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Date: 1972, 1974, 1976, 1979, 1980

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11661

Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Some slides are not dated. Arrangement: The first of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1898

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: PA7-49-19

Description: View looking north-east over Epsom, Newmarket, and Parnell towards the Waitemata Harbour. North Head and Rangitoto Island can be seen in the distance. J C Firth's home Clifton House, also known as Firth's Castle, can be seen in the foreground. Photograph taken by Josiah Martin in 1898. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Auckland Harbour from Mt Eden. JM 1001 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 29.8 x 24.4 cm

Date: 1950

Reference: Eph-A-SWIMMING-1950

Description: Includes: British Empire Games Auckland New Zealand 1950. Swimming. First night, 4 February at Olympic Pool Newmarket. Official programme (2 copies) British Empire Games Auckland New Zealand 1950. Swimming. Second night. Monday 6 February at Olympic Pool Newmarket. Official programme (2 copies) British Empire Games Auckland New Zealand 1950. Swimming. Third day, Wednesday 8 February at Olympic Pool Newmarket. Official programme British Empire Games Auckland New Zealand 1950. Swimming. Fourth day, Friday 10 February at Olympic Pool Newmarket. Programme Hutt Valley Swimming Club Canrival. Riddofrd Baths, 26 January 1959. Official programme New Zealand Amateur Swimming Assn. Wellington Centre. Provincial championships. Riddiford Baths, 28 February 1950. Official programme (2 copies) New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association. Wellington Centre. Provincial championships. Riddiford Baths, 16 February 1950. Official programme New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association. Wellington Centre. Provincial championships. Karori Baths, 18 February 1950. Official programme New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association, Wellington Centre. Grand carnival. Riddiford Baths, 2 March 1950. Official programme (Visit of English, Scottish & Welsh Empire Games swimmers and divers) (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset on programmes and fliers, sizes varying under 250 mm. Provenance: Some items donated by Mrs Baylis in 1976

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: [1908-1912]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-q-103

Description: Photographs, chiefly taken by Albert Percy Godber, including family portraits, areas where he lived, Petone and the Petone Fire Brigade, railways, the Hutt Valley, Wellington, and areas in the upper North Island. The family photographs show his immediate family (his wife Laura (nee Zinckgraf), and children William Albert and Phyllis Mary); groups including his father and mother Charles and Mary Ann Godber, his brother Harry Leonard and wife Annie and their daughter Constance Alice, and Laura's brother Charles Albert Zinckgraf. Godber was a fireman with the Petone Fire Brigade, and there are photographs of groups of firemen and fire fighting equipment, and displays of methods of fire fighting. Associated with Godber's work with New Zealand Railways, and particularly at the Petone Railway Workshops, there are views of various workshop buildings, groups of railway workers; one of M J Mack (General Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand); images of damage to rolling stock after railway accidents; trains; the Raurimu Spiral; railway viaducts; logging railways; and railway stations. Photographs taken in the northern part of the North Island include coal mines, rock formations, hot springs at Te Aroha and Kamo; Whangarei and the Wairua Falls; suburbs of Auckland including Newmarket, Remuera, Parnell, Onehunga, and Ellerslie Race Course. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 110 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram covers; 30.0 x 23.5 cm

Date: Between 1873 and 1880

Reference: PA7-45-38

Description: Panoramic view taken from Mount Eden looking east over Epsom, Newmarket and Remuera towards Orakei, showing Clifton House (known as Firth's Castle, owned by J C Firth) in the foreground. St Mark's Church on Remuera Road is in the far distance on the right. Photograph probably taken in the 1870s by Herbert Deveril of Wellington. Another print of this image is at PA7-45-37. It is unclear from which print the copy negative was made. Inscriptions: Verso - top left - Auckland - Epsom c1880s Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 265 x 350 mm on mount same size

Date: 1974

From: Robinson, Bernard Jim, 1932-2001 :Photographs of New Zealand hotels, townscapes and railway scenes

Reference: PAColl-7847-3

Description: Photographs of North Island hotels and townscapes, taken in 1974 by Bernard Jim Robinson. Most of the photographs were taken in Auckland, Northland and Waikato. Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm-47951 to 47953, 48012 to 48021, and 48023 to 48026 Quantity: 65 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: Apr 1947

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-06496-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 1/2 plate Glass negative

Date: Feb 1954

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-34852a-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 29 Jan 1954

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-34441-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: Feb 1954

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-34852-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: Apr 1947

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-06497-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 1/2 plate Glass negative

Date: 8 Feb 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-37283-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 29 Jan 1954

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-34440-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 15 Oct 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-29515-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 15 Oct 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-29514-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 15 Oct 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-29513-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: Feb 1954

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-34880-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: Mar-Jul 2013

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000870

Description: Comprises exterior views of buildings and streets in North Island towns and cities taken between 1 March to 22 July 2013 by Dylan Owen. Includes views taken in Wellington of Pablos Art Studios and ROAR! Gallery, 33 Vivian Street, Heaven Pizza, Upper Cuba Street, Moore Wilsons, Tory Street, Piermont Apartments, Cable Street, Toomath's Buildings, Ghuznee Street, Pan Hellenic Association building and New World supermarket at night, Wakefield Street, Meridian building and people on waterfront, Kumototo wharf, Cambridge Hotel, Cambridge Terrace, old Wellington Town Hall, pedestrians at shops, The Parade, Island Bay. Includes cafes and Auto Services in the Holtom's Buildings, Paekakariki, Petone Fruit Centre, Valentines restaurant, Handles, Knockers and Knobs next to Sprig and Fern Tavern, Jackson Street. Plus Martinborough Laundry, Hart Contractors and Martinborough Storage in an old shed, Wairarapa. Includes views in Ngaruawahia of the Kiwi Craze shop, Radio Tainui (Te Reo Irirangi O Tainui), Butcher Shop and The Barber, Jesmond Street, and views taken in Te Awamutu of the Kiwi Pies shop and graffitti on the laundromat, Rickit Road, and a view of the Kihikihi War Memorial hall on Lyon Street, Kihikihi. Includes views taken in Taranaki showing Everbody's Theatre, Napier Street public toilets, Opunake Christian Fellowship (in former Methodist Church) Domett Street, a motorbike outside Opunake Hotel, Club Hotel on state highway 45, West Side Martial Arts; plus Double Happy Takeaways and a back view of dilapidated shops on Napier Street, Hawera. Includes views taken in Auckland showing Dominion Road buildings, Chinese language signs on shops, R.J Cates buildings, Hollywood Dairy; Teed Street, Newmarket. Incldues street views of Crystal Ball Tearooms and Tip-Top icecream sign, Taihape, and outdoor cafes tables on pavement, state highway one, Taupo. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Jan to June Images 2013/Buildings#FC5C" Quantity: 35 digital photograph(s).

Date: Sep 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-48056

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic negative