Dart River

Date: [Circa 1907 to 1915]

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm); Moore, May Gertrude, 1874-1954

Reference: PA1-o-284

Description: The signature `May Moore' inside front cover, is possibly that of Mrs May Moore (daughter of Sir Joseph Kinsey), who travelled and mountaineered in the areas covered by the album. Album containing 21 scenes of the South Island. Of these, 12 were taken by photographers Muir and Moodie, between 1907 and 1913. The Muir and Moodie numbers for these views are 1810, 6743, 6752, 6780, and 6782 to 6789. The photographer for the other nine images is not identified. 24 leaves are blank. Several of the Muir and Moodie views were taken on 1st January 1913, a number of which show various stages of a group crossing the Haast Pass on horseback. Places noted include Cameron's Flat, Will's Bridge, the Burke Huts, and Mule Flat. Inscriptions: Album page - May Moore Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with loose green cloth cover, entitled `Photographs'; 24 x 30 cm

Date: 1920s-1930s

By: Vinicombe, Audrey K, active 1998

Reference: PAColl-5659

Description: Photographs of Graham and Elsie Massingham at various localities in New Zealand. Graham Massingham and his wife came out from England in the late 1920s. The 1928 Wises Post Office Directory describes Massingham as a company manager and lists him as living in Dunedin at 34 Dundonald street, Andersons Bay. Later in the 1930s he lived at 75a Grant Road, Wellington. He died on 20 November 1947. Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1913

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-o-1224

Description: Mainly a series of holidays, tramping trips, and local excursions. The first is a trip to the head of Lake Te Anau and Milford Sound via the Milford track. It begins on the road between Glenorchy and Paradise, then through the valley of the Route Burn River to the Hollyford Valley where the party camped on the shores of Lake Howden. From there they passed Lakes Fergus and Gunn into the Eglinton River Valley and on to Te Anau, and then onto the Milford track to Milford Sound via the Clinton River Valley. Images on the way include Mount Balloon, Mount Elliott, Routeburn Hut, and Lake Ada. There is a view of Mitre Peak, Mount Tutoko, and the Pembroke Glacier from Milford Sound. The second series relates to a camping trip to Wanganui and the Whanganui River. This includes a game of golf and visiting friends in St John's Hill. There are views of the party's camp and a number of images taken during a canoeing trip up the Whanganui River in what looks like a Maori dug out canoe. Two other images in this group are of men standing beside the trigs on Mounts Holdworth and Dundas in the Tararua Ranges. The third series is of family and friends at home in Eastbourne and in the bush at Muritai; Girdlestone, a friend, and two women on motor cycles on the coast road; views of Eastbourne from the hills above the suburb; women on the beach and reading at home. The fourth series relates to a trip to the Volcanic Plateau during which the party climbed Mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe. There are two group photographs of the whole party, one taken in front of the Waihohonu Hut, and the other on the summit of Mount Ruapehu. The fifth series shows a party of men and women on a walk and a picnic in the beach forest in Gollan's Valley near Eastbourne. The sixth series is a record of a holiday to Queen Charlotte and Pelorus Sounds taken by a group of men over Christmas 1913. There are views of the sounds and surrounding landscape, of Portage where the party stayed, and of boat and fishing trips that they made during their stay. The seventh series is of a tramping trip to the Orongrongo River Valley. The views are of native forest, the river and the mountains, and one of two men boiling a billy beside their tent in the bush. The eighth series consists of two photographs of the wreck of the "Devon" on the rocks at Pencarrow Heads, Wellington harbour. This occured on the 25th of August 1913. The ninth series is a group of photographic postcards of the Te Anau, Milford region, and probably relate to the trip recorded at the beginning of this album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Dyson, Mrs, fl 1958 :Photographs, chiefly of scenic views in the South Island in New Zealand, and Victoria in Australia

By: Clifford & Company; De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Finch, F, active 1878-1900; Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?

Reference: PA1-q-069

Description: Various photographers including De Maus, Henry Lock, F. Finch and Clifford & Co. Photographs include scenes at various gold-mining claims on the West Coast; bridges Over rivers on the West Coast and Otago regions; one of a large group of Freemasons carrying banners relating to various Lodges; and a number of images of Ballarat, Geelong and Queenscliff in Australia. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black album with gold decoration, 31 x 26 cm

Date: 1896

From: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948 : Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-181

Description: Views, chiefly unidentified, of a trip in the South Island in January 1896, photographed by Algernon Charles Gifford. Most of the photographs are landscape views of lakes and mountains in the Wakatipu area, but there are a number showing a group of six unidentified people in the garden of a single-storeyed house with verandahs, at Paradise. In another scene a man and woman, two of the previous group, are shown in a field with the man wearing riding clothes, seated on a white horse, and the woman standing by the horse's head with a dog beside her. Also one photograph shows three young girls, Bessie and Daisy Fergus, and Agnes Mill, also at Paradise. A large two-storeyed house with verandahs upstairs and downstairs is seen in one image. An envelope attached inside the back cover, contains 14 loose photographs of similar views. Inscriptions: Album page - Some mementos of a trip to Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown, Glenorchy & Paradise via Invercargill, Jan. 1896 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark maroon cover, entitled `Photographic views'; 22.5 x 19.0 cm

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Willis, Archibald Dudingston (Firm) :N. Z. Christmas cards. - Wanganui ; A.D. Willis [1886 or later].

Reference: E-068-048-2

Description: A yacht on a winding river, looking towards mountains A sample Christmas card, including text, lower left, reading 'A happy New Year' Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chomolithograph, 72 x 106 mm on album page ca 137 x 180 mm

Date: 1909-1910

From: Hislop, Harold Stevens, d 1933 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-f-029

Description: Photographs chiefly taken by Harold Hislop, including scenic views of Wellington Harbour (1909), and the Queenstown area (1910). Domestic scenes include interior views of three Wellington homes: Brentwood (Karori), Clovelly (Wadestown), and one on the Terrace (probably 148 Wellington Terrace, owned by David Milligan). Outings in the Wellington area include group portraits at the Botanical gardens, the Wellington Bowling Club, and the Wellington Zoo (one photograph of `King' the lion) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown mock crocodile cover, `Photographs' in gold lettering; endpapers decorated with gold tracery surrounding tiny blue-grey floral pattern; 19 x 40 cm

Date: 1967-1969

From: Blumhardt, Doreen (Dame), 1914-2009 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8519

Description: Flowers include - Red Rhododendron. Leucodendron discolor in Doreen Blumhardt's garden. Red manuka in Doreen Blumhardt's garden. Clematis Paniculata at Pukeiti Gardens. Wine coloured magnolia at Havelock. Flower of nikau palm. Supplejack flower. Helechrysum bellidiodes. Kowhai. View of Mt Hooker and the Haast Bridge. The Dart River. Lake Wakatipu from Frankton Motel. Forest view, Diamond Lake. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1963-1967

From: Blumhardt, Doreen (Dame), 1914-2009 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8521

Description: Includes - Views of countryside near Alexandra, 1967. Birds on a wharf and flowering plants, Queenstown, 1967. Lake Wakatipu, 1967. Countryside (possibly old gold workings), Naseby, 1967. Large pink protea flower in Doreen Blumhardt's garden, 1963. Awakino Gorge, 1966. View of Ngauruhoe from the Desert Road, 1966. Lake Rotoaira. Ohau Bridge and Lake Ohau. Lake Tekapo. Stands of blue flowering vipers bugloss (Echium vulagre), Omarama, Waitaki District, Otago. Views of the Dart River. Kawarau Gorge, Central Otago. Bob's Cove, Lake Wakatipu. Old homestead at Paradise. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: March 1982

From: Rowe, Phyllis Annie Marie, 1908-1997: [Watercolours and pencil drawings, New Zealand]

By: Rowe, Phyllis Annie Marie, 1908-1997

Reference: A-471-019

Description: Shows the Dart River as it winds around to the viewer's right. The distinctive peak of Mount Chaos is seen on the left, and that of Mount Poseidon to the right. The two peaks are on the same side of the Beans Burn valley. Other title: Mount Chaos Inscriptions: Verso - bottom left - M Caos + Poseidon from Dart River Bank. Mar 82 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: watercolour and pencil on artist's paper, 238 x 343 mm

Date: [March 1982?]

From: Rowe, Phyllis Annie Marie, 1908-1997: [Watercolours and pencil drawings, New Zealand]

By: Rowe, Phyllis Annie Marie, 1908-1997

Reference: A-471-021

Description: Depicts the lountain range behind the Dart River, from Mount Nox around to the Cosmos Peaks. According to the inscription on the verso, this scene is taken from the small settlement of Paradise, between the top of Dialmond Lake and the river Dart. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Mountains behind River Dart [in ballpoint pen]. Nox Chaos Poseidon Niobe Tantalus Cosmos [in pencil]; Verso - bottom left - Nox, Caos [sic] + Poseidon from River Dart Mar 1982 [in pencil]. Paradise [in ballpoint pen] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: watercolour and pencil, 251 x 350 mm on artist's paper 285 x 385 mm

Date: 1850s - 1890s

By: Mantell, Walter Godfrey, 1864-1927; Bothamley, Arthur Thomas, 1846-1938; Masquerier, John James, 1778-1855; Martin, John, 1789-1854; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Clayton, William Henry, 1823-1877; Wrigglesworth, James Dacie, 1836-1906; Ball, Wilfrid, 1853-1917; Devis, Anthony Thomas, 1729-1816

Reference: PA1-q-158

Description: Album of photographs, engravings and etchings. Frontispiece is a portrait of Gideon Algernon Mantell, painted by J J Masquerier, engraved by Samuel Stepney. On page 30 is `The country of the iguanadon, restored by John Martin ... from the geological discoveries of Gideon Mantell'; page 29 there is a photo of ink drawing of Brighton by A. Devis (Probably English landscape artist Anthony Devis). Page 42 has a photographic copy of a pen & wash drawing by architect William Clayton of Government House in Wellington, ca 1869. It bears little resemblance to the completed building (copy negative available at 1/2-C-021641). Many of the New Zealand scenes are unidentified, though one group were taken in Queen Charlotte Sound, and Picton. Most are taken by unidentified photographers, though there are tourist scenes of Pipiriki and Jerusalem taken by James Valentine, and some of Te Aroha by Frederick George Radcliffe. A collection of 6 etchings by Wilfrid Williams Ball are all related to the Thames in London, including views of the Tower of London, Gravesend, and Greenwich. An early photograph of Mrs Alfred J Woodhouse (mother-in-law of Gideon Mantell), was taken by an unidentified photographer in 1839. Inscriptions: Album page - W G Mantell Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Tan cloth binding with impressed decorative pattern, entitled `New Zealand ferns'; 30.5 x 26.5 cm