Carriages and carts - New Zealand - Bay of Plenty Region

Date: 1901-1916

By: Mellor, C W (Mr), active 1901-1917

Reference: PAColl-9559

Description: Collection comprises: Album pages of New Zealand scenes including views of Dunedin, Invercargill, Wellington, Whanganui River, Rotorua, Rimutaka Incline, Christchurch, 1901. Some of the photographs are attributed to C W Mellor. Group portraits of officers during World War I, including C W Mellor Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). 17 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009

Date: 1928

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

Reference: Pan-2243B-F

Description: Panoramic view showing a ship behind wharf buildings, and railways rolling stock on the far left. Harbour on the left of the image, railway line along the shore with a road running parallel. There is a railway bridge across the image in the centre distance. The Guinness Brothers' building is in the right foreground and a horse and cart are on a small grassy area between the railway line and the road in the centre foreground. A large two-storeyed building with a turret in the centre right middle distance. Township on the right. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Tauranga" N.Z. From Redoubt. 1928. No. 165; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Tauranga from Redoubt Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 112.3 cm

Date: Jul 1977-Feb 1988

By: Stafford, Donald Murray, 1927-2010

Reference: OHColl-0470

Description: Interviews early residents of Rotorua many of whom were involved in tourism and the associated transport industries. Interviewer(s) - Don Stafford Quantity: 22 C60 cassette(s). 4 C90 cassette(s). 22 transcript(s). 23 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available.

Date: 1928

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

By: Reid, Walter, 1867?-1939

Reference: Pan-1632-F

Description: Panoramic view of flat land with a single-storeyed farmhouse partially hidden by trees in the left middle distance. Large herd of dairy cows and a couple of bulls in the foreground. Large barn at the end of a drive on the left, a man seated on a horse-drawn cart laden with milk cans in front of the barn. Two small cottages behind the herd of cows. Dairy factory in the middle distance centre right on the left of a willow tree. Hills in the background. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - W. Reid. Taneatua. bay of Plenty. 3 B&W. Be sure to get Dairy Factory in on right; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] W. Reid Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 110.2 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Meier, A E (Mrs), active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1630-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed wooden farmhouse centre left, inside a fenced garden. A woman is standing on steps up to the entrance on the left. She is partially hidden by creeper which grows on both sides of the steps. Gravel drive in the centre leads to garages and outbuildings with a hedge inside the fence nearer the house. Paddocks on right and left of house. A man and a dog are standing by a car parked in the drive (number-plate 22*908). Two men are seated up on a carriage drawn by two horses, in a field beisde the drive on the right. There are willows separating two fields on the right, and along behind the house. Low hills in the background. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Mrs A.E. Meier. Box 53. Taneatua. Bay of Plenty. 3 B&W; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Meier Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 109.6 cm

Date: 1905

From: Hughes, R (Mrs) : Photographs of Rotorua district

Reference: PAColl-4647-1

Description: Six horses harnessed to a low cart loaded with planks with the driver standing on them and two other men standing next to the cart. There is a wooden shack behind them. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Savage, Frederick James, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1634-F

Description: Panoramic view of farmland with a single-storeyed wooden house on the left, with iron roof and bull-nosed verandah. The house is partially hidden by a hedge separating the house from farmland. A woman is just visible standing on the verandah. Haymaking is in progress in a large field in the centre. One man is holding a pitchfork for raking hay into piles along the line of the hedge. He is standing in front of outbuildings. Two other men are on the right of the field beside a cart laden with hay, drawn by two horses. Other paddocks on the right in the middle distance, low hills behind. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - F.J. Savage. Waimana. Bay of Plenty. 3 B&W; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Savage Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 109.5 cm

Date: 1904

Reference: 1/1-003810-G

Description: Horse drawn coach and passengers, alongside the Athenree Post Office and Athenree homestead, Tauranga district. Adela Stewart is sitting on the box-seat next to the driver and husband Hugh is standing on the shell path between the two ladies. Behind is Anthenree homestead where they lived. Unidentified photographer. Adela identified from her description of the event in 'My simple Life in New Zealand' by Adela Stewart https://debbiemccauleyauthor.wordpress.com/history/places/athenree-post-office-1890-1906/ Source of descriptive information - Information relating to Adela and Hugh Stewart, and approximate date of photograph, provided by Library client. Hugh was appointed postmaster in June 1889. He built the post office himself. They left the district in 1906. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1904

Reference: 1/1-003745-G

Description: Coach with passengers outside Athenree Post Office, 1904. Adela Stewart is sitting on the box-seat next to the driver and husband Hugh is standing in front of the picket fence near the Athenree Post Office. Behind (not visible) is Athenree homestead where they lived. Photographer unidentified. Adela identified from her description of the event in 'My simple Life in New Zealand' by Adela Stewart https://debbiemccauleyauthor.wordpress.com/history/places/athenree-post-office-1890-1906/ Source of descriptive information - Neg register, Order Tracking System. Information relating to Adela and Hugh Stewart, and approximate date of photoraph, provided by Library client. Hugh was appointed postmaster in June 1889. He built the post office himself. They left the district in 1906. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

By: F Bradley & Company

Reference: 1/2-037702-F

Description: Carriers changing horses on a track in the Ohinemutu bush. Photograph taken by F Bradley & Co. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [190-?]

Reference: PAColl-9046

Description: Photograph of Royal Mail carriages, Rotorua, circa 190-? Shows the dispatch of 60 territorials to all parts of the Bay of Plenty. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on item. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15.3 x 20.7 cm

Date: ca 1900

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 18

Reference: PAColl-7581-50

Description: Paddy Donovan in a cart pulled by five horses, Te Puke, circa 1900. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.1 x 20.5 cm

Date: 1910 - 1930

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to Rotorua as a tourist destination. 1890-1929]

By: Waiwera Coaching Stables

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Rotorua-1910/20s-01

Description: Promotes the coaching stables which give trips to Wairoa, Tarawera Lake, Waimangu (all as one round trip), or separate trips to Wairoa, Lake trip, Waiotapu Valley, Ngongotaha Mountain, Fairy Spring and Bainbridge's Monument, and Whakarewarewa. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on front of folded card.. Physical Description: Print, on front of folded card, 122 x 60 mm.