Places

Date: 1996-1997

From: Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand (Inc): Records

Reference: 2002-052-1/4A

Description: Includes submissions regarding concession applications by Fiordland Cruises Ltd, Maritime Safety Authority, Glacier Guiding Company Franz Joseph, Back Country Helicopters Ltd, Harris Mountain Heli-skiing Ltd, Hans de Reeper, Gelnorchy High Country Horses, Southern Lakes Heliski Ltd, Contact Energy, Kahurangi National Park, Nevis Snowmobile Adventures, Over The Top, The Helicopter Company, The Helicopter Line, Robert William Brown, Nick Cradock private charter guided heliski and Wilderness Adventures Ltd Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1933-1959]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Watherston, R A, active 1956

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-202

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1933-1959. Various photograph of Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu - Soldiers memorial; camping grounds; Queenstown School; Queenstown Post Office; main street; Scott Memorial in Queenstown Park; town centre, 1933; several elevated views; Queenstown Gardens; Kawarau Dam, 1949; aqua-skiing on the lake; Earnslaw; loading wool at Greenstone Bay, 1950. Franz Josef Glacier; mountaineers cutting steps on the glacier; Arrow Basin; Kaniere gold dredge at Kumara, 1959; St Mary's Church, New Plymouth; Mrs W Reid of Runanga surf casting at Crows Bay, West Coast; hay making near Waikari, North Canterbury; Honeymoon Bay in Tasman Bay. Sheep mustering on high country run of A W Gard, Mt Bell Station (near Kurow); photo of musterers (all named on back) and property owned by Gard. Photographs sent to New Free Lance with accompanying letter by R S Watherston of Springhills, 1956 Also Balclutha; Milton; Woodbank Church; Russell, car ferry at Paihia; Mr Barker's stud at Wanaka; bridge over Molyneux River; Roman Catholic Church at Tokaanu; Wanganui river boat; rock formations at Palliser Bay; yachts of man-made lake Lake Whakamarino, 1947; Cascade Saddle; Mount Egmont lighthouse; Pukekura Park; tree growing amongst rocks on Dunstan Range; Taihape Plunket Rooms; elevated view of Nelson; haymaking near Dagarville; Marion Camp, Homer Tunnel; Northland express passing down main street of Kawakawa, 1947; Centennial Memorial, Wanganui; A & P Show, Taranaki; Dobson; Victoria Park, Waimate; main street of Levin, 1930; Midhurst Co-operative Dairy Factory; St Bathans, 1947. Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Franz Joseph and Hokitika scenes] / Cranleigh Barton [1950s?]

Reference: A-227-434

Description: Shows a path running through grassland with a town on the left, includes trees and green hills and snow capped mountains in the background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 280 x 395 mm

Date: ca 1930s

By: Thiem, Benno, -1934

Reference: PAColl-7974

Description: New Zealand scenes taken by Ben Thiem of Hokitika ca 1930s. Comprises scenes in the thermal district, Maori portraits, mountains and glaciers, pastoral scenes, rivers and lakes, and bush. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Purchased from John Arnold, book and antique dealer, February 2004

Date: 1933 - 1939

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-758

Description: Includes pencil sketches with colour notes, of: dead tree Tarawera Feb 1934, bush near Te Pohue March 5th 1934, lacebark Puketitiri March 1934, several sketches of Paihia 8/3/35, Waitangi Estate -/3/35, Russel B of I ca 20 March, Wairau Falls 26 April after bicycling from Dargaville and pitching camp too tired to paint - headache and when I went to get water above falls stepped on adiantum aethipicum [maidenhair fern], watercolour sketch of puriri tree on road to Parua Bay near Whangarei 29 April 1933, kauri on upper road to sea from Newman's - pencil from watercolour Mokoia 3/6/35, pukeko, tui, kereru, ourisia from Titiokua Oct 1938, native tree Kahikata? above Akaroa jan 29th 1939, R lyallii F Josef 1939, Brunner Mitchell's Feb 1939, Moana Brunner Feb 1939, from window of the mountain house Arthur's Pass, nikau book mark (design for woodcut), [Dawson Falls book woodcut design], mahoe York Bay 1/Nov/46 (woodcut design), Devil's Punchbowl at Arthurs Pass March 8th 1939, morning shadow Arthurs Pass March 7th 1939, Franz Josef 1939, Lake Mapourika Waiho Feb 1939, rain Franz Josef Feb 1939, Tasman & Cook from Hokitika Jan 31st 1939 from wharf near Red Lion Hotel, Kowhai Taupo, Kaitoke, Lake Rotoroa Nelson, ipomea rahiata[?], Northern Wairoa near Kirikopuni day after Anzac Day 1935, young kauri Waipoua 20/4/35, branching of kauri Trouson Park 17/4/35, kauri Trounson Park 16/4/35, 3 kauri Waipoua 10?/4/35, Hatfields Beach 28/2/35 [brief sketch], Orewa 27/2/35, summit from Whakapapanui bridge below Chateau June 1934, summit [of Ruapehu from] Waiouru June 1934, Egmont from Waiouru June 1934, rimu near Te Pohue Feb 1934. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Coverless sketchbook of approximately 100 leaves, each 225 x 181 mm.

Date: [1960?s]

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7261-57

Description: Scrapbook of brochures, information sheets for guests, photographs and other papers relating to the various hotels within the THC organisation and the services they provide Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Aug 1965

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-65012-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 35 mm films strip of 10 frames

Date: 1950 - 2020

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-F

Description: Includes ephemera for hotels in the following locations: Franz Josef Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying up to 250 mm.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-2434-F

Description: Panoramic view of the large two-storeyed wooden Glacier Hotel centre left. Covered porch over the entrance on the left, no verandahs. Angled wing on the right with verandahs upstairs and downstairs. Four cars out the front with various groups of people looking towards the camera from the ground, with others on the upstairs verandahs. On the right there are two trucks near an open-sided shed, with timber lying on the ground. Bush-clad hills immediately behind and a peep of the Franz Josef Glacier in the centre and snow-capped mountains in the background. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Glacier Hotel; Photographer's title on negative - Glacier Hotel. No. 491. Franz Josef Glacier in background, N.Z.; Marginal notes on negative - 2 2 2 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 119.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-2439-F

Description: Panoramic view looking up a driveway leading to the Glacier Hotel, with an angled view of the front of the two-storeyed building in the centre of the image. A group of five men and a dog are beside a car outside a portico. A van with canvas cover is parked to the left. Another car visible further to the right of the hotel. A cleared area in the right foreground, trees, including tree ferns on the far left, centre and right of the image. Mountains in the background centre right. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Glacier Hotel. Waiho; Photographer's title on negative - "Glacier" Hotel. Waiho. Sth Westland, New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 102.6 cm

Date: 14 Nov 2002

From: Oral history of cycling in New Zealand

By: Broughton, George Wilfred, 1918-2003

Reference: OHInt-0783-01

Description: Interview with Wilf Broughton born 1918 in Rotherham, England. Describes immigrating to New Zealand with his parents when he was 8 years old and growing up during the Depression in Auckland and Christchurch. Talks about his education at Richmond Primary School and his university studies in chemistry. Discusses his various experiences of bicycle trips throughout New Zealand. Describes in detail a 1935 trip over the 'Five Passes' (Porters, Arthurs, Haast, Lindis and Burkes) with other cyclists Graeme Milne and John A. Sanderson. Mentions various highlights of this trip including the towns and people they met, difficulties in crossing rivers and the food they ate. Talks about other trips around South Island to places such as Hanmer, Lewis Pass, Westport, Karamea, Cauldervale, Heaphy Track, Nelson, Picton, Grove Track, Blenheim and Kaikoura. Mentions that he had never heard of anyone previous to him cycling the Heaphy Track. Recalls cycling trips he did when he was working in a munitions factory in Melbourne during World War Two. Including trips to Julong, Ballarat, Bendigo, Ulyangs, Albury, Mount Kosciusko and Canberra. Describes the clothing and bicycles used during these adventures. After the War he returned to New Zealand and kept cycling. Met his wife on a cycling trip to the Milford Sound when the Homer Tunnel was partially complete. Discusses various experiences of cycling tours with his wife in North and South Island. Recalls his last cycling tour and how he took up tramping instead. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 2 C100 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.40 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4148. Colour photograph of Wilf Broughton taken 14 Nov 2002 Search dates: 1918 - 2002

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1104-F

Description: Close-up panoramic view of the Waiho Hotel, Franz Josef Glacier. Two-storeyed wooden hotel with verandahs on both levels. Two cars are parked in front, and there are several groups of men and women wearing hiking clothes, carrying walking poles. Large stones edge a small lawn on the left. Trees, including cabbage trees to left and right of hotel. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Waiho Hotel. T Govt. 24; Photographer's title on negative - "Waiho Hotel" Franz Josef Glacier. New Zealand. No. 931 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 128.0 cm

Date: 1956, 1974, 1980, 1992, 1994-1995, 1997-1999

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11622

Description: Transparencies of bridges in New Zealand and other countries, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (bridge or viaduct name, and/or river/stream name, and/or road name) and location. Dates and photographer name are often but not always annotated. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in an upright slide container with two rows of slide drawers, comprising 10 slide drawers in total. Slides were arranged in the container largely alphabetically either by bridge or river name, or location name, and possibly also by type of bridge. Slides were physically arranged from top to bottom and across both rows. The container was labelled as follows: "Suspension 1 - part 4 timber truss | part 5-6 | timber truss 7 | miscellaneous 8 | steel iron 8 misc steel/iron some timber truss | 9 Scotland England USA | 10 Wales Australia". Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. 1 b&w copy transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour and black and white transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1949-1958

By: Tyrell, Norman, -1994; Hayward, Margaret Jane, 1940-

Reference: PA-Group-00367

Description: Photographs of holiday excursions and job sites taken ca 1949-1958 by railway engineer Norman Tyrell. Covers hydro-electric dams and their construction, bridges and their construction, the construction of a septic tank at Palmerston, cities, ports, Auckland Zoo, tramping and mountains and scenic New Zealand. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives in registers at F 71104 1/4 - F 71731 1/4 Photographs taken by Norman Tyrell, railway engineer, d 1994 Quantity: 627 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4779 to PA-Group-00367 in 2009.

Date: ca 1960

Reference: PAColl-6586

Description: 12 views of Westland: three showing gold mining tailings and the work done to reuse the land; two of a Dominic aircraft, one at Haast aerodrome and one at Franz Josef Glacier aerodrome; one of whitebait stands in the Hokitika river; one of a slab of greenstone being cut at the Hokitika Greenstone factory; and five of local people dressed in early pioneers' clothes, two on the restored Arthur's Pass and Otira stage coach. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-016151 to 016162 Quantity: 12 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1965-1983

By: King, Leonard, 1912-1989; King, May Ethel, 1914-2003; Sheppard, May, active 2004

Reference: PAColl-7888

Description: Collection of slides taken by Leonard and May King, 1965-1983, on their travels throughout New Zealand and Australia. Includes photographs of cities, transportation, scenic landscapes, festivals and parades. Arrangement: Transparencies at PA12-3297 to PA12-3305 Quantity: 196 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: [ca 1900-1930]

By: Gibbs, Frederick Giles, 1866-1953

Reference: PAColl-8112

Description: Scenic views of the South Island taken ca 1900-1930 by Frederick Giles Gibbs. Includes a photograph of a group at the wedding of Mr and Mrs Zohrab in Nelson. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Photographs came to Library in disordered state. Library arranged collection into geographical order. Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1937

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-NZ-1937-01-cover

Description: Shows woman in sunsuit and sunhat, seated on a rock with a view through bush to a glacier. Dated by serial number on bottom of back cover; it ends in the digits - 37. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cover of pamphlet.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 230 x 103 mm.

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Franz Joseph and Hokitika scenes] / Cranleigh Barton [1950s?]

Reference: A-227-435

Description: Shows a river running between rocks, includes trees in the background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 280 x 385 mm

Date: [1930-1934]

By: Bledisloe, Charles Bathurst, Viscount, 1867-1958

Reference: PA1-f-015

Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific taken 1930-1934 by Lord Bledisloe, comprising views of Government House (Wellington), Queen Charlotte Sound, Treaty House (Waitangi), Kawau Island, Whanganui River, Pipiriki,Jerusalem, Galatea, Ranana, Ruatahuna, Whakarewarewa, North Cape, Deep Creek (Nelson), Lake Waikaremoana, Mt Ngauruhoe, Lake Rotoroa (Nelson), Franz Joseph Glacier and environs, Rarotonga, Pago Pago, and Tongatapu. Also included are portraits of Mita Taupopoki, Honi Te Heu Heu, Guide Rangi, and Lord & Lady Bledisloe; a Cutty Sark seaplane of the New Zealand Permanent Air Force, the interior of a Ringatu meeting house at Ruatahuna, Maori groups, swordfish and trout fishing, and a scheelite mine at Deep Creek. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: The album was presented by Lord Bledisloe to the Duke of Gloucester in Christmas 1934, during his visit to New Zealand.