Ashburton Domain

Date: [circa 1899-1902]

By: Barr, Benjamin John, 1883-1939

Reference: PA1-o-034

Description: Photographs of Ashburton taken by B J Barr, circa 1900s. Views include various churches (Anglican, Presbyterian, Wesleyan and Roman Catholic); public buildings including the Ashburton County Council, Post and Telegraph Office (with places for clocks in a tower, lacking the clock faces), the Bank of New Zealand and the Union Bank of Australia, the Somerset Hotel, railway station, the Lodge Ashburton Masonic Hall, and the Working Men's Club. There is a view of the Ashburton Cemetery, with the gravestone of John Morgan Furze, husband of Hannah Furze, who died at Buccleugh, Mt Somers in March 1901. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth album 190 x 245 mm

Date: 1925

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1550-F

Description: Panoramic view of the Ashburton Domain. Public gardens with a large pond on the left, paths winding through lawns and trees. A man with a small boy wearing a sailor suit are standing on a path in the centre, and another man wearing a hat and bowtie is seated on grass beside the pond. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Section of Domain Ashburton. New Zealand. No. 590; Marginal notes on negative - Section of Ashburton Domain. N.Z. 1925. No. 2 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 113.5 cm

Date: [1925?]

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1547-F

Description: Panoramic view of the Ashburton Domain. Various pavilions in the middle distance on the right and left. Large group of women playing croquet in the far left, tennis courts and a group of cyclists in centre middle distance. In the foreground a man is seated on the grass by a tree with a memorial plaque. Drives and paths winding through lawns and trees. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Section of Domain Ashburton. New Zealand. No. 589; Marginal notes on negative - Section of Domain. No. 1; Marginal notes on negative - 2 2 2 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 132.1 cm

Date: 1925

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1548-F

Description: Panoramic view of the Ashburton Bowling Club on the first day of the bowling season in 1925. Men club members posed in a row across the central green. Group of women, one with a young child on her knee, are posed in rows (some seated) by the club house on the left. A group of older men (some seated) and a boy can be seen on the right hand edge of the green. Table set for tea is just visible above a half-wall in the club house. Pram parked outside the building. Road along right, trees in background. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Section of the photograph repeated on the far left Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Opening of Ashburton Bowling Season. 1925; Marginal notes on negative - 2 2 2 2 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 120.4 cm

Date: February 22 - 25, 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8790

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides were taken earlier than those on some of the preceding sheets. (Information from his diary). The first image shows a typical mountain sheep station scene; the next seven images show aspects of the Winchmore Irrigation Research Station, including irrigation canals, a feeder canal, a "dam", treated and untreated fence posts, sheep in a grazing plot, and the inside of one of the laboratories. From there Williams travelled to Ashburton with views from the bus, coming into town; the Ashburton Domain showing the Florence Nightingale Memorial, a sequoia tree, cabbage trees, and large beds of zinnias. Further views from the bus were taken between Ashburton and Nelson. In the Nelson area there are views of the Nelson Cathedral, a huge pumpkin patch, tobacco growing and hop vines. Slides on this sheet are numbered 457 to 480, with one gap where no. 476 was removed for lectures on New Zealand. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slide (no. 476) showing the Early Settlers' Monument in Nelson, which he took as part of a representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: [Circa 1900s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-304

Description: Album of photographs probably taken by George William Barltrop, circa 1900s. All the views are taken in the South Island, travelling by horse and carriage to Takaka and the Waikoropupu Springs, the Motupipi limestone caves; Sumner and Cave Rock, and New Brighton; the Ashburton Domain. Several scenes show aspects of life at Longbeach sheep station, including the manager's house; the Longbeach Homestead seen across a lake; men at work at 7.00am with horses and dogs in the farmyard, with a windmill visible; and a watermill. From there the journey goes via Hawarden, Culverden, the Waiau River, Mason River, Conway River and Conway Hills, Charwell River, the Kowhai River, and then several images show the travellers having to negotiate a washout on the road at Wandle Creek. (The photograph on page 1071 has the footnote `Wandle Creek wash out. A `ticklish' drive). The last views show the Hapuku River, Kaikoura and the Kaikoura Wharf, and the Kaikoura Ranges. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, brown spine, entitled `Photographs'; 18.5 x 23.5 cm

Date: 2005

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0005951

Description: Shows two men discussing how New Zealand won the rights to host the Rugby World Cup in 2011 and debating the quality of the venues in which games could be played. Published in The Press Quantity: 1 digital image(s). Processing information: This cartoon file was donated to the library with no file extension. On recommendation of the Digital Archivist and with the consent of the donor, a ".jpg" file extension was added to this file in order to ensure it was readable and accessible.

Date: [Between 1910s and 1920s]

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

By: Hopkins, Alfred Walter, 1882-1969

Reference: 1/2-000880-G

Description: View of the Ashburton Domain. Photograph probably taken by Alfred W Hopkins, bookseller and stationer at 55 East Street, Ashburton Source of descriptive information - Photographer identified as Alfred W Hopkins from image at 1/2-000883 and from Wise's Post Office Directory between 1910s and 1920s Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - The Domain. Ashburton. Protd. A.W.H. 3753 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 21 May 1974

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-71929-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28055-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28052-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 31 Mar 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-37768a-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 31 Mar 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-37763-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 31 Mar 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-37760-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 31 Mar 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-37766-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 31 Mar 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-37767-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 31 Mar 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-37761-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 31 Mar 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-37770-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 31 Mar 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-37764-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 31 Mar 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-37762-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate