Places

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039425-G

Description: View from hill above an anchorage for fishermen, Picton Harbour. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Title from negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1924

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948; Dunbar Sloane Ltd

Reference: PA6-670

Description: Panorama of Picton looking south-west. The view includes the harbour, the town, and the surrounding mountains. Photographed by Robert Percy Moore in 1924. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Panorama of Picton N.Z. 1924. No 1. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 93 x 7 cm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2005

Date: 1940

From: [Ephemera and programmes relating to boats and boating, yacht racing and regattas. 1940-1949]

Reference: Eph-A-BOAT-1940-01

Description: Includes programme of 16 pages, listing events: New Zealand Open Outboard Motor Boat Championship, Inboard Race for Black and White Challenge Cup, Outboard Motor Handicap, NZ Open Speedboat Championship for the Masport Cup, Handicap race for Inboards capable of speeds up to 35 m.p.h., Outboard motor handicap, Grand Farewell Handicap open to all Inboards over 30 m.p.h. There is also a chart of the course and a list of rules. The yellow ribbon accompanying the programme shows the words "Centennial Masport Cup Regatta, Picton, 1940" The Picton Speed-Boat Championship in January 1940 saw the Masport Cup won for the fifth successive year by the boat ‘Pelorus Jack’, which covered the 21-mile course in 26min 46seconds. The papers reported that “the weather was far from ideal, rain and a gusty wind producing a jobble which resulted in a postponement of the big race till early evening”. Exhibited in ‘Humble: the life of 100 small objects’, exhibition curated by Barbara Lyon, in the Turnbull Gallery, National Library of New Zealand, 27 August - 17 November 2017. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on booklet 129 x 112 mm., plus printed yellow ribbon, 145 x 32 mm.

Date: 1909

From: [Ephemera and programmes relating to boats and boating, yacht racing and regattas. 1900-1929]

By: McKinley, J D, active 1909

Reference: Eph-A-BOAT-1909-01

Description: Includes programme of 8 pages, listing events. Participants include: Wellington Rowing Club, Star Boating Club, Picton Rowing Club, Blenheim Rowing Club. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on booklet 139 x 109 mm. Provenance: Previous owner (from inscription at top of back cover) was J D McKinley, 38 Rimu Road, Kelburn. Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts in 1999..

Date: [ca 1966]

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-69356-F

Description: Aerial view of Picton and surroundings, New Zealand. Included are Picton Harbour, Kaipupu Point, a corner of shakespear Bay, and the hill behind the town. Photographed by Whites Aviation in about 1966. The ship `Aranui' and the date that it came into service identified by a library client, October 2010. The date on the Whites Aviation negative and file print is May 1951. A client has pointed out that this cannot be correct as the ship in the harbour is the inter island ferry `Aranui' which did not come into service until 1966. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative. 13.3 x 11.2 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation box Blue 381, Picton.

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-049257-G

Description: Picton and harbour circa 1920s. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Picton NZ P3 S C Smith Photo Prot Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: September 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-47633-F

Description: Aerial view of Picton, New Zealand. Photographed by Whites Aviation in September 1958. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative. 13.3 x 11.2 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation box Blue 381, Picton.

Date: 1872

By: Kinder, John, 1819-1903

Reference: B-168-001

Description: Shows a corner of the harbour at Picton, with a cottage near the water's edge at the left. Its slab chimney is smoking. A path at far left leads away over the hill, presumably towards the settlement. In the middle distance is a group of buildings beside a wharf, beside which a small ship is anchored. Artist's notes at lower left: 'Roof of cottage blue zinc with rusty iron. Chimney yellow clay with blue black (iron) top' Other Titles - January 1872 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Similar to the image at C-085-006, which is a print from an original watercolour held at Auckland Art Gallery (Accession number 1937/15/88). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 357 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library. Previously framed by the Tasman Gallery, Christchurch.

Date: [Circa late 1910s]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Jones, John Lewis, active 1918

Reference: 1/2-000619-G

Description: View of the new wharf at Picton, circa late 1910s. Photograph taken by J L Jones (bookseller in Picton). Source of descriptive information - Photographer identified as John Lewis Jones, bookseller at Picton, from Wise's Post office Directory 1918. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - New wharf. Picton. No. 3663. Protd. J.L. Jones Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [ca 20 September 1904]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 13

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6407-16

Description: Picton Harbour, and the ship `Edwin Fox' (right foreground) with Picton township in the background, photographed by Muir & Moodie circa 20 September, 1904. Source of descriptive information - Library client identified the `Edwin Fox' October 2010. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 5178. Picton. Protd 20.9.04. Muir Moodie Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 156 x 209 mm

Date: October 1956

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-42294-F

Description: Aerial view of Picton and surrounding countryside. Included in the view is Waikawa Bay, Waikawa township, Picton (in the distance), Picton Harbour (Just glimpsed), Kaipupu Point, Wedge Point and Okiwa Bay (in the distance). Photographed by Whites Aviation in October 1956. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative. 13.3 x 11.2 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation box Blue 381, Picton.

Date: [1930s-1940s]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 5

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-5800-20

Description: Picton and harbour, circa 1930s-1940s. The premises of Oxleys Hotel, A Rodley and the Federal Hotel are visible. Photograph taken by William Hall Raine. Inscriptions: Verso - W Hall Raine Photographer 132 Willis Street Wellington NZ Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28537-F

Description: Aerial view of Picton, Picton Harbour, and the hill country behind the town. Photographed by Whites Aviation in May 1951. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative. 13.3 x 11.2 cm

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28541-F

Description: Shakepear Bay and Picton Harbour and surroundings. The freezing works occupying the kneck of land joining Kaipupu Point to the mainland can be clearly seen. Photographed by Whites Aviation in May 1951. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative. 13.3 x 11.2 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation box Blue 381, Picton.

Date: [ca 1969]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Transport-Ships-Aramoana-01

Description: View of the New Zealand Railways rail ferry Aramoana at the Picton terminus, Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand. Photographed by an unknown photographer for New Zealand Railways publicity in about 1969. Ordered in 1959 by the New Zealand Government at the cost of NZ$4,000,000 from William Denny & Brothers Ltd, Dumbarton, Scotland. Launched on the 24th of November 1961. Began her New Zealand service on the Wellington to Picton run on the 13th of August 1962. Ran this service until 1983. In 1984 was sold to the Najd Trading & Construction Company, Saudi Arabia and renamed Captain Nicolas V. In 1986 was renamed Najd II. In 1994 she left Ajman, United Arab Emirates, to be brocken up in Gujarat, India. (Information - Marcus Castell for the New Zealand Marintime Record). Scource of description - New Zealand Railways Publicity caption Inscriptions: Verso - centre - New Zealand Railways rail ferry Aramoana at the linkspan at Picton. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 21 5 x 16.8 cm

Date: 1912

Reference: G-251

Description: Shows a broad view of the harbour and foreshore at Picton from the eastern side, with yachts, launches, and many canoes, several in a race at the right of the picture. One of the launches is packed with spectators. There is a steamship tied up at the wharf at the right, and many spectators standing on the wharf. There are buildings on the waterfront, and houses further back to the left, one a distinctive two-storeyed house with verandahs and balconies and a turret. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 255 x 455 mm.