Places

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: [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: 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: [ca 1890s-1900s]

Reference: PAColl-9669

Description: An album page with views of Otira Gorge and Mount Cook. Shows horses pulling a carriage on the Christchurch and Hokitika Road in Otiria Gorge. Shows Mount Cook from the Hooker Glacier. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album leaf with 2 b&w original photographic prints. Physical Description: 41.5 x 31 cm mounted album page

Date: 1889

From: Lister, Joseph Jackson 1857-1927 :[Lister album] 1886-1890 [Watercolours by Joseph, and possibly Isabella and Gulielma Lister]

Reference: E-394-f-030-2

Description: Rocks, grass and scrub in the foreground, with Mt Cook rising in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 142 x 231 mm

Date: [1890s-1900s?]

From: Teale, Edmund Oswald (Sir), 1874-1971 : Birell album

By: Charles H Kerry & Company; Shearsby, A J, active 1913-1928; Star Photo Company; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA1-q-029

Description: Postcards, chiefly of Australia, including Tasmania, Adelaide, Queensland, New South Wales, with several showing various tin mines in Tasmania. There is a section of New Zealand postcards in the middle of the album, many taken by an Australian photographic company "Charles H Kerry & Co", labelled "Series 53. Hot Lakes District, New Zealand". These images are tinted, and include views of the Huka Falls, the Pink and White Terraces, Waiotapu, Ohinemutu, Whakarewarewa, Lakes Waikaremoana and Taupo, and the Aratiatia Rapids. The NZ images also include views of the Mount Cook region of the South Island, including Franz Josef Glacier, Hooker Glacier, Mounts Darwin, Sefton and Cook, and Lakes Te Anau and Wakatipu. Many of the postcards show the photographers' names, and include R C Harvey, A J Shearsby, the Star Photo Co., de Tourret, and the New Zealand Tourist Department. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown "Postcard album" with red, green and blue decoration, 285 x 240 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: ca 1880-ca 1889

From: Reid, Robert Stuart :Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PA1-q-921

Description: Views of Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, Lake Waihola, Lake Moke, Mount Cook, Mount Sefton, the Hooker Glacier, Tapanui, Oamaru, Milford Sound, Dusky Sound, Hooker River, Moonlight Gorge, Bowen Fall, and general views in Canterbury and Otago taken by an unknown photographer in the 1880s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1890, 1923

By: Brewster's Rare Books (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6819

Description: View of Port Chalmers taken ca 1890s, and views of Franz Josef Glacier, Fox Glacier, Waiho River and Lake Kanieri taken in March 1923. Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s).

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: 1885

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921

Reference: A-231-030

Description: A mountain scene with glacier and track Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 320 x 184 mm Provenance: Donated by the Wildey family, August 1968

Date: [ca 1890-1910]

From: Lightbourne, Ruth Elizabeth (Dr), 1949- : Photographs

By: Blackwell, Frank Bartrum, 1862-1934

Reference: PAColl-10177-2

Description: Stereoscopic prints taken circa 1900 around New Zealand, by Frank Bartrum Blackwell. Includes images of Christchurch (Post Office, Cathedral), the Mount Cook Hermitage, a Kea on the rocks near Ball Hut, the dining room at F B Blackwell's family homestead 'Karepo' and a view of the surrounding bush, a view of Mount Ruapehu [from the Rangipo Desert?], mangroves, Aubrey Island, Wanganui River [Tieke, rapids, Pipiriki House and landing), Pahi River, and an unidentified woman in the bush. Images from Auckland show 'Laocoon' sculpture in Auckland Museum, fountain at Albert Park, and a railway goods station. Quantity: 20 b&w stereoscopic cards. Physical Description: Stereoscopic cards

Date: 1892

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

By: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918

Reference: A-120-049-3

Description: Mount Cook standing out from the surrounding range of mountains, seen from some distance from a high standpoint. There are paddocks visible below to the right, alongside a river, possibly the Opihi River or Sawdon Stream In: Welch, J. S. [Album of Sketches] 1876 On same sheet as A-120-049-1 and A-120-049-2 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 140 x 225 mm

Date: 1884

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-007-013

Description: Mount Cook in the background, left of centre, with the Tasman Glacier below, the Tasman River and rocks and scrub Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print, 1985, in an edition of 600, to mark the Library's centennial Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title and date in pencil in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 275 x 450 mm

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: 1869

From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]

By: Calvert, Samuel, 1828-1913; Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: E-043-q-035

Description: Shows Lake Pukaki in the foreground and Mount Cook and the Southern Alps in the distance. Also published in the Illustrated New Zealand herald, No. 74, 18 Dec 1873, p. 1 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Monogram S.C. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, stuck to page 215 x 275 mm

Date: [1880s - 1890s?] and [1920s?]

From: Iorns, Bennett, 1883-1977 :Photographs relating to Masterton and the Wairarapa

Reference: PA1-o-244

Description: A pocket inside the front cover of this album contains 23 loose photographs of landscapes in New Zealand, many of them Government Publicity Photos. In the South Island various views show Milford and the Milford Track, Tasman Glacier, Mount Cook, and the Buller Gorge. In the North Island there are several views of a group of fallow deer near Featherston; two of geysers at Whakarewarewa; and two of caves in the Waitomo Cave system, showing the underground river in the Aranui Cave, and stalactites in the Ruakuri cave. The main body of the album contains older photographs, circa 1890s, of townscapes in the Wairarapa. Two scenes show groups of Maori performers, one of a posed group of men and women, some holding taiaha and mere; the other of a group of young girls dancing on a podium. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with imitation crocodile skin cover, entitled `Photographs'; 26 x 33 cm

Date: 1884 - 1985

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Friends of the Turnbull Library; General Accident Insurance Company New Zealand

Reference: C-112-039

Description: Shows Mount Cook to the left of centre, with the Tasman River in the right foreground. No 462 of 1000 (650 of these were for sale). Facsimile reproduction of original watercolour in Alexander Turnbull Library C-007-013. Published to mark the centenary of General Accident Insurance Group and in conjunction with Alexander Turnbull Centennial Fund. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 360 x 530 mm in folder 550 x 370 mm + 1 pamphlet