Harvesting

Date: between 1934 and 1935

Reference: PAColl-6619

Description: 46 images of the Duke of Gloucester's tour of New Zealand in 1934-5 including: nine of his visit to Rotorua including Maori kapa haka; one of veterans at the bridge of remembrance in Christchurch; one of him opening Tekapo bridge and another of the party at Tekapo House hotel; one of him in a crowd outside the railway station in Hokitika; one of him inspecting a parade of nurses; one of him visiting a traditional whare; two of him as a jockey at a race meeting; three of the felling of a kauri tree; seven of his stay at Longbeach sheep station, Ashburton County; and two of him at the Waitangi memorial. Photographer unidentified but possibly Hall Raine. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-019066 to 019078, 019082 to 019107, 019111, 019113, and 059505 to 059509 Quantity: 46 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: 1876 - 1881

From: Gilmore, George Charles 1851-1935 :[Scenes in India, Ceylon, and Africa] 1876-1881

Reference: A-094-022

Description: Shows the interior of a room lined with shelves or racks, where tea leaves would be set to dry. A moustached man wearing a turban, jacket and dhoti stands in one of the aisles. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 175 x 205 mm.

Date: 1901

By: Nairn, James McLachlan, 1859-1904; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-008-b

Description: Tall oats in the foreground, a farmer with a rake over his shoulder, holding the hand of a small girl, a covered haystack in the background Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph 400 x 470 mm on sheet 515 x 630 mm

Date: ca1900s

By: Humphries, M J (Mrs), active 1986

Reference: PAColl-0944

Description: Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (mounted on card) and. 26 b&w original photographic print(s) (mounted on card) and. 20 b&w original photographic print(s) and. 5 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (postcards) and. 5 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (Christmas postcards) and. 13 item(s) of photographic ephemera all in one box.

Date: 1901

By: Nairn, James McLachlan, 1859-1904; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-008-a

Description: Tall oats in the foreground, a farmer with a rake over his shoulder, holding a small girl by the hand, a covered haystack in the background Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph 400 x 470 mm on sheet 515 x 630 mm

Date: December 1921-ca 1924

From: Derbidge, M (Mrs), fl 1920-1935 :Photographs of the Derbidge and Harding families

Reference: PAColl-7712-1

Description: Photographs of the Harding homestead at Raukawa in Hawkes Bay, earthquake damage after the Napier earthquake of 1931, views of places visited on holiday, and photographs of the "Southern Cross", taken ca 1927 to ca 1934 by Mrs M Derbidge. Quantity: 80 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1876 - 1881

From: Gilmore, George Charles 1851-1935 :[Scenes in India, Ceylon, and Africa] 1876-1881

Reference: A-094-021

Description: Shows the interior of a room where many men in dhotis stand at each side of a long table, rolling tea leaves. In the foreground, several circular trays sit on the floor for sorting the leaves. A turbaned man in a jacket holds a light stick and is probably supervising the procedures. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 178 x 205 mm.

Date: 1876 - 1881

From: Gilmore, George Charles 1851-1935 :[Scenes in India, Ceylon, and Africa] 1876-1881

Reference: A-094-020

Description: Shows the interior of a room where many women tea pickers are waiting in the right background for their baskets of leaves to be weighed on large balance scales. Two women sit at left, one of them writing down weights on paper. In the foreground men are scattering and checking the leaves on flat surfaces. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 180 x 204 mm.

Date: 1880 - 1890

By: Velden, Petrus van der, 1837-1913; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-075-009

Description: A group of seven men and women beating corn in a field with large flails Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Crayon and wash sketch, 90 x 212 mm Provenance: Possibly acquired by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull as part of a group of drawings and watercolours, ca 1910. No documentary evidence of acquisition has been found

Date: ca 1950s-1960s

By: Robin Smith Photography Ltd

Reference: PAColl-0530

Description: Set of photographs of work and leisure in New Zealand, the majority of cattle and sheep mustering and skiing but including a woman water skiing, a woman painting a vase of flowers in oils, a Maori man carving wood, portraits of individual Maori, a procedure in the wine making process, men in the oyster fishing industry, a woman testing eggs, a man looking up at a tree with a chain saw etc. Photographer was Robin Smith. Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1906

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-243

Description: Shows a field with grain stooks (bundles heaped upright to dry) in it. A mountain or hill range is visible in the background. Grass, trees, and some small buildings, are also visible Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 144 x 232 mm

Date: 2 Nov 1998 - 02 Nov 1998

From: Southland oral history project

By: McGilvray, Madeline, active 1998; Lindsay, Edna Jane Smith, 1923-2014

Reference: OHInt-0464/13

Description: Edna Lindsay was born in Myross Bush in 1923. Gives details about her parents. Discusses school, punishment, going to town (Invercargill), first Pakeha settlers, the Fergusons, Reverend Bethune, sports days at John Kerr's, the Post Office at Mrs Baird's, church and Sunday School, the bus service and food supplies. Talks about draft horses, ploughing matches, harvesting, rabbits, card evenings, the community ball, building the Memorial Hall, the family farm today and activities of her children and grandchildren. Interviewer(s) - Madeline McGilvray Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHMD-0057 Quantity: 1 MiniDisc(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other brief abstract OHA-2690. Two photos of Edna Lindsay

Date: 1930 - 1949

By: Moran, Joseph Bruno, 1874-1952

Reference: Eph-B-MORAN-03

Description: Shows farming scene with Mount Cook in right background, sheep and cows grazing at left, horses harvesting grain at right. New Zealand crest at centre. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 208 x 305 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs K M Wildgoose in about 1977.

Date: 1893

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks] 1890-1893

Reference: E-315-q-6-007

Description: Wheat fields with stooks, two horses and carts in the background, with men with pitchforks loading hay bales Tokomariro was an earlier name for Milton Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 151 x 251 mm.

Date: [ca 1880-1945]

By: Argosy Industrial Photos; Sherlock, William, 1846-1910; Rohloff, L, active 1910s; Photographie Henri (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0411

Description: Photographs mostly of the ambulance corps in the First World War but also including at least one from the Second World War, family photographs in New Zealand and newspaper clippings. The First World War photographs include some with names on the reverse. The names given are: from the 13th Field Ambulance Johnsonville, Sergeants Sid Jones, Harry Woods, Clarence(?) Crooks, Jack Harris, Roy Kennedy, Ivan Haldreth, Ernie Wilson, Jim Bennett, Chris Parsons and Staff-Sergeants Quartermain and Bert Orange; from the No. 3 Field Ambulance, Shearer, Perrett(?), Cook, Hooper, Gilmour, Cable, Franks, Dunn, Netge(?), Regan, Greenslade, Myers, Dick, Anderson, Buchanan, Sgt Block, Staff Sgt Dredge, Capt Finlayson, Sgt Dillon, Sgt Lawrence, Sgt Evans, Sgt Fogg, Burgess, Spooner, Moxham, Dyson, Perry, Stevenson, Wickstead; from No. 3 Field Ambulance cooks, Simpson, Smith, Pearce, Spooner, Slade, Cook, Bellesden, McNaughton, McPherson. Scenes include the No 3 Field Ambulance headquarters at Louvencourt, New Zealand and Australian troops in Paris and Versailles, and Corporal Milne and Leading Aircraftman McMillan on a camel in Giza. There are also two photographs one of the 13th Field Ambulance and the other of a farewell dinner which are completely captioned for names including a typed list of the entire unit. The newspaper clippings are from a variety of publications and are mostly official photographs. The civilian photographs include: a photograph of Eric Liddell with his signature attached; two of a large group of veterans on the terracing at a sports ground; and two cartes de visite one of an older woman and one of a young boy. Also includes a copy of the brochure 'Le Pantheon de la Guerre'. Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1851 - 1859

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862

Reference: B-043-010

Description: Shows four main streets running from east to west, bisected by the Maitai River. A man herds two cows in the right foreground. Beside the harbour is a windmill. Numerous houses are shown. Attribution to Heaphy is uncertain. Has also been attributed to C. H. Kettle. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour

Date: 1901

By: Nairn, James McLachlan, 1859-1904; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-008

Description: Tall oats in the foreground, a farmer with a rake over his shoulder, holding a small girl by the hand, a covered haystack in the background Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph 400 x 470 mm on sheet 515 x 630 mm

Date: 1930 - 1939

By: Nicoll, Archibald Frank, 1886-1953; Kennedy, Robert (Sir), 1887-1974

Reference: G-439

Description: Harvesting scene on the Canterbury plains. Other Titles - Threshing grain on the Canterbury Plain Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - A. F. Nicoll Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 295 x 395 mm Provenance: Collection of Sir Robert Kennedy. Purchase: Dunbar Sloan auction, Wellington, 28 October 1975.

Date: 1876 - 1881

From: Gilmore, George Charles 1851-1935 :[Scenes in India, Ceylon, and Africa] 1876-1881

Reference: A-094-019

Description: Shows a sketch of a tea plantation with many women standing plucking the leaves from chest-high bushes. There is a long roofed shelter at the left, and in the right distance one can see the workers' huts on the hillside. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 178 x 207 mm.

Date: 1888 - 1897

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] W M Hodgkins, Melrose Dn. Notes. [ca 1893]

Reference: E-031-q-1-002

Description: A haycart and stooks in a paddock. A man stands on top of the hay piled on the cart The Tonner family were farming in the 1880s through to the early 1900s at Fairfield, near Mosgiel Other Titles - Tonner Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour in sketchbook, page size 152 x 212 mm