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Date: [Circa 1890s]

By: Mannering, George Edward, 1862-1947; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Fox, C D, active 1890s; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-325

Description: Album created by G E Mannering, some photographs taken by him. A number of these are of children, only identified by nick-names, or Christian names; and one of an older man in a top hat is named `Grandad'. Several views of the children are taken at the beach at New Brighton in 1893. An interior photograph of an office `The consulting desk' was taken by `HMP'. Photographs also include a scene of hay making, and several of scenes relating to sheep farming, including sheep drafting, and one of 120 bales of wool from `Double Hill Estate' loaded onto four wagons, towed by W.A. McLaren's traction engine. Other scenes in Christchurch include the Christchurch Cathedral; and early photographs of Christ's College, when the buildings were in `corrugated iron Tudor' style; and a house with a century plant (agave americana) in the foreground. The rest of the scenes are mixed, with a few tourist scenes of Maori outside a meeting house, and a group in a hot spring at Tokaanu, and a newspaper cutting with photograph of Rewi Maniapoto from the Christchurch Press (no date). One photograph shows George Edward Mannering with a group on Mount Hutt. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, with `A. P. Mannering Album, 4444-4485' lettered in gold on spine; 25 x 33 cm

Date: 1890

By: Ingram, John Henderson (Sir), 1924-2015

Reference: PAColl-10512

Description: Photographic print of Oriental Bay, Wellington, taken in 1890 by an unidentified photographer. Image shows children on a footpath in the right foreground, with the shoreline and boatsheds on the left. Houses and hills behind. Inscriptions: Backing board verso - top right - This belongs to John Ingram (on loan to DSR) 31/8/69 (I started at NZS late August '69) 9.12.05 [in ballpoint pen]; Mount recto - bottom left - Oriental Bay 1890 [in pencil]; Backing board verso - centre - Ingram [in pencil] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print with high gloss, in mount, 30 x 34.8 cm. Provenance: The photograph previously belonged to the donor's grandfather, Sir John Henderson Ingram (1924-2015), and may have belonged to Sir John Ingram's father, John Garden Ingram (1888-1952) of Nelson. Processing information: The item was framed but the glass broke in the post, so it was deframed by Senior Photographs Conservator. Original backing board has been kept with item.

Date: 1927

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-047466-G

Description: Beach, Island Bay, Wellington, photographed in 1927 by Sydney Charles Smith. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - right of image - Box 170 1927 945 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1949

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-047501-G

Description: Scene at the beach, Titahi Bay, in 1949, photographed by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative