Driving of horse-drawn vehicles

Date: 1891

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :Norway 1891

Reference: E-354-q-044/045

Description: A village scene, possibly Nordness Bergen (Norway) showing several people walking along the road, a horse drawn vehicle and dwellings on the left - also some other dwellings, slightly obscured, behind hills. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) (double page spread). Physical Description: Watercolour in sketchbook 150 x 240 mm

Date: ca 1980s

From: Eglinton, Graham Edward, 1923-2005, and Frank Malcolm: Photographs

By: Duston, Maurice, -2006

Reference: PA1-q-1206

Description: Scrapbook compiled by Graham Eglinton in circa 1980s about the restoration of his cottage in Carterton. Contains black and white and colour photographs, taken by mainly unidentified photographers, of the cottage before and during restoration, and some typed captions. Images show interior and exterior views, the replacement of totara weather boards, re-roofing with cedar shingles, restoration of verandah and fretwork, and installation of a septic tank. Some people are shown. Scrapbook also contains correspondence and newspaper clippings about the cottage, and a scrap of newsprint (dated 1892) that was retrieved from the wall lining. Loose accompanying material includes photographs of a horse-drawn cart, a photograph of the cottage taken by M. C. Duston, mounted on card titled "Settlers cottage", handwritten research notes on the history of the land and the cottage and related area and people, photocopies of newspaper clippings, photocopy of floor plan and proposed alterations in 1983 and news clipping for the 2003 sale of the cottage. Title supplied by library Graham Eglinton bought and started restoring (in 1982) the 1870s house at 1341 High Street in Carterton known as "Daniel Jensens' cottage". The cottage was sold by his son Ray Eglinton in 2003. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 35 colour original photographic prints, 10 b&w original photographic prints, 1 b&w photo-mechanical print, and accompanying loose manuscripts and photocopies.. Physical Description: Photograph album with padded cream cover, used as a scrapbook, 33 x 30cm.

Date: 1883

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

Reference: E-328-f-117-2

Description: The Exchange building Sydney, showing two men standing on the front steps and three horse-drawn carriages parked at the side Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - The Exchange - Sydney Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 112 x 185 mm

Date: 1916

By: Lindsay, Lionel Arthur (Sir), 1874-1961; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-064-012

Description: A street corner with a horse drinking from a horse-trough in the foreground, shops and other buildings in the background. Two of the shops are Sydney Syne, Signwriter and Hall & Co. A horse and cart with driver are on the right, in front of a tall shaded building Edition of 50, according to the catalogue record for a copy held by the National Gallery of Australia Other Titles - Ancienne regime Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed within plate Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 155 x 146 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 225 x 288 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks and catalogue of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, 1889-1890] ca 1860-1893

Reference: E-324-q-2-099-2

Description: Shows a horsedrawn carriage and a rider on horseback Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 63 x 139 mm

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]

Reference: E-043-q-155

Description: Cartoon at the top right entitled `Somethink like!', shows two men in a restaurant. The caption below reads: First city clerk (after his holiday), "I got a few days' shooting, too!" Second ditto, "Good sport?" First C.C., "I believe you! Jugged five hares before breakfast, the first morning!!" Engraver's initials - C.K. Untitled cartoon at the top left shows a cab driver and his passenger. The caption below reads: Impatient passenger, "Come, I say, driver, you've no right to creep along at this slow pace. It's too bad. I'm in a hurry, and I insist upon your going faster." Careful driver, "Oh, yes! and frighten the insides out o' their vits, and be 'ad up before the `Beak' for furious drivin'. Why, you ought to be ashamed o' yourself. Drive fast! Not if I know it." Cartoon at the bottom entitled `Repose', shows a man and a woman sitting together on a cliff top. The man's upper body is obscured from view by the woman and only his legs can be clearly seen, so that it appears they are her legs. The caption reads: Yes! But we are sure that if Ellen knew what a figure Frederick made of her by sprawling about on the cliff just behind her, she wouldn't be so quiet. Engraver's initials - J.L [?] Possibly both published in Punch Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Titles Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engravings, stuck to page 275 x 215 mm

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039634-G

Description: Horse-drawn cart and driver on muddy track in the back country. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1978

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1686

Description: All frames taken in Greytown during the Greytown Borough Centennial celebrations. Frames 1 to 5 show people outside houses en route to the Greytown Memorial park. An older woman is sitting on a camp chair in the doorway of her home (frames 4 & 5). A woman is with her small son who is holding a balloon filled with helium (frame 6); two young Māori girls are standing outside a caravan selling donuts (frame 7); two young people are sitting up on a cart drawn by a clydesdale horse, the driver wearing a top hat (8); and a woman, wearing a shawl and feathery bonnet, with a crocheted rug over her knees is holding the reins on a two-wheeled gig drawn by a white horse (frames 9 to 12). Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1974

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1106

Description: Frames 1 and 2 show two women sitting at a table outside a house with a flat roof and stucco finish, selling raffle tickets for a box of groceries They are at an unidentified location (street number 103 on the letterbox). Frame 3 shows two people in each of two horse-drawn carriages at an unidentified racecourse. Frames 4 to 12 are close-up images of a young Māori family, with a mother, father and baby, inside a large woolshed (possibly at an A&P Show). Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1911

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-040893-G

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch on Moorhouse Avenue near the Christchurch railway station. Brick buildings can be seen in the background. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, ½ plate Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs. Description and title updated March 2023 following information provided by a researcher.

Date: [ca 1905]

From: West Coast Historical Society, fl 1970s-1980s : Photographs from an album belonging to Dorothy Broad, Greymouth

Reference: 1/2-096571-F

Description: Woman driving a horse drawn carriage and a boy on a bicycle alongside, photographed circa 1905 by an unidentified photographer. The young woman on carriage is Dorothy Broad 1889-1976 . Her brother, Charles V.N.Broad 1887-1974 is riding the bicycle. He was at Nelson College 1904 & 1905. Shows them on a rural road, possibly in the Greymouth district. The woman is dressed in a blouse with a high neck and full sleeves. She wears a hat. The boy wears a cap and a suit and tie (school uniform?). Names provided by descendant of the Broad family, 2022. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [after 1909]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001339-G

Description: View of the Pukekohe Post Office in King Street taken sometime after 1909. A horse-drawn gig with a woman driver is opposite the main entranceway. On the lefthand side is a plumbing business. A large telegraph pole is on the lefthand side. Taken by William A Price after 1909. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Post Office. Pukekohe. No 1526D Pukekohe Post Office was opened in 1909 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [190-?]

Reference: 1/2-021734-G

Description: Transporting milk cans by horse and cart, Ohura, Ruapehu district, circa 190-s. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [after 1909]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001338-G

Description: View looking down King Street, with the Pukekohe Post Office on the right and premises of Roulston Bros, family butchers, on the left. Franklin Bakery is also on the right next door to the post office. Taken by William A Price after 1909. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Pukekohe. No 1527D Pukekohe Post Office was opened in 1909 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [190-?]

From: Taylor, J N fl 1900s :Photographs of Wellington

Reference: 1/2-104840-F

Description: Wellington Fire Brigade on a moving horse drawn cart, circa 190-? photographed by J N Taylor. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date estimated by cataloguer from display dates of PAColl-5310. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1935]

Reference: 1/2-026998-F

Description: Wardell Brothers and Company horse drawn cart, with an unidentified elderly man at the reins, photographed on a Wellington city street, circa 1935. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative