Places

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-007

Description: The essay focuses primarily on Ralph Fletcher Watkins, a remittance man from Bolton, Lancashire, his marriage to Ani Hardiman and their life in the Hokianga where Ralph was a school teacher. Information has been gathered from the journal Watkins kept 1867-1881. Information is also given about their children, in particular Maggie, the writer's grandmother, who as a young mother died of tuberculosis. Anecdotes about Maggie's children growing up in Ellerslie post World War I are related Quantity: 1 folder(s) 44 pages.

Date: 16 February - 21 March 1958, 1960

From: Tomsett, Maurice William Henry :Colour slides of New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7766

Description: Phase 8 continued - 170. Cornwall Park, sheep grazing; 171. One Tree Hill Memorial, Sir John Logan Campbell (Early settler); 172-173. Overlooking Ellerslie, Penrose; 174. Onehunga, Manukau Harbour; 175. Memorial, Mt Hobson in background; 176. Royal Oak, Epsom, Memorial; 177. Volcanic crater below memorial; 178. Auckland airport. Three slides of views of Auckland in 1960. Includes views of the Winter Garden (Auckland Domain), and aerial views over the city Quantity: 12 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1945-[ca 1955]

From: Beverley Reid and Josephine Towsey :Photographs relating to Reid NZ Rubber Mills Ltd

Reference: PA1-o-1460

Description: Album recording the building of, and growth of, the Reid Rubber Mills Ltd. factory, Great South Road, Ellerslie, Auckland. Also illustrated is the mechanical equipment for the manufacture of rubber products, and the electrical controll systems, installed in the factory. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1924

By: Sklenars, Linda, active 2004

Reference: PA1-o-1212

Description: Album compiled on a tour of the North Island in 1924 by an unknown photographer. The album includes views of Wellington, Auckland, Rotorua, Wairakei, Lake Taupo, Lake Rotoiti, Lake Rotoehu, Lake Rotoma, Lake Rotomahana, Hamurana Springs, Whakarewarewa, Waimangu and Waitomo. The scenes in Wellington include views of Parliament, Government Buildings, St Mary of the Angels church, Oriental Bay, Island Bay, Wellington Heads, Breaker Bay, Seatoun, Miramar, Lyall Bay, Khandallah and Days Bay. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown leather bound album

Date: February 1957, 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7669

Description: Transparencies comprising an aerial view of Ellerslie Race Course, Parnell Rose Garden, Parnell Park, and Judges Bay, Auckland City, taken 1957-1958 by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: August 1946

From: Beverley Reid and Josephine Towsey :Photographs relating to Reid NZ Rubber Mills Ltd

Reference: PA6-742

Description: View of the area of land purchased for the factory of Reid New Zealand Rubber Mills Ltd., Ellerslie, Auckland. Photographed by an unknown photographer in August 1946. The date for this image is August 1946. The land has no structures on it which is a little at odds with the date in the album in this collection. This shows the newly completed factory and is dated 1945. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s) attached together as a panorama.

Date: [1936-2000]

By: Parsons, J K (Mrs), active 2000

Reference: MS-Papers-6940

Description: Comprises photocopies of two group photographs relating to Lovelock at Thames in 1936 (all persons identified); of official souvenir programme for meeting at Carlaw Park (1936); and of pages from the history of the Ellerslie Amateur Athletic Club's jubilee history publication relating to Jack Nicholson and Matt Baker, both of whom knew Lovelock Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Photocopy of letter from donor with background to material Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter (photocopies) Photocopies of group photographs at Thames

Date: 1975 - 1985

By: Colonna, Michael, active 1970-2000s

Reference: Eph-D-VARIETY-Colonna

Description: Includes: Crossing the tracks; an album of music from the Red Mole shows. Out now! / Flexible Shaft [1978]. Street life; support your local buskers Buskers Festival Whangarei [1986] Michael Park School presents Fantastics [? Fentantics?] Mix & Mingle amidst a menagerie of magical mystical moments ... 21 November 1981 at Michael Park School, 55 Amy St, Ellerslie Red Mole Enterprises presents Lord Galaxy's Travelling Players. Maidment Theatre, March 15-19 / Steve Osborne [1980] Taratara Festival invite you to keep the rock, with Coup d'Etat, Billy TK Band ... Otangaroa Kaeo, Feb 6-7 [ca 1981?] Jonathan Acorn, New Zealand's most popular puppeteer takes you into his magical world of puppet theatre [1980] Acorn Puppet Co. [1980] Walnut the Clown is coming! Thursday 19th November [1992?] Whirling's new all star circus. We lead; others follow [1970s?] Shiven the Clown [ca 1985] Leonardos Circus. Lake front Rotorua, 6-7 October [1979-1980] Leonardos Circus [1979-1980] Ridgways Circus and Zoo. Now appearing at A.P. Show Ground, 16-17 August [1979-1980] Carlos Circus. Napier South Pond, 19-27 August [1979-1980] Dates for all undated posters supplied by donor; see email message 28 February 2013 CLIO #479571. Quantity: 14 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Screenprints and offsets on laminated posters, sizes varying Provenance: Donated by Michael Colonna, Auckland, in 2013. Donor performed as Walnut the Clown from 1990 onwards.

Date: [ca 1930s-1988]

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10010-008

Description: Aerial photographs of the Auckland region taken by Leo White and Whites Aviation circa 1930s-1988. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in sets according to location. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Finding Aids: Most of the Whites Aviation negatives have been digitised and images are searchable by Record title and by Whites Aviation reference number e.g. WA-12345..

Date: [1930s-1980s]

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10010-009

Description: Aerial photographs taken by Leo Whites and Whites Aviation circa 1930s-1980s Images show the Auckland region. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in sets according to location. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Finding Aids: Most of the Whites Aviation negatives have been digitised and images are searchable by Record title and by Whites Aviation reference number e.g. WA-12345..

Date: 1965

From: Beverley Reid and Josephine Towsey :Photographs relating to Reid NZ Rubber Mills Ltd

Reference: PA12-7188

Description: Factory of Reid New Zealand Rubber Mills Ltd, Ellerslie, Auckland, New Zealand. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1987

From: Evans, Norma Mae, 1924- :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-1273

Description: Building sites in Wellington City Postcards of areas of Auckland Postcards of the Sargeant Gallery, Palmerston North Post Office, the 'Dunedin' (ship) and National Park Quantity: 4 colour original photographic print(s). 11 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: [1908-1912]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-q-103

Description: Photographs, chiefly taken by Albert Percy Godber, including family portraits, areas where he lived, Petone and the Petone Fire Brigade, railways, the Hutt Valley, Wellington, and areas in the upper North Island. The family photographs show his immediate family (his wife Laura (nee Zinckgraf), and children William Albert and Phyllis Mary); groups including his father and mother Charles and Mary Ann Godber, his brother Harry Leonard and wife Annie and their daughter Constance Alice, and Laura's brother Charles Albert Zinckgraf. Godber was a fireman with the Petone Fire Brigade, and there are photographs of groups of firemen and fire fighting equipment, and displays of methods of fire fighting. Associated with Godber's work with New Zealand Railways, and particularly at the Petone Railway Workshops, there are views of various workshop buildings, groups of railway workers; one of M J Mack (General Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand); images of damage to rolling stock after railway accidents; trains; the Raurimu Spiral; railway viaducts; logging railways; and railway stations. Photographs taken in the northern part of the North Island include coal mines, rock formations, hot springs at Te Aroha and Kamo; Whangarei and the Wairua Falls; suburbs of Auckland including Newmarket, Remuera, Parnell, Onehunga, and Ellerslie Race Course. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 110 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram covers; 30.0 x 23.5 cm

Date: 1933-1956

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-229

Description: Panoramic and aerial photographs taken for publication in New Zealand Free Lance, 1930s-1950s. Clearing native forest along banks of the Haast River to construct road to link Central Otago and South Westland, 1950; inter-city bus enroute around eastern side of Lake Taupo, 1950 (Whites Nos 25739/25740); plane at Lake Ohau, Oct 1951 (Whites Nos 29447/29448); The Square, Palmerston North, 1938; earthworks at Nehotipu Dam, 1947; New Plymouth, 1936; Halfmoon Bay, Stewart Island, 1933; Oban, Stewart Island, 1947 (Whites No 6590); massed display of the National Military Reserve bands and athletes at the National Fitness Rally at Rugby Park, Invercargill, Oct 1940. Members' stand at Trentham Racecourse, 1956 and undated; aerial view of Alexandra Park, Epsom, Auckland (includes Greenlane Hospital), 1948 (Whites 11698); aerial view of Ellerslie Racecouse, Auckland, 1948 (Whites 11700). New Zealand Bowling Association's annual championships held at Sydenham, Christchurch, 1950. Large crowd of spectators watching teams on the green. Five photographs relating to New Zealand Cup (photographer Weigel), 1959 [?]. One photograph shows J Smyth (owner of the winner False Step) receiving his trophy from Mrs W M Olliver, wife of the president of the Metropolitan Trotting Club. Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 16 May 1947

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-07618-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative 1/2 plate 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 16 May 1947

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-07614-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative 1/2 plate 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: Dec 1946

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-04531-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 16 May 1947

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-07604-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative 1/2 plate 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 27 Apr 1954

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-35524-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 27 Apr 1954

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-35531-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate