Statues - New Zealand - West Coast Region

Date: [1903-1920]

By: Grant, F J, active 1980s; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-0362

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of New Zealand made by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Many of the images are of military inspections and displays by school children. There are also displays of Maori dancing and singing, the sailors of the HMS Renown, on which the prince had travelled , prior to their soccer match in Dunedin, the prince addressing the crowds etc. A number of the images are in two-part panoramas. Also included are four scenic photographs by the New Zealand Tourist Department which may have been taken in 1903. The photographer for the tour photographs was Guy. Other - Similar images at 1/2-032642, 045102 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 2000s]

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10645-07

Description: Prints of South Island and family scenes as well as tableaux constructed with dolls taken by Les Cleveland, circa 2000s. Contains both black and white and colour prints developed Wellington Photographic Supplies and at Photo Center. Includes seven separate photo wallets. Prints include: - Buildings in Hokitika and Greymouth including The Sheep Station, Custom House, Courthouse with Richard John Seddon statue in front, Recreation Hotel, Royal Hotel, and Union Bank of Australia. Also bar towels hanging on a washing line to dry and an unidentified woman and a mannequin outside of a jewellery shop. Also other South Island buildings including the Garston Hotel, Cardrona Hotel, and the Fleming's Creamoata Mill, Firestation Backpackers, and Yamaha dealership in Gore. - Peter Cleveland (Les Cleveland's son), his partner [wife?] and their children Maxwell and Madeline, possibly at Lake Hawea. Cleveland and his wife Mary are also photographed with this group. - Mary Cleveland and others at "Waipori party". - Index print showing steam train at Shannon, Tokomaru store, and a wind farm [Tararua Wind Farm?]. - Constructed series 'The Mortgage', 'Aphrodite, and 'Death Car', where Cleveland uses dolls such as Barbies and other objects are arranged to form tableaux. - Iona Church, Port Chalmers. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 61 colour original photographic print(s). 42 b&w original photographic print(s). 7 item(s) of photographic ephemera original print wallets. Physical Description: Photographic prints and print wallets Transfers: See 35mm-107601 to107656 for negatives originally stored with these prints.. Processing information: Negatives originally stored with prints have been separated to facilitate appropriate storage.

Date: 1923

By: Hokitika guardian (Newspaper); Patterson, John Kenneth, 1914-2005

Reference: Eph-B-MEMORIALS-1923-01

Description: Front cover shows a photograph of the statue of Scottish poet Robert Burns, 1759-1796, and quotes a verse from "The Cotter's Saturday night", 1785. The programme of proceedings included a singing of "Annie Laurie", "There was a lad was born in Kyle", "The banks o' Doon", "Auld Lang Syne", and the National Anthem ("God save the King"). The back page reproduces a poem, a tribute to Robert Burns, by Hugh Smith of Reefton, September 1922. The back page acknowledges the support given to the fund, which has resulted in the realisation of the hopes of Mr W Patrick of Hokitika, "whose generous liberality at the outset of the movement was rendered possible and brought to a successful issue". Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on folded brochure.. Physical Description: Letterpress, on folded brochure 342 x 215 mm. (folded) Provenance: Donated by Mr J K Patterson in 1984.

Date: 2002-2004

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000328

Description: Photographs relating to history in the West Coast Region. Includes the re-opening of the Brunner bridge, various memorials, and the opening of the Groom Bros Butchery replica store at Shantytown (the Open-air village museum). Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Historic" Quantity: 179 digital photograph(s).