Places

Date: ca 1870s

Reference: PAColl-4511

Description: Photographs of Queen Street, Auckland; sailing ships moored in Auckland harbour; Government House, Auckland; the Auckland Supreme Court; Lyttelton, with a church in the middle distance and commercial buildings in the foreground; Dunedin Hospital (built in 1864); view looking down Princes Street towards the Exchange Building (built as the Post Office but never used as such) with business premises on either side of the street and a sign for a dentist's on the right; the Exchange Building with a horse and cart to the left; and the town reservoir, Dunedin. Photographer unidentified but they have similar captions below the image. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-002193, 002206, 002207, 002215, 002367, 002368, 002370, 002379, and 002838 Quantity: 9 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: [Circa 1880s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Lomer, Albert, active 1862-1900; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-262

Description: Album of Australian photographs of Brisbane and Tasmania, and views of a range of sites in New Zealand, taken by various photographers circa 1880s. Names and places identified in the album are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: [Circa 1870s-1880s]

From: Sarney, H F (Mr), fl 1959 :Photograph albums of New Zealand scenes

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-065

Description: Album of landscapes taken by various photographers including Wheeler & Sons and the Burton Brothers, circa 1870s and 1880s. All the views are of New Zealand except the last sequence (p 33-37) showing Rio de Janeiro. Of particular interest are views of a wool wagon drawn by oxen, crossing a ford; a series showing an unidentified curved viaduct under construction (p 28-32); and a number showing a farm run by J F L Jetter at Te Puke when the land was partially cleared, with cattle grazing in paddocks, and Mr Jetter standing by a horse in a paddock in front of his home. Many of the images show uncleared land, with a deep ravine filled with native bush and tree ferns, and a stream running through (p 24-27). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover with embossed diamond shape pattern, bordered with gold; 32 x 38 cm

Date: ca 1880

Reference: PAColl-7406

Description: Photographs of Auckland including: looking across the harbour to Devonport; the Rakaia in Caliope dock; the Scotch church; looking down College Hill; Victoria Street looking across Queen Street to Albert Park showing businesses in the area such as Sharland & Co and R White boot shop; Mount Eden; the Supreme Court; the flagpole and cannons at the top of Albert Park looking out over the harbour; two views of Karangahape Road showing shops, carriages and carts; the first St Matthew's Church; St Paul's Church on Symonds Street; the public hospital showing the tennis court in front and the screens on the balconies; houses on Franklin Road, Ponsonby; the Railway Station with advertising for the New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd and Arthur Cleave & Co; Ponsonby Road with a church on the left and J Clarke, undertakers, on the right; Ponsonby Road with a bakers and butchers on the right; the Synagogue on Princes Street; looking north along Queen Street with the DSC building on the right; a ship in dry-dock at the wharves; Hobson Street with St Matthew's Church on the right; and four views of the wharves including one showing the ferry. Photographs of Lyttelton: two elevated views to the harbour one with a church in the centre and the other with an artist painting the view at an easel; the railway lines at the wharves; and three men next to coal carts being loaded with coal from a ship at the wharves. Described on the reverse of the file prints as "copy negatives taken from faded prints". Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004172 to 004200 Quantity: 30 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1860 - 1898

By: Grey River Argus (Newspaper); Boys, J W T, active 1883; Ryall, Denis James, 1909-1982

Reference: Eph-A-DINING-1800s

Description: Includes menus for: Complimentary dejeuner to Sir George Grey by His Worship the Mayor and the City Council of Dunedin. J McCubbin, Otago Hotel, Caterer. Fergusson & Mitchell, Printers. [1860s?] (Donor Mr J Stacey, 1960). Lyttelton Harbour Board. Celebration of dock opening. January 3rd 1883. J Buggey, Caterer. 1883 (photographic copy) Wellington Club. Farewell dinner to Mr J C Hanna. July 4, 1896. A public banquet in honor of the Right Hon R J Seddon, Premier of New Zealand. Toast list. January 17th, 1898. Printed at the Argus Office, Greymouth. Complimentary dinner to Right Hon R J Seddon and Mrs Seddon. Printed at the Star Office. [Toast list. ca 1898]. Handwritten menu for an unknown and probably private occasion, but featuring quotations by Crosbie Ward (1832-1867), Alfred Domett (1811-1887), W P Reeves (1857-1932), and W M Maskell (1839-1898). Date probably 1890s. This menu was removed from an unidentified scrapbook of scraps dated ca 1870-1920 (at Eph-A-SCRAPBOOK-01) Quantity: 6 menus.. Physical Description: Engravings, on folded menus, approximately 230 x 140 mm. Plus one mounted photograph.

Date: [Between 1890s and 1900s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-297

Description: Album of South Island scenes (except for a few taken en route to Wellington showing The Brothers, Pencarrow Head, and one of a group having a picnic at Muritai). Probably mostly photographed by George William Barltrop. The first section shows the Nelson and Marlborough areas, and several photographs of ships at sea, one shipwreck (the Antiocco Accame in 1901), and one aground (the Elginshire, 1902). People who are identified are: the Reverend Bennett (Frederick Augustus Bennett (later Bishop), with his first wife Hana Te Unuhi Mere Bennett, and young daughter, Rawinia Bennett (circa 1900); Abe Wells, photographed as an older man outside his cob house at Richmond (circa 1890s); and Isla Reid, photographed as a young girl, probably in the Dunedin area. Three scenes in cemeteries have clearly identified headstones, and include those for the Reverend Samuel Poole, Frank Churchill Simmons; and a group memorial for Charlotte McDonald, Annie McQuaid and Lizzie Crinrod, stewardesses who were drowned in the wreck of the SS Wairarapa, Great Barrier Island, 29th October 1894. This was erected by the stewardesses of the Union Steam Ship Company. Inscriptions: Album page - Geo W Barltrop Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: 1868 - 1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f

Description: A few British and European scenes. The remainder show Lake Wanaka, Nelson, Timaru, Bluff, Dusky and Doubtful Sounds, Chalky Inlet, Lake Waihola and numerous other South Island scenes; Wellington, Napier, Rotorua, Bay of Islands Title from spine Inscriptions: Some signed: K.H. ; K. Holmes Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour drawings 145 p. 290 x 490 mm ¼ red morocco, red linen

Date: 24 March 1882

By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: PA1-o-494

Description: Contains seven mounted photographs, taken on 24th March 1882. Four of these are 1/2-004680 and 004681 and 1/2-004683 and 004684 which are halves of two very similar panoramas of Lyttelton harbour taken from the same point and showing the graving dock in the foreground. They both name the same ships moored in the harbour which are: Carnarvon Castle, Pet, Midlothian, Guy Mannering, Harbour Board's dredge and barge, Ione, Wigtonshire, Duchess of Argyle, Inch Murren, Cairnbulg, Seriol Wyn, Glenburn, Perthshire, Alexa, Brilliant, Lurline, Mataura, Duncraig, Enterpe, City of Perth, Lock Eck, Roman Empire, Loch Dee, British Yeoman, Glamis, Gareloch and Woollahra. Also included are two pictures of the graving dock and a view of reclaimed land at the edge of the harbour. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Album with folded green binding, tied with canvas ribbon, containing seven photographs. Provenance: From the library of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull. Given the original numbering of 3784-3790.

Date: [1895-1899]

By: Edwards, Charles Thomas, active 1890s

Reference: PA1-f-020

Description: Photograph album containing photographs of South Island scenes, taken ca 1897 by C T Edwards. Album includes views of Melbourne and Sydney; a large number in the Lyttelton and Christchurch areas; as well as photographs in the Waikato region. There are a number of photographs of postcards created by Edwards, using various scenes, most of which are included in this album. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Grey album with black spine and corners, entitled Photographs. C.T. Edwards, 32 x 45 cm

Date: 1883 - 1892

By: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: E-369

Description: Scenes of Port Said and Suez, and New Zealand including: Paihia, Kerikeri (including Kemp's house), "Swallow" and "Triton" in Bay of Islands, Great Barrier Island, Rawene, New Plymouth, Wellington harbour, Preservation Inlet, and Roman Catholic Church, Lyttelton. Supplied title. Sandys visited New Zealand in 1888. Inscriptions: Album page - Edwin Sandys Esqr H.M.S. Opal Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 75 art originals; pencil on paper 110 x 180 mm, in album, navy morocco. Provenance: Purchased from Walsh's family.

Date: [circa 1880; between 1868-1898]

Reference: PAColl-8411

Description: Photograph of Christ Church Cathedral, Christchurch, taken circa 1880 by an unidentified photographer; and a photograph of Lyttelton taken between 1868-1898 by the Burton Brothers. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen prints on card 16 x 19.6 cm

Date: 1880-1889

From: Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898?-1980 :Photographs

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-q-116

Description: Album compiled by Arthur Lagden Haylock, containing views of Lyttelton, Christchurch, Wellington, Nelson, New Plymouth, Tauranga, Ohinemutu, Mangarewa Gorge, Pink & White Terraces, Napier, Timaru, Porters Pass, Castle Hill (West Coast Road), Craigieburn, Waimakariri River, Arthur's Pass, Otira Gorge, Otira, Jacksons, Taipo River, Mount Alexander, Dillmanstown, Hokitika, and Greymouth. Also includes photographs of ships Annie Bow, Ganymede, and City of Perth and Benvenue stranded at Timaru in 1882. Photographs taken 1880s, by James Ring, Burton Brothers, Wheeler & Sons (including prints made by Wheeler from the negatives of D L Mundy) and others. Other Titles - Ramblings through New Zealand. By A.L. Haylock Quantity: 1 album(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Brown album with gold borders, entitled `Ramblings through New Zealand. By A.L. Haycock', lettered in gold; 36.5 x 31.5 cm

Date: 1880-1900

From: Gibbs, James Joseph, fl 1963 :Photographs of New Zealand towns and cities

By: Martin, Alfred, 1846?-1906

Reference: PAColl-0738

Description: One of the photographs, entitled by the photographer "Champion Course", shows a rowing course on the Whanganui river. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1850

By: Cridland, Henry John, 1821-1867

Reference: C-014-002

Description: View of Lyttelton from Governor's Bay, with an artist sketching by an arched rock and two women with small children on the left, a small row-boat in the middle ground, Lyttelton with about a dozen buildings and the Sumner Road clearly formed, H.M.S.Fly in the harbour with several other vessels, Mount Pleasant 1870 feet marked to the left and the vegetation on the surrounding hills indicated Map on verso: Chart of Banks Peninsula / C.Heaphy, 1849 (C-014-002-1) Drawn at the period when the first Pakeha settlers arrived at Lyttelton to colonise Canterbury Other Titles - Township of Lyttelton Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title, signature & date in ink; above image: height of mountain & details about vegetation (in pencil) Quantity: 2 watercolour(s) plus one hand-coloured lithograph. Physical Description: Monotone wash over pencil 282 x 561 mm on sheet 435 x 561 mm (irregular) Processing information: Removed from: Great Britain. Parliamentary Papers, 1850, cd [1136] facing p.67, housed in Reference Collection at q328.42 until 1989.

Date: ca 1860s

Reference: PA1-q-196

Description: Consists of good quality early views of localities in the South Island (?not all identified), together with Maori and Pakeha portraits, not all named. Other Titles - Robinson II Album Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 235 x 300mm rebound in library blue marbled covers with dark blue spine

Date: 1897-1904

From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly

By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Pulman (Firm); Shepherd, Cromwell, active 1903-1934

Reference: PA1-f-142

Description: Charles Hill-Trevor's personal album of the time he spent as personal secretary to Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. It records the New Zealand contingents sent to the South African war and public events, personalities and patriotic entertainments associated with that enterprise. Visits to Government houses in Australia record other governors, officials and official residences. On one occasion in Melbourne a New Zealand versus Australia polo match was played. Hill-Trevor shows an interest in Māori, wildlife conservation (including the bird sanctuary on Resolution Island), and the sports of fishing, polo and horsemanship. There are photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their principal servants as well as the Governor engaged in official functions such as opening the Kaiapoi council offices and laying the foundation stone of the Veterans Home, Mt Roskill, Auckland in 1903. Also photographs relating to the play 'The Geisha'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1870-1880

By: Best, Walter, 1848-1929; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Monkton, Charles Henry, 1840-1890; Harding, R E (Mrs), active 1949

Reference: PA1-q-028

Description: Photograph album compiled by Walter Best, comprising views of Wellington, Auckland, Picton, Nelson, Naseby, Manawatu Gorge, Mahurangi, Te Ore Ore Pa, Masterton, Hutt River, Lorne station on the Waikohu River, Napier, Lyttelton, West Coast, Reefton, Maitai Valley, Bulls, Wanganui, Waitotara, Waimate plains and Mitre Peak. Also includes a photograph of the Best family home, Fernbank, Tinakori Road. Photographers represented include James Bragge and Charles Henry Monkton. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/1-000763, 1/1-000783, 1/1-00260, 1/1-002712 to 1/1-002721; 1/2-004094, 1/2-004136, 1/2-004698, 1/2-004699, 1/2-014969, 1/2-015699, 1/2-018087, 1/2-020713, 1/2-020714, 1/2-020716; 1/4-009246, 1/4-010018, 1/4-010023, 1/4-10024, 1/4-010894, 1/4-014970 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Donated by Mrs R E Harding, Wellington, in May 1949

Date: 1877-1883

By: Royds, John Azariah Slater, 1840-; Royds, Thomas Slater, 1838-; Innes, K E (Mrs), active 1966; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911; Hart, Campbell & Company; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-f-032

Description: Album compiled by John and Thomas Royds of Invercargill, in the early 1880s, containing views of Invercargill, Auckland, Wellington, Masterton, Eketahuna (named Ninety Mile Bush), Nelson, Wairau Gorge, Manawatu River Bridge, Lake Guyon, Wakapuaka, Lyttelton, Picton, Maitai Valley, Christchurch, Lake Hawea, Frankton Falls, Lake Wakatipu, Mount Crichton, Arthur's Point, Winton, Mount Larkins, Queenstown, Lake Wanaka, Dunedin, Shag Valley, Palmerston (with a coach in the street), Hamilton's Station near Naseby, Breaksea Sound, Chalky Inlet, the Roaring Meg stream, Cromwell, Te Aroha pa, and the Pink Terrace. Also includes carte de visite Maori portraits. Photographers represented include James Bragge (scenes in Wellington and Wairarapa), W T L Travers (views of Lake Guyon), Hart, Campbell & Co (scenes in Otago), and Herbert Deveril (views of te Aroha Pa). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Large dark green leather-bound album, entitled `New Zealand'; 50 x 33 cm Provenance: The album was compiled by brothers Tom and John Royds, settlers in Invercargill, and sent to their brother, Dr W S Royds, in Reading, England. Mrs Innes is a descendent of Dr Royds.

Date: 1861

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

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: E-340-q-013/014

Description: A scene at Lyttelton Harbour showing several sailing vessels at sea Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Port Cooper in 1861 Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double-page spread). Physical Description: Pencil & wash 175 x 520 mm.

Date: [Between 1860 and 1870]

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-040

Description: Photographs taken by Daniel Mundy in the 1860s. All but one were taken in the South Island. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in Mundy Album III, p 51). The North Island view was taken in Napier, and shows a two-storeyed house with quoinings, a horse-drawn coach outside, and to the right there is a wooden church. South Island views include many landscapes; hotels; the Christchurch government buildings, the Victoria Bridge, High Street and Cashel Street; and three sheep stations. Two are well-known, Benmore Station and Gramere Station (then known as Hawden's Station [i.e. Hawdon's Station]. The third is possibly that of George Gilbert Suman [the hand-written description appears to be `Sumans Station' at German Bay, and according to Wise's Post Office Directory, William Gilbert Suman lived in German Bay in 1875). There are three photographs showing Daniel Mundy's travelling darkroom (p 13, 25, and page 43) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather album, geometric pattern, gold decoration, entitled `New Zealand' in gold; 30.5 x 42.5 cm