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Schaef, A W :The business side of the Avenue, Wanganui
Date: ca 1890
By: Schaef, Arthur Waldemar, 1867-1940
Reference: PA4-0963
Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Business side of the Avenue, Wanganui, taken by A W Schaef ca 1890 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Business side of Avenue, Wanganui; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Recto - left of image - Photograph by A W Schaef Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print
Peter Webb Galleries :Photographs of New Zealand scenes
Date: 189-
Reference: PAColl-2084
Description: Maori woman with pipe; Maori family outside their house; Maori canoe. Buildings, streets, parks, gardens, river and coastal scenes - locations include Wanganui, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Napier, Rimutaka Hill Road and Masterton Quantity: 64 b&w original photographic print(s).
Schaef, A W :A scene at the Wanganui Racecourse Grounds
Date: ca 1890
From: Campbell, Eve, fl 1976 :Stereographs
By: Schaef, Arthur Waldemar, 1867-1940
Reference: PA4-0707
Description: Stereoscopic photograph of women and children standing by the lake in the Wanganui Racecourse Grounds, taken by A W Schaef ca 1890 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - In Wanganui Racecourse Grounds; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Recto - left of image - Photograph by A W Schaef Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by Mrs E Campbell, July 1976
Contact prints from 10x12 negatives of scenes in the Wairarapa, Manawatu-Wanganui and T...
Date: ca 1878-1902
From: Creator of collection unknown :Contact prints from 10x12 negatives of scenes in the Wairarapa, Manawatu-Wanganui and Taranaki regions
By: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920
Reference: PAColl-3722-3
Description: Arrangement: In order by copy negative number - 1/2-11800-F to 1/2-11861-F (some missing) Quantity: 59 b&w original photographic print(s) in one box. Provenance: Contact prints made ca 1970s from plates no longer in existence
Donor unknown :Possibly Harding Collection
Date: ca 1885
By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899
Reference: PAColl-3501
Description: Studio portraits and street scenes Arrangement: Negative numbers G174782-85-1/2, G26822-25-1/1 Quantity: 7 b&w original negative(s).
Saxby album 2
Date: 1870-1890
From: Saxby, Stephen Hector, 1907- :Photograph albums
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Ring, James, 1856-1939; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903
Reference: PA1-q-213
Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand and Pacific scenes, compiled ca 1870s-1880s. Includes views of Nelson. Bridge over the Waiau River near Hanmer. Hutt Valley (showing junction of Belmont Road), Manaia (showing Dr Hector, and oysters in foreground). James Hector's house `Ratanui,'near Petone, his family, and views from the house. Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu (showing flooding, acclimatisation ponds, and the road between Queenstown and Martin's Bay). Greymouth. Castle Hill. White Island. Mount Ruapehu. Otira Gorge. Arthur River. Milford Sound (with steamship Rotorua). Christchurch. Auckland (including a series of interior views of Kilbryde, the home of Sir John Logan Campbell). Cable car over Taramakau River. Hawks Crag. Brunnerton. Arnold river. Arthur's Pass. Buller River. Denniston (showing coal mines and incline). Mount Cook. Wellington (including views of the Botanic Garden). Lake Mapourika. Sutherland Falls. Tahiti. Wanganui. The Wainuiomata Reservoir. Napier. Photographers represented include W T L Travers (scenes on Waiau river), Hart, Campbell & Co (Queenstown and Wakatipu), James Ring (Greymouth, Castle Hill, and Buller), H T Lock (Hawks Crag and Denniston), Wheeler & Son (Christchurch), Connolly & Co (Wellington Botanic Garden) and Burton Brothers (Sutherland Falls). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded maroon cover, entitled "New Zealand ferns"; 30.5 x 25.0 cm
Council chambers, Wanganui
Date: [Between 1890 and 1899]
From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district
Reference: 1/1-000138-G
Description: The old council chambers, Wanganui, probably photographed by Alfred Martin. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Medley, Mary Catherine (Taylor), 1835-1922 :Gordon Park. Wanganui. Jany 1897.
Date: 1897
From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.
Reference: E-380-019
Description: Shows a pathway between native trees trees in Gordon Park, Upokongaro, Wanganui East. Cabbage trees and toetoe feature Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Gordon Park Wanganui Jny 1897 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)
[Star Lithographic Works] :Wanganui [Auckland, Star Lithographic Works, 1890]
Date: 1890
From: [Star Lithographic Works] :Wanganui [and] Queen Street wharf, Auckland. [Auckland, Star Lithographic Works, 1890]
By: Star Lithographic Works
Reference: A-109-056
Description: View of Wanganui from across the river, with the main bridge diagonally across the picture plane Extended Title - From: The New Zealand Jubilee and Exhibition Chronicle, 1890 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 91 x 143 mm
[Dittmer, Wilhelm] 1866-1909 :Te Rangihiwinui, known as Major Kemp, Whanganui [ca 1876?...
Date: 1898 - 1875 - 1905 - 1877
By: Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909
Reference: A-255-008
Description: Head and shoulders frontal portrait of Major Kemp in uniform. He is shown with a full beard, and the New Zealand War Medal suspended from his jacket. Appears to be based on a studio photograph of Te Rangihiwinui, in about 1876, the year he received the New Zealand War Medal. See PA2-2562. Dittmer arrived in New Zealand in 1898, the year of Te Rangihiwinui's death. He returned to Germany in 1905 Title from back of work Inscriptions: Recto - title in ink, in a flowing hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink & Chinese white 225 x 171 mm Provenance: Purchase: Sotheby's auction London: 28 Nov 1975
Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :[Wanganui. 1892]
Date: 1892 - 1893
From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.
Reference: E-373-013
Description: Looking along the Whanganui River on its south bank towards a bridge and houses on both sides of the river. A paddle-steamer is in the river and two people are walking along the road at the base of a cliff to the left. The area in the left background is likely to be Putiki, where the artist grew up Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook 130 x 180 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..
Smytheman, V :Scenic views of New Zealand
Date: [ca 1890-1950]
From: Smytheman, V :Photographs from World War II and an album of New Zealand scenes
By: Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970
Reference: PAColl-0531-1
Description: Scenic views of New Zealand including a number of the glass houses and parks of Wanganui and New Plymouth. There are also an old photograph of W Stack's Hotel in Hastings with men and horses outside (in poor condition); a woman in what may be a 1930 Chrysler Plymouth with another snow away from the tyres; the gravestone of Julius von Haast; Queen's Wharf, Wellington showing a recently returned troop transport ship; an orchestra performing at the 1907 Christchurch exhibition; men of the No. 19 Platoon with a car at the summit of the Rimutakas; postcard from P B Davis to Mr A French showing a group of First World War soldiers with the message that they are about to leave for France; and six children at the base of a large Maori carving with a bell attached at Ohinemutu. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-053380 Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s).
[Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Wanganui, Ruapehu. [1890s?]
Date: 1890 - 1900
From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book
Reference: E-346-2-035
Description: View looking east along the Whanganui River from the opposite bank, with Putiki in the foreground, and a telegraph pole, several houses and gardens on the opposite bank and, in the background, Mt Ruapehu with dark ash rising from its summit and from several other points Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm
Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.
Date: 1896 - 1899
By: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922; Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873; Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975
Reference: E-380
Description: Shows views of Maori buildings in Papawai and Te Ore Ore (Masterton area), the homesteads of A. Hutt and A. Hawdon at Underwood (possibly Port Underwood), Picton, Wanganui, Canterbury Plains (including Mt Peel, Rangitata), Feilding (including Lord Ranfurly's arrival there), Wairarapa, Levin (a Maori house), W. Maunsel's house in Masterton, the home of H. Nixon at Sedgebrook, and the Church Mission house at Waimate (Bay of Islands). This last is by Richard Taylor (Mary Medley's father), as is a view of St Sampson Church, Guernsey. At the back are loose sketches with copies of Edward Lear's illustrated limericks. Cranleigh Barton is a grandson of the artist. Inscriptions: (Inside front cover, inscribed by Cranleigh Barton) 15 Mary Medley's sketchbook.; Some works inscribed with title beneath image. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 24 pencil sketches, 43 watercolour and pencil works, in sketchbook 165 x 230 mm. Finding Aids: Shelf-list/inventory available - copy housed with sketchbook..
McIntosh album 15
Date: [Circa 1890s to 1910s]
By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946
Reference: PA1-o-299
Description: Photographs probably taken by George William Barltrop, circa 1890s-1900s. Most of the scenes are taken on a river boat trip up the Whanganui River, and include two of groups of Maori; one showing two nuns in full habit, walking behind three young Maori girls who are wearing ankle-length dresses. Some of the river scenes show stretches of the river, including several `on the rapids', and one of a group of men in a waka. Others are of the various villages passed on the trip, including one of the river boat tied up at Jerusalem, with a cart drawn by two horses alongside. One view shows the mouth of the Whanganui River at Patea, and from there the images are of the New Plymouth area, including Mount Taranaki (then Mount Egmont), the Sugar Loaves, the monument to Wiremu Tamati on the hill at Corbett Park (Oakura), and Opunake. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, impressed title `Photographs'; McIntosh XV, 15 765-814; 16 x 22 cm
Photographs of the Davis family
Date: 1890-1956
From: Davis, Bruce Valentine, 1913-2003 :Photographs and negatives
Reference: PAColl-3480
Description: Photographs relating to the Davis family of Barton St. David, Somerset, England. All seven sons emigrated to New Zealand ca 1904. The photographs include views in England and on active service in South Africa, China (1908) and postcards of Belgium and France acquired by the brothers on active service in World War One. Also views of Royal naval vessels associated with Frederick Edward Davis and a British police group associated with Harry Davis Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w copy photographic print(s). 34 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s).
Sharp album 2
Date: [1890s]
Reference: PA1-q-222
Description: Photographs relating to Herbert Spackman and his family and relatives, chiefly taken by him. Places include views of Wellington and bays, Eketahuna and the Wanganui district. Very few of the people shown are fully identified but are likely to be Harry Spackman’s: mother (Eliza Spackman, nee Hawkings), father (Henry Spackman), brother, mother-in-law (Mrs Coxall, mother of Harry’s first wife Amy), and father-in-law (Mr Parnell, father of Fanny Parnell, Harry's second wife). Several houses are shown, including: ‘Rangiuru’, located at 63 Hutt Road, Petone, Wellington; House of Eketahuna farmer David S Lowe; House of David S Lowe’s brother Henry (‘Harry’) Goold Spackman in Wanganui, both interior and exterior, ‘Ben Venuto’ situated at 59 Rintoul Street and house of Henry (‘Harry’) Goold Spackman in Wellington, both interior and exterior views. Herbert Spackman's nephew Roy Spackman (Clement Roy) attended Wanganui Collegiate School, and there are several views of the chapel (interior and exterior) and the music room. There is one group portrait of Wanganui Collegiate School boys (p 41). Source of descriptive information - Information sourced from various places including the internet, and a family member. Two articles on Henry and Herbert Spackman both before they left England, and in New Zealand can be found at www.bris.ac.uk/music/CHOMBEC/chombec-news-1.pdf and www.bris.ac.uk/music/CHOMBEC/chombec-news-4.pdf Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark red cover, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 29 x 24 cm
Medley, Mary Catherine (Taylor), b. 1835 :[Trees and water. 1895]
Date: 1895
From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook of Mary C. Medley nee Taylor...1895. No. 14.
Reference: E-379-002
Description: Sketch of trees etc Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 130 x 225 mm (page size)
Saxby album 3
Date: 1860-1880s
From: Saxby, Stephen Hector, 1907- :Photograph albums
By: Monro, David (Sir), 1813-1877; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903; Beattie, John Watt, 1859-1930
Reference: PA1-q-214
Description: Album of views in New Zealand and Australia, comprising photographs of Nelson, mostly taken by Sir David Monro ca 1860-1865, showing his family and properties, "Bearcroft", and "Newstead"; views of Lake Guyon and district taken ca 1865 by W T L Travers, and scenes in Tasmania taken by John Watt Beattie of Hobart, ca 1880s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with tan cloth cover, dark green leather spine; 35 x 26 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