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Photographer unknown :Photographs of the Royal Tour 1927
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.
Arapuni and Waitaki Hydro Schemes
Date: 1924-1937
From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 :Photographs of Hydro schemes and the Murchison and Hawke's Bay earthquakes
Reference: PA1-q-769
Description: Opens with views of the site of the Arapuni Hydro scheme and the Paturuahine Gorge which was flooded to form Lake Arapuni. This is followed by images of the repairs to the one of the water channels that took place in 1932. The rest are photographs of the dam at various stages of construction, the dam completed, views of the new lake, water flowing over the spillway, and the Arapuni falls created below the dam Two views of Atiamuri show the Pohaturoa Rock in the background Ten images of Stewart's Claim, a location south of Okarito, show scenic views some with gold dredging equipment lying around, a beach and a river estuary on which is a barge loaded with pipes. Eight images record before and after effects of controlled blasting on a limestone bluff at Cobden Quarry, Greymouth, photographed on the 15th of January, 1932 The last section are views of the construction of the Waitaki Hydro, and the new Lake Waitaki. There are also several images of the Mokau Falls at Waikaremoana Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Creator unknown: Duke of Gloucester's tour of New Zealand 1934
Date: between 1934 and 1935
Reference: PAColl-6619
Description: 46 images of the Duke of Gloucester's tour of New Zealand in 1934-5 including: nine of his visit to Rotorua including Maori kapa haka; one of veterans at the bridge of remembrance in Christchurch; one of him opening Tekapo bridge and another of the party at Tekapo House hotel; one of him in a crowd outside the railway station in Hokitika; one of him inspecting a parade of nurses; one of him visiting a traditional whare; two of him as a jockey at a race meeting; three of the felling of a kauri tree; seven of his stay at Longbeach sheep station, Ashburton County; and two of him at the Waitangi memorial. Photographer unidentified but possibly Hall Raine. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-019066 to 019078, 019082 to 019107, 019111, 019113, and 059505 to 059509 Quantity: 46 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives
Perkins, J (Mr), fl 1967 :Photograph album and loose prints
Date: [ca 1872-1880s]
By: Perkins, J (Mr), active 1967; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-4608
Description: Photographs of Mount Taranaki; Mount Cook; Tasman Glacier near Malte Brun hut site; lower Tasman Glacier with Mounts De La Beche, Minarets, Green and Elie de Beaumont; Tasman Glacier with Mounts Cook, Tasman and Haidinger behind; main divide south of De la Beche with Glacier Dome and the Rudolf Glacier on the lower left; and the junction of Ball and Tasman Glaciers with the Anzacs ridge in the background. Photographs taken by Burton Bros. Photographs of view down Princes Street with the Colonial Mutual building on the left and the Exchange building on the right; Victoria Bridge over the Avon, Christchurch, with the Supreme Court building on the right; the Glacier Hotel at Bealey with a carriage and four pulling up; and Jackson's on the West Coast Road. Photographs taken by Wheeler & Son. Photograph of the flood in Mawhera Quay and Catholic School in Greymouth. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). 14 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph album, photographic prints
Tourist Department album 2
Date: [circa 1905 to 1912]
By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department
Reference: PA1-o-498
Description: Photographs of a range of industries in New Zealand, possibly related to the Christchurch International Exhibition in 1906-1907. Industries include animal related products including wool, from fellmongery to transportation and finally weaving; meat works, including the slaughter house, the mutton cooling room, shipping fozen mutton, the beef cooling room; butter, at the Hautapu Butter Factory, showing butter in the factory, and delivering butter at Ngaruawahia Railway Station; the Waikato Bacon Factory, and pig carcases. Other industries include flax, with scenes showing a flax mill, carting flax to the mill, stripping, washing and drying flax, and also grading hemp and loading bales of it at Auckland wharves; kauri timber industry, from felling the trees, hauling logs by bullock, floating logs over the Wairoa Falls, sorting timber at the mill booms, timber mill on the Wairoa River, and a million feet of sawn timber at the mill. The latter part of the album shows scenes of gold dredging on the Buller Gorge, hydraulic gold-mining at Ross, Westland; coal mining at Brunner; kauri gum diggers and a warehouse storing kauri gum; and finally views of the Sugar Refinery in Auckland, and a warehouse filled with sacks of sugar. Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, leather corners and spine, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm
Paddi album
Date: [Between 1933 and 1945]
From: Paddy, Laurence George Malvern, 1906?-1971: Photographs relating to the Lauri Paddi Band
Reference: PA1-q-182
Description: Photographs relating to the dance band scene in New Zealand in the 1930s and 1940s, largely associated with Lauri Paddi (aka Laurence George Malvern Paddy] and various bands. Many of the images are signed by musicians in the bands, not all the signatures being legible. Names have been listed where possible. Musicians with signatures Ian H Pitcaithly, W O Pritchard, and Jeffrey Madden, are probably the same as musicians listed on a poster for the Auckland Peter Pan Orchestra (Nin Pitcaithly, Billy Pritchardt, and Johnny Madden). One series of photographs shows musicians performing with Lauri Paddi going on tour in the South Island, including two views taken from a car, following a train on the road/rail Rakaia Bridge. The stage show 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' was performed at the Paramount Theatre, Wellington, in 1944. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with light brown mottled pattern, entitled `Photographs'; 25.5 x 31.5 cm
Innes family : Papers
Date: 1811-[ca 1894], 1933
Reference: MS-Papers-1907
Description: Two memoranda books include details of expenses for building a cottage, a bakers oven in 1862, rents received (1865-1866), accounts for family's shoes (1867), journey to Hokitika 19-30 October 1865 and recipes There is also a miners right issued to George Innes, Tuapeka (September 1861) and a manuscript of business notes (1860-1866) which includes costing of material in construction of brick house, Cashel Street (1863) and record of work done There is also a copy of Wellington Girls College Reporter, Jubilee number (May 1933) George Innes was a builder who lived at various times in Hokitika, Otago and Christchurch. He arrived at Lyttelton on the Fatima in December 1851. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 pieces, 3 volumes, 2 loose papers). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter
Creator unknown :Museum album
Date: [1860s-1880s?]
Reference: PA1-q-166
Description: Scrap book of miscellaneous photographs, many of which have no captions and have not been identified. At the front of the album is an undated newspaper cutting showing the original building used for the Colonial Museum in 1865, which `has been revealed by the pulling down of the Dominion Museum, at the back of Parliament House. For many years this building has been used for a variety of purposes, museum exhibits being housed in adjacent quarters, but it is about to be demolished'. The first group show interior scenes of the Canterbury Museum, with exhibits of bird skeletons, and mounted birds. Other scenes show mounted animals, possibly not in Canterbury. Scenery includes views of the Franz Josef Glacier; and a number which are identified showing the gold-mining area around Ross and Donoghues, the Totara River and Mikonui River. One page has six photographs of mountainous regions in Switzerland; several show the area near the Wellington caves in Queensland, Australia; and two views show the breaking of the Cook Strait Cable. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, maroon spine and corners, entitled `Photographic scrap book'; 30 x 24 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available. Possibly part of a larger collection.
Grant, F J (Mr), fl 1981 :Photographs of the tour of the Prince of Wales in 1920 and Ne...
Date: [1903-1920]
By: Grant, F J, active 1980s; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918
Reference: PAColl-0362
Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of New Zealand made by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Many of the images are of military inspections and displays by school children. There are also displays of Maori dancing and singing, the sailors of the HMS Renown, on which the prince had travelled , prior to their soccer match in Dunedin, the prince addressing the crowds etc. A number of the images are in two-part panoramas. Also included are four scenic photographs by the New Zealand Tourist Department which may have been taken in 1903. The photographer for the tour photographs was Guy. Other - Similar images at 1/2-032642, 045102 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).
Godber album 7
Date: [Between 1901 and 1903]
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-q-100
Description: Album of photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1901 and 1903. South Island subjects include the Cape Foulwind Lighthouse and quarry, Westport railway yards and wharf, Reefton, and scenes of explosions in Lyttelton Harbour for Regatta Day, 1st January 1909, and a large number of people beside the Spit Volunteer Fire Brigade building. Scenes show the laying of foundation stones for the Petone Waterworks, and for the Baptist Church in Petone, both in 1903. There is also a view of the lecturn for St Augustine's Church in Petone, which was made by the Petone Railway Workshops. Several photographs show the Kelburn Cable Car, the cable car tunnel and the engine room, in 1903. Two photographs of a group of school children, the girls wearing white pinafores over dark coloured dresses. Some photographs relate to New Zealand railways, including specific locomotives, the Rimutaka Incline with the middle rail (part of the Fell System), railway tunnels, bush railways and railway workshops and yards; and some relate to Godber's interest and work in fire fighting. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 106 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 31.0 x 25.5 cm
Scenic views in the South Island
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.
Field, Mr : Account of a voyage to Australia and New Zealand
Date: 1890
By: Field, (Mr), active 1890
Reference: MS-0745-0746
Description: Describes visit to Sydney, impressions of Auckland and district, thermal regions in detail, Napier, Wellington to Nelson. Journey by coach from Nelson via Greymouth to Christchurch describing bush, rivers and terrain as well as goldmining on West Coast Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs (26 cm; ¼ black calf marbled boards, in grey phase box)
Field album 9
Date: [1870s-1880s?]
From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs
Reference: PA1-q-081
Description: Views of the South Island, chiefly in Southland and Otago, taken by unidentified photographers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, lacking spine and back cover, 30.0 x 23.5 cm
Sports - Aquaplaning, archery, badminton, basketball & billiards
Date: 1932-1946
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-220
Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1930s-1940s. First New Zealand women's basketball team to visit another country photographed on eve of their departure for Australia, 1938; M Matangi (captain) with autograph hunter. Mrs R M Smith (Secretary NZ Basketball Association) photographed with Mrs H D Muir (president) and Miss G Miles (Tournament secretary), Sep 1937. Group photographs of women's basketball teams, 1939 (all players named) - Canterbury (1st grade), Wanganui (3rd grade), Southland (Senior), West Coast (3rd grade), South Canterbury (2nd grade). Eastern Southland women's hockey team who were runners-up at NZWHA championship, 1939 (all named) Billiard players - Clark McConachy, Walter Lindrum, Horace Lindrum, Tom Newman, H F Mclean, C Mason, Willie Swinhoe (aged 10), A Bowie, Angus Duncan, A Albertson, A M Burke. Aqua-planing display at Mercer Regatta, 1937; women archers including members of Dunedin Archery Club, 1941; archers at Jubilee Park, 1940. Interior of The Moorings, 31 Glenbervie Terrace, Thorndon, Wellington, including nautical billiard room. Badminton players and teams - P Hawksworth & Miss M Edmondson, 1936; Misses N Fleming & M Kerr, 1938; badminton courts, Hamilton, 1938; Miss Ramsay & Mrs Wren, 1938; Mr Holroyd, Miss B Babbage, Mr N Hay-Campbell & Miss T Greaves (Wanganui team), 1938; Mr Lewis, Miss Kerr, Mr Pearce, Mr & Mrs Hawksworth, 1939; South Island & Otago Badminton Championships (J Steven, Miss Jane Hay, Mavis Kerr, L Swallow), 1939; Canterbury badminton team to meet Australia (all named), Jun 1938; women members of Australian badminton team, Jun 1938; Australian badminton team on arrival, Jun 1938; group photo of Australian and Hawke's Bay teams (undated); J D Shale & H Dallimore of Auckland (undated); Miss M Wade & Miss A Dempster (undated).. Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Ring album 1
Date: [ca 1880s]
By: Ring, James, 1856-1939
Reference: PA1-o-435
Description: Photographs taken circa 1880s by James Ring, photographer based in Greymouth. Scenes in Greymouth and nearby include views of severe flooding (p 3-5, 7); loading ships at the wharf showing hydraulic cranes raising hoppers of coal, and rolling stock laden with coal for transportation. Three shipping photographs including the SS Gerda wrecked on the Greymouth Breakwater in June 1888; the SS Mawhera ashore on North Beach, Greymouth in 1886, and the SS Rosamond crossing the Greymouth Bar. Beyond Greymouth views include the Grey River, Rocky Island, Brunnerton and the Brunnerton Bridge, and the West Coast Road. Then views of Lake Brunner, Refuge Island and Mitchell Falls. The Teremakau [now Taramakau] River is next, one view showing the road bridge, and one showing the flying fox (wire bridge) leading over to the Teremakau Hotel. These are followed by scenes along the Otira Gorge, including Warnock's Nob, Westley's Creek (Wesley Creek), and Starvation Point, before reaching Porter's Pass, Broken River, Arthur's Pass and the Devil's Punch Bowl Falls. The last sequence show Grasmere Station, Castle Hill Station (with one view of snow gates) and Craigieburn Station; the town of Cass; Bealey, Bealey Hotel, and Bealey Gorge, Lake Pearson and Lake Mapourika. Other Titles - New Zealand Views, by James Ring, Greymouth, N. Z. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with quarterbound red cover, red leather corners and spine; entitled "New Zealand Views, by James Ring, Greymouth, N.Z."; 24 x 31 cm
[Programmes and fliers relating to music concerts and musical performances in New Zeala...
Date: 1891
By: Watson, I M (Miss), active 1970s
Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-1891
Description: Includes: Lady Campbell's first annual concert. Theatre Royal Wellington, 9 February 1891. Programme / flier (with Miss Medley, Messrs Connolly, G Kennedy, A Hamerton and S Cimino; Mr C Monro, Lady Campbell, Miss Fisher, Mr R B Williams, Miss Matthias, Mr E J Hill, Mrs Levin, Miss Hilda Williams, Mr R Parker) Christchurch Amateur Orchestral Society. First concert. Oddfellows' Hall Christchurch, 3 November 1891. Silk programme (With violin solo by Mr F M Wallace and solo by Mrs Burns) St Patrick's Church Organ Fund. Grand popular concert, vocal and instrumental. Public Hall Greymouth, 6 February 1891 (With Miss Castle, Mr Daniel, Mr Muir, Mr Zachariah, Misses Muff and McDavitt, Mrs Orton, Miss Webber; accompanists Misses Dupre and Castle and Mr Brook. Conductor Mr Brook. Orchestra from Greymouth Harmonic Society; chorus from St Patrick's Choir and members of Harmonic Society). Programme / flier. St Patrick's Church Greymouth. Grand sacred concert in aid of the Reefton Catholic Brass Band Fund. Quigley's Hall. 13 February 1891 (With Miss McDavitt, Mr Chamberlain, Miss Webber, Miss Castle, etc). Programme / flier St Patrick's College Mid-winter entertainment. 18 June 1891. (Conductor of brass band Mr S Cimino, conductor of orchestra Mr T L Trowell, accompanists Messrs W Raymond and J Kearsley). Programme / flier. Theatre Royal Christchurch. Madame Patey, England's greatest contralto. 18 June 1891. Silk programme Quantity: 6 Programme(s). Physical Description: Letterpress items, varying sizes up to quarto.
Foxley Norris album
Date: [1870s-1880s]
By: Norris, Joseph Foxley, active 1880s; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Wilson, George Washington, 1823-1893
Reference: PA1-q-094
Description: Photographic album created by Joseph Foxley Norris, with many images of places visited in Great Britain, including castles, cathedrals, stately homes, ports, landscapes, and bridges. Joseph Foxley Norris was a founding member of the Cyclists' Touring Club in England, and was a member of the Pickwick Bicycle Club in England with one image being a group portrait of members of the club. A number of the English scenes were photographed by G.W.W. (George Washington Wilson). Other regions visited include Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro. Views of New Zealand are mostly in the South Island, with a few of Wellington (including Government Buildings, Parliament Buildings and Government House). One photograph taken by James Bragge shows a group of unidentified Maori standing outside a meeting house in Masterton. South Island views include a bicycle "meet" in Christchurch, with a large crowd gathered, and a number of penny-farthing bicycles visible. A number of images show men riding penny-farthing bicycles and the dangers of so doing, with posed views of two men underneath their bicycles and one clutching a fence, taken in and around Christchurch. On page 108 is hand-printed award `Anniversary Sports, Christchurch,N.Z. 16th December 1880. The following ten views taken from the Cathedral Tower, Christchurch, are the 3rd prize in the One Mile Champion Bicycle Race won by J. Foxley Norris, Pioneer Bicycle Club'. Other views include a group of about four men touring along the West Coast Road, and notable buildings in Christchurch and Dunedin. One image shows the "cage" crossing the Teremakau River. A group portrait in Christchurch shows members of Harper & Co. (Solicitors) Inscriptions: Album page - J. Foxley Norris. 1880 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with a black cover, spine title `Photo's'; 29.0 x 24.5 cm
Pitman, Mrs : Photographs of New Zealand scenes
Date: ca 1860s-1870s
Reference: PAColl-4553
Description: Twelve photographs from the same series: Roto Kanapanapa or Boiling Mud Lakes; Otukapuerangi or Pink Terraces (front and side views); Rotomahana or Hot Lakes; cascade in the bush, Canterbury; Punsh (sic) Bowl Falls, Westland; footbridge over the Avon, Christchurch; East Town Belt footbridge, Christchurch; Missouri Gold Battery, Aukland (sic); Provincial Council Chamber, Christchurch (back view); birds-eye view of the Provincial Government Building, Christchurch; and Russell, Bay of Islands. Captions taken from the photographs. Photographer unidentified but probably the Burton Bros. Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: According to the Donations Book there were 40 photographs in the accession so others have yet to be located.
Mathew, S C :Photographs relating to railways
Date: 1900 - 1923
By: Wood, P, active 1890s
Reference: PAColl-0678
Description: Photographs of: the construction of the Otira Tunnel including one of a large group of construction workers in the tunnel itself; a view looking down at the entrance to the tunnel from Mount Barron; a view from the opposite side of the valley from Mount Barron looking down on the construction area; three photographs of the Kowai railway viaduct under construction; a bridge on the Ohakune Raetihi Railway; the opening of the Gisborne Railway at Gisborne Railway Station ca 1900 with a large crowd on the tracks and platform; a man in uniform on a horse, possibly C E J Bell, with a wagon in the background and the caption Klerksdorf M. Streams Rly 1904 on the reverse; and a Christmas card produced by the Midland Railway using a montage of photographs of railway construction and the message `With Best Wishes for the New Year from Paterson's Creek Springfield District The Midland Railway Canterbury PWD No. 0/1903'. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).
Photographs of the Ohau River, Trotters Gorge, and the Franz Joseph Glacier
Date: 1860-1869
From: Photographs of the Richmond family, their relatives and friends
Reference: PAColl-7075-06
Description: The Ohau River, Trotters Gorge, and the Franz Joseph Glacier photographed in the 1860s by an unknown photographer. Glimpses of the Waiho River are visible in two of the views of the Glacier. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s).