Otago (Ship : 1863-1876)

Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

By: Erskine & Whitmore (Firm); Coxhead & Le Sueur (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: PA1-o-151

Description: Views of New Zealand collected by Invercargill firm Erskine & Whitmore. Scenes taken by various photographers including Hart, Campbell & Co., and Coxhead & Le Sueur. Several views show Queenstown under floods in 1878; others of the Queenstown-Lakes Region, Waitati, Gore and Dunedin in the South Island. In the North Island, one shows a large picnic party travelling in three horse-drawn coaches, stopped at Ngauranga; many show a range of steam locomotives including J Class, K Class, F43, E22, H Class and A Class, in the Upper Hutt area, the Wairarapa, and on the Rimutaka line. Several at the end of the album show the effects of a major slip which blocked the mouth of the Summit Tunnel at the top of the Rimutaka Incline. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Erkine & Whitmore Inscriptions: Album page - `A choice collection of New Zealand views carefully selected from the best artists'. Erskine & Whitmore, Invercargill Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, 24.5 x 35.0 cm Provenance: Part of Alexander H Turnbull's collection

Date: [Circa 1870s]

By: Arnoux, Hippolyte, active 1860s-1880s

Reference: PA1-f-047

Description: Photographs taken in the 1870s, covering a wide range of places, photographers mostly unidentified, and most images with no captions. The first group were taken in an around the Mediterranean, including Gibraltar, but particularly focussing on the Suez Canal. The sequence includes a copy of a montage produced by Hippolyte Arnoux, showing a map of the route of the canal, surrounded by photographs of canal designer Ferdinand de Lesseps and various sites along the route. Other images in this sequence were probably taken by Arnoux who was working in Egypt during this period. The next group of images travel via India (?), to Australia. Views of Melbourne include Government House, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Houses of Parliament, the Scots' Church (in Collins Street), the Post Office, the Town Hall, and the Public Library. Following these is a panorama of Sydney, and views of Tasmania. The New Zealand scenes start with a panorama of Auckland, the Mount Eden residence of G.B. (?, pencilled name undeciphered), and the Auckland Domain). Images further south include Ohinemutu; the Pink and White Terraces; Napier; the Manawatu Gorge; Wellington (with the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel visible in the foreground); Nelson; the wreck of the ship Otago, at Chasland's Mistake; and a number of views in the Dunedin area. The last sequence shows parts of Canada, including the Rockies, Montreal and the Niagara Falls. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark brown leather cover, with decorations stamped in gold; 28 x 40 cm

Date: 1874 - 2005 - 2007

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to history, jubilees, centennials, anniversary celebrations in New Zealand]

By: Catlins Historical Society

Reference: Eph-A-HISTORY-Catlins-2007

Description: Includes: SS Otago Unveiling of plaques, 1 January 2007. Programme and flier TSS Manuka. Unveiling of wreck plaques, 1 January 2005. Programme and four postcards Two postcards for the ship "Surat" wrecked 1 January 1874, at Surat Bay. Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 2 booklets (programmes). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying Provenance: Donated by the Catlins Historical Society in 2007.

Date: [Circa 1860s-1870s]

From: Bloch, Theodor Thorlacius, 1844-1935 :Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PA1-o-040

Description: Album chiefly containing views of the Nelson Region, including ships in the harbour, Boulder Bank, a hotel in Moutere, a partially built steamship being transported to sea, and a Thanksgiving service by the Bishop of Nelson for safe arrival. Other areas covered include two images of Wellington, one of Sale (Victoria, Australia), several of Switzerland and of Odense in Denmark (taken when the photographer travelled back to Denmark in 1873). Photographs taken by Theodor Bloch between the 1860s and 1880s. Inscriptions: Album page - [?] McMaster, 10 Airlie Rd., Montmorency Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue covered album with black and gold illustration, labelled "Album" "Citations quaint, in ink and paint, nor faces scant as is and aint. S...r.", 200 x 300 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1869

By: Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor (Firm)

Reference: B-011-001

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 229 x 330 mm

Date: 4 December 1876

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

Reference: 1/2-015388-F

Description: Steamship 'Otago' on the rocks at Chaslands Mistake, 4 December 1876. Photograph taken by David Alexander De Maus. On photograph date given as 1874, but in reference books date given as 1876. See "New Zealand shipwrecks" (p 176) by C W N Ingram. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - "Otago" Chaslands Mistake 4 Dec 1874 [i.e. 1876]; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 13 D.Maus Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).