Horses - New Zealand - Manawatū-Whanganui Region

Date: 1907

Reference: PAColl-0369

Description: Mounted photograph of three small homesteads with out-houses near what may be the Pohangina River and carts loaded with wood on the road next to them taken from a short distance. The mount is captioned Komako, 1907 but the photographer is unidentified. 1/2-056602 Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-056602 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted photographic print

Date: ca 1870s

Reference: 1/4-019109

Description: A main street in Wanganui with some passers-by, a laden carriage in the middle of the street and a horse tethered at the side. The Bank of New Zealand is on the right with the Munro Store further down the street. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1862

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-229-057

Description: Shows a fenced compound containing two farmhouses with dense bush behind. A horse grazes in the foreground. Within the fence are two men talking, one leaning on a shovel, another horse, a wheelbarrow, two tree trunks and a stacked pile of planks. The two houses are single-storied with verandahs supported by colums. Part of a third building, probably a farm shed, can be seen on the left. The property is that of Willie Swainson. A-229-058 on verso of A-229-057 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink 130 x 177 mm

Date: [ca 1918-1925]

By: Hart, J, active 1910s; Reeves, A J, active 1910s

Reference: PAColl-4292

Description: Photographs of: the Swallows Cycling and Motoring Club 1907 including two motorcycles with side-cars; a large wedding party ca 1910; the Wellington Cycling Club with a three-seater bicycle in the foreground ca 1910; the Marton Hunt ca 1929 with beagles in the foreground and a Mr Graham Clark on horseback seventh from left; two of the Hawke's Bay Hunt with beagles in the foreground and cars in the background; and the boys of Napier Boys' High School ca 1918 sitting on a grassy bank with two masters. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-071938, 071941, 071942, 072004, 072007 Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted photographic prints

Date: ca 1900-ca 1910

From: Main, William :Photographs of the Nelson properties at Pori, north eastern Wairarapa.

Reference: PA1-o-1206

Description: Most of the New Zealand images relate to the Nelson family, their farms, farm houses, and farm buildings in the Pori area, north eastern Wairarapa, and scenic views of the area such as the Makuri River, a waterfall at Tiraumea, Annedale north of Tainui, the Pori Bridge, and native forest. The images of the farm houses include building a stable and buggy house, views of the yard with washing drying, a hen run, and a view of the dining room at "Ruatea". Four images are of Hugh Nelson's whare which was the first building constructed at "Taumata". There are three photographs of local Maori, one of bullock teams at Tiraumea, snow covered landscape at "Nga Mahanga", a picnic group with horses and buggys, and many views of the countryside from the Nelson farms showing cleared, partially cleared and forested land, much of it covered with the gaunt trunks of burnt off bush. There are group photographs of the families and friends. As well as the men these include women (wives?) Lucy, Katie, and Winifred, and children, Robert, Frances, and Dorothea. Other new Zealand houses include two probably located at Annedale with the names "Te Hoe" and "Manawa", and another in Featherston called "Newstead". The English images are of family and friends and various places, houses and churches which include Dover, Tunbridge Wells, Broadstairs, Minehead, Ostend, Clovelly, Lynton, Lymouth, Doon Valley, Meywingen, St Saviours Leeds, and Chester Cathedral Arrangement: Loose prints originally in this album can be found at PAColl-7868-1 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1907-1909

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-915

Description: Most of the images relate to a survey team (or teams) operating in the hill country west of the main road between Raetihi and National Park, centred in the area around Ruatiti. The two names in the album for the area are the Ruatiti Block which includes the Ruatiti Stream and the Manganuioteao River, and the Riariaki Block and trig immediatly to the north. There are images of team members, camp life (ie storing food, cutting hair, living quarters, rod fishing, and swimming), groups out on the job (ie cutting trees, making survey pegs, moving through the bush with packs and equipment, on horse back, returning from the hunt, packing in supplies, making observations, and constructing the Maungaroa trig station), and views of the native forest, and rivers. Interspersed among these photographs are others which include social occasions such as farewelling a survey team member, a motoring trip associated with a large house called "Pihautea," an amateur instrumental group, a cricket game in Nelson, and a group in Albert park Auckland. There is a farmyard with woman, hens and horses, a buggie fording the Mangaturuturu Stream, views of Island Bay, Mount and Lake Tarawera, the Makatote bridge, and the Ohakune Railway Station Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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-926-024/025

Description: Double-page spread image shows at far left Herekiekie's waata (storehouse), and other buildings nearby. Two horses are in the centre foreground, and a few scattered figures. At the right is the waterfall at Turangerere on the Hautapu River, with the word "Tertiaries" written beside them. A fenced square enclosure is visible on the bank further up stream. Crawford writes: "At 2.20 pm, we reached the pretty village of Turangerere, the principal residence of the late chief Herekiekie, situated on the right bank of the Hautapu. Here there is a celebrated waata or storehouse, very large and highly ornamented with carvings. There is also a fine waterfall about twenty feet high, and here I got marine tertiary fossils" Other Titles - River Extended Title - From his "Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford" [1860-1880], page [24-25 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash drawing, 145 x 470 mm

Date: 1893

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.

Reference: E-373-026

Description: A family group including a woman and small child with a horse and trap, picking ripe apples. An orchard and bush behind them Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, in sketchbook, 130 x 360 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..

Date: 1870 - 1872

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: D-040-007

Description: Shows a distant view of William Fox's homestead, Westoe, on the Rangitikei River flat. A snow-covered Mount Ruapehu is seen in the distance. In the bottom-left foreground is a white-bearded man on a horse, with a small dog; this is possibly Fox himself, though he is not identified. He later built a second home, also called Westoe, on a higher terrace (about where the horseman is seen), away from the flood plains Other Titles - Lower Westoe Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C D Barraud / 1870[?] [in brushpoint] See also Fox's own painting of the original homestead, at WC-054 (digitised) Fox was born in the village of Westoe in Durham, England. His second homestead, called Westoe, was completed in 1874 The backing board from the painting reveals that it was at one time owned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (date unspecified), and was later de-accessioned (also unspecified). The accession number was recorded as -/1/921 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on artist's paper, 485 x 785 mm Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane Fine and Applied Art auction, Wellington, 1 July 2015; lot 45. Prior to purchase, belonging to a private collection, purchased at Sale, Dunbar Sloane Ltd., 12 June 1990; lot 6 (from catalogue)

Date: 1923-1930

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1945

Description: Album of photographs compiled by Phyllis Long of her journey to New Zealand in 1923, time teaching at Nga Tawa School, and return to England in 1926. Also includes photographs likely taken in Kashmir in circa 1928-1930. Long is likely the photographer of most images, with other photographers unidentified. Some images have captions. Photographs of Long's trip to New Zealand on board the ship 'Tainui' include a commercial postcard of the ship and passengers waving from the deck as the ship leaves the wharf, Panama Canal (Culebra Cut, Gatun Lock, Mira Flores Lock, dredges, and a coaling station), Pitcairn Island, and Pitcairn Islanders approaching in a rowboat and selling local goods on board the ship. Further ship board scenes show deck sports (croquet, tennis), crossing the line ceremony (greasy pole, Father Neptune), unidentified people in deck chairs, and Phyllis Long with various children including Jo, Eileen, Audrey, and the Whiteside family. Nga Tawa photographs show the original school building (Wellington Diocesan School) with images of the entrance, a side view, and veranda. Also the swimming bath and interior images of the dining room and gym. Album also includes a photograph of the new school building, built after the 1924 fire. Students in school uniform are seen on excursions with Long such as having a picnic beside a river and in a copse of trees, wading in the water [Rangitikei River?], swimming, and on the poolside during swimming event. One poolside image shows a large monster costume. Teacher's accommodation where Long lived (a cottage on the school grounds) is shown with exterior and interior images and sometimes with teachers, including Long, in shot. Miss Else J. Rowe, Miss Halstead, Miss Cooper-Evans, and Frances McCall (the headmistress) are identified. Also images of their horses Ngaio, Kaiwarau, Pipette, and Petone. In one image McCall holds a puppy. Long and other teachers are also seen setting out for a picnic on horseback and swimming in a river under a railway bridge. Some group photographs show teachers and students. Other images show a pitched tent, boiling billies over a campfire, flooded farmland, an unidentified obelisk-shaped memorial, Long and an unidentified man standing on coastal rocks in Sydney, and a Rough Collie dog with a stick. Image of Long's return to England on board the ship 'Marama' in 1926 include unidentified people on deck and children in fancy dress. A series of images, likely of Kashmir, show river scenes (canoe with outrigger, [house boats?]), street scenes (pineapple stall, rickshaw, water buffalo pulling carts), children swimming, and houses. See Phylis Long's letters home to her parents describing her arrival and life at the school in MS-Papers-11956-05. Phyllis Long taught at Nga Tawa School near Marton from 1923-1926. She met her future husband Eric Tyndale-Biscoe during this time. They moved to Kashmir after they married in England in 1927. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 132 prints. Physical Description: Photograph album with plain brown leather cover, 22.6 x 24.9 cm Processing information: One print of Nga Tawa school was was loose and has been placed in an enclosure at the rear of the album.

Date: [Between 1872 and 1887]

By: Baillie, William Jeavons Hall, 1941-; Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: A-473-143

Description: Watercolour by William Fox depicting a group of people on horseback crossing the Rangitīkei River near Fox's homestead, Westoe. The river winds through the centre of the image, and on the left is a small cliff face. Mountains are visible in the background, and in the foreground are two large toetoe plants. Title taken from item. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom left - Rangitikei River, near Westoe [in ink] The Library holds another watercolour by Fox that depicts his homestead, Westoe, from across the Rangitīkei River, at Library reference WC-049. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 247 x 349 mm.

Date: ca 1900-ca 1910

From: Main, William :Photographs of the Nelson properties at Pori, north eastern Wairarapa.

Reference: PA1-o-1205

Description: The two Nelson farms in this album are "Nga Mahanga" (Hugh Nelson's place), and "Taumata" (Jack Nelson's place). Views show the farm houses, and farm buildings, the farm land and landscape of the Pori area partially cleared of bush. One group of images shows the countryside under snow. There are a series of five images recording the building of a stables and buggy house, also a view of the woolshed and sheep at "Taumata". Scenic views of the area include the Makuri River ford, native forest interiors with pongas, and native forest. Four images show the interior of Hugh Nelson's whare which was the first building constructed at "Taumata". There are two photographs of local Maori standing beside tents in a bush clearing, one of army volunteers in uniform standing in front of tents, two of soldiers at an unidentified event, many of horses, some of hens, dogs, cats, and cattle. Two prints show one of the Nelson brothers cutting long grass with a scythe and 4 others are views of an unidentified house and its garden at Tiraumea (a distant view of this house surrounded by pinus radiata shelter belts and its surrounding countryside can be seen in album PA1-o-1206, page 7 captioned "Tiraumea"). There are also some images of "Newstead" the Monckton family home at Featherston. There is only one photograph of a Nelson family group. The rest are individual images of adults and children which include: Frederick Monckton, Lucy Miller (who married Frank Nelson), Winifred, [Lornie?], Dorothea, [Frances?], the brothers and the children. Further information and names provided by researcher. Updated 10 November 2016. Quantity: 1 album(s).

By: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922

Reference: A-247-020

Description: View from the south bank of the Whanganui River, with a horse in the foreground, looking towards Shakespeare Cliff, and the houses on both the north and south banks, with the ferry plying across the river in the middle distance. Other Titles - Shakespeare Inscriptions: Verso - Shakespear's Cliff & the ferry Wanganui; Recto - title in brushpoint Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 176 x 250 mm Transfers: Purchased with Harper/Taylor Ms Papers-0254, 1970.

Date: 1900-1910

From: Main, William :Photographs of the Nelson properties at Pori, north eastern Wairarapa.

Reference: PA1-o-1207

Description: Views of the Pori area, north eastern Wairarapa, and three farms in that area, "Ruatea", "Taumata", and "Nga Mahanga". Images of snow covered countryside, the ford across the Makuri River at Makuri, native forest with pongas, partly cleared land with the standing trunks of burnt trees, the houses of the three farms, horses, cattle, hens, cats, Jack Nelson with Nan, Dorothea, and Miss Wyatt having a picnic, Maori, cabbage trees, and Hugh Nelson's whare and woolshed. Arrangement: This collection is made up of loose prints from album PA1-o-1206 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1900-1959

By: Bull, George Robert, 1910-1996

Reference: PAColl-6516

Description: Photographs of various aspects of the Postal Service such as rural delivery, Post Offices and mail boats. Arrangement: Negatives housed at: 1/4-009950 to 009956, 009959 and 009960 Quantity: 8 b&w original negative(s). 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film and glass negatives

Date: ca 1910

Reference: PAColl-6520

Description: 14 views of work at Gamman's Mill, Ohakune, including transporting logs by cart, bush railway and wire pulley over a gorge. 1 image of the Pipiriki Hotel. 1 image of a school at Karioi. Photographer(s) unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at: 1/4-012565 to 012578, and 1/2-017093 to 017094 Quantity: 16 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: [ca 1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6841

Description: 14 scenes of Maori and others near the Wanganui River: three Maori boys; a boy standing on the river bank; children, an adult and dogs in a waka; a paddle steamer in full steam; a Maori woman holding a baby next to some woodcarvings; a paddle steamer approaching the bank; a Maori family laughing over a newspaper; four children playing a hand game on the river bank; a group of Maori taking trunks down to the river side; a group of Maori waving farewell from the river bank; a paddle steamer moored at the bank with people boarding and people and horses already on board; a woman feeding chickens outside a corrugated iron cabin; the paddle steamer Wairere under steam on the river; and people standing in two waka. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-029658 to 029662, 029716 to 029720, 029746 to 029747, and 031730 to 031731. Quantity: 14 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: 1950 - 1952

From: [Pamphlets, programmes, flyers relating to wood-chopping and sports meetings, collected by Eric Warner. 1915-2009]

By: Wanganui chronicle (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-E-SPORT-Warner-1950/1952

Description: Includes poster programmes for the sporting events, with a dance to follow at 8 pm. The sporting events included horse events, chopping events and athletic events for children and adults. All posters are printed by the Wanganui Chronicle. 1950: Makirikiri Sports Club. 28th annual meeting to be held on the grounds of Scott Estate, Saturday March 18 1950. Programme 1951: Makirikiri Sports Club. 29th annual meeting to be held on the grounds of Scott Estate, Saturday March 1952: Makirikiri Sports Club. 30th annual meeting to be held on the grounds of Scott Estate, Saturday March 22 1952. Programme Quantity: 3 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief prints on posters, sizes varying around 910 x 295 mm.

Date: 1862

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-229-052

Description: View of farm buildings with the farmhouse to the right, and three sheds centre and left. There is a small ox-cart in the foreground, a man holding a whip, two horses and a cow, another cart and felled tree-trunks. A dense group of trees rise behind the buildings The farm was named Koreromaiwaho, later Woodendean Other Titles - Koreromaiwaho Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 130 x 177 mm

Date: [190-?]

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

Reference: 1/1-039571-G

Description: Horses on logging railway, Utiku. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Source of descriptive information - Notes on negative enclosure Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches