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Date: 1890 - 1910

From: Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :[New Zealand views]. Louis Glaser, Leipzig. [ca 1890s]

Reference: E-278-q-072

Description: View of River Avon and Victoria Bridge Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, 90 x 137 mm

Date: [1880s-1900s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-o-167

Description: Family photographs, chiefly taken by William Hughes Field. Many of the views are unidentified, as are many of the portraits and group portraits. Some family members are identified, and a few taken in Botany Bay, Sydney, show Richard John Seddon and James Carroll speaking at a function. One image is a reproduction of a cartoon by William Hodgkins entitled `Mark Twain at the City hall Dunedin, on original sin (The watermelon story) ... A sketch from the stalls by W M Hodgkins' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green covers, 24 x 31 cm

Date: 1851 - 1974

By: Barker, Alfred Charles (Dr), 1819-1873

Reference: B-080-018

Description: Shows a scene looking across the river, with the Port Hills in the background. It is probably further downstream than the image showing Dr Barker's, Mr Brittan's and the Land Office, but shows a group of houses on the far bank. Not illustrated in Andersen's history of Christchurch. Shows toetoe plants on the near bank. Studdingsail Hall was the home of Dr Barker Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 298 x 503 mm.

Date: [ca 1900

From: Various artists :1. Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912. Photolithographs of watercolour drawings of New Zealand. [1910?] 2. Department of Maori Affairs. Maori housing. Departmental Standard plans. [1953-1954] 3. Walter Armiger Bowring, 1874-1931. [Cartoons of important New Zealanders]. 1902-1903

By: New Zealand. Parliamentary Library; S and W Mackay (Firm); Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912

Reference: E-962-q-1

Description: Image titles include: 'A Maori maiden'; 'Manawatu Gorge'; 'Hinemoa's Bath, Rotorua'; 'Wanganui River'; 'Otira Gorge, West Coast Road'; 'Mount Cook, Canterbury'; 'Mitre Peak, Milford Sound'; 'Nihotupu Falls, Auckland'; 'Lake Manapouri'; and 'River Avon, Christchurch' Total of ten pages out of 44 used. Bound by Parliamentary Library, using blank pages to bulk out the contents. Red buckram, half red morocco Catalogued by Parliamentary Library as the work of I W Wilson and ca 1910. The signature and style is that of L W Wilson, although the signature appears to read I W Wilson. The Alexander Turnbull Library holds the original watercolour for one reproduction, the view of Lake Manapouri (reference number A-123-002). It also holds second copies of several other reproductions, 5 with a separate printed portfolio cover titled 'New Zealand scenery. From water colour drawings by L W Wilson Esq. S and W Mackay, booksellers, Wellington'(reference number A-192-018/022). The portfolio-style cover with the latter group includes cotton ties opposite a spine binding, suggesting that the reproductions were unbound. Dating: Wilson left New Zealand in 1904. He probably had these copies made before leaving. The view of Manawatu Gorge was also published as a postcard. The Library holds a copy at E-279-160 sent in 1906. Title supplied by Library. Other Titles - [New Zealand scenery. From water colour drawings by L W Wilson Esq. S and W Mackay, Booksellers, Wellington] Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithographs on paper, 200 x265 mm, in binding 1/2 red calf and red buckram, 205 x 290 mm

Date: 1890 - 1910

By: Jessett, George F, active 1900s?

Reference: A-247-047

Description: Mature weeping willows and other trees along both banks of the Avon River, possibly near Deans Bush. A tall native tree rises in the background Supplied title Inscriptions: Mount verso - Descriptive notes, signed: Geo. F Jessett Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 85 x 198 mm Processing information: Originally mounted on sheet with A-247-039/48

Date: [ca 1902]

By: Pettifer, Walter, active 1902

Reference: PAColl-7744

Description: Photographs, many of which are panoramas, of New Zealand cities, rivers and lakes. Includes photographs of Sydney and Tasmania, and a photograph of Brooklyn Bridge, New York. Taken ca 1902, possibly by Walter Pettifer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Purchased from Judith Grant, London, September 2002. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1135 : Pettifer, Walter, fl 1902 : Diary and scrapbook..

Date: 1890 - 1900

From: Various artists :[Twelve sketchbooks, by Mary Grace Caroline Lysaght (3), Emily Muriel Lysaght (4), and another Lysaght family member (5). 1890-1903]

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: E-884

Description: Address inside front cover is: 2 St helens Terrace, Richmond Surrey; as well as "Wellington". Includes landscape scenes entitled: From Patea Heads, In Wellington Harbour, New Brighton, Rangitata (foliage specimens), Mount Torless from the train beyond Dunsandel, [Winton? or Wierton?], Mt Peel - Gapes Gully, New Brighton, From the Port Hills, Lyttelton Harbour, Sumner, Lake Ellesmere, the Avon, Mr Peel and Rangitata, Hills behind Winton; Waitara, Urenui, [an iceberg], [Mr Taranaki] from Stratford. There is also a loose sketch of an iceberg. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Sketchbook, olive and black morocco hardbound, 125 x 260 mm.

Date: [ca 1890-1900]

By: Foster, Susan E, 1946-; Beckett, Ethel Mary, active 1890s; Beckett, Amy Middleton, -1964; Beckett, Thomas Wrench Naylor, 1839-1906; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6244

Description: Photographs, mostly of the South Island, from the collection of the Beckett family. Most were taken by Ethel Mary Beckett, with some being the work of Amy Middleton Beckett. The work of Wheeler & Son, of Christchurch, and Albert E Winzenberg of Masterton is also represented. A photograph of Palmerston Atoll, in the Cook Islands, is included in the collection. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-181858-G to 1/2-181894-G Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s). 37 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1880s-1910s]

From: Clark, Morton, fl 1900s :Photographs

By: Macey, William Henry, -1931; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-9525-1

Description: Photographs taken and collected by Morton Clark and family. Includes a landscape and views of Wellington, Nelson, Whakarewarewa, Akaroa, Buller Gorge, Cass, Otira, and Bealey Gorge during a journey. Also includes portrait photographs of family members taken in Blenheim and Wellington studios. Quantity: 66 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1900s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-289

Description: Photographs of New Zealand circa 1890s, probably taken by George William Barltrop. They cover two areas, the first is in the Canterbury region, including a series of views of the Avon River, the road to New Brighton, New Brighton itself, Timaru (including the Timaru Breakwater, and the Timaru Lighthouse), and Mr Prudhoe's house in Christchurch. The other region is around Wellington, including Wadestown, St Thomas' Church in Newtown (views of the church, and several scenes of a bazaar held near the church; some with children wearing fancy dress). Out of Wellington views include Plimmerton, Mana Island and Pauatahanui. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, impressed title `Photographic views'; `McIntosh V' lettered in gold on spine; 17.5 x 24.0 cm

Date: ca 1870s-ca 1910

By: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Ring, James, 1856-1939; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Valentine, James, -1880; Cottier, Charles Percy, -1950; Wilson, George Washington, 1823-1893; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Ross & Sons (Firm); New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PAColl-0195

Description: Tourist photographs of the major scenic places in New Zealand Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 container(s) 214 photoprints. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1887-1950s]

By: Seaward, Neville Stephen, 1913-2005; Tan, Sunny, active 2011

Reference: PAColl-9900

Description: One group portrait, an albumen print, of men with guns, possibly hunters, titled 'At the Butts Reefton Queen's Jubilee'. Notes on back read 'Luch. NZ Alpine Photo'. Photographer unidentified. Taken in 1887 or 1897 (The Golden Jubilee of 1887 celebrated 50 years of Queen Victoria's reign. Her Diamond Jubilee was held in 1897.) One of men and a woman in a canoe on the Avon River, Christchurch, taken circa 1900 by an unidentified photographer. One of Dawson Falls Mountain House, Mount Taranaki, showing children outside, taken circa 1900 by an unidentified photographer. Four taken during World War II comprising: A scene with troops on board a ship to Crete, Greece, showing Maori troops, possibly members of the Maori Battalion, performing an action song. They appear to be being accompanied by a piano accordian; Undated photograph of New Zealand troops playing rugby in Egypt before a very large crowd; a photograph of the camp at the 1st New Zealand General Hospital, Helwan, Egypt, 14 Jan 1941, with 'KSRA' noted on the back; soldier at an unidentified location photographing a tree with external roots and multiple trunks. Four scenic views of New Zealand taken circa 1950s. Three are taken by N S Seaward and show Wellington Harbour and surrounds, Milford Sound, and Queenstown. The fourth shows Oriental Bay, Wellington, and is taken by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and an albumen print Provenance: Donated by Sunny Tan, Wellington, 2011 Transfers: To Other - From Cartoon Archive: B-184-066 to B-184-070, and C-164-048: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- : [6 cartoons by Trace Hodgson] - To Ephemera Collection - Tanner Bros Ltd : The water front, Auckland. For auld lang syne. Maoriland postcard. FT Series X.2/704. [ca 1910] (Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Auckland-1910-01).

Date: 1877 and [1910s?]

By: Colt, Rhoda C, active 1877

Reference: PA1-q-133

Description: A pocket inserted inside the front cover holds two photographs of wedding celebrations at a British Army regiment in India. One of the scenes shows a large party of men and women, including British and Indian men in uniform. These were taken circa 1910. The main body of the album contains views of Canterbury, Otago and the West Coast of the South Island, taken around 1877 by an unidentified photographer. Many of the scenes are of Christchurch and environs, including public buildings, and various bridges. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - centre - Vol. 1. New Zealand views. Rhoda C. Colt. 1877 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Reddish brown cover, with brown leather corners and spine; 34 x 26 cm Provenance: Donated by Mrs N E Jackson, Wellington

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1900s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-291

Description: Album of photographs probably taken by George William Barltrop, chiefly showing facets of Christchurch and Lyttelton. The first scenes are a group portrait of men and women with the caption `Camera club (flashlight)'; two photographs of a wedding, the first a group portrait, and the second the bride and groom, both scenes taken outside on a lawn outside a conservatory; the altar at St Thomas' (Newtown, Wellington); and an exterior and an interior view of St Barnabas' Church, Norfolk Island. The rest of the album is scenes of the Christchurch and Lyttelton areas, including interior and exterior views of Christ Church Cathedral and of St Michaels' Church, Christchurch; views of Lyttelton and the Lyttelton Wharves; the Canterbury Museum and its gardens; Hagley Park and the Avon River. The wedding groups, a young woman wearing a mortar board and gown on the steps of a church, and a family of four with their dog, are the only portraits, none of whom are identified. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, impressed title `Photographic views'; `McIntosh VII' lettered in gold on spine; 17.5 x 24.0 cm

Date: [1880s-1910s?]

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

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Ferrez, Marc, 1843-1923; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA1-q-260

Description: Collection of photographs taken by various photographers including the Burton Brothers, George Valentine, Josiah Martin and Marc Ferrez. On page [67] there is a hand-traced map of the world with a route marked on it from London, to Plymouth, Canary Islands, Cape Town, Tasmania, Wellington, Lyttelton, Cape Horn, Rio de Janeiro, Canary Islands and back to Plymouth and London. The distance travelled out was 12,948 miles, and distance home was 11,915 miles. The photographs cover most of these places, with more detailed travel through Tasmania, and especially New Zealand. Scenes in New Zealand were mostly taken by the Burton Brothers and Josiah Martin. They include views of the main cities, and a large number in the thermal area around Lake Rotorua and Mount Tarawera, showing the area around the Pink and White Terraces before and after the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886. Photographs by Josiah Martin include portraits of Maori, and one entitled "The old order changeth" with Maori artifacts, shrunken heads, and a portrait of Tawhiao. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover, black leather coners and spine; 27.5 x 37.5 cm

Date: 1890 - 1910

By: Fletcher, Frances Ann, 1846-1935

Reference: A-123-027

Description: Shows Armagh Street bridge over Avon River from Cambridge Terrace, with two cabbage trees in foreground and other exotic trees. Cathedral spire on left, rooftops of central city buildings, including United Service Hotel building and Post Office tower centre right, and Port Hills with Castle Rock beyond. Photographs of Armagh Street Bridge show wrought ironwork rather than solid stone in the top section. United Service Hotel building was under construction in 1885 and was completed about 1886. Post Office Tower did not have its clock in 1879, but this was in place in mid-1880s. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 223 x 288 mm