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Quartermain album 4
Date: [1890s-1910s?]
By: Quartermain, Leslie Bowden, 1895-1973
Reference: PA1-q-190
Description: Photographs relating to the Quartermain family, none of which have captions. None of the people or places are named. Of interest are a number of views of the ruins of a house, with only the chimneys standing; several of the new St John's Church, Hororata, including laying the foundations, building construction, and the completed church with lychgate; one of the tombstones of Sir John Hall, and his wife, with the new St John's Church partially visible in the background (for which Sir John Hall bequeathed the money); and one photograph of a steam tractor fording a river with difficulty, with a tow-rope leading to three laden wagons on the far side of the river. A number of photographs show Leslie Bowden Quartermain as a boy, and as a young man Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mid-blue cover, entitled "Sunny memories"; 32 x 28 cm
Murray album
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
Pyramid Rock, Totaranui
Date: 1886
From: Fell, Charles Yates, 1844-1918 :Photograph album
Reference: PA1-q-075-04-1
Description: Group of men, women and children photographed on Pyramid Rock, Totaranui. A camera with a hat on it is also included in the picture. Photographed in 1886 by Charles Yates Fell Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
Camera falls at Falls River
Date: 1890
From: Fell, Charles Yates, 1844-1918 :Photograph album
Reference: PA1-q-075-40
Description: Photographer, Camera and a group of women in a rock-walled stream valley overhung by native trees. Beyond the group the stream issues from the forest by way of a waterfall. Photographed by Charles Yates Fell in 1890. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
Group including photographer William Williams, Wainuiomata
Date: 1882 or 1883
From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera
Reference: 1/1-025900-G
Description: Four men, including photographer William Williams, seated outdoors on stones in Wainuiomata. Williams is second from left with a camera by his knee and a camera mounted on a tripod behind him. Thomas H Wyatt is on the right. The other two men are named Kevern and Toulson. They are all dressed in hats, suits, and boots. Two smoke pipes while the other two eat. Photograph taken in either 1882 or 1883, probably by William Williams with a self timer. Source of descriptive information - From lantern slide of identical image: "Kevern; Williams; Toulson & Wyatt at Wainuiomata, Wgton - 1882 or 3" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative