Memorials - New Zealand - Manawatū-Whanganui Region

Date: ca 1950 - ca 1960

By: Burke, Noreen Hannah, 1926-1984

Reference: PAColl-6859

Description: Photographs taken by Noreen H Burke, The Evening Post, P H Jauncey, and the Burton Brothers. Many images are of parts of Wellington, Evans Bay, Parliament Buildings, the Cenotaph, and views of the city. Others include people in boats, flying boats, views of the Tukituki River Hawke's Bay, All Saints Church Palmerston North, Turuturumoki Pa near Hawera Taranaki, the Turi and Rongorongo memorial canoe at Patea, and a group of people which include Prime Minister Holyoake and US President Johnson. Quantity: 52 b&w original photographic print(s) 5 hand-coloured.

Date: [ca 1930s], 1946-1959

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-168

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1946-1959 Views of Palmerston North showing The Square and Broadway; Manawatu River, Ballance Bridge over the Manawatu River; Ratana Temple at Raetihi; Ruapehu from south-west; Makatote Viaduct; Raurimu Spiral; Centennial Memorial at Feilding; Woodville. Pukekura Park, New Plymouth; Flax Flat (between Marton and Turakina); Ohakune; Mt Taranaki (Mt Egmont); country road near Porewa railway station (6 miles from Marton); unidentified rural scenes - [Whites Aviation (No F3337)], waterfall; trout fishing House of Mr J Cooper at Newman with topiary on front lawn (photographer W Hall Raine) Quantity: 45 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1945 - 1955

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Kelly & Mair (Firm)

Reference: Plans-93-0195

Description: Shows a frontal perspective elevation of memorial lamps flanking the entrance doorway to the college. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink on tracing paper, 335 x 380 mm.

Date: ca 1950 - ca 1960

From: Burke, Noreen (estate) :Photographs

By: Burke, Noreen Hannah, 1926-1984; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Jauncey, Philip Henry, 1902-1982

Reference: PAColl-6859-1

Description: Photographs taken by Noreen H Burke, The Evening Post, P H Jauncey, and the Burton Brothers. Many images are of parts of Wellington, Evans Bay, Parliament Buildings, the Cenotaph, the Botanic Garden and views of the city. Others include people in boats, flying boats, views of the Tukituki River Hawke's Bay, All Saints Church Palmerston North, Turuturu-moki Pa near Hawera Taranaki, the Turi and Rongorongo memorial canoe at Patea, and a group of people which include Prime Minister Holyoake and US President Johnson. Quantity: 52 b&w original photographic print(s) 5 hand-coloured.

Date: [1930s]

By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984

Reference: PA1-o-458

Description: Photographs of the North Island central volcanic region, taken by Roland James Searle circa 1930s. They include many of the newly opened Chateau Tongariro, Mount Ngauruhoe, Mount Ruapehu, the area aroung the Salt Hut, and the Ketetahi area with blowholes. A pencilled title on the first page reads "The Chateau and Round-about" There is one photograph of Mount Egmont (Mount Taranaki). Photographs only fill the first 22 pages, the rest of the album (26 pages) is empty. Other Titles - Chateau and Round-about Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green textured cloth cover; 250 x 345 mm

Date: 2007-2012

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000754

Description: Photographs of memorials and graves throughout New Zealand taken between 2007 and 2012 taken by Dylan Owen. Views of South Island locations include the 9/11 Memorial steel sculpture at Firefighters Reserve on the Avon River, Christchurch, the Kaiapoi War Memorial featuring a stone statue of a New Zealand soldier carved by W.T Trethewey across the road from Blackwells Department Store, Kaiapoi, wooden crosses in the dog cemetery in Diamond Bay, statues of a colonial couple and town heraldic shield outside Oamaru club (Inc), Severn Street, Oamaru, the Oamaru South African (Boer) War memorial next to the Countdown supermaket, Oamaru, which features a statue of Trooper Jack carved by Italian sculptor Carlo Bergamini and the imperial lion and the Great War memorial in Mercer which consists of a soldier statue mounted on the gun turret of the Pioneer paddle steamer. Views of the Wellington locations include crosses on gravestones at Bolton Street Cemetery and Bolton Street Memorial Park, angel statues on a child's grave, family plot and mausoleum, cabbage trees surrounding a 1887 gravestone, rows of war graves in the Karori Servicemean's Cemetery and the Tangiwai memorial at Karori Cemetery. Views of Kapiti and Horowhenua locations include picket fence around the MacKay family burial ground, Paekakariki and the Market Gardener Statue, a bronze statue of a Chinese market gardener by Dennis Hall outside Levin Mall entrance on Oxford street, Levin. Views of Taranakai locations include Marsland Hill New Zealand Wars memorial on Marsland Hill, New Plymouth commemorating colonial and imperial forces and kuapapa Maori, dense native ponga trees and bush surrounding the grave of surveyor Joshua Morgan in Tangarakau Gorge, near Tangarakau Bridge, Stratford, memorial cross to Reverend Robert Ward outside the entrance to the Samoan Methodist Church Fitzroy, New Plymouth, Turi's Canoe at Patea and the Hawera Memorial Arch monument to fallen of World War One and Two on Princes street, Hawera . Views of Northland locations include the Hokianga Arch of Remembrance on the path to the pier on foreshore, Kohukohu, memorial stone Christ Church, Russell, the memorial stone (in Maori and English) for the pioneer residents who died in defence of Kororareka 1845 in grounds of Christ Church, Russell, and the Maori language wording of Te Tirito O Waitangi (Treaty) on a panel of Te Tii memorial at Te Tii marae, Waitangi. Also includes views of the Dannevirke War Memorial cenotaph showing the soldier relief sculpture above the 'Lest We forget' plaque and the Te Aroha First World War memorial showing the bronze statue of a soldier by Italian artist Giobanni. Arrangement: Files were transferred to the Library in a folder titled 'Social Events & Misc items 2000s/Memorials 2000s' Quantity: 27 digital photograph(s).

Date: between 1860 and 1890

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/4-017135-G

Description: Maori wooden memorial known as Nga Rangi-o-Rehua or Te Koanga-o-rehua, made from a waka, and carved to mark the grave of Te Mahutu. Photograph taken in Pipiriki by William James Harding, between 1856 and 1886. This monument was made from a waka, cut in two. According to Sir Walter Buller, it was erected at Pipiriki, on the Whanganui River, about the year 1824. Circa 1865, it was brought down the river to a cemetery in Putiki. Some time later Major Kemp presented the monument to Sir Walter Buller, where it stood at his home on Lake Papaitonga, near Levin. When Buller died it was given to the Dominion Museum. (Information from `Maori Art' by W J Phillipps, page 39. Held at Alexander Turnbull Library 572.9931 PHI 1946) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [Between 1870 and 1879]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/1-000021-G

Description: Maori wooden memorial known as Nga Rangi-o-Rehua or Te Koanga-o-rehua, made from a waka, and carved to mark the grave of Te Mahutu. Photograph taken in Pipiriki by William James Harding, between 1856 and 1886. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches.

Date: [1910s?]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001012-G

Description: View of the Freeman R. Jackson Memorial at the Wanganui Racecourse. Photograph taken by William Archer Price. Source of descriptive information - Historical notes provided by Library client, 2008 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Wanganui. Racecourse. [No.] 168 The memorial was made by Walter Macfarlane of Glasgow, Scotland. By 2008 it was painted white and the gardens surrounding it had been replaced with a car park. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [1910s?]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001064-G

Description: View of the Freeman R Jackson Memorial fountain with a lake on the left and pavilions on the right. Photograph taken by William Archer Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Racecourse. Wanganui [No.] 506 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 2 Jul 1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-8163-34

Description: View of the Manawatu Centennial Monument in Halcombe, 1940 with people standing on top. Photograph taken on 2 July 1940, by an unidentified photographer for the Free Lance. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Halcombe Centennial Memorial; Verso - bottom left - P10.7.40 [publication date]; Verso - centre - 9 1/2 x 6 1/8; Verso - centre - 2/7/40 Manawatu County (now Manawatu District) Centennial Monument (1940) to Early Settlers of Wellington Province (1840-1940). Sited beside State Highway No 3 (Mount Stewart); between Palmerston North (east), Sanson (west), and Feilding (north). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.7 x 16.7 cm

Date: 1912

From: Tesla Studios :Negatives of Wanganui and district taken by Alfred Martin, Frank Denton and Mark Lampe (Tesla Studios)

By: Frank Harris Granite Company Ltd

Reference: 1/1-021036-G

Description: Statue in memory of Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui, also known as Major Kemp, at Wanganui. A small plaque at the base of the monument reads: Sculptured by The Frank Harris Granite Company Limited, Auckland. The men alongside are unidentified. Photograph taken in 1912 by Frank J Denton. Note on back of file print reads \"From acc reg. date 1912. For Messrs. Frank Harris & Co.\" Note on back of file print reads \"on neg: 1019 HARRIS. Monument of Major Kemp\" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass dry plate negative