Hay - Harvesting
Whydale, Ernest Herbert, 1886-1952 :[Hauling the hay wagon. Christmas card. ca 1930s]
Date: 1930 - 1949
By: Whydale, Ernest Herbert, 1886-1952
Reference: E-278-q-106
Description: Chrismas card sent by A & A G Rough, 48 Clyde Street, Wellington. On front a reproduction of a Whydale painting, a rural scene showing two horses hauling a wagon loaded with hay. One man is on the wagon stacking the hay while another is gathering it up to place on the wagon. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph 58 x 120 mm on folded card
Hancock, H J :Photographs of Hauraki Plains drainage scheme
Date: 1910-1915
By: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985
Reference: PAColl-0370
Description: Set of photographs of drainage operations on the Hauraki Plains. Spoil from the canal and ditch construction was used as foundation for roads so road construction is also shown. The photographs include two men hay harvesting in front of a small house, a man in a flax field, a dredge at work, the labourers' camp, boats moored at a jetty in Ngatea. Some of the photographs are captioned. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Copy photographic prints Provenance: Given to J H Christie by Dennis Hancock, the grandson of H J Hancock who created the collection.
Horse-drawn cart during harvesting, Taranaki
Date: [1920s]
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-0001-2-1-098
Description: Photo of a horse-drawn carriage loaded up with hay photographed in the early 1920s by Robert E Wells. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Haymaking and harvesting in early 1920s. Farm scene. A pretty little glimpse of the harvesting on a Taranaki farm. "Off to the stack". Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 10.3 x 7.3 cm
McWhannell album 5
Date: 1922-1923
From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō
Reference: PA1-o-554
Description: Collection of photographs created and probably taken by Rhoda McWhannell, from the time of her marriage to Frederick McWhannell. The first scene shows them on their honeymoon, at One Tree Hill in Auckland, on 13th November 1922. From there they go to Whangarei, with views of the Whangarei Hospital, men playing tennis, a group of three men and a woman entitled `The foundations of "Fairview" Onerahi', and Whangarei Falls. Following Whangarei are a number of views of Russell, including the jetty and `The Gables', and the yacht `Kitty fraser'. Later in November they reach the Coromandel Peninsula, and photographs include Cyril Cory-Wright in the launch `Eilepa', and a photograph of Mrs Cory-Wright with her children Patsy and Derek; and the Reverend Norrie (minister of the Coromandel Peninsula). The next group of photographs show Mrs Shires, and scenes of sheep mustering at `Oruru', Kaitieke in the King Country. At the front of the album is an envelope with mostly unidentified people, taken much later, most of them being coloured. Also inserted in the album is a newspaper cutting from the Herald (Section 2, Wednesday 13 June 1984), on a young couple (Tony and Sue Clark) who had managed to create a successful farm from very rough hill country on the Kawhautahi Road, near Kaitieke. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cloth cover, entitled `From my camera' in white cursive script; 25 x 30 cm
Jansen, Nancy, fl 1940-1999 :Photographs relating to Nancy Jansen's family
Date: ca1910-ca1929
By: Jansen, Elwyn George, 1904-1979; Jansen, Nancy, active 1940s-2000s
Reference: PAColl-6174
Description: Photographs relating to the Jensen family, especially to E G (Paddy) Jensen. There is also a portrait of the Presbyterian medical missionary, Dr Owen Lamont Eaton, who was shot in China in 1939. Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s).
Higgs, Sydney Hamlet 1884-1978 :[Haywain] [192-]
Date: 1920 - 1929
Reference: A-090-035
Description: A barn, with a horse outside, a man with a fork standing on top of a pile of hay on the cart drawn by the horse. Probably shows Dalebrook farm, Tasmania Supplied title. On verso of A-090-034 (Farish Street) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 277 x 341 mm Provenance: Purchased from the artist's daughter, Mrs Avis Beere, Wellington, April 1980
New Zealand places
Date: [ca 1933-1959]
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
By: Watherston, R A, active 1956
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-202
Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1933-1959. Various photograph of Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu - Soldiers memorial; camping grounds; Queenstown School; Queenstown Post Office; main street; Scott Memorial in Queenstown Park; town centre, 1933; several elevated views; Queenstown Gardens; Kawarau Dam, 1949; aqua-skiing on the lake; Earnslaw; loading wool at Greenstone Bay, 1950. Franz Josef Glacier; mountaineers cutting steps on the glacier; Arrow Basin; Kaniere gold dredge at Kumara, 1959; St Mary's Church, New Plymouth; Mrs W Reid of Runanga surf casting at Crows Bay, West Coast; hay making near Waikari, North Canterbury; Honeymoon Bay in Tasman Bay. Sheep mustering on high country run of A W Gard, Mt Bell Station (near Kurow); photo of musterers (all named on back) and property owned by Gard. Photographs sent to New Free Lance with accompanying letter by R S Watherston of Springhills, 1956 Also Balclutha; Milton; Woodbank Church; Russell, car ferry at Paihia; Mr Barker's stud at Wanaka; bridge over Molyneux River; Roman Catholic Church at Tokaanu; Wanganui river boat; rock formations at Palliser Bay; yachts of man-made lake Lake Whakamarino, 1947; Cascade Saddle; Mount Egmont lighthouse; Pukekura Park; tree growing amongst rocks on Dunstan Range; Taihape Plunket Rooms; elevated view of Nelson; haymaking near Dagarville; Marion Camp, Homer Tunnel; Northland express passing down main street of Kawakawa, 1947; Centennial Memorial, Wanganui; A & P Show, Taranaki; Dobson; Victoria Park, Waimate; main street of Levin, 1930; Midhurst Co-operative Dairy Factory; St Bathans, 1947. Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
McAllister album
Date: 1930s to 1950
Reference: PA1-q-148
Description: Album of photographs relating to the Rivers and Leach families. Many of the people and scenes are unidentified. They include various houses and a large number of farming scenes with Southdown sheep, hay barns, harvesting linseed, ploughing, and logging in a plantation of pine trees. Some photographs of a rural bungalow house are captioned with dates between 1940 and 1942 and 'Glen Grove'. All the places which are identified are in the South Island, so it seems likely that the two homes that are named are in the Canterbury or Otago areas. One group portrait shows members of the Scargill Voluntary Aid Division A number of scenes show an Austin Sheerline car, a make which was introduced in 1947 and continued to be produced until 1954. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with soft brown cover; 27 x 17 cm Provenance: Donated by Ken McAllister, Christchurch, 1980 Processing information: Name record for 'Glen Grove (House)' was retired in December 2017 as it is unclear if this caption is the name of a house.
Album relating to Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln
Date: [1896-1913]
From: Warburton, Edward Darien :Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-o-1601
Description: Photograph album compiled by E D Warburton. Includes photographs of the Lincoln Agricultural College at Lincoln, Canterbury. Shows photographs of livestock, harvesting machinery, draught houses, crops, animal housing and husbandry and agricultural students. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 16 x 22 cm
Evans, Malcolm 1945-:Smoko! Malcolm Evans, Edna, Book Three, 1983.
Date: 1983
From: Evans, Malcolm 1945-:17 photocopies of "Edna" cartoons published bewteen 1981 and 1987.
Reference: H-721-020
Description: Shows Edna working on top of a hay-stack while her farmer husband uses a plank to somersault her up a cup of tea. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies A4 size. Physical Description: horizontal A4 size photocopy
Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :[Haymaking] 12 October 1861.
By: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922
Reference: A-247-016
Description: A woman and child and three men with a horse haymaking beside a stream or river. The scene may be in the Putiki / Wanganui area, or may be imaginary Inscriptions: Verso - Most graciously and beautifully bestowed on Bertha Charlotte Augusta Taylor, Putiki Watanui, executed by me Mary Catherine Taylor on this twelth [sic] day of October in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and sixty-one". Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 79 x 107 mm on sheet 154 x 190 mm Transfers: Purchased with Harper/Taylor Ms Papers-0254, 1970.
Quartermain album 5
Date: [1900s-1910s?]
By: Quartermain, Leslie Bowden, 1895-1973
Reference: PA1-q-191
Description: Photographs associated with the Quartermain family, none of which have captions. A number show Leslie Bowden Quartermain as a boy and as a young man, including one with his brother and his parents (p. 12), and one of him wearing military uniform (p. 15). Several views show St John's Church, Hororata, during construction and after completion. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with light brown cover, entitled "Sunny memories"; 32 x 28 cm
City of Hastings Public Library :Photographs of New Zealand towns
Date: [ca 1920-1943]
By: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962; Deste, Eileen, 1909-1986; Hastings Public Library (N.Z.)
Reference: PAColl-0365
Description: A collection of photographs including views of Nelson by F N Jones, buildings and earthquake damage in Wellington in 1943 and others from around the country including three hand-touched photographs of Napier and Hastings. The photographs of Wellington are captioned with the building the weather conditions when the photographs were taken and whether flash was used. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).
Quartermain album 4
Date: [1890s-1910s?]
By: Quartermain, Leslie Bowden, 1895-1973
Reference: PA1-q-190
Description: Photographs relating to the Quartermain family, none of which have captions. None of the people or places are named. Of interest are a number of views of the ruins of a house, with only the chimneys standing; several of the new St John's Church, Hororata, including laying the foundations, building construction, and the completed church with lychgate; one of the tombstones of Sir John Hall, and his wife, with the new St John's Church partially visible in the background (for which Sir John Hall bequeathed the money); and one photograph of a steam tractor fording a river with difficulty, with a tow-rope leading to three laden wagons on the far side of the river. A number of photographs show Leslie Bowden Quartermain as a boy, and as a young man Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mid-blue cover, entitled "Sunny memories"; 32 x 28 cm
Photographs taken by Thomas George Cox (1887-1973)
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.
Harvest, Cust, North Canterbury
Date: [1939-1941]
From: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946 :Prints and negatives of New Zealand wildlife and scenery
By: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946
Reference: PA7-47-01
Description: Shows Ngaire Hooper [?] standing in a field of haystacks with Thelma Kent's young nephew John Kent. Photograph taken by Thelma Kent ca 1940. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 24 x 31 cm
Unknown photographer :Kohukohu Farm, Taranaki, 1905
Date: 1905
Reference: PA1-o-1603
Description: Album of photographs of Kohukohu Farm, Tarurutangi, Taranaki, taken 1905 by an unknown photographer. Includes photographs of the homestead, paddocks, men ploughing and hay making, railway station and street view outside the premises of Newton King (Land stock and financial agent) in New Plymouth. Includes a map of the farm. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 13.5 x 19 cm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009
Kaarup, C M :Photographs of rural scences
Date: [ca 1937-1939]
By: Kaarup, Mavis, active 2001
Reference: PAColl-0393
Description: The collection includes: nine photographs of sheep droving and shearing on a Canterbury farm including one of sheep in a pen being branded and one of two Ford cars on a road surrounded by sheep; two of hay harvesting one with a horse-drawn thresher and the other with a tractor; the first electric tractor; seagulls flocking around newly ploughed earth; looking across the plains towards the mountains near Ruapuna with piles of boulders in the foreground; sheaf throwing at a country sports meeting at Hinds which involved throwing a sheaf over a bar set at pole-vaulting height; two photographs of heavy snow in Ashburton, one of shops in East Street and another of someone attaching skis next to a no cycling sign; a Burnett's motors truck laden with bags of wheat outside a barn with three workers next to it; and the Pa at Whakarewarewa. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s).
Mair album
Date: [Between 1903 and 1906]
By: Mair, John Thomas, 1876-1959; New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts
Reference: PA1-o-321
Description: Album of scenic photographs, chiefly taken by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department, with views of the North Island and South Island. North Island scenes include a number of tourist views of Maori, showing carved meeting houses; a group performing a haka; two women demonstrating the hongi; a young woman wearing a feather cloak, hei tiki and huia feathers, and holding a mere; a group of young boys in a haka pose; a woman smoking a pipe; a group of children bathing in a hot pool at Ohinemutu; and Mr. Nelson's carved house at Whakarewarewa. Other North Island scenes show Mount Taranaki, the Auckland wharves, Lake Waikaremoana, and a man fishing at the Ohau Channel, Rotorua. South Island views cover Lakes Wakatipu, Manapouri and Te Anau; the Tasman Glacier; peaks in the Southern Alps; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; a team of four horses with a laden Cobb & Co coach on a ferry, crossing the Mangahua [i.e. Inangahua] River, the Lyell River Bridge and Hawks Crag, all in the Buller Gorge. The last few images are exterior and interior views of the Dunedin Railway Station soon after it was finished in 1906. Inscriptions: Album page - John T. Mair, Wellington, New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured black cover, entitled `Photographs' lettered in gold; 26.0 x 31.5 cm
Hunter Brown album 1
Date: Between 1908 and 1915
From: Brown, Charles Hunter, 1826-1898 :Photographs of the Nelson and West Coast districts
Reference: PA1-o-238
Description: The Miscellaneous section contains photographs of the Hunter Brown family and friends at various gatherings including Christmas parties in 1909 and 1910, and New Year's Day in 1911; views of houses; outing to Tahuna Beach; driving in horse and carriage along the Moutere Road; haymaking at Riwaka; the Moutere River; and a scene from the New Zealand Tennis Championships in 1908 The Westland trip was taken in 1911, and includes scenes in Greymouth; the Buller Gorge; Lake Kanieri; Lake Mapourika; several views of the Franz Josef Glacier including some taken close-up near the snout and a section of the terminal face; Mount Rolleston; the railway viaduct at Rolleston Gorge; the Otira Gorge; the mouths of the Otira Tunnel under construction at both the Otira end and the Bealey end; construction works by the Waimakariri River; and coaches arriving at Cass. None of the people are identified, but most of the locations are given. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black card cover, entitled `Miscellaneous and Westland trip' (hand-lettered in white ink); 16.4 x 22.6 cm