Mahan & Company

Photographer, Oamaru. Firm begun by Robert Mahan (b 1862) ca 1893, later became Mahan & Muir when Frederick Bailey Muir joined firm in 1903. See Cyclopedia of New Zealand

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Carrad, D G :Three albums of early Auckland and the Carrad Family. Two photographs; Que...

Date: 1852-1940

By: Carrad, Dallas G, active 1993; Dell, (Mr?), active 1925?; G.S. Paul & Company; Mahan & Company

Reference: PAColl-3162

Description: Quantity: 3 album(s) Album(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s) and. 1 photocopy/ies.

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Family photographs

Date: ca 1900-1930s, 1949, 1963

From: Hitchcock family: Collection

By: Berry and Company; Blaikie, William Nicol, -1938; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Clifford & Company; Clifford & Morris (Firm); Clifford, Henry Herbert, 1872-1949; Crown Studios (Auckland, N.Z.); Crown Studios (Palmerston North, N.Z.); Exchange Court Studio; Frost, William Row, 1845?-1911; Gill, William, 1854-1912; Gore, Henry Charles, 1882-1967; Gould, Frederick Charles, active 1855-1904; Green & Hahn (Firm); Hardy, Alfred, 1866?-1951; Hart, Campbell & Company; Herrmann, Louisa Marian, 1864-1955; Lauder Brothers (Firm); Leves, Nathaniel, active 1884-1885; Lewis, Abel, active 1870s; London Portrait Rooms (Dunedin, N.Z.); Mahan & Company; Martin, Charles, 1842?-1905; Mora Ltd; New Zealand Photographic Company (Wellington, N.Z.); Perry, Geoffrey William, 1900-1959; Ring, James, 1856-1939; Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959; Spencer Digby Studios; Swiss Studios; Verrell, Edward, 1890-1929; W H Bartlett (Firm); Weiss & Fowke; William Lawrence Photographic Studio

Reference: PAColl-10659-018

Description: Photographs of family members (possibly collected by Margaret Hitchcock) taken by various identified and unidentified photographers circa 1900 to 1930s, as well as some images from 1949 and 1963. Identified people include: Henry Coleridge Hitchcock, Madge Hoult, Edward Hitchcock, Bess Hitchock, Mary Lavinia Hitchcock, Margaret Hitchcock, Mrs Cochram, Mrs Campbell, "Mother' sister Aunt Stein", Ethel Fieldwick, and Maria (Molly) Cantley. One image shows St Peter and St Paul's Church, Lavenham, England. Identified locations include Christchurch and Wellington. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: From boxes 6 and 12 in the donor listing. Quantity: 112 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black and white photographs, various sizes, some with captions.

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Photographs

Date: [ca 1890s-1950s]

From: Wray, Mary Beverley, active 1985: Photographic prints, negatives, and a panorama

By: Bristow Mawley (Firm); Crown Studios (Wellington, N.Z.); Electric Studio; Gill, H J, active 1912; Illingworth Toska Studios; Leicagraph Studio (Wellington, N.Z.); Mahan & Company; Mahan & Muir (Firm); Peter Pan Studio; Royal Studios (Wellington, N.Z.); S P Andrew Ltd; Tesla Studios; The Mora Studio (Gore, N.Z.); Tornquist Studio; W H Bartlett (Firm); William Beattie & Company

Reference: PAColl-0637

Description: Comprises photographic prints and photographic postcards of people, landscapes, and buildings, taken by various photographers circa 1890s to circa 1950s. Some of the photographs have been annotated with identifying information such as names of subjects, dates, photographers’ stamps, locations, and descriptions of the scenes. People and photographers are largely unidentified. Includes group and individual portraits of predominantly unidentified persons, including several portrait photographs showing women in fancy dress, circa 1920s and 1930s; outdoor portraits taken circa 1920s; photographs of a wedding; studio portraits of men in military uniform; a group portrait of a women’s hockey team; a group portrait of Baston’s Commercial Training College Reunion, taken 1919 by W Beattie; a group portrait of a men’s rugby team, circa 1920s, and others. Identified persons include Gwennie and Gladys Gee; Gladys Robson; F Connett [sic], taken circa 1915; Eric Evelyn Carew (1892-1965), taken circa 1915; Mav [sic] Moore; Phyllis Robertson, taken 1915, and others. Also identified is a Mrs O Inglis, who is also referred to as Olive and Olly. Several of the photographic postcards included in the collection have been addressed to "Olly", possibly suggesting the collection had belonged to her. Also includes landscape scenes, including a view of Orakei-Korako, several photographs of an unidentified beach, and views of the lake at Ocean Falls, Canada, taken June 1940. Also includes items of photographic ephemera, including photograph envelopes and cards. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 180 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 item(s) of photographic ephemera.

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Meek family album

Date: ca 1880s-ca 1890s

From: Starke, June, 1923-2006: Photographs

By: American Photographic Company (Dunedin, N.Z.); De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; George & Walton (Firm); Mahan & Company; Clifford & Morris (Firm); Clifford & Company; Dougall, William, 1845-1924; Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Martin, Charles, 1842?-1905; George Eden & Company; Ferrier, William, 1855-1922; Hemus, Charles, 1849-1925

Reference: PA1-o-1199

Description: Album containing portraits of the Meek family, taken ca 1880s-1890s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown leather bound album 23.8 x 20.5 cm

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Nicholls, Mr :Photographs of Timaru Football Club and a World War I troop ship

Date: 1903 and ca 1914

By: Mahan & Company

Reference: PAColl-4577

Description: Photograph, possibly from a magazine, of a troop ship with soldiers leaning on the railings and sitting in the lifeboats waving goodbye to a crowd on the wharf. Photograph of Timaru Football Club 2nd Fifteen in 1903. The names given are: A Price, P Lindsay, C Lane, A Shrimpton, E Horton (line umpire), H Tennant, W Fyfe, L F Wright, A E Arscott, J Priest, W Mundell (treasurer), J Davey, L Miles, J S Thompson (captain), P F Brodrick, N Dalgleish, E J F Fraser. Photograph taken by Mahan & Muir. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).