Waitapu

Date: 1914-1939

By: Qualis Photo Company; Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0608

Description: Photographs of life at the New Zealand General Hospital No 1 at Brockenhurst including patients being transferred by stretcher on to the hospital train and a soldier feeding chickens in the grounds. Also in the collection are a number of photographs of men in uniform (few captioned); a postcard of a woman with the message "To Ernie with fond love from Iris"; a man in a buggy harnessed to a horse for trotting races; a family group mostly of girls and young woman; and two faded prints of a soldier getting into a car on street with bunting on the house. Some of the names given are: Cpl W Dennis(?), T Herbert, M O'Connor, Gunner Lay, J Page, Dickenson, Clayton, Young(?), A Ross, J Alen. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1890s and 1900s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-297

Description: Album of South Island scenes (except for a few taken en route to Wellington showing The Brothers, Pencarrow Head, and one of a group having a picnic at Muritai). Probably mostly photographed by George William Barltrop. The first section shows the Nelson and Marlborough areas, and several photographs of ships at sea, one shipwreck (the Antiocco Accame in 1901), and one aground (the Elginshire, 1902). People who are identified are: the Reverend Bennett (Frederick Augustus Bennett (later Bishop), with his first wife Hana Te Unuhi Mere Bennett, and young daughter, Rawinia Bennett (circa 1900); Abe Wells, photographed as an older man outside his cob house at Richmond (circa 1890s); and Isla Reid, photographed as a young girl, probably in the Dunedin area. Three scenes in cemeteries have clearly identified headstones, and include those for the Reverend Samuel Poole, Frank Churchill Simmons; and a group memorial for Charlotte McDonald, Annie McQuaid and Lizzie Crinrod, stewardesses who were drowned in the wreck of the SS Wairarapa, Great Barrier Island, 29th October 1894. This was erected by the stewardesses of the Union Steam Ship Company. Inscriptions: Album page - Geo W Barltrop Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: 2 Apr 1860

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0684C-03

Description: Letter written from Waitapu Quantity: 1 piece (3 pages on 1 leaf).

Date: [189-?]

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10x8-0485-G

Description: Broadside view of the ship Lady Barkly at Waitapu wharf, Nelson region. Photograph taken circa 1890s by the Tyree Studio. Source of descriptive information - ship identified by library client Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Waitapu Wharf Tyree Photo 1347 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 26 Mar 1860

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0684B-07

Description: Letter written from Waitapu Quantity: 1 piece (2 pages on 1 leaf).

Date: Between 1896 and 1917

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 1/1-000951-G

Description: The schooner Morning Light at the wharf at Waitapu, Golden Bay, photographed probably in the 1900s, by the Tyree studio of Nelson. Other Titles - Tyree No. 100310 The morning light was first registered in New Zealand, at Lyttelton, in 1896. She was converted from a schooner to an auxiliary cutter rig in 1917. Source of information: "Index to the NZ section of the register of all British ships", compiled by M N Watt (NZ Ship & Marine Society). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches