Waterfalls - New Zealand - West Coast Region
Scenic photographs of New Zealand complied by the Scenery Preservation Board
Date: [ca 1880-1910]
From: Scenery Preservation Board :Scenic photographs of New Zealand
By: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Scenery Preservation Board
Reference: PAColl-0444-1
Description: Photographs of the following: a set of seven photographs by Collis and annotated by F P Corkill, land agent, re landholding around the Waiwhakaiho River; scenic views such as waterfalls, lakes, and the Pink and White Terraces; bridges with annotations re height etc; sixteen numbered photographs mounted two to a card of scenic views in the Taranaki Region, Rotorua and the far north (including ones of Taumaha Gorge, Taranaki and Lake Ora - location unidentified); a set of seven photographs of the Waipu Caves including Lot's wife, the anvil and the sugar loaf in Morrison's Cave; a clipping of St Paul's Cupola and a photograph of Kauri Gully, Northcote with annotations on resolutions passed re the establishment of reservations; a panorama in two photographs of Flagstaff Hill, Dunedin with annotations re a potential reserve; and two of a tramping party of three men and five boys resting at a waterfall. Includes a recent hand-written list of the photographs. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted prints
Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916 :Sinclair's Fall and natural bridge, Martyrs River. ...
Date: 1870 - 1900
From: Douglas, Charles Edward 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast Sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. identified]
By: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916
Reference: E-059-q-020
Description: A waterfall under a rock bridge Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on page of sketchbook. Physical Description: Pencil, crayon and watercolour, 95 x 135 mm
Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916 :Red Hill and upper cascade. [1870-1900]
Date: 1870 - 1900
From: Douglas, Charles Edward 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast Sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. named]
By: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916
Reference: E-056-047
Description: A waterfall in Red Hills Range, South Westland Other Titles - Red Hills Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 112 x 162 mm
Jeffares album 2
Date: [Between 1900 and 1911]
From: Miller, E D N :Photographs by Isaac Jeffares, and of family
Reference: PA1-o-246
Description: Album of photographs taken by Isaac H B Jeffares, given to Miss W Ashley (Winifred Ashley, later Jeffares' wife). Most of the photographs are scenic, taken chiefly in the West Coast region; with two views of Wellington. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - `To Miss W. Ashley ... [9?]/6/11. I.H.B. Jeffares' (Inscription very indistinct, written in black ink on black paper) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, entitled `Photograph[ic?] souvenirs; 15.5 x 18.5 cm
Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916 :Looking up Arawata fr[om] Eros Creek. [1870-1900].
Date: 1870 - 1900
From: Douglas, Charles Edward 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast Sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. named]
By: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916
Reference: E-057-043
Description: View up the Arawhata River with surrounding peaks Other Titles - Arawhata Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 79 x 152 mm
West Coast scenes and activities
Date: [1900s-1960s]
From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn
Reference: PAColl-9543-31
Description: Collection comprises street scenes; shipping and shipwrecks at Greymouth and other places; railway bridges; visits of parliamentarians Richard Seddon and Michael Joseph Savage; croquet; schoolboy rugby; fancy dress; waterfall; floods; Lyell: and pancake rocks, Punakiaki. Photographs taken 1900s-1960s by James Ring and L A Inkster, Greymouth. Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s).
Moberly, Patricia: Arthur Paul Harper album of mountaineering photographs
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).
Denniston in winter, scenes along the way, and Westport wharves
Date: ca1905
From: Humphreys, W :Photographs of the Westport Coal Company's operation at Denniston
Reference: PA1-o-992
Description: The first ten images are views of Denniston and the Camp under snow. These images include distant views and views within the town showing houses and streets. One image shows coal trucks crossing the trestle bridge in snow covered country side, and another is of the iron bridge in winter. Five images are of waterfalls and scenic features taken along the horse track connecting Denniston with the coastal plain The last eight images are of Westport. One shows a typical villa of the period, another shows the exterior of the Westport Coal Company's laboratory building. There is a view of the railway yards with Denniston coal waiting in trucks. The rest are of Westport wharves, ships, and dredges working in the harbour Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Field album 9
Date: [1870s-1880s?]
From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs
Reference: PA1-q-081
Description: Views of the South Island, chiefly in Southland and Otago, taken by unidentified photographers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, lacking spine and back cover, 30.0 x 23.5 cm
Album of photographs of New Zealand by Daniel Louis Mundy
Date: 1867-1868
From: Cooke, I V :Photographs of New Zealand and Australia
By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881
Reference: PA1-f-045
Description: Photographs taken in 1867 and 1868 by Daniel Louis Mundy. Collection comprises: moa skeletons on display in the Canterbury Museum, Maori man sitting in front of a flax plant in the Hokianga, a black pine forest in Westland, miners' whares at Tararu creek in the Thames goldfield, Punch Bowl Falls, Otira Gorge, fern trees at Governor's Bay, waterfall at Waihi at the head of lake Taupo, tramway at Moanataiari in the Thames goldfield, bush at German Bay (Akaroa), Waitohi creek in the Thames goldfield, Onoke (Hokianga), kauri forest at Wairere Stream (Hokianga), Wild Missouri and Russell's batteries at Tararu Creek, waterfalls at Banks Peninsula and Otira Gorge. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album bound in green morrocco, with gold tooling, 41.2 x 30.2 cm
West Coast scenes and activities
Date: [1880s-1960s]
From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn
Reference: PAColl-9543-30
Description: Collection comprises street scenes; shipping and shipwrecks at Greymouth and other places; HMNZS Pukaki; railway locomotives, railcars, bridges and accidents; visits of parliamentarians Peter Fraser and Sir Eruera Tirikatene, and Governor at Brunnerton coal mine; croquet; schoolboy rugby; fancy dress; opening of Catholic church building; waterfall; fires; floods; and state house. Photographs taken 1880s-1960s by James Ring and L A Inkster, Greymouth. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).
Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887: Brownings Pass from Greenlaw's Camp, 1 Novb ...
Date: 1865
From: Haast family: Collection
By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887
Reference: C-097-032
Description: Browning Pass in spring as viewed from Walter Greenlaw's camp, with Twin Peaks and Hamer Falls below, on the left in the distance Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title in ink; Verso - centre right - Browning's Pass in spring (in ink) - Hamer Falls (in pencil), Twin Pks (outline in pencil); Verso - centre left - From Cronin Creek junction (in pencil) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 180 x 400 mm
Native Forests Action Council: A national park at Punakaiki! Photo Lloyd Homer, Geologi...
Date: 1985 - 1989
By: New Zealand. Native Forests Action Council; Homer, Lloyd, 1938?-
Reference: Eph-E-PARKS-Westland-1980s-01
Description: Poster shows a photograph looking down on a narrow stream and waterfall amongst bush. Quantity: 1 Poster(s). Physical Description: Offset print on poster, 1000 x 357 mm. Provenance: Donated by Michael Pringle, Wellington, in 2016.
B. Thiem [Ben Thiem, photographer]
Date: [Circa 1900s-1930s]
From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area
By: Thiem, Benno, -1934
Reference: PAColl-0959-28
Description: Photographs of the West Coast taken by Hokitika photographer Ben Thiem. Images no. 11-16 have the photographer's official stamp on the back which reads "Ben Thiem, photographer, Hokitika. This photograph must not be copied without the permission of Ben Thiem, photographer, Hokitika". These are stamped with the photographer's own numbers: F1, F26, F29, F31 and F32. The first two images show sunset over water, with lights in the windows of a train in the middle distance. Image no. 3 shows a waterfall at Mitchells, near "Lake Moana" (Lake Brunner); image no. 4 shows houses at Punakaiki. Lake Kanieri (Kaniere) is seen in images 5-10, including no. 10 which shows the road to Lake Kanieri under snow on July 20th, 1931. Photograph number 11 shows the Cook River Flats with the Fox Glacier Hostel visible on the extreme right, followed by close-up views of the Fox Glacier terminal and ice formations on the glacier. Identified places are listed above. Images numbered 10 and 16 are mounted on heavy cardboard. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints.
Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 : L[ake] Mapourika [April 1885]
Date: 1885
From: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :Sounds & Mt Cook [Sketchbook] No 5. 1885.
Reference: E-788-057
Description: A waterfall through dense bush, with 'sunlit' and 'ferns' noted Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on album page, 113 x 190 mm.
West Coast scenes and activities
Date: [1920s-1960s]
From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn
Reference: PAColl-9543-29
Description: Collection comprises parades of soldiers; school sports day (races and novelty games); winners of fire brigade competitions; railcars, railway excursion and railway accident; organiser of croquet tournament; fancy dress; elderly men in carriage; Angus McLagan addressing miners; waterfall; trout fishing; and Rewanui railway station. Photographs taken 1920s-1960s by L A Inkster, Greymouth. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).
Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs of Buller County
Date: ca 1900
Reference: PAColl-7409
Description: Printed photographs of the waterfall at Millerton, coal trucks on the mine railway passing through Millerton, and Burnett's Face coal mine. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).
Denniston, Christchurch, and Australia
Date: ca1905
From: Humphreys, W :Photographs of the Westport Coal Company's operation at Denniston
Reference: PA1-o-993
Description: Album opens with two images of Denniston buildings all of which are houses except for a church. There are some views of the surrounding countryside as seen from the plateau and a view of the roperoad railway with trucks crossing the plateau in winter. Two waterfalls are probably scenic features photographed from the horse track connecting Denniston with the coastal plain. Other images relate to Christchurch. These include boating on the River Avon, and groups of people photographed standing on two different bridges, one of them in the Botanic Garden. From Wellington there is an image of the Skyline tea kiosk at the top of the Kelburn cable car. Four images record people on a beach backed by vertical sandstone cliffs beyond which can be seen what looks like gum trees. These images were probably taken somewhere in Australia Two images are flashlight photographs taken of a group of people probably in a mine Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916 :Upper Gorge of Ino. [1870-1900]
Date: 1870 - 1900
From: Douglas, Charles Edward 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast Sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. named]
By: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916
Reference: E-057-010-2
Description: A waterfall and river among mountains Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) right-hand of page. Physical Description: Watercolour, 152 x 79 mm
Pitman, Mrs : Photographs of New Zealand scenes
Date: ca 1860s-1870s
Reference: PAColl-4553
Description: Twelve photographs from the same series: Roto Kanapanapa or Boiling Mud Lakes; Otukapuerangi or Pink Terraces (front and side views); Rotomahana or Hot Lakes; cascade in the bush, Canterbury; Punsh (sic) Bowl Falls, Westland; footbridge over the Avon, Christchurch; East Town Belt footbridge, Christchurch; Missouri Gold Battery, Aukland (sic); Provincial Council Chamber, Christchurch (back view); birds-eye view of the Provincial Government Building, Christchurch; and Russell, Bay of Islands. Captions taken from the photographs. Photographer unidentified but probably the Burton Bros. Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: According to the Donations Book there were 40 photographs in the accession so others have yet to be located.