Places

Date: 1863

By: Duppa, George, 1817-1888

Reference: E-081-q

Description: Two complete 360 degree panoramas, back-to-back. The first one is 12 pages with two inserts, with a closer view of the station, homestead, outhouses, etc. The second, 14 pages plus 1 insert is a wider view of the countryside from a higher, more distant position. Notes include vegetation and landmarks, including Tekoa, Mt Veto, Jollie's Pass, Maori Kaik, Domett's run, top of Mt Pam [i.e. Mt Palmerston], Duppa's nephew Bryan, and his dog Norma. The drawing of Bryan Duppa is a back view of him seated by a flax-bush, the dog Norma seated at his side. His initials are below the drawing Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 2 pencil drawings on both sides of 14 sheets 228 x ca 3500 mm and 228 x ca 4000 mm on sheets 228 x 285 mm

Date: 1849 - 1855

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Taranaki Museum; New Plymouth Public Library

Reference: A-284-031/035

Description: Show Taranaki scenes: Interior of George Curtis' house, Omata; Exterior of George Curtis' house, Omata; Alpha flourmill, Huatoki Valley and Victoria Road from Marsland Hill, New Plymouth; Henui (Weekstown) from the coastal dunes; Unidentified New Plymouth outskirts (possibly now Tukapa St / Westown). Attribution based on style. George Curtis arrived in New Plymouth in 1849 on the 'Pekin'. "As soon as a raupo house could be erected by the Maoris at Omata, George Curtis and his family went to live on his farm". (NZ Biogs, 1967, vol. 1, p. 53). Supplied titles. Inscriptions: Unsigned and undated.; Recto - beneath image - [Titles as supplied by donor]. Quantity: 5 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies, black and white, varying sizes. Provenance: Original drawings in New Plymouth Public Library tipped into a book, until 1992, then transferred to Taranaki Museum.

Date: ca 1860s-1890s

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Spencer, Harriet Dyke, 1866-1948; London Stereoscopic Photographic Company

Reference: PAColl-4721

Description: Photographs on album pages: photograph of Mount Peel Station, its interior and grounds including Mr Acland in his study, his daughters and their friends identified by inititals, including one of L D Acland and B B Acland, the latter knitting a sock, and the Church of the Holy Innocence viewed across a field of hay stacks with the forest planted by Acland behind it; more of the same women boating and picnicking, including a view of a gorge taken by Harriet Acland, a church interior and Bishop Harper playing cricket with a young boy; Ilam homestead covered in clematis with balconies and verandahs and extensive grounds next to the Avon River, and the Watts Russell family group at Pareora August 1894 with their dog and saddled horses in the background; the West Coast Times printing office with the men outside it, C G Tripp and family and a Centerbury view; and two views of Tripp's homestead at Orari. Photographs mounted on card: a studio portrait of Dr Shortland; John Charles Watts Russell taken by the London Stereoscopic Company; Rev R H Codrington's garden in Norfolk Island while a missionary in the South Pacific with eight local men, either Solomon Islanders and New Hebrideans; five interior views of a well-furnished house (possibly Wildwood, Christchurch) with heavy wooden furniture and fireplaces, gas lamps, drapery, paintings (including a copy of The Order of Release by Millais) etc.; the officers of HMS Invincible on the deck of their ship next to the lifeboats; a view looking down a street of two boats in "the bay of Taranaki" (probably near New Plymouth) one named SS Taupo ca 1860s; and a view over buildings near the shore in New Plymouth ca 1860s. Loose prints of: a brick-built house with a verandah, and a duplicate of the officers of the Invincible. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. 28 b&w original photographic print(s) on loose pages from an album. 2 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.

Date: 1863

By: Hanhart, Michael, active 1870-1882

Reference: A-104-005

Description: A whare to the right, with four Maori outside, two men tending to a small fire, a couple reclining by the door of the whare with a dog. There are tall tree ferns beyond the whare. The river winds past and through bush towards the sea in the background Extended Title - From Carey, G. J. Narrative of the late war in New Zealand by Lieut. Col. Carey. London, R. Bentley, 1863. Frontispiece Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 88 x 162 mm

Date: [ca 1909-1925]

By: Morrison, John M, active 1883-1951

Reference: PAColl-6494

Description: Photographs of Takapuna and Milford. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-016625 to 016630, 1/2- 031823 and 101744 Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: Manuscript material now held at qMS-1398.. Processing information: The majority of the prints do not have negatives.

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-661-001/061

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 61 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size

Date: 1853 - 1966

By: Holmes, William Howard, 1825-1885; Avon Fine Prints; Adlard, Henry, active 1822-1853

Reference: B-076-013-a

Description: Looking down Lyttelton Harbour towards its entrance and Godley Head, from Quail Island, with the settlement of Lyttelton at the foot of the Port Hills on the left in the distance. A small house and garden are in the foreground, the home of Mr Hamilton Ward on Quail Island. A dog is tethered near kennels beyond the fence on the right. Various features are numbered, including Mount Pleasant, the town and the Sumner Road A reproduction of an engraving originally published in Adams, C E. A spring in the Canterbury settlement. (London, Longman Brown, 1853) Plate 1. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph (hand coloured) 6.1 x 10.5 in on sheet 10 x 15 in

Date: [Circa 1920s]

Reference: PA1-o-441

Description: Album of photographs taken circa 1920, by an unidentified photographer. None of the images have inscriptions; only a few places have been identified. Identifiable buildings and locations have been listed above. Many of the scenes are of a two-storey English cottage in the Arts & Crafts style, showing exterior and interior views. There is one of a viewing tower with windows and gables, possibly in the garden of the same house. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, entited "Photo-graphs"; 22.0 x 17.5 cm

Date: 1954

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir) 1916-1987 :[Christmas and greetings cards from the Fleming family, and preparatory montages and sketches. 1951-1986].

By: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987; Fleming, Margaret Alison (Lady), 1917-2000

Reference: A-304-014

Description: Shows pied stilt, Kayaking on the Waimeha, the "Phyllis" stranded, a pigeon ("The plague of Wadestown"), a house on the corner of Ngapaki and Rangihiroa Streets, a map of Waikanae Beach, horses Paddy and Topsy with the 3 girls, Mum and dog "Skipper_ busy resting, and the "Country Life" restaurant at Waikanae ("Friday evenings' dinner"). Quantity: 9 drawing(s) and 4 pieces lettering stuck on cardboard.. Physical Description: Ink drawings, black and white, mounted on card, 230 x 285 mm. Provenance: Donated by Lady Margaret (Peg) Fleming of Wadestown, in 1993.

Date: 1936-1971

From: Hodge, Horace Emerton, 1903-1958 :Albums and photographs relating to Merton Hodge and the Linney Family

Reference: PAColl-8311-07

Description: Photographs of Merton Hodge, Geoffrey Wardwell and friends in the 1930s; New Zealand family and friends; views of a London street; Merton and Catherine Hodge, their dogs and their Citron car, Dunedin, 1950s; Hodge at Balclutha with Ken and Joan Moore and their son, 1950s; views of unidentified streets, Dunedin; exterior views of the Hodges flat and garden, 1950s; views of Dunedin from the Hodges garden; snaps of Catherine Hodge, friends, and the children of friends. Arrangement: Negatives of most of the Dunedin photographs in this box are at 1/4-110198-F to 1/4-110258-F. Quantity: 97 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1948 - 1849

By: Abbot, Edward Immyns, 1822-1849; Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd

Reference: A-165-006

Description: A couple with a child and dog standing in a clearing looking down at the embryo settlement of Dunedin. Smoke rises from the chimneys of many houses Described an the accompanying booklet: `Otago celebrates...' Published to celebrate the centennial of settlement of Dunedin Reproduction of a watercolour in the Hocken Library, Dunedin. See also the lithograph version of the same view, with copies held at B-052-014, -014-a and -014-b Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 331 x 415 mm

Date: 1920-1929

From: Cox, Thomas George, 1887-1973 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6712-3

Description: Photographs of trips taken in the countryside, of bridges, rivers, streams, waterfalls, native forest, mountains, coastal scenery and other scenic views. There are pictures of cars and one of a motorcycle with side car. There are prints of two fly fishermen displaying their catch in a net and of a man holding up a large eel. Others show yachts in sail, and men and boys in yachts; adult fun sports at a group outing identified in PAColl-6712-2 as being the "optic championships". Another group are shown playing cricket in the grounds of Days Bay House. There is also a single print of a hunter showing his bag of wild game birds. Animals are represented by cattle and horses, one of the latter associated with two men and a wagon-full of freshly harvested hay, another is harnessed to a coach parked beside a stationary train. A sequence of prints records the dams and lakes of the newly completed Mangahao Hydro in the hills inland from Shannon. Three prints show a ship grounded in coastal shallows. There are portrait and group photographs of people, including children, and one print of a children's party. Several show picnic groups.

Date: ca 1900-ca 1910

From: Main, William :Photographs of the Nelson properties at Pori, north eastern Wairarapa.

Reference: PA1-o-1206

Description: Most of the New Zealand images relate to the Nelson family, their farms, farm houses, and farm buildings in the Pori area, north eastern Wairarapa, and scenic views of the area such as the Makuri River, a waterfall at Tiraumea, Annedale north of Tainui, the Pori Bridge, and native forest. The images of the farm houses include building a stable and buggy house, views of the yard with washing drying, a hen run, and a view of the dining room at "Ruatea". Four images are of Hugh Nelson's whare which was the first building constructed at "Taumata". There are three photographs of local Maori, one of bullock teams at Tiraumea, snow covered landscape at "Nga Mahanga", a picnic group with horses and buggys, and many views of the countryside from the Nelson farms showing cleared, partially cleared and forested land, much of it covered with the gaunt trunks of burnt off bush. There are group photographs of the families and friends. As well as the men these include women (wives?) Lucy, Katie, and Winifred, and children, Robert, Frances, and Dorothea. Other new Zealand houses include two probably located at Annedale with the names "Te Hoe" and "Manawa", and another in Featherston called "Newstead". The English images are of family and friends and various places, houses and churches which include Dover, Tunbridge Wells, Broadstairs, Minehead, Ostend, Clovelly, Lynton, Lymouth, Doon Valley, Meywingen, St Saviours Leeds, and Chester Cathedral Arrangement: Loose prints originally in this album can be found at PAColl-7868-1 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1853 - 1966

By: Holmes, William Howard, 1825-1885; Avon Fine Prints; Adlard, Henry, active 1822-1853

Reference: B-076-013

Description: Looking down Lyttelton Harbour towards its entrance and Godley Head, from Quail Island, with the settlement of Lyttelton at the foot of the Port Hills on the left in the distance. A small house and garden are in the foreground, the home of Mr Hamilton Ward on Quail Island. A dog is tethered near kennels to the right, beyond a fence. Various features are numbered, including Mount Pleasant, the town, and the Sumner Road A reproduction of an engraving originally published in Adams, C E. A spring in the Canterbury settlement. (London, Longman Brown, 1853), Plate 1. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph (Hand-coloured) 152 x 260 mm on sheet 253 x 376 mm

Date: ca 1880-1954

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); S P Andrew Ltd; Swan & Wrigglesworth (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0507

Description: A collection of photographs of the Hunter family particularly of George Ernest Hunter and his wife and dogs at their home in Watt Street, Wadestown but also of his brother Robert Henry Hunter (the two men look very alike). They include a number of photographs of their house, garden and neighbourhood but also a postcard of Paekakariki beach, a postcard of two wagons with passengers passing through the Devil's Elbow between Buttermere and Keswick in the English Lake District, seven men with penny-farthing bicycles ca 1880, a carte de visite of four young Maori wearing kakahu taken by Swan & Wrigglesworth, and a photograph of a sketch of Porerua Bay near Wanganui (mid 19th century). The collection includes a letter to a Mr Ellingham from I W Macdonald of 8 Lower Watt Street, Wadestown offering him the photographs. Quantity: 83 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1866

From: Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918 :Illustrations of New Zealand 1865?-1867

By: Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918

Reference: E-370-001-1

Description: Garforth and Hawkins, (Hawkins was tutor to the children of J. D. Tetley of Flaxbourne Station, Marlborough), one swimming and one seated (naked) on a raft in the breakers by the water's edge, with two boys and two dogs cheering them on from the beach. Several buildings visible at the foot of hills beyond the shoreline. The account below the drawing describes the construction and use by the two men of a makeshift fishing raft. While swimming with the boys, the two men tried the raft, were swept off shore, and had to abandon it and swim to shore. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 95 x 205 mm

Date: [Circa 1913]

From: MacLeod, Rosemary :Portraits taken by Chas Campbell, Invercargill ; albums entitled "Photograms 1913", by C A Campbell, and "family photographs"

Reference: PA1-o-317

Description: Album of family snapshots, with a number of group portraits, mostly unidentified. The only identification is of one group picnicking on Stewart Island, a woman bending over photographs in a darkroom, a St John's Choir, a house in Wade Street, two women in the Lower Hutt Garden, and a group of four people outside a brick and shingle house in Luton, England. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey cover, black suede spine, entitled `Photographs'; 13 x 17 cm

Date: [ca 1930s-1950s?]

From: Creator unknown: Lantern slides, chiefly of trips overseas, plants, and gardens

Reference: PA11-281

Description: Lantern slides of gardens, flowers, houses and buildings, farming, and vacations in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, circa 1930s-1950s. Photographer(s) are unidentified. Some images are labelled with captions naming the subject. Slides include: - Photographs relating to gardening, including a variety of flower gardens and vegetable gardens. These include an unidentified woman in her vegetable garden on a farm with a spaniel watching on, a man with a plough in a vegetable garden on the same farm, and a group of unidentified women with a wheelbarrow full of produce. Two studio images show plants formally arranged in pots [possibly copies?]. - Image of houses and buildings in New Zealand, including unidentified villas, Auckland University Clock Tower, 'Otahuna' (the residence of Sir Heaton Rhodes in Tai Tapu) with field of blooming daffodils in the foreground, [railway?] sheds at the Port of Tauranga with Mount Manganui in the background, the T&G Building and adjacent earthquake memorial colonnade in Napier, and the Cawthron Institute building and garden in Nelson. Set also includes images buildings in England including a country cottage, Tudor houses [in Chester?], the chapter house of an unidentified cathedral, and Georgian terrace houses. The English images also include unidentified people. - Holiday photographs include Milford Sound, Farewell Spit (with lighthouse and dunes), and coastal and lake scenes (with boats, including the launch 'Ratahi'). Unidentified people appear in a number of these photographs. Also includes a single photograph of the Pan American Airways (Pan Am) seaplane 'Honolulu' on the water and two photographs of the parade at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in London, with one showing Queen Elizabeth in her carriage. - Images relating to farming and industry include a ewe and a lamb in a paddock, a flock of sheep being corralled by farm dogs, hay making, wool being loaded onto a barge, and [flax?] drying in a field. Arrangement: Set contains slides from box 6 Quantity: 26 b&w lantern slide(s). 14 colour lantern slide(s). Physical Description: Lantern slides

Date: ca 1900-ca 1910

From: Main, William :Photographs of the Nelson properties at Pori, north eastern Wairarapa.

Reference: PA1-o-1205

Description: The two Nelson farms in this album are "Nga Mahanga" (Hugh Nelson's place), and "Taumata" (Jack Nelson's place). Views show the farm houses, and farm buildings, the farm land and landscape of the Pori area partially cleared of bush. One group of images shows the countryside under snow. There are a series of five images recording the building of a stables and buggy house, also a view of the woolshed and sheep at "Taumata". Scenic views of the area include the Makuri River ford, native forest interiors with pongas, and native forest. Four images show the interior of Hugh Nelson's whare which was the first building constructed at "Taumata". There are two photographs of local Maori standing beside tents in a bush clearing, one of army volunteers in uniform standing in front of tents, two of soldiers at an unidentified event, many of horses, some of hens, dogs, cats, and cattle. Two prints show one of the Nelson brothers cutting long grass with a scythe and 4 others are views of an unidentified house and its garden at Tiraumea (a distant view of this house surrounded by pinus radiata shelter belts and its surrounding countryside can be seen in album PA1-o-1206, page 7 captioned "Tiraumea"). There are also some images of "Newstead" the Monckton family home at Featherston. There is only one photograph of a Nelson family group. The rest are individual images of adults and children which include: Frederick Monckton, Lucy Miller (who married Frank Nelson), Winifred, [Lornie?], Dorothea, [Frances?], the brothers and the children. Further information and names provided by researcher. Updated 10 November 2016. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: [1895-1900?]

From: Denton, Frank J, 1869-1963 :Collection of negatives, prints and albums

Reference: PA1-o-131

Description: Album of photographs, mainly of the Wellington Region, Marlborough and Horowhenua Regions, interspersed with copies of photographs by unidentified photographers, unidentified lithographs and illustrations. A number of the photographic copies are portraits of Maori. The last images in the album, taken by unidentified photographers, relate to Darjeeling (Bengal, India). Inscriptions: Album page - Photographed by Frank J. Denton, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover with gold patterns on corners and spine, 25 x 32 cm