Parks - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: ca 1890s

Reference: PAColl-7440

Description: A tennis court; in the distance a group of men and women on a playing field in front of a grandstand; and people leaning against a fence in front of a grandstand with horses being led past at the start of a race. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1882

By: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903; Wilson, Rosamond Russell, 1910-1981

Reference: MapColl-834.4492gbbg/1882/Acc.39356

Description: Map of Hagley Park, Christchurch City, showing three proposed rides, around or near Hagley Park. Identifies Plough Inn, cricket grounds, Carlton Bridge, exotic nursery, some streets and area of ground called 'acclimatisation'. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil, part coloured, and ink on tracing paper, scale indeterminable, 34.6 x 39 cm. Provenance: William Rolleston collection, donated by Rosamund Rolleston, Sept 1971 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MSS papers 446, (Rolleston Family papers), folder 40. Collection series William Rolleston - Inward correspondence from New Zealand - From a letter to William Rolleston from Alexander Lean, September 1882..

Date: 1970 - 1979

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

Reference: Plans-2007-030-0632

Description: Shows a plan of the park with tree plantings, and 10 photographs of various features of the park. The park is bounded on one side by Barrington Street. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and coloured pencil, and collaged photographs, on sheet 507 x 657 mm.

Date: 1880s

From: Burton brothers album 2

Reference: PA1-o-081-05

Description: View of the Botanic Gardens, Christchurch, showing two boys wearing suits and boaters reading from a book. A feature of the view is a young monkey puzzle tree. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1920]

From: Andrews, N :Stereoscopic photographs

Reference: PA4-0362

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Christchurch Domain, taken ca 1920 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Ch.Ch. Domain.220 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-10/2/3-Acc.

Description: Shows harbours, wharves etc in the Christchurch area. Identifies Avonside and Burwood golf links, Railway workshops and gardens, museum and hospital Hagley Park. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream paper. Scale indeterminable. 101.5 x 69 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1850-1890

By: Harper, Arthur Paul, 1865-1955; Moberly, Patricia, active 1990s

Reference: PA1-f-207

Description: Album probably compiled by the mountaineer and explorer, A P Harper. Harper was also probably the photographer for many of the prints, especially those of mountains and mountaineering. There are Harper and Ackland family photographs which include interior and exterior views and views of the garden, of Ilam, the family mansion in Christchurch. The other main group of photographs relate to A P Harper's activities as a mountaineer and explorer in the Fox and Franz Joseph glacier regions. Some of the climbers active in the Southern Alps during the 1880s and 1890s are depicted. W S Green and his two Swiss guides, and at least one photograph taken by Green during his unsuccessful attempt to reach the summit of Mount Cook in 1882. Fitgerald, Zurbriggen, Mannering, and Dixon were all men that Harper was associated with as a mountaineer. As an explorer he was associated with Charles Douglas, and there are photographs of Douglas, Leonard Cockayne the botanist, and John Roberts of the Westland district survey. There are also many photographs of the mountains, glaciers, rivers, and gorges of the Southern Alps. Some of the English photographs at the beginning of the album may be associated with A P Harper's brother Charles who became an Anglican priest. He may have been the C C Harper who was at Keble College and Cuddesdon theological college, Oxford. There are two interiors of "C C Harper's room at Keble College", and a number of photographs of family groups taken in the grounds of the vicarage at Patea where Charles Harper was vicar from 1894 to 1900. The album ends with A P Harper and his house at Thames, and more British photographs, in particular several pages of Jersey taken about 1897 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [1910]

From: Andrews, N :Stereoscopic photographs

Reference: PA4-0420

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Christchurch Domain, taken ca 1910 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: [ca 1900-1909]

Reference: PA5-0229

Description: River Avon, Hagley Park, Christchurch, New Zealand taken by D C & Co. Verso contains message addressed to Miss Holmes? Private Hospital, Davis Street, Wellington with a post mark 21 Dec 09. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 87 x 137 mm

Date: ca 1920

By: Hewitt, George R, active 1920-1985

Reference: PAColl-0601

Description: Postcards collected by the depositor while working as an able seaman on HMS Renown during the tour by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Black and white postcards of Auckland, Christchurch, particularly the botanic gardens, Lyttelton, Picton, and Samoa and colour postcards of Wellington. Quantity: 43 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [ca 1906]

From: James, C S :Postcards of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-7237-02

Description: Souvenir postcard of the New Zealand International Exhibition Christchurch 1906-1907, printed by Christchurch Press and distributed with the compliments of W Strange & Company Ltd. Image is an aerial view of the Exhibition buildings. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - N.Z. International Exhibition 1906-7 Hagley Park, Christchurch Open Nov. 1st, 1906; Recto - top right - With Compliments of W. Strange & Coy. Ltd.; Verso - centre left - New Zealand International Exhibition open Nov. 1st, 1906, in Hagley Park, Christchurch, New Zealand. The buildings cover 35 acres.; Verso - top centre - New Zealand International Exhibition Post Card. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcard. Physical Description: Photomechanical print 9 x 14 cm

Date: [circa 1899-1902]

By: Barr, Benjamin John, 1883-1939

Reference: PA1-o-034

Description: Photographs of Ashburton taken by B J Barr, circa 1900s. Views include various churches (Anglican, Presbyterian, Wesleyan and Roman Catholic); public buildings including the Ashburton County Council, Post and Telegraph Office (with places for clocks in a tower, lacking the clock faces), the Bank of New Zealand and the Union Bank of Australia, the Somerset Hotel, railway station, the Lodge Ashburton Masonic Hall, and the Working Men's Club. There is a view of the Ashburton Cemetery, with the gravestone of John Morgan Furze, husband of Hannah Furze, who died at Buccleugh, Mt Somers in March 1901. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth album 190 x 245 mm

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

By: Hunter, Norman Mitchell, 1859-

Reference: E-328-f-043-2

Description: A scene on the Avon River, Christhurch with a dense growth of trees on either side, probably either in Hagley Park or the Botanical Gardens Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - On the Avon, Public Park, Christchurch 1/11/82 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 124 x 238 mm

Date: [1910]

From: Andrews, N :Stereoscopic photographs

Reference: PA4-0421

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Christchurch Domain, taken ca 1910 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1458-F

Description: Panoramic view of a wide tussocky grassed area with a stand of macrocarpa trees in the centre middle distance. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. See also Pan-1457 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Brooklands Estate" from Harbour Road. (Showing picnic ground & proposed bridge site); Marginal notes on negative - Brooklands Estate. 8 copies Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 93.3 cm

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

By: Schmid, Max, 1945-

Reference: PA12-10908

Description: View of Hagley Park and a market at the old univerity buildings, Christchurch. View of Cromwell. Gothic building, Dunedin University. Exterior views of Olveston, Dunedin. Exterior and interior views of the Anderson house, Invercargill. Quantity: 16 colour original transparency/ies 35mm slides.

Date: 14 March 1927

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

Reference: Pan-2225-F

Description: Panoramic view of the reception to the Duke of York in Christchurch by 12,000 children, showing school children posed in rows in front of a crowded grandstand on the left of the image. A large group of girls wearing uniforms including headscarves in the centre with boys beyond. Two smaller grandstands across the field in the centre. Spectators in the immediate foreground, and all around the field, many holding flags. Sign on the right-hand grandstand reads "St John Ambulance Brigade". Taken on 14 March 1927 by R P Moore, of Wellington. Refer also Pan-2117 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Reception to H.R.H. Duke of York by 12,000 children, Christchurch, New Zealand. 14.3.1827. No. 1; Marginal notes on negative - 1 1 1 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 125.3 cm

Date: 1989 - 7 Apr 1998

By: Hill, Avice, 1906-2001; Bradley, Michelle, 1958-

Reference: OHColl-0463

Description: 1989 interview is difficult to hear. A sketch abstract of the interview and additional notes are bound in to the abstract. Avice Hill was born in Christchurch in 1906. Gives an account of her family history with an emphasis on the immigration of her maternal grandparents, the Crosbie family, in 1863. Avice Hill reads from notes about the Crosbie family's voyage to New Zealand on the ship `Brothers pride'. Discusses the daughters, Agnes and Jane, who were tailors and milliners and operated a successful business in Christchurch in the 1870s. Notes that Agnes Crosbie became Agnes Francis on her marriage but that her husband died and she continued to live with her sister Jane Crosbie. Describes their home on the corner of Armagh and Durham Streets and later on a large property in Withells Road. Discusses the purchase of a piece of land on Memorial Avenue which has been donated to the Christchurch City Council and is now the Avice Hill Reserve. Recalls growing up at Withells Road under the care of her aunties Agnes and Jane and travelling by trap and tram to attend St Margarets school in Cranmer Square. Discusses her passion for bug breeding as a child and later attending Canterbury College (university) to study science. Talks about getting her Master of Sciences degree and writing a thesis on the dobsonfly, an insect that lives in rivers. Describes working on insect pest eradication at the Cawthron Institute in Nelson in the 1930s. Recalls meeting distant relative Frank Hill again while visiting a mutual relative Maud McDowell. Describes their courtship, getting married, a trip to Great Britain and starting to grow and sell herbs at the Memorial Avenue property. Describes the growth of the business, involvement of Frank Hill and establishment of the house and herb gardens. Recalls the formation of the Canterbury Herb Society by Avice Hill, Peggy Fitts and one other person. Notes that the Withells Road land is now Crosbie Park. Talks in some detail about the Avice Hill Reserve. Accompanying material - Information on the Crosbie family; information on the property at Memorial Ave; information on the replanting of the enclosed herb garden as a scented garden; article `Bugs, lavenders and ginger cats' by Avice Hill, article `Queen of herbs' in NZ gardener Apr 1998. These are bound into the abstract. Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 7 Apr 1998

From: Interviews with Avice Hill

By: Hill, Avice, 1906-2001

Reference: OHInt-0463/02

Description: Quantity: 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1765. Number of interviews/events: 1

Date: 1989

From: Interviews with Avice Hill

By: Hill, Avice, 1906-2001

Reference: OHInt-0463/01

Description: Quantity: 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other Brief summary and notes are bound in with abstract of second interview. Number of interviews/events: 1