IMAGE
Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand :Assorted photographs
- Date
- [ca 1885-1945]
- By
- Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951
- Reference
- PAColl-0422
- Description
Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women.
Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850
Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Format
- 72 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs
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UnknownWellington Town Hall organ, during its assembly
Date: 1906
From: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand :Assorted photographs
Reference: PAColl-0422-2-2
Description: Wellington Town Hall organ, during its assembly, 1906. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 10.8 x 14.9 cm
Parihaka Pa
Date: [ca 1900]
From: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand :Assorted photographs
Reference: 1/2-056542-F
Description: Parihaka Pa, circa 1900. Mount Taranaki is in the background. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Parihaka; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 726 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
View of buildings and wharf in Rorotonga
Date: [ca 1930s]
From: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand :Assorted photographs
Reference: 1/2-144818-F
Description: View of buildings and the wharf in Rorotonga, taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1930s Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) (copied from original print). Physical Description: Film negative
Path through the bush, Rarotonga
Date: [ca 1920s]
From: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand :Assorted photographs
By: Hopkins, Sydney, 1881-1948
Reference: PAColl-0422-1-01
Description: Photograph showing a man with pack horses, stopped on a pathway through a bush track which is lined with coconut and palm trees, taken in Rarotonga circa 1920s by Sydney Hopkins. Source of descriptive information - Note on back of file print states: `Photographer: Sydney Hopkins, identified by Mrs P M Rasmussen' Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 12.5 x 19.5 cm on cardboard backing
Fijian warriors
Date: [189-?]
From: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand :Assorted photographs
Reference: 1/2-056545-F
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Interior of Te Rauru meeting house at Whakarewarewa
Date: ca 1885-1901
From: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand :Assorted photographs
By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916
Reference: 1/2-056528-F
Description: Interior of Te Rauru meeting house at Whakarewarewa showing kowhaiwhai (rafter patterns), tukutuku (woven lattice panels), carved wooden slabs and flax floor mats. Photograph taken by Josiah Martin circa 1885-1901. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Susan, Rotorua; shows a young Maori woman with a tiki around her neck - Photograph take...
Date: [between 1881-1912]
From: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand :Assorted photographs
By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916
Reference: 1/2-056529-F
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Geyser at the Rotorua Sanatorium
Date: [ca 1910]
From: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand :Assorted photographs
Reference: 1/2-056533-F
Description: Geyser at the Rotorua Sanatorium, circa 1910. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Wellington Town Hall, showing the organ prior to its assembly
Date: ca 1905
From: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand :Assorted photographs
By: Muir, James, 1870?-1935
Reference: PAColl-0422-2-1
Description: Wellington Town Hall, showing pieces of the organ prior to its assembly. Photograph taken by James Muir ca 1905. Note on back of file print reads: "A separate contract of £7000 had been let for the pipe organ, then being constructed by Norman & Beard in London, for later installation by J Tustin, organ builder, in 1906." Note on back of file print reads: "Organ arrived in Sept 1905. Hall opened in 1906" Inscriptions: Backing board recto - bottom left - Muir's Photographic Studio King's Chambers Wellington; Backing board recto - bottom right - James Muir A McKinlay Late with Wrigglesworth and Binns Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.7 x 20.4 cm, mounted on board
Two photographs of groups of people with outrigger canoes in the Pacific Islands
Date: [ca 1890s]
From: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand :Assorted photographs
Reference: 1/2-056342-F
Description: Two photographs on one negative, the first of which has people in outrigger canoes sailing away from the camera. The second photograph partly overlaps the other image and it is of an unidentified man with an outrigger canoe. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer, ca 1890s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).