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Date: 1879

From: Seed Family, creator :Cuttings from the illustrated papers [Scrapbook of nineteenth-century illustrations and cuttings. 1870-1880s?]

By: Illustrated Australian news (Newspaper); Ebenezer & David Syme (Firm); Sleap, F A, active 1880s

Reference: E-927-f-053-2

Description: Shows a horse-drawn carriage on a road that winds around the slope at the near left. In the right background is a river, and mountains beyond. Native bush is seen at left and right. Date taken from State Library of Victoria catalogue (Retrieved from http://www.slv.vic.gov.au). This site also states that the engraving appeared in the Illustrated Australian news, published in Melbourne by Ebenezer and David Syme. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 228 x 228 mm.

Date: 1870 - 1880

Reference: A-465-007

Description: Shows a carriage pulled by two horses travelling through dense bush and trees, on the road between Hokitika and Christchurch. Two men can be seen sitting atop the carriage. Ground ferns, tree ferns and what is probably kahikatea dominate the foreground Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Woodcut, hand-coloured, 228 x 176 mm Provenance: Donation: Mr John Pfahlert, Wellington, May 2014

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: [Circa 1860s-1870s]

From: Murray, H N :Photograph of Queens Wharf and an album

By: Murray, Herbert Nicholas, 1899-1974; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-q-165

Description: Photographs of the Wellington area in the North Island, and in the South Island views particularly of Lake Guyon and surrounds, the Mount Travers Station, and the Waiau River and bridge, taken by William Thomas Locke Travers. The Wellington views include several of the `Nghauranga' [i.e. Ngauranga] Valley, including one of two wagons laden with timber crossing a wooden bridge; one of a small group of buildings at the foot of the gorge; and one of a bend in the road, a man seated on a log in the foreground, and smoke coming from the chimney of a house partially hidden to the right. All the other scenes in the Wellington area are in the Hutt Valley, or Belmont Hills, including `Fitzherbert's' (the home of Sir William Fitzherbert?). The view of the Mount Travers Station on the edge of Lake Guyon shows a building partially hidden by trees on the left, a woman and child sitting in front of a camera on a tripod, and a man sitting in a dinghy on the edge of the lake. A number of scenes are in the Lake Guyon area, with various streams and creeks; and views of the Waiau River into which the lake drains. Inscriptions: Album page - `H.N. Murray, Motueka. His book'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather binding, entitled `New Zealand scenery' in gold lettering; 29.0 x 38.5 cm

Date: 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-175-009

Description: Shows a horse and cart, with the driver seated in the cart. The cart heads away along a road that curves around a bend of a road through native bush. There is a tree fern in the right foreground, epiphytes on some trees in the packground, and a drainage gutter at the left side of the road. Marking the corner of the road is a white wooden fence. May show part of Karori Road Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pastel, 380 x 274 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library

Date: 1874

By: Burchell, P, active 1874

Reference: C-154-002

Description: Shows a view looking down into a bay surrounded by hills. In the foreground are felled trees, native forests with tree ferns at the left, and a figure in a red shirt, loading a wagon with squared timber. In the distance across the water, is a small settlement at the base of a range of hills. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signature and date] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 320 x 526 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.