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Date: 1914

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-914

Description: Opens with a group of men on a tramp into the valley of the Orongorongo River in the southern Rimutaka Ranges. Included are views of the river and surrounding mountains, in particular Mount Matthews which they climbed posing for a photograph at the Mt Matthews trig station. There are views in the native forest and one looking over the Wainuiomata Valley. One image shows a group of men standing on the Fernside Railway Station labled as the "Mt Hector Party". This probably relates to a group of photographs later in the album recording a tramp in the Taraua Ranges. A group of five photographs records a trip to the Dawson Falls on Mount Egmont. There are views of the road leading to the falls through native forest, the group sitting on a huge rock below the falls, and the falls themselves. The other images in this group show the party on the Mountain, and loaded onto a cart at Eltham. Two pages of views of Days Bay, Lower Hutt, showing individual houses, Croyden School, and coastal scenes. A surveying trip to Kapiti Island. Views of the western cliff face of the island, the caretaker's house and surroundings, a tame deer, nautilus shells, and H E Girdlestone standing beside an 8 inch micrometer on a tripod. Views of the Volcanic Plateau showing Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro and the surrounding plains. The departure of the Main Expeditionary Force from Wellington during the First World War. The focus of these images is on the transports moored at the wharves, and the two escorting warships, the Japanese "Ibuki" and the British H M S "Minotaur", in the harbour. A group of women playing golf on the Waiwhetu golf links Family and friends at Eastbourne. Trip to the West Coast and the glaciers. Views of the main road south of Ross passing through heavy native forest, the Franz Josef Glacier and people climbing its ice fields, Mount Tasman, the Toaroha Rapids, and the Fox Glacier. There are also views of the Pelorus River and Bridge, the Buller Gorge, the Buller River, and the bridge on the road between Lyell and Inangahua. A general view of Greymouth where the party stayed with friends whoes two children were photographed driving peddle cars. A southern crossing of the Tararua Ranges. The route was by way of Mount Reeves, then down into the Tauherenikau River valley, along the river, then up to Mount Alpha and along the ridges to Hector and out again along the Waiotauru River to Otaki Forks. There are two photographs of members of the tramping party, as well as general views of the ranges, the rivers, a mountain tarn, and the Waihoanga Bridge. A visit to the Army training camp at Trentham. Photographs of individual soldiers and groups of soldiers and visitors. Three views of a man on horseback and a dog in the Manganuiateo River. Three images of surveyors making observations at a trig station using an 8 inch micrometer. Views of the Southern Alps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1925

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1052

Description: Album recording a motoring and camping holiday through the South Island of New Zealand. This took in the New Zealand South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and included the West Coast, Otago, and Canterbury. The central part of the album has images of Khandallah, Wellington, and the family home in that suburb. Family photographs include Doug on his Norton Motorcycle, and Jack and Neville similarly posed on a Douglas Motorcycle. Rene and Frank stand at the net holding tennis rackets, and mother has several images with young Joyce. The last part of the album recordes something of a holiday to Auckland where the family camped at Brown's Bay and took a trip to Kawau Island. A group shot on Mt Messanger on the way back and some views of Pukekura Park New Plymouth complete the album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7810

Description: Transparency slides of various locations, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: 1950-2000

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-113

Description: Photographs related to towns and cities, in the alphabetical range NAT to S. Taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: ca 1925-ca 1955

From: Nichols, James Keith, 1909-1972 :Collection of negatives and photographic prints, taken by James Keith Nichols

Reference: PAColl-0190-23

Description: Some views of Nelson and Dunedin; views of the Kapiti coast; Tramping in the eastern and western Hutt Valley and views of native forest and forest rivers and streams taken along the way; trampers and mountaineers in the Tararua Ranges and the Southern Alps; tramping huts, snow and glaciers; views of the Marlborough Sounds; a tramp in the mountains in the Wilkin River area north west of Lake Wanaka; a tramp in the Tararua Ranges inland from Paraparaumu; children on the beach, babies, and Maori children. Quantity: 279 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1928

From: Musker, Doris :Photograph albums and slides

Reference: PA1-o-1007

Description: Commercial tourist photographs of the Heritage, Mount Cook, Mount Sefton, Lake Pukaki, the Tasman and Hochstetter glaciers, the Red Lake on Mount Sebastopol. Other prints record a trip into the mountains by a group of gym clad school girls and their adult minders. These include the group eating near a stone built camp fire, crossing a swing foot bridge, and climbing an ice cliff Other unidentified images include girl guide groups, portraits of girls, more school girls, an interior view of of a sitting room fire place, and a house and a sea view at Plimmerton. Wellington City is represented by the Kelburn Cable Car terminus and the Skyline Tearooms. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca1949-ca1955

From: Lewers, Neville Robert, 1913- :Photographic negatives, transparencies and prints

Reference: PAColl-6180-01

Description: Skating on the Manorburn Reservoir in the early 1950s; two panoramas of Wellington City ca 1949; harvesting wheat, hay and potatoes; seabirds; maps of New Zealand, and a Goldie portrait of a Maori Woman; Hick's Bay, White Island, and an aerial view of the Southern Alps. Quantity: 32 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1781-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down from a hillside towards Queenstown on the far left on the shores of Lake Wakatipu. Kelvin Peninsula on the right of the township. The Remarkables, snow-capped in left background, and snow-capped mountains in the Southern Alps in the centre background. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Queenstown. New Zealand. No. 655 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 111.0 cm

Date: 15 March 1969

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-68473-F

Description: View of Lake Tekapo and the surrounding countryside. In the forground can be seen the Tekapo River, and at the lake's edge the town of Lake Tekapo. The Southern Alps are in the background. Photograph taken 15 March 1969 by Leo White. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13.8 x 13.4 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder blue 218, Lake Tekapo.

Date: September 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-47533-F

Description: Collingwood, the Aorere River mouth, surrounding countyrside, and mountains in the distance, Golden Bay, New Zealand. Photographed by Whites Aviation in September 1958. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13.1 x 10.7 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder Blue 63, Collingwood.

Date: 1935

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-1935-01

Description: Shows a frontal picture of a laughing young woman waterskier. The crowded beach and town of Timaru are in the background. Dated from the same image that appears on the cover of a brochure, dated approximately 1935 (at Eph-A-TOURISM-Canterbury-1935). Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 880 x 578 mm.

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28655-F

Description: Aerial photograph of Collingwood, the Aorere River mouth, surrounding countyrside, and mountains in the distance, Golden Bay, New Zealand. Photographed by Whites Aviation in May 1951. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13.1 x 10.7 cm

Date: September 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-47534-F

Description: Collingwood, the Aorere River mouth, Golden Bay and coastal hinterland, New Zealand. Photographed by Whites Aviation in September 1958. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13.1 x 10.7 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder Blue 63, Collingwood.