Shipwrecks - New Zealand - Otago Region

Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

By: Erskine & Whitmore (Firm); Coxhead & Le Sueur (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: PA1-o-151

Description: Views of New Zealand collected by Invercargill firm Erskine & Whitmore. Scenes taken by various photographers including Hart, Campbell & Co., and Coxhead & Le Sueur. Several views show Queenstown under floods in 1878; others of the Queenstown-Lakes Region, Waitati, Gore and Dunedin in the South Island. In the North Island, one shows a large picnic party travelling in three horse-drawn coaches, stopped at Ngauranga; many show a range of steam locomotives including J Class, K Class, F43, E22, H Class and A Class, in the Upper Hutt area, the Wairarapa, and on the Rimutaka line. Several at the end of the album show the effects of a major slip which blocked the mouth of the Summit Tunnel at the top of the Rimutaka Incline. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Erkine & Whitmore Inscriptions: Album page - `A choice collection of New Zealand views carefully selected from the best artists'. Erskine & Whitmore, Invercargill Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, 24.5 x 35.0 cm Provenance: Part of Alexander H Turnbull's collection

Date: 1885 - 1895

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, one sketch dated 1864, one 1893]

Reference: E-014-q-1-054-1

Description: Several wrecked and partially broken up ships' hulls at Port Chalmers Other Titles - Rotten Row Inscriptions: Recto - top left - [title in pencil] Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 73 x 95 mm

Date: [Circa 1870s]

By: Arnoux, Hippolyte, active 1860s-1880s

Reference: PA1-f-047

Description: Photographs taken in the 1870s, covering a wide range of places, photographers mostly unidentified, and most images with no captions. The first group were taken in an around the Mediterranean, including Gibraltar, but particularly focussing on the Suez Canal. The sequence includes a copy of a montage produced by Hippolyte Arnoux, showing a map of the route of the canal, surrounded by photographs of canal designer Ferdinand de Lesseps and various sites along the route. Other images in this sequence were probably taken by Arnoux who was working in Egypt during this period. The next group of images travel via India (?), to Australia. Views of Melbourne include Government House, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Houses of Parliament, the Scots' Church (in Collins Street), the Post Office, the Town Hall, and the Public Library. Following these is a panorama of Sydney, and views of Tasmania. The New Zealand scenes start with a panorama of Auckland, the Mount Eden residence of G.B. (?, pencilled name undeciphered), and the Auckland Domain). Images further south include Ohinemutu; the Pink and White Terraces; Napier; the Manawatu Gorge; Wellington (with the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel visible in the foreground); Nelson; the wreck of the ship Otago, at Chasland's Mistake; and a number of views in the Dunedin area. The last sequence shows parts of Canada, including the Rockies, Montreal and the Niagara Falls. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark brown leather cover, with decorations stamped in gold; 28 x 40 cm

Date: 1770-1900, [ca 1941]

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948

Reference: MS-0947

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (31 pages). Physical Description: Ms (¼ green cloth, grey boards)

Date: 1931

From: New Zealand Institute of Marine and Power Engineers :Photographs of the Star of Canada, the Taranaki and the Rangitira (ships) ; panorama of a New Zealand Expeditionary Force leaving Albany

By: Harding, William Guy, 1883-1978

Reference: PAColl-D-0068

Description: Illuminated address surrounded by photographs of the TSS Manuka and officers. Presented by Wellington Branch of New Zealand Institute of Marine and Power Engineers 23 Jan 1931. The artist was W G Harding; the individual portraits of the officers were taken by an unidentified photographer/s. The names of the officers have been entered in the Name Field. Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Names Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s) on illuminated address. Physical Description: 60.5 x 45.5 cm with mount

Date: 1881

By: Green, Samuel Edwy, 1838-1935

Reference: A-250-006

Description: Shows S.S. Tararua on Waipapa Reef. Two figures stand watching, and one figure rides a horse along the beach. There are tussock-covered sand-dunes in the foreground. On back 'Tararua Pt Waihope S. Island' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 215 x 295 mm

Date: 31 October 1901

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-001043-G

Description: The sailing ship "Antioco Accame" stranded on Katiki Beach on October 31, 1901. Name of beach given on negative, Kartigi, is a corruption of the correct Maori spelling "Katiki". Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - "Antioco Accame" stranded Kartigi Beach. N.Z. Oct 31. 1901. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5. inches

Date: 4 December 1876

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/2-015388-F

Description: Steamship 'Otago' on the rocks at Chaslands Mistake, 4 December 1876. Photograph taken by David Alexander De Maus. On photograph date given as 1874, but in reference books date given as 1876. See "New Zealand shipwrecks" (p 176) by C W N Ingram. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - "Otago" Chaslands Mistake 4 Dec 1874 [i.e. 1876]; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 13 D.Maus Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1901

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-001045-G

Description: The final sinking of the sailing ship "Antiocco Accame" which was stranded on Katiki Beach on October 31, 1901. Name of beach given on negative, Kartigi, is a corruption of the correct Maori spelling "Katiki". There is a dinghy pulled up on the beach in foreground. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Last of the "Antioco Accame". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5. inches

Date: 1872 - 1877

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Dunedin, Australia, and Central Otago] 1872 [and] 1878

Reference: E-032-2-024

Description: A view across Wickliffe Bay, Otago Peninsula, towards rocky heads. The remains of the wrecked Sydney trader Victory, a steamship, is on the rocks in the foreground. Dating: other drawings in this sketchbook are dated 1872. The apparent 1877 may be carelessly written, and intended for 1872. Related works: A watercolour by Hodgkins titled 'The wreck of the Victory, Wickliffe Bay, July 1862' is in another album, E-312-q-010. It contains an associated journal entry mentioning that the wreck has recently occurred. Other Titles - April Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, on sketchbook page, page size 113 x 188 mm

Date: 31 October 1901

Reference: 1/1-001042

Description: The sailing ship "Antioco Accame" stranded on Katiki Beach on October 31, 1901. Name of beach given on negative, Kartigi, is a corruption of the correct Maori spelling "Katiki". Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 595; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Antioco Accame stranded on Kartigi Beach Oct 31. 1901 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5. inches

Date: 31 October 1901

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-001044-G

Description: The sailing ship "Antiocco Accame" stranded on Katiki Beach on October 31, 1901. Name of beach given on negative, Kartigi, is a corruption of the correct Maori spelling "Katiki". Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - "Antioco Accame" stranded Kartigi Beach. Oct 31. 1901 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5. inches