Places

Date: [Between 1938 and 1940]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-061

Description: Album of publicity photographs, and photographs of posters and advertisements taken by unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways. Many of the images in this album were taken for a series of articles written by Oliver Neal Gillespie between January 1939 and June 1940, published in the New Zealand Railways Magazine. The series was entitled "Buy New Zealand goods and build New Zealand. New Zealand Industries Series". These contribute the largest group of images in the album, covering a wide range of industries. They include men's and women's clothing manufacturers; electrical engineering companies such as Pallo Engineering (petrol pumps), National Engineering (Neeco electric ovens), Standard Engineering Company; tobacco factories; potteries; Nugget shoe polish factory; brushware factories; and companies associated with the manufacture of food products (eg Watties canneries, Edmonds Baking Powder, Griffins and Bycrofts biscuit makers, and Whittome & Stevenson sauce and pickle makers. There are other sequences of images, including newly built state housing in Lower Hutt, with some houses still under construction beside the Hutt River, a streetscape, and a children's playground (p 7-8); a large crowd joining in a send-off of R.S.A. men to Australia in April 1938; a train laden with boxes of oranges from Rarotonga, the "Special orange train from Auckland"; and photographs of charts showing the progress of the New Zealand Government Railways, with railways workshops staff organisation charts (for Otahuhu, Addington, Hutt & Hillside Workshops (p 28-29). On p 35 there are views of a new hangar at Rongotai Aerodrome, under construction, then views of the completed exterior and the interior with a row of Blackburn B-5 Baffin bi-planes. Several images show collection of Railway sports trophies (including cups for their cricket teams), and two views of New Zealand Railways staff member Neil Edwards, a tennis champion who represented New Zealand in Britain in 1939. Pages 39-41 show the construction of a large dredge on the West Coast; p 57 show a burst watermain on Waterloo Quary, wellington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous 7'; 41 x 61 cm

Date: 1868 - 1869

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Central Otago goldmining areas, 2 dated 1880]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-032-q-3-015

Description: View from the sea looking towards a large port on Banks Peninsula with eight vessels at anchor. The view appears to be of either Akaroa or Lyttelton The drawings numbers E-032-q-3-014-1 to E-032-q-3-019 were originally in the back pocket of the sketchbook numbered E-032-q-2 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 74 x 250 mm

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-386

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm

Date: 1868

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, between 1860 and 1868]

Reference: E-033-4-037

Description: View from the promontory north of the town, looking along the waterfront at the houses of the town, with a tall hill behind Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on dark green wove paper, 118 x 199 mm

Date: 1920 - 1939

By: Farquharson, Christopher Horace, 1899-1980

Reference: PAColl-0021

Description: Quantity: 45 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1845

By: Meryon, Charles, 1821-1868

Reference: B-014-008

Description: The thatched roof and side wall of a hut, a tree fern rising above it and a toitoi to the right. The hut is set amongst hills, with fishing nets drying in front of it and the smoke from a fire in the distance. The hut appears to be in the hills behind Akaroa, not at the waterfront. Watermarked: Hudelist with a coat of arms Other Titles - The cottage of the former soldier colonist at Akaroa, New Zealand [translation] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 63 x 59 mm (image); 80 x 74 mm (plate mark); on sheet 324 x 495 mm

From: Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988 :Photographs of New Zealand buildings

Reference: 1/4-F74478-F

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

Date: 1873-1928

By: Baker, Josephine Harriette Anne, 1858-1913

Reference: MS-Papers-0167

Description: Mainly diaries and inward correspondence from her husband, relations and friends including Flora Acland, 1879-1885; Fanny Bagot, 1875-1876; her grandmother, F. A. Dicken, 1879; sister Ada Dicken, 1876-1899, Beatrice `Bebe' Knight, 1899, and Eleanor Inman, 1873-1899; Emma Packe, n.d.; her aunt Augusta Parker, 1875-1889; and Amelia Soder, 1885; referring to domestic events. Includes reminiscences of her childhood in England written between 1891 and 1905. Also essays, recipe books, poetry, sketches and other writings, as well as some personal material associated with her husband who had a private school for boys at French Farm, Akaroa Includes shipboard diary kept by T S Baker on board the Dallam Tower, 11 May-26 Jul 1873, and a fragment of the original passenger list. The ship left London in May 1873. The ship encountered a cyclone in July 1873 which dismasted the ship. Some passengers were transshipped to the `Cape Clear' for Sydney and others stayed on the `Dallam Tower' to Melbourne where they transshipped to the SS Albion for the final voyage to New Zealand Josephine `Dodo' Dicken emigrated from England in 1873 with her father Thomas and sisters and brothers. The Family settled on a property at French Farm, Banks Peninsula. She married Thomas Southey Baker in Christchurch, 17 December 1878. They had four daughters. Quantity: 86 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, Mss Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 7 Mar 1975

From: New Zealand Public Radio : Concert FM New Zealand Composer Sound Archive

By: Pruden, Larry Carrol, 1925-1982; New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Matheson, John, 1928-2009

Reference: MSDT-0156-5

Description: Performer: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Performer: Matheson, John (cond) Quantity: 1 DAT tape(s). 4.25 Minutes and seconds Duration. Finding Aids: NZ Public Radio listing. Provenance: Concert FM

Date: 1843 - 1846

By: Meryon, Charles, 1821-1868

Reference: B-014-013

Description: Photograph of sketch printed from microfilm in ATL of original reports and letters by Meryon in the British Museum. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of sketch

Date: [ca 1904-1909]

By: McNab, Robert, 1864-1917

Reference: MS-1139

Description: Material extracted by Robert McNab from New Zealand material in French archives (including the archives of the Ministere de la Marine) concerning Lavaud and his vessel l'Aube Contains significant parts of two essays written by Lavaud, commandant of L'Aube. These essays describe the attempts of colonisation of the South Island of New Zealand by the French, principally in Akaroa. Some passages try to rehabilitate Baron de Thierry. Contains various letters, most of them to Lavaud, among are which letters from Bishop Pompallier about Wallis and Futuna, letters from William Hobson and letters from C B Robinson (postmaster at Akaroa). Although most of the volume is in French, some letters are in English. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (pp 248-385). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue buckram) Provenance: Collected by Robert McNab, probably during 1904-1909 when he was doing archival research into early New Zealand history. The handwriting is not by McNab, which suggests the document was compiled for him in France. Processing information: Previously catalogued under Lavaud, Charles Francois

Date: ca 1962-1981

By: Hill, Irene Faye, 1923-2014; Friedlander, Marti, 1928-2016

Reference: PAColl-7746

Description: Collection comprises: Slides of Faye Hill and her work Photographs and slides of Toss Woollaston and his family, including a series taken by Marti Friedlander ca 1979 Photographs of the Chatham Islands relating to Hill's interest in dendroglyphs Photographs and slides of artists' studios in Akaroa and Central Otago Series of slides taken in Sydney in 1979 Includes photocopies showing original arrangement of photographs in album Arrangement: Negatives (PAColl-7746-1) housed at 1/4-108056 to 108057, prints on shelf at PAColl-7746-2, transparencies (PAColl-7746-2) at PA12-3267 to 3270 Quantity: 2 colour original negative(s). 42 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s). 11 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s). 80 colour original transparency/ies. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Reference A2003-304.

Date: ca 1920s

By: Murray-Oliver, Anthony Audrey St. Clair Murray, 1915-1986

Reference: PAColl-4526

Description: Three packets of commercially produced snapshots of Timaru, published by A R Clark, of Akaroa, published by J L Buckland, and of Franz Josef Glacier, produced by R Warburton. Also two colour photographs of unidentified early paintings of New Zealand views. The two colour prints have the name K J Chambers of Tauroa, Havelock North on the envelopes. Quantity: 36 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour copy photographic print(s).

Date: 1840

By: Stanley, Owen, 1811-1850

Reference: E-128-q-002

Description: Looking south along the beach with three large pitched tents on the shoreline and groups of settlers. cf. E1 28/2 & 2a, postcard and magazine reproductions of same watercolour. Original is the property of Royal Society Tasmania, and held in the Tasmanian Gallery and Museum, Hobart. The Alexander Turnbull Library is not able to provide copies of this postcard. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph (postcard), 89 x 139 mm glued to sheet 275 x 215 mm

Date: June 1899

By: Simons, Barbara, active 1990; Taylor, T E, active 1899

Reference: PAColl-1643

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 14.5 x 9.9 cm, on mount 16.5 x 10.5 cm

Date: 1868

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, between 1860 and 1868]

Reference: E-033-4-016

Description: Rough sketch with view of the nave of a Victorian Gothic church, looking across the tops of pews towards the east end, with 3 lancet windows discernable. Probably the Anglican church in Akaroa Details of the roof of the same church can be seen on p. 22 of this sketchbook (E-033-4-022) St Peter's Anglican Church, rue Balgueri, was built in 1863, replacing an earlier building Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper, 118 x 199 mm

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-9/3/50-Acc.

Description: Undated colour coded map showing population of Akaroa Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil, and colour tracing on white paper. Scale indeterminable. 44 x 58.5 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1950 - 1979

By: Lee, Owen Raymond, 1918-2002; Farmer-Lee, E, active 1970s

Reference: E-615

Description: Includes photographs of drawings of buildings made for his book "Patterns of the past; some historic New Zealand buildings" (1977). Also includes photographs of eight portrait drawings of heads and nudes. The buildings featured in the drawings are (from North): St John's Church Waimate North; Stone store and mission house Kerikeri; Mansion house Kawau; Ferry Building Quay Street Auckland; Chief Post office Auckland; Jewish Synagogue Auckland; Melanesian Mission Museum Mission Bay; Ewelme Cottage Parnell Auckland; Old wooden buildings Victoria Street Auckland; "Alberton" Mt Albert Road Auckland; Mokai ghost town near Taupo; General Assembly Library and Parliament Buildings Wellington; Provincial Council Chambers Christchurch; Provincial Council Buildings - Bellamy's; Langlois-Eteveneaux Cottage Akaroa; Holme Station homestead South Canterbury; Lighthouse Timaru; Springdale historic farm buildings south of Timaru; St Augustine Church of England Waimate; Railway Station Dunedin; Corner of Cumberland and Dundas Streets Dunedin; Law Courts Dunedin; Terrace houses Stuart Street Dunedin; Buckingham Street Arrowtown; Sunderland Street Clyde. There are also three unidentified drawings (E-615-034/036). Also includes three photographs of paintings by E Farmer-Lee: "Feisal's Night Camp", "The Estuary", and Approaching dusk, Denmark, 1972" (E-615-037/039). Quantity: 39 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photographs, sizes varying up to 95 x 130 mm. Provenance: From the estate of Owen R Lee. Transfers: Negatives for these photographic prints, acquired at the same time, are housed in the Photographic Archive..

Date: [1939-1950]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-116

Description: Photographs, published (or considered for publication), in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1930s-1950s. Names and date of publication recorded on the back. Names of selected identified subjects entered in Name field. Includes a series of thirteen photographs taken at the Akaroa centennial procession, Dec 1950, of floats and people involved, including one of Mrs S A Glynan (President of Parent Teachers Association) handing out icecreams. Three photos of E W (Ted) Heald of Christchurch (with moustache), published 26 Apr 1950; Joe Parsons (ex jockey) of Auckland, article and photo published 29 Mar 1950 (p 41); three photos of Holme Station at Pareora, South Canterbury, article and photos published 29 Mar 1950 (p 5); naval guests at the Viceregal Garden Party held at Government House, Auckland (Captain J H Ruck-Keene of HMNZS Bellona and his wife, & Mr & Mrs Hugh Wright of Auckland), published 15 Feb 1950 (p 14); 2 photos of Fenton family reunion, descendants of John James Fenton, article and photos published 8 Feb 1950 (p 22); large group of English immigrants who arrived at Wellington on the Atlantis, article & photo published 8 Feb 1950 (p 16); 100 year old English nun Sister St Daniel of Liverpool, published 19 Jun 1940; two photos of Kings Empire Veterans reunion held in Auckland, ca Apr 1950; old Rakaia bridge, ca 1934 & new Rakaia traffic bridge built ca Mar 1939; women cycling at Lake Wanaka; Fox Glacier, ca May 1950; crew from the Wanganella (which went aground) disembarking from an aeroplane at Auckland, Dec 1948; etc Eight photographs of elderly Arrowtown men, taken for publication in Jun 1940 by J D S Roberts of Bannockburn Quantity: 42 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1843-1844

From: United Kingdom. Admiralty : Records relating to the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-05-3296

Description: Includes large collection of papers re French claim to Akaroa and Banks Peninsula, including the visit of the French battleship Le Rhin. Also includes papers of HMS North Star, sent to New Zealand in 1843, after the Wairau Affray. Detailed descriptions of the settlements at Wellington, Auckland and Akaroa. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).