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: [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: 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: 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: 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: 1870 - 1900

From: Douglas, Charles Edward 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast Sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. named]

By: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916

Reference: E-057-030

Description: Mount Cook-Aoraki beyond a saddle feature in a mountain range Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 111 x 170 mm

Date: 1879-1892

From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9826

Description: Photographs of mountaineers, glaciers, mountains, lakes and rivers. Included are - Crossing the Hooker River by cable car (flying fox?). Percy Hawkins Johnson, W Low, J W Annan, George Edward Mannering, and Marmaduke J Dixon in the Murchison Valley, 1880. Irishman Rev William S Green and his two guides, Ulrich Kaufmann and Emil Boss, 1882. Mountaineers George Edward Mannering, Percy Hawkins Johnson and Mamaduke J Dixon photographed in 1889. Lake Pukaki, 1889. Tasman Glacier. Lake Tekapo. Hut in the Godley Valley. Mount Aorangi and the Hooker Glacier. Mount Aorangi seen from Ball spur. Panoramic View of mountains seen from Mount Sealy. Murchison glacier and river. Views of Aorangi, De la Beche Peak, and Tasman Glacier. Views of the Godley Glacier, 1892. Volynteers digging for Smith and Morrison in the avalanch of snow on the Rollesby Range, 28 August 1879. Quantity: 10 card mounts containing 33 images.

Date: 1877

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: B-035-006

Description: Mount Cook from a spur of Mount Sefton, looking down into the Hooker Valley below Probably copied from chromolithograph plate of Mount Cook after W M Hodgkins in: New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive by C D Barraud, 1877 Extended Title - Mount Cook by William Mathew Hodgkins in: New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive by C D Barraud, 1877 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 280 x 228 mm

Date: 1877 - 1972

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-003

Description: Mount Cook seen from below Reproduced by courtesy of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 355 x 510 mm

Date: 1877 - 1972

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-003-b

Description: Mount Cook seen from below Reproduced by courtesy of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 355 x 510 mm

Date: 1870 - 1900

From: Douglas, Charles Edward 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast Sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. identified]

By: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916

Reference: E-059-q-075

Description: Mountain features in the Southern Alps Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on page of sketchbook. Physical Description: Pencil, crayon and watercolour, 231 x 187 mm

Date: [1870s-1880s?]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-081

Description: Views of the South Island, chiefly in Southland and Otago, taken by unidentified photographers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, lacking spine and back cover, 30.0 x 23.5 cm

Date: [circa 1878], [ca 1930s-1980]

From: Pugh family: Photographs

By: Aldersley, David James, 1862-1928; Bunckenburg, Roger, active 1980; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Pugh, Charles Trevor, 1912-1989; Whites Aviation Ltd

Reference: PAColl-10208-3

Description: Photographs and postcards relating to Charles Trevor Pugh. The majority of images relate to his career with New Zealand Electricity Department (NZED) and show exterior and interior views of hydro projects, substations and equipment. Several images show New Zealand scenic locations and historic places. Most taken between circa 1930 to 1980. Also includes postcards of scenes taken circa 1878. Most images taken by C Trevor Pugh. Other images taken by Roger Bunckenburg, Whites Aviation, Muir & Moodie, Aldersley, and unidentified photographers. - Images taken during the 1930s include Arapuni Power Station (1937), Whakamaru Power Station and other unnamed substations. Also includes scenic locations; HMNZ 'Endeavour' at Russell, the Treaty House at Waitangi, the Stone Store at Kerikeri, Fox Glacier, Mount Cook, Hermitage Hotel, Chateau Tongariro, the Sign of the Takahe and unnamed snowy mountains. - Images taken in the 1940s include two men in front of 'Equipment Store 1st Field Brigade NZA' shed, unnamed state hydro projects, Stratford Substation (March, 1948), a gorge on Waikato River, Karapiro Dam and Power Station, Maraetai ferro-concrete bridge, Arapuni circuit breakers, Highbank Power Station, electricity pylons on farmland at Pahuatanui and elsewhere, plus photographs of the Waikato River hydroelectric power development maps. Also includes a State Hydro Department Library print of Tuai Power Station on Lake Kaitawa near Lake Waikaremoana, and a view of Cass Basin. - Images taken in the 1950s include Sir Edmund Hillary and Captain Harry Kirkwood on upper deck of HMNZS 'Endeavour' in 1956. Also includes views of electricity substations taken in 1958 of Inanaghua switching station and depot, Murchison Substation, Kikawa Substation with Stewart Johnson and Mr (?) Robinson inspecting the transformers unit, Westport Substation, Cobb Power Station and unnamed electricity substations. - Images taken in the 1960s include women making electricial componentry, men on a field trip to lakes and hydro stations (possibly Lake Taupo and Waikato River locations), unnamed NZED spillways and substations (possibly Waikato River or South Island locations), men in an electrical engineering classroom and lecture room, Eric Bruce MacKenzie, General Manger of New Zealand Electricity Department and other officials at Manapouri Power Station ceremony, the laying of the Cook Strait Cable showing the ship MV 'Photinia' at work, E B MacKenzie and others (1964), a lunch of NZED staff including geothermal electrical engineer Robin McKenzie, various unnamed buildings, people on beach after the sinking of the 'Wahine' ferry (1968), and an unidentified group of men on a street. Also includes unknown stone church and Queen Elizabeth II on visit to Christchurch Hospital (1953 or 1963?) - Postcards include views of Ohope Beach, Fox Glacier, Chateau Tongariro and Mount Ruapehu, Picton, Marine Parade at Napier, the Mansion House on Kawau Island, plus postcards showing early views of the Avon River footbridge and Domain Gardens, the Christchurch to Sumner tramway, and circa 1878 portrait of Donald Sutherland. - Aerial views of Karori suburb, Wellington, in 1980 show Karori Reservoir, Messines Road, Campbell Street, Wrights Hill Road, Beauchamp Street, and Karori Mall. Quantity: 191 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w copy photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints, colour photoprint

Date: [Circa 1870s and 1880s]

From: Nairn, Douglas, fl 1973 :Photographs of New Zealand and Fiji

By: (W N) Tuttle & Company; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Hart, Campbell & Company; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland)

Reference: PA1-o-359

Description: Photographs of New Zealand, taken by various photographers. Some are unidentified, but many are taken by the Burton Brothers, J V (James Valentine), Tuttle & Co, for Simpson & Co., and Hart, Campbell & Co. In the North Island, a large number of photographs show the area around Mount Tarawera before and after the volcanic eruption in 1886. There are a number showing the huge deposits of mud and ash which covered the area, with views of the landscape and of ruined buildings, followed by scenes of the Pink and White Terraces, before the eruption. On page 8, there is a view of Ranana (London), on the Wanganui River with the caption, "Maori village similar to those overwhelmed by the eruption". Other scenes in the North Island were taken in Auckland City, Ohinemutu, Rotokakahi, and Whakarewarewa, Ti Eke [i.e. Tieke] on the Wanganui River, and one of Wellington City taken from Mount Victoria. South Island views include many around the main lakes, including Wakatipu, Wanaka, Manapouri, Queenstown and Hawea; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; the Otira Gorge; Kawarau Gorge and Bridge; Oamaru; Port Chalmers; and Dunedin. Views of gold mining areas in Otago include excavation sluiced out by hydrants at St Bathans, and the miners' towns of Naseby with the river choked with tailings, and Nokomai. Portraits of Maori including Ana Rupene. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with marron leather binding covered with waxed brown-paper cover, entitled `New Zealand photographs, [E?] Nairn'; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1875

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook; Fiordland and West Coast views]. 1875

Reference: E-401-096

Description: Looking across the mouth of the Hokitika River in a southerly direction, with Mount Cook in the middle distance, the west coast continuing south to the right Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two pages of sketchbook, image size 105 x 360 mm.

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918 :[South Island sketches, 1870-1888]

By: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918; Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-120-026

Description: Looking down from a high point to the Tasman River, with Mount Cook beyond. After either a watercolour or a chromolithograph, from a painting by W. M. Hodgkins, In: Barraud, C. D. New Zealand Graphic and descriptive. London: 1877. The associated text in New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive asserts that Hodgkins visited and painted Mt Cook in 1875 In: Welch, J. S. [Album of Sketches] 1876 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 13.2 x 9.8 inches

Date: 1877

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

By: Adams, Charles William, 1840-1918

Reference: A-215-027

Description: A profile of the peak of Mount Cook / Aoraki looking east from near Timaru, South Canterbury Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on tracing paper, 225 x 333 mm

Date: 1878 - 1920

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921; McIntosh, Rosa Isabella, 1905-1983

Reference: C-071-010

Description: View up towards Mount Cook Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour ; visible image, 293 x 463 mm in mat