RRS Discovery (Ship : 1901- )

Date: 1901 to 1904

From: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936 :Photographs relating to Antarctica and mountaineering

By: Skelton, Reginald William, 1872-1956

Reference: PA1-q-221

Description: Photographs, probably taken by Reginald Skelton, during the Discovery Expedition to Antarctica, with particular emphasis on marine animals and birds which were studied by marine biologist Thomas Vere Hodgson, and which were caught for food. Source of descriptive information - Identification of the photographer was taken from a view of penguin eggs (seen in this album) which was published in the book "Discovery illustrated : pictures from Captain Scott's first Antarctic Expedition" by J V Skelton and D M Wilson. Other Titles - Shackleton's Expedition, 1907-1909, album 6 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, entitled "Sketched by the sun"; 30.5 x 21.5 cm

Date: 1901-1904

From: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936 :Photographs relating to Antarctica and mountaineering

Reference: PA1-o-056

Description: Views of the relief ship the "Morning" preparing to leave the East India Docks in London, members of the expedition, and various places en route to Antarctica, to relieve Scott's ship "Discovery" during the British National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green covered album entitled "Places and faces", 230 x 165 mm

Date: 1901-1904

From: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936 :Photographs relating to Antarctica and mountaineering

Reference: PA1-o-054

Description: Views of Antarctica, including portraits of members of the British National Antarctic Expedition, aspects of their experiences on the expedition, and views of the Discovery. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green covered album entitled "Sketched by the sun", 245 x 165 mm

Date: 1902-1904

From: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936 :Photographs relating to Antarctica and mountaineering

Reference: PA1-o-059

Description: Views associated with the journey of the relief ship "Morning" to Antarctica as part of the British National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904, including portraits of some of the crew. One image shows Captain William Colbeck with Sir James Kinsey before Colbeck left for England. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green covered album entitled "Sketched by the sun", 245 x 165 mm

Date: 22 Dec 1901, 26 Feb 1903

By: Wild, John Robert Francis, 1873-1939

Reference: MS-Group-0720

Description: The 1901 letter thanks Miss Anderson for her letter received before departure and gives some account of preparations. The 1903 letter, from SS Discovery, Winter Harbour, McMurdo Straits, thanks her for cake sent from New Zealand, giving account of events since leaving Port Chalmers, 24 Dec 1901 including land surveys, Scott's overland expedition with Wilson and Shackleton, 2 Nov 1902 and the arrival of the relief ship `Morning' on 23 Jan 1903. Letterhead: Discovery Antarctic Expedition 1901 Quantity: 2 folder(s) (4 folded sheets [15] pages; 1 sheet [4 pages] + envelope). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1902-1904

By: England, Rupert, 1878-1942

Reference: qMS-0672

Description: Covers two voyages from Lyttelton as Chief Officer of Morning, relief ship to British National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1904. Describes provisioning of Discovery for 1903 winter and release from pack-ice, 1904; observation on bird and mammal life Quantity: 1 volume(s) (77 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (32 cm; ½ red calf, marbled boards)

Date: 1821-1857, 1802-1918

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2324

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1907

From: Butcher, Charles Henry, 1887-1957 :Lantern slides of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA11-261

Description: Photographs of various ships in Lyttelton Harbour, 1903-1907. Most likely photographed by Butcher. Contains an image of Antarctic exploration vessel 'Discovery' and a larger series of 'HMS Euryalus'. Also unidentified British war ships (labelled "A" and "B"). On board images feature gun turrets and Lascar seamen. Single images also relate to a regatta, the ship [M-ng?], and damage to the schooner 'Jessie Nicol' following a collision. Quantity: 17 b&w lantern slide(s). Physical Description: Lantern slides

Date: 2016 - 2017

From: Lyttelton Engineering Ltd: [Calendars. 2017-2020]

By: Lyttelton Engineering Limited (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-Lyttelton-2017

Description: Calendar marking 100 years since Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition returned to Britain, thus ending the "Heroic Age". Calendar has six openings showing photographs as follows (all images form the Alexander Turnbull Library's Photographic Archive except for March/April: January/February: SS Southern Cross at Wellington about 1898 March/April: Auxiliary steamship Discovery at Wellington May/June: Auxiliary steamship Nimrod departs Lyttelton 1 December 1908 July/August: Auxiliary steamship Fram September/October: Unloading a motor sled on to the ice November/December: Auxiliary steam ship Kainan Maru at Wellington February 1911 Accompanied by 2 pages of highlights of the year for Lyttelton Engineering Ltd. Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on spiral-bound calendar pages 493 x 340 mm. Provenance: Donated by Lyttelton Engineering Ltd in 2016.

Date: 1906-1907, and [1940s-1960s?]

Reference: PA1-o-029

Description: Photographs taken on a trip to New Zealand by Dr Freda Bage, 1906-1907; includes several photographs taken by unknown photographers at later dates, most of new Zealand, but one of Rotten Row in London, and one of the Victoria Dock in Sydney. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black hard cover, cream binding tape spine, 230 x 300 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-0115. Transfer information - MS-0115.

Date: between 1901-1904, between 1907-1909

Reference: PAColl-4225

Description: Images of the expedition members, the ships, and animal life in Antarctica. Includes two images of the 1907-1909 expedition (held at PAColl-4225-09 and PAColl-4225-10). Photographers unidentified. Some images published in R F Scott's 'The voyage of the discovery' Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1895-1906

From: Bowen, Charles Christopher (Sir), 1830-1917 : Papers

Reference: 85-070-1/05

Description: Includes: Letters from Edward A Wilson, Jul 1904 and Apr 1906; letter from Reginald Koettilitz, 1903; letter from Richard Henry, Resolution Island, 1905; newspaper cartoon of the British Antarctic Expedition entitled `The Dinner to the Officers and staff of the "Discovery" at Christchurch, NZ'; `The Antarctic Expedition', by Clements R Markham, 1895; letter to the editor from Clements Markham re Scott's last expedition to the Antarctic; photograph of the Scott memorial in Christchurch; notes on `A Paradise duck hiding her nest', by Richard Henry; 28 pages of a journal or report on Polar exploration Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [Circa 1880s-1890s]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-q-104

Description: Images of the construction of the Midland Railway line in Canterbury, and surrounding areas, taken by an unidentified photographer. Views include construction of the railway line, railway tunnels, bridges and viaducts, the use of flying foxes for transportation of men and equipment, and one image of a velocipede (like a railway jigger). Life at the work-sites is shown with types of accomodation, including tents; work-sites under snow; and group portraits of the Midland Railway Rifle Club, and the New Zealand Midland Railway Football Club. Several of the men, chiefly the engineers, are identified. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 111 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 32 x 28 cm

Date: 1843-1904

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2826

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: Jul 1901-Dec 1903

From: Quartermain family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1807-33

Description: Diary kept by Frank Plumley, a stoker on SS `Discovery' during its Antarctic Expedition (1901-1903), who joined the ship at Cape Town in Oct 1901. He describes the ship, the equipment it carries, the weather, general doings on board, and the exploring parties. Diary ends at Auckland Island, as they are returning to Lyttelton (Dec 1903). Plumley's diary was used by Quartermain in his `South to the Pole' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca 1901-1904

Reference: PAColl-4268

Description: The Discovery pulling out of a harbour, possibly Port Chalmers (although Lyttelton has been written on the reverse of the photograph), watched by seamen and others on the deck of another ship in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Copy of an original print

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-7075

Description: Photographs taken circa the 1960s by John Ingle, when leaving Scotland on the way to London. Includes views of the two Forth Bridges, railway and road; the coast near Berwick on Tweed; Standen church and village showing slate roof, thatched roof, Elizabethan structure, church window; Standen Manor; wheatfield and sunset near Standen. London views show the houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Scott's ship Discovery by the Embankment, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, Lambeth Palace from the Embankment, St James' Palace, St Paul's Cathedral, and Caesar's Well in Wimbledon Common. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 1864-1911

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-q-1128

Description: News and personal photographs taken and collected by J L Wilson featuring North Canterbury 1864-1911, predominantly dated 1905 to 1911. Named figures include Governor William Lee Plunket, M J Dixon, J O'Halloran, McLennan and Wilson, G R Hart, J Moses Willowby, Mrs Clothier and daughters, and R W Chaffey, Lewis, Hunter, and Johnson of Cust Volunteer Rifles. Group photographs include Mahaanui Maori Council [1905?], Apirana Ngata at Tuahiwi meeting, Kaiapoi Borough Council (1905), early Canterbury settlers at Pilgrim's corner, 'Glentanner' shipmates reunion, Oxford Branch of Farmers' Union (H T Cooper, J O'Halloran, J Wells, and McCormack), and Coe-Roberts Wedding. Series include: scrub (manuka) mowing machine designed by M J Dixon and land clearance; Oram family (Durban, South Africa), including Josie, Bobbie and unidentified Indian nurse; Christchurch Press, including offices, printing press, and binding room, as well as staff photograph in front of Press building; Threlkeld's farm 'Inglewood' (Flaxton); various Wilson family photographs, including [father?] W Wilson as an old man, Joseph Lowthian Wilson, his wife, daughter Estelle, son Leonard, and [son-in-law George?], and with the Christmas visit of Ms Pattinson from England featured; John O'Halloran and family and mustering scenes from Glentui Station (Oxford) including Seddon Falls; views, some panoramic, from the Ashley Gorge-Snowdale road; wheat harvest at R Evans' farm 'Clifton' (Waikari); photo-mechanical postcards of United Kingdom, Canterbury area, and New Zealand scenes (including Tongariro, Wellington Botanic Gardens, and bush scenes); and the wedding of two unidentified Maori couples (Tuahiwi). Events covered include Amberley Horse Show, Northern Agricultural & Pastoral Show (Rangiora), opening of J S White's Beehive Store, laying wreath at Queen Victoria statue, David Graham laying foundation stone at Woodend Methodist Church, and procession celebrating coronation [George V?]. Featured buildings include St Barnabas Church (Woodend), The Lodge (Hamner Springs), City Council Chambers (Christchurch), Colonel E B Milton's house 'Birch Hill', J Barton's house, and Woollen Mills, Post Office and Court buildings (Kaiapoi). Local scenes include Avonside (poplar trees), Kaiapoi (domain, bridge, wharf, regatta, swimming baths, Kai Tahu memorial), Clarkville, Ohoka, Woodend, Kairaki, Clifton, and Waikari. Farming images include turkeys, draught horses and ploughing, and cattle Miscellaneous images include M Thompson's sketching class at the School of Art, Boy Scouts doing dishes at camp, coach at Bealey, river being forded, Lees Valley Road, an unidentified African beach, Tangarakau Gorge (Stratford-Ongarue line, Taranaki), whitebaiting, sorting mail on board Antarctic ship HMS 'Discovery', HMS 'Challenger' in Lyttelton as well as harbour and port view, Upper Waiau bridge, monument to schoolmaster Charles George Chapman, [Scaitcliff?], Weka Pass, and Day's Bay (Wellington). Also includes a collage of newspaper mastheads, a photograph of the first Press newspaper editorial (1861), and a 1911 clipping from the Weekly Press 'Closer Land Settlement in the Oxford District: Some views on the Ashley Gorge-Snowdale Road' folded in the back of the album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1901-1904

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2596

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: ca1900, 10 June 1886

By: Muir, Jane, active 1988; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-1274

Description: Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.