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Date: [ca 1900]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-8077

Description: Photographs of Glynn Wye homestead, North Canterbury, and surrounding countryside including the Waiau River, taken ca 1900 by Edmund Wheeler & Son of Christchurch. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Purchase, Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, 2004

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: [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: [Circa 1870s-1880s]

From: Sarney, H F (Mr), fl 1959 :Photograph albums of New Zealand scenes

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-065

Description: Album of landscapes taken by various photographers including Wheeler & Sons and the Burton Brothers, circa 1870s and 1880s. All the views are of New Zealand except the last sequence (p 33-37) showing Rio de Janeiro. Of particular interest are views of a wool wagon drawn by oxen, crossing a ford; a series showing an unidentified curved viaduct under construction (p 28-32); and a number showing a farm run by J F L Jetter at Te Puke when the land was partially cleared, with cattle grazing in paddocks, and Mr Jetter standing by a horse in a paddock in front of his home. Many of the images show uncleared land, with a deep ravine filled with native bush and tree ferns, and a stream running through (p 24-27). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover with embossed diamond shape pattern, bordered with gold; 32 x 38 cm

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: [188-?]

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA9-053

Description: Panoramic photograph of the Southern Alps, taken ca 1880s by Edmund Wheeler and Son. Includes views of Mount Cook, Ball Glacier, Hochstetter Glacier, and De La Beche. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Panorama comprising five photographic prints, 29.3 x 175.5 cm [visible image], in wooden frame 36.6 x 183.3 cm Provenance: Donated by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1982

Date: [1890s?]

By: Finch, Olive, 1883-1984; Cowdell, Joseph Tuffley, -1907; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hawley & Company; Iles, Arthur James, 1870-1943; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Verrall, John Miles, 1849-1921; Wilson, George Washington, 1823-1893

Reference: PA1-o-172

Description: Photograph album containing views of the South Island, including Christchurch, Diamond Lake, Otira Gorge, Bluff, Skippers Gorge, Waiau River and Hanmer. North Island views include views of Mount Tarawera after the eruption in June 1886, and views of the Pink and White Terraces before they were destroyed in the eruption. Other views show Napier, showing the first ship to berth at the new breakwater, SS Flora, on 22nd October 1895; Marine Parade in Napier; street views in Gisborne and Whangarei; Parihaka; and the Rotorua, Wairakei area with the Huka Falls, Aratiatia Rapids, and the Waimangu Geyser. Photographs taken circa 1890s, by some unidentified photographers, but many by named photographers, including Arthur James Iles (Thames), E Wheeler & Son (Christchurch), Hawley & Co (Napier). All named photographers are listed in the name sequence. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, with ornate gold decoration on spine, 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: [ca 1890]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA7-53-17

Description: View of Lyttelton Harbour from Quail Island. In the middle foreground is a man pointing to something in the far distance. The jetty (with winch) can be seen on the left. Photograph taken by Wheeler and Son, date unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 19 x 24 cm

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: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA7-22-22

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1890-1900]

By: Foster, Susan E, 1946-; Beckett, Ethel Mary, active 1890s; Beckett, Amy Middleton, -1964; Beckett, Thomas Wrench Naylor, 1839-1906; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6244

Description: Photographs, mostly of the South Island, from the collection of the Beckett family. Most were taken by Ethel Mary Beckett, with some being the work of Amy Middleton Beckett. The work of Wheeler & Son, of Christchurch, and Albert E Winzenberg of Masterton is also represented. A photograph of Palmerston Atoll, in the Cook Islands, is included in the collection. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-181858-G to 1/2-181894-G Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s). 37 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [1850s-1890s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Finch, F, active 1878-1900; Hodgkins, William John Parker, 1866-1945

Reference: PA1-q-089

Description: Photographs of the Field and Hodgkins families, taken by William Hughes Field; and of New Zealand scenes. A number of views are of Dunedin taken between 1850 and 1868. Professional photographers include W J P Hodgkins, the Burton Brothers, F Finch and F A Coxhead. Individual views show scenes including a match played between the English cricket team vs Wellington, at the Basin Reserve, March 23-24, 1888; fire that destroyed the offices of Buckley & Co, a legal firm in Wellington, circa 1890s; views of a yachting party in Pelorus Sound; a house built of punga logs, circa 1858; various houses belonging to the Field and Hodgkins families, including Cranmore Lodge (Dunedin), and the Field house in Everton Terrace (Wellington). Also includes photographs of the Hodgkins' rented house in Ravensbourne. Inside the back cover is a black and white photographic copy of an illuminated address to Bishop Selwyn in farewell on his departure from New Zealand, with vignettes painted by Charles Decimus Barraud. Album signed `W Hughes Field, Terrace, Wellington, 1890-' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black covers, 30.0 x 25.5 cm

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-022460-F

Description: A bullock team hauling a wagon full of wool bales through Cheviot, Canterbury. Photograph taken by Wheeler & Son, circa 1880s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Wool Waggon. Cheviot. Wheeler & Son, ChCh Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1890]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA7-53-19

Description: View of the quarantine station on Quail Island, Lyttelton Harbour. The jetty (with winch) can be seen in the distance on the left. Photograph taken by Wheeler and Son, date unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 18.4 x 24 cm

Date: [189-?]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-8477

Description: Photograph looking towards the ranges of the Southern Alps, taken from the Waiau Hotel at Lochiel above the Waiau River. Shows a corrugated-iron shed and a small house in the foreground. Photograph taken circa 1890s? by Edmund Wheeler & Son. Source of title - Title supplied by Library, derived from photographer's title Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20.6 x 15.3 cm

Date: [1888-1892]

By: Bourke, Edmund G, active 1888-1892; Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890; Connolly & Company; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919; Hart, Campbell & Company; Butcher, Pablo, active 2004

Reference: PA1-f-242

Description: Album compiled by Captain Edmund Bourke RN of HMS Hyacinth, on voyages in the Pacific ca 1888-1892. New Zealand views include Auckland, Tikitapu Bush, Waitakere Creek, Pink & white Terraces, Atiamuri, Ohinemutu, Wairakei, Napier, Wellington, Upper Hutt, McNab's Gardens (Lower Hutt), the Teremakau river and cable car, Nelson, Westland, Otira Gorge, Taipo, the Waimakariri River, Christchurch, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Dunedin and Invercargill. Pacific views include Rarotonga, Samoa, Fiji (including Suva), New Caledonia, Tahiti and Hawaii. Photographers represented include George Valentine, James Connolly, Wheeler & Son, J R Morris, and Hart, Campbell & Co. Includes of gold mining and sluicing in Westland, HM ships Ringarooma and Hyacinth, and games of croquet and polo in Hawaii. HMS Hyacinth, a 3rd class cruiser commissioned in 1886, cruised in the Pacific under the command of Captain Edmund G Bourke RN. In October-November 1888 Bourke sailed around the Cook Islands with the Vice-Consul, hoisting the flag in Rarotonga, Mangaia, Atiu, Mitiaro and Mauke. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Finding Aids: Manuscript list of images housed with album.