St. Luke's Church (Oamaru, N.Z.)

Date: [ca 1890-1927]

From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); France, J W, active 1890s

Reference: PAColl-0348

Description: Mounted photographs by the Burton Brothers of the junction of Eden and Tees Streets, Oamaru showing St Luke's Church, shops, tram lines and part of the Council Chambers; looking down on the wharves of Port Chalmers with the Presbyterian Church in the right foreground; and the Kakahi Falls, near Tawhata on the Whanganui River. Two smaller mounted photographs of a river in the Catlins District. Three pages from a photograph album holding five photographs of the building of the Arapuni Dam on the Waikato River including the buried forest exposed by the Waikato River diversion. Three loose prints by J W France of an early settlers' cottage made of ponga with a turf roof and with the family outside; a group of six workmen standing on the road they were building with long handled shovels and a boy and a dog in front of them; and the funeral procession of Sir John MacKenzie in 1901 led by a pipe band up the main road in Oamaru working. Finally a loose print of the bridge over the Waiho River. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-68928 to 1/2-068934. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.

Date: 1977-1979, date unknown

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

Reference: PA12-12285

Description: Transparencies of New Zealand South Island churches taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the name or brief description, and/or the location, of the church. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Churches and locations annotated on the slide mounts include St Paul's Presbyterian Church in Oamaru, St Luke's Anglican Church in Oamaru, St John's Anglican Church in Waikouaiti, Knox Church in Dunedin, First Church in Dunedin, Dominican Priory in Dunedin, St Joseph's Roman Catholic Cathedral in Dunedin, and Sacred Heart Church in Dunedin. Title transcribed from item. Some slides have dates annotated. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a six-row metal slide case, each row holding 25 slides, and the case capable of holding up to 150 slides. Arrangement was largely geographical in that churches from the same location were generally stored together. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour 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: 1865

From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs

Reference: 1/2-002008

Description: St Luke's Church in Oamaru. Taken by an unidentified photographer in 1865. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - St Luke's Church. Oamaru. 1865. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s) (copied from original print returned to owner). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: ca 1910s

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001360-G

Description: St Luke's Anglican Church in Oamaru. Photographed, circa 1910s, by William A Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - St Lukes Church, Oamaru. No.3353 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: 1926-1951

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Collins, L, active 1940; Denton, Frank James, 1869-1963; Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980; Stewart and White Ltd

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-144

Description: Photographs taken for publication in NZ Free Lance between 1926 and 1950. Includes: Aerial and other photographs of towns in Otago, West Coast and Marlborough regions (places entered in Place Field). Other subjects include - war memorial at Green Island, Dunedin, 1926; Moeraki boulders; St Luke's Church, Oamaru; establishment of Invermay Agricultural Centre; remains of whaler's hut taken from Long Lookout Hill near mouth of Lake Forsyth; YMCA party at Tennyson Inlet; rock formations at Wai-nui Beach (near Pohara); Punakaiki pancake rocks; gold dredge at Gillespie's Beach; hut in Haast Valley (A V Bowden, photographer); Clutha River Gold Dredging Company's new dredge at Alexandra; Bendigo Hotel, Alexandra; raspberry pickers at Upper Riccarton, 1951; etc. Photographers include: L Collins, Christchurch; Thelma Kent; F J Denton, Oamaru; J D S Roberts; A V Bowden; W Hall Raine; Taylor of Dunedin; V C Browne, Christchurch; M Grant, Christchurch; Whites Aviation; Stewart & White Ltd, Auckland; H O Barker, Winton. Quantity: 63 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints