Revell Street

Date: [1920s]

From: Searell, Pamela :Photographs owned by Miss Ruby Victoria Jackson

By: Jackson, Ruby Victoria, 1888-1980; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PA1-o-459

Description: Snapshots of family and friends associated with Ruby Victoria Jackson, taken by unidentified photographers. Many of the people shown are unidentified, or only identified with Christian names. Many of the images relate to sheep stations won by three Jackson brothers in the soldiers' ballot after the first World War, 1914-1918. They owned Netherwood (originally by a Johnson who married a Jackson), Te Arowhenua and Berridale in the Waihopai Valley; also Leatham and The Branch Station on the Branch River. Other sections of the album relate to holidays, including trips to the West Coast, and to the North Island. Several views of Wellington are night scenes. The funeral ceremonies for Miss Jackson's father, Walter James Jackson, are shown in a number of photographs; and the last sequence shows Chinese friends probably associated with Miss Jackson's links with the Chinese Anglican Mission; and the visit of Dr Toyohiko Kagawa to New Zealand in 1935. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured black cloth cover, entitled "The Lambton album" (with R.V. Jackson in ink over the title); 22.0 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1867

Reference: 1/4-002702-F

Description: Businesses on Revell Street, Hokitika, in 1867. A sign advertising surgeon D Demott can be seen on the far left, with the Shotover Hotel alongside. The boot, shoe and clothing shop of J F Byrne & Co, in Corinthian Hall, is in the centre. The Hokitika Sale Yard and Grobeck Hair Salon are on the right. Probably taken by Tait Brothers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1885

Reference: 1/2-051066-F

Description: Revell Street with Bourke's Hotel, Hokitika, 1885. Photographer unidentified. (note that the photographers inscription reads: "M Co[?]") Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - REVELL ST Hokitika 1885 M Co[?] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1900 - 1912

Reference: Eph-POSTCARD-Ellis-10

Description: Shows a view along Revel Street, Hokitika, with a cart at the left, and a group of men and boys standing beside their bicycles, further along the street. Signs for shops on either side of the street include: C Wade & Co., Speed[king?], Kellers, Victoria Bakery, Wray[?] & Son drapers. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 89 x 138 mm.

Date: 1914

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-041245-G

Description: Westland Jubilee parade, Revell Street, Hokitika, 1914, probably January. Brass band in middle ground. Photograph taken by an unidentified staff photographer for The Press. Source of descriptive information - Revell Street identified on file print. Occasion identified by cataloguer and verified by article in Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 5, 7 January 1914, Page 8, accessed from Papers Past website at http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: 2 March 1868

From: Mundy album 3

Reference: PA1-f-041-38

Description: Looking along Revell Street, Hokitika, 2 March, 1868. The Bull & Mouth Hotel is on the left. Photograph taken by Daniel Louis Mundy. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Mundy N.Z. No 58 [the 5 is reversed] 2/3/68 [the 3 is reversed]; Album page - verso - 58 - Revel Street, Hokitika Westland Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 246 x 179 mm, mounted on to album page

Date: 1868, 1871 etc

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-041

Description: Photographs of the North Island of New Zealand taken by Daniel Mundy during the 1860s to 1871. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in this album at p. 51) The Thames goldfields are shown in a number of images, including some with captions Shortland and Grahamstown (now part of Thames); the Moanataira [i.e. Moanatairi] wire tramway, with the Rainbow Hotel nearby; Hunt's claim (known as the Shotover Mine); the Missouri Battery; the Bank of New Zealand building at Grahamstown; and miners' huts. The timber industry is shown with kauri logs being transported by bullock teams and awaiting transport by water. Photographs associated with Maori include military outposts at Terewera (i.e. Tarawera) and Ormond; "Kawiti's Runanga, or court houses, now `tapu', Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 21); "limestone caves at Waiomeo [sic], Bay of Islands; the burial place of the Mangakahia tribe. Strictly tapu" (p. 22); "Group at Waimeo feast, Bay of Islands" (p. 20); "Native feast - or bone-scraping at the burial of the remains of several chiefs at Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 46); "Waipawa Valley, Poverty Bay, scene of the massacre by Te Kooti" (p. 47); "Here the moa feet impressions were found, Poverty Bay, Sept. 1871, D.L.M." (p. 51). There are two-image panoramas of the Thames goldfields and Napier. In this album they are not on following pages, but are separated. (Thames goldfields, Mundy numbers 121 & 120, here seen on pages 9 and 15); Napier (Mundy numbers 164 & 165, here seen on pages 50 and 52). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover, geometric pattern, gold decoration, entitled `New Zealand' in gold; 30.5 x 42.5 cm

Date: 1914

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-041248-G

Description: Westland Jubilee parade, Revell Street, Hokitika, 1914, probably January. Group in horse drawn carriage in foreground. Photograph taken by an unidentified staff photographer for The Press. Source of descriptive information - Revell Street identified on file print. Occasion identified by cataloguer and verified by article in Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 5, 7 January 1914, Page 8, accessed from Papers Past website at http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.