Places

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925

Reference: A-104-049-b

Description: Shows the small digging township on the south end of the Okarito Lagoon, on the West Coast. In the right foreground, small boats are pulled up on the shore beside a house and a fishing net hanging to dry. A coastal bluff and a steamship at sea can be seen in the right distance. Title from label on verso. See Ellis, E M. Early prints of N.Z. 1642-1875. Christchurch, 1977. p. 192-193. From a sketch by W M Cooper; lith by Schmidt. Other Titles - Okarito Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 220 x 300 mm

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

Date: 1885

From: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :Mostly Westland. No 3 Folder. [1885]

Reference: E-178-f-008

Description: Mountain range with lagoon in the foreground Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 195 x 329 mm

Date: [ca 1872-1880s]

By: Perkins, J (Mr), active 1967; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4608

Description: Photographs of Mount Taranaki; Mount Cook; Tasman Glacier near Malte Brun hut site; lower Tasman Glacier with Mounts De La Beche, Minarets, Green and Elie de Beaumont; Tasman Glacier with Mounts Cook, Tasman and Haidinger behind; main divide south of De la Beche with Glacier Dome and the Rudolf Glacier on the lower left; and the junction of Ball and Tasman Glaciers with the Anzacs ridge in the background. Photographs taken by Burton Bros. Photographs of view down Princes Street with the Colonial Mutual building on the left and the Exchange building on the right; Victoria Bridge over the Avon, Christchurch, with the Supreme Court building on the right; the Glacier Hotel at Bealey with a carriage and four pulling up; and Jackson's on the West Coast Road. Photographs taken by Wheeler & Son. Photograph of the flood in Mawhera Quay and Catholic School in Greymouth. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). 14 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph album, photographic prints

Date: 1885

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921

Reference: E-178-f

Description: Views of Mount Cook, Lake Mapourika, the Fox and Franz Joseph Glaciers, Okarito and South Westland At back - Two small cuttings (cut from a sketchbook cover/s) containing notes in pencil. One is a list of people and where they lived. Quantity: 75 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, sheets 194 x 327 mm Provenance: Purchased from the artist's widow, Mrs A R Moreton, Christchurch, 1926 (See IA 93/3, Mss Coll)

Date: 1870 - 1898

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook [1856-ca 1890]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: E-207-q-025-2

Description: View of a mountain, possibly Mt Cook Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - F A Coxhead, photo, Dn., NZ (stamp); Recto - beneath image - Is this Mt Cook ? Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Sepia photograph, 100 x 153 mm

Date: [Early 1880s?]

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Taber, Isaiah West, 1830-1912

Reference: PA1-q-153

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken by various photographers, circa early 1880s. Images include several Maori groups, Maori kainga, meeting houses, carving; a large number of views of mud pools, geysers, hot springs, and in particular views of the Pink and White Terraces before the Tarawera eruption in 1886. Other views show areas of the South Island, including Dunedin City, Oamaru, Christchurch; and the North island including Auckland, Thames District (a number showing aspects of gold mining in the area). The last photograph, of the R.M.S.S. Zealandia was taken by Taber Photo, San Francisco. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with grey blue cover, black corners and spine edged with gold; 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Date: 1885

From: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :Mostly Westland. No 3 Folder. [1885]

Reference: E-178-f-012

Description: Mount Cook and Southern Alps as seen from a lagoon Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 195 x 329 mm

Date: 1885

From: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :Mostly Westland. No 3 Folder. [1885]

Reference: E-178-f-020-1

Description: View of Mount Cook, Mount Dampier and other peaks in the Southern Alps. Scrubby vegetation in the foreground. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 195 x 329 mm

Date: [Circa 1890s]

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

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919

Reference: PA1-o-520

Description: Album of tourist views of New Zealand and the sub-Antarctic Islands, chiefly taken by John Richard Morris, Jnr, circa 1890s. Places and subjects listed above where identified. The Sub-Antarctic Island views are all of native flora and fauna of the different islands, listed on the images as mollymawks, albatrosses, sea lions, crested penguins and erect-crested penguins On page 32 there is a view of the SS Knight Templar leaving Lyttelton on February 17, 1900, taking about 260 soldiers and 300 horses of the 3rd Contingent "the New Zealand Roughriders" to Durban, en route to fight in the South African War. The wharf is crowded with people seeing the ship off, soldiers lined up alongside the ship, and bunting flying on two ships nearby. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 24.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1875 - 1895

By: Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912

Reference: A-089-009

Description: Two tents on a river flat at the base of Mount Cook Signed: L.W.W. Probably copied from one of William Spotswood Green's drawings Other Titles - Rev William Spotswood Green Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 300 x 190 mm

Date: [ca 1890s-1900s]

Reference: PAColl-9669

Description: An album page with views of Otira Gorge and Mount Cook. Shows horses pulling a carriage on the Christchurch and Hokitika Road in Otiria Gorge. Shows Mount Cook from the Hooker Glacier. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album leaf with 2 b&w original photographic prints. Physical Description: 41.5 x 31 cm mounted album page

Date: 1890 - 1995 - 1896

By: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925; National Library of New Zealand

Reference: E-498-004

Description: Shows flowers and leaves of Mount Cook lily with Mount Cook and a rose-coloured sky in background. Original watercolour at E-001-q-023. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cards.. Physical Description: Colour photolithograph on card, 180 x 125 mm (folded).

Date: 1885

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921; Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985; Wildey, Alexander Edward, 1888-1967

Reference: E-788

Description: Includes views sketched during a trip in April 1885, of Preservation Inlet from the "Stella", Puysegur Sound, Dusky Sound, Breaksea Sound, Dea's Cove, Thompson Sound, Charles Sound, Caswell's Sound, Lookinglass Bay, George Sound, Bligh Sound, Poisson Bay, Sutherland Sound, Pembroke from south of Milford, Lion Mountain, Milford Sound, Sealer's Cove and Benton Peak, Kaipo, Mount Argentum, Jacksons Bay, Mahitahi, Cook Bluff, Cook from Gillespies Bluff, Okarito, Lake Waihapo, Rangitipo-Otira, Mount Rolleston, Lake Pearson, Governor's Bay (Lyttelton Harbour). The cover title also mentions Rolleston and Christchurch but these are not shown (although Governor's Bay is near Christchurch). Other Titles - Mount Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Album of 42 leaves, each 113 x 190 mm. Cover fawn linen. Pencil-holder at top Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A85-097 - Other material from the same provenance is at MSS 85-097, PAColl-0931, NegColl-246, A-367-028/029, B-163-014/026, C-081-003/009 and E-787..

Date: 1885

From: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :Mostly Westland. No 3 Folder. [1885]

Reference: E-178-f-055

Description: Includes artist's notes Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 195 x 329 mm

Date: 1877

From: Adams, Charles William, 1840-1918 :[Outline sketches of Mount Cook] 1877

By: Adams, Charles William, 1840-1918

Reference: A-215-025

Description: A profile of the peaks of Mount Cook / Aoraki and Mount Tasman looking south from Hokitika Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on tracing paper, 182 x 166 mm

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

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Willis, Archibald Dudingston (Firm) :N. Z. Christmas cards. - Wanganui ; A.D. Willis [1886 or later].

By: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm)

Reference: E-068-039

Description: A stony river, bush, low hills and Mount Cook Text below image reads: "A merry Christmas" Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 127 x 87 mm

Date: 1885

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921

Reference: A-230-038

Description: A view of Mt Cook from Okarito Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 183 x 317 mm Provenance: Donated by the Wildey family, August 1968

Date: 1885

From: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :Mostly Westland. No 3 Folder. [1885]

Reference: E-178-f-004

Description: Ferryman halfway across the Cook River. Buildings can seen on the flat land at the base of the Southern Alps. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 195 x 329 mm