Places

Date: 1986

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1986-1

Description: Includes calendars: Alexander Turnbull Library Calendar, 1986. Seven colour prints from watercolours of New Zealand cities and towns painted by W S Hatton between 1859 and 1869. Published by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust. Printed by Inprint Ltd, Wellington. (2 copies). Auckland City 1986 Calendar. Fourteen black and white prints of Auckland streets and buildings from photographs by John Reynolds and Deborah Smith. Produced by Elizabeth Treep and Felicity Wallace. Supported by Auckland Architectural Association, Graeme Burgess, Development Action Group, DKD Cafe, Kirsty van der Jeijden, Peter Walker, Peter Were (2 copies) Banks Peninsula New Zealand, 1986 Calendar. Thirteen colour prints of scenic views of Banks Peninsula from photographs taken by Martin London. Published by Martin London, and printed at the Caxton Press, Christchurch. Camp and Cabin Association of New Zealand (Inc), 1986-1987. Single sheet calendar with a graphic colour print of drawings of New Zealand peopled with holiday makers. Fruitfed Export; Every tray a golden tray. Seven colour prints of fruit exported from New Zealand by Fruitfed Export (a division of the NZ Fruitgrowers Federation Ltd). Native Forests Calendar, 1986. Thirteen colour prints of scenic New Zealand views by various photographers. Published by the New Zealand Native Forests Action Council. New Zealand High Country '86; Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society Calendar. Thirteen colour prints of high country views from photographs taken by Barney Brewster, and black and white illustrations of New Zealand birds by Pat Prendergast. New Zealand Labourers Union (Northern Branch); Weekend Warriors. Six colour cartoons by Robert Scriven (Auckland based advertising cartoonist and illustrator). Palmerston North; Houses from 1880 to the present day. Twelve black and white prints of Palmerston North houses from photographs taken by Maggie Grant. Produced by the Palmerston North City Council City Planning Department. PhotoForum 1986 Calendar. Single sheet calendar with a black and white print of a photograph of Clair Tomelty at the Rotowaro State Coal Mines taken by David Cook in 1984. Designed by Alan Loney and printed by Lowes Secretarial and Printing Bureau, Lower Hutt. Shell 1986; New Zealand National Parks. Seven colour prints from photographs of scenic views taken in national parks by Andris Apse. Designed by Ilott Advertising Limited and printed by Pictorial Publications Limited. Twelve New Zealand Artists. Twelve colour prints of art works. Produced by Optic Art P.O. Auckland, and printed by Quadrant Press Auckland. Art advisor, Mary Vavasour. University of Otago Pictorial Calendar, 1986; Images of people of the Pacific from the Hocken Library Collection. Thirteen colour prints, eleven of which are taken from coloured engravings of Pacific islanders in their native costumes by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1756-1810). Produced and designed by Manson Wright and Peter Scott. Colour separations by Xenon Graphics and printed by Allied Press. (2 copies). Quantity: 14 calendars. Physical Description: Offset lithographs, varying sizes. Provenance: Some calendar donated by the Hocken Library and Christchurch City Libraries, 2011-2012. One calendar donated by Dylan Owen, Wellington in 2013.

Date: 1950 to 1957

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-014

Description: Adkin album. Wellington (2), nos. 241-441. Views of Wellington taken between 1950 and 1957. Includes harbour swim event at Evans Bay, 26 February 1950; speedboat contests at Evans Bay, 4 March 1950; Patent slip and the Union Steam Ship Co's wharf at Evans Bay; tulip Sunday at the Wellington Botanic Garden (15 October 1950); Evans Bay Yacht Club yard in use as a temporary base for Solent flying boats with the Ararangi at a mooring; various views of reclamation undertaken by TEAL for their flying boat service at Evans Bay, and flying boats. Many of the images in this album are linked with Evans Bay, as Adkin was living at 424 Evans Bay Parade in the 1950s, several images showing the house. Views of Wellington from the Mount Victoria lookout and from the Tinakori Ridge Radio Station, in 1952; the old Robert Hannah residence in Boulcott Street; views of the inner city including the upper end of Ghuznee St., Upper Willis St., the Children's Dental Clinic. Image no. 313 shows a house at 214 Upper Willis Street (known as Restwyn), taken in Feb 1953, while image no. 434 shows the same site in January 1957 after the house had been demolished. Numbers of images show preparations and decorations for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. There are many photographs of preparation for extending the airport at Rongotai, showing Moa Point Hill in course of destruction to provide spoil for reclamation, and also Rongotai Ridge, with one view of a house being moved from the ridge, also showing development of the breakwater at Moa Point, all taken betwen 1953 and 1957. A 1954 image shows an extension to the Town Hall under construction for municipal offices in December 1953; the Hinemoa at No. 1 Ferry Wharf; preparations and decorations for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in December 1953, including decorations at the Railway Station, Defence Stores Building in Featherston St., Kirkcaldie & Stains, James Smiths Corner, DIC, and the GPO. Image taken in March 1956 shows a house with turret on the corner of Upper Willis St and Aro St (a house which was shown in CD Barraud's painting of 1877). Views of yachting in the harbour, Ward Island, and the Eastbourne seawall. Outcast yacht is pictured.

Date: [Between 1934 and 1938]

By: New Zealand Railways; Blaikie, William Nicol, -1938; Matthews, Marmaduke, 1885?-1949

Reference: PA1-f-060

Description: Album of publicity photographs, chiefly taken by unidentified photographers in the 1930s. Many are photographs of posters, artwork and advertisements, all emphasising the beauty of New Zealand, and how easy it is to travel through the country by rail, and by the New Zealand Railways bus and ferry services. Some of the artwork was done by Stanley Davis (one photograph shows the funeral of S. Davis, with the hearse parked outside the funeral parlour in Kent Terrace, Wellington); and by Marmaduke Matthews. (On page 53 there is a photograph of a black and white sketch of Victoria University College, by Marmaduke Matthews). There is a photograph also of the painting of Sir Ernest Rutherford, by Oswald Birley. Photographs of places include a sequence showing the Dominion Museum and Art Gallery in Wellington, with an exterior view with the Carillon, and interior views of museum exhibits, art gallery spaces (including one room containing the Murray Fuller Exhibition of Contemporary British Art), and the tea-rooms. Several views show the exterior and interior of the Alexander Turnbull Library, with Clyde Taylor the librarian in two scenes seated at his desk, and one of a reader in the reading room. Another sequence shows horses, sheep and bulls being readied for transportation by ferry. Two group portraits are associated with the Empire Games, one entitled `Empire athletes', and the other showing cyclist Roy Taylor with a group. Other group portraits are not identified, though one is entitled `Staff Xmas party 1937'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous 6'; 41 x 58 cm