Places

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: 1860 - 1869

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-182-041

Description: Looking along the main street towards the hills, with a tobacco shop on the immediate left, followed by the premises of Hallenstein & Co, with a verandah onto the footpath, another building, then the Prince of Wales Hotel. At the near corner of the street on the right is another building and an elaborate street lamp Shows main street, with Hallenstein & Co., and Prince of Wales hotel Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil 195 x 330 mm

Date: 1863 - 1870

By: Powell, David, active 1860s; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Fletcher Challenge Ltd

Reference: C-112-042-b

Description: Shows the town's main street, with horse hitched outside hotel, a wagon going away along the street, Staite Bros Molyneux Store, an American flag hanging limp on a flagpole in the distance. There is a blacksmith's forge at right, a wagon resting on the road at left. Accompanied by an information text sheet, by Marian Minson. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This facsimile reproduction of an original watercolour in the Fletcher Challenge Collection, Auckland, was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust in association with Fletcher Challenge Ltd, 1987.; Recto - bottom right - Edition limited to 3000 copies. Dunstan Hotel built 1863. Molyneux is the old name for the Clutha River. Dated in the 1860s because trees were flourishing by 1970. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 250 x 450 mm, on sheet 400 x 600 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright.

Date: 1839 - 1841 - 1846 - 1848

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Page, George Hyde, 1823-1908; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-003-029-a/040-a

Description: Set of looseleaf offprints originally published as a set of 12 prints in "New Zealand calendar 1974". Contents: Goldmining at the Thames [i.e. Goldmining at Thames] / J.B.C. Hoyte. - Nelson Haven, 1841 / Charles Heaphy. - The Pink Terraces, 1874 [i.e. The White Terraces, 1888 (detail)] / C.D. Barraud. - St Mark's Church, Remuera [i.e. S. Mark's, Remuera & Mt Eden, 1859] / Rev. John Kinder. - The Barracks, Napier / C.D. Barraud. - Auckland, 1848 [i.e. Auckland, New Zealand, 1848] / Lt. Gen. G.H. Page. - The Aglionby or Matukituki Valley [i.e. In the Aglionby or Matukituki Valley, looking into the Otapawa, 20th Feb. [1846]] / Sir William Fox. - In Otira Gorge, 1864 [i.e. Otira Gorge, 1864?] / Sir William Fox. - Dunedin, Otago, 1861 [i.e. Part of the town and harbour of Dunedin, Otago, N.Z. [1861?]] / W.S. Hatton. - Kahu Kahu, Hokianga River [i.e. View of the Kahu-Kahu Hokianga River [December] 1839] / Charles Heaphy. - Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860 [i.e. Mount Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860] / Lt. Gen. C.E. Gold. - Bream Head, Whangarei / Charles Heaphy. Title from cover of calendar. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title and artist]; Recto - bottom left - Alexander Turnbull Library, / Wellington, N.Z.; Recto - bottom right - A.R. Shearer, Government Printer, / Wellington, N.Z., 1973. Quantity: 24 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 24 photolithographs, (2 sets of 12), variously sized from 157 x 238 mm, to 240 x 304 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright in the 1970s.

Date: 1974

From: Bascand, Audrey, 1930-2019 :Old buildings of the Lakes District; drawings by Audrey Bascand. Christchurch, In Touch [1974]

Reference: B-064-013-a

Description: A front view of a villa with trees behind, a garden in front Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 320 x 457 mm in illustrated folder

Date: [196-?]

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

Reference: PAColl-7847-1-09

Description: Bernard Jim Robinson (right) and friends outside lee Stream Hotel. Photograph taken ca 1960s by Bernard Jim Robinson. Exhibited in 'Within Memory' Exhibition at the National Library Galley, 6 April - 16 July 2006. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 9 x 12.7 cm

Date: ca1900-1956

By: Bailey, Colin Lennie, 1906-1997; Bailey, Sue, active 1998

Reference: PAColl-6025

Description: Views of Westport, Denniston, Blackball, Ngakawau, Millerton, Inangahua Junction, Seddonville, Dunedin, Gore, Milford Sound, Greymouth and Taupo Quantity: 10 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 12 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. Provenance: The late Professor C L Bailey, from the VUW Department of Education, collected photographs and other items relating to New Zealand history from members of the public.

Date: ca 1900-1912

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-7586

Description: Two photographs of Duntroon Railway Station with Campbell Street next to it; men working on the railway near Duntroon railway bridge; the railway bridge at Duntroon; the bridge over the Mangaroa River with some old track next to it; looking down the platform at Palmerston North Railway Station with goods trains in the yards, a passenger express train at the platform, the Railway Hotel on the right and in the distance the businesses of Barraud & Abraham and A Loufresne, builder; Middlemarch Station with the Railway Hotel and a Billiard and Sample Rooms on the right; Fairlie Station with a coal train on the left; and steam locomotives including the Rotorua express at Morrinsville station. Photographer was Muir & Moodie. Two have a stamp, or part, in German on the reverse. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-007953 and 007960 (duplicate at 1/2-105892) 1/2-007952 and 007959 are probably part of this collection too. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1863 - 1870

By: Powell, David, active 1860s; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Fletcher Challenge Ltd

Reference: C-112-042-a

Description: Shows the town's main street, with horse hitched outside hotel, a wagon going away along the street, Staite Bros Molyneux Store, an American flag hanging limp on a flagpole in the distance. There is a blacksmith's forge at right, a wagon resting on the road at left. Accompanied by an information text sheet, by Marian Minson. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This facsimile reproduction of an original watercolour in the Fletcher Challenge Collection, Auckland, was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust in association with Fletcher Challenge Ltd, 1987.; Recto - bottom right - Edition limited to 3000 copies. Dunstan Hotel built 1863. Molyneux is the old name for the Clutha River. Dated in the 1860s because trees were flourishing by 1970. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 250 x 450 mm, on sheet 400 x 600 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright.

Date: 1860 - 1880

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :Album. [1860s?]

Reference: E-297-029

Description: A swift-flowing river between rocky banks, two men on the near left side of the river contemplating the river, a bridge with stone reinforcing at each end and a dwelling or hotel on the far side of the bridge to the right. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph 139 x 197 mm glued to album page 177 x 225 mm

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

By: Hunter, Norman Mitchell, 1859-

Reference: E-328-f-008-6

Description: Shows the Royal Exchange Hotel, High Street, Dunedin Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Royal Exchange Hotel, High Street Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 55 x 86 mm

Date: [ca 1920s-1940s]

Reference: PAColl-6881

Description: A large collection of negatives concentrating on the Otago area. They include images of: Byrd's and Ellsworth's expeditions; Sir Joseph Ward's funeral procession along Dee Street, Invercargill; snow scenes in Dunedin; the 1926, 1928, 1938 and 1939 Saunders Cup; the 1928 Annette Kellerman cup; ploughing match in Taieri and Outram; the 1936 and 1938 Dunedin show; league test 1928; cup winners of the Cornwell Cup (possibly for yachting?); HMS Australia; yachting in Broad Bay 1927 and 1928; 1936 New Zealand surfing championships; a Karitane home in 1938; Waikouaiti races; Otago athletic championships 1937; the launch Annabella in Dunedin harbour; an athletics event including girls' hurdling; pipers round the Robert Burns statue in the Octagon; an amateur dramatics production of a play set in the 19th century; steam ships; the opening of the railway at Roxburgh; a children's party on HMS Dunedin; storm damage in 1937; celebrations in Kaikoura 1940; skating at Alexandra 1938; fire at Seacliff Hospital; Waitaki Dam; air raid precautions in 1939; trotting races; Portobello regatta 1909; Ellison's funeral; a series of 22 negatives of stuffed birds at the Otago University Museum; the opening of a Maori church at Otakou; an Auckland vs Otago rugby match; the opening of the Clydevale bridge; and Otago golf championship 1937. The photographer was Field. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-034982 to 035760, 035779 to 035871, 035916 to 036295, 036699 to 036914, 038264 to 038353, 038364 to 038476 and 052188 to 052355 Quantity: 1839 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: ca 1900s-1920s

By: Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-0598

Description: Postcards of Main Street, Eltham with the Coronation Hotel on the right; the estuary at Invercargill with children in the sea next to some sailing boats, a boy with a bicycle, and women sitting on the sand; the traffic bridge over the Manawatu Gorge; the Pink Terraces with a rowing boat with tourists at the foot (captioned as the lost Pink Terraces therefore postcard produced after 1886); trams on George Street, Dunedin with shops in the background; and a group of children pretending to do a haka. Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [ca 1900s, between 1914 and 1918]

By: Fry, Patricia Susan, 1924-2019

Reference: PAColl-0999

Description: Photograph of four nurses and a soldier standing in front of a railway wagon, taken during World War I by an unidentified photographer, and a postcard showing the Grand Hotel, Dunedin, ca 1900s. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Mrs P Fry, Wellington, 1987

Date: between 1860-1863

By: Meluish, William, 1822?-1888; Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-o-143

Description: Photographs taken by William Meluish between 1860 and 1863, printed and published by Frank Arnold Coxhead. PA1-o-143 and PA1-o-144 are very similar. They each hold 19 images from the same negatives, but in different page order. The only images not repeated are those on page 4 of PA1-o-143, and the image on page 18 of PA1-o-144. Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Album of 10 pages, with 20 albumen prints; blue buckram cover, 22.5 x 29.0 cm

Date: ca 1880s

From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7301

Description: A road through the bush in Paradise; path next to Lake Wakatipu near Queenstown; a view of Queenstown showing the wharf; a paddle steamer at the wharf in Queenstown with Eichardt's Hotel in the background; Kawarau Falls with a mill next to them; Kawarau Falls station; Remarkables from Frankton; seated portrait of John Hodge; head and shoulders portrait of Henry Hodge; and a view of the Remarkables with Queenstown to the left. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003189, 003233 to 003236, 003510 to 003512, 005107 and 005108 Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1975-1977

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 : Papers

Reference: MSX-5986

Description: Scrapbook relating to Dennis's career while at Vacation Hotel, Queenstown; includes clippings on other hotels, tourism in New Zealand and related topics Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: May 1911

By: Johnston, J (Miss), active 1973

Reference: PAColl-4471

Description: Photographs of the 50th anniversary celebrations at Gabriels Gully, May 1911, showing a procession in the main street of Lawrence and crowds gathered. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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: 1859-1889

From: Dyson, Mrs, fl 1958 :Photographs, chiefly of scenic views in the South Island in New Zealand, and Victoria in Australia

By: Dougall, William, 1845-1924

Reference: PAColl-4346

Description: Loose pages from the Dyson Album PA1-q-069. Views of: the water tower in Invercargill, designed by William Sharp and photographed by W Dougall; Arrowtown; the waterfront of Queenstown showing the Victoria, McBeath's and Bracken's Queen's Arms Hotels and the Boatman's Home; view of public building possibly in Oamaru; the main street in Westport with Whyte & Pirie on the corner; a log cabin in the bush with two men standing outside it and a separate kennel for the dog; the general store in Waimate; a bridge in Canterbury; the Main North Road in Timaru showing a drapers, a jewellers, a medical dispensary and a photographer's studio; the government landing service in Timaru; and the construction of the Timaru breakwater. Taken between 1859 and 1889. Quantity: 4 album leaves with 11 b&w original prints.