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Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-533

Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948 : Albums and photographs

Reference: 1/2-060523-G

Description: Members of the Gifford party outside a hut (in the Milford Track area?), circa 1890, photographed by Algenon Gifford. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-175-008

Description: Shows at lower right a covered wagon stopped beside a wooden hut. Two men, three horses and a dog are standing beside the wagon, which is standing at the side of a road, curving away around the corner of a road that follows a river though mountainous country. There are snow-capped peaks in the distance. Several birds flutter around the hut, and there are stands of native bush at left and right. Title from the label attached to backing board (retained with the artwork) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 332 x 464 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library

Date: [ca 1898-1899]

By: McAllister, James, 1869-1952

Reference: 1/2-065619-G

Description: The Reid family outside their slab hut home, Whangamomona. From left: Edith May, Sara Ann, Elizabeth (Dolly), William Alexander, and Alexander William Reid. Photograph taken by James McAllister circa 1898-1899. Source of descriptive information - Reid family members identified by family member. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - left of image - 567 Reid - 12 Cab [possibly ordered for the Reid family, 12 Cabinet cards] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca 1895

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-410-018

Description: Jack Adamson (right), and another unidentified man, with horses, by Ball Hutt, at the junction of the Ball and Tasman glaciers, Mackenzie district, Canterbury, circa 1895. Shows the hut as it was first built in 1891. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.4 x 20.1 cm

Date: 1849 - 1850

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-189-017

Description: View looking up the lower reaches of the Hutt River, with bush both sides, including tree ferns. A raupo hut is on the left, amidst bush and close to the river Inscriptions: bottom left - Signed lower left: W & H S Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 5.5 x 8.2 ins Transfers: Removed from Henry Gabriel Swainson's Journal, 1850-51, M.S. March 1967..

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-080

Description: Several images on one pagle. At the top of the page, two shacks and a cabbage tree, 'Smith's station' at the mouth of the Waianakarua, looking inland, with the river to the right. Left, below that, Taiaroa standing on the beach, staff in hand, appearing to be speaking, observed by several people lying down. The title refers to Rauparaha's conquest of the east coast and to the local paramount chief's defiance while Rauparaha is safely in the North Island on Kapiti. Below on the right, three drawings of the same man's head in a bonnet, and a right-angles, a coastal view looking north along the beach from Onekakara, Moeraki, with several canoes pulled up on shore to the left. At the bottom left of the page, a cryptic drawing possibly of a rocky outcrop, titled Penal Sett. Moeraki, possibly refering to the number of ex-convicts amongst the whalers at Moeraki Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Oct 28 Quantity: 5 drawing(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1890 - 1892

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995

Reference: A-169-031

Description: Shows figures on three horses dismounting at hut in centre left background. Hut appears to be of wood, with wooden chimney, and iron roof. A cart approaches in right distance. The title begins with 'and reach the hut' so is presumably a continuation of information in a diary or on another picture. Dated around 1890 as this is assumed to be the exterior of Mrs Birley's establishment shown in A-169-032. She is listed in Wises as a hotel-keeper in Queenstown during the 1880s, and then at Glenorchy in 1890-91. In 1892, J.K. Birley is listed as the hotel-keeper of Mt Earnslaw Hotel, Glenorchy, which may be a grander establishment than this one! Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 6.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 132 x 182 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A95-145. - Transfer from Manuscripts and Archives, A95-145..

Date: 1889

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Hentschel, C, active 1889; Davies, Norman, active 1880s; Fidel, 1944-2001

Reference: B-033-032

Description: Shows ten images: A New Zealand coach; Some drivers on the West Coast Road; the "Glacier Hotel", Bealey; A creek & cutting; The Otira Gorge, a clearing in the bush; Road-men's hut; Jackson's coaching stables; Mitchell's Falls; A pensioner from the roads [a wagon] / C Hentschel; Road damaged by floods ibn the Otira Gorge / Norman Davies. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving image 323 x 222 mm on sheet 395 x 290 mm

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-037-3

Description: View across the lake towards mountains. Mt Alfred on the left and two huts at the water's edge on the right Forms a panorama with E-394-f-037-2, Looking up the Dart Valley from Glenorchy. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 69 x 169 mm

Date: 1852

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-098-1

Description: Shows an extensive plain and occasional conical hills, with a cluster of houses at the foot of the hills just right of centre. Spread across two pages of a sketchbook. Part of W B D Mantell's Scrapbook (C-103) "Betterwood" is a joke of Mantell's A similar but not identical panorama, from a different angle, showing Goodwood, is on six pages of Mantell's sketchbook E-332, with titles From Mount Royal, 1, 2 and 3. Reference numbers are E-332-006/007, E-332-008/009 and E-332-012/013 Other Titles - Mt Watkin. Rocky mountains. Carte Blanche, Pique, Repique, Mt Charles, Mt Royal Inscriptions: Recto - SDNM i. e. Southern District New Munster, now known as Otago, South Island Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 65 x 35 mm

Date: 1841 - 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-024-004

Description: Petone with the Eastern Hills in the background, flax bushes and two wind-formed bent trees and two cows in the foreground. In the middle distance is a raupo whare with a conical thatched roof Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 4.5 x 6.5 ins

Date: [ca 1890]

Reference: 1/2-021451-F

Description: Men, some holding axes, outside a hut in the bush, at Milford Sound, circa 1890. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903

Reference: A-190-020

Description: A hut in a clearing with the river in the background, trees nearby Title and date from back: probably added at later date possibly by Edith Swainson Artist's monogram matches that of William Swainson; however the style is not typical of his work. He did not commonly use ink and wash; nor is he known to have visited Manawatu, where his daughter Edith lived. He may have redrawn or drawn over and initialled a drawing of hers. There are a number of drawings of areas not visited by William Swainson, but drawn by his offspring, which he has initialled Inscriptions: bottom left - Signed: W.S. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia watercolour, 134 x 187 mm

Date: 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-189-005

Description: A large A-frame hut with thatching and a slab chimney along the side, facing the viewer. A man is close to the front entrance of the hut, shouldering a log. There is bush beyond the hut. 'Cramer' was probably James Cramer, who arrived in Wellington aboard the 'Bolton' in 1840. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 4.5 x 5.8 ins

Date: 1862 - 1868

By: Martin, Albin, 1812?-1888; L'Univers illustre (Periodical)

Reference: A-018-012

Description: Scene on Coromandel Peninsula, with a log over a stream, a hut amidst bush beyond. A man stands in front of the hut Newspaper illustration, accompanied by cutting with explanatory text, dated 1862 in pencil. Published in 'L'Univers illustré', 15 February 1868, p.108. Conjecturally attributed to Albin Martin. Other Titles - Gold-miner's hut, in New Zealand. Drawing by Mr Allen Martin [translation] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 151 x 112 mm

Date: 1846

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: A-229-023

Description: The entrance from Evans Bay, Wellington Harbour, to the tunnel built by J. C. Crawford to drain Burnham Water, a lake in the centre of Miramar Peninsula. The entrance to the tunnel is cut into a cliff and supporting beams are built around the opening. A small hut stands to the right of the tunnel and a path winds over the hill-top to the right. Rocks, flax bushes and a small cabbage tree are distinguishable in the foreground. Hataitai or Whataitai was the earlier name for Miramar Peninsula This drawing is the preliminary sketch for the watercolour with the same title at A-229-044 Other Titles - Miramar Peninsula Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 134 x 195 mm

Date: 1885

From: Dillberg, Gustaf, 1858-1934 :[New Zealand sketchbook. 1879-1887]

Reference: E-085-042/043

Description: A panoramic view across two pages, looking to the south, with the beach in the foreground, the Sugar Loaf Rocks at sea, with a hut and a cave on the island nearest to the shore Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 178 x 508 mm (page size).

Date: 1889

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-182-067

Description: Shows a derelict hut with a slab chimney and its door falling off its hinges beside a stream in a desolate landscape. The remains of a gold pan is half-buried in the ground in front of the hut and a shovel sits beside the door. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title, date and artist's initials in pen & ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 250 x 350 mm

Date: 1841 - 1850

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s; Swainson, Edwin Newcombe, 1833-1913

Reference: A-190-013

Description: Shows three huts with steep-pitched thatched roofs, rush walls and small windows. The central hut is enclosed by a small wooden fence. The one at right foreground has a high stone chimney. A man is applying flax or rushes to the walls. In extreme right foreground grows a flax bush. There are hills in the background. The furthest cottage may be the building used as the first courthouse; see note for work at A-190-014. Other Titles - Huts, Petone Inscriptions: Verso - top right - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on paper.. Physical Description: Pencil, 113 x 211 mm. Provenance: Previously collection of Edwin Swainson