Places

Date: 1899

From: [Ephemera and horticulture sales catalogues issued by New Zealand plant nurseries, 1870-1899].

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-1899-01

Description: Includes lists for fruit trees, flower plants and seeds, herbs, roses. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 88 pages, 214 x 140 mm.

Date: [Between 1980 and 1983]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-q-278

Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Rhoda McWhannell. The first part of the album covers a trip Mrs McWhannell took overseas in 1980, travelling to Russia, England, China, India, Kashmir and South Africa. The travel images include scenes in St. Petersburg and Petrodvorets (Russia); with friends in Bramshott (England); in Peking, with Xie Feng, Professor of ornamental plants at Peking, Joy Lee, and Hazel Le Rougetel (writer of books on roses and gardens); scenes at a famous garden which includes bonsai trees, "Zhuo-Zheng Yuan" or "The Humble Administrator's Garden", Suchow (i.e. Suzhou) China; the Taj Mahal, Rajasthan, amd Fatehpur Sikri in India; scenes in Srinigar, including Lake Dal (Kashmir); and photographs of her brother (Bill McCurdie and sister-in-law Inga McCurdie and their daughter Kirsten taken in New Zealand in 1974), and Kirsten and her family in Kloof, South Africa. The following images are all in New Zealand, and are chiefly snapshots of friends and family, some identified, many who are not. They include groups visiting two houses, The Kinder House in Auckland, and The Elms in Tauranga. One sequence shows the 80th birthday celebrations for Dinah Strang held in a garden near Putararu. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey vinyl cover, embossed pattern of kowhai flowers, entitled `Photographs'; 30.5 x 36.5 cm

Date: 1977 to 1979

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-q-279

Description: Photographs of family and friends, mostly taken in New Zealand by Rhoda McWhannell. There is one group of scenes relating to Rhoda McWhannell's brother and his family in the Kloof and Drakensberg Mountains areas of South Africa. The New Zealand scenes include friends at Rozel, the home of Rhoda and Frederick McWhannell at Ohaupo; numbers of different varieties of gum trees, which Frederick McWhannell had specialised in; friends' gardens; photographs of flowers including roses, dahlias, eucalypts, water lilies, acacia and irises; and the rose garden and fountain at Te Awamutu Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with purple vinyl cover; 35 x 30 cm

Date: [ca 1930s-1950s?]

From: Creator unknown: Lantern slides, chiefly of trips overseas, plants, and gardens

Reference: PA11-282

Description: Lantern slides of gardens and houses, circa 1930s-1950s. Photographer(s) are unidentified. Some slides have captions written on paper affixed to the glass, that describe the location and/or the subject. Slides include: - Views of various gardens, flower beds, and trees. Also houses in the context of their gardens as well as surrounding farmland. Featured flowers and trees include magnolias, rhododendrons (with at least six images showing the same garden), clematis, weeping willow, stock, aquatic plants (lilies), acacia tree, and roses. Also includes structures associated with gardens such as ponds, rivers, fountains, statuary, a sundial, pathways, an arbour, and stone walls. - Series of images most likely taken at the Fleming & Co flour mill in Riccarton, Christchurch. One images includes Mill building. Gardens feature red hot poker flowers and water way. Image of Morris Eight car parked on road is also possibly in Riccarton. - Series of images of Millbrook Reserve, Christchurch, showing the Avon River, trees, and gardens. - Images often show unidentified people posing in various gardens besides trees and flower beds. Arrangement: Set contains slides from box 7 Quantity: 1 b&w lantern slide(s). 39 colour lantern slide(s). Physical Description: Lantern slides

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

Reference: PA12-11362

Description: Photographs of roses, chrysanthemums, and Broadgreen House, Nelson. Quantity: 6 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1917

From: [Ephemera and horticulture sales catalogues issued by New Zealand plant nurseries, 1916-1919].

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-1917-01

Description: Supplementary sales catalogue issued by W E Lippiatt, a rose-grower of Otahuhu. It lists new named roses raised by Alex Dickson and Sons, W E Lippiatt, Croibier and Fils, B R Cant and Sons, McGredy and Son, Alister Clark, Wm Paul and Son, Hugh Dickson Ltd and other raisers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 6 pages, 233 x 155 mm.

Date: [Circa 1930s-1940s]

From: Clift, Charles William :Photographs relating to Clift family

Reference: PA1-f-018

Description: Large black and white photographs taken by William Henry Clift, circa 1930s to 1940s. Images include a group tramping in the Southern Alps; scenic views of mountains and rivers; ships in port; and a view of the Clift family home at 143 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green buckram cover entitled "Photographs", 29 x 38 cm

Date: 1882 - 1888

From: Hodgkins, Isabel Jane, 1867-1950 :[Sketchbook. Between 1882 and 1888]

Reference: E-034-3-024

Description: A climbing rose in flower growing against a brick wall. The view is likely to be at the Hodgkins' family home `Waira' at Ravensbourne Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, page size 218 x 138 mm

Date: Between 1963 and 1982

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8854

Description: The first 3 slides show the Rev Claude Hyde's farewell at Christ Church (Ohaupo), including portraits of the Rev Hyde, Les Turnwald and Nell Turnwald. The rest of the slides on this sheet show views in the Te Awamutu Rose Garden and the Hamilton Lake Rose Garden (Rogers Rose Garden) taken in Summer 1982. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1985

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-q-280

Description: Photographs of family and friends, taken by Rhoda McWhannell, and some by Keith Orange (the husband of Rhoda McWhannell's niece Sally Pat (nee McCurdie)). A series of scenes show Mavis Commons in her home and garden at Cambridge. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown vinyl cover, with embossed kowhai flowers, entitled `Photographs'; 30.0 x 35.6 cm

Date: 1897 - 1898

From: Various artists :[Addresses presented to R. J. Seddon and Mrs Seddon. 1891-ca.1906]

Reference: D-005-004

Description: Central address lavishly bordered with convolvulus, pansies, shepherd's purse, roses, and fern fronds. Previously entitled: Address to Mr Seddon from Revd. Salvador etc. Other Titles - Address to Hon. R. J. Seddon PG. Other Titles - Address to Mr Seddon from Revd. Father Salvador etc. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - Address / to / Hon. R. J. Seddon.; Recto - Beneath address, signatures in ink: Revd. Father Salvador, Revd. Elliot Chambers, Revd. D.J. Murray, John Joyce M.H.R., Frederick Lindsay, Edward Seymour, R. Perceval, John Sullivan, H. McLellan, A. McMurchie. Queen Victoria's jubilee took place in London in June 1897. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and watercolour 612 x 536 mm. Provenance: Probably arrived with Seddon papers, from Seddon family.

Date: 1970 - 1988 - 1979 - 1994

Reference: Eph-B-HORTICULTURE-F

Description: Includes material issued by: Ken Farmer Nurseries and Garden Centre (Rotorua). Exhibition daffodils 1970s Flower Carpet Ltd. Ground cover rose; triple gold award winner. 1990 Food Plant Resources (Auckland). Lists for 1988-1989 Forest Research Institute. Nursery price list 1989 Forevergreen Seedlings (Tauranga). 1994 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and typescripts, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1907

From: [Ephemera and horticulture sales catalogues issued by New Zealand plant nurseries, 1900-1909].

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Buxton-1907-01

Description: Catalogue of forest and plantation trees, conifers, climbing and trailing plants, chrysanthemums, roses, fruit trees, flower and vegetable seeds, tools and fertilisers. Contains several photographs of the premises and shops. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 v., illus., 244 mm.