Places

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: 1901

Reference: PA1-f-064

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901. Scenes include the arrival of the royal visitors at various places, by ship, Royal carriages, and Royal train; ceremonies and rites welcoming them; views of triumphal arches erected for the tour, including Marble Arch (Queen Street, Auckland), the Auckland Harbour Board Arch, the Citizen's Arch (Wellesley Street), and the Government Arch (City of Wellington). Other ceremonies are associated with the presentation of war-medals; the laying of foundation stones (Victoria College for Maori Girls, Parnell, Auckland), the Wellington Town Hall, and the Queens Memorial Statue in Dunedin); and the march past and inspection of various guards, troops and veterans. One photograph shows Lord Ranfurly in Auckland, reading the proclamation extending the boundaries of the colony to include the Cook Islands (p 16). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "Visit of Duke of Cornwall and York (King George V.). 1901. Maoris - Auckland. Wellington. Christchurch". Hand-printed in ink on slip attached to front cover.

Date: ca 1900s

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 17

Reference: PAColl-7489-90

Description: Elevated view of Russell with Pompallier House in the foreground, other buildings along the waterfront and the wharf in the distance next to the hotel. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1937

By: Thompson, Sydney Lough, 1877-1973; New Zealand. School Publications Branch

Reference: A-320-027

Description: A reproduction of Sydney Thompson's oil painting, showing a general view of the wharves, waterside buildings and anchored ships at Lyttelton. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 280 x 400 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane auction, Wellington, 13 May 2004, lot 333. From the estate of Owen R Lee.

Date: 1903

By: Vaniman, Melvin, 1866-1912

Reference: Eph-E-BUILDINGS-Auckland-1903-01

Description: Shows a panoramic view of Auckland with the wharves in the foreground, probably taken from above the end of a pier or bridge. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Protected 9.2.'03 / Melvin Vaniman / San Francisco Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 333 x 1004 mm.

Date: [ca 1908]

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6408

Description: Postcards of St Mark's Church, Remuera; the Waikato River at Hamilton; HM fleet in Lyttelton harbour; two of the Pavilion baths and grounds in Rotorua; the view from the grounds from the tower of bath house, Rotorua; an evening view of the Marine Parade gardens, Napier; the anglican church at Onehunga; a commemorative postcard of the dash to the south pole by Shackleton in 1908; Ferry Bridge over the Waiau River at Hanmer taken by Muir & Moodie; three views of boating at Hamurana Springs; Lakelet in the park, Queenstown; main street in Cust; Auckland Exhibition Grounds; Somerville Memorial Church at Remuera; Myers Park and Kindergarten; St David's Presbyterian Church; beach at Sumner, Christchurch; sanatorium and band rotunda, Te Aroha. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Prints also housed at PA5-0109 and PA5-0085. Quantity: 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 8 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 14 b&w original photographic print(s).

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

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039444-G

Description: Queen Charlotte Sound from Picton wharf. A steamship is approaching the wharf, upon which is a group that includes a cadet guard of honour. A decorated arch is at the entrance to the wharf. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: [ca 1900]

Reference: PA4-0781

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Government Wharf, Wellington Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Government Wharf, Wellington, N.Z.; Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Backing board recto - left of image - Tibbutt Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: [ca 1910s]

Reference: PAColl-6888

Description: Two images of a man cutting his son's hair sitting on a waka next to the Whanganui River; two of a waka being rowed on the river and one of the crew holding their hoe; a cow being lifted by a winch into a boat; yachts and row boats in Auckland harbour for the Auckland Regatta; two of Auckland harbour ferries; a steamer at a pier on the Whanganui River; three children playing on a shore line near Auckland with a pier in the background; a group of men, women and children round a camp fire with a makeshift tent in the background; and a row of houses with the wreckage left from a fire in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044216 to 044228 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945; Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4534

Description: Postcard of Partington's Mill with Eady's Piano Van in front of it and the junction of Queen and Customs Street with Thames Hotel and trams taken by Frederick Radcliffe; statue of Logan Campbell in Cornwall Park; Lake Tarawera taken by Blencowe; Lyttelton harbour taken by Muir & Moodie; and Evans Bay, photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: One print at PAColl-6181-10.

Date: [1910s-1920s?]

Reference: PAColl-9667

Description: Photograph of a large fire at a building near the Bayswater wharves on the North Shore. In the background is Devonport, Stanley Point and Rangitoto Island. In the foreground are boats sitting in Shoal Bay. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1954

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

Reference: Plans-2006-058-197

Description: Shows a view of piers along the Auckland waterfront, with city buildings in the background. Text at the side reads: The waterfront / The coming together of water & land / Noise & bustle of the floor plane - the sombre quietness of buildings above road level. / Quiet rhythm of the piers supporting the movement plane. / Quiet sparkle of water - calmness Original file numbering was: 004.06.02.011 Quantity: 1 plan(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing, 390 x 560 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: ca 1907

By: Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?

Reference: PAColl-6576

Description: Two views of the wharves at Westport with many ships moored, one with a man standing punting in the foreground. Photographer was Henry Thomas Lock as identified by the initials HTL. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015412 to 015413 Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1930 - 1939

By: Macmillan, Ethel Louisa, -1942

Reference: A-006-024

Description: Subject:Possibly Wellington Harbour Date conjectured from dated items in collection (see A-006-020/37) Inscriptions: Verso - In pencil in donor's hand: "Ethel Macmillan, Tauranga" Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour over pencil 174 x 259mm

Date: 1931 - 1939

From: Wickham, Charles, 1853-1940s :Family album. Uncle Charlie's unfinished drawings. [1926-1941].

Reference: E-563-q-26

Description: Shows a sketch of Days Bay from the south, looking along the beach towards the pier in the background. In the foreground are two isolated sheds, possibly used as changing sheds. One of them has wheels. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) inserted into slits in page of album.. Physical Description: Pencil, ink and watercolour, 183 x 248 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Mr Thomas H Hudson of England in 1997.

Date: [ca 1909-1925]

By: Morrison, John M, active 1883-1951

Reference: PAColl-6494

Description: Photographs of Takapuna and Milford. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-016625 to 016630, 1/2- 031823 and 101744 Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: Manuscript material now held at qMS-1398.. Processing information: The majority of the prints do not have negatives.

Date: ca 1900-ca 1925

From: Cox, Thomas George, 1887-1973 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6712-4

Description: Most of the images in this collection are photographic postcards. The largest group are of the Wairakei thermal area taken by Frederick George Radcliffe. Others are of Kawaroa Park, New Plymouth, McRae's Hotel, Te Wairoa, Shannon, a view of the Wellington wharves and Custom House, Mount Egmont, and the Skippers road. One group are of the war memorial erected by Roseneath School, Wellington. Quantity: 27 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: ca 1910s

By: Jones, Laurie D, active 2003

Reference: PAColl-7711

Description: Photographs of scenes in Island Bay and Wellington, taken ca 1910s by an unknown photographer. Includes scene on the deck of HMS New Zealand, a sailing ship at the Wellington wharves, horse racing on a beach (probably on the south coast of Wellington), feeding horses on a farm, and an unidentified house and family in Island Bay. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-108009 to 108012, 1/2-201518 to 201522 Quantity: 9 b&w original negative(s). 3 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheets. Provenance: The negatives had been found in the 1980s in the shed of a house on the corner of Clyde and Avon Streets, Island Bay.

Date: 1901

By: Sherwood, Maud Winifred, 1880-1956; Heraud, Juliet Ann, 1928-2008

Reference: B-061-010

Description: Shows wharf at Wellington harbour with sheds and boats. The view may be from Thorndon, looking along the harbour-edge towards Queen's Wharf, where the larger ships are moored This is the earliest view by the artist, then a pupil of J. M. Nairn [shows the influence of Nairn]. Possibly exhibited in N. Z. A. F. A. 1901. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - M. W. Kimbell / 1901 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 240 x 343 mm Provenance: Presented by Mrs W. J. Hutchison, Petone, niece of the artist, 26 September 1958.