Ocean Beach

Date: [1950s]

From: Birrell, Kenneth Stewart (Dr), b 1909 :Albums of photographs taken by Kenneth Stewart Birrell

Reference: PA1-q-032

Description: Album contains coloured photographs with views of New Zealand, and some unlabelled family photographs, taken by Dr Ken Birrell, circa 1950s. Images also include three of Oregon and the Oregon State University. New Zealand views are concentrated mainly in the Wellington area including the Wairarapa, Milford Sound and the Dunedin area. Note handwritten at top right-hand corner of the cover reads "Aerial. Qtn-Milford 1957 & Chch-Qtn. (Air & bus)" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue covered album, with "Photographs" lettered in gold, 255 x 380 mm

Date: 1887-1891

Reference: PA1-q-610

Description: There are three main themes in this album. 1. The Royal Navy, Australian Squadron, based at Sydney. Pictures of naval cadets and war ships, some of which are in dry dock. The creator of the album, or a relative, seems to have been associated with HMS Orlando. Many photos of this ship appear in the album. The Orlando served as the flagship of the Australian Squadron from July 1888 to December 1897. The Sydney Morning Herald reported on 11th Feb 1889 that HMS Orlando and Dart were docked in Calliope Dock, Auckland, because Sydney facilities could not undertake the work. There are a number of Photographs of HMS Orlando in dock at Auckland in this album. Thus the photos of officers and naval cadets may also have associations with the Orlando. There are also 3 photos of a gun accident which occurred on the HMS Cordelia of the Australian Squadron. This happened on the 26 June 1891 while the Cordelia was on a cruize from Fiji to Noumea. During Gun Practice a gun burst killing 6 ratings and wounding 13 others. The photos show the broken gun casing littering the deck. 2. Of the New Zealand section much of it concentrates on the town of Lawrence. Many of the captions and photographs relate to the Anglican parsonage at Lawrence. This suggests the possibility of the album belonging to the Vicar or a member of his family. If this were the case, and given the period of the late 1880s-early 1890s, it may be associated with the Rev George Pice Beaumont vicar and archdeacon from 1872 to 1900. On the other hand the name of Beaumont does not appear anywhere in the album. 3. Samoan civil wars of the late 1880s and the hurricane of 1889 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1880

Reference: 1/4-008635

Description: A group of seven members of staff outside the Ocean Beach Freezing Works. They are wrapped up in their warm work clothes. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1868 - 1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f

Description: A few British and European scenes. The remainder show Lake Wanaka, Nelson, Timaru, Bluff, Dusky and Doubtful Sounds, Chalky Inlet, Lake Waihola and numerous other South Island scenes; Wellington, Napier, Rotorua, Bay of Islands Title from spine Inscriptions: Some signed: K.H. ; K. Holmes Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour drawings 145 p. 290 x 490 mm ¼ red morocco, red linen

Date: [ca 1895-1897]

From: Bassett, Michael Edward Rainton, 1938- : Scrapbooks and papers relating to Sir Joseph Ward

Reference: MS-Papers-5160

Description: The papers consist of accounts, reports and a written reminiscence of the establishment of the Ocean Beach freezing works Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: These copies appear to be the only surviving records of the Association; the originals were destroyed by flood waters in 1894-1895

Date: 1959-2007

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-4

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1959 to 2007. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Identified people are: Senior Sergeant George Christopher Donnelly of Hokitika police; Ivy Harper and Bert Birchfield; Mike Armstrong and Jim Daken; Mary and Heather Cornwell; Charleston coal mine operator Neil Mouat; Mack Heinz; Tex Smith; Mike Armstrong; Henry Heveldt and M Bennett of Nolan's Mill; Garth Graham; meat shooters Mike Bennett and Kevin Blythell; John 'Opo' Angus, the Eggling brothers; helicopter pilot Ben Morris and Les's wife Mary Cleveland; and Johnny Hewer, Claire Easterbrook and Liam Easterbrook in front of the Neils Beach school house. Featured natural environments include the hot springs at Welcome Flat and the Karangarua Valley, River, Ranges, and the view from the Sefton bivouac, Ocean Beach, and Neils Beach, including car wrecks at the rubbish dump. Other images (and series of images) of note include scenes from the Kumara races; environmental damage (slips and road works at Milford Tunnel, Inangahua River road, and Haast and Jackson's Bay area; open face coal mining at Charleston; deer hunting, largely based in Mussel Point; Central Otago Hotels (Cardrona, White Horse, and Vulcan); Post Offices and boxes (St Bathan's, Outram, Ophir, and Dunedin) and a Pacific Films crew on Fox Glacier. Also includes images of James Heveldt's grave (Jackson's Bay), Peregrine Vinyard, a new house in Bannockburn, a girl in a Westport ice cream parlour, women in a Carter's Sawmill shop, a Hokitika cake stall, and various shop fronts and signage in Dunedin, Gore, and on the West Coast. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 80 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1901]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-296

Description: Photographs, probably taken by G W Barltrop. Scenes in the first part of the album are of the South Island, mostly around the Dunedin area, and further south, in Invercargill and Bluff. There are two panoramas, one of Port Chalmers and one of Lumsden. Most are landscapes, but a few show groups of people, including five young girls in the Dunedin Botanical Gardens, and a man driving a horse and buggy at Manuka Creek, with two young women sitting beside him, and a third woman standing by the horse's head. A graveyard scene is a close-up view of two headstones, one for Catherine Louisa Schaw (widow of John S Schaw), who died in 1874 aged 71. North Island scenes show a church at Levin; and views of the countryside, a bullock pulling a laden cart, and at the Rimutaka Summit all taken on a train journey. Group portraits include one of a large family group, with two young boys in the foreground with a cricket bat and cricket pads; and two large groups of men and women associated with the Missions to Seamen. One image show a plaque erected `In memory of twelve officers and seamen who were drowned or died from exposure, by the wreck of the Barque Lizzie Bell near the Oeo River, July 24 1901, erected by members and friends of the Missions to seamen, Wellington, New Zealand'. There is also a photograph of the wreck of the ship Antiocco Accame, which was stranded at Katiki Beach, Otago, on 31 October 1901. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: 1974

By: Peele, James, 1847-1905; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-052

Description: Same as C-085-052-a Reproduction of original oil painting held by Canterbury Society of Arts Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Col. photolithograph, 334 x 533 mm on sheet 521 x 635 mm

Date: 1974

By: Peele, James, 1847-1905; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-052-a

Description: Same as C-085-052-a Reproduction of original oil painting held by Canterbury Society of Arts Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Col. photolithograph, 334 x 533 mm on sheet 521 x 635 mm

Date: 1977

From: New Zealand Federation of Labour : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-4100-29/77

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 12 Oct 1957

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-44653-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: Aug 1966

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-66373-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: Aug 1966

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-66372-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate