Memorials - New Zealand - Otago Region

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: [ca 1965-1975]

From: Edwards, Muriel, 1907-1981: Slides taken around New Zealand

Reference: PA12-10628

Description: Slides taken by Muriel Edwards of New Zealand scenes, circa 1960s-1970s. Includes images of the Rakaia River and Highbank power station, Robert Falcon Scott memorial boulder (Queenstown Gardens), Skippers Canyon, Fitzroy Gardens (near Rotorua) and Muriwai's Cave carved entrance. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: 1890 - 1895

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook of loose drawings, ca 1890?]

Reference: E-036-q-2-025

Description: An unfinished sketch showing a pair of horses drawing a large carriage, possibly alongside the Cargill Memorial, Princes Street, Dunedin Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream paper, 132 x 207 mm

Date: 16 February - 21 March 1958

From: Tomsett, Maurice William Henry :Colour slides of New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7761

Description: Phase 4 continued - 50. Foliage by Coal Creek; 51-58. Roxburgh Dam; 59. The dam seen from Bridge downstream; 60. Across Corstorphine and city to Harbour; 61. St Kilda and St Clair beaches; 62. University of Dunedin; 63. View of city and suburbs from Signal Hill memorial; 64. The harbour and towards St Kilda beach; 65. Centennial Memorial Signal Hill; 66. Botanical gardens - Hot house; 67. Stuart St extension leading into city from South; 68. Otago Boys High School; 69. First church of Otago; 70. Late afternoon drive; 71. Sunset on the bay; 72. En route to airport; 73. Freighter Aircraft (American) from McMurdo Sound (Chch airport) Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1914-1920]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 10x8-1786-G

Description: The stone memorial erected by the Port Chalmers Borough Council in memory of Captain Robert F Scott on a hill overlooking Port Chalmers. The circular cairn with an anchor on top was unveiled on 30 May 1914 by the Prime Minister, Rt Hon W F Massey, and overlooks the Otago Harbour. The entrance to the harbour and the Otago Peninsula can be seen in the distance. Photograph taken by William A Price ca 1914 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Scott Memorial Cairn. Port Chalmers. NZ. No 3425 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 10 x 8 inches

Date: 1926

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

Reference: APG-1891-1/2-G

Description: Looking up at the front of Kaikorai School, at Roslyn, Dunedin. It is a stone building with a memorial gate (double arched gateways separated by a memorial plaque). Two women (possibly Laura and Phyllis Godber) are standing up by the building on the left. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1926. An original print from this negative is in Godber Album Vol 109, p 241 (PA1-q-102) with no inscription. Listed in Godber's own index held in Photographic Archives at TL 6/1/15, in the 1/2 plate sequence, under R. Roslyn School. Dunedin. 1926. Box 86. The school was named \"Kaikorai\" and remained that despite various attempts to have the name changed to \"Roslyn School\". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1914-1920]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001245-G

Description: The stone memorial erected by the Port Chalmers Borough Council in memory of Captain Robert F Scott on a hill overlooking Port Chalmers. The circular cairn with an anchor on top was unveiled on 30 May 1914 by the Prime Minister, Rt Hon W F Massey, and overlooks the Otago Harbour. The entrance to the harbour and the Otago Peninsula can be seen in the distance. Photograph taken by William A Price ca 1914 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [1920s?]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001242-G

Description: View of a monument erected in memory of Alexander Whyte, Presbyterian minister at Port Chalmers, and a memorial cairn to Captain Scott on the hill behind. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, circa 1920s. Inscription on the monument reads "In loving memory of Alexander Whyte ... Minister of Port Chalmers Presbyterian Church who died November 8th 1919 aged 55 years". Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Rev. Alex White's monument, and Capt. Scott's cairn. No. 3724 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: Jan 1959

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-032771-F

Description: Photograph showing the memorial to Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Adrian Wilson, Lawrence Edward Grace Oates, Henry Robertson Bowers, and Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russel Evans. The stone monument is cylindrical in shape with an anchor on top, and carries a marble plaque with words in memory of Scott's expedition party. It is mounted on a hill overlooking Dunedin's lower harbour. Photograph taken in January 1959 by Ronald Fox for the National Publicity Studios. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 2012

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024331

Description: An elderly man labelled 'Dunedin City' looks at an enormous memorial in memory of Dunedin. A construction worker says, 'Just the thing to mark the occasion, eh gramps?' and the man replies, 'Can I just have a party instead?' Refers to the 150 birthday presentations for the city of Dunedin. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007-2012

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000754

Description: Photographs of memorials and graves throughout New Zealand taken between 2007 and 2012 taken by Dylan Owen. Views of South Island locations include the 9/11 Memorial steel sculpture at Firefighters Reserve on the Avon River, Christchurch, the Kaiapoi War Memorial featuring a stone statue of a New Zealand soldier carved by W.T Trethewey across the road from Blackwells Department Store, Kaiapoi, wooden crosses in the dog cemetery in Diamond Bay, statues of a colonial couple and town heraldic shield outside Oamaru club (Inc), Severn Street, Oamaru, the Oamaru South African (Boer) War memorial next to the Countdown supermaket, Oamaru, which features a statue of Trooper Jack carved by Italian sculptor Carlo Bergamini and the imperial lion and the Great War memorial in Mercer which consists of a soldier statue mounted on the gun turret of the Pioneer paddle steamer. Views of the Wellington locations include crosses on gravestones at Bolton Street Cemetery and Bolton Street Memorial Park, angel statues on a child's grave, family plot and mausoleum, cabbage trees surrounding a 1887 gravestone, rows of war graves in the Karori Servicemean's Cemetery and the Tangiwai memorial at Karori Cemetery. Views of Kapiti and Horowhenua locations include picket fence around the MacKay family burial ground, Paekakariki and the Market Gardener Statue, a bronze statue of a Chinese market gardener by Dennis Hall outside Levin Mall entrance on Oxford street, Levin. Views of Taranakai locations include Marsland Hill New Zealand Wars memorial on Marsland Hill, New Plymouth commemorating colonial and imperial forces and kuapapa Maori, dense native ponga trees and bush surrounding the grave of surveyor Joshua Morgan in Tangarakau Gorge, near Tangarakau Bridge, Stratford, memorial cross to Reverend Robert Ward outside the entrance to the Samoan Methodist Church Fitzroy, New Plymouth, Turi's Canoe at Patea and the Hawera Memorial Arch monument to fallen of World War One and Two on Princes street, Hawera . Views of Northland locations include the Hokianga Arch of Remembrance on the path to the pier on foreshore, Kohukohu, memorial stone Christ Church, Russell, the memorial stone (in Maori and English) for the pioneer residents who died in defence of Kororareka 1845 in grounds of Christ Church, Russell, and the Maori language wording of Te Tirito O Waitangi (Treaty) on a panel of Te Tii memorial at Te Tii marae, Waitangi. Also includes views of the Dannevirke War Memorial cenotaph showing the soldier relief sculpture above the 'Lest We forget' plaque and the Te Aroha First World War memorial showing the bronze statue of a soldier by Italian artist Giobanni. Arrangement: Files were transferred to the Library in a folder titled 'Social Events & Misc items 2000s/Memorials 2000s' Quantity: 27 digital photograph(s).

Date: [between 1917 and 1918]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/4-120747-F

Description: Photograph taken by Edgar Richard Williams. Other - Note in register states: '[from original envelope] Godley, 1917-1918. Down country, motor car, camps etc.' Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Photographer identified by Curatorial Services Leader John Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [between 1917 and 1918]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/4-120745-F

Description: Photograph taken by Edgar Richard Williams. Other - Note in register states: '[from original envelope] Godley, 1917-1918. Down country, motor car, camps etc.' Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Photographer identified by Curatorial Services Leader John Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [between 1917 and 1918]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/4-120753-F

Description: Photograph taken by Edgar Richard Williams. Other - Note in register states: '[from original envelope] Godley, 1917-1918. Down country, motor car, camps etc.' Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Photographer identified by Curatorial Services Leader John Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 18 Jul - 8 Nov 2012

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000828

Description: Comprises views taken by Dylan Owen between 8 July to 8 November 2012 of World War One memorial outside cafe in Glenorchy, the Queenstown war memorial arch beside Lake Wakatipu (commemorates WW1 soldiers who served and those who died), and headstones in graveyard, Johnsonville. Arrangement: Files delivered to library within a folder called "Memorials 2012" Quantity: 4 digital photograph(s).