Rhodes album

Date
[ca 1860s-1880s]
By
Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874; Rhodes, Joseph, 1826-1905
Reference
PA1-q-193
Description

Album owned by Joseph Rhodes containing photographs and sketches and ephemera dated between 1860s-1880s of New Zealand and overseas. Includes photographs of Hawkes Bay dated between 1860s-1870s.

Many of the sketches were drawn by Alfred Chapman, one section containing an illustrated tale "The life and adventures of Thomas Pinniger" (p 34a-d). On p 34b Governor Eyre is pictured lower left at Government House, Wellington.

There are two photographs of paintings by Charles Barraud (one of Te Aro Flat, City of Wellington (p 68), and one of Wellington Heads (p 104).

Many of the photographs of the Hawke's Bay area show the houses on various sheep stations, including Clive Grange Station, and Spring Hill Station (Joseph Rhodes), Maraekakaho Station (Donald Mclean), Woburn Station (Thomas Purvis Russell), Mount Herbert Station (Henry Robert Russell), and Mangatarata Station (Donald Gollan). There is also one of George Fannin's house in Napier, one of the Reverend Hamlin's mission station at Wairoa, and one of The Grange (Wellington home of Joseph Rhodes's brother William Barnard Rhodes).Others in the area are related to military encampments, barracks, stockades, and mission stations. On page 31 there is a photograph of "The great peace meeting, 1863", and one entitled "Whaka & tribe". On page 53, the caption reads "Donald McLean Esq. Superintendent, Hawkes Bay, purchasing Wairoa from the natives, 18[55?]."

There are many photographs, postcards and tourist scenes taken in Egypt, Ireland, Norway, Italy and Australia. The Australian scenes show views in Queensland, including Australian Aborigines fishing for dugong, the Railway Mortuary Chapel at the Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney (subsequenlty sold to a church group, dismantled and rebuilt in North Ainslie in Canberra) and views in the Maryborough area.

Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Physical Description: Album with brown leather embossed cover 29 x 23 cm, with 79 leaves

Additional description

Alternative form available: Copy negatives at 1/2-110487 to 110535

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Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs
Format
1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Album with brown leather embossed cover 29 x 23 cm, with 79 leaves
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Pawhakairo

Date: 1863

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-193-013-2

Description: Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Pahwhakiroa 1863 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Milton Grange, Napier

Date: 21 July 1874

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-193-017

Description: Milton Grange, Napier. A wedding party, is in front of the house. Photograph taken 21 July 1874 by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Location provided by Library client. Formerly twice wrongly described - firstly as The Grange homestead, Clive, near Napier and secondly as The Grange homestead, Wadestown, Wellington. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - 21st July 1874. The Grange Napier Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 12.5 x 19.2 cm, mounted on album page

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Reverend Hamlin's Mission Station at Wairoa

Date: ca 1850s

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-193-050-1

Description: Reverend James Hamlin's Mission Station at Wairoa from across the Wairoa River. Four main buildings can be seen, and another is under construction. Photographed between 1844 and 1863 by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Mission Station. Wairoa. Rev. Hamlin Clyde Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 9.3 x 15.2 cm mounted on album page

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Captain Westrup's camp, Poverty Bay

Date: 1864

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

By: Williams, William Leonard, 1829-1916

Reference: PA1-q-193-092-1

Description: Captain Charles Westrup's camp in Poverty Bay. Shows soldiers alongside whare and tents. Photograph taken in 1864, possibly by William Leonard Williams. Note on back of file print reads: Photographer is probably Rev William Leonard Williams. "Leonard visited Westrup's camp on February 9, 1866. It was at a place called Kohangarearea not far from Manutuke". The hill to the left is identical to the hill in F 110528 1/2. Other - Date noted on back of file print is 1866. Inscription in album dates photograph as 1864. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Capt Westrupt's Camp Poverty Bay Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 10.5 x 14.8 cm, mounted on album page

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Maraekakaho Station, Hastings District

Date: [ca 1860s-1880s]

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-193-038b-2

Description: Wooden buildings and bullock teams on Donald McLean's Maraekakaho Station, Hastings District. The bullock teams are waiting to transport bales of wool. Photograph taken circa 1860s-1880s, by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Caption in album and notes on back of file print. Inscriptions: Album page - McLean's Station, Ahuriri Plains Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic print, 9.8 x 13.6 cm, on album page

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Clive Grange, Hawke's Bay

Date: 1860s

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-193-019-2

Description: 'Clive Grange', Hawke's Bay, the property of Joseph Rhodes. Family members are sitting in front of the house. Photographed in the 1860s by an unknown photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Clive Grange sheep station, Joseph Rhodes Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 9.8 x 15 cm, mounted on album page

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Barracks, Napier

Date: ca 1860s

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-193-023-1

Description: Barracks in Napier, Hawke's Bay, with soldiers standing in front of thatched buildings. Photographed ca 1860s by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Barracks Napier Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 9.9 x 13.5 cm, mounted on album page

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Major Westrupp's camp, Poverty Bay

Date: February 1866

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

By: Williams, William Leonard, 1829-1916

Reference: PA1-q-193-085-1

Description: Major Westrupp's camp at Kohangarearea, near Manutuke, photographed 1865-1866, probably by William Leonard Williams. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Poverty Bay middle district The locality has been identified as Major Westrupp's camp by comparison with PA1-q-193-092-1. Photograph probably taken by William Leonard Williams. Williams visited Westrupp's camp on 9 February 1866. (information from Sheila Robinson, Gisborne Museum & Arts Centre. See AT 13/12/4, 27/8/90) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 101 x 153 mm mounted on album page

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Donald McLean purchasing land at Wairoa, Hawke's Bay

Date: 1865

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-193-053

Description: Donald McLean, Superintendent of Hawkes Bay, purchasing land for the town of Wairoa (seated by tree on left, hat in hand). Taken by an unknown photographer in 1865. The original negative from which this print was made is at 1/2-118690-G Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Donald McLean Esq. Superintendent. Hawkes Bay purchasing Wairoa from the Natives 1865 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 10 x 15.7 cm, mounted on album page

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Spring Hill, Hawke's Bay

Date: 1860s

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-193-020

Description: Spring Hill sheep station, the property of Joseph Rhodes. Photographed in the 1860s by an unknown photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Spring Hill sheep station, J Rhodes Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 6 x 9 cm, mounted on album page