Caroline Bay

Date: January 1960, May 1960, October 1968, 21 May 1974

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7394

Description: Transparencies of Arthurs Pass, January 1960; aerial view of Southern Alps, May 1960; Caroline Bay, October 1968; and aerial view of Timaru, 21 May 1974, taken by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: ca 1910

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-008644-G

Description: Photograph taken, ca 1910 for the Christchurch Press. Shows a very crowded Caroline Bay, Timaru. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: [Circa 1937]

Reference: PA1-f-054

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways between 1937 and 1938 by unidentified photographers. Photographs in the North Island include tours between Stratford and Ongarue; Ngaruawahia celebrations in 1938 (including views of King Koroki's house which was built in 1938); Rotorua and six lakes trip; and opening ceremonies for the Hutt Railway. In the South Island views include Caroline Bay with events at the soundshell; in Timaru, views of a two-storied clubhouse and men playing bowls, a person practising croquet, and several games of tennis on a series of tennis courts; areas in Queen Charlotte Sound, Portage, Pelorus and Kenepuru Sounds and Blenheim Aerodrome; Tasman and Franz Josef Glaciers; Milford Sound; Punakaiki; and Cromwell. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, dark green spine, entitled `Tours 5'; 40 x 60 cm

Date: 1868

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: B-066-007

Description: Looking north up the coast from Timaru, towards Washdyke, with the Southern Alps in the background Acquired before 1941 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 203 x 304 mm

Date: 1925

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

Reference: PA1-o-1052

Description: Album recording a motoring and camping holiday through the South Island of New Zealand. This took in the New Zealand South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and included the West Coast, Otago, and Canterbury. The central part of the album has images of Khandallah, Wellington, and the family home in that suburb. Family photographs include Doug on his Norton Motorcycle, and Jack and Neville similarly posed on a Douglas Motorcycle. Rene and Frank stand at the net holding tennis rackets, and mother has several images with young Joyce. The last part of the album recordes something of a holiday to Auckland where the family camped at Brown's Bay and took a trip to Kawau Island. A group shot on Mt Messanger on the way back and some views of Pukekura Park New Plymouth complete the album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1850s-1908

By: Ferrier, William, 1855-1922

Reference: PAColl-7526

Description: The Canterbury Farmers Co-operative Association building on Beach Road ca 1900; a procession for the Queen's jubilee on Stafford Street with men in uniform and a union banner; people on the beach at Caroline Bay with bathing machines in the sea captioned "The first lawn, Caroline Bay" ca 1890s; the band rotunda at Caroline Bay with a children's playpark behind and people swimming in the sea ca 1910; two of waves breaking over the breakwater ca 1898; the Timaru Shipping Co landing with the Lady of the Lake beached ca 1873; the interior of St Mary's Church looking towards the altar; Stafford Street, looking south from the corner of George Street with the Union Bank of Australia, a furnishing warehouse and J Trist ship chandler on the left; Sophia Street with the Wrecks memorial to those who tried to save lives on the City of Perth and the Benvenue in the foreground and the post office on the right ca 1880s; a man sitting on the beach on the site of the breakwater ca 1860s; Stafford Street looking south from Cannon Street with a boarding house on the right ca 1860s; and a row of workers' cottages on Bank Street with Parr's windmill behind. The photographer was William Ferrier and the photographs were taken ca 1890s-1908 or in some cases possibly re-printed from earlier images. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-005333, 005339 to 005340 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s). 10 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1930-1943]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-198

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1930s-1940s Churches at Hawera, Palmerston North, Opotiki, Te Aroha, Waipukurau, Nelson, Queenstown and Pararaka. Whangarei - Central Park/Mair Park, Mt Darby golf links, children playing in a dinghy at Matapouri, tennis courts. Russell - View of foreshore, and view from the hill with Achilles in port. Tauranga - Causeway between The Mount and Tauranga, pier at The Mount, Mission House. Palmerston North - Boys' High School and baths, View of North side of The Square. Napier - Harbour under construction, view from the hill looking south, The Esplanade showing gardens, children's play area and Sound Shell, National Tobacco Company, T & G Building, Government buildings in Shakespeare Street, Civic Square. Hastings - Poplar Avenue, Cornwall Park, W L C McLean's house Swarthmore at Havelock North with vineyard. Gisborne - Gladstone Road, aerial view of town, river view. Cambridge - Bowling green, BNZ building, clock tower & National Hotel (with caravans parked outside the hotel), etc New Plymouth - Aerial view of 72nd Annual A & P Show; Moturoa; ships in port. Invercargill - The Little Playhouse, Government buildings, Southland Museum, 1943. Also - Children from Kerikeri School leaving for a swim; Arawa Street, Matamata; Lake Drive, Hamilton; view of Lyell township; Burke's Pool, Opihi; Denniston township; Caroline Bay, Timaru; main Street, Winton; shipping at Bluff; Oban township, Stewart Island; view of Picton harbour from Hotel Terminus; Alexander Street, Te Awamutu; Arawa Street, Matamata; Wairoa from Te Uhi Hill; Art Gallery, Wanganui; view of wanganui from Aramono.. Quantity: 76 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1918

By: Neville, Louis, 1852-1919

Reference: B-079-010

Description: View from Caroline Bay, a beach south of the town, looking above a low cliff towards the buildings of the town with the Southern Alps in the background Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Louis Neville, 1918 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 170 x 360 mm Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane auction, Wellington, 1970s?

Date: [ca 1950]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Bremford Studios

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-148-003

Description: Two small girls on the merry-go-round at Caroline Bay, photographed ca 1950 by Bremford Studios of Timaru. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Young & old enjoy the merry go round so well patronised in Caroline Bay.; Verso - bottom centre - Bremford Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 165 x 220 mm

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

By: Fyfe, A J, active 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0255

Description: Caroline Bay, ca 1910-1913, published by A J Fyfe, bookseller and stationer, Timaru. Verso has message to Podge from Flo Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 85 x 137 mm

Date: 1926 - 1951

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Bremford, S A, active 1934-1948

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-028

Description: Photographs of Timaru, 1926 to 1951, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes several photographs of carnivals, bands playing in the sound shelter and people in bathing costumes at Caroline Bay. Quantity: 51 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [1918 to 1921]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-o-553

Description: Family photographs relating to the McCurdie family. Many are groups of friends and family, some of whom are identified with both Christian and surnames. These include wedding photographs of Marjorie Whitton who married J.W. Nicolls on March 31, 1921 at Oamaru, with Betty and Mary Whitton as bridesmaids. Several views of homes include Woodcroft (the home of Dr John Kinder), Werneth (a house at Atawhai, Nelson), The Moorings (the home of W. & Lucy Churchward at Springlands, Blenheim), and Stonycroft (home of Mr & Mrs Free, at Masterton). One view is of snow in Christchurch city in July 1918, and one shows decorations in the interior of Dunedin Hospital for the visit of the Prince of Wales in May 1920. Other scenes taken in 1920 show Hanmer Lodge and Hanmer Military Hospital. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mottled green cover, entitled `Photographs'; 25 x 32 cm

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923

Reference: PA5-0240

Description: A scene at Caroline Bay, taken by F G R ca 1910-1913 Verso has message to Rodger from florrie? Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph, 84 x 134 mm

Date: Between 1910-1913

From: Atkinson, J :Photographs taken in the Middle East during World War I, and postcards of New Zealand

By: Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers)

Reference: PA5-0241

Description: Caroline Bay taken from Benvenue Cliffs, Timaru NZ ca 1910-1913, by Tanner Bros. Ltd. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 87 x 139 mm

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: 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: MapColl-834.48gbbh/1848/Acc.6041

Description: Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, scale 1:316 800, 27 x 38 cm.

Date: ca 1930s-1940s

Reference: PAColl-6610

Description: 9 views of Canterbury towns: Lincoln hotel, supply store and railway station; Hawarden Post and Telegraph Office; Waikari Post and Telegraph Office; street scene in Waikari; the promenade at Caroline Bay with a large hotel above it; the premises of the Dominion Compressed Yeast Company in Christchurch; and an unidentified town which is probably Timaru with boats moored in the harbour. Photographer unidentified. The image which is probably Timaru is identified in the negative accession register as Rotheram but this town is inland and near neither a lake nor a river therefore this is not likley to be correct. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-018080, 1/4-018082 to 018088, and 1/4-018170 Quantity: 9 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1925

By: Lyttelton Times Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-EXHIBITION-1925-01

Description: Pamphlet describing the proposed Canterbury Court at an exhibition, possibly one in Dunedin for that year. The exhibits included a bird's eye view of the province painted by Mr Ronald Mackenzie, with an adjacent model of Caroline Bay. The map shows the Waimakariri Gorge with real water flowing through the Otarama Dam, and other aspects of the exhibits relate to sport, forestry, orchards, bees, agriculture, wool, prime lamb. There was to be an historical frieze of five panels showing the arrival of Captain Cook, hoisting of the flag at Akaroa, bullock teams at Riccarton Bush, the arrival of the pilgrim ships and the opening of the Christchurch-Lyttelton [rail] Tunnel. The members of the extensive exhibition committees in Christchurch, South Canterbury and Ashburton are all named. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on pamphlet folded to 252 x 106 mm.

Date: ca 1900s

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 16

Reference: PAColl-7344-02

Description: Looking out to sea at Caroline Bay with the band rotunda in the foreground and bathing machines on the left. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1919-1921

From: Webster, E Norman, fl 1918-1922 :Photographs of New Zealand, 1920-1922

By: Webster, E Norman, active 1918-1922

Reference: PAColl-9534-2

Description: Trip over the Rimutakas includes - View of Kaitoke. Train on Rimutaka Incline. View over the Rimutakas showing the road from Kaitoki Valley to the Wairarapa. Trip to Nelson, Picton, and the Sounds. This included a trip on the ship, Blenheim, on Pelorus and Queen Charlotte sounds, with a stop off at Havelock. General views of Nelson, and specifically Trafalgar Street from below the Cathedral. Bridge in Queens Gardens. Bridge over the Maitai River. A stop at Wangamoa on a motor trip from Nelson to Blenheim. Views of Picton and harbour. SS Admiral taking people on a picnic, Picton. Picton Waterworks. Train leaving Picton. Cadillac motor car abandoned after the engine caught fire for the second time. A race between two men in shells, one of whom was the New Zealand Champion single sculler, Darcy Hadfield. This race may be one of the two that took place on the Whanganui River in 1922. Party of men and women on a walk in rough bush country. Shotover River Bridge. Cromwell and the Clutha River. Caroline Bay, Timaru. Bluff from the sea, and the ship Jane Seddon. General views of Invercargill, and specifically of Dee Street and the water tower. Views of Dunedin and Port Chalmers. The Scott memorial at Port Chalmers. New Zealand Airforce Avro 504 at Sockburn (Wigram) Aerodrome. Views of Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, the Remarkables, Mount Earnslaw, Paradise and Ben Lomond. SS Earnslaw on Lake Wakatipu. Mount Ruapehu, Aratiatia Rapids, and Huka Falls. Some prints in this collection have notes on the back in a consistant, neat handwriting. In three cases these are signed E N Webster, who advises that he arrived in Wellington 5 February 1918, and left 15 June 1922. During this period, as well as photographing Wellington and district, he travelled on holiday to New Zealand cities and tourist destinations. The photographs were taken between 1919 and 1921 judging from the prints that have dates. His second name was Norman, and this is the name he used to sign letters on postcards sent from Christchurch in 1919 to his mother, and a friend called May. There is also a note attached to an illustration of Ben Lomond in the collection on which he signs himself Norman Webster. In formation on the back of postcards indicate that he came from Australia, and in 1916 lived at Nambour, Queensland. Quantity: 148 b&w original photographic print(s).