Photographs

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Bath grounds, Hanmer

Date: [1920]

From: Andrews, N :Stereoscopic photographs

Reference: PA4-0386

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Bath grounds, Hanmer, taken ca 1920 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

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Photographs relating to Rosina Buckman

Date: [ca 1900-1929]

From: Morrison, Rosina Tarepa Buckman, 1923-2005: Photographs relating to Rosina Buckman

Reference: PAColl-0041-10

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Photograph of Lambton Quay, Wellington

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-12-05

Description: Photograph of buildings on Lambton Quay in Wellington, including the premises of J McDowell & Co (with Wellington Club upstairs); W F Ross (Fruiterer); Barrett's Hotel; the Athenaeum (with tower); South British Insurance Co of NZ. Photograph taken in 1870s-1880s by W H W Davis. Duplicate of PA7-12-04 Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

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Permin, James William, 1880-1921 :Photographs

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Permin, James William, 1880-1921; Main, William, 1934-2023

Reference: PAColl-9084

Description: Photographs taken by Dunedin photographer James William Permin. Includes views of Oban, Halfmoon Bay. Prints made circa 1971 by William Main, from glass plate negatives taken circa 1900 by James William Permin. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Resin-coated paper prints

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Photographs relating to Collier & Beale Ltd

Date: 1939-1959

From: Kimble, Thomas Martin, 1918-2003: Photographs relating to Collier & Beale Ltd, and views of Hawaii and Upper hutt

Reference: PAColl-7989

Description: Photographs relating to Collier & Beale Ltd, depicting staff members and radio equipment made by the firm during the 1940s and 1950s. Of the two speech scramblers depicted, one was made for General Macarthur and the other for the US Marine Corps for their Washington office and Pacific Headquarters. One group of photographs records a visit to the factory by P O S Skoglund, Minister of Education, in 1959, and another shows Thomas Kimble at the annual convention of the Aviation Industry Association, 1958. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 68 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Transfer from Manuscripts and Archives - MS-Group-1194, Kimble, Thomas Martin, 1918-2003 : Papers relating to PEACESAT.

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Leonard William Jury - Jury farm (Omata District, Taranaki)

Date: 2007

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-9137-03

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by Leonard Willaim Jury, great-great-grandson of the original owner; history of the Jury family. This history was compiled by Len Jury, ca 1985 and includes a history of the farm as well as information about the William Bryan, the Battle of Waireka, reminiscences related to the family and local history. Copy of article by NZ Historic Places Trust entitled `Archaeological investigations: Jury and Autridge farmsteads, Omata' (2007) The original owner was Elizabeth (nee Hoskin) wife of Jesse (Justinian) Jury. She purchased 46 acres of the Omata Block from the Plymouth Company in 1847. The Jury family arrived in New Plymouth on the `William Bryan' in 1841. In 2007 Leonard William Jury and his wife Heather owned the property at Omata and were awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter, photographs (photocopies) Transfers: A digital version of some or all of these papers is available at MSDL-0414.

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A pictorial record of Campbell Island 1955-1956, 1958-1960.

Date: 1955-1960

From: Poppleton, Philip George :Photographs of South Island, East Coast, North Island, and Campbell Island

By: Poppleton, Philip George, 1922-2002

Reference: PA1-f-196

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Scenic photographs of New Zealand complied by the Scenery Preservation Board

Date: [ca 1880-1910]

From: Scenery Preservation Board :Scenic photographs of New Zealand

By: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Scenery Preservation Board

Reference: PAColl-0444-1

Description: Photographs of the following: a set of seven photographs by Collis and annotated by F P Corkill, land agent, re landholding around the Waiwhakaiho River; scenic views such as waterfalls, lakes, and the Pink and White Terraces; bridges with annotations re height etc; sixteen numbered photographs mounted two to a card of scenic views in the Taranaki Region, Rotorua and the far north (including ones of Taumaha Gorge, Taranaki and Lake Ora - location unidentified); a set of seven photographs of the Waipu Caves including Lot's wife, the anvil and the sugar loaf in Morrison's Cave; a clipping of St Paul's Cupola and a photograph of Kauri Gully, Northcote with annotations on resolutions passed re the establishment of reservations; a panorama in two photographs of Flagstaff Hill, Dunedin with annotations re a potential reserve; and two of a tramping party of three men and five boys resting at a waterfall. Includes a recent hand-written list of the photographs. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted prints

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[A.P.B.W.] :Property of L. W. Tonkin, Esq., 668 acres [map with ms annotations]. [A.P.B...

Date: 1969

By: A.P.B.W. (Cartographer), active 1969; NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd; Corrigan, D W (Mr), active 1960s-1970s

Reference: MapColl-832.11bj/1969/Acc.35278

Description: Aerial photograph, produced by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd., Ref. No. A/S 2218, Flown 27.3.69, of L.W. Tonkin's farm in the Matakohe area, NE of Kaipara Harbour, used as a base map to which the farm and paddock boundaries have been outlined in red and detailed in a key. Hand-written notes in the margin give details of neighbouring houses with name references. Features include a trig point with height in feet, cabbage trees (location of), height in feet (of a hill), silo, to Matakohe, Ruatuna. A.P.B.W. believed to be the cartographer. Hand-written notes included in the margins are as follows: "Mainly hill country (sold 1947 to Crown for rehab) leading to 'The Swamp' on Ruawai Flats." "Matakohe Beet Farms, Ltd. (1971) fromerly the property of D.R. Coates (779 acres)" "J.G.C.'s house 'The Dump'" "Uncle Harry's Hill" "Speechly's house on Speechly's Road" "Eyton" Inscriptions: mat verso - A.P.B.W.; Mount recto - U46 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Black and white photograph, coloured, 20.8 x 33.4 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Sutch, William Ball, 1907-1975. Papers (Exact reference unknown).

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Nauta, Jan, fl 1980s :Post Office Documentary Project photographs

Date: 1987-1988

By: Nauta, Jan, active 1980s

Reference: PAColl-1297

Description: Source of title - Title supplied by Library In 1988 the Alexander Turnbull Library commissioned eight New Zealand professional photographers to make a documentary record of some of the Post Offices that closed that year. Jan Nauta was one of these photographers. Quantity: 1 box(es) containing 12 black and white photographic prints and 61 contact prints.

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EMI :Photographs relating to EMI and His Master's Voice NZ Ltd

Date: 1930 - 1980

Reference: PAColl-0646

Description: Photographs relating to EMI and His Master's Voice NZ Ltd. Quantity: 51 loose photographic prints. 8 item(s) of photographic ephemera (8 sheets of contact prints). 1 album(s) Album(s). 2 mounted photos.

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Scott, Thomas Henry, 1918-1960 : Papers

Date: [ca 1938]-1962

By: Scott, Thomas Henry, 1918-1960

Reference: MS-Group-0735

Description: The collection comprises correspondence from Scott to family, friends and professional colleagues; between Margaret Scott and family in New Zealand; papers re climbing; papers re Scott's internment during WWII as a conscientous objector which include daily diaries kept by internees; manuscripts by Scott, literary, reviews, poetry, short stories and other pieces; personal official documents; lecture notes; accompanied by papers relating to Scott's death, including obituary notices and letters of sympathy Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also `Everglade; a study of a segregated group', Canterbury University College, MA thesis (1949) Arrangement: The papers have been kept in the same subject files in which they were received T H (Harry) Scott was imprisoned as a conscientious objector during World War II and later trained as a psychologist. He was killed while climbing Mt Cook. Quantity: 43 folder(s). 0.51 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Held by the Scott family following Scott's death, and by Jonathan Scott while writing his biography/autobiography, `Harry's absence' (1997) Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs relating to time in detention camp, climbing, family and friends - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Group of small paintings and sketches of detention camp landscapes - To Oral History Collection - 7 voice recording disks, two dated 1953; to be copied for donor - To Cartographic Collection - Map ofthe Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Regions compiled for the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, New Zealand, March 1909, drawn by E N D'Oyly (from MS-Papers-6309-15).

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Lewis, Marjory, fl 2006: Photographs

Date: [ca 1954-1958], 1956, [ca 1975], 1986

By: Lewis, Marjory, active 2006

Reference: PA-Group-00315

Description: Photographs collected by Marjory Lewis, mainly relating to members of her family. Title supplied by Library. Marjory Lewis is the daughter of Gordon Duff. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s). 7 b&w original negative(s) strips with 36 frames.. Physical Description: Photographic prints and negatives

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Railways album 12

Date: [Between 1938 and 1940]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-061

Description: Album of publicity photographs, and photographs of posters and advertisements taken by unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways. Many of the images in this album were taken for a series of articles written by Oliver Neal Gillespie between January 1939 and June 1940, published in the New Zealand Railways Magazine. The series was entitled "Buy New Zealand goods and build New Zealand. New Zealand Industries Series". These contribute the largest group of images in the album, covering a wide range of industries. They include men's and women's clothing manufacturers; electrical engineering companies such as Pallo Engineering (petrol pumps), National Engineering (Neeco electric ovens), Standard Engineering Company; tobacco factories; potteries; Nugget shoe polish factory; brushware factories; and companies associated with the manufacture of food products (eg Watties canneries, Edmonds Baking Powder, Griffins and Bycrofts biscuit makers, and Whittome & Stevenson sauce and pickle makers. There are other sequences of images, including newly built state housing in Lower Hutt, with some houses still under construction beside the Hutt River, a streetscape, and a children's playground (p 7-8); a large crowd joining in a send-off of R.S.A. men to Australia in April 1938; a train laden with boxes of oranges from Rarotonga, the "Special orange train from Auckland"; and photographs of charts showing the progress of the New Zealand Government Railways, with railways workshops staff organisation charts (for Otahuhu, Addington, Hutt & Hillside Workshops (p 28-29). On p 35 there are views of a new hangar at Rongotai Aerodrome, under construction, then views of the completed exterior and the interior with a row of Blackburn B-5 Baffin bi-planes. Several images show collection of Railway sports trophies (including cups for their cricket teams), and two views of New Zealand Railways staff member Neil Edwards, a tennis champion who represented New Zealand in Britain in 1939. Pages 39-41 show the construction of a large dredge on the West Coast; p 57 show a burst watermain on Waterloo Quary, wellington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous 7'; 41 x 61 cm

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Bertram, James :Photographs relating to James Bertram's visits to China

Date: 1936-1987

From: Bertram, James :Photographs relating to James Bertram's visits to China

Reference: PAColl-6000-1

Description: Mainly records of James Bertram's trips to China. There are also some relating to his war service during the Second World War including two of dramatic entertainment by POWs at Omari Camp, Tokyo, Japan, in 1944. The Chinese material relates to his visit to China in 1936, another which he made with a group of New Zealanders in 1956 which included among others, Ormond Wilson, Roger Duff, and Evelyn Page, and other trips that he made in 1982 and 1987 Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 7 colour original photographic print(s).

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Poppleton, Philip George :Photographs of Campbell Island

By: Poppleton, Philip George, 1922-2002

Reference: PAColl-5545

Description: Photographs taken by Philip George Poppleton while leader of team which established the meteorological station on Campbell Island in the 1950s. Arrangement: Slides housed at PA12-1423 to PA12-1429. Negatives housed at 35mm-22024 to 22066. Photocopies of album, which has been returned to donor, are housed at PAColl-5545. From 1945, Campbell Island was administered as a meteorological station by the Air Department. A permanent camp and scientific station was built as part of the International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958. George Poppleton was selected as leader of a seven man party to prepare the site at Beeman Cove; excavating and preparing foundations, laying marston matting tracks to provide access, and building a hydrogen generating shed. He was later selected as leader for a further two years, when most of these photographs were taken. All photographs were processed as colour slides on the island, using Anscochrome film. Quantity: 158 colour original transparency/ies 35mm slides. 159 colour copy negative(s). 54 photocopy/ies. Finding Aids: Manuscript index to colour slides (PA12-1423 to PA12-1429) housed at PAColl-5545..

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Photographs of racehorses and racing personalities

Date: 1947-1958

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-156

Description: Photographs of race horses and racing personalities, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, between 1947 and 1958. Includes Free Lance files (arranged alphabetically by name of horse): Gallops - Names of horses I-Im, In-Iz, Ja-Je. Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Mirams album

Date: 1922

By: Mirams, Stanley William Paterson, 1918-1987

Reference: PA1-o-343

Description: Photographs of Seaview Hospital (Hokitika Asylum), taken by Dr H M Buchanan. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with soft grey cover, bound with knotted thread, entitled `Album'; 24.0 x 31.5 cm Provenance: Donated by Dr Mirams, Wellington, 1979

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New Zealand writers, M - R

Date: 1920-1965

From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 :Photographs of New Zealand writers, and Lawlor's offices

Reference: PAColl-6260-2

Description: Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Photographs of theatrical personalities and events

Date: [1910 - 1975]

From: Cabot, Charles Henry 1890-1978 :Photographs of theatrical personalities and events

Reference: PAColl-0014-2

Description: Photographs of entertainers; including circus performers, actors, dancers, opera singers, bandsmen, magicians, and clowns