Cities and towns - France

Date: 1955

By: Hauret, Pierre?, active 1950s; Lilburn, Douglas Gordon, 1915-2001

Reference: A-320-019

Description: A sketch of the small hill town of Magagnosc, near Grasse in the south of France. There are two dark pointed trees in the foreground and the buildings of the town on the hill behind. Other Titles - Havrel Inscriptions: Verso - centre - [Title] / All my best wishes for 1956 Douglas. Be happy /Pierre? [Hauret / Havrel?] / 87 Rue du Cherche? Fr..., Paris 6. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Indian ink sketch, on paper 162 x 217 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A2001-172.

Date: 1875 - 1880

From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].

Reference: E-881-f-021-2

Description: Shows a view along the coast to the east, from above the town of Cannes. Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, page 21, upper image Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 267 x 183 mm.

Date: [1897]

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

By: N.D., active 1890s

Reference: PA1-f-195-04

Description: Two photographs taken in France, ca 1897, by the N.D. studio. The upper photograph (PA1-f-195-04-1) is a view of Chinon. The lower photograph (PA1-f-195-04-2) is a view of Tours. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Two photographic prints mounted on album page, 416 x 286 mm (page size)

Date: 1928

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1057

Description: Commercial photographs and postcards collected on a trip to England in 1928. They include Perth Western Australia, the Suez Canal, Port said and Cairo in Egypt, Naples and Pompei in Italy, Toulon and Paris in France as well as a group showing the interiors of the Royal Palace at Fontainebleau, Windsor Castle, St Albans, Stratford on Avon, and Oxford in England. There is a photograph of the liner "Osterly", and others showing its first class public rooms. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: Ca 1865

By: Soulier, Charles, active 1840-1876

Reference: PA1-f-011

Description: Views of the Swiss Alps and the French Alps. Images and the photographer's number are as follows, with the first 15 taken in Switzerland, 16-25 in France "Lucerne and the Sonnenberg (no. 102); Statue of the lion of Lucerne (No. 105); Mont-Blanc (No. 173); Reichenbach Falls (No. 110); the lesser Reichenbach Falls (No. 112); Chalets at Rosenlaui (No. 113); Mounts Welhorn and Wetterhorn at Rosenlaui (No. 114); Interlaken (No. 116); Lake and Chateau at Thoune [i.e. Thun] (No. 128); The Staubbach Falls in the Lauterbrunnen Valley (No. 120); Thoune [i.e. Thun] and the alps (No. 130); The Cotteron Bridge at Fribourg (No. 139); Panorama of Sion, in the Rhone Valley (No. 144); Trient Gorge at Martigny-Ville (No. 146); Tamine Gorge at Pfafers (No. 148); Chamonix and Mont-Blanc (No. 149); View of a glacier from Montanvers (No. 151); Source of the River Arveiron in the Chamonix Valley at the mouth of a glacier (No. 163); Bossons Glacier in the Chamonix Valley (No. 164); Cabin and climbers on Mont-Blanc (No. 174); Rocks and climbers on Mont-Blanc (No. 175); Seracs and climbers on Mont-Blanc (No. 176); Les Ouches [i.e. Houches] and the Piq du Midi in the Chamonic Valley (No. 178); Sallanches and Mont-Blanc (No. 181). Photographs taken by Charles Soulier, ca. 1865, published by Photog. Antonin, 47 Boulevard Sebastopol, Paris. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 25 albumen prints Provenance: Provenance unknown

Date: 1987

From: Sundborn, Maggy, 1937-1990 : Photographs of buildings and places in France and Britain relating to Katherine Mansfield

Reference: PAColl-6920-2

Description: Cornwall and (presumably) views of the villages of Zennor and Mylor; London and Beauchamp Lodge, Paddington, and 5 Acacia Road, St John's Wood; Menton, France, and Ospedaletti, Italy; Bandol Quantity: 150 colour original photographic print(s). 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1928

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1055

Description: Trip to England; from Toulon and Gibraltar to England. There are images of groups of friends and then trips from London to Oxford, St Albans, Kenilworth, and Guildford which included villages such as Chalfont St Giles and Nuneham Courtney. Others record a walking tour through the Buckinghamshire countryside between Chenies and Rickmansworth which took in a stately home at Moor Park. Stratford on Avon and Canterbury complete the English section of this album, after which the photographer visited Paris, France Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-030-016

Description: Shows a street in a Normandy town, with a horse and cart in the far left foreground. There is a large towered building behind the houses on the street frontage. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 140 x 228 mm.

Date: 1875 - 1880

From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].

Reference: E-881-f-021-1

Description: Shows a view along the coast to the west, from above the town of Cannes which is partly obscured by foreground trees. Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, page 21, lower image Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 267 x 183 mm.

Date: 1946-1951

From: Perry, Thomas James, fl 1930-1960 :Photographs relating to Thomas James Perry

Reference: PA1-q-911

Description: Album begins in Trieste, Italy, in 1946. As well as views of the town there are pictures of allied occupying troops parading, Tito Youth marching, and communists landing illegally from small boats in the harbour. Most of the rest of the album records a trip through Italy and France made by Perry and a group of friends during 1946-1947. A large part of the album contains images of the ruins and antiquities of Rome, Ostia, Veii, Pompeii, and Herculaneum. A page of photographs record the gigantic war memorial and cemetery at Redipuglia. Commissioned by Mussolini, it commemorates a hundred thousand soldiers of the Italian Third Army who died in the First World War. There are three breaks filled with images of England. One is of a house and garden at Wappenbury, just south-east of Coventry, another is of unidentified rural scenes and friends and family. The third is two pages of the 1951 motor racing events at Silverstone which was the venue for the Grand Prix of Britain. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1919

From: Boyd, Mary Beatrice 1921- :Photographs relating to Mackersey family

Reference: PA1-o-1732

Description: Photographs include - Groups of soldiers of the New Zealand Education Division in Leverkusen, Germany. Views of Leverkusen include - Factory of F Bayer & Co (Bayer AG today). The Kasino. The School. House of managing director of F Bayer & Co. Public sculpture. Offices of F Bayer & Co which were used as the New Zealand divisional Headquarters. Children skating on the ice. Other places in Germany include - The Rhine at Cologne. Cologne Cathedral. The Hohenzollern Bridge. Bonn. Mulheim. Aachen. On his way back from Germany Lindsay Mackersey travelled through Belgium and France, and there are photographs of war damaged buildings. Other photographs were taken during the channel crossing to Folkestone, after which he was based at Hornchurch. Photographs of English places include - Folkstone. Hornchurch. Amesbury. Oxford. London and the Albert Memorial. Leslie Mackersey was in the 6th Rifles 1 NZEF. Lindsay Mackersey was in the 24th Rifles. While in the occupation force in Germany he served as instructor-in-law to service men studying for law degrees prior to repatriation. He was bilited in Leverhusen Village near Cologne in 1919. Margaret was on the staff at the New Zealand General Hospital No.1, Brockenhurst, England. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1987

From: Sundborn, Maggy, 1937-1990 : Photographs of buildings and places in France and Britain relating to Katherine Mansfield

Reference: PAColl-6920-1

Description: Menton, France and the Isola Bella; Paris, the gardens of the Tuileries Palace and the Sorbonne; Katherine Mansfield's grave at Avon, Fontainbleau; no 5 Acacia Road, St John's Wood, London Quantity: 162 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1875 - 1880

From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].

Reference: E-881-f-022-2

Description: Shows the stone buildings of a small hillside town, with grey mountains in the distance. Other Titles - St Martin Vesubie Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, page 22, lower image Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 172 x 116 mm.

Date: 1892 - 1893

From: Ryan, Thomas Aldworth, 1864-1927 :[1. Decorated ceremonial entrance to the Government Baths Sanitorium, Rotorua. 1901; and, 2. Le Quai Malaquais. 1892-1893].

Reference: A-176-048-2

Description: Shows a preliminary sketch of one of the quays beside the Seine, in Paris, where Ryan studied in 1892-1893. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on sheet, 258 x 350 mm Provenance: Purchased from Dunbar Sloane, Auckland, in 2001.

Date: 1880s-1902

From: New Zealand. General Assembly Library: Photograph albums from the Mangaroa collection

Reference: PA1-f-209

Description: Photographs of the Italian Renaissance masters from Giotto to Raphael. Also works by Memling and engravings by Durer. Classical and gothic sculpture. Greek temples, and Greek and Albanian women in national dress. A large section of the album is devoted to Italian cities. There is a section on Britany, another on Bruges, and another on Clovelly, a picturesque English village Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1914 - 1916

From: Thompson, Ernest Heber 1891-1971 :[Caricatures and cartoons relating to the European War. 1914-1916]

By: Hay, John (Sir), active 1960s

Reference: A-223-007

Description: A disconsolate New Zealand soldier standing in the rain in a French town, with street signs in French at the corner (Rue le Soleil, Rue des choux). Original drawing for cartoon published in Shell shocks; New Zealanders in France (London, Jarrold, 1916) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash, 251 x 177 mm Provenance: Presented by Sir John Hay, 14 March 1968

Date: 1987

By: Sundborn, Maggy, 1937-1990

Reference: PAColl-6920

Description: Photo essays of Mansfield's European and English residences and of scenes viewed and described through windows in Mansfield's journals and writings, relating to Sundborn's assignment on Katherine Mansfield (1987). Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 36883 to 35mm, 36988 Sundborn had a lifelong interest in Mansfield, which she carried on with this research. Quantity: 105 colour original negative(s) 35mm strips comprising 386 images. 404 colour original photographic print(s). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Provenance: Sundborn was a close friend of the contact, who inherited her papers when Sundborn died.

Date: 1875 - 1880

From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].

Reference: E-881-f-023-2

Description: Shows part of a stone house with a red tile roof, and misty hills in the background. Location is St Martin-Vesubie, which was known as St Martin Lantosque until 1889. Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, page 23, lower image Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 270 x 172 mm.

Date: 1916-[ca 1925]

From: Cory-Wright & Salmon Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7080-8

Description: Postcards and books of postcards. One group depicts towns in France and Belgium before and after the First World War. These include Albert, Hazebrouck, Meessen (Messines), La Boisselle, and Ypres. There are also a group of war memorials. Another booklet depicts views of Lille, France, and there are several photographs of stirling and Qubec. An album of 23 photomechanical prints depicts Cairo and its environs. Included in this are five post cards of Egypt. The album and the postcards are dated 1916. Eleven photographic postcards published by the Swiss electrical engineering firm, Brown, Boveri & Company, record its involvement in the process of the electrification of the Swiss railway system. Included in this sequence are electric locomotives, a hydroelectric power house, various electrical goods such as turbines, and a view of the BBC factory at Baden. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). 91 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 19 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1947 - 1948

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994

Reference: C-127-276

Description: Shows a scene of stone stairs and buildings in the medieval town of Roquebrune, near Menton, in the south of France. At lower left, a man climbs stone stairs with a basket of foliage on his head, a women watches him from behind a low wall, a shadowy figure appears in an arched stairway above him, and at the top, a woman watches the scene, leaning on a wrought iron balustrade. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 420 x 313 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Cordy's Fine Auction, 26 November 2007, lot 60.