Perhaps you know where some of the photographs below were taken? If you can help, please note the number related to each image with your comment below. Click on the images to enable enlargement.
1) Its summer here…
Untitled (pohutukawa fringed beach), circa 1965, New Zealand. National Publicity Studios. Purchased 2003. Te Papa
2) North Island wharf
North Island wharf, 1960 s, New Zealand. Eric Lee-Johnson. Purchased 1997 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds. © Te Papa.
3) Is it Otago harbour? And if so, what is the view of?
Untitled, 1880s. Burton Brothers. Te Papa
4) Coastal view – probably North Island
- New Zealand coastline scenery, 1950 s, New Zealand. Eric Lee-Johnson. Purchased 1997 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds. © Te Papa.
5) Pushing a car through a township somewhere in the North Island
North Island township scene – pushstarting a stalled motorcar, 1950 s, New Zealand. Eric Lee-Johnson. Purchased 1997 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds. © Te Papa.
6) Summer again…
Untitled (beach cove), circa 1965, New Zealand. National Publicity Studios. Purchased 2003. Te Papa
7) 19th century factory – perhaps near Dunedin?
Untitled, 1880s. Burton Brothers. Te Papa
8) A coastal Northland township
Coastal scenery, Northland, 1950 s, New Zealand. Eric Lee-Johnson. Purchased 1997 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds. © Te Papa.
9) A real local in Rona Bay, Eastbourne – is the house still there?
Eastbourne Villa, 1921. Maker unknown. Gift of Margaret and John Christie, 1979. Te Papa
10) Somewhere in the Coromandel?
Untitled, 1880s. Burton Brothers. Purchased 1991. Te Papa
11) No clues here….
Untitled, 1890s, New Zealand. Maker unknown. Purchased 1999 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds. Te Papa
12) Damage from the 1931 Napier earthquake – which bridge is it?
Untitled, circa 1931, Hawke’s Bay. Maker unknown. Gift of Mrs J Paterson, date unknown. Te Papa
13) Main street, Greytown?
Street scene, circa 1875, Wairarapa. James Bragge. Te Papa
17 Comments
No.5 may be in Kaeo, Northland, judging by the shape of the supermarket on the corner and the bank opposite. Supermarket still exists.
No.8 is definately at Whangaroa between the township and wharf, the overhanging tree still exists and is seen in many photos of Whangaroa.
Quick response – Eric Lee Johnson 2 is Opua I suggest. 6 is Rawene.
No.3 Is Otago Harbour. I think it’s looking at Ravensbourne, although I can’t quite place the church.
6 in the Kaiteriteri area-Little kaiteriteri?
11 Knox College Dunedin?
1- cold be ohiwa beach eastern bay of plenty and 6. could be otarawairere – whakatane.
No 6 Looks very like Cactus Bay Waiheke Island.
Number 3 isn’t from the 1880′s – the photo clearly has power polls along the side of the road that follows the costline. Is this possibly looking at Port Chalmers?
Hi Ross re: no. 8 Whangaroa is this the approximate view?
no, you need to go back to approx 573 Whangaroa rd, more towards the township. I have some old b/w pics of the tree 1905ish, if you need them sent.
Thanks Ross – this one looks like it
Thanks Sue McMillan – I agree that it is Ravensbourne. Looking at the buildings below the church (which seems to have gone now) – there is the Post Office and the old Coronation Town Hall with the site between occupied now by the Lodge Maori No 105. You can also see the two shops back towards Dunedin still there as well.
Rebecca – it is definately Ravensbourne (see above) but the date is uncertain. They could be telegrah lines which were installed between Dunedin and Port Chalmers soon after the Chch to Lyttleton lines were put up in 1862.
N0 2 could be the wharf at Point Howard in Wellington Harbour.
According to Papers Past (http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=HNS18961020.2.30.4), photo 10 may be Kuaotunu, where Tammadge and McSheffrey’s store was destroyed in a fire in October 1896.
Thanks Lucy. It certainly looks to be Kuaotunu.
No. 2 definitely is Mangonui in the Far North.
Actually maybe it isn’t but it looks very similar!
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