Originally the lighthouse was situated on Mana Island (1865-1877). Light was lit on 1 Aug 1881.
Cape Egmont Lighthouse (N.Z.)
Lighthouse keeper and his family, Cape Egmont
Date: 1923
From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand
Reference: PAColl-0001-2-2-151
Description: Photo of the Cape Egmont lighthouse keeper, his wife, three sons, daughter and a dog standing on the porch of a house, photographed in 1923 by Robert E Wells. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - 1923. The lighthouse keeper and family at Cape Egmont Lighthouse. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 10.8 x 15.1 cm
Scene with Cape Egmont lighthouse
Date: [ca 1959-1968]
From: Meyer, Robert John, 1921-1990: Photographs of engineering projects in the North Island
Reference: 1/4-132180-F
Description: Negative of people walking on a road with lighthouse in background. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Industrial
Date: 1975-1977, 1980, 1991-1992, date unknown
From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage
Reference: PA12-11678
Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Some slides are not dated. Arrangement: The second of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. 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.
McPike, Joan Norma, 1919- :Cape Egmont [Lighthouse]. 1977
Date: 1977
From: McPike, Joan Norma, 1919- :Twenty-two lighthouses of New Zealand. Wellington, Ra Moana Prints 1977
Reference: A-104-064-a
Description: View of the lighthouse and nearby building Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 445 x 335 mm
McPike, Joan Norma, 1919- :Cape Egmont [Lighthouse]. 1977
Date: 1977
From: McPike, Joan Norma, 1919- :Twenty-two lighthouses of New Zealand. Wellington, Ra Moana Prints 1977
Reference: A-104-064
Description: View of the lighthouse and nearby building Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 445 x 335 mm
Travels of a Country Library Service Bookvan; Taranaki, May-June 1972.
Date: 1972
From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation
Reference: PA1-o-847
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
North Island scenes
Date: circa 1880, 1934 - 1955
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Powell, Arthur Walter, 1893-1970; Wade, Keith Reginald, 1920-1992; Dunstan, Harold J, active 1939-1947
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-029
Description: Scenic photographs of the North Island, 1934 to 1955. Includes Manawatu - Wanganui, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Taranaki, Northland and Auckland Regions. Also includes photographs of the first school in Palmerston North and the Bank of Australasia Corner, Palmerston North, circa 1880. Photographers include W. Hall Raine, Keith R. Wade, Harold J. Dunstan, J M S Beale, A W Powell, and aerial photographs by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 77 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Loose material from scrapbook album on New Zealand lighthouses
Date: 2013
From: Tiller, Eileen, active 1957-2014: Collection
By: New Zealand Memories (Periodical)
Reference: MS-Papers-12440-1
Description: Contains loose material, including newspaper cuttings, photocopies, and ephemera from New Zealand Memories magazine from a scrapbook album on lighthouses in New Zealand compiled by Eilleen Tiller, circa 1980 to 2013. New Zealand Memories greeting card and collector's car show five unidentified male Swiss Sharemilkers, three of whom hold instruments, photographed in front of Cape Egmont Lighthouse. Photocopies of photographs show Anders Hansen with unidentified men and a large wooden box. Hansen is also pictured with his wife Elizabeth Hansen.Photographers are unidentified and photographs are taken circa 1900s. Newspaper clippings "Castlepoint lighthouse centernary marked' from 2013 and a 1997 Evening Post article "Family search for Italian roots" relating to Nicolas Sciascia and his descendents. Folder also contains a photocopy of a report regarding the Portland Island Mains Supply by J K Galdwell (District Electrical Engineer (Auckland). Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Scrapbook album arrived at the Library containing loose items and with items stored in an envelope stuck to the front cover. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter, photographs Transfers: See PA1-q-1313 for album that originally held this material.. Processing information: Material that was loose or stored in inappropriate housing was separated from album for conservation and housing purposes.
Cape Egmont Lighthouse
Date: [ca January 1908]
From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland
Reference: 1/1-026521-G
Description: Cape Egmont lighthouse. Photograph taken ca 1910s by Northwood brothers of Kaitaia. Source of descriptive information - Dated from Otago Witness, 22 January 1908 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Lighthouse at Cape Egmont
Date: [Ca January 1908]
From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland
Reference: 1/1-005693-G
Description: Lighthouse at Cape Egmont, photographed circa January 1908 by Arthur Northwood of Kaitaia. Two unidentified men sit on rocks in the foreground. Source of descriptive information - Dated from Otago Witness, 22 January 1908 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches
Cape Egmont lighthouse
Date: 24 Aug 1949
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-21727-G
Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches
Cape Egmont lighthouse
Date: 24 Aug 1949
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-21726-G
Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches