Boats and boating - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: between 1934 and 1935

Reference: PAColl-6619

Description: 46 images of the Duke of Gloucester's tour of New Zealand in 1934-5 including: nine of his visit to Rotorua including Maori kapa haka; one of veterans at the bridge of remembrance in Christchurch; one of him opening Tekapo bridge and another of the party at Tekapo House hotel; one of him in a crowd outside the railway station in Hokitika; one of him inspecting a parade of nurses; one of him visiting a traditional whare; two of him as a jockey at a race meeting; three of the felling of a kauri tree; seven of his stay at Longbeach sheep station, Ashburton County; and two of him at the Waitangi memorial. Photographer unidentified but possibly Hall Raine. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-019066 to 019078, 019082 to 019107, 019111, 019113, and 059505 to 059509 Quantity: 46 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

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: 1919

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948

Reference: A-157-016

Description: A view looking south along the waterfront at Lyttelton, with the Port Hills behind and to the right. A small boat is passing through choppy water in the foreground and tall ships are moored at the wharves. The lighthouse is on the right Other Titles - Lighthouse, Lyttelton Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - Notes; Verso - Signature Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 241 x 343 mm

Date: [ca 1920-1945]

Reference: PAColl-6962

Description: 15 images including: three of young men practising life saving skills in the sea with a rope on a winch; two of girl guides helping at a kindergarten; two of East Street, Ashburton showing the different businesses parked cars and trees opposite; a car broken down in the middle of a ford; flooding on the road to the Harihari Hotel, with cattle being driven along it; a timber camp of five tents in the bush; a house at Kennedy's Bush on Banks Peninsula ca 1920; decorated boats on the Avon River with crowds on the banks watching and Ward & Co factory in the background; Cashel Street ca 1920 busy with trafic and pedestrians; and the Free Lance offices on The Terrace, Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059480 to 059494 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s) film. 12 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: ca 1910s-1940s

By: Lindsay, Charles John, 1902-1966; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Dominion Museum (N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-4337

Description: Photographs of yachts and yachting in the Wellington area. They include: yachts under construction or repair, a dry dock between two rows of boatsheds, the boatshed of the Brighton Power Boat Club, a yacht called the Igdrasil in the fiords, the Muratai in 1946, the Banika at Akaroa in 1948, the Hex leaving Wellington for the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, the Patari and Pacific at Purau, Lyttelton (taken by Allson Wright of Hereford Street, Christchurch), some men and women on the launch Tarepa ca 1940s, the Ludwig in 1925, and the Rawene in 1934. Also included are a photograph of a man working on an exhibit of a pa tuwatawata in the Dominion Museum with the maihi of a meeting house or pataka behind him and other carvings along the walls and a photograph of two men working in the taxidermy department with a variety of birds and bird skeletons on the table. Quantity: 34 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1930s-1940s

Reference: PAColl-6610

Description: 9 views of Canterbury towns: Lincoln hotel, supply store and railway station; Hawarden Post and Telegraph Office; Waikari Post and Telegraph Office; street scene in Waikari; the promenade at Caroline Bay with a large hotel above it; the premises of the Dominion Compressed Yeast Company in Christchurch; and an unidentified town which is probably Timaru with boats moored in the harbour. Photographer unidentified. The image which is probably Timaru is identified in the negative accession register as Rotheram but this town is inland and near neither a lake nor a river therefore this is not likley to be correct. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-018080, 1/4-018082 to 018088, and 1/4-018170 Quantity: 9 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1890

By: Gibb, John, 1831-1909

Reference: G-646

Description: A view of a pontoon ferry crossing Lake Pukaki, poled by a man standing on one side. Cables are attached to both ends of the ferry. People and goods are on board. A house is on the left by the ramp leading to the water. A rowboat and cows are in the foregound. A small island in the lake to the right has further buildings and possibly poplar trees Inscriptions: Signed: John Gibb Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil 205 x 305 mm Provenance: Purchase: Sotheby & Co., London, 20 April 1975

Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]

By: Woodhouse, Airini Elizabeth, 1896-1989

Reference: PAColl-4746

Description: Photographs of Timaru, comprising: the Timaru Navals, group portrait of 12 sailors; the hospital; rowing boats being launched at the Timaru boating club; First motor car at the Hermitage, Mt Cook, 1906; and Great South Road; the first Timaru show, Elizabeth Street, 1866. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 7 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1853

By: Leigh, William H, active 1853

Reference: A-159-007

Description: View looking towards clusters of houses at the water's edge with high hills behind, and cleared bush areas. Either a preliminary drawing by William Leigh or a copy of his work. Canterbury Museum holds a watercolour by Leigh of the same view with the same title and date as this work. Leigh's style is rather more finished than this work, so it has not been attributed to him. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 5.7 x 7.5 inches

Date: 1899

By: Gibb, John, 1831-1909

Reference: G-778

Description: Shows a detailed view of the river port and houses at Kaiapoi on the Waimakariri River, north of Christchurch. Two sailboats and a steam boat can be seen, as well as the railway bridge across the river. The foreground is dominated by water, bush and trees Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Jon Gibbs 1899 [in red brushpoint] Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 540 x 990 mm (sight) in frame 720 x 1160 mm

Date: 1868

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, between 1860 and 1868]

Reference: E-033-4-023

Description: Rough sketch looking towards a harbour entrance in the distance. In the foreground are two figures in a rowboat on a rocky shore Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper, 118 x 199 mm

Date: 1900-1901

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

Reference: PA1-o-1225

Description: Many of the photographs were taken when H E Girdlestone was working as one of a survey team in the Taihape area. Views of the survey camps variously descibed as near Taihape, on the Hautapu River, as Oroua Bridge, Mataroa Township, Raketapauma, and Rangiwaea Block. He has included scenic views of native forest from some of these and other locations. Most notably he has taken photographs of many waterfalls on the rivers and streams in the area. Many of these are on the Turakina river. One called Rereaupiko Waterfall is formed where the Mangoiwa Stream falls into the Hautapu River. There are also views of the Whanganui River and one of a load of passengers on the "Wairere," a Whanganui River boat. Other scenic views have been taken in the Trentham area, Upper Hutt. These include a stream and native forest, the Hutt River, and cattle in pasture. Other locations around the Hutt Valley and Wellington are a bridge over a stream in the Wainuiomata water reserve, Young's Gardens Karori Wellington, and Views of the South coast looking towards and from Sinclair Head. There are local volunteer military units who participated in a marching competition on the 5th of October 1901. Those named are the "Highlanders", "Kelburns," "College Old Boys," "Civil Service," and "Post and Telegraph." Finally there are many images of family, friends and collegues. These include a group of adults and children at a house in Featherston and shows people playing croquet, members of a survey team in a tent, Girdlestone and a fellow worker engaged in chopping down a large forest tree, groups of young women and men in their sunday best, a group of men in fancy dress playing instruments, the children and teacher of Mataroa School photographed outside what is probably the school room in March 1901, and people in kayaks and canoes on the River Avon Christchurch. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1866

From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866; Cousins & Wolfe (Firm)

Reference: E-340-q-012

Description: Shows a two-masted boat pulled up on to the beach in the right foreground, with Shag Rock in the left middle distance. One of a set of five lithographs that could possibly be after Janetta Maria Cookson originals, or could be after an original by Thomas Selby Cousins. The lithograph must have been produced before 1867, the year of Janetta Cookson's death. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Cousins & Wolfe, Litho; Recto - bottom right - Christchurch, N.Z.; Recto - beneath image - (In pencil): 1866 April Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured lithograph 145 x 203 mm, tipped into sketchbook.

Date: 1886

Reference: A-159-039

Description: A bend in the Avon River, with a boat tied up across the river, under a willow tree Title inscribed in ink by artist on mount (155 x 212 mm), with date 3/1/86 (i.e. 1 March 1886) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed in pencil (for initials compare A-159-037/43); also title and date beneath image Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 124 x 164 mm

Date: 1919

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948

Reference: A-158-008

Description: Two views of a fishing boat called the Onawe, in Akaroa Harbour Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 193 x 134 mm

Date: [1984 or 1985]

From: Thompson, Paul David, 1951- : Photographic negatives, transparencies and prints, also papers

Reference: PA12-1324-05

Description: Taylor's Mistake; showing surf boats, and baches in Rotten Row. Photograph taken summer 1984-1985 by Paul Thompson. Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies 35mm colour slide. Physical Description: 35mm colour slide

Date: ca 1893

From: Sinclair: Photographs of Cheviot County, chiefly of Cheviot Station

Reference: 1/2-043120-F

Description: Landing slip, engine house and store, on the coastline at Port Robinson, Canterbury, circa 1893. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-068

Description: In the upper sketch, four European men alongside a small tent, with two Maori, gathering sticks (possibly flax stalks) to make a small reed boat or mokihi. They are close to the mouth of the Waihao River, with the sea and coastline visible beyond them. In the lower view, low hills and coastling. The text 'Ye historie of ye moki by W. M. Right merrily ...' has been crossed out, lower right. Wainono Lagoon is on the coastal plain between the Hook and Waihao Rivers, Waimate District, South Canterbury Other Titles - Waihao mokihi Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil, 127 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1914

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-005256-G

Description: Estuary at low tide, Moncks Bay, Redcliffs, Christchurch, with Christchurch Yacht Club jetty. Photograph taken in 1914 by Steffano Webb. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-069

Description: Rough sketch of the coastline near the Waitaki River, South Canterbury. Along the edge of the page is a series of 5 comic views of Taiaroa, Malmanche, Wills, Mantell and Hughes, attempting to cross a river in a reed canoe (mokihi), which sinks with their weight. 'Ye commissioner' is Mantell himself. See also E-334-066 for the earlier episode of the sequel about the canoe or mokihi. Other Titles - Mokihi Quantity: 6 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 200 mm (page size)