Places

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: 1/2-000165-G

Description: View of Auckland Town Hall taken from the bottom of Greys Avenue. Cars can be seen parked outside the Town Hall in Greys Avenue. Photograph taken by William A Price. Another view of the Town Hall taken on the same day is available at 1/2-000166-G Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Town Hall. Auckland. 107E William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1915]

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

Reference: 1/2-001335-G

Description: View of the St James' Presbyterian Church situated on the corner of Queen and Seddon streets, Pukekohe. In the foreground is the gas lampstand erected in honour of Rt Hon Richard Seddon, Prime Minister. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, ca 1915 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Presbyterian Church. Pukekohe. 1554D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1852

By: Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878; Standidge & Company

Reference: C-010-020

Description: View from the end of the wharf at the foot of Queen Street, looking towards the waterfront buildings and up Queen Street, with Partington's windmill on the skyline. A line of barrels along the wharf and two containers of goods, a man wheeling a wheelbarrow, another wheeling a barrow, two soldiers, other groups of citizens, Maori canoes and a rowboat drawn up at the water's edge on the left and groups of Maori sitting. The Wesleyan (Methodist) Chapel is on the left, above the first row of buildings. A version in oils of this view is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. An uncoloured lithograph is also held (by the Turnbull Library) at C-010-005. The Library also holds watercolour copies of this view by W. S. Hatton, copied from an Illustrated London News wood engraving from this print, at B-078-012 and B-078-017 and the Mitchell, too, has a watercolour copy by Hatton, an English artist who confined his work to copies of views in the Illustrated London News. Article about Hogan's four views of Auckland in "New Zealander", 6 July 1853. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 274 x 324 mm on sheet 370 x 540 mm

Date: May 1900

From: Jones, Priscilla :Photographs of Masterton, Gisborne, and a horse team

Reference: PAColl-4193-1

Description: Masterton Post office and its environs. A crowd is gathered about the main entrance for the opening ceremony. Photographed by D. Wilton on 9 May 1900. Published in the New Zealand Mail, 31 May 1900, Page 37, https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZMAIL19000531.2.59.1 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print Processing information: Date corrected and photographer added on 11 May 2023, following information from researcher.

Date: 10 Aug 1914

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

Reference: 1/2-000184-G

Description: View of soldiers of the 2nd Contingent, Auckland Territorials entering Queen Street Railway Station on their departure for the Front. Crowds of people have gathered to watch. R & W Hellaby's butchery shop can be seen on the left and the Chief Post Office is on the right of the entrance way. Above the shops on the lefthand side a building is under construction. Taken by William A Price on 10 August 1914. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 2nd. Contingent of Auckland Territorials leaving for the Front. 10th Aug. 1914. Protd. P.P.Co. 11.8.14. No 1251A Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1905 - 1912

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to interior decoration, room design, household decorative items, tableware, in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-DECOR-1910-01-005

Description: Shows a general view of the department in the retail store, with rolls of linoleum standing up flanking a walkway between them. Extended Title - From Tonson Garlick Co. "Complete modern home furnishers" [Catalogue ca 1910]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (on page of sales catalogue). Physical Description: Photolithograph on page 234 x 317 mm.

Date: 1852

By: Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878

Reference: A-050-022

Description: A view looking from Hobson Street down over the town of Auckland and out to the harbour towards Rangitoto. Two men in a horse and cart are in the foreground. Original of: No. 1. Auckland, New Zealand / P J Hogan - London : Standidge, 1852. (C-010/002/14) and Mitchell Library oil: Auckland from Hobson St South Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - P. J. Hogan; Recto - beneath image - title in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, b&w 110 x 170 mm on sheet 150 x 210 mm

Date: 1901-1904

By: Watt, George Thomas, 1871-1933

Reference: PA1-o-516

Description: Photographs of family and friends, and scenes in the Wellington area and Hawkes Bay, taken by George Thomas Watt People and places named are listed in the headings above. Two images show the Wellington Post Office in the daytime and night time, when decorated in celebration of the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. The night view shows the Post Office brightly lit with decoration. In the middle of the album is a group of 6 tourist-style photographs of young Maori women. One image shows the house owned by Thomas and Matilda Watt, at 172 Hastings Street, Napier. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, spine brown taped, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 22.5 x 28.5 cm

Date: 10 Aug 1914

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

Reference: 1/2-000182-G

Description: View of soldiers of the 2nd Contingent, Auckland Territorials marching down Queen Street toward the Queen Street Railway Station on their departure for the Front. Crowds of people have gathered outside the General Post Office to watch. A J J Craig Ltd cart and two tram cars can be seen amongst the crowd. Taken by William A Price on 10 August 1914. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 2nd. Contingent of Auckland Territorials leaving for the Front. 10th Aug. 1914. Protd. P.P.Co. 11.8.14. No 1253A Relationship complexity - An almost identical view is available at 1/2-000183 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1905 - 1912

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to interior decoration, room design, household decorative items, tableware, in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-DECOR-1910-01-186

Description: Shows some of the tent models available from E LeRoy, tent and cover maker, 48 Queen Street, Auckland. Also shows a hammock and window awning. Extended Title - From Tonson Garlick Co. "Complete modern home furnishers" [Catalogue ca 1910]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (om page of sales catalogue). Physical Description: Offset on page 234 x 317 mm.

Date: 1863 - 1865

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: B-035-017

Description: View of Rangitoto and North Head from a bushy foreshore with a jetty in the foreground. Commercial Bay is at the foot of a slightly-indicated road on the left (Queen Street) leading down to a wharf. The jetty shown is Wynyard Pier, built in 1851. One of the trees in the foreground is a Norfolk pine. The library now also holds a similar view by Warre, entitled Auckland Habour [1861-1865] (B-183-027), which has more built environment in the foreground. Other Titles - Auckland Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink written as Auckland harbor Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, watercolour, and crayon on photo-sensitive paper 155 x 240 mm

Date: 1905 - 1912

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to interior decoration, room design, household decorative items, tableware, in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-DECOR-1910-01-178

Description: Lists the furnishings provided for an eight-roomed house, including items for drawing room, dining room, breakfast room, two bedrooms, servant's bedroom, hall, kitchen. Other Titles - Eight-roomed Extended Title - From Tonson Garlick Co. "Complete modern home furnishers" [Catalogue ca 1910]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (om page of sales catalogue). Physical Description: Letterpress on page 234 x 317 mm.

Date: 1885 - 1886

By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)

Reference: D-001-006

Description: Bird's-eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed bird's-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm

Date: 1931

From: Insurance Council of New Zealand :Photographs of people associated with Insurance Companies and Underwriters' Associations, and various related insurance activities

Reference: PA1-f-145-57

Description: Two blocks from the town plan of Hastings bounded by Railway Road, Queen, King and Heretaunga streets. The ground plans of all the buildings in the blocks are depicted with comments relating to the eathquake damage they have sustained. This plan is from an album of plans and photographs relating to buildings damaged in the Hawke's Bay earthquake. The album was compiled by the Council of Fire and Accident Underwriters Associations of New Zealand. The photographic and other information was gathered from the 3rd to the 10th of February 1931. Quantity: 1 Two blocks of the Hastings town plan.

Date: 2009

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000519

Description: Photographs of Auckland buildings taken in 2009 Quantity: 33 digital photograph(s).

Date: [ca 1900]

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

Reference: 1/2-001551-G

Description: Post and Telegraph Office in Queen Street, Thames. Photographed circa 1900 by William Archer Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Post Office Thames. 1399D. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: 1/2-000542-G

Description: Taken at the time of the replacement of the old Queen Street Wharf with a new ferro concrete wharf. View looking directly up Queen Street with Endeans Building (built 1905) on the left and the Gladstone building (built 1883), with Gladstone Coffee Palace, on the right. On the far right is the head office of the Auckland Harbour Board; all in Quay Street. On the left new concrete piles are being driven into the harbour bed. In the foreground workmen are replacing wooden blocks on the old wharf. Taken by William A Price ca 1910 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Queen St Wharf.Auckland. 864 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 9 February 1903

By: Vaniman, Melvin, 1866-1912

Reference: PA9-051

Description: Panoramic photograph of Auckland city, including waterfront, taken Sunday, 9 Februrary, 1903 by Melvin Vaniman. Looks over city buildings and streets, and the edge of Waitamata Harbour, from opposite Queens Wharf and Queen Street (running vertically up centre). Quay Street runs along the water's edge. A range of shipping vessels, including a paddle steamer, are berthed at wharves. Signs advertise the following businesses (from left to right): D Goldie, timber merchant; Roller flour mills and stores; John Burns & Co, iron merchants; New Zealand Herald; Wingate & Co; Spargo Gladstone Coffee Palace; and Westfield chemical works. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Photographer, date and location, from inscriptions on print. Platinum print recognised by Library photographic conservator. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Auckland. Sunday. Feb 9. 1903; Recto - bottom right - Protected 9 2 03 Melvin Vaniman San Francisco; bottom centre - [On frame] Auckland 1903 Another copy of the panoramic photograph available at PA6-542. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Platinum photoprint 37.3 x 117.3 cm [visible image], with mat, in wooden frame 65.5 x 144.5 cm

Date: 1905 - 1912

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to interior decoration, room design, household decorative items, tableware, in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-DECOR-1910-01-011

Description: Shows a general view of the furnishing drapery department in the retail store, with cushions, sofas, haberdashery, lace curtains. Extended Title - From Tonson Garlick Co. "Complete modern home furnishers" [Catalogue ca 1910]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (om page of sales catalogue). Physical Description: Photolithograph on page 234 x 317 mm.

Date: 2007-2009

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000358

Description: Photographs of North Island street scenes, 2007-2009 Quantity: 46 digital photograph(s).