Fendalton

Date: 1832-1898

From: Wakefield family : Papers

Reference: MSZ-1554

Description: Includes newspaper cuttings, photographs, sketches, paintings, stamps, pamphlets and handwritten notes. Much of the material is concerned with the Attwood family and Thomas Attwood, and with the Freeman family, whom his sister, Alice Mary, married into, but there is also material on the Wakefield family, and on his own career in New Zealand. Includes sketches of his home in Fendalton and in Hoon Hay. Also contains papers on entomology especially that of New Zealand Quantity: 1 volume(s). Copiously illustrated with photographs and sketches

Date: 1871-1876

From: Wakefield family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-9512-26

Description: Various household invoices and bills from Christchurch. Includes catalogue of the household furniture and effects of Charles Marcus Wakefield from his property at Fendalton for 1875 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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 1931-1949]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-203

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1931-1949. Dunedin - Rattray Street cable car, 1935; Leith Stream; lower Stuart Street; The Exchange looking south; Robert Burns statue in The Octagon; elevated view of St Paul's Cathedral and Dunedin Town Hall; The Centotaph, Queen's Gardens; Otago University, 1931; Dunedin Botanic Gardens; Otago Boys' High School; tram in Princes Street; elevated view looking north along George Street; panoramic view taken from Mornington looking north; aerial view over Mornington showing High Street School, Hawthorne Avenue, Kaituna Bowling Club etc; aerial view showing St Kilda and Forbury Park Trotting Club; Larnach's Castle (taken during the Baptist Union Annual Assembly); Otago Peninsula from above Macandrew Bay looking towards Port Chalmers; wharves at Port Chalmers, 1935; new wing of the Medical School, 1948. Christchurch - Captain Cook's statue, Victoria Square; group under a tree near Bridge of Remembrance; canoeing on the Avon River; Hagley Park; Christchurch Botanic Gardens; Band Rotunda; Cathedral Square; Avon River; Mona Vale; Captain Scott's Statue with Christchurch Club in background; Worcester Street Bridge; Rolleston statue and Canterbury Museum in Rolleston Avenue; Bridge of Remembrance; Christchurch World War One memorial, 1937; Christchurch Hospital, 1941; daffodils beside the Avon; aerial view showing Christ's College, etc; aerial view of Addington Racecourse, 1934 & 1937; aerial view of Christchurch Botanic Garden; Edgar Stead's home, Ilam; hillside suburb showing access path and stone retaining walls; pupils at Fendalton School during PE class, 1948; Kerr's Reach, Burwood, 1949 Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [1900s]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-1620

Description: Burton Brothers album 'Land of Loveliness: New Zealand". Inclues views of Lyttelton, Sumner, Rakaia (showing Rakaia Butchery & Bakery of A. Chamberlain est 1873), Fendalton, Avon and New Brighton. Also shows a street view of an unknown township with Victoria House, Dimant & Coe, general drapers and clothing store. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 13 x 16.5 cm Provenance: Purchase, 2000

Date: 1910 - 1999

Reference: Eph-A-SCHOOLS-F-1900s

Description: Includes material from the following schools: Fairfield College Silver jubilee, 1957-1981. 23-26 October 1981. Souvenir programme Feilding Agricultural High School. 40th annual commemoration, 24 June 1961. Old Pupils' tea. Toast list Feilding Agricultural High School Fiftieth commemoration, 3 July 1971 [Programme, toast list and dinner ticket] Fendalton Open-air School. 85th jubilee athletic sports to be held at the school, Clyde Road. 18 March 1960. Programme Fitzroy School. Centennial celebrations, 17-19 September 1982. Registration pamphlet Fitzroy School. Centennial swimming pool project. 1982. Pamphlet Five Rivers School. Golden jubilee banquet. Five Rivers memorial Hall, 20 January 1962. Toast list Foxton School reunion. Decade register for first five decades 1855-1915 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Pamphlets and fliers, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1967-1976

By: Holland, Eric Sidney Fostyn, 1921-1989

Reference: 76-035

Description: Comprises both ministerial and electorate correspondence, subject files, and submissions and other papers of the select committees of which Holland was a member. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 17 box(es). 5.40 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available.

Date: 1907

From: Various artists :[Postcards and greeting cards collected by McCarthy. 1880s-1940s?]

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-McCarthy-005

Description: Postcard shows a photograph of the house Holly Lea and a nearby hothouse in a park setting. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Chromolithograph on postcard, 89 x 140 mm. Provenance: Part of the McCarthy Collection of greeting cards.

Date: 1945 - 1950

By: McNamara, John Joseph, 1918-2001; Southern Cross (Newspaper : 1946-1951)

Reference: A-369-135/152

Description: Political cartoons from the end of the ministry of Peter Fraser, the lead up to the 1949 election (in which he was defeated by Sidney Holland), and the first year of Holland's ministry. These cartoons mainly address Holland's link to the British conservatives (which McNamara had a very negative view of), and cuts he made to wages, pensions and allowances when he came into power. Other cartoons relate the post-war political situation in Britain and the United State's aid of the country. Some illustrations of animals are also included. Quantity: 17 newsclippings. Physical Description: Newspaper clippings glued to wallpaper, sizes vary

Date: 10 May 1955

From: NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd: Mosaic aerial negatives, prints, transparencies, and index

Reference: NZAM-D/192/1-F

Description: Aerial mosaic made by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd in 1955 showing Fendalton, Canterbury Region. Includes index to adjoining sheets. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - S84 16C Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, approx 59.4 x 84.1 cm (A1 size), 5 chains to 1 inch

Date: 10 May 1955

From: NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd: Mosaic aerial negatives, prints, transparencies, and index

Reference: NZAM-D/192/2

Description: Aerial mosaic made by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd in 1955 showing Fendalton, Canterbury Region. Includes index to adjoining sheets. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - S84 16C Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, approx 59.4 x 84.1 cm (A1 size), 5 chains to 1 inch

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Alpers, Oscar Thorwald Johan, 1867-1927

Reference: Pan-0940-F

Description: Panoramic view of a two-storeyed house on the banks of the Wairarapa Stream, Fendalton, Christchurch. The view shows a lawn sloping down to the river, willows on the right. A rowing boat is moored in front of the house, and a smaller boat with a double paddle is pulled up onto grass. There are bench seats near the water. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - O.T.J. Alpers, ChCh Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 69.6 cm

Date: 30 May 1946

From: NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd: Mosaic aerial negatives, prints, transparencies, and index

Reference: NZAM-C/764-F

Description: Aerial mosaic made by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd in 1946 of Fendalton in Christchurch. An index to adjoining sheets is inset. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - S.84 66A Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, approx 59.4 x 84.1 cm (A1 size), approximate scale 5 chains

Date: [1960s], 1992-1994, 1996

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

Reference: PA12-11650

Description: Transparencies of bridges in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (bridge or viaduct name, and/or river/stream name, and/or road name) and location. Dates and photographer name are often but not always annotated. Title supplied by Library. One slide is annotated with "1960s". Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in an upright slide container with two rows of slide drawers, comprising 10 slide drawers in total. Slides were arranged in the container largely alphabetically either by bridge or river name, or location name, and possibly also by type of bridge. Slides were physically arranged from top to bottom and across both rows. The container was labelled as follows: "Concrete 1 - 5 | Stone Arch 6 - 7 | Steel Arch 8 also Brick | Stone Arch Concrete Arch 2 - pt 5 | Concrete Girder pt 5-6". 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: 1949

Reference: 1/2-055420-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1940-1957

By: Holland, Sidney George (Rt Hon Sir), 1893-1961

Reference: MS-Papers-1624

Description: Opposition papers and correspondence; Ministerial and PM's subject files; National Party, policy, and campaign material; speech notes. Also some memorabilia and scrapbooks of photographs and press cuttings Member of Parliament (National) 1935-1957; Leader of the Opposition, 1940-1949; Prime Minister, 1949-1957 Quantity: 699 folder(s). 16 volume(s). 20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs Finding Aids: Inventory available. Transfers: To Sound and Music Centre - Recording of `To Elizabeth' by Miss Dorothy Stewart, New York - To Photographic Archive - Albums and loose photographs (some albums and scrapbooks have been kept with the collection. See Series 8).

Reference: 1/2-055417-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1945 - 1950

By: McNamara, John Joseph, 1918-2001

Reference: A-369-088/098

Description: Collection of political cartoons published in The Southern Cross which mainly relate to Sidney Holland and his conservative policies, as well as the New Zealand forces that were sent to Japan after its deafeat in World War II. Also contains cartoons that are specific to the Wellington region with particular reference to mayor William Appleton and the prison on Mt Crawford. International issues are also adressed; especially those relating to Britain's class sysyem and the social problems that the nation faced in the aftermath of World War II. Quantity: 11.

Date: 1997 - 1998

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to optometry, spectacles, opticians, eye tests]

By: Fendalton Eye Clinic

Reference: Eph-A-OPTOMETRY-1997-01

Description: Booklet introducing ophthalmologist Dr David Kent, and explaining the excimer laser eye surgery technique. Includes an explanation of myopia, hyperopia, presbyopia and astigmatism, all of which can be helped by laser surgery. Contains notes for the prospective patient about preparing for the operation. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 18 pages, each 200 x 120 mm.

Date: 1967-1968, 1970

From: New Zealand National Party : Further records

Reference: 89-075-051/1

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).