Jetties - New Zealand - Otago Region

Date: 1852

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PA7-49-32

Description: View looking south-west from Bell Hill. In the foreground is a tidal area and jetty. At the end of the jetty are W H Cutten's store and Johnny Jones' store. Premises on Princes Street can be seen and other commercial buildings and dwellings. For identification of the buildings in the photograph see `View of Dunedin from Church Hill' by G B Shaw, Nov 1851, with key. Purported to be the earliest photograph of Dunedin. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Dunedin from Bell Hill 1852 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 17.7 x 28 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1510-F

Description: Panoramic view of Lake Wanaka. There is a jetty in the right foreground with four people standing at the end near two launches moored alongside. A dinghy is pulled up on the shore. A "White Star Taxi" (Number plate 140-833) is parked at the end of the jetty in the right foreground. There are houses partially visible among trees on the far left, and across the bay in the left middle distance. Two other men are standing by the lake on the left. Steep hills in the background. Reflections in the water. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Lake Wanaka. New Zealand. No. 877 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 112.4 cm

Date: 1884

From: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926 :New Zealand sketches in black and white. 1884.

Reference: E-310-q-008

Description: View from above the township looking across houses towards the lake and a wharf. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in bound album, page size 173 x 252 mm

Date: 1882 - 1884

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-084-004

Description: Shows the lake with mooring poles in the foreground, a wooden jetty at the right, and further away at right, a boatshed with a paddle-steamer pulled up beside it. (Possibly the paddle-steamer "Antrim", constructed in 1868, or the "Mountaineer" built in 1879 - see R J Meyer's "All aboard" (NZ Railway & Locomotive Society, 1980), frontispiece and page 22). See also C-173-005 for a more finished version of this scene Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title and illegible date] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 230 x 470 mm.

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

By: Hunter, Norman Mitchell, 1859-

Reference: E-328-f-006-2

Description: Shows dredging apparatus at the Dunedin town jetty with a view of Dunedin in the background Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Dunedin from the Jetty with dredging apparatus Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 150 x 200 mm

Date: 1890

Reference: A-461-016

Description: A view of the jetty at Lake Wakatipu, with the paddle steamer 'Mountaineer' alongside it. The Remarkables can be seen in the background. A number of warehouses and two two-storeyed stone buildings can be seen on the waterfront The artist has signed themselves 'RR'. Their identity has not yet been confirmed Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Queenstown / Lake Wakatipu [in brushpoint]; Recto - bottom right - R.R. / 1890 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 190 x 290 mm (sight)

Date: 1883

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-173-005

Description: Shows the lake with a sail boat moored in the foreground, a wooden jetty at the right with a two-masted boat against it, and further away at right, a boatshed and smaller sheds with a paddle-steamer pulled up beside it, possibly the paddle-steamer 'Antrim', constructed in 1868, or the 'Mountaineer', built in 1879. In the distance, the snow-peaked Remarkables can be seen See also B-084-004 for a preliminary watercolour of this painting, with most of the subject matter the same Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C D Barraud / 1883 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour with pencil on paper, 220 x 515 mm Provenance: Prior to auction, held in a private collection in Canterbury

Date: 2 April 1898

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 10x8-1685-G

Description: Shows the Laira almost submerged after being hit by the Wakatipu at Dunedin Wharf on 2 April 1898. Taken slightly later than the photograph (Negative 1/1-002199), also taken by David Alexander De Maus. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - S.S. "Wakatipu" sinks the "Laira". Dunedin Wharf. April 2, 1898.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 3. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1862

By: Working Men's Educational Union

Reference: D-010-012

Description: Dunedin seen from a low hill behind the town in 1859, with rows of houses and businesses, looking out over the port. Probably used as a form of illustration for lecture tours. It has eyelet holes in each corner and a number printed below the Union's stamp. Redrawn from a wood engraving in the Illustrated London News, August 30 1862, the wood engraving itself based on a photograph taken early in 1862. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Printed calico (hand-col.) 36 x 47.2 inches

Date: 2 April 1898

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-002197-G

Description: Shows the Laira partially submerged after being hit by the Wakatipu at Dunedin Wharf on 2 April 1898. Taken slightly earlier than the photograph (Negative 1/1-002199), also taken by David Alexander De Maus. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - S.S. "Wakatipu" sinks the "Laira". Dunedin Wharf. April 2, 1898.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 2 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1885

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-012-008

Description: Shows a view of a corner of Lake Wanaka, with a small paddle steamer approaching from the left towards a jetty at the right. The steamer flies a flag from both its mast and stern, and around one dozen gentlemen and lady passengers stand aboard. The smoke from the single funnel floats back to the left and the boat's wake extends past the picture's left edge. The jetty at right is piled with bales and a quantity of timber, and a man and a woman with a parasol are standing on the jetty. In the background are the mountain ranges around Wanaka. Four gulls fly in the right foreground. Other Titles - Lake Wanaka Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Signed and dated]; Backing board recto - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 338 x 498 mm. Provenance: Previously purchased from a Christchurch estate. The note on the backing board adds that the SS Theodore was built for Theo Russell and Captain Hedditch, and that Tom Creig was the engineer. "He [Tom Creig?] gave this painting to Sam McSkimming as a parting gift when S. McSkimming & family left Pembroke to go to Arrowtown, then a busy goldmining town in 1900" Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1926

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

Reference: APG-1689-1/2-G

Description: View of a bay on Lake Wakatipu. Possibly Walter Peak Station. There is a small jetty centre right, and several buildings hidden amongst trees at the foot of steeply rising hills. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1926. Information from Godber's index held in Photographic Archives (under 97. Elfin Bay. Whakatipu. 1926; or Walter Peak Station. Wakatipu. 1926) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches Processing information: Location amended following information from a researcher, January 2024.

Date: 2 April 1898

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-002199-G

Description: Shows the Laira partially submerged after being hit by the Wakatipu at Dunedin Wharf on 2 April 1898. Taken slightly later than the photograph (Negative 1/1-002197), also taken by David Alexander De Maus. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - S.S. "Wakatipu" sinks the "Laira". Dunedin Wharf. April 2, 1898.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 2 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1926

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

Reference: APG-1727-1/2-G

Description: View of Otago Harbour with Goat Island top right, pumping equipment on pontoons in the centre, and a small jetty in the foreground. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1926. Information from Godber's index held in Photographic Archives (under Box 14. 94. Port Chalmers. 1926) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1848

By: Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-012-001

Description: Shows "Wickliffe Wharf, Residence of Mr Cuttan, The Manse, Back of Captn Cargill's residence, Mr Jeffrey's tent, Resident Agent's Office, Residence of Mr Kettle, Principal surveyor's office, Commercial Inn, Tent, Emigrant's House, Street Lane, Mr Anderson's stores, Emigrant's house Inscriptions: top left - New Zealand Company stamp date "21 Dec 1848"; Verso - In pencil: "no. 283" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and Chinese white image 211 x 580 mm on sheet 267 x 637 mm Provenance: Purchased by A H Turnbull from Francis Edwards, London, 1915 with other New Zealand Company material