Cattle - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925

Reference: A-104-048-a

Description: Shows cattle and horses grazing, farm buildings, a man on horseback at the left, and a carriage with horses at the right. There is bush on the hills, and mountains in background. See Ellis, E M. Early prints of N.Z. 1642-1875. Christchurch 1977 p. 192-193 Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - (On printed label): [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 210 x 300 mm

Date: 1883

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: A-113-008

Description: Shows cows grazing in a fenced paddock, a homestead and farm buildings and a haystack in background Note on back: Timaru somewhere, I think. Possibly the work of Mary Grace Caroline Lysaght. The style is similar to hers and the handwriting may also be hers. Her sister, Annie Lysaght married Thomas Henry Wigley of Opuha Station, South Canterbury, in 1879. Mary Lysaght visited her sister in the early 1880s, and made other watercolours of the area. Other Titles - Timaru somewhere I think [Mary Grace Caroline Lysaght] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - date in brushpoint. On verso, in ink 'Timaru somewhere, I think' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 108 x 349 mm

Date: 1890

By: Gibb, William Menzies, 1859-1931

Reference: G-541

Description: Shows three head of cattle standing in a small field beyond the foreground stream. A tree in the foreground leans against one of the wooden picket fences, and there is a hut or stable beyond the cattle. The spire of a church in the middle distance is possibly St Mary's Merivale. Title from back Inscriptions: Signed: W. Menzies-Gibb Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil painting on canvas 356 x 500 mm

Date: 1854-1859

By: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936

Reference: qMS-0266

Description: Brands and official documentation for them Source of title - Supplied title Variations in title - Spine title: Brands no. 1 Other Titles - Brand book of Canterbury, official register Relationship complexity - Loose papers removed from volume in 1974 are at MS-Papers-0022-80 (Kinsey), along with letter from L G D Acland to Kinsey concerning the volume Quantity: 1 volume(s) (156 pages). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (32 cm, ¼ brown calf, in grey phase box) Finding Aids: Index at front. Illustrations of each registered brand mark are included

Date: 1925

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Judson, Richard E, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-2312-F

Description: Panoramic view showing a single-storeyed wooden farmhouse centre left. Garden furniture and pot plants are seen on a verandah at the front entrance, pergola over the path with climbing roses by the front door. Shrubs and flower beds around the lawn and around the base of the house. An unidentified man (possibly Mr Judson) is standing in a paddock with a herd of cattle on the far right. Paddocks up to the foothills on the right, hills partly bush-clad and partly snow-capped in the background on the right. River valley and river flats on the far left. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Glencoe" 1925; Marginal notes on negative - R.E. Judson "Glencoe" 1925 Oxford. 2 B&W; Marginal notes on negative - 12 12 12 12 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 115.4 cm

Date: 1906

From: Howorth, Charles Henry, 1856-1945 :Wolds Station, McKenzie Plains. 25/2/06; Puketeraki. 6/3/06.

Reference: A-128-028-1

Description: A watercolour showing cattle grazing in a high-country field with a homestead at the base of a low rise in the middle distance. There are blue mountains in the distance. On one side of sheet; other side has: Puketeraki 6/3/06. At the time the painting was done, William Grant was owner of The Wolds Station. Other Titles - 1906 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 180 x 261 mm.

Date: 13, 19 Nov 2007 - 13 Nov 2007 - 19 Nov 2007

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

By: Early, Frederic Wells, 1926-2009

Reference: OHInt-0920-03

Description: Interview with Fred Early. Born in 1926, Ashburton. Talks about paternal great grandfather Samuel Early emigrating in 1860 and his grandfather Charles Early who bought Greendale farm in 1876. Discusses his father Leslie John (Les) Early, mother Rosetta Mildred (Rose) Early (nee Wells), and his siblings Athene, Eric, Lawrie, Phyllis, Annie and Ivan. Educated at Greendale primary school and Christchurch Boys High School. Recalls going to school in governess cart and railways bus, and using slate boards. Talks about living on Greendale farm, and Waterford farm as child. Discusses changes in Selwyn and Hororata rivers and why the rivers are more frequently dry now. Details arable farming as growing wheat, barley, lucerne crops, plus using Clydesdale horses, traction engine, wooden mill, chaff cutter, and cross engine chase tractor. Refers to his father being in cavalry in World War One, surviving Gallipoli, and buying Alford Forest farm in 1919 when rehabiliatated after WW1. Mentions not selling wool during the Depression. Talks about father and his brothers owning Te Pirita 3000 farm block, south of Hororata river. Mentions Americans funding secret building of Te Pirita airfield in 1942 by local contractors to cater for American bombers when Japanese invasion looked imminent. Says left school at 16. Refers to being part of food production effort to support England during World War Two, such as exporting lambs. Describes wheat harvest using Massey Harris header and sewing sacks. Compares rail and truck transport. Talks about shearing, cultivation work, stock work, fencing and the merino run block 'The Plains'. Mentions shortage of petrol and tyres. Refers to purchasing Alford Forest farm from his father after his marriage in 1953 to Miriel (Joan) Ridgen, running it for 12 years. Describes developing more intensive farming methods, breeding Romney sheep, running beef cattle, dabbling in small seeds and new grasses. Refers to Pyne Gould Guinness as his banker. Discusses shifting to new farm Lyndhurst in 1966 where he ran Corriedale, then Borderdale and Border sheep. Refers to sticking with wheat, barley, then growing triticali, oats, peas, white clover and grass seed. Comments on lack of irrigation, impact of dry nor'west wind, stoney soil, and importance of tree shelter belts. Mentions heavy snows in Methven area. Details methods of improving soil fertility, using nitrogen, superphosphate, lime, and growing lupins. Talks about start of bulk harvesting in early 1970s meant changing to storing grain in silos. Refers to agricultural spraying, using Roundup to deal with Twitch. Explains impact of 1972-1973 purchase allowance and the removal of farm subsidies in late 1980s. Mentions hardship during 1980s South Island East Coast drought. Talks about roles his wife and children played on the farm. Refers to participating in school committees and Methodist church. Says he shifted to Ashburton with wife in 1997. Reflects on technology changes and hopes that small farmer is not being squeezed out by corporate farms. Interviewer(s) - Nicola Robertson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016735 - OHC-016738 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Adobe PDF Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6025; OHDL-001820. Search dates: 1926 - 2007

Date: 1859

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-029-034

Description: Shows a general view of a broad river valley with cows grazing in the left middle distance. The river flows towards the right foreground, and a loaded bullock cart drives off to the right, having forded it. The buildings of the station are seen in the right distance. Clent Hills are near Lake Heron in the Ashburton district. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 260 x 370 mm

Date: 3 Jul 1924

From: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0022-80

Description: Letter from Leopold George Dyke Acland to Kinsey requests that Kinsey provide information from the brand book for articles Acland was writing for The Press. Rest of material comprises loose papers removed from the volume for safekeeping in 1974 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1905-1926]

From: Maclay, Adam Henry Pearson, 1873-1955 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-029448-G

Description: Photograph taken by Christchurch photographer Adam Henry Pearson Maclay. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 1/1 plate

Date: October 1950

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-42401

Description: Photograph of a paddock with cattle grazing, rural Canterbury, Studholme district, October 1950, taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic negative

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-022460-F

Description: A bullock team hauling a wagon full of wool bales through Cheviot, Canterbury. Photograph taken by Wheeler & Son, circa 1880s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Wool Waggon. Cheviot. Wheeler & Son, ChCh Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1866

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902

Reference: C-160-004

Description: Shows Leslie Hills Station in the Hurunui district, being the sheep and cattle station of George Rutherford. The single storey verandahed homestead with circular carriage drive, is placed on the gentle slope of a small hill, with neatly fenced fields and outbuildings to the left and right. At the left is a group of six conical haystacks. Several horses feed from a covered feed trough at the left. In the centre a horseman meets with a carriage drawn by two horses, one black and one white. In the far right foreground a group of longhorned cattle is grazing, and beyond, a figure is training two horses. A dark cloud at top left, brings a fleeting shower, but most of the farm basks in sunshine. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - N Chevalier 1866 Chevalier was employed by the Otago and Canterbury City Councils to make sketches of the regions, and travelled extensively throughout New Zealand over a period of eight months. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 530 mm Provenance: Previously sold at Christies South Kensington London, May 1989, lot 175. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1877

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The illustrations by C. D. Barraud. Edited by W. T. L. Travers. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877

By: Blatchley, W D, active 1877-1898; Picken, T (Mr), active 1870s; Kell, C F, active 1877

Reference: PUBL-0016-26

Description: Shows a general view of the river with bare mountains in the background. In the foreground a man on horseback and a standing figure meet on a road which slopes downhill, through trees. A group of cattle graze in a field in the left middle distance. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 251 x 353 mm

Date: 1868 - 1870

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-040

Description: Shows a partial view of the harbour, a rich turquoise, from a rutted dirt road in the foreground, through vegetation. Across the harbour, the hills of Wainui are in the background. A red-brown cow grazes beyond the road in the foreground Probably painted around the end of the 1860s. The artist is known to have been in the vicinity after the wreck of the ketch (probably the "Crest") in 1868 - his picture of Akaroa Heads is dated 1869. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 125 x 167 mm.

Date: 1861 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-004

Description: Shows dog(?) and cattle in river at right, high rolling country with flax and cabbage trees, and the mountains near the Rakaia Gorge in the distance. Hurt farmed near the Selwyn River from about 1861. He was listed in the Rakaia electorate for 1872-73. Other Titles - Rakaia Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 139 x 214 mm.

Date: 1861 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-008

Description: Shows cattle and a packhorse at right, walking on grassland beside lake. At left is a bush-covered hill, and there are mountains in the background. May actually be Lake Taylor, rather than Lake Sheppard. Hurt farmed near the Selwyn River from about 1861. He was listed in the Rakaia electorate for 1872-73. Other Titles - Sheppard. Lake Taylor Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 126 x 180 mm.

Date: 1857 - 1870

Reference: A-253-037

Description: Shows scattering of buildings against background of bare land and hillside. Buildings include: wooden cottage with two doors and three windows along front; smaller cottage to the left, with two windows and one door, and another building partly obscured behind these. In right foreground is a low-walled garden, and a gibbet with carcass hanging, beside small hut. In right background is a large shed. Appears to be a picture of an early stage of development at the station, which was first settled by Alexander Lean in 1857, and bought by Hugh Percy Murray Aynsley in the mid-1860s. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Embossed paper mark at bottom right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink, 114 x 184 mm.

Date: 1861 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-058

Description: Shows single-storey homestead with verandah in left foreground, with lake and mountains in background. In right foreground, a man with arm raised directs his dogs to round up stock (possibly cattle rather than sheep, but indistinct). There is some fencing across the field between dwelling and stock. Stitched to leaf tipped into sketchbook. E-501-f-059 on verso. Henry Taylor was drowned in the Teremakau River in 1867. This picture may therefore predate 1867. Other Titles - Lake Sheppard Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - (In ink): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Monotone watercolour, 185 x 266 mm.

Date: 1869

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-029-044

Description: Shows a pond or stream in the foreground, with a weir and / or a bridge across it, and a road leading away to the left distance. Cattle graze on the wide paddock in the middle distance, and there are ranges of hills in the background. This is probably Mt Hutt Station. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 356 mm.