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Unidentified group, Pitt Island, Chatham Islands
Date: 1877
From: Rockel, Ian Robert, 1939- :Photographs of Chatham Islands
Reference: 120-0035-8
Description: Unidentified group of women, men, and children, Pitt Island, Chatham Islands, circa 1870s. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Inscription from album, beneath original image: Pitts [sic] Island Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Halcombe School class portrait
Date: ca 1880s
From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district
Reference: 1/4-030098-G
Description: Halcombe School class portrait, photographed by William James Harding circa 1880s. Shows four rows of girls and boys, with two male teachers, one on either side. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodian glass negative
Children with rival guys, Guy Fawkes day at Ohingaiti
Date: ca 1900
From: Child, Edward George, 1860-1949 :Photographs of the Ohingaiti district
Reference: 1/2-038752-G
Description: Unidentified children with rival guys, on Guy Fawkes day at Ohingaiti, circa 1900. Shows a group of children, standing by two effigies of Guy Fox in wheelbarrows. The four boys in the foreground wear suits and hats. Photograph taken by Edward George Child. Other Titles - 5th November Rival Fox's at Ohingaiti Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 5th November Rival Fox's at Ohingaiti Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Sharp album 1
Date: [Circa 1897 to 1898]
By: Spackman, Herbert, 1864-1949
Reference: PA1-o-465
Description: Photographs of the Wellington region, and family snapshots. Many of the images give information about camera speed and light, and time of day taken. Not all the people are identified, with one family dominating the portraits, members of the Spackman family, living in Rintoul Street, Newtown in the 1890s. Herbert Spackman is shown with his wife (Daisy Spackman), and daughter (Sylvia?), and can also be seen at work in the New Zealand Government Life Insurance offices. There is one group portrait of staff members of the office. Another link to the family is seen in photographs of St Thomas' Church in Newtown, both exterior views while undergoing additions, and interior views; and one image of choir members at St Thomas'. There are also interior and exterior views of St Paul's Pro-Cathedral (now known as Old St Paul's) Other images include views of Wellington bays, interior and exterior views of Horace William Lloyd's premises (watchmaker, jeweller and optician) in Lambton Quay, the Newtown tennis court opening, the home of Josephus Hargreaves Richardson (chief commissioner of the Government Life Insurance), interior views of a house with a baby lying asleep in a cot, and Marshall's houses in Worser Bay, alongside J. Marshall's Pilot Store (General Store & Refreshment Rooms). Source of descriptive information - Later album (PA1-q-222) which has some further information; also help from a family member, Michael Spackman Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded red cover, entitled "Photographic views"; 17.5 x 23.5
Halcombe School class portrait
Date: ca 1880s
From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district
Reference: 1/4-030097-G
Description: Halcombe School class portrait, photographed by William James Harding circa 1880s. Shows four rows of girls and boys, with a male teacher on the left. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
[Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], fl 1870-1917 :Kohukohu; A.C.Y's house; Brian, Gerty...
Date: 1879 - 1881
From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].
Reference: E-881-f-040
Description: Shows a view of the bay and the house and family of Alfred Cooke Yarborough. In the foreground are his children Bryan and Gerty Cooke Yarborough and a woman who is probably his wife Mary (nee Ferguson). Bryan (born 1877) is seated on the grass at the left and wears a sailor's suit, and Gerty standing at the right wears a blue dress, white bonnet and knickerbockers. The woman wears a brown dress and hat both with red trim. The house is amongst trees in the left middle distance, and the harbour and hills are beyond. Other Titles - Bryan Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, page 40 The children appear to be aged about 2-3 (Bryan, born 1877) and 4-5 (Gerty, born 1876). The date is therefore likely to be about 1880. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 234 x 323 mm.
Group of children at Taumarunui - Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington
Date: [ca 1900]
From: Auckland Star :Negatives
Reference: 1/1-003130-G
Description: Photograph of twenty-six children, mostly Maori (a few Pakeha) children taken outdoors, possibly a school group photo. The children range in age from about 5 to 12 years. They are all wearing European clothes except one boy on the left who is wearimg a piupiu. All but one are bare-footed. A boy on the far left in the back row is holding up a football. Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington in early 1900s at Taumarunui. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - bottom left - 66 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches
Halcombe School class portrait
Date: ca 1880s
From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district
Reference: 1/4-008186-G
Description: Halcombe School class portrait, photographed by William James Harding circa 1880s. Shows four rows of girls and boys with two female teachers, one on either side. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodian glass negative
Master Percival Thomas Scott and his sister, of Feilding
Date: Apr 1878
From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district
Reference: 1/4-005081-G
Description: Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Accession register gives girl's name as Elizabeth Jane or Annie Scott and her age as 6 years. Percival's age is given as four years. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.25 x 3.25 inches
Huff, Frank Rufus, 1850-1920 : Thomas Scott and family
Date: ca 1880
By: Huff, Frank Rufus, 1850-1920
Reference: 1/2-091266-F
Description: Thomas Scott with his granddaughters, the Higgie family of Matarawa. Shown standing behind Scott; Adeline Jane Higgie, Mary Oliver, Annie Maude Higgie and Amy Hilda Higgie. Photographed by Frank Hill, circa 1880. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Description updated with names of children 28 June 2023, following information provided by a researcher.
Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908 :[Wairoa River. ca 1880]
Date: 1880
By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908
Reference: G-006
Description: Shows a view of the Wairoa River from just above the river bank. A young boy can be seen on the bank, wearing a hat, possibly line fishing or throwing stones into the river. Willow trees and bush feature on either side of the foreground. A number of huts or whare can be seen on the opposite bank. A yacht can be seen in the distance, and in the middle distance is a canoe or waka with a single occupant. The clouds have a distinctive pink glow to them, which is reflected on the water. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Wairoa R [in brushpoint]; Recto - bottom right - JPB [in brushpoint]; Verso - top centre - Backhouse oil $30 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on board, 230 x 300 mm (sight)