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Colorview 

Fotocentre (Oamaru) Limited later Colourview Publications (1997) Limited. 

Fotocentre (Oamaru) Limited was incorporated as a private company 26 May 1959. The company changed its name to Colourview Publications (1997) Limited on 9 May 1997 and registered as a company 23 June 1997, the directors then being David Edward Johnstone and Ellen Mary Johnstone. This company was deregistered on 9 December 2005. 

Leonard Frank Johnstone born 24 January 1923 Christchurch, died 4 November 1994 Dunedin.

1914-18 War Memorial and Clock, Alexandra

CO 1

Alexandra

CO 3

Alexandra Bridge and Clutha River, Alexandra

CO 5

Cromwell and Lake Dunstan
CO 6

Meeting House, Ohinemutu, Rotorua

CB 10

Lake Hayes

QD 14

The Meeting of the Waters, Cromwell

CO 16

Queenstown Golf Course

J/N 16

Maori children diving for coins thrown by tourists into the river at the Entrance to the Historic Maori Village, Whakarewarewa, less than two miles from the centre of Rotorua

CB 17

Wahio Meeting House, Whakarewarewa, Rotorua

CB 18

Queenstown

QD 26

The Mall, Queenstown

QD 35

The Mall, Queenstown

QD 35

Lake Te Anau

MS 37

Takahe - Porphyrio mantelli

MS 40

photo by Alan Wright, NZ Wildlife Service

St Faith's Anglican Church
CB 46

Lake Wanaka

CO 57

Silica Terraces, Waiotapu, Rotorua, New Zealand
CB 63

Homer Tunnel Entrance, Southland

MS 65

Panoramic View, Waiotapu, New Zealand
CB 66

 

Rainbow Springs
CB 80

Cathedral Square, Christchurch, New Zealand
CC 94

DB Haast Hotel, Haast, South Westland, Waiatoto Room and Arawata Room

JN 94

   

Franz Josef Glacier, Westland

FJ 102

Sign of the Takahe, Christchurch, New Zealand

CC 107

 

 Heli-Hike adventure on Franz Josef Glacier, Westland

FJ 108

Westland Motor Inn, Franz Josef Glacier

FJ 109

Mustering sheep by Lake Pukaki

CM 114

Photo: Peter Morath

 One of Christchurch's tramcars travelling the city loop route, passing by the Christchurch Arts Centre. Canterbury, New Zealand
photo: Peter Morath
CC 120 

 Lyttelton Port, Canterbury
CC 121

Sumner, Christchurch

CC 122

St Joseph's Cathedral, Dunedin

DO 143

Moeraki Boulders, North Otago

NO 153

Post Office and 1914-18 war Memorial, Oamaru

NO 157

Jewellery from the Museum of Shipwrecks
J/N 173

Wellington

WL 184

Punakaiki Pancake Rocks

WU 185

Hanmer Springs
KC 190

Rainbow Springs, Rotorua
CB 202

Picton in the South Island, New Zealand

MB  206

 

 

Broadgreen Homestead

NM 222

War Memorial and Museum, Auckland

AA 247

Pohutu Geyser, Rotorua

RT 293

Ohinemutu Church by Moonlight, Rotorua
CB 299

 

Rotorua Museum of Art and History, Rotorua

CB 302

 

  

Maori Challenge, Whakarewarewa

RT 309

 

Stone Store, Oldest Stone Building in New Zealand. Built 1833, Kerikeri.
BI 353

Kemp House. The oldest wooden building in New Zealand, built in 1819 at Kerikeri, New Zealand.

BI 354

Maori Meeting House, Waitangi, Bay of Islands, New Zealand
BI 357

Ngatokimatawhaorua
BI 366

Paihia, Bay of Islands
BI 398

Williams Memorial Church, Paihia, Bay of Islands, New Zealand
BI 405

Boat Harbour, Russell, Bay of Islands

BI 412

 

Russell, Bay of Islands, New Zealand
BI 435

Hole in the Rock, Piercy Island, Bay of Islands

BI 458

 

Cape Reinga Lighthouse and Signpost, Northland

NU 482

The Keri Keri Basin

BI 483

[reverse message dated 29 December 1988]

 

 

Cape Maria van Diemen from Cape Reinga, Northland

NU 484

Moeraki Boulders

J/N 489

Pompallier House
Russell, Bay of Islands, New Zealand

BI 491

Pompallier House, Russell, Bay of Islands

BI 491

Maori Carving, Interior Meeting House, Waitangi

BI 496

Treaty House, Waitangi

BI 497

 

Nga Toki, Matawhaorua, Maori War Canoe, Waitangi, Bay of Islands
BI 501

Nga Toki, Matawhaorua, Maori War Canoe, Waitangi, Bay of Islands 
BI 501

Queen Elizabeth II Army Memorial Museum
J/N 513

Spring Blossom, Queens Park, Invercargill

SI 529

International Signpost, Stirling Point, Bluff

SI 530

International Signpost, Stirling Point, Bluff

SI 531

Peacock, Glenfalloch Gardens, Dunedin

DO 548

The Northern Royal Albatross
DO 550

[reverse message dated 13 September 2001]

View of Akaroa from lookout, Banks Peninsula, Canterbury

CC 564

Akaroa, Banks Peninsula

CC 568

 Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, New Zealand
CC 569

Port Chalmers

DO 571

Paterson's Cottage, South Canterbury

J/N 572

Reflections. Road to Mt Cook

CM 583

Te Ana-Au Caves, Lake Te Anau

MS 624

Whirling Pool, Te Ana-Au Caves, Lake Te Anau

MS 626

Lake Manapouri

MS 629

Franz Josef Glacier
WM 639

Waitomo Caves

WC 655

Kea, New Zealand Mountain Parrot

GI 664

Te Papa, Wellington

WL 675

 

 

Waterfall, Te Ana-au Caves, Lake Anau

MS 700

Te Ana-Au Caves, Lake Te Anau

MS 700

The Mall, Queenstown

QD 823

St Paul's Anglican Church, Arrowtown, Central Otago

QD 828

Lake Hawea

CO 850

 

Taranaki Falls, Tongariro National Park

TP 874

 

The Chateau Tongariro

TP 878

 
Glentanner Station. 

Mustering sheep, Mt Cook in background, Canterbury, New Zealand.

CM 897

 

Army Museum, Waiouru
J/N 1014

Tuatara

HB 1014

Feeding fish, Oceanarium Tank, Hawkes Bay Aquarium, Napier

HB 1020

  

Cape Wanbrow, Oamaru
NO 1033

Lighthouse Rock, Skippers, Otago

QD 1043

Mitre Peak

MS 1056

 Christchurch Art Centre, Christchurch 
CC 1070

 Sign of the Takahe. The lounge looking toward the fireplace. Christchurch, New Zealand
CC 1078

Memorial Room, Sign of the Takahe, Christchurch, New Zealand

CC 1081

 Cathedral Square, Christchurch
CC 1165

Lyttelton Road Tunnel
CC 1166

Kawarau Bridge and Frankton

QD 1234

 

Shotover Jet Boat and Edith Cavell Bridge, Arthurs Point, Queenstown, New Zealand

QD 1246

Jet boating under the Edith Cavell Bridge on the Shotover River, Queenstown

QD 1246

Main Street, Arrowtown

QD 1248

Homer Tunnel, Road to Milford Sound, Southland, New Zealand

MS 1251

Maori Children, Rotorua

RT 1287

Canterbury Provincial Buildings, Christchurch

CC 1302

 Cathedral Square showing the Post Office, Christchurch, New Zealand
CC 1307

Wanaka

CO 1328

The Lindis Pass

NO 1341

s.s. Earnslaw on Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown, Otago, New Zealand

QD 1354

St Peter's Anglican Church, Queenstown

QD 1356

Glentanner Station

CM 1371

Pohutukawa, Rose Gardens, Auckland

AA 1415

Interior Maori Meeting House, Waitangi
BI 1425

Treaty House, Waitangi

BI 1434

 

Aerial view of Russell in the Bay of Islands
BI 1435

 Aerial view of Russell in the Bay of Islands
BI 1435

Sculptured Fountain, Rose Garden, Te Awamutu

HW 1485

Rose Garden, Te Awamutu

HW 1486

Dining Room, Larnach Castle, Dunedin

DO 1496

 

North Bedroom, Larnach Castle, Dunedin
DO 1497

 Royal Albatross Colony, Dunedin

photograph by George R. Chance

JN 1501

 Library - Larnach Castle, Dunedin
DO 1504 [1]

Larnach's Study, Larnach Castle, Dunedin

DO 1504 [2]

Stable, Larnach Castle, Dunedin

DO 1505

Nursery at Larnach Castle, Dunedin

DO 1507

Larnach Lodge

DO 1508

 
Drawing Room, Larnach Castle, Dunedin
DO 1509

Music Room at Larnach Castle, Dunedin

DO 1511

The Wishing Well at Larnach Castle, Dunedin

DO 1513

The Foyer, Larnach Castle, Dunedin

DO 1527

Spirit Tree from Spirit Cave, Cape Reinga

NU 1563

 

 

Giant Kauri Tree, Te Matau Ngahere, Father of the Forest, Waipoua Forest.

NL 1576

Wellington Botanical Gardens

WL 1660

Lady Norwood Rose Gardens, Wellington

WL 1661

Fox Glacier and Mt. Tasman

WM1717

Erect Crested Penguin, New Zealand

HB 1740

 

 

Lilliput Model Display, Railway, Napier

HB 1760

  

Aerial View, Cook Strait Ferry, Tory Channel

MB 1791

Overseas Air Terminal, Auckland Airport

AA 1841

 

Emerald Pool, Waiwera Hot Mineral Pools, Waiwera, Auckland, New Zealand
AA 1842

Sapphire Pool, Waiwera hot mineral pools, Waiwera, Auckland, New Zealand
AA 1843

Hot mineral pools, Waiwera, Auckland, New Zealand
AA 1849

Waiwera, Hot Mineral Pools, Auckland, New Zealand
 AA 1864

Mt Cook from Ferintosh Station, Lake Pukaki

CM 1887

Benmore Dam

NO 1902

Lake Benmore

NO 1903

Clay Cliffs, Omarama, North Otago

NO 1906

Historic Oamaru Stone Bank Buildings

NO 1911

Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Tekapo

CM 1921

Lake Tekapo and the Church of the Good Shepherd

photo: Warren Jacobs

CM 1925

Richmond Cottage, New Plymouth

TE 1960

Lake Mangamahoe, Mt Egmont

TE 1961

Mt Egmont, Rural Scene, Taranaki

TE 1964

Mission House, Waimate North

BI 2083

Kingston Flyer

QD 2197

 Canterbury Provincial Council Chamber, Christchurch, New Zealand
CC 2207

Interior of Whakaata, Maori Meeting House, Okains Bay Maori and Colonial Museum, Banks Peninsula

CC 2224

Interior Colonial Totara Slab Cottage, Okains Bay Maori and Colonial Museum, Banks Peninsula

CC 2225

Interior Maori Antiquities Hall, Okains Bay Maori and Colonial Museum

CC 2226

Murray Thacker "Smithy," Okains Bay Maori and Colonial Museum, Banks Peninsula

CC 2227

Henry, Male Tuatara, Southland Centennial Museum, Invercargill

GI 2352

Halfmoon Bay, Stewart Island

SI 2379

Sanctuary and Chancel, Old Saint Paul's, Wellington

WL 2486

Kaikoura Coastline

KC 2510

Picton
MB 2511

Aerial view of Blenheim
MB 2517


 
Study, Broadgreen House, Nelson City 
NM 2553


 
Master Bedroom, Broadgreen House, Nelson City 
NM 2554

 Kitchen, Broadgreen House, Nelson City 
NM 2555

 Dining Room, Broadgreen House, Nelson City 
NM 2556

 

Front Parlour, Broadgreen House, Nelson

NM 2557

 
 

Period Costume Display, Broadgreen House, Nelson City
NM 2564

Mission House, Waimate North

Photography and Printing by Fotocentre Ltd, Oamaru, North Otago

HPT 2591

Mission House, Waimate North

This is the only survivor of three mission houses, built at Waimate in 1831-32. For nine years it was occupied by the lay missionary George Clark and later the home of Bishop Selwyn from 1842-44. It was restored to its original regency style by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.

Photography and Printing by Fotocentre Ltd, Oamaru, North Otago

HPT 2592

Attic Bedroom, Hurworth, New plymouth

HPT 2622

Hurworth, New Plymouth

HPT 2623

Ewelme Cottage, Auckland
Photography and Printing by Fotocentre Ltd, Oamaru, North Otago

HPT 2636

Alberton, Auckland
Built in 1862 for Allan Kerr Taylor - an Auckland farmer and businessman - and later extended to include the Indian style verandahs and towers, the house was bequeathed to the Trust in 1972 by his last surviving daughter, and has been fully restored.
Photography and Printing by Fotocentre Ltd, Oamaru, North Otago

HPT 2647

Kitchen at Alberton, Auckland

Postmarked 1988

Photography and Printing by Fotocentre Ltd, Oamaru, North Otago

HPT 2652

Hayes Engineering Works, Oturehua, Central Otago

HPT 2674

Ophir Post Office

In 1863 a post office was opened at Black's Diggings, Otago, and later renamed Ophir after the site of King Solomon's famous gold mines. The present post office was erected in 1886 and since 1976 has been operated on an agency basis by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.

Postmarked 16 March 1992

Photography and Printing by Fotocentre Ltd, Oamaru, North Otago

HPT 2676

The Tudor Collins Wing, The Otamatea and Pioneer Museum, Matakohe, Northland

NL 2788

Bush Whare, The Otamatea and Pioneer Museum, Matakohe, Northland

NL 2790

  

The Otamatea Kauri and Pioneer Museum, Matakohe, Northland

NL 2791

Cooks Beach, Mercury Bay

HW 2866

Cathedral Cove, Mercury Bay, Coromandel Peninsula

HW 2869

Little Blue Penguin

Photo by Rod Morris

GI 2970

The New Zealand Fur Seal

GI 2989

Some of New Zealand's 60 million  plus sheep

GI 2990

"Tui" Shipwreck Museum
BI 3004

 

Interior, Wagener Museum, Houhora, Northland

NU 3009 

Taipa, Northland
NU 3012

 

Three Sea Safaris' launches operated by A. E. Fuller & Son Ltd., in the Bay of Islands

BI 3013

Museum, Akaroa, Canterbury

CC 3050

Nelson

NW 9000

 

Queenstown

QD 9002

Te Anau - Milford
MS 9003

Christchurch

CC 9006

Waimate

CS 9008

Staircase, Larnach Castle, Dunedin

DO 9020

Waitomo Cave

WC 9021

First Church of Otago, Dunedin

DO 9027

Benmore Dam and Lake, New Zealand
NO 9039

Westport
WU 9042

Coaltown Museum, Westport

WU 9043

 Hanmer Springs

KC 9053

 

Paua Shell House
SI 9084

Punakaiki

WU 9095

Punakaiki

WU 9095

Greymouth
WU 9096

Hawke's Bay Aquarium, Napier

HB 9102

Milford Sound

MS 9126

Alexandra District

CO 9132

Kauri Trees, Waipoua Forest, Northland, NZ

NL 9135

Wagener Museum, Northland

NU 9140

Wagener Museum, Northland

NU 9141

Waitangi, Bay of Islands, N.Z.
BI 9148

Paihia, Bay of Islands, New Zealand
BI 9153

Queen Elizabeth II Army Memorial Museum, Waiouru

TP 9165

Queen Elizabeth II Army Memorial Museum, Waiouru, N.Z.
TP 9166

Milford Track

MS 9180

 

"Hole in the Rick", Piercy Island

BI 9200

Native Birds

GI 9205

Paraparaumu

WL 9228

Omarama

NO 9243

Picton
MB 9262

Hokitika
WM 9309

Yellow - Eyed Penguin

GI 9331

Waitangi

BI 9413

Coxhead Album

Coxhead Album

A singularly cheap and easy method of securing a large collection of photographic views of the most notable places In New Zealand from the far South to tho extreme North is just about to be offered to the Auckland public. Messrs Adam Mitchell and Co., photographic publishers, have been employing an artist named Mr F. A, Coxhead to take a full series of these views, and it is intended to issue them weekly, mounted on toned cards, at 1s per week, the size of each view being 6in by 8in.

The subscribers are not bound to take the full set, for they may leave out such as they please, and at the end of the series the views will be bound for them in a large album free of charge. We have seen samples of the views, and they are certainly good, besides having the further merit of being recently taken.

The project will doubtless meet with very hearty support from the public. Messrs Stevens and Co., of Queen-street, have been appointed agents for Auckland.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 4227, 28 December 1883, Page 2

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 4233, 3 January 1884, Page 2

Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 24, 28 July 1885, Page 3

The Photogram

The World's Photographers.
No. I. - J. R. Hanna, of Auckland.

he arrival of a large parcel of portraits, partly on gelatino-chloride and partly on a specially beautiful matt surface paper, just a the time we are considering the commencement of a series of brief articles on "The World's Photographer," is specially opportune. We say specially so, because they are accompanied by a few notes on the production of the matt-surface prints which will give us a text for one of the principal lessons that we wish to tech, namely, the man is the main factor in photographic success. The beginner usually finds the dozen bad plate in a gross. As he grows older in the craft he finds that the plates are all right (he is sorry he used to abuse them), but that his lens is not nearly so good as Mr. Meddall-Winner's, made by the same optician. Later still, though he may admit that his lenses are al right, he complains that he had not sufficient variety of them. Or if he is a landscapist, he compares his work with another's, and explains the differences by saying that the other is a man of leisure, who can spend as much time as he likes at a given spot, and always take it when the lighting is perfect. If he is a portraitist he often blames his sitters, and says that "no one can make decent portraits of people who dress like guys, and who are all mouth and feet." And perhaps, last of all, he drifts into that most dangerous state, in which he never compares his work with that of others, or, if he does so, always concludes that his own work is faultless. This is the man who never sets the Thames on fire.

This is the man, also, who when a journalist makes a few notes about another photographer, objects to the selection of that photographer as being one whose work "isn't fit to look at," and whose popularity is based on bunkum and the ignorance of the public.

The Studio of J. R. Hanna.

This amiable man is always anxious to learn, but he abuses the poor journalist who reproduces for his instruction or encouragement a fancy dress or fancy pose picture, and says "why don't you give us some ordinary everyday sitters, in ordinary everyday dress, and ordinary everyday poses - people who are not handsome, such as an ordinary everyday photographer see in his studio." And when such studies are given his wrath knows no bounds, but he writes: "If you can't give us better things than - and -, keep out the pictures altogether , and give us decent reading. If I couldn't do better works than - and - I'd give up photography." This unfortunate man in his last stages is hopeless, and we do not mean to attempt his reclamation. But there are, fortunately for the photography of the future, hosts of young, capable, enthusiastic men passing through our studios in little businesses of their own, whom we hope to be able to help with suggestions.

And this brings us back to the main point, which is to be one of the main lessons of this series of articles, that the man is the main factor in photographic success.

Photograms by] [J. R. Hanna.

Some eighteen months ago, or more we were delighted by receiving from Auckland, New Zealand, a packet of photograms so beautiful in every respect that we felt we must show them to the fraternity. Accordingly, the member of the Photographic Club (London) had sight of them, and shortly afterwards they were shewn to the London and Provincial Association and to friends in other places. At the Club the opinion was expressed that no man in Britain was doing better all-round portraiture; at the London and Provincial a similar verdict was given; and Mr. Thomas Fall, to whom, amongst other, they were shewn, said he had never seen such lovely work. We mention these opinions because they carry so much more weight than any statement of our own, and because they are a generous and well-deserved tribute to the ability of one of those colonial workers who so well uphold the reputation of our common English-speaking race.

Mr J. J. Hanna, the photographer in question, is a professional, whose work is simply intended for the pleasure of his patrons, and to gratify his own taste. It is "commercial" work, that bears evidence of thought and infinite pains in even the smallest details. The few examples reproduced speak for themselves as to the posing and lighting; but the point which give the greatest charm to the finished results in the parcel above spoken of, and in a few of those more recently received, is the beauty of the prints in quality, tone, and surface. The first parcel was mainly matt prints, and as they came before the matt gelatino-chloride had been at all extensively used, they had the extra charm of novelty. But even now, with gelatino-chloride in the hands of everyone, and with matt-surface papers fully established, there has been nothing better than Mr. Hanna's prints. His method of making them should be interesting, as showing what care and labor such a worker will give to obtaining the exact result he wishes, though it is quite unlikely that anyone will now adopt the same means.

The prints are on "three stars" albumenized paper, mauve, sensitizsed by Mr. Hanna, and printed , toned, etc., in the usual manner, slightly over-toning. After a thorough washing, they are enamelled in the usual way, with collodion and gelatine. Stripped when perfectly dry from the plate glass, each print is matted, as soon as possible, with very fine pumice powder. About a dessert-spoonful is placed in the middle of the print, and rubbed round and round with the yips of the first and second fingers until the glaze is removed from all parts, then the bulk of the pumice is shaken off, and the remainder of the work completed by a gentle rubbing with the ball of the thumb.

Nothing in it! Quite so. A roundabout method. Certainly, as compared with the methods that are now available. But well worth recording, nevertheless. Mr Hanna greatly admired the beauty of platinotype. But the platinum paper that he tried - after its voyage half round the globe - would not give satisfactory results. Plain salted paper was not easily obtainable, and had certain disadvantages, matt print-out paper was not on the market, there was no platino-bromide available, so it was a case of making the best of the material at hand. And of the results - the true test of any method - we have already spoken.

The Photogram
May 1894, pages 110-112.
courtesy of Dr Michael Pritchard FRPS, Director-General,
The Royal Photographic Society

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British Photographic History