Places

Date: 1872

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-078

Description: View from a slightly raised perspective past a bridge over the Otira River, along the road and the base of the gorge with tall bush-clad hills and mountains in the background and at both sides. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 345 x 235 mm

Date: 11 Mar 1868

From: Carroll album

Reference: PA1-o-094-39

Description: Otira Gorge Hotel, 11 March, 1868. Shows native bush on the hill behind, a road in the foreground, and two horse drawn coaches. Photograph taken by Daniel Louis Mundy. Note on back of file print reads: "Otira Gorge Hotel with Cobb's coach leaving for Christchurch. Walter Ray was the licensee. Photo taken by D L Mundy and Shepard driving the coach." File print differs from original item. Date on file print is April but photographers inscription is March. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Mundy N Z No 46 11/3/68; Album page - beneath image - Hotel Otira Gorge Westland Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 18.8 x 24.2 cm, on album page 24.4 x 32.1 cm

Date: 1872

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-080

Description: Shows two men on a track leading to a campfire, among tree ferns, with mountains as a background. The lack of snow on the mountains suggest summertime. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 236 x 344 mm

Date: 1876

From: Illustrated New Zealand herald, 1868-1883. Dunedin.

By: Illustrated New Zealand Herald (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0047-1876-105

Description: A steep rocky path leading down to a bridge over a stream. A family with a packhorse and three other men with baggage are crossing the stream, while other laden horses and men walk up the rough path on the other side. Part of a large wooden structure can be seen to the left, possibly part of a support for a vehicle bridge Extended Title - From Illustrated New Zealand herald, No. 105, May 3rd 1876. Front cover Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 340 x 220 mm

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: Jouard, E, active 1870s

Reference: PUBL-0016-40-2

Description: View into the valley of the Otira River, surrounded by hills and mountains, with large rocks in the foreground and a road with two travellers on foot. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - E JOUARD Sc. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 79 x 153 mm

Date: 1865 - 1871

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

Reference: E-501-f-066

Description: Shows two figures with packs and walking sticks, on road leading away between bush. Mountain slope is visible in the background. Stuck to leaf tipped into sketchbook. E-501-f-065 on verso. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (In ink): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Monotone watercolour, 265 x 185 mm.

Date: 1895

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-182-085

Description: Shows a tramper on a track beside the river, with the bridge in the background. There are bushcovered slopes in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title, initials W H and date in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 310 x 250 mm

Date: 1872

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-076

Description: View from the rocky river bank across a stream and bridge to high bush covered hills Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 235 x 345 mm

Date: [1870-1920]

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10x8-0776-G

Description: Horse drawn coach on Hawks Crag (formerly known as Hawkes Craig), Buller Gorge. Photograph taken by the Tyree Studio. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Hawkes Craig Buller River Tyree Photo Nelson 5103 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1888]

Reference: 1/2-025255-b-F

Description: Photograph of Reefton, West Coast, circa 1888. Shows a roadway that joins a bridge over the Inangahua River. The township is in the background. Power lines are just visible in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. In 1888 Reefton became the first town in the country to be lit by hydro-electric power. (Information from (1979) Wises New Zealand Guide: A gazetteer of New Zealand. Auckland: Wises Publications Ltd) Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [189-?]

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10x8-0625-G

Description: Hawks Crag, Buller Gorge. Shows a horse drawn carriage on the road, with the Buller River on the right. Photograph taken circa 1890s, by the Tyree Studio. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Hawkes Crag Buller Gorge. Tyree Photo Nelson Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1865 - 1871

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

Reference: E-501-f-070

Description: Shows road in right foreground, beside river, with wooden slopes to the riverbed, and snowy mountains in the distance. Appears to be another version of E-501-f-022, with the rapids less marked. Stuck to leaf tipped into sketchbook. E-501-f-069 on verso. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - (In ink): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Monotone watercolour, 185 x 280 mm.

Date: 1865 - 1871

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

Reference: E-501-f-013

Description: Shows river valley and road, with mountains in background. Partially completed. Some parts not coloured. Dating: the road through Arthur's Pass was not completed until 1866, suggesting an earliest date when Hurt might have travelled through the Pass Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title].; Some pencilled guide notes to indicate required colour, in bottom left quarter. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 184 x 255 mm.

Date: 1881

From: Rowe, Reginald Keith, 1906-: Negatives of Wellington, Otaki, Wanganui and other districts

Reference: 1/1-003766-G

Description: Group with horses and carriage, Buller Gorge, 1881. Photograph taken by Mr Rowe. Note on back of file print reads: "Same group appears in 1/2-088893 - dated 1881" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1872

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-079

Description: Shows two travellers with backpacks walking up a road, with a fence on the left above a steep drop, with bush-clad hills. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 236 x 345 mm Provenance: Wilkie Family Collection