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Date: [ca 1933-1959]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Watherston, R A, active 1956

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-202

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1933-1959. Various photograph of Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu - Soldiers memorial; camping grounds; Queenstown School; Queenstown Post Office; main street; Scott Memorial in Queenstown Park; town centre, 1933; several elevated views; Queenstown Gardens; Kawarau Dam, 1949; aqua-skiing on the lake; Earnslaw; loading wool at Greenstone Bay, 1950. Franz Josef Glacier; mountaineers cutting steps on the glacier; Arrow Basin; Kaniere gold dredge at Kumara, 1959; St Mary's Church, New Plymouth; Mrs W Reid of Runanga surf casting at Crows Bay, West Coast; hay making near Waikari, North Canterbury; Honeymoon Bay in Tasman Bay. Sheep mustering on high country run of A W Gard, Mt Bell Station (near Kurow); photo of musterers (all named on back) and property owned by Gard. Photographs sent to New Free Lance with accompanying letter by R S Watherston of Springhills, 1956 Also Balclutha; Milton; Woodbank Church; Russell, car ferry at Paihia; Mr Barker's stud at Wanaka; bridge over Molyneux River; Roman Catholic Church at Tokaanu; Wanganui river boat; rock formations at Palliser Bay; yachts of man-made lake Lake Whakamarino, 1947; Cascade Saddle; Mount Egmont lighthouse; Pukekura Park; tree growing amongst rocks on Dunstan Range; Taihape Plunket Rooms; elevated view of Nelson; haymaking near Dagarville; Marion Camp, Homer Tunnel; Northland express passing down main street of Kawakawa, 1947; Centennial Memorial, Wanganui; A & P Show, Taranaki; Dobson; Victoria Park, Waimate; main street of Levin, 1930; Midhurst Co-operative Dairy Factory; St Bathans, 1947. Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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: 1960 - 1965

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973 :Old homes & sheds, farms made by pioneers in Norsewood. [1950s-1964].

Reference: E-029-q-136

Description: Shows a plinth set on a concrete base with an urn on top. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour 245 x 315 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist available.. Provenance: Donated by Mrs J. Brenkley in 1964.

Date: 1923

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: 1/4-023431-G

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

Date: [ca 1890-1950]

From: Smytheman, V :Photographs from World War II and an album of New Zealand scenes

By: Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970

Reference: PAColl-0531-1

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand including a number of the glass houses and parks of Wanganui and New Plymouth. There are also an old photograph of W Stack's Hotel in Hastings with men and horses outside (in poor condition); a woman in what may be a 1930 Chrysler Plymouth with another snow away from the tyres; the gravestone of Julius von Haast; Queen's Wharf, Wellington showing a recently returned troop transport ship; an orchestra performing at the 1907 Christchurch exhibition; men of the No. 19 Platoon with a car at the summit of the Rimutakas; postcard from P B Davis to Mr A French showing a group of First World War soldiers with the message that they are about to leave for France; and six children at the base of a large Maori carving with a bell attached at Ohinemutu. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-053380 Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca1890-ca1906

Reference: PAColl-5704

Description: A group of people near the boat store on Enderby Island about 1900; John Ballance and others unveiling a monument to the Liberal MP for Timaru, Richard Turnbull; Richard Seddon and his party embarking on the Oswestry Grange, the ship on which he died: and scenic views of the Makatote Gorge and the Manganui A Te Ao River. Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: February to March 1913

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-q-003

Description: Record of a trip from Woodville to Napier and Taupo via the Napier-Taupo Road, February to March 1913. Views include Dannevirke, the upper reaches of the Manawatu River, Waipukurau Lake, Tavistock Hotel, the rail and foot bridge across the Waipawa River between Waipukurau and Waipawa, Hastings Post Office; motor and horse-drawn buses which run between Hastings and Havelock North; house under construction in Henry Street, Hastings (house named Ackworth, owned by Laurence Denton, accountant); views of Cape Kidnappers and the gannet rookery; Ed James and family at their seaside bungalow at Te Awanga; views of Napier and Ahuriri; the Taradale Road embankment over the Tutaekuri River, the Ahuriri Lagoon and mudflats; Marine Parade, Napier showing Norfolk pines, the Municipal Baths and a monument to "six brave men drowned in floods while rescuing people at Clive". Views on the Napier-Taupo Road including the Mohaka River, Tarawera Hotel in Waipunga Valley; Lake Taupo; Huka Falls; Aratiatia Rapids on the Waikato River; hot pool at the Geyser House Hotel (Wairakei) with a group of children swimming; Wairakei Geyser Valley showing geysers, and mud pools.

Date: [ca 1928]

By: Mayne, Elsie Florence, 1909-1996

Reference: PA1-o-1768

Description: Photograph album documenting a trip to New Zealand in circa 1928 made by Mrs Elsie Florence Mayne (nee Cannan) of Australia and her husband Allan Mayne. Comprises photographs likely to have been taken by Mrs or Mr Mayne, also postcards, and tourist photographs. Album probably compiled by Mrs Mayne. Images comprise scenes taken around New Zealand. North Island locations include Auckland, Rotorua and Taupo districts, the Wanganui River, and Wellington. South Island locations include Blenheim, Nelson, Christchurch city, and the West Coast region, including Franz Josef Glacier. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Soft-covered photograph album, entitled 'Portraiture'; 18 x 25.5 cm, containing 65 images Provenance: Ms Shepherd is the niece of Mrs Elsie Mayne.

Date: 1923

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: 1/4-023430-G

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

Date: 1973-1979

From: Keyes, Ian Warwick, 1938-2004 :Sites of Maori settlement, Maori artifacts, and marae

Reference: PA12-6851

Description: Painted canoe hull, Virginia Lake, Wanganui, a memorial to Puna McGregor. Owae Whitara Marae and Te Ikaroa a Maui meeting house, Waitara, Taranaki. Maui Pomare statue, Waitara. Turuturumokai Pa, Hawera. Carved and painted panels, Turangawaewae Marae, Ngaruawahia. Paintings of Polynesian voyagers by Hawaiian artist, Herb Kawainui Kane. Quantity: 18 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1863-1898]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1033

Description: Most of the papers in the folder relate to R D D Maclean; includes accounts and receipts, schedule or wool guarantors, invitations, advertising matter for farming supplies, clippings re NZ matters, copy of report, `In reference to excitement at Wanganui' to the Colonial secretary; letter re Trans-Tasman fares; memberships, correspondence re wool and farming matters, finance, shipping, political circulars, memberships, stocks and shares, card for `Le Pilote' protection agency and other papers (identified persons entered under Name) Includes invitation from Karaitiana Wirihana to unveiling of monument to his late father Wirihana Kaimokopuna at Tahoraite Valuation certificate for property owned by Archibald John McLean at Glenorchy in the district of Kereru & Aorangi, Hawke's Bay, Jan 1879 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: 1930

From: Gibbens, Ken :Photographs of New Zealand, Australia, California, Hawaii, Samoa and Fiji

By: Gibbens, Ken, active 1920s-

Reference: PA1-o-836

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

Date: Sep 1949

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-162

Description: Photographs published in NZ Free Lance, Sep 1949 Includes: E G Christian, supervisor of staff training at New Zealand Railways correspondence school with his assistant A G de Joux; Mrs L Flower with her collection of jugs; Miss Margaret Haddon-Jones, music tutor for adult education department of Victoria University College and her pupils, making and playing woodwind instruments. Also: Damage done by an explosion to a house nextdoor to Mansion's Private Hotel, Ghuznee Street, Wellington; furniture and other items to be exhibited by the Dominion Museum, Wellington (after being in storage during the war years); new 5,000-line automatic telephone exchange at Lower Hutt. Also: Procession walking down `Royal Mile', Edinburgh to mark the opening of the Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama; construction of Auckland Electric Power Board building in Newmarket; Kent Wong sexing chicks at E Chambers' farm, Hornby; opening of Kahungunu War Memorial at Nuhaka by Rt Hon Peter Fraser; New Zealand Railways laboratory (chemists testing for faults); Molyneux River hydro-electric power scheme (Roxburgh camp); public gardens in Christchurch & Wellington in Spring; Omarama; Larry Frost of Ruapehu Ski Club; electric train on display in a London department store at Christmas time. Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1937 to 1940

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-013

Description: "Along N.Z. highways" Second series. Includes maps (hand-drawn), plans, and black & white photographs by G L Adkin, covering trips around the lower North Island between 1937 and 1940. Trip on 18 April 1937 around Miramar Peninsula, includes views of the Massey Memorial, Wellington Harbour, Scots College, Rongotai Airport, and a schooner near the Wellington Heads. From 30 March to 1st April 1938, a round trip, Levin, Wanganui, Whanganui River, Turakina, Hunterville, Levin, including views of the Manawatu River, Foxton water tower, farm land at Turakina, a sketch-map of Turakina & vicinity and of Putiki Pa near Wanganui, Turakina River, Kaitoke Lake, war memorial tower on Durie Hill (Wanganui), Wanganui City from various vantge points, Moutoa Gardens, statue of Major Kemp, views up the Whanganui River as far as the turn-off to Raetihi at Makirikiri, further views of Wanganui including Virginia Lake, scenes of Putiki Pa, Turakina to Hunterville via Turakina Valley. 30th March 1939, a trip from Palmerston North to Ashhurst via the Manawatu Gorge. 16 December 1939 and 6 March 1940, trips from Levin to Wellington via the new Paekakariki to Pukerua Bay coastal highway (opened 4 November 1939), including views of the new highway, and images of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition at Miramar, Wellington. A plan of the layout of the various pavillions, views of pavillions including exterior and interior views of the Maori Court. Adkin lists names of Maori carvers involved in creating the Maori Court, including Pine Taiapa of Tikitiki, Iotua Tuarua of Rarotonga, and Hoani Mete Kingi of Wanganui.

Date: 1960-1963

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6468

Description: Kayaking on Lake Waikareiti. Kauri in Warawara State Forest. Coastal views near Mount Pehimatea, Waitomo District. Coastal views at Moeatua, Waitomo District. Coastal views, Whanarua Bay, Opotiki District. Rangitikei River. Monument to William Colenso at Utiku. Views from the Mokai-Putea track. Ruahine Range. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: ca 1870

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/1-000201-G

Description: Overlooking Wanganui from Shakespeare Cliff, circa 1870. Moutoa Gardens, the battle monument and the courthouse are on the left. Photograph taken by William Harding. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [between 1856-1889]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/2-008378-G

Description: Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Wanganui. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1870s]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/2-008430-G

Description: Showing the Commercial Hotel on the corner of Market Place.Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1912

From: Tesla Studios :Negatives of Wanganui and district taken by Alfred Martin, Frank Denton and Mark Lampe (Tesla Studios)

By: Frank Harris Granite Company Ltd

Reference: 1/1-021036-G

Description: Statue in memory of Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui, also known as Major Kemp, at Wanganui. A small plaque at the base of the monument reads: Sculptured by The Frank Harris Granite Company Limited, Auckland. The men alongside are unidentified. Photograph taken in 1912 by Frank J Denton. Note on back of file print reads \"From acc reg. date 1912. For Messrs. Frank Harris & Co.\" Note on back of file print reads \"on neg: 1019 HARRIS. Monument of Major Kemp\" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass dry plate negative

Date: [Between 1870 and 1879]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/1-000021-G

Description: Maori wooden memorial known as Nga Rangi-o-Rehua or Te Koanga-o-rehua, made from a waka, and carved to mark the grave of Te Mahutu. Photograph taken in Pipiriki by William James Harding, between 1856 and 1886. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches.