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Scenic photographs of New Zealand complied by the Scenery Preservation Board

Date: [ca 1880-1910]

From: Scenery Preservation Board :Scenic photographs of New Zealand

By: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Scenery Preservation Board

Reference: PAColl-0444-1

Description: Photographs of the following: a set of seven photographs by Collis and annotated by F P Corkill, land agent, re landholding around the Waiwhakaiho River; scenic views such as waterfalls, lakes, and the Pink and White Terraces; bridges with annotations re height etc; sixteen numbered photographs mounted two to a card of scenic views in the Taranaki Region, Rotorua and the far north (including ones of Taumaha Gorge, Taranaki and Lake Ora - location unidentified); a set of seven photographs of the Waipu Caves including Lot's wife, the anvil and the sugar loaf in Morrison's Cave; a clipping of St Paul's Cupola and a photograph of Kauri Gully, Northcote with annotations on resolutions passed re the establishment of reservations; a panorama in two photographs of Flagstaff Hill, Dunedin with annotations re a potential reserve; and two of a tramping party of three men and five boys resting at a waterfall. Includes a recent hand-written list of the photographs. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted prints

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Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926 :Maori village at Rotorua. [Postcard]. Waikato Art Museum...

Date: 1883 - 1970 - 1978

From: [Various artists] :Postcards of paintings and a carving in the Waikato Art Museum, London Street, Hamilton, New Zealand. [1970s]

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: E-278-q-057

Description: Reproduction of Charles Blomfield's painting `Maori village at Rotorua' (1883) depicting dwellings and hot springs (with steam rising from them). There is a large weeping willow on the right and a lake in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 124 x 184 mm

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Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926 :Maori village at Rotorua. [Postcard]. Waikato Art Museum...

Date: 1883 - 1970 - 1978

From: [Various artists] :Postcards of paintings and a carving in the Waikato Art Museum, London Street, Hamilton, New Zealand. [1970s]

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: E-278-q-057-A

Description: Reproduction of Charles Blomfield's painting `Maori village at Rotorua' (1883) depicting dwellings and hot springs (with steam rising from them). There is a large weeping willow on the right and a lake in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 124 x 184 mm

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Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926 :Maori village at Rotorua. [Postcard]. Waikato Art Museum...

Date: 1883 - 1970 - 1978

From: [Various artists] :Postcards of paintings and a carving in the Waikato Art Museum, London Street, Hamilton, New Zealand. [1970s]

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: E-278-q-057-B

Description: Reproduction of Charles Blomfield's painting `Maori village at Rotorua' (1883) depicting dwellings and hot springs (with steam rising from them). There is a large weeping willow on the right and a lake in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 124 x 184 mm

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Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :Christchurch from Cathedral. [ca 1890s]

Date: 1880 - 1900

From: Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :[New Zealand views]. Louis Glaser, Leipzig. [ca 1890s]

Reference: E-278-q-076

Description: Birdseye view of the city from the cathedral spire looking down at Cathedral Square to the Post Office building. Horse-drawn carts and carriages can be seen in the square below. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, 90 x 137 mm

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Wallingford School : Log book

Date: 1887-1953

By: Wallingford School

Reference: qMS-2112

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (442 pages). Physical Description: Ms (34 cm; ½ red morooco)

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Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :Lyttelton Harbour. [ca 1890s]

Date: 1880 - 1900

From: Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :[New Zealand views]. Louis Glaser, Leipzig. [ca 1890s]

Reference: E-278-q-078

Description: View looking down onto Lyttleton from a hill. Ships can be seen docked at the wharves and in the harbour. In the foreground to the left are two carts, one filled with soil [?]. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, 90 x 137 mm

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West Coast Mining album

Date: [Circa 1880s to 1912]

By: Divis, Joseph, 1885-1967

Reference: PA1-o-531

Description: Very clear views of West Coast gold and coal mines (mainly in the Reefton subdivision), and mining towns, taken by unidentified photographers, except for one of "Wondrous Waiuta New Zealand" Jos. Divis Photo (p 27). Views on various roads include the Reefton to Blackspoint Road, Reefton to Westport Road, the Buller Gorge, the Maruia Road alongside the Inangahua River, Progress Road, and fording a river near Progress Mill. Images relating to mines include a winter picture of the old Wealth (of Nations) waterwheel covered in icicles; and gold batteries at various stages of development. Gold mines include the Progress Mine, Wealth of Nations Mine, Welcome Mine, the Mountain Battery at Boatman's Creek, the Blackwater Mine and the Globe Mine. Coal mines include views of Lanky's Creek Coal Mine, and the Lanky's Creek to Energetic coal tramway showing new bridges and coal miners. One photograph (p 9) shows several men "beach combing" for gold on the West Coast. There are a number of articles in The West Coast Times, Otago Witness and Otago Daily Times talking about the success or otherwise of seeking gold by this method in the 1860s to 1880s (see Papers Past paperspast.natlib.govt.nz, search under "beach combing" "west coast") Inscriptions: Album page - "To Messrs E & A Spencer with best wishes from D Turnbull, Reefton, N.Z., 13/10/1911, 2/6/1912" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark grey cover, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 19.0 x 27.5 cm

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Photographs of people and events

Date: 1983-1985

From: Hames, Jenny :Negatives and photographs

Reference: PAColl-5811-1

Description: Greek Week in Wellington, reading recovery teachers and pupils, Sir Graham and Lady Latimer, piano teacher Judith Clark, Wellington City buses, Author Fiona Kidman, Kristelle Plimmer bringer of gorilla grams, the Heng family from Cambodia, Children's author Lynley Dodd, teacher and students at Kimi Ora school Wellington, Election night 1984 including Bob Jones, artist Janet Paul, editor Margaret Moony, Buskers on Wellington's streets. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Price, Thomas Edward, 1863-1928 : Group photograph of cricketers and their friends outs...

Date: [ca 1890-1910]

By: Price, Thomas Edward, 1863-1928

Reference: PA7-50-06

Description: Photograph of cricketers and their friends sitting in front of the pavilion in the Tauranga Domain. Tauranga Cricket Club played Opotiki Cricket Club, the match being won by Opotiki. Photograph taken by Thomas Edward Price in 1890-1910? Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 173 x 277 mm

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J H Bethune and Company Limited : Canterbury photographs

Date: ca 1880-1900

By: J H Bethune and Company Ltd; Burton, William Henry, 1823?-1898; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3359

Description: Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope. Physical Description: Four photoprints approx 180 x 240mm and seven photoprints approx 160 x 200mm

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[Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Matahiwi [Whanganui River. 1880s or 1890s?]

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-045

Description: View looking towards the hills with a farm fence and cleared land in the foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

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Christensen family : Papers

Date: 1882-1958

Reference: MS-Papers-2243

Description: Papers include letters to Denmark, a history of the Scandinavian church in New Zealand 1865 - ca 1900 by Mads with a translation and history from 1928 by Ansgar, sermons and diaries of Ansgar Christensen, 1928-1957. Also includes Clem Koch's history of the Lutheran Church in New Zealand Source of title - Supplied Mads Christensen was sent to New Zealand by the Inner Mission Board of Denmark in 1886. He was ordained and inducted to the Mauriceville Parish in 1886; from 1893 he served in Palmerston North. From 1928 to 1958 his son, Ansgar, served in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Palmerston North. In 1928 his son Ansgar took up his father's responsibilities for the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Palmerston North which he served for the next thirty years Quantity: 56 folder(s). 0.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.

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Field album 20

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

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Harding, William James 1826-1899 :W. J. Harding. [Wellington], Alexander Turnbull Libra...

Date: 1870 - 1984 - 1880

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988

Reference: C-106-013-a/018-a

Description: Contains 6 images: Wanganui family and possessions, 1870s; Unidentified man, Wanganui, 1870s; Mrs Morgan and child, Wanganui, 1870s; Staff and premises of the Wanganui Evening Herald, 1868; Mr and Mrs Thomas Roots and their twelve children in front of their home at Springvale, 1870s; Mother and child, Wanganui, 1870s. Title from illustrated container, also bearing descriptive notes. Container has not been assigned its own location number and is therefore not recorded separately. However, the individual photolithographs have separate entries. Other Titles - Imagers of a new land. Other Titles - Portraits by W. J. Harding. Inscriptions: (On verso of container/ envelope): Portraits by W.J. Harding,/ chosen by Brian Brake and John Sullivan / and published with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited.; Recto - beneath image - (On each photograph): Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 6 photolithographs, 259 x 213 mm, and 213 x 259 mm, on sheets 415 x 350 mm, in container 510 x 390 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit regulations, 1986.

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FL2B 2/1, 3/1-2 United British Women's Emigration Association records

Date: 1888-1915

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2291

Description: Comprises annual reports 1888-1898 and cuttings 1882-1915 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

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Landon-Lane, Tim, fl 1981 : Family papers

Date: 1888-1922

By: Landon-Lane, Gladstone, 1908-1982

Reference: MS-Papers-10858

Description: Inspector's report for Sarah Ann Melhuish (later Mrs Walter Landon-Lane), 1917, who attended Ngamuka School (Private), on D'Urville Island; title page of New Zealand school journal, Jun 1919; notice of annual meeting of Waimea Collie Dog Trial Club, 7 Aug 1922; memo from T G Richardson (sheep, cattle and rabbit inspector), Blenheim, 1 Nov 1888, to George Landon-Lane re scabby sheep Accompanying material - Letter from donor Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter (with ms annotations)

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Shepherd, R (Mr), fl 1983 :Photographs of Mount Eden, Auckland

Date: 1885, [ca June 1946]

By: Shepherd, R (Mr), active 1983

Reference: PA-Group-00453

Description: Collection comprises: Photograph of Colonial Ammunition Company, Mount Eden, Auckland, taken 1885 by an unidentified photographer Aerial photograph of Mount Eden, Auckland, showing Henderson & Pollard Ltd and the Colonial Ammunition Company, taken ca June 1946 by Whites Aviation Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: 1/2-136066 is a copy negative created from print at PAColl-0268..

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Series 5 - Papers relating to farming and Maori land development

Date: 1880-1943

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Further papers

Reference: Series-3335

Description: The papers in this series are papers, files, correspondence, receipts, account books, bank books, ledgers, maps, reports, printed matter and diaries about Gisborne land and development schemes, the government development schemes, stations and land blocks and the Native Affairs Department. There is some overlap between this series and Series 1 - Family papers. Quantity: 102 folder(s). 45 volume(s). 3 map(s).

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Letters from D C H Florance and other papers

Date: 1884-1972

From: Greenaway, Richard Lawrence Norman, 1948- : Papers relating to historical research

Reference: MS-Papers-10073

Description: Letters from Florance to Greenaway concerning family history, schooldays at Burwood, Christchurch, James Speight, headmaster and other local identities; also Mr Greenaway's notes on Augustus Florance (born 1812) and his son, obituary and notes for James Speight Quantity: 1 folder(s) (8 items). Physical Description: Holograph, typescript and printed matter (some photocopies)

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