Saddlery

Date: ca 1860s-1890s

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Spencer, Harriet Dyke, 1866-1948; London Stereoscopic Photographic Company

Reference: PAColl-4721

Description: Photographs on album pages: photograph of Mount Peel Station, its interior and grounds including Mr Acland in his study, his daughters and their friends identified by inititals, including one of L D Acland and B B Acland, the latter knitting a sock, and the Church of the Holy Innocence viewed across a field of hay stacks with the forest planted by Acland behind it; more of the same women boating and picnicking, including a view of a gorge taken by Harriet Acland, a church interior and Bishop Harper playing cricket with a young boy; Ilam homestead covered in clematis with balconies and verandahs and extensive grounds next to the Avon River, and the Watts Russell family group at Pareora August 1894 with their dog and saddled horses in the background; the West Coast Times printing office with the men outside it, C G Tripp and family and a Centerbury view; and two views of Tripp's homestead at Orari. Photographs mounted on card: a studio portrait of Dr Shortland; John Charles Watts Russell taken by the London Stereoscopic Company; Rev R H Codrington's garden in Norfolk Island while a missionary in the South Pacific with eight local men, either Solomon Islanders and New Hebrideans; five interior views of a well-furnished house (possibly Wildwood, Christchurch) with heavy wooden furniture and fireplaces, gas lamps, drapery, paintings (including a copy of The Order of Release by Millais) etc.; the officers of HMS Invincible on the deck of their ship next to the lifeboats; a view looking down a street of two boats in "the bay of Taranaki" (probably near New Plymouth) one named SS Taupo ca 1860s; and a view over buildings near the shore in New Plymouth ca 1860s. Loose prints of: a brick-built house with a verandah, and a duplicate of the officers of the Invincible. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. 28 b&w original photographic print(s) on loose pages from an album. 2 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.

Date: 1959 - 1960

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horses, horse breeding, horse shows, horse jumping, in New Zealand]

By: Canterbury Saddlery Company Ltd.

Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-1959-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue with photographs of saddles, harnesses, whips, stirrups, hopples, grooming aids, bits, bridles, head collars, spurs, ankle supports. Includes loose flier on yellow paper, dated February 1960, and advertising new lines of bridles, sulky seats, sulky dust sheets, hoods and pony saddles. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 32 pages, 215 x 140 mm, with inset flier on yellow paper 169 x 127 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Christchurch Book Auction, 29 August 2009, lot 109.

Date: 1904

From: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Wellington Diocese : Central and parish records

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923

Reference: MS-Papers-1925-77/45-01

Description: Scene of unpaved Hautapu Street, featuring a gentleman on horseback and other pedestrians among the storefronts lining both sides of the street, with bush at the rear. Photograph taken by Frederick George Radcliffe in 1904. Quantity: 1 photograph. Physical Description: Black and white print

Date: 1915

By: Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942

Reference: PA1-o-402

Description: Volume 1 of a two volume record of New Zealand exhibits at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held at San Francisco in 1915. Most of the photographs were taken by Leslie Hinge. Photographs include exterior and interior views of the New Zealand pavilion, views from the pavilion by day and by night, and exterior views of pavilions from Australia, Cuba, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, France, Norway and Canada. Interior views in the New Zealand pavilions include a fernery; the reading room; exhibits of wool samples and woollen fabrics; a display of leather boots and saddlery; views of three different collections of kauri gum samples (belonging to J H McCarroll, Colonel G W S Patterson, and Arthur H Cranwell); a cabinet of stuffed kiwis; stuffed heads of a boar, a fallow deer and a red deer; and outdoor closeup views of Corriedale sheep, exhibited by C H Ensor. One photograph shows the United States Ex-President, William Howard Taft and his entourage visiting the New Zealand pavilion, and another shows a group of seven press delegates. Other Titles - New Zealand exhibits at Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black leather cover, entitled `New Zealand exhibits at Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. Album No. 1' (in gold lettering); 26 x 32 cm Provenance: Donated by the Tourist and Publicity Department in 1967

Date: [ca 1900-1920]

Reference: PAColl-7079

Description: Photographs of Canterbury, comprising photograph captioned "Early Canterbury - a pick and shovel road around a cliff"; "Traction Engine transport on an early day Canterbury road" in which a traction engine is pulling three laden wagons with men on horseback in the foreground; and Unwin's blacksmiths in Killinchy with a horse and cart, a man holding another horse, various carriages and two men with bicycles outside it. Photographs taken ca 1900-1920 by unidentified photographers. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted photographic prints

Date: 1893

From: F W Niven & Co. :Views of Eltham and Stratford N Z [ca 1893]. F W Niven & Co. [lith] Ballarat, [Vic[toria, ca 1893]

Reference: D-002-003-06

Description: A detail of a large sheet of illustrated advertisements. This view, centre top left, shows the frontage of the business premises of W Rapley, saddler, Eltham Physical Description: Chromolithograph, ca 140 x 118 mm

Date: 1908 - 1910

By: Willott, Victor Alfred, 1888-1932; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-CALENDAR-1909-01

Description: Colourful poster has a perpetual calendar in the centre, and is surrounded by advertisements for local businesses of Pukekohe, Papatoetoe, Manurewa, Otahuhu and Papakura. Above the calendar panel is a circular head and shoulders portrait of a clean-shaven Maori chief with facial moko; he is flanked by illustrations of the Scottish thistle and the English rose. Immediately above the calendar is a line of three-leafed clovers, and other illustrations included a boy and girl scout, and two illustrations of a taiaha and long-handled tewhatewha together. Advertising businesses include: Pukekohe: Herb Brunton, hairdresser and merchant; J Adams & Sons, butchers; H Dell & Sons, saddlers; R Miller, tailor; Frank Perkins & Co, grocers; W Wright, watchmaker Manurewa: Grand View Accommodation House; D R Tabot & Sons, storekeepers Otahuhu: B Jenkins, tailor; T Jameson, bicycle builder Papatoetoe: J Hunter, plumber and gasfitter; S E Moe, motorcycle shop; Frank H Wells, building contractor; W J Dilworth, saddler; G Rawnsley, boot and shoe maker Papakura: Richardson Bros, Papakura Steam Joinery Factory; Papakura Hotel (Mrs W A Waterman, proprietress); A Watson, boot and shoe emporium Text refers to 1906 in the past. The artist Victor Willot was 21 in 1909. Mrs Waterman of the Papakura Hotel died in 1915 aged 74 (information from Papers Past). Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, on sheet 780 x 580 mm. Provenance: Purchased from a private owner, June 2013.

Date: 1906-1907

From: New Zealand. Department of Labour :Photograph albums for the International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-1907

By: New Zealand. Department of Labour

Reference: PA1-o-371

Description: Views of various factories and businesses in the Auckland Region, taken circa 1906, by unidentified photographers. They include interior and exterior views, and employees. Other Titles - N.Z. Department of Labour Other Titles - Factories and workrooms, Auckland Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with tan leather cover, entitled `N.Z. Department of Labour. Factories and workrooms, Auckland. N.Z. International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-7'; 25.5 x 31.0 cm

Date: 1916

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1916-01

Description: Sales catalogue for the company which merged in 1918 with the Farmers' Union Trading Company, to become the Farmers' Trading Company. Inside front cover shows a calendar for the last part of 1915, and January-September 1916. There is a foreword by company founder Robert Laidlaw, photographs of the Auckland sales staff, photographs of the showrooms of each department and portraits of the staff who ran them; photographs of office staff at work and the shop equipment (entrance stairs, elevator, employees dining room, currant cleaner and raisin stemmer, the packing department), and an illustration of the warehouse on the corner of Hobson and Wyndham Streets. There follows an advertisement for the company's book of plans and specifications for houses, and an account of the way the war was affecting prices and supplies of goods (See pages 18-21). Information about ordering, paying and freighting follow. The illustrated catalogue of goods is arranged in the following sections: grocery, patent medicines, ironmongery, tools and household ironmongery, stoves (Dover, Orb, Zealandia, Champion), sheep shearing machine, roofing iron, tinware, enamelware, cutlery, aluminium, brushware, handbags, pipes, wallpaper (with 2 colour sample pages), stationery, books, cameras, rifles and pistols (guns), tennis rackets, bicycles, telephones, gramophones, violins, electroplated goods, jewellery, watches, clocks, windmills, pumps, buggies and wagons, engines, ploughs, crockery (2 colour plates), lamps, saddlery and harnesses, luggage, boots and shoes, clothing, hats, drapery, haberdashery, lace, rugs, sewing machines, furniture, linoleums (2 colour plates), toys (including Meccano). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 500 pages, each 277 x 220 mm, blue paper covers, bound in brown suede with gilt lettering Provenance: Purchased at Webbs Auction, 19 November 2008, lot 33

Date: 1928 - 1929

By: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1929-02

Description: Illustrated booklet showing views of the various retail departments and workshops, in the building on the corner of Hobson Street and Wyndham Street, Auckland. Shows the following departments: office, grocery (icluding tea and spices, hardware, cycles, boot factory, drapery, furniture, pianos, farm machinery, seeds, saddlery. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume, 12 pages, 285 x 223 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Les Cleveland in 1998.

Date: 1862 - 1880

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford and Samuel Deighton. 1860-1880]

Reference: E-926-027

Description: Shows the buildings of a small Maori village, with a raised storehouse in the centre, buildings to the left and right. The storehouse has three carved figures, one on the ridgepole and one on either end of the sloping bargeboards. In the centre foreground, a small figure tends a horse which is eating from a dish. A calf is tied in the left foreground. Five figures sit on the ground at the left just behind the storehouse. The building at the right is probably a stable and has a saddle hanging on the door. In the background is a low bushcovered hill. Extended Title - From his "Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford" [1860-1880], page [27 This place is described in Crawford's "Recollections of travel in New Zealand and Australia ...", London, Trubner, 1880, page 126-127 and a version of the image is reproduced on page 127. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash drawing, 145 x 235 mm

Date: 05 May 2007

From: Methven Heritage Project - RSA and Arable oral history project

By: Peach, Marjory Edna, 1919-2014

Reference: OHInt-0920-13

Description: Interview with Marjorie (Madge) Edna Peach (nee Williams). Born in Methven in 1919. Backgrounds her parents Ivy Williams (nee Young) and Charles Williams. Refers to her father being a champion runner known as the 'Queensland Hurricane'. Says her father had West Indian on his birth certificate, but was referred to as an Aborigine. Explains being one of 20 children, a mix of two families. Describes father's saddlery in Methven Square. Details process of making saddles using English imported leather, beeswax, black wax, hemp string, horse covers. Mentions Newmans Stables in Methven. Says father worked overnight to fix binders and broken battens during harvest time. Recalls harshness of The Depression, her father walking miles to ask for bills to be paid. Comments on declining use of horses and tractors coming in. Talks about her father making trotting harnesses and pack saddles for back country. Talks about leaving school at 14 or 15 years old. Recalls first jobs at Riverbank farm, Christies farm, working for the Ensors on Double Hill Station and an isolated North Canterbury farm. Says she returned to work for Doctor Wallace, Methven, due to homesickness. Recalls meeting her husband Thomas (Tom) Leslie Peach at bicycle race at Mangin's block. Mentions her husband making as much money riding his bike as a teamster in a year. Describes his work as teamster and wood cutter. Says they went fruit picking at Nelson before their three daughters were born. Comments that Tom Peach was held back from World War Two service. Describes his work at the flax mill in Methven. Mentions woman were conscripted to work at flax mill, coming from Rakaia to live in huts for the week. Says Tom Peach went back to the bush after flax mill burnt down and worked for Cochrane's Sawmill. Recalls starting work with husband in 1963 in the bush, then going fire wooding with him. Recalls floods from Dry Creek coming down Mount Hutt Road. Talks about social activites in Methven, the swimming baths at the domain, live pigeon shooting, races, the show, silent pictures at old town hall. Mentions Temperance. Describes Methven shops, Friday Night shopping, stock movement, sale days and dipping yards. Talks about growing own vegetables, fruit making jams and sauces and home life before electricity. Abstracted by - Toni Bramley Interviewer(s) - Kathryn McKendry Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016773 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Adobe PDF Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6036, OHDL-001831. Search dates: 1919 - 2007

From: Hubbard, James, 1949- : Cartoons entered in the 1992 Qantas Media Awards. 1992

Reference: J-028-008

Description: Shows Jim Bolger, wearing horse blinkers and walking past a large crowd of people, who represent the unemployed. Two men standing in the distance are watching and commenting on the "Good News" tour. Refers to Jim Bolger's campaign tour of New Zealand. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: [ca 1910s]

From: Hazledine, Percival Charles, 1892-1954 :Negatives of Invercargill district

By: Hazledine, Percival Charles, 1892-1954

Reference: 1/4-028555

Description: A jockey in a striped blazer on a horse standing with its legs spread out. The saddlery is decorated and the bridle is held by another man in a waistcoat and flat cap. Photographer probably Hazledine. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1960-1934]

From: Thorp, Nigel, fl 1995 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5400-13

Description: A range of accounts and receipts for items purchased by C V Spackman of Mauriceville relating to his business as a saddler Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1955 - 1965

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to horses, horse breeding, horse shows, horse jumping, in New Zealand]

By: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-B-HORSE-1960-01

Description: Sales catalogue for products of the company, including saddles, bridles, stirrups, girths, crops, whips, bits, spurs, boots, rugs and covers, and grooming aids. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and photolithographs, on pages 262 x 185 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Les Cleveland in 1998.

Date: 1917

By: Farmers' Union Trading Company; John Sands Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-Farmers-1917-01

Description: Sales catalogue for the Famers' Union Trading Company. The first few pages shows portraits of the Farmers' Union presidents and leaders, including the Auckland Provincial Executive. There are also notices from the New Zealand Dairy Association, and exterior and interior photographs of the Farmers' Union buildings at various sites around Auckland, Contains illustrations of merchandise for sale include shoes and boots, china and glassware, electroplated goods, cutlery and jewellery, grocery and foostuffs, stationery, pipes, drapery, hats, coats, Petone rugs (colour plate), women's clothing, lace, boy's clothes, haberdashery, timber supplies, mantelpieces, pianos, sewing machines, beds, chairs, wardrobes and dressing tables, perambulators, tools, domestic hardware, rubber goods, guns, cars, farm machinery, bicycles, motorcycles, carpets, linoleums, curtains, linens, men's clothing, saddlery, horse collars and harnesses, horse coats, stirrups. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Soft-bound book of 344 pages, each 310 x 245 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Webbs Auction, 19 November 2008, lot 31.

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-050

Description: The camp at Patea with small canon and canon balls in the foreground, larger guns and gun carriages and tents in the background. Saddles and other horse tack are slung over the traces of the gun carriages and soldiers can be seen around the tents in the background. A raupo whare stands on the right Probably a copy of an original by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams Inscriptions: Verso - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream paper, 84 x 240 mm

Date: 1895

From: F W Niven & Co. :View of Wellington N Z [ca 1895] from Aurora Terrace. F W Niven & Co. [lith] Ballarat, [Victoria, ca 1895]

Reference: D-002-005-003

Description: Top right panel shows small vignettes of the buildings and premises of the following companies: Offices of the "New Zealand Times" and "New Zealand Mail", Lambton Quay J Staples & Co. Limited, brewers and bottlers, Molesworth and Murphy Streets William Wiggins, wholesale saddler and harness manufacturer, and saddlers' ironmonger. Importer of English and American goods, 77 Lambton Quay, Wellington Boys' Institute, presented by Capt F H Davis. Extended Title - Top right panel of F W Niven & Co's "View of Wellington N Z from Aurora Terrace".[lith. ca 1895 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 235 x 410 mm.

Date: 1904

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-008605-G

Description: Leading hurdle and steeplechase jockeys, wearing their silks. Some hold saddles. From left to right, back row: A McConnon, W O'Connell, F Lind, D Watt, R McGregor, and G Cochrane. Front row: Hugh Telford, H Moore, S Fergus, J Cameron, P Johnson, I McIlear, and F Whitehouse. Photograph taken in 1904, an unidentified photographer for the The Press. Other - Note on back of file print reads "Leading hurdle and steepchase jockeys, 1904, many of whom won at Thames..." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.