Places

Date: 1900

By: Hocken Library

Reference: PAColl-2142

Description: Arrangement: negatives at 1/2-84485-F to 1/2-84511-F Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s). 27 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1983-1984

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6504

Description: Bellbird and nest of chicks, Kapiti island, November 1984. Birds on the Chatham Islands, photographed in October 1983. These include: Weka. Chatham Island Robin (Black Robin). Little Blue Penguin (Korara). White-fronted Tern (Tara). Chatham Island Tomtit. Shore Plover (Tuturuata). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

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: [Between 1940 and 1954]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-208

Description: Album of photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1940 and 1954. The sequence of images is not chronological. Slip attached to spine reads: Trips - Bold Peak, 1943, Mt. Arthur tbld, Marlb. Sounds, Mt. Algidus, 1946, Honeymoon, 1948. 7th Pacific Sc. Congress. West Coast. The album opens with views taken on a trip to the West Coast in January 1954; followed by a West Coast museum trip, February 1940; a Neslson-Westhaven expedition, November 1952; John and Pam Salmon's honeymoon in the South Island in December 1948; and a trip to Mt. Algidus, February 1946. The next trips in the album were the Mt. Arthur tableland museum expedition, February 1946, and again in February 1948; the Bold Peak district, February 1943; trip around the Sounds on "The Alert", August 1948; air trip over the Sounds in April 1949; and then the South Pacific Science Congress, Auckland-Christchurch, February 1949. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

Date: 1906-ca 1916

From: Mason, James Malcolm (Dr), 1864-1924 : Papers

Reference: 77-075-3/02

Description: Inward correspondence 1906-1907 (includes letter from D Colquhoun of High Street, Dunedin; letter from Dept of Public Health, Auckland re carriage of wekas to Tasmania); letter to his daughter Miriam written on Pipiriki House [Wanganui River] illustrated note paper, undated; also from HMNZ Hospital Ship No 2 `SS Marama' (with photographs, one on board ship), ca 1916-1918; unidentified group photograph. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1989

From: Watt, James Norwood, 1928-2018: Collection

Reference: PA12-11164

Description: Colour transparencies of birdlife, scenery, and shipping scenes taken by James (Jim) Watt during his solo circumnavigation of New Zealand in his yacht 'Matariki' in 1989. Contains numerous images of the Port of Bluff. These include oyster boats, fishing boats, larger container ships, tug boats, the Harbourmaster building, a freight train, and 'Matariki' docked alongside the boat 'Mokai'. Also contains images of the signpost at Stirling Point, Big Glory salmon fishing facilities at Stewart Island, a weka on Ulva Island, the rocky coast of Green Island (Foveaux Straight), and a sunset off the coast of Stewart Island. Inscriptions: Note from depositor reads: "Jim Watt - sailing round NZ solo, 1987 - yacht 'Matariki'" Watt attempted to follow the path of Captain James Cook on this voyage. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: 1989

From: Watt, James Norwood, 1928-2018: Collection

Reference: PA12-11162

Description: Colour transparencies of birdlife, scenery, and ocean and yachting scenes taken by James (Jim) Watt during his solo circumnavigation of New Zealand in his yacht 'Matariki' in 1989. Contains image of Lake Alice Falls in George Sound; Deep Cove, including Brassell Falls, a [Black Western?] Weka, 'Matariki' at anchor, and a rusted [crayfish pot?] caught on the anchor; an unidentified waterfall, Acheron Passage; Pickersgill Harbour, including Cook's Tree, Cook's water supply, and Astronomer Point; and two images of waterfall(s) in Dusky Sound. Inscriptions: Note from depositor reads: "Jim Watt - sailing round NZ solo, 1987 - yacht 'Matariki'" Watt attempted to follow the path of Captain James Cook on this voyage. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: 2014 - 2015

From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]

By: Macready, Sara, 1950-

Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-2015-01

Description: Calendar reproducing the artist's sketch of birds, caravans, and campervans At Totaranui beach. Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on calendar pages, 210 x 298 mm. Provenance: Donated by Sara Macready, Motupipi, in 2014.

Date: 1846

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: E-144-064-2

Description: A Maori man kneeling with a snare on the end of a long pole, some food on another pole, a weka approaching the snare. Another bird lies dead by the man. The man is probably Kehu, who accompanied Heaphy and Thomas Brunner to the West Coast (Arahura) from Nelson in 1846. A headland with tree ferns is faintly drawn in the background with the Southern Alps beyond Other Titles - Arahura Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: C. Heaphy. Title bottom centre in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour, original, 8.8 x 12.6 inches

Date: [Between 1931 and 1966]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-204

Description: Album containing many contacts from 35mm film, as well as black and white prints of differing sizes, taken by Professor John Tenison Salmon. He takes particular interest in the flora and fauna of New Zealand, the damaging effects of road construction, erosion from bush felling, and destruction caused by introduced species including deer. There are huge collections of close-up images of various plants (only a few of which are listed above), including flowers, leaves and seeds. He comments on mangrove swamps at Tauranga, which are growing at the furthest point from the Equator possible for them to exist. The other important collection shows various stages in the life cycle of insects and animals, including wetas, katydids, different types of moths, mosquitoes, bees, stick insects, and native New Zealand frogs (Hochstetter's frogs) (p. 91-92). Photographs relating to wetas include scenes of ovipositor tracks of cave wetas in the mud in Waitomo Caves; different varieties of wetas including cave wetas; and weta nests. In 1935 he photographed two Australian species of lizards which he found in the yard of the Dominion Museum, the Australia crested dragon, and the Australian blue-tongued lizard. Many of these photographs were taken on a photomicroscope, including photographs of rock sections (p. 72-75), and photographs of insects and larvae. There are also views of his photomicrosope equipment. Professor Salmon worked at Victoria University, and there are numbers of "contaflex" views of Wellington from his office window, taken to demonstrate the use of various filters (p. 26-29). There are also images of Professor Salmon in his study lab in April 1955; and further images of him in the Entomological Department of the Dominion Museum. Page 35 has views of a science exhibition organised by the Wellington Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand held in the Wellington Town Hall, 12-14 April 1948. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 29.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: 1855, [ca 1899-1931]

From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0072-04

Description: Identifiable correspondents entered in Name Field. Includes Preface to Second Edition of `Memorandum' by Sir George Grey, 1855 with newspaper cutting relating to Maori manuscripts in the Cape Museum (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa). Letter from Gilbert Mair to Augustus Hamilton re Maori musical instruments, 1900. Letter to A Hamilton from J H Menzies (1899) regarding the trapping of birds including weka. Language - Some of these pieces are in Maori Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1983-1986

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6501

Description: Trip to Caples Valley, Queentown Lakes District, in search of the South Island Kokako (native wattlebird), October 1983. The party included Rhys Buckingham, Peter Child, Graeme Elliot, and John Kendrick. Views of mountains from Fraser-Kay ridge. Distant view of Top Caples Hut from Steele Creek track. Distant view of Top Caples Hut from Fraser-Kay ridge. Younge Black Shag, Gollanz Valley colony, August 1983. Little Black Shag, Mahina Bay, May 1986. Weka on Kapiti Island, November 1984. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: 1956

By: Acres, Avis, 1910-1994

Reference: E-502

Description: Contains watercolour and pencil sketches of wood pigeons, North Island robin, Charlie kaka, Willie weka, green parakeets, tui, pukeko, black-backed gulls and their eggs, kaka beak (plant), frog, penguin, bush scenes, bush orchid, Kermadec Island pohutukawa, possum, oyster catchers, Florida Rd bush (including fungi), Morepork (Kaka Rd bush), ruru, and shags. Photocopy of letter from Avis Acres to Mr G F Fox, is housed with this (Acc. DP-97-010). Inscriptions: Album page - (Front cover) : [Title] Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Spiral-bound sketchbook of 24 leaves, 188 x 275 mm.

Date: 1897-1904

From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly

By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Pulman (Firm); Shepherd, Cromwell, active 1903-1934

Reference: PA1-f-142

Description: Charles Hill-Trevor's personal album of the time he spent as personal secretary to Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. It records the New Zealand contingents sent to the South African war and public events, personalities and patriotic entertainments associated with that enterprise. Visits to Government houses in Australia record other governors, officials and official residences. On one occasion in Melbourne a New Zealand versus Australia polo match was played. Hill-Trevor shows an interest in Māori, wildlife conservation (including the bird sanctuary on Resolution Island), and the sports of fishing, polo and horsemanship. There are photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their principal servants as well as the Governor engaged in official functions such as opening the Kaiapoi council offices and laying the foundation stone of the Veterans Home, Mt Roskill, Auckland in 1903. Also photographs relating to the play 'The Geisha'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1901

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

By: Worsley, Charles Nathaniel, 1862-1923; McGowan, James, 1841-1912; Bock, William Rose, 1847-1932

Reference: D-005-008

Description: Illuminated text flanked at top and right by New Zealand scenes painted by C.N. Worsley: Wanganui River, Pink Terrace, Mount Egmont, Wakarewarewa [sic], Wellington Heads, Tongariro, Lake Taupo, Maori Whare, Queen Charlotte Sound, Buller Gorge, Lake Te Anau, Franz Joseph [sic] Glacier, Lake Wakatipu, Milford Sound. Also shown are kiwi, huia, tui and weka. Photograph shows that original was framed in carved wooden frame with Maori motifs. Other Titles - To his Royal Highness George Frederick Ernest Albert, Duke of Cornwall and York... Inscriptions: Recto - (At head of address): New Zealand June 11th 1901 / To His Royal Highness / George Frederick Ernest Albert; Recto - beneath image - (Signatures): R. J. Seddon (Premier);G. Hand (Colonial Secretary); J. Carroll (Native Minister); Wm. Hall Jones (Minister for Public Works); Jas McGowan (Minister of Mines); T. Y. Duncan (Minister 0f Lands); C. H. Mills (Commissioner of Customs).; Recto - bottom left - Wm. R. Bock delt.; Recto - bottom right - C. N. Worsley 1901 Dating: George V as the Duke of Cornwall visited with his wife in 1901. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph, black and white 470 x 300 mm, on board 562 x 455 mm, of original watercolour. Provenance: Probably arrived with Seddon papers, from Seddon family.

Date: 1950 - 1958

By: Campbell, Jenny, 1895-1970; Coomber, Thomas Warren, 1923-; Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965; Fell, Jean, active 1983; Delbruck, Elizabeth, active 1943

Reference: A-384-049/059

Description: Includes: John L Moore. Morepork [with three verses, and with handwritten note on verso. 1957] To Lisbet with best wishes for 1958 + love from John. John L Moore. The Hostel, Arthurs Pass [1957?] John L Moore. Kowhai [1957] John L Moore. Rock daisy [1957] John L Moore. Ranunculus Lyallii [1957?] John L Moore. The Hotel, Morere, N.Z. [ca 1957] John L Moore. Weka [ca 1957] John L Moore. Te Mata Peak [ca 1957] The above were enclosed with a New Year message to Lisbet for 1958. Also accompanied by a note: "Lisbet with love from John + in remembrance of those days in Havelock North" Also includes: Tom Coomber. [Seated woman]. The compliments of the season to Mrs Delbruck from Tom Coomber Jenny Campbell. [Doves and flames] Artist unknown. [Young man with guitar] Quantity: 11 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Woodcuts and etchings, sizes varying. Provenance: The collection was given to the donor by Mrs W R (Jean) Fell in around 1983. It had previously belonged to Elizabeth Delbruck.

Date: 1958 to 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

By: Rangi Slides

Reference: PA12-8806

Description: Transparency slides of New Zealand, some purchased and some taken by Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams'). Purchased slides (14 unnumbered slides following no. 975) were in part produced by "Rangi Slides". The first two slides show samples of kauri gum, and no. 975 shows the Franz Josef Glacier terminal face. The following 13 slides show New Zealand birds with the 14th one showing flowers of the native kaka beak. Slides on this sheet are numbered 972-975, with no. 974 removed for Mr Williams lecture series which are filed in a separate sequence. Followed by 14 unnumbered slides. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slide (no. 974) showing aerial topdressing at Holmridge farm (Waihue), as part of a representative collection on New Zealand which he used in lecture series on his return to England. This sheet of slides contains numbered slides 972, 973 and 975, with a note saying "End of numbered slides". These are followed by 13 purchased slides of New Zealand birds and one of native kaka beak flower. Quantity: 17 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: [Circa 1910s to 1920s]

From: Sutton-Turner, Arthur Seymour, 1879?-1957 :Albums of the Southern Alps

By: Deverell, Walter, 1853?-1920; Sutton-Turner, Arthur Seymour, 1879?-1957

Reference: PA1-o-486

Description: Album of photographs taken by Arthur Seymour Sutton-Turner, on the walking track between Manapouri and Milford Sound. Inserted in the front of the album is a map issued by the New Zealand Government Department of Tourist and Health Resorts, drawn by W. Deverell, 1903. it is entitled "Map of the tourist foot road from Te Anau Lake to Milford Sound." Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey-brown suede cover, entitled "From Manapouri to Milford" in gold lettering; 24 x 30 cm

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: B-113-008

Description: Shows the Maori guide Kehu snaring a weka with a lure of food on a stick and a long pole with a noose. To the right is a makeshift open-fronted slab hut, a small fire burning outside, with the artist's two European companions, Charles Heaphy and Thomas Brunner reclining inside. The Matakitaki River and hills are in the background. Mount Mantell is the cone-shaped hill to the right. Recorded by Fox on his 1846 journey from Nelson through to the West Coast and back with Charles Heaphy and Thomas Brunner. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print, 1965 Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Exhibitied in 'Drawn From Nature: Europeans Record New Zealand, 1770-1860' exhibition at the National Library Gallery, 31 March to 28 May 1989. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. Other Titles - Matakitaki Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title [in pencil]; Verso - [New Zealand Company Stamp, dated 19 February 1847, and inscribed 'No. 218'. Full title also on verso, along with] 20th Feb. W. Fox Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 204 x 257 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company collection. Purchased, London, 1915 by Alexander Turnbull.

From: Green, William Spotswood, 1847-1919 :[Journey to New Zealand and the attempt on Mount Cook, November 1881 to March 1882, and] Dodging about Switzerland in 1879.

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919

Reference: E-581-q-007

Description: Two small tents sheltered by low scrub, with foothills and a mountain beyond. A billy boiling over a camp fire, a weka walking past and a man reclining on the ground. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour with scraping out, 125 x 177 mm