Lakes - New Zealand - Taranaki Region

Date: Ca 1910s

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

Reference: 1/2-000376-G

Description: View of a lake in Pukekura Park, New Plymouth, with a bridge in the middle distance, a rowing boat on the water, aand a small pavilion in the right foreground. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, ca 1910s Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Recreation Grounds. New Plymouth. [No.] 202 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: Ca 1910s

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

Reference: 1/2-000377-G

Description: Two men and a woman in a rowing boat on a lake in Pukekura Park, New Plymouth. The woman is feeding the birds, including a swan and a goose. There is a small pavilion on the bank in the distance. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, ca 1910s Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Recreation Grounds. New Plymouth. [No.] 300 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2317-F

Description: Panoramic view of Pukekura Park showing the lake on the left with the bridge at the far end. Two unidentified boys are standing on the right on a wide path lined with tree ferns and cabbage trees, and tall trees in the background. Grass in the left foreground with a border of plants by the lake. Small kiosk on the far left with verandahs and steps down to the water. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - New Plymouth Gardens, N.Z. No. 294A Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 97.0 cm

Date: 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2319-F

Description: Panoramic view of Pukekura Park showing a small boy standing on a path between two areas of lake. His mother is coming down a path on the right. Flax in the centre foreground, a path winding round the lake on the right. Trees include tree ferns, palms and rimu. A rustic wooden building is seen at the end of the lake on the right. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Source of descriptive information - Date from other images taken in the Taranaki area, and from Moore's own numbering sequence Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - New Plymouth Gardens. No. 294B. New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 101.2 cm

Date: 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2335-F

Description: Panoramic view of a lake at Pukekura Park. On a path on the right is a group of people, two men wearing raincoats (one holding an umbrella), a woman wearing a coat and hat, and a small boy. There is also a duck on the path. There are tree ferns, flaxes and taller trees all around. Another path is visible on the far side of the lake on the left. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Source of descriptive information - Date from other images taken in the Taranaki area, and from Moore's own numbering sequence Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - New Plymouth Gardens. New Zealand. No. 294 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 111.6 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2056-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across manicured lawns and a row of hedges enclosing small flower beds centre left. A man wearing a hat and a suit with fob watch across waistcoat is standing in front of a small lake set into the lawn. A smaller lake on the far left in part edged with flower beds. Two women are standing behind hedges centre left with a wire-netting fence beside them. Back view of part of a grandstand visible far right. There is an area of thickly planted trees on the left behind the lawns, and a row of trees beyond a paddock with animals grazing behind the park on the far right. Flower beds in the lawn on the right. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. See also Pan-2475 taken at the same time Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - No. 303A. King Edward Park. Hawera; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - R P Moore's circular business stamp Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 113.0 cm

Date: 1910

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-008

Description: A view from the lake in Pukekura Park, also known as the New Plymouth Recreation Grounds. Mount Taranaki rises in the distance, and the Poet's Bridge is seen in the middle distance. On the verso, a pencil sketch of the same view from a similar vantage point, omitting the mountain, and with a figure in a rowboat going under the bridge Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sketchbook page, 127 x 172 mm

Date: 1909 - 1910

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-005-1/2

Description: On the recto, a view of Mount Egmont with the lake at the Recreation grounds in the foreground, and showing Poet's Bridge across it. On the verso, looking out to sea on the coast at New Plymouth, with two of the Sugar Loaf Islands in view. A two-masted steamship can also be seen The view of the Sugar Loaf Islands on the verso is probably half of a panoramic view of the coast at New Plymouth, with the other half being at A-462-006-2 Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on both sides of sketchbook page, 127 x 172 mm

Date: [1950s-1960s]

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: 1/4-091554-F

Description: Brooklands Bowl with the stage and lake in front photographed by Robert E Wells possibly taken February 1960. Caption - Brooklands Bowl - through foliage - for S Price [from photographer's negative register] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches Processing information: Possible date of phtograph added 28 August 2023 following information provided by a researcher.

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920 :Negatives of Taranaki

Reference: 1/2-021383-G

Description: Photograph by William Andrews Collis. Shows the middle lake in Pukekura park, New Plymouth. Two small rowing boats are seen in the foreground and the pedestrian bridge is seen in the middle distance. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [1950s]

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: 1/4-091553-F

Description: Brooklands Bowl with the stage and lake in front photographed by Robert E Wells probably in the late 1950s. Caption - Brooklands Bowl - pond foreground - for S Price [from photographer's negative register] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: Ca 1910s

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

Reference: 1/2-000375-G

Description: Four men in a rowing boat on a lake in Pukekura Park, New Plymouth. There is a small pavilion on the bank in the distance. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, ca 1910s Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Recreation Grounds. New Plymouth. [No.] 194 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: Ca 1905 to 1910

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

Reference: 1/2-000588-G

Description: View through trees of a lake in Pukekura Park, New Plymouth, with a bridge in the middle distance. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, ca 1900s Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Recreation Grounds. New Plymouth. [No.] 112. H. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1850 - 1860

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-019-2

Description: Shows a lake with reeds growing at the right. In the left foreground a figure is seated on the ground under a tree. Other Titles - Rotokare Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink drawing, 40 x 65 mm.