Snow - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: 1885

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-090-1

Description: Shows trees covered in snow Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - K H; Recto - bottom left - New fallen snow; Recto - above image - Timaru 1885 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 255 x 184 mm

Date: 1926 - 1951

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Bremford, S A, active 1934-1948

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-028

Description: Photographs of Timaru, 1926 to 1951, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes several photographs of carnivals, bands playing in the sound shelter and people in bathing costumes at Caroline Bay. Quantity: 51 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [1918 to 1921]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-o-553

Description: Family photographs relating to the McCurdie family. Many are groups of friends and family, some of whom are identified with both Christian and surnames. These include wedding photographs of Marjorie Whitton who married J.W. Nicolls on March 31, 1921 at Oamaru, with Betty and Mary Whitton as bridesmaids. Several views of homes include Woodcroft (the home of Dr John Kinder), Werneth (a house at Atawhai, Nelson), The Moorings (the home of W. & Lucy Churchward at Springlands, Blenheim), and Stonycroft (home of Mr & Mrs Free, at Masterton). One view is of snow in Christchurch city in July 1918, and one shows decorations in the interior of Dunedin Hospital for the visit of the Prince of Wales in May 1920. Other scenes taken in 1920 show Hanmer Lodge and Hanmer Military Hospital. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mottled green cover, entitled `Photographs'; 25 x 32 cm

Date: [ca 1937-1939]

By: Kaarup, Mavis, active 2001

Reference: PAColl-0393

Description: The collection includes: nine photographs of sheep droving and shearing on a Canterbury farm including one of sheep in a pen being branded and one of two Ford cars on a road surrounded by sheep; two of hay harvesting one with a horse-drawn thresher and the other with a tractor; the first electric tractor; seagulls flocking around newly ploughed earth; looking across the plains towards the mountains near Ruapuna with piles of boulders in the foreground; sheaf throwing at a country sports meeting at Hinds which involved throwing a sheaf over a bar set at pole-vaulting height; two photographs of heavy snow in Ashburton, one of shops in East Street and another of someone attaching skis next to a no cycling sign; a Burnett's motors truck laden with bags of wheat outside a barn with three workers next to it; and the Pa at Whakarewarewa. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1860 - 1865

From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: E-340-q-020

Description: View showing a row of houses with snow-capped mountains in the background Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - CH CH Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 175 x 260 mm

Date: 1870 - 1900

From: Douglas, Charles Edward 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast Sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. identified]

By: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916

Reference: E-059-q-028

Description: The high snow catchment above the Waipara River Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on page of sketchbook. Physical Description: Pencil, crayon and watercolour, 94 x 135 mm

Date: 1938 - 1952

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-027

Description: Photographs of Canterbury Region made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance between 1938 and 1952. Includes a series of photographs, dated 23 February 1938, recording the clean up after a flood in an unidentified location, probably in the Canterbury region. Also includes photographs of pea crops and tulip harvesting in Waimate. Quantity: 59 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7821

Description: Transparency slides of tramping trip in the Tasman and Hurunui districts, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

Reference: PA12-11357

Description: Interior views of the Hermatage and mountains in the Mount Cook area. Some of these show skiers on the slopes. Quantity: 10 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: Between 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0202

Description: Shows High Street, Christchurch, looking south. Street and buildings covered in snow. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 85 x 135 mm

Date: 1984-1985

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-f-307

Description: Includes - Event at the Heritage, Mount Cook. This included horses, carts, coaches, early motor vehicles, morris dancers, people in tents, and dinner in the hotel. A plane trip to mountain snow fields. Interior of a neo-gothic church. Friends, family and flower arrangements. Views of the Wellington south coast. Two storied Edwardian houses moved from kelburn Parade to the grounds of Victoria University. Unidentified coastal and other scenic views. Event proably in Mount Cook School, Wellington, that may have something to do with teaching and the Maori language. Event at a marae (this may be Te Ore Ore Marae near Masterton). Group of women meeting in the sitting room of a house. Trip with a Fijian woman. Places include - The Chateau Tongariro and the ski fields on Mount Ruapehu. St Faiths Church and monument, Ohinemutu, Rotorua. The model pa and thermal areas, Whakarewarewa. An exhibition of Maori carving and weaving. Tourist event involving sheep. Lake Tarawera. Waiuru Army Museum. At the Dennis' house in Wellington. Fijian people, November 1984. People on a yacht in Suva Harbour and views of Suva Harbour, November 1984. Toberua Island, and resort facilities on the island. Plants, fruit and flowers, Fiji. Wellington's south coast, hilly farmland, mountains and a sunrise. Baring Head lighthouse. Wellington Harbour and coasts. Wairarapa coast and seals. Michael Dennis and his wife, Wellington, March 1985. Birthday party for Lawrence Dennis, March 1985. New Plymouth Girls High School centennial, Easter 1985. Visit with friends to Picton and the sounds, February 1985. Palliser Bay, April 1985. Hamilton lake and Gleneden, May 1985. Te Kaahui Kohangareo christmas party, December 1985. Visit to the Whanganui River and Matahini Marae, March 1985. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1940

By: Bousfield, Peter, active 1940s-1950s; New Zealand. National Publicity Studios

Reference: C-053-016

Description: A river among snow-clad hills Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 360 x 420 mm Provenance: Donation: National Publicity Studios, 1974.

Date: [Circa 1880s-1890s]

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

Reference: PA1-q-104

Description: Images of the construction of the Midland Railway line in Canterbury, and surrounding areas, taken by an unidentified photographer. Views include construction of the railway line, railway tunnels, bridges and viaducts, the use of flying foxes for transportation of men and equipment, and one image of a velocipede (like a railway jigger). Life at the work-sites is shown with types of accomodation, including tents; work-sites under snow; and group portraits of the Midland Railway Rifle Club, and the New Zealand Midland Railway Football Club. Several of the men, chiefly the engineers, are identified. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 111 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 32 x 28 cm

Date: 1930s

From: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946 :Prints and negatives of New Zealand wildlife and scenery

Reference: PAColl-3052-17-01

Description: Snow scene with bridge and trees, near Lake Tekapo, photographed by Thelma Kent in the 1930s. Inscriptions: Verso - stamped in ink: Thelma R Kent APRS FRSA 119 Somerfield Street SW1 Christchurch, New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 157 x 201 mm

Date: ca 1903

By: Bussell, T F, active 20th century; Pigott, John Ernest, 1862-1932

Reference: PAColl-6346

Description: Photographs of: a row of shops in the snow including a butchers, M Hatrick & Co general merchants and a branch of the National Mortgage & Agency with the agent F(?) H Burn; sheets of ice formed under a wooden aqueduct next to some pollarded trees; a lake in the domain; the Gladstone Grand Hotel; and the railway station in the snow. Photographer was J E Pigott Arrangement: Copy negatives housed at 1/2-002385 to 002389 Quantity: 5 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: [ca 1920]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 10x8-1704-G

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 8 x 10 inches Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: [ca 1880s-1920s]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-009760-G

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch. 11/11/86. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: ca1946-ca1949

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

By: Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986

Reference: PA1-o-1031

Description: Most of the images are records of holidays taken in the late 1940s. The first is a winter trip on motorcycles to the south Island showing Christchurch, the mountains and the countryside under snow. The next, also by motorcycle is a North Island trip first to Hawkes Bay and Napier via the Manawatu Gorge, then north to Rotorua and the thermal areas, then back through the central North Island taking in the Huka Falls and the Chateau. Next there is a fishing trip to the Marlborough Sounds which includes a visit to Blenheim, and a few images of a camping trip. The other theme is social. A birthday party for Theo's brother Jack. This includes detailed images of the guests, cutting the cake, beer drinking, and chess playing. Another group of images appears to be a card party combined with a meal and cash for gambling. One page of images shows the destruction of a building by fire photographed at night Arrangement: Proof sheets of the North Island trip can be found at PAColl-7167-10-25 to PAColl-7167-10-27 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: Between 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0220

Description: Christchurch Corporation workmen clearing snow from streets Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 87 x 135 mm

Date: [ca 1925-1930]

Reference: PAColl-0407

Description: Photographs of the construction and use of Fendalton Open-air School. Includes photographs of the children being given lessons outside, in their open air classroom with snowmen outside, playing on a rugby field, the Sheffield Hotel and two women and a man standing outside the hotel with their dogs. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-068944 to 068946, 068949 to 068961, and 068963 Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s).