, his family, and views from the house. Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu (showing flooding, acclimatisation ponds, and the road between Queenstown and Martin's Bay). Greymouth. Castle Hill. White Island. Mount Ruapehu. Otira Gorge. Arthur River. Milford Sound (with steamship Rotorua). Christchurch. Auckland (including a series of interior views of Kilbryde, the home of Sir John Logan Campbell). Cable car over Taramakau River. Hawks Crag. Brunnerton. Arnold river. Arthur's Pass. Buller River. Denniston (showing coal mines and incline). Mount Cook. Wellington (including views of the Botanic Garden). Lake Mapourika. Sutherland Falls. Tahiti. Wanganui. The Wainuiomata Reservoir. Napier. Photographers represented include W T L Travers (scenes on Waiau river), Hart, Campbell & Co (Queenstown and Wakatipu), James Ring (Greymouth, Castle Hill, and Buller), H T Lock (Hawks Crag and Denniston), Wheeler & Son (Christchurch), Connolly & Co (Wellington Botanic Garden) and Burton Brothers (Sutherland Falls). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded maroon cover, entitled "New Zealand ferns"; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: [1900s-1910s?]

By: Quartermain, Leslie Bowden, 1895-1973

Reference: PA1-q-191

Description: Photographs associated with the Quartermain family, none of which have captions. A number show Leslie Bowden Quartermain as a boy and as a young man, including one with his brother and his parents (p. 12), and one of him wearing military uniform (p. 15). Several views show St John's Church, Hororata, during construction and after completion. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with light brown cover, entitled "Sunny memories"; 32 x 28 cm

Date: 1850-1890

By: Harper, Arthur Paul, 1865-1955; Moberly, Patricia, active 1990s

Reference: PA1-f-207

Description: Album probably compiled by the mountaineer and explorer, A P Harper. Harper was also probably the photographer for many of the prints, especially those of mountains and mountaineering. There are Harper and Ackland family photographs which include interior and exterior views and views of the garden, of Ilam, the family mansion in Christchurch. The other main group of photographs relate to A P Harper's activities as a mountaineer and explorer in the Fox and Franz Joseph glacier regions. Some of the climbers active in the Southern Alps during the 1880s and 1890s are depicted. W S Green and his two Swiss guides, and at least one photograph taken by Green during his unsuccessful attempt to reach the summit of Mount Cook in 1882. Fitgerald, Zurbriggen, Mannering, and Dixon were all men that Harper was associated with as a mountaineer. As an explorer he was associated with Charles Douglas, and there are photographs of Douglas, Leonard Cockayne the botanist, and John Roberts of the Westland district survey. There are also many photographs of the mountains, glaciers, rivers, and gorges of the Southern Alps. Some of the English photographs at the beginning of the album may be associated with A P Harper's brother Charles who became an Anglican priest. He may have been the C C Harper who was at Keble College and Cuddesdon theological college, Oxford. There are two interiors of "C C Harper's room at Keble College", and a number of photographs of family groups taken in the grounds of the vicarage at Patea where Charles Harper was vicar from 1894 to 1900. The album ends with A P Harper and his house at Thames, and more British photographs, in particular several pages of Jersey taken about 1897 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Circa 1920s]

Reference: PA1-o-441

Description: Album of photographs taken circa 1920, by an unidentified photographer. None of the images have inscriptions; only a few places have been identified. Identifiable buildings and locations have been listed above. Many of the scenes are of a two-storey English cottage in the Arts & Crafts style, showing exterior and interior views. There is one of a viewing tower with windows and gables, possibly in the garden of the same house. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, entited "Photo-graphs"; 22.0 x 17.5 cm

Date: [ca 1960]

From: Newman, Frederick Hugh, 1900-1964 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8264

Description: Plans for star flats and an atrium house, New Zealand. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 b&w original transparency/ies. Provenance: Donated by Maria Newman, Lower Hutt, 2004

Date: 1953-1954

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :Photographs of private houses, public housing, and some furniture.

By: Hodgson, Dennis, active 1950s

Reference: PAColl-5870-4

Description: Interior and exterior views of the house Cedric Firth designed and built for George Farquar Vance, founder of the Wellington clothing store, "Vance Vivian's". The house was (is ?) situated on the corner of Cheviot Road and Dillon Street, Lowry Bay, Lower Hutt. Photographed by Wellington photographer Dennis Hodgson ca 1954. Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1887-1891

Reference: PA1-q-610

Description: There are three main themes in this album. 1. The Royal Navy, Australian Squadron, based at Sydney. Pictures of naval cadets and war ships, some of which are in dry dock. The creator of the album, or a relative, seems to have been associated with HMS Orlando. Many photos of this ship appear in the album. The Orlando served as the flagship of the Australian Squadron from July 1888 to December 1897. The Sydney Morning Herald reported on 11th Feb 1889 that HMS Orlando and Dart were docked in Calliope Dock, Auckland, because Sydney facilities could not undertake the work. There are a number of Photographs of HMS Orlando in dock at Auckland in this album. Thus the photos of officers and naval cadets may also have associations with the Orlando. There are also 3 photos of a gun accident which occurred on the HMS Cordelia of the Australian Squadron. This happened on the 26 June 1891 while the Cordelia was on a cruize from Fiji to Noumea. During Gun Practice a gun burst killing 6 ratings and wounding 13 others. The photos show the broken gun casing littering the deck. 2. Of the New Zealand section much of it concentrates on the town of Lawrence. Many of the captions and photographs relate to the Anglican parsonage at Lawrence. This suggests the possibility of the album belonging to the Vicar or a member of his family. If this were the case, and given the period of the late 1880s-early 1890s, it may be associated with the Rev George Pice Beaumont vicar and archdeacon from 1872 to 1900. On the other hand the name of Beaumont does not appear anywhere in the album. 3. Samoan civil wars of the late 1880s and the hurricane of 1889 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1883-1892]

By: Fell, Charles Yates, 1844-1918; Smith, F S, active 1880s

Reference: PA1-q-075

Description: Charles Yates Fell photograph album. Many of the photographs taken by C Y Fell. Album created as a memory for relative, Alice Blake (nee Richmond), including portraits and group portraits of family and friends; scenes of holidays around the Totaranui, Abel Tasman National Park area; and the homes of the Richmond family (Fairfield) and the Fell family (St John's) in Nelson. One image shows all the members of the New Zealand House of Representatives 3rd Parliament in 1851 (Most are named). Many of the images are of festive occasions with large family gatherings, including Xmas parties and costumes for a fancy-dress ball at Totaranui (January 1890). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Fell album 2 Inscriptions: Album page - "Alice Blake, from Charles Y. & Edith E. Fell, January 1892. In loving remembrance of old times, St. John's, Nelson, N.Z." Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown paper covers entitled "N.Z." in dark-brown water-coloured letters, 28.0 x 37.5 cm

Date: 1899

By: Chatfield, William Charles, 1852?-1930

Reference: PA-Group-00660

Description: Photographs taken by architect William Charles Chatfield of his Island Bay home called Hurston in 1899. Includes exterior views of house, house in its garden setting, and the garden, with studies of native trees in garden. Also interior views of rooms, furniture and individual paintings and portraits. Photographs of people, including child with teddy bear, formal potraits, man with a dog, people in open carriage, and family in garden. People on south coast beach, and vistas of coast with studies of rocks and sea. Some views of the interior of a church, showing pews, altar and decorations. Also wood carving, probably done by one of the women of the household - a popular craft activity in the late 19th and early 20th century. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Some negative boxes have ink or pencil inscriptions about contents (on lid, and/or on bottom). Vendor has also labelled some boxes House called Hurston is apparently at 1-2 Mersey St, Island Bay and is now used by the Little Sisters of the Poor Quantity: 177 b&w original negative(s) (Chiefly glass, six are film). 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Negatives, photographic prints Provenance: Private purchase, 2009. The collection had been purchased by the vendor ca 1990. The previous owner's father-in-law had been interested in photography and had been given the collection.

Date: 1941

From: Koppel, Irene, 1914-2004 :Photographic prints, albums and negatives taken by Irene Koppel

By: Plischke, Ernst Anton, 1903-1992

Reference: 35mm-35602-F

Description: Interior of the Kahn house, Ngaio, Wellington, designed by Ernst Plischke. Photograph taken in 1941 by Irene Koppel. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strip with 6 images. Physical Description: Cellulose nitrate negative

Date: ca 1900-ca 1910

From: Main, William :Photographs of the Nelson properties at Pori, north eastern Wairarapa.

Reference: PA1-o-1206

Description: Most of the New Zealand images relate to the Nelson family, their farms, farm houses, and farm buildings in the Pori area, north eastern Wairarapa, and scenic views of the area such as the Makuri River, a waterfall at Tiraumea, Annedale north of Tainui, the Pori Bridge, and native forest. The images of the farm houses include building a stable and buggy house, views of the yard with washing drying, a hen run, and a view of the dining room at "Ruatea". Four images are of Hugh Nelson's whare which was the first building constructed at "Taumata". There are three photographs of local Maori, one of bullock teams at Tiraumea, snow covered landscape at "Nga Mahanga", a picnic group with horses and buggys, and many views of the countryside from the Nelson farms showing cleared, partially cleared and forested land, much of it covered with the gaunt trunks of burnt off bush. There are group photographs of the families and friends. As well as the men these include women (wives?) Lucy, Katie, and Winifred, and children, Robert, Frances, and Dorothea. Other new Zealand houses include two probably located at Annedale with the names "Te Hoe" and "Manawa", and another in Featherston called "Newstead". The English images are of family and friends and various places, houses and churches which include Dover, Tunbridge Wells, Broadstairs, Minehead, Ostend, Clovelly, Lynton, Lymouth, Doon Valley, Meywingen, St Saviours Leeds, and Chester Cathedral Arrangement: Loose prints originally in this album can be found at PAColl-7868-1 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1960]

From: Newman, Frederick Hugh, 1900-1964 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8263

Description: State flats, and house interiors, New Zealand. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Provenance: Donated by Maria Newman, Lower Hutt, 2004

Date: [ca 1890s]

Reference: PAColl-7053

Description: Views mostly in and around New Plymouth but including clergymen gathered for Archdeacon Govett's jubilee in 1898, crowds in Pukekura Park for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubliee in 1897 and a Floral Fete in 1896, a homestead called Tokotahi near the Tiraumea River in Pahiatua County, the old mountain house on Mount Taranaki, and an area called Grant's Braes (now Waverley) in Dunedin. All the views are captioned. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-002136 to 002173 Quantity: 38 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film 1/2 plate copy negatives

Date: 1869-1918

From: Powles family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-809

Description: Album is dated 1869, but some of the photographs may be earlier. Relates to the Powles family in England, especially Ipswich, Suffolk and places near to it. Also has views of Tasmania and New Zealand. There are some interesting house interiors, buildings, and a short series on bush life while clearing the land. Popular taste in painting (art) is recorded in a number of photos. There are some photos of ships, especially warships. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [1890s]

Reference: PA1-q-222

Description: Photographs relating to Herbert Spackman and his family and relatives, chiefly taken by him. Places include views of Wellington and bays, Eketahuna and the Wanganui district. Very few of the people shown are fully identified but are likely to be Harry Spackman’s: mother (Eliza Spackman, nee Hawkings), father (Henry Spackman), brother, mother-in-law (Mrs Coxall, mother of Harry’s first wife Amy), and father-in-law (Mr Parnell, father of Fanny Parnell, Harry's second wife). Several houses are shown, including: ‘Rangiuru’, located at 63 Hutt Road, Petone, Wellington; House of Eketahuna farmer David S Lowe; House of David S Lowe’s brother Henry (‘Harry’) Goold Spackman in Wanganui, both interior and exterior, ‘Ben Venuto’ situated at 59 Rintoul Street and house of Henry (‘Harry’) Goold Spackman in Wellington, both interior and exterior views. Herbert Spackman's nephew Roy Spackman (Clement Roy) attended Wanganui Collegiate School, and there are several views of the chapel (interior and exterior) and the music room. There is one group portrait of Wanganui Collegiate School boys (p 41). Source of descriptive information - Information sourced from various places including the internet, and a family member. Two articles on Henry and Herbert Spackman both before they left England, and in New Zealand can be found at www.bris.ac.uk/music/CHOMBEC/chombec-news-1.pdf and www.bris.ac.uk/music/CHOMBEC/chombec-news-4.pdf Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark red cover, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 29 x 24 cm

Date: 1965

From: Baillie, William Jeavons Hall, 1941-:Slides, photographs, and other material

Reference: PA12-0239

Description: Unidentified people, places, houses and items of furniture. Location is New Zealand Quantity: 5 colour original transparency/ies.