Places

Date: 1923 - 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-0531-F

Description: View of Feilding race course from top of "home strait". Pavilions and grandstands beside track. Neat low picket fences divide concourse from racing area. Trees behind buildings and in distance. Rugby-playing area in centre beyond track. "Floating" piece of negative near top edge. Source of descriptive information - Identification of racecourse from other items in R P Moore box of panoramic negatives, and from image on internet. (See Grand Stand, Racecourse, Feilding, N.Z.: http://feildingphotos.mdc.govt.nz/imagepopup.php?catalog) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 123.0 cmm

Date: 1977 - 1979

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horse racing in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-RACING-1977/1979

Description: Includes: 1977: Castlepoint Racing Club (Inc). Equalisator ticket. Sat., 26th March 1977, Race 8 Onkaparinga Racing Club Inc. Oakbank Racecourse, South Australia. Easter meeting, 9-11 April 1977. $80,000 prizemoney including the $25,000 Daihatsu Great Eastern Steeplechase. Pamphlet showing list of races Rotorua Racing Club. Centennial meeting. Arawa Park Rotorua, 28 May 1977. Official card 1979: Racing and trotting diary, 1979-80 season. With the compliments of Manawatu TV and Sound Service Ltd, Sports Gazette Publishing Co Ltd, Photopress and NZ Racing Form Record Bay of Plenty Racing Club Inc. Tauranga Mid-year meeting, Saturday 23rd June 1979. Pamphlet announcing the Owens Trophy Race, sponsored by R A Owens esq. to be run at the Tauranga Racecourse, 23 June 1979. (2 copies) Feilding Jockey Club (Regd). Centennial jubilee meeting. Second day, Monday 16 April 1979. Official card Manawatu Racing Club. Summer meeting 1979. 1st day. Awapuni Racecourse Palmerston North, 15 December 1979. [Programme] Manawatu Racing Club. Summer meeting 1979. 1st day. Bird cage [orange ticket on string] 1979 New Zealand National 'Ready to Run'. Parade heats. Sunday 7th October 1979, commencing 11.00am at Waikato Racing Clubs Te Rapa Racecourse, Hamilton, NZ. Official programme Quantity: 10 items. Physical Description: Booklets and fliers, sizes varying under 200 mm. Provenance: Purchased and donated from various sources.

Date: ca 1890s

Reference: PAColl-7440

Description: A tennis court; in the distance a group of men and women on a playing field in front of a grandstand; and people leaning against a fence in front of a grandstand with horses being led past at the start of a race. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1920s-1950s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-223

Description: Photographs collected for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1920s-1950s. Some are unidentified. Includes: Wreckage of a small aircraft in the Tararua Range (5 photos taken by D F Jones, Tararua Tramping Club), undated; Invercargill wedding group - Sadie Reid Pollock married Lawrence Graham Smillie (with handwritten description), undated; Miller-Luke wedding (bride with her bridesmaid Nancy Luke and flower girl, Sophie van Asch), taken by Lovell-Smith, Hastings, undated; W G Perry (negative of sailor, presumed dead), undated; Miss Cross of Masterton, and young friend Nigel Hawke of New Plymouth, Jun 1949; Spragg (studio portrait of 58 year old soldier wearing military decorations), undated. Model of Australian cruiser H M A S Sydney, part of a naval display for War Saving Day in Martin Place, Sydney, 1940s; floral ship at Tauranga (and handwritten description); Mr & Mrs T L H Gibson, 50th wedding anniversary, Sep 1949 (C E Clarke, photographer, Waimate). Typed list of unidentified photographs; typed list of Winston Churchill related photographs A Jackson of Wellington College and his Guide V Williams on top of Mount Cook, 31 Jan 1929; W Errington Keville (General manager of Shaw Savill & Albion) with wife and daughter, 1949; dismasted yacht Astral being rescued during Wellington to Lyttelton Yacht Race, 1951; officers of Boys Brigade companies at training course held at Trentham, 1950s?; NZ Model Aero Club Dominion Championship at Christchurch, 1952; aerial view of Addington Racetrack; three grandstands at unidentified racetrack showing racegoers. Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s) (also mss and ts material). 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1952

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[39 copies of cartoons from 'Lodge looks at Wellington', Nevile Lodge, 1952]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: H-727-025

Description: Shows six scenes. The first is the railway workshops. The second is a car factory. The third is the soap making factory with bubbles coming out of the chimney. The fourth is the meat works with passers-by holding their noses. The fifth is the rubber factory with workers rolling tyres. The final scene is the Trentham racecourse. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: 2 A4 size photocopies sellotaped together

Date: ca 1890

From: Campbell, Eve, fl 1976 :Stereographs

By: Schaef, Arthur Waldemar, 1867-1940

Reference: PA4-0707

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of women and children standing by the lake in the Wanganui Racecourse Grounds, taken by A W Schaef ca 1890 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - In Wanganui Racecourse Grounds; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Recto - left of image - Photograph by A W Schaef Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by Mrs E Campbell, July 1976

Date: [17 March 1904]

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: PA1-q-634-46-3

Description: The grandstand at the Whakatane races, photographed during the visit of Lord Ranfurly and party on St Patricks Day, 17 March 1904, by Malcolm Ross. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - The Grand Stand, Whakatane Races Malcolm Ross, in "Through Tuhoe Land" (Christchurch Press, 1904) states that "Next day being St Patrick's Day, our landlady, who hailed from the Emerald Isle, presented us with shamrocks and bits of green ribbon. The Governor drove to the Whakatane race meeting, a smart native contingent under white officers forming an escort.... Arrived at the course we were conducted to a pretty little grandstand, roofed and walled with interwoven fern and leaves of nikau palm." Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 80 x 91 mm (irregular shape) mounted on album page 255 x 287 mm

Date: [Circa 1900s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-301

Description: Photogprahs of New Zealand circa 1890s to 1900s, probably taken by George William Barltrop. The first sequence includes scenes around Auckland harbour, including Rangitoto Onehunga, with one view of passengers on board the ferry `SS Takapuna'. One photograph shows a group of young Maori standing on the bank of the Whanganui River (four young men under an umbrella). Wellington area views of Pahautanui (Pauatahanui), Horokiwi, Lyall Bay and the Wellington Heads. On page 873 (the album pages run from 856 to 895), there is a postcard with heads of George William Barltrop and his wife Emma Jane Barltrop, with a collage of images relating to the Missions to Seamen. Slipped beneath the postcard is the death notice for Emma Jane Barltrop (died 24 September 1954). There are views of the Rimutakas from the railway line; a flock of sheep being herded along a road in palmerston North; three people standing outside a wooden bungalow in Palmerston North; and there is a view of another house in Feilding. The river mouth at Oroua; the grounds of the Wanganui Race Course (with white swans on the lake; a woman feeding a peacock, and a woman under an umbrella, walking on rail tracks beside the sea at Castlecliff; followed by three views from a boat on the Whanganui River, one a view of Upokongaro, with the church spire just visible, and two of groups of Maori waiting on the riverbank. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover entitled `Photographic views'; 20.5 x 17.5 cm

Date: 1930

From: Various photographers :Prints from panorama negatives

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-355

Description: Panoramic photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore Arrangement: Original negative housed at P46 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Outsized panorama

Date: ca 1870s

From: Bloch, Theodor Thorlacius, 1844-1935 :Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-4256

Description: The loose prints: two of crowds at racetracks both showing the spectators' stand and one with a race in progress; a wooden church with clergymen in the doorway and what may be a vicarage next to it with three women in the garden; the wharves in Nelson showing a number of sailing ships and the premises of Franzen & Co; the interior of a church probably anglican; the view down Trafalgar Street, Nelson from the church steps; and a portrait of an unidentified freemason. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s) from Bloch Album 3.

Date: [ca Aug 1967]

From: Winder, Duncan, 1919-1970: Architectural photographs

Reference: DW-2943-F

Description: Photograph taken by Duncan Winder. Source of descriptive information - Duncan Winder register, Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 1 colour copy negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: February 1957, 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7669

Description: Transparencies comprising an aerial view of Ellerslie Race Course, Parnell Rose Garden, Parnell Park, and Judges Bay, Auckland City, taken 1957-1958 by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: [Between 1906 and 1943]

By: Blyth, Harry George, -1955; Graham, Sarah, active 1970s?

Reference: PA1-o-045

Description: Views of the Chatham Islands, with emphasis on the house "Te Whariki" at Tuku, various aspects of wool baling, and wool transportation using a bullock team, and the landscape near Tuku. A number of images show buildings at Waitangi, Chatham Island, including the post office, the Mangoutu Hotel (also known as Odman's Hotel), the courthouse, and Heslop's Hotel. The house "Te Whariki" was built by E. Guest, but seems to be the home of Harry Blyth who appears in a number of the images. Harry Blyth is the collector of the images in the album, and possibly the photographer of some. It is also possible that some photographs were taken by Ernest Guest (photographer and postmaster), and some by Blyth's wife, Daisy Felicia Blyth (nee Cox), who was a photographer in her own right (see Turnbull Library Biographies Index) Title supplied by Library. Some original glass plate negatives at Guest, Ernest Matthias Capewell, 1873?-1957 : Photographs of the Chatham Islands, ATL-Group-00805. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Mottled brown cover, labelled "Photographs", 180 x 255 mm

Date: ca 1890

By: Schaef, Arthur Waldemar, 1867-1940

Reference: PA4-0804

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a group of spectators at the show grounds, Hastings Racecourse, taken by A W Schaef ca. 1890 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - On Show Grounds Hastings Race Course; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Recto - left of image - Photograph by A W Schaef Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1932-1933

By: Hayward, Maurice Henry, 1910-1985; Hayward, Shirley, active 2004

Reference: PA1-o-1246

Description: Photographs taken by Maurice Henry Hayward while on a work relief scheme on the Chatham Islands building a new wharf at Waitangi. Included are views of Waitangi and its principle buildings, the Post Office, the hotels and the radio station. Also depicted is race day, bullock teams, horses hauling wool bales on sledges, sheep waiting at Waitangi Wharf, human bones, Tommy Solomon's funeral, a shipwreck, the countryside, and coastal views. Throughout the album are images of the old wharf at Waitangi, and the new one under construction and finally completed. There is a record of a tramping and hunting trip made by three or four men, one of whom was Hayward, and two interior views of the living quarters for the relief workers. Some photographs show the men riding horses, and dressed as cowboys or tough looking seamen. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Reference: 1/2-036092-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1910s-1950s]

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6866

Description: 152 views and portraits. They include: at least 22 of Picton and and the surrounding area showing boating in the harbour, people pic-nicking on the waterfront, people watching a rowing race, a speedboat called Pelorus Jack racing in the Sounds, and ferries coming in to the terminus; 10 images of the geothermal area around Wairakei inlcuding mud pools and geysers; nine images of a Studebaker Commander 6 either parked at scenic views or driving along country roads; eight images of men talking possibly at race meetings; six of the timber industry particularly the building of a timber boom; four aerial views of a liner coming into Auckland harbour; three views of groups of well-dressed men and women wearing what are possibly conference badges in an area decorated with bunting; three similar images of a large group of women photographed at Te Aro School near the Carillon also with conference badges; three general views of Wellington harbour; three images of the Spa Hotel, Taupo; two images of two women in bathing suits; two views of the railway station from The Terrace, Wellington; two views of a girl in Wellington Botanic Gardens; a scene on board the RMS Mononwai with a woman being photographed framed by the life belt; two of Aorangi; one of the ferry Cobar in Wellington Harbour; two of children riding on donkeys; two of the same elderly couple outside their house; two of young men on the boat Starlight; a group of what are probably sheep shearers outside their shed; Aotea Quay, Wellington; the yacht Ilex in Wellington harbour; children playing on swings; a large wooden gothic style house (location unknown); sheep droving; two women on a Bell Bus Company tour; various scenes on board ship including passengers watching an entertainer, a boxing match and a crossing the equator ceremony; a ship's officer climing down a rope ladder on the side of a ship; two of kauri trunks being transported on the Roxen, 1932; and a small child looking at an overturned carved wooden statue. The majority of the remaining images are of unidentified landscapes. Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-030982, 030983, 030985, 030992 to 030996, 030998, 031005, 031007 to 031010, 031012, 031013, 031016 to 031045, 031049, 031051 to 031059, 031154 to 031192, 031198 to 031203, 031205 to 031217, 031227 to 031248, 031737, 031739, 031740, 092294 to 092305 Quantity: 114 b&w original negative(s) film. 38 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 28 Oct 1929

From: Various photographers :Prints from panorama negatives

Reference: PA6-310

Description: Arrangement: Original negative housed at P3 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1987

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-715

Description: In a night-time scene a jockey is shown sitting on his horse explaining to the horse's irate owners that the reason he rode all over the track was because the moths prevented him from seeing. Refers to the fact that the Avondale Jockey Club experimented with night gallops. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on thin card, 320 x 480 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1928

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :[Sketchbooks]

Reference: E-292-q-4-037

Description: Sketch of the racecourse and surrounding area, and hills in the distance Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 140 x 233 mm