Dry docks - New Zealand - Auckland Region

Date: [Between 1870s and 1880s]

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd.

Reference: Pa1-o-389

Description: Early photographs of New Zealand, mostly taken by unidentified photographers. One collage of Union Steam Ship Company ships, ship captains and the head office building in Dunedin was photographed and issued by David Alexander De Maus. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album cover pink and white pattern with gold tracery, red spine; 24.0 x 32.5 cm

Date: ca 1880

Reference: PAColl-7406

Description: Photographs of Auckland including: looking across the harbour to Devonport; the Rakaia in Caliope dock; the Scotch church; looking down College Hill; Victoria Street looking across Queen Street to Albert Park showing businesses in the area such as Sharland & Co and R White boot shop; Mount Eden; the Supreme Court; the flagpole and cannons at the top of Albert Park looking out over the harbour; two views of Karangahape Road showing shops, carriages and carts; the first St Matthew's Church; St Paul's Church on Symonds Street; the public hospital showing the tennis court in front and the screens on the balconies; houses on Franklin Road, Ponsonby; the Railway Station with advertising for the New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd and Arthur Cleave & Co; Ponsonby Road with a church on the left and J Clarke, undertakers, on the right; Ponsonby Road with a bakers and butchers on the right; the Synagogue on Princes Street; looking north along Queen Street with the DSC building on the right; a ship in dry-dock at the wharves; Hobson Street with St Matthew's Church on the right; and four views of the wharves including one showing the ferry. Photographs of Lyttelton: two elevated views to the harbour one with a church in the centre and the other with an artist painting the view at an easel; the railway lines at the wharves; and three men next to coal carts being loaded with coal from a ship at the wharves. Described on the reverse of the file prints as "copy negatives taken from faded prints". Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004172 to 004200 Quantity: 30 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: [Circa 1910s]

From: Clift, Charles William :Photographs relating to Clift family

Reference: PA1-o-102

Description: Clift family photographs, with scenes of Auckland and Auckland Harbour; some views of animals in a zoo; views of unidentified family members; several views of a ship, probably in the Auckland graving dock; departure of a ship with crowds of people on the wharf and streamers still linking them with the ship; and scenes on board a ship. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown card cover embossed with a pattern of flowers in a vase, 19 x 19 cm

Date: 16 Feb 1888

Reference: PAColl-D-0617

Description: Opening of the Calliope Graving Dock at Devonport with HMS Calliope and HMS Diamond simultaneously docked. Crowds of spectators on both sides of the dock. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Calliope graving dock Auckland Opening day Feb 16, 1888 Accompanying material - Newspaper article from Marlborough Express, 17 Feb 1888 re opening [Source: Paperspast] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 435 x 480 mm

Date: ca 1930s

Reference: 1/2-002210-F

Description: A postcard of what is probably HMS Dunedin in the Calliope Dock at Devonport. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: Date unknown, circa 1910?

From: Kinnear, James Hutchings, 1877-1946 :Negatives of Auckland shipping, boating and scenery

Reference: 1/1-006205-G

Description: Ship SS Aparama in dry dock in Auckland, date unknown, circa 1910. Photograph taken by James Hutchings Kinnear. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative