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New Zealand scenery album 2
Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]
By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PA1-o-386
Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm
Photographs of the Arapuni dam, the Catlins and other views
Date: [ca 1890-1927]
From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); France, J W, active 1890s
Reference: PAColl-0348
Description: Mounted photographs by the Burton Brothers of the junction of Eden and Tees Streets, Oamaru showing St Luke's Church, shops, tram lines and part of the Council Chambers; looking down on the wharves of Port Chalmers with the Presbyterian Church in the right foreground; and the Kakahi Falls, near Tawhata on the Whanganui River. Two smaller mounted photographs of a river in the Catlins District. Three pages from a photograph album holding five photographs of the building of the Arapuni Dam on the Waikato River including the buried forest exposed by the Waikato River diversion. Three loose prints by J W France of an early settlers' cottage made of ponga with a turf roof and with the family outside; a group of six workmen standing on the road they were building with long handled shovels and a boy and a dog in front of them; and the funeral procession of Sir John MacKenzie in 1901 led by a pipe band up the main road in Oamaru working. Finally a loose print of the bridge over the Waiho River. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-68928 to 1/2-068934. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.
Album of photographs relating to Poverty Bay
Date: 1840-1950
From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs
By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949; Heron, George Charles, 1923-1972; Johnston, Owen, active 1940-1987; New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch; Palmer, Albert Noel, 1920-1972; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955
Reference: PA1-o-1036
Description: Contains photographs and photographic copies of paintings illustrating Te Rangihaeata's house on Mana Island, Waitahanui Pa at Lake Taupo, meeting houses at Waihi (Taupo), Wairoa, Te Wairoa (Rotorua), Otaki, Ohinemutu, Morrinsville, Waiomatatini, Pokai, Whakarewarewa, Tokaanu, Koroniti and Thames. Also shown are a gateway at Te Teko and the gateway to a church at Nuhaka. The artists and photographers represented are G F Angas, A P Godber, A N Palmer, William Hall Raine, George Heron, Owen Johnston, E Edwards, and the New Zealand Railways Publicity Department. A number of images were provided by the Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Graphic drawing book 23 x 31 cm
Burton Brothers, 1868-1898 (Firm, Dunedin) :Victoria Avenue, Wanganui
Date: [ca 1880s]
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PA7-38-09-1
Description: View of Victoria Avenue looking west towards the Watt Fountain and the Post Office belltower. The building in the foreground to the left is a bank. Photograph taken by Burton Brothers, ca 1880s. Loose page from Wairakei album Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4047 - The Avenue - Wanganui. Burton Bros, Duned[in] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.8 x 19.7 cm on loose album page 23.8 x 29.5 cm
Long album 2
Date: [Between 1868 and 1898]
By: Long, W H (Mrs), active 1970; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Zangaki (Firm)
Reference: PA1-q-146
Description: Album of photographs, most taken by the Burton Brothers in New Zealand, including a large number of Maori images, group portraits, identified men and women, pa, and storehouses. Scenes also taken by them in Tonga and Samoa. A number of images show scenes in England, including a group taken near Egremont in Cumbria, of ice on the Mersey River in 1895. There are a large number of copies of paintings of romantic scenes. Several photographs of the Suez Canal, and the Nile River, were taken by Greek photographers `Zangaki' Brothers Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with reddish brown cover, brown corners and spine with single raised cords; fleur de lys pattern stamped between cords; 33.5 x 27.0 cm
Photographs
Date: ca 1950 - ca 1960
From: Burke, Noreen (estate) :Photographs
By: Burke, Noreen Hannah, 1926-1984; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Jauncey, Philip Henry, 1902-1982
Reference: PAColl-6859-1
Description: Photographs taken by Noreen H Burke, The Evening Post, P H Jauncey, and the Burton Brothers. Many images are of parts of Wellington, Evans Bay, Parliament Buildings, the Cenotaph, the Botanic Garden and views of the city. Others include people in boats, flying boats, views of the Tukituki River Hawke's Bay, All Saints Church Palmerston North, Turuturu-moki Pa near Hawera Taranaki, the Turi and Rongorongo memorial canoe at Patea, and a group of people which include Prime Minister Holyoake and US President Johnson. Quantity: 52 b&w original photographic print(s) 5 hand-coloured.
Southern Lakes and mountains, and some North Island views
Date: [Between 1885 and 1919]
From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Muir & Moodie (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-0959-15
Description: Views of the Southern Lakes District, interspersed with a few scenes in the North Island taken by the Burton Brothers and Muir & Moodie between about 1885 and 1919. Most of the places mentioned are listed above. Image no. 63 shows a party of men and women at Sandfly Point (Milford Sound) showing some of the women wearing veils over their hats for protection from sandflies; image no. 79 "Phantom canoe as seen on Lake Tarawera" is an artist's impression of the phantom canoe which appeared to a group of tourists on Lake Tarawera on May 31st prior to the eruption of Mount Tarawera on June 10th 1886 and which was considered to be a bad omen; image no. 82 shows a collage "No. 1. Maori Land. The portraits are originals - taken from life"; image no. 094 shows a close-up view of the "wire tram" over the Taramakau River; no. 095 shows a logging tramway in the Taupaki Kauri Bush belonging to Matthew Henry Roe, while no. 120 shows his Kauri Point Sawmill, with the paddle steamer "Oregon" in the background; no. 096 shows a self-acting tramway incline at Wairongomai used for gold extraction; nos 104 and 105 show gold dredges, "the Dunedin Gold Dredge" and "Sew Hoy's Dredge". Quantity: 122 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Some items retouched with white, showing snow-covered peaks. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".
Photograph of a group of unidentified people at Pipiriki
Date: 1885
From: Burton Bros
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PA7-36-10
Description: Two men, a woman, child and a dog photographed at Pipiriki by Alfred Burton in May 1885 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3537 - Pipiriki - Wanganui River - King Country. Burton Bros. Dunedin. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.5 x 20 cm on mount 22.8 x 29.2 cm
Burton Brothers, 1868-1898 (Firm, Dunedin) :Town Bridge, Wanganui
Date: [ca 1880s]
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PA7-38-09-2
Description: View of Town Bridge from Durie Hill looking west. The large building on the opposite side of the river is the premises of New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Coy Limited. Photograph taken by Burton Brothers, ca 1880s. Loose page from Wairakei album Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4045 - Wanganui. Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.8 x 19.7 cm on loose album page 23.8 x 29.5 cm
Taumarunui
Date: ca 1880s
From: Burton Brothers, 1868-1898 (Firm, Dunedin) :Photographs of New Zealand scenes
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: 1/2-049995-F
Description: Unidentified woman, with a kete (Maori flax basket) on her back, alongside whare at Taumarunui. Photograph taken by the Burton Brothers circa 1880s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3593 - Taumaranui [sic] - King Country Burton Bros Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Burton Brothers, 1868-1898 (Firm, Dunedin) :Photograph of men at Taherepokiore Rapid, W...
Date: [ca 1885]
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PAColl-8473
Description: Photograph of a group of men on the bank of the Whanganui River near the Taherepokiore Rapid, and another man in a small waka on the water, taken circa 1885 by the Burton Brothers. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3557 - TAHEREPOKIORE RAPID - WANGANUI RIVER - KING COUNTRY / BURTON BROS. DUNEDIN Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20.3 x 14.8 cm, mounted on file print card
Looking up the Whanganui River
Date: [ca 1870s]
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: 1/2-096735-G
Description: View looking up the Whanganui River, taken by Burton Brothers, circa 1870s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4040 - Wanganui River, looking up. Burton Bros. Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) (copied from original print). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative
Looking across the Whanganui river towards the settlement of Jerusalem - Photograph tak...
Date: 1885
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 18
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Burton, Alfred Henry, 1834?-1914
Reference: PAColl-7581-76
Description: Looking across the Whanganui river towards the settlement of Jerusalem. Photograph taken in 1885 by Alfred Burton of the Burton Brothers. "BB3530 Hiroharama (Jerusalem) Wanganui River from Mill "The Maori at home 1885 (Neg 211)" From Burton Brothers/Muir and Moodle catalogue, Volume One by the Photographic Information Section, National Museum of New Zealand, 1991. This image was originally published as part of the series "The Maori at Home" in 1885. Other Titles - Hiroharama (Jerusalem) Wanganui River Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3530 Hiroharama (Jerusalem) Wanganui River Burton Bros. Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.5 x 20 cm
Burton Brothers, 1868-1898 (Firm, Dunedin) :Photograph of Jerusalem
Date: 1885
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PAColl-8741
Description: Photograph of a group of Maori in front of a meeting house at Jerusalem, taken 1885 by Burton Brothers. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Hiroharama (Jerusalem) - Wanganui River Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3529-Hiroharama-(Jerusalem-) Wanganui River. Burton Bros. Dunedin; Verso - top centre - Hirorahama (Jerusalem) Wanganui Riv Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.6 x 19.9 cm
Miln, H M :Burton Brothers photographs
Date: Before 1886
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PAColl-0585
Description: 22 Burton Bros prints of New Zealand scenes. They include the battle field of Orakau from Kihikihi; a family near Cave Rock on Sumner beach; a view over north Dunedin showing the university in the distance; a view of Akaroa from across the harbour; the boulders on Moeraki beach; and a number of the Pink and White Terraces. Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s) on card.