Places

Date: 1863

By: Duppa, George, 1817-1888

Reference: E-081-q

Description: Two complete 360 degree panoramas, back-to-back. The first one is 12 pages with two inserts, with a closer view of the station, homestead, outhouses, etc. The second, 14 pages plus 1 insert is a wider view of the countryside from a higher, more distant position. Notes include vegetation and landmarks, including Tekoa, Mt Veto, Jollie's Pass, Maori Kaik, Domett's run, top of Mt Pam [i.e. Mt Palmerston], Duppa's nephew Bryan, and his dog Norma. The drawing of Bryan Duppa is a back view of him seated by a flax-bush, the dog Norma seated at his side. His initials are below the drawing Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 2 pencil drawings on both sides of 14 sheets 228 x ca 3500 mm and 228 x ca 4000 mm on sheets 228 x 285 mm

Date: 1882

From: Artist unknown :[North Canterbury sketches] 1882-1883

Reference: E-404-003

Description: Shows Lake Mary, to the left of Parkerson's Station (shown on following page) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash on page 90 x 130 mm. Provenance: Donation: David Gibson, Cheltenham, England, 1989.

Date: 1849-1869, 1964

By: Valpy family

Reference: MS-Papers-1113

Description: 'In New Zealand', F H Valpy's reminiscences of employment as cadet in establishment of a Canterbury sheep run and as a gold buyer in the Tuapeka district. Photocopy of a letter from W H Valpy to G Lloyd, 11 Oct 1848, refusing support to bring a clergymen to Dunedin. Research paper on W H Valpy's life in New Zealand Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, and printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-031

Description: Orari Homestead (South Canterbury), the home of the Tripp family, with its surrounding garden (including cabbage trees) and a conservatory to the left, attached to the house. Hills in the background. The preliminary drawing for this view is on the previous page of the sketchbook. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1883

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: A-113-008

Description: Shows cows grazing in a fenced paddock, a homestead and farm buildings and a haystack in background Note on back: Timaru somewhere, I think. Possibly the work of Mary Grace Caroline Lysaght. The style is similar to hers and the handwriting may also be hers. Her sister, Annie Lysaght married Thomas Henry Wigley of Opuha Station, South Canterbury, in 1879. Mary Lysaght visited her sister in the early 1880s, and made other watercolours of the area. Other Titles - Timaru somewhere I think [Mary Grace Caroline Lysaght] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - date in brushpoint. On verso, in ink 'Timaru somewhere, I think' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 108 x 349 mm

Date: 1864

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :South Island sketchbook 1864

Reference: E-174-007/008

Description: Shows the Waimate homestead of John Studholme Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawing 128 x 346 mm.

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-029

Description: Orari Homestead (South Canterbury), the home of the Tripp family, with its surrounding garden and a woman standing to the left in the foreground. Hills in the background. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

By: Hunter, Norman Mitchell, 1859-

Reference: E-328-f-038-2

Description: A view of Waihao Downs Station, owned by John Douglas in 1882. Shows the woolshed and sheep pens, cattle pens; slaughter house; piggery; stables; Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Waihao Downs Station (John Douglas) ...... 20/11/82 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 78 x 532 mm

Date: 1878-1887

Reference: Micro-MS-0374

Description: Outwards correspondence referring mainly to affairs at his sheep station at Swannanoa, Canterbury, and his real estate and other business interests, including his direction of a tramway company in Christchurch Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 500 pages). Physical Description: Holograph Finding Aids: For description of contents see: Brown, J E Description of diaries, letters and other items (1961) at q012 NZ & Pacific Collection.

Date: 1885; 1865-1876, 1878-1883

Reference: Micro-MS-0373

Description: William Vance Brown's diary describes farming and social conditions on his uncle's sheep station at Waiiti, and contains a description of a tour within New Zealand prior to his departure for the United States of America. John Evans Brown's diaries describe farming, social and domestic activities on his sheep station at Swannanoa, Canterbury. He also lived at various times in Christchurch from 1870 and refers to business interests, civil affairs, his participation in provincial and national politics, and social life in Wellington and Canterbury. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (1 + 18 vols, ca 782 pages). Physical Description: Holograph Finding Aids: Description of contents at beginning of reel See also: Brown, J E Description of diaries, letters and other items (1961) at q012 NZ & Pacific Collection.

Date: 1855-1861 (1940)

Reference: qMS-1739

Description: Diary describes life on the station, farming, duties, prices etc Quantity: 1 volume(s) (3, 142, 15 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; grey clothh)

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-013

Description: Farm buildings surrounded by bush, beyond a farm gate. Hills and mountains beyond. The picture is surrounded in the sketchbook by views of Mount Peel Station. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Packe, William, 1840?-1882

Reference: A-036-010

Description: Two thatched sod huts, a man with a horse, washing strung on a line in the foreground and a sheep's carcass hanging on the left. Foothills and snow-clad mountains beyond. Photograph of the Library's watercolour of the same title Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour 126 x 173 mm

Date: [ca 1870s-1890s]

From: Bridge family :Photograph albums

By: Anson Brothers (Firm); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Pulman (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-271

Description: Views of New Zealand, England, Australia and Canada, associated with family of Charles Joseph Bridge (d 1876), settler at Homebrook, near Lake Ellesmere; and his son, Charles Hastings Bridge. Includes pressed flowers and leaves, a coloured sketch of a rowing boat on a river lined with willow trees. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Henry Hugh Chapman 1881; Henry Walter Bridge 1886 Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1885

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1879-1888]

Reference: E-035-q-1-042/043

Description: A view across a river plain towards hills and mountains, probably on Haldon Station, South Canterbury. A road curves towards the foreground, with three walkers in the middle distance. A river is noted on the right side. A copse is in the middle distance at the end of the road. Several cabbage trees are among bushes on the left at the foot of hills Source of title: a sheet of letterhead headed Haldon, Timaru, has been glued by the artist at the top of the right side of the drawing, and folded down to cover the drawing. The artist may have been staying at Haldon Station, in the foothills near Lake Pukaki and Mount Cook Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream paper in sketchbook, page size 151 x 240 mm

Date: 1893-1908, 1960

By: Harrison, James, 1856-1917

Reference: MS-Papers-7124

Description: Transcript of the business letter book kept by James Harrison of Clent Hills Station, Mount Somers, Mid Canterbury, together with additional notes and index compiled by Rev H V Harrison Accompanying material - Letters from Alexander Turnbull Library relating to microfilming of the letterbook in 1960; and explanatory notes relating to identification of some of the persons mentioned in the letters, compiled by the donor, G Harrison Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Finding Aids: Indexed. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by grandson, G Harrison of Merseyside, England (Jun 2001)

Date: [ca 1973]

By: Foster, Katherine Mildred, 1945-

Reference: MS-Papers-1130

Description: Account of early runs and their owners and the gradual influx of settlers and craftsmen leading to the establishment of self-contained farming community at Hororata Source of title - Transcribed title Mrs Foster, with her husband Richard, farm Terrace Station, Hororata. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (6 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-005

Description: Farm workers' houses amongst bush, with a fence-line marking off a hill. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 132 x 185 mm

Date: 1893-1908

By: Harrison, James, 1856-1917

Reference: Micro-MS-0135

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1864

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :South Island sketchbook 1864

Reference: E-174-009/010

Description: View of the ferry landing at Waitangi station, by the Waitaki River Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawing 128 x 346 mm.