Places

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1900s]

From: Goodman, S C (Mr), fl 1975 :Photograph albums and loose prints

By: Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-q-106

Description: Album of postcard photographs from England and Europe, photographs taken by various photographers, including those with the following initials "F.F. & Co", "W", and "J V" One photograph, taken by C Spencer, is of the Waimangu Geyser in New Zealand. Album also contains two watercolours, one entitled "The reservoir near Shenstone, Warwickshire, June 28 at 2 o'clock" signed JEFG[?]. The other has no description, but is likely to be a different view of the reservoir, both with fields and trees around the water. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black leather album with silver corners (Hallmarked CPR, from Birmingham); highly decorated endpapers with small design of gold flowers; 37 x 28 cm.

Date: [Circa 1890s-1900s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Skeen & Co.; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: Pa1-o-517

Description: Album of photographs taken by various photographers many of whom are unidentified. Photographs are seen on pages 1-31, with pages 32-50 unused. Colombo is shown in the first part of the album, and includes street scenes, the "Old Colombo Lighthouse", the Galle Face Hotel(?), views of outrigger fishing canoes, carts drawn by humped cattle, "padda" boats on a canal, and a group of young Sri Lankan women. The second part of the album contains views of New Zealand, chiefly in the thermal regions with views of Ohinemutu, Hamurana Springs, the Poutuhu Geyser, Waimangu Geyser, the "Fairy bath" at Okoroire and the "Okoroire Natural Bridge Rapids". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, darker red corners and spine; 24.0 x 31.5 cm

Date: [ca 1903]

From: Creator unknown :Photographs depicting areas of New Zealand

By: Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-D-0828

Description: Photographs arranged on a display board. One panorama of the island. Other views captioned - Cape Cook; Crater Bay; Landing place; Big Blow Hole; The Acid Lake; map showing sulphur deposits; and other general views captioned `White Island'. Most photographs were taken by C Spencer, Auckland and have the numbers - 109, 114, 116, 121, 125, 126, 131. One photo (Getting sulphur) taken taken by Muir & Moodie (protected 7.6.03) Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s) on display board. Physical Description: 10 x 145 x 190 mm; 1 x 150 x 693 mm - on board 1010 x 805 mm

Date: 1977

Reference: Eph-C-PHOTO-EXHIBITION-1977-1

Description: Includes: Historical Show: [Includes photographs by] J N Crombie, Swan and Wrigglesworth, H Webster, Kinsey, Tyree, Foy Bros, William England, Herbert Deveril, Carlo Ponti, James Bragg, Burton Bros, Charles S Spencer, American Photo Co, William J Harding. Snaps Gallery [Auckland], opening 12 December. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying up to 500 x 350 mm. Provenance: Donated at various times.

Date: 1889-1909

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

By: Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-q-1137

Description: News and personal photographs, taken and collected by J L Wilson, featuring North Canterbury 1889-1909, with an emphasis on 1901-1903. Series include: Wilson family portraits of Joseph Lowthian, his wife, son Leonard, daughter Estelle, and mother-in-law Mrs Emma Matthews; various views of Highfield Annan settlement land (including Wandle Valley, farmland) with land ballot at Waiau and Canterbury Land Board meeting relating to settlement; Maori performance group (kapa haka) and various unidentified portraits and group images; opening of the Kaiapoi Swimming Baths with Mayor J Daly and Premiere Richard Seddon; re-opening of Ashley Gorge bridge (between Glentui and Oxford); inspection of North Canterbury Volunteer Mounted Rifles by Colonel Porter [Woodend?], with officers including Captain R W Chaffey and Lieutenant Horne; flooding in Rangiora and Waverley; views of Hamner Springs; Kaiapoi railway station buildings (built 1872 and 1904 respectively) and trains, with J Ward opening new station; massed school display at Lancaster Park, with cadet competition and girls' drill; and Governor Lord Plunket (and Lady Plunket) visiting Kaiapoi and Tuahiwi. Events include general election at Tuahiwi schoolhouse, fire at Hobday's Drapery (Christchurch), Lady Stewart and A W Rutherford opening track at Conical Hill (Hamner), reception for General Booth at Cathedral Square (Christchurch), Amuri sheep sale (Culverden), Amberley South African War Troopers Memorial unveiling (with Sergeant Turner), J Ward laying foundation of Kaiapoi Post Office, Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Show, sheep sale at Rangiora, Mrs Harrison Lee addressing temperance rally at Junction Hotel (Rangiora), and Rangiora New Year's Day sports meeting with crosscut sawing event. Named figures include Charles Luger of West Oxford (with goat), Mr Thomas Leech of Brooklands (with woodcarvings), and G H Blackwell. Group photographs include Brown and Alexander wedding at Riverside, Mr Smith's family of nineteen (Oxford), Claire Parham's wedding party, Kaiapoi Men's Hockey Team in fancy dress (cross-dressing), and Leithead and Blackwell family members at Main Drain. Buildings include Jollie's Pass Hotel (Hamner Springs), R Evans' flour mill (Ohoka), Kaiapoi Borough School, John Sims residence (Kaiapoi), Tuahiwi Town Hall, Waverley Railway Station, Hamner Post Office, Hamner Plains Sanatorium, Blencowe Grammar School (Cumberland, England, 1859), Marston (Kaiapoi), and Cheviot Post Office. Interior of Wanganui Museum (featuring [whale?] skeleton) and Christchurch Cathedral. Miscellaneous images include various coach scenes, Paterson's Creek rail bridge (Otorama), sheep dipping in the high country, first grave and early working-man's cottage (Rangiora), scenic images of farmland and mountains in Canterbury Region, sheep at R W Chapman's estate (Lowland Leas), trees planted by J L Wilson and Inspector Buckley at post office site, cliffs at Summerhill, Waimakariri Water Supply (Brown Rock intake), shingle being carted to Main Drain (Skew Bridge, Flaxton), triumphant arc on Kaiapoi Bridge (coronation of Edward VII), Hereford Street (Christchurch), swans gifted to Kaiapoi Domain by Glenmark Station, R Evans' wheat crop at Clifton (Waikari), Waimakariri Gorge railway and dray bridge, entrance to Riccarton Racecourse, crowd in Runanga Hall courtyard (Tuahiwi), HMS 'Powerful' and HMS 'Challenger' docked at Lyttelton, and riverside camping and the bluff at Cheviot. Collected images by named photographers include Maori portraits and objects by Charles Spencer. Album includes cyanotype of Richard Seddon and a group of unidentified men. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: [188-?], [194-?], 1948

By: Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Dolph, Charles, active 1973

Reference: PAColl-0500

Description: Photographs of thermal activity in the Orakei Korako area ca 1940s with an older photograph of the Pink Terraces (photographer C Spencer). Also includes images of a rafting trip on the Waikato River in 1948 that relates to an enclosed newspaper clipping. Also included is a letter from the donor. Relationship complexity - Film Archive holds a film of the same trip down the Waikato River at F39221. The record for F39221 also has a link to a letter written in 1998 by on the the three men in the boat. Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: The photographs were owned by Mr and Mrs Hamilton who ran the tourist area of Orakei Korako ca 1947 and donated by Charles Dolph.

Date: ca 1870s-ca 1910

By: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Ring, James, 1856-1939; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Valentine, James, -1880; Cottier, Charles Percy, -1950; Wilson, George Washington, 1823-1893; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Ross & Sons (Firm); New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PAColl-0195

Description: Tourist photographs of the major scenic places in New Zealand Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 container(s) 214 photoprints. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Finch, F, active 1878-1900; Iles, Arthur James, 1870-1943; Le Grice, Edward, 1881-1959; Malaghan, Patrick Thomas, -1938; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Ross, Charles S, active 1890s-1900s; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Valentine, James, -1880

Reference: PAColl-0959-40

Description: New Zealand scenes including thermal areas in the North Island, and river, mountain and roading scenes in the South Island, taken by various identified and unidentified photographers between about the 1880s and 1900s. Two photographers, Josiah Martin and Patrick Thomas Malaghan took most of the images. Other identified photographers include Edmund Wheeler, F. Finch, A.J. Iles, Charles Spencer, Edward Le Grice, J.V. (James Valentine), and Ross (Photographer, Invercargill). Several of the unidentified photographers are listed under their initials only, and include one with the initials T.S.M (or S.T.M. in a monogram), also A.A.B., R.G., Rooney, Luney (?), and L.M. A large number of those taken by Patrick Malaghan show Skippers Road and the Shotover River, with Pinchers Bluff, Huttons Cutting, Hell's Gate, and Skippers Creek. Thermal areas in the North Island show the Pink and White Terraces before the 1886 eruption of mount Tarawera, and also a number taken after the eruption, including the remnants of Te Ariki Pa. A large number also show various geysers, mud pools and hot springs. One method of crossing rivers is shown with the Hooker Wire Bridge (or Hooker Cage) and a "chair" travelling across a wire in Skippers over the Shotover River. Note on this box reads: "1st Ball Hut print" (no. 33); and "J. Martin "Mt Cook"" (no. 66). Most of the places identified are listed above. Other Titles - Old P.O.P. Quantity: 154 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: 1880s-1910

From: Pugh family: Photographs

By: Pugh, Charles Trevor, 1912-1989; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PAColl-4620

Description: Photographs forming part of the stock of Christchurch art dealers and picture framers McCormick & Pugh. Contains views of the Rotomahana thermal district taken by Charles Spencer ca 1880s, scenes in the Hurunui district ca 1880s-1890s, and Christchurch. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 48 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: ca 1903-1930

By: Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PAColl-4255

Description: Photographs of tourists next to the waterfall at Te Wairoa; the Pink Terraces; and two of White Island. Photographer was C Spencer. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1905]

By: Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PAColl-8369

Description: View of Mount Ruapehu from the service road above the spiral, showing flax bushes and small buildings, taken circa 1905 by Charles Spencer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.2 x 16.6 cm

Date: [Circa 1930s]

By: New Zealand Railways; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-f-051

Description: Publicity photographs taken by various unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways Department. The first sequence shows Napier before the 1931 earthquake, and after. Photographs include various buildings seriously damaged, including the hospital, the Masonic Hotel, Public Trust offices in Napier and in Hastings, the Hastings Post Office, and a view of the Napier Park Refugee Camp. Further sequences show areas of interest in New Zealand, including an early photograph of the Pink and White Terraces taken by Charles S Spencer (before the Tarawera eruption in 1886); the Government Sanatorium in Rotorua showing various therapeutic facilities and treatments including diathermy treatment, the private slipper bath, the auxiliary massage douche and the cooling room; a group of men working on carvings at the Rotorua School of Maori Arts and Crafts; members of the Rotorua Hunt Club riding out; Chateau Tongariro interior and exterior views; the Blue Baths in Rotorua; Akitio Homestead and Maunsell's Homestead (Tinui); the Hermitage and Tasman Chalet at Mount Cook (Aoraki); and the Government Accomodation House at Waitomo. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, red spine, entitled `Tours Book B2'; 36.5 x 49.5 cm