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Date: 1865-1915

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

By: Gungall, Arthur Frederick, 1863?-1927

Reference: PA1-q-1134

Description: News and personal photographs, taken and collected by J L Wilson, featuring North Canterbury 1865-1915, with emphasis on 1893-1898 and 1911-1914. Series include: scenes from Cheviot (including Gore Bay boarding house, Port Robinson landing stage, farm displenishing sale (sheep), Baxton Creek, and Cathedral Bluffs); construction, testing, and opening of Ashley ferro-concrete bridge (with W McIntosh and Governor Islington); Wilson, Oram and Leithead family photographs in New Zealand (Lindean, Beauthorne, and Marston) and South Africa, featuring Christmas holidays, three generations portrait, grandchildren (Josie, Lionel, Bobby, and Alan) and pets (cat Billy Buster, various dogs); Ketches Amelia, Joseph and Emma Sims in Wellington and Kaiapoi, including naming ceremony; collected images of castles and estates in England; scenes from South Africa (Port Elizabeth, Bird Island, indigenous women, bullock train, and British cruiser off Capetown); and Winchester School. Events include Christchurch Agricultural and Pastoral shows of 1912 and 1914 (with J L Wilson and Dr Levenge present), King George V inspecting troops during royal tour, coronation parade at Woodford (including participants in fancy dress), Governor Ranfurly's 1898 visit to Kaiapoi, Silver Wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs R Wylie (Kaiapoi), rifle volunteer camp at Pareora (Timaru), and Victoria Jubilee. Named figures include A G Ashby in his motorcar, Lieutenant-Colonel Cossgrave, R J Alexander and son William, C Treleaven, J Leech and daughter at Brooklands (Rangiora), John O'Halloran, Henry Lauder, R S Bean and family (Ashburton), Thomas [McLeon?], and Jack Hardwick-Smith and teddy bear. Group photographs include: Dr C Nedwill, Captain Tom Bowling, J L Wilson, and shipmates at 'Chariot of Fame' jubilee; Mr Charles Leech (president) with Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Society Committee; Miss Barlow's class at Kaiapoi School (with Leonard Wilson); Mrs J Pattinson of Cumberland, and her eight grandchildren; North Canterbury Ploughing Match Committee at Mr [Peaches'] farm (Ashley); volunteer rifle officers, J H Hayman (superintendent) with Kaiapoi Fire Brigade; and Colonel Lean and officers and Springbank camp. Wedding portraits of Anderson and Scott (Lindean), Henry and Wright, Dr Hardwick-Smith and Friggs, Oram and Wilson (Beauthorne), and Leithead and Wilson (Marston) weddings. Buildings include Junction Hotel (Rangiora), interior of Press Newspaper building (lithographic department and main entrance), Bass residence at Bristol Street (Christchurch), Hansen's building (Australian Mercantile Union Insurance Company, F Gabites, W R Pengelly Tailor and Outfitter, Richards Watchmaker and Jeweller), St John's Church (Rangiora), Mansion House (Cheviot), and W Robinson's residence (Cheviot). Kaiapoi buildings and scenes include Bank of New Zealand, Golf Club pavilion, Emma Matthew's cottage, [Leonard?] Wilson's villa, Anderson's store, Press agency, Borough Council Chambers, Borough School, J Harold Evans' House, Parish Church, suspension bridge, Beswick and Birch's wharf, Kaiapoihia monument, gardens at Beauthorne and Marston, and various streets. Miscellaneous images include picnicking at Birch Hill, wood carvings by Thomas Leech, Waimakariri water supply scheme (Brown's Rock intake and luncheon), George V swimming baths (Rangiora), chickens, Skiddaw, P C Threkeld's prize dairy cows and Leicester ram, Waitangi Falls (Bay of Islands), cooking bullock [hangi?] at Rangiora New Year sports day, Timaru breakwater construction, Otira Gorge, and a Maori woman identified as 'Kaiapoi Maori Queen'. Postcards depict bath house at Hamner Springs, 'Land of the golden fleece', and an illustration of Port Elizabeth. Collected images by named photographers include Mt Egmont (A Gungall). Some hand coloured photographs in album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1917

By: Fear, Robert, active 1988

Reference: MS-Papers-5784

Description: Cooper describes her early life in Greenwich, Kent and Camberwell, Surrey; the voyages of her father, Captain John Parsons, to New Zealand for the Canterbury Association with mention of John Godley, her voyage to Lyttelton in 1853 on the Minerva, life at Dampier Bay (now West Lyttelton) and in Christchurch as a governess, her marriage to Charles Edward Cooper in 1859 and her husband's job with the `Lyttelton Times'; later period living in Timaru and return to Christchurch in 1894; and at Sumner 1899. Many early Christchurch families are mentioned. Anne Elizabeth Parsons was the daughter of the first harbour master of Lyttelton Quantity: 1 folder(s) (17 leaves). Physical Description: Ms and typescript

Date: 1868-1929

From: Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9287-2

Description: Group photographs of girls attending the school run by the Convent of the Sacred heart, Timaru. Photographs of bishops include Bishop Grimes, Archbishop Redwood, and Bishop Brodie. The family of Dr M S and Agnes Grace, ca 1886. The family of Mr and Mrs A C Nottingham of Halswell, Christchurch, 1920. Group including Bishop Grimes on the front steps of St Patrick's Basilica, Oamaru (possibly the dedication of the church on the 18th of November 1894). Group photographs of clergy attending the jubilee celebrations of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Timaru, in 1929. Original wooden gothic Roman Catholic church, Timaru, which burnt down in 1910. Maryville College of the Sacred Heart, St Louis, USA, which is where the founder of the Sacred Heart order in Timaru came from in 1880. Sacred Heart primary school building, Timaru, in the 1880s. Buildings of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Timaru. Timaru Railway station. The ship SS Australia. Cobb and Co coach and Bank of New Zealand, Timaru, 1868. Yankee-K class locomotive. Quantity: 45 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 Pen drawing.

Date: 1899-1910

By: Timaru Beautifying Association

Reference: MS-2149

Description: Minutes, together with numerous letters and newspaper cuttings inserted Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (Ca 105 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, 25x18 cm, ½ purple calf, marbled boards, marbled edges

Date: 1868-1949

By: Rolleston family

Reference: 79-287

Description: Family and other personal correspondence. Includes some of William Rolleston, his wife Mary, but mainly their son Francis Joseph; also including other family members. There are some letters of political, social and community significance relating to the careers of William Rolleston, and his son F J Rolleston. Writers include Professor J B Condliffe, Sir Francis Bell, Sir James Parr. Added in 1980 to this accession were 11 letters 1891-1893 from J D Ormond, Harold Kemp, E J Watts etc; 15 letters of family to F Rolleston at school, 1881-1889; various records of F Rolleston's life at school; his `Parodies on Gilbert and Sullivan' etc. Later in same year further Rolleston letters, 1868-1949 were added, including letters relating to the political career of John Christopher Rolleston. Source of title - Supplied title Other - Rosamond Rolleston was the author of `William and Mary Rolleston; an informal biography' which was published in 1971 Relationship complexity - See also MS-Group-0377 (1971 accession) Arrangement: The bulk of the letters had been arranged chronologically before they were deposited. Quantity: 3 box(es). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs Finding Aids: When the papers were still with Rosamond Wilson, Steven Eldrid-Grigg listed those letters that seemed to him of chief interest, and this list is in a back file. These letters have been merged into the chronological sequence. Loose photographs

Date: [1941?] (1947)

By: Kennedy, William McLaughlin, 1857-1949

Reference: MS-1110-1111

Description: Account includes brief description of voyage to Otago on the `Napier', sawmilling activities chiefly in Taranaki and participation in local public life and community services with some reference to Maori affairs Kennedy came to New Zealand in 1879 in the `Napier' Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescripts (28 cm; navy buckram)

Date: ca 1850s-1908

By: Ferrier, William, 1855-1922

Reference: PAColl-7526

Description: The Canterbury Farmers Co-operative Association building on Beach Road ca 1900; a procession for the Queen's jubilee on Stafford Street with men in uniform and a union banner; people on the beach at Caroline Bay with bathing machines in the sea captioned "The first lawn, Caroline Bay" ca 1890s; the band rotunda at Caroline Bay with a children's playpark behind and people swimming in the sea ca 1910; two of waves breaking over the breakwater ca 1898; the Timaru Shipping Co landing with the Lady of the Lake beached ca 1873; the interior of St Mary's Church looking towards the altar; Stafford Street, looking south from the corner of George Street with the Union Bank of Australia, a furnishing warehouse and J Trist ship chandler on the left; Sophia Street with the Wrecks memorial to those who tried to save lives on the City of Perth and the Benvenue in the foreground and the post office on the right ca 1880s; a man sitting on the beach on the site of the breakwater ca 1860s; Stafford Street looking south from Cannon Street with a boarding house on the right ca 1860s; and a row of workers' cottages on Bank Street with Parr's windmill behind. The photographer was William Ferrier and the photographs were taken ca 1890s-1908 or in some cases possibly re-printed from earlier images. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-005333, 005339 to 005340 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s). 10 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1965]-1921

From: Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9287-1

Description: Photographs relating to the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Timaru. These include Mother Juliette Bauduy-Garesche founder of the Society of the sacred Heart in Timaru. Also Rev Mother Susannah Boudreau foundress of the Sacred Heart order in Timaru in 1880. Most of the collection is made up of group photographs of girls who attended the school run by the convent. There is also a photograph of the children of Mr and Mrs A C Nottingham of Halswell, Christchurch. Quantity: 38 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1900s

By: Ferrier, William, 1855-1922

Reference: PAColl-7397

Description: Set of photographs of Timaru and Waimate which have been cut to fit together for a magazine lay-out or similar. They are: interior of the Church of the Sacred Heart, Timaru; Timaru post office; Timaru Custom House with Quirk's Royal Hotel to the right; the new Primitive Methodist Church, Timaru; St Mary's Church, Timaru; the boys of the Main School, Timaru in their cadet uniforms on the playing field with visiting adults; the Boys' High School, Timaru; the Wesley Church, Timaru; Trinity Presbyterian Church, Timaru; two views of the Municipal Offices and Public Library, Timaru; Chalmers Presbyterian Church, Timaru; and the Waimate Court House. The photographer was William Ferrier. Due to irregular shapes they have been used for a magazine lay-out at some stage. Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1866-[ca 1955]

From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9827-1

Description: Includes - Photographs of explorer Charles Edward Douglas. Group of men in a cart drawn by four horses, 1920. Group of South African War veterans outside the Beverly Home, Timaru, 1950s. Antarctic explorer Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd laying a wreath at the Scott Memorial, Christchurch, ca 1928. View of Lyttelton. Men crossing a river. Farmers tree at Beverly. Bowen Falls, Milford Sound. The Prince of Wales at Ashburton, 17 May 1920. Galloway homestead. Fraser's jewellery shop, Timaru, ca 1935. Views of Southland, ca 1905. Crowd at Invercargill celebrating the relief of Mafeking, May 1900. Early settler's houses, one built of cobb and thatched. Photographs relating to the centenary of T & J Thompson Ltd, Timaru, 1944. Brunner coal mine, 1866. TSS Earnlaw on Lake Wakatipu. Quantity: 45 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1949]-1999

From: Berzins, Baiba, fl 1960-2000 : Papers relating to the Coates family

Reference: MS-Papers-6723

Description: Comprises list of contents and background information on the collection and the Coates family, particularly relating to the links with Latvia, by Berzins; note on copyright and access to the papers; 11 letters from Kitty Coates to Lucija Berzins describing family matters and aspects of life in Rotorua and New Zealand (1949-1955); six letters from Percy Coates to his niece Lucija Berzins in which he writes particularly of his family and also of life in Timaru (early 1950-1962); letter from Jimmy Coates to Lucija Bezins with letter from Percy Coates to him, with `Reminiscences of a a new chum'; and transcript of the `Reminiscences', probably transcribed by Jeannete Coates; and copy of obituary for Lucija Berzins by Baiba Berzins (1999). Also photocopy of photograph transferred to Photgraphic Archive. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Copy of photograph taken in 1949 of Arthur and Kitty Coates, Win Kellett, Susan Kellett (now Baing), Margaret and Percy Coates.

Date: 1851-1926

By: Hall-Jones, William (Hon Sir), 1851-1936

Reference: MS-Papers-6186

Description: Draft autobiography by Sir William Hall-Jones. The author writes of himself in the third person, under the name of of Tommy, and uses the pseudonym of Wm J Lenohals. Covers early life in Folkestone, working as a carpenter and builder in Timaru, local body activity, career in Parliament and as a Minister, term as High Commissioner in London, and later life. Includes thoughts, opinions, verse, clippings and pasted-in photographs. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.06 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts with holograph annotations, printed matter (photocopies) Finding Aids: Indexed.

Date: 1893-1905, 1973

By: Fussell family

Reference: MS-Papers-1080

Description: Letters from members of the Fussell family in Timaru, to their relative, Florence Downes in India, about family matters. Also family tree, copy of a photograph of Ernest Fussell; a legacy to Mrs Downes. Copies of covering letters (1973). Quantity: 1 folder(s) (11 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)

Date: [1897-1949]

From: Mills, Thomas Lewis, 1865-1955 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7291-11

Description: Various articles etc by Mills Other Titles - Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Assocition Limited ... universal providers & produce merchants (pamphlet) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1865-1916

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-1133

Description: News and personal photographs, taken and collected by J L Wilson, featuring North Canterbury 1868-1916, predominantly dated 1899-1909. Series include: testing the Kaiapoi river dredge and associated luncheon at Oddfellows hall; scenes from Rangiora (gas works, Victoria Park, High Street, Borough Council, Magistrate's Court); Wilson family photographs, including Leonard Wilson and family, Mr and Mrs J L Wilson and mother-in-law Emma Matthews, various outings, and Jamie's first day at school; collected images of North Island scenes (Huntly, Ohakune, Raurimu, Paekakariki, Hamilton); honorary Colonel Lady Plunket presenting colours to Amuri Mounted Rifles at Culverdon, with Colonel Davies, Lieutenant Colonel Hawkins, Lieutenant Northcote (also visit to Kaiapoi Domain and Horsley Down); Kaiapoi scenes (J Beswick's store, Woollen store, ferry, High Street, Cam Road, road bridge, ketch courier, suspension bridge, Charles Street, Raven Street); fancy dress on the SS 'Runic'; and military cadets parading at Rangiora and Lancaster Park. Events include train derailment at Sefton, unveiling of the Kiapohia monument, opening of runanga hall (Tuahiwi), Estelle Wilson's marriage to Oram, party celebrating opening of new Woollen Mills warehouse (Manchester Street, Christchurch), Arbour Day at Kaiapoi Domain, laying of the foundation stone of the Otira Tunnel (Booth, Reese, Howland, Moore, Kaye, Quane, [Lorrison?], Allen, Forster, Williams, and Dobson), Buss farewell garden party at McFarlane's (Rangiora), Lincoln College prize day, Grace and Stead wedding, unidentified Maori wedding, 1901 royal visit (Christchurch), Antarctic expedition garden party at J Kinsey's, Governor Plunket's visit (Waimate), banquet honouring R J Seddon (London), and fire at Woollen Mills costume and cap factory (Cashel Street, Christchurch). Named figures include E W Ralph and his daughter, T Turnbull (in garden at Beauthorne with J L Wilson), Mr A G Ashby, C Moody (on horseback), Mr and Mrs Millar with E Parham, and Makumaku. Group photographs include: Pearce, R Moore, T Wilson, J L Wilson, and C J Cox outside Kaiapoi Press office; Sir John Hall and executive committee of the Christchurch exhibition; E Wildon (president) and Christchurch Golf Club; veterans Perrin, Lane, Dudson, Wright, Bannister, and McDonald outside Kaiapoi Working Men's Club; Kaiapoi Shipping Company promoters; reunion of 'Glentanner' shipmates; Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Committee; Blackwell family; and competitors in North Canterbury ploughing match (W Cunningham's farm). Buildings include Press Newspaper offices (Cashel Street and Cathedral Square), Kaiapoi Woollen Mills (exterior and engine room interior), Kaiapoi Shipping Company premises, Leonard Wilson's greenhouse and conservatory, Christchurch Post Office, St Mary's Church (Timaru), Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament (Christchurch), Mrs Emma Matthew's cottage, and Horsley Down church. Miscellaneous images include white swans at Kaiapoi Domain, a bunch of bananas, workers and children during harvesting oats at Geo Chilton's farm (Southland), avenue in Samoa, harvesting fleet at Gould and Cameron's farm (Canterbury Plains), repairing overhead wires on for trams (Christchurch), girls in costume (bazaar at King Edward's barracks), Empire Bridge wash out, Timaru penny, R J Alexander memorial (Kaiapoi), Waimakariri Gorge rail bridge, children riding cow, coach at Bealey (West Coast road), Rolleston River bridge, SS 'Wootton' and SS 'Kairaki' (Kaiapoi), Boy Scouts at Woodend, and Queen Victoria monument (Kaiapoi). Postcards include Fairfield Freezing Works and scenes from the United Kingdom (some are hand coloured). Illustration of earthquake and tidal wave (South America, 1867). Also newspaper clippings of fire at Woollen Mill's Men's hostel (Kaiapoi) and shipmates from 'Chariot of Fame' at jubilee. Burton Brothers named photographers of some collected images. Also contains Wises 1895 hand coloured and annotated map of Kaiapoi. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1890s-1929

From: Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9287-3

Description: Views of the buildings and grounds of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Timaru. Interior views include the cloister, a classroom, the dining room, the old and new chapels, and the reception room. The calvary in the garden, and a statue of Christ given by Sacred Heart alumnae in 1929 or 1930. Exterior and interior views of St Patrick's Basilica, Timaru. Crowd at a religious festival in the convent grounds, 1920s. Religious paintings by Mother Helen Ryan. Laurence Treacy in the convent farm yard among the hens. Front porch of the convent decorated for the Procession of the Blessed Sacrament. Quantity: 48 b&w original photographic print(s). 9 colour original photographic print(s). 11 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1838-1922, 1971

By: Sealy, Henry John, 1838-1922

Reference: MS-Papers-0591

Description: Biographical notes on H J Sealy compiled by M Williams and H V Fitzhardinge. Also photographs of H J Sealy and his wife Emma Booker Sealy Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-023

Description: The story of Edwin Bold, born at Batley Carr, Yorkshire, who immigrated to New Zealand on the `Pleiades' in 1885 for health reasons. He was skilled in the woollen mill trade and worked as a wool classer on sheep stations near Timaru. Later he moved to Wellington, joined the Public Works Department and was appointed Land Purchase Officer some years later. He held that position for 23 years, the longest period it had been held by one person. He was musical, playing church organs and the piano, a keen horticulturist and photographer. Edwin married married Minnie Avison of Batley, Yorkshire just prior to immigrating. The essay includes information on their 6 children Includes extracts from Edwin's shipboard diary (held by Canterbury Museum Archives in the Edwin Bold papers) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Includes photograph of `Pleiades', Bold family, Edwin Bold, house at Berhamphore

Date: 1870 - 1920

From: Various artists :[Seven loose watercolour drawings of New Zealand (Timaru) and Australia (Sydney and Tasmania), 1874 and 1888].

By: Neville, Louis, 1852-1919

Reference: A-128-018

Description: Shows a view of the coastline at Timaru, seen from the water. Shows a long low cliff with a small jetty at the right-hand end. Red-roofed houses stand among trees in the town, and the foothills are seen faintly in the distance. Similar in style to Louis Neville's 1918 view of the same subject from a different angle on the shore (at B-079-010). Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sheet, 139 x 223 mm.

Date: 1883-1909

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-011B

Description: Contains notes about the Native Civil List, a draft statement of the aims and objectives of the Young Maori Party (Northern Division), notes for a lecture (by Ngata?) to the St Mary's Society, Timaru, and an address by Ngati Apa chiefs to Hon James Carroll Quantity: 1 folder(s).