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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 1900-1905]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000251-G

Description: View of Mansion House and nearby buildings taken from some distance off-shore looking towards the wharf. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Kawau. Auckland. No 1858 Relationship complexity - One of a series of three photographs taken as the ferry approached the wharf at Mansion House Bay. See also 1/2-000250 and 1/2000249 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1853

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-164-046

Description: Shows a woman with a rifle, aiming at a target to the left of the picture, while two other women stand alongside her on the shore in the centre foreground. There is a rowing boat pulled up on the slope behind them, and a bank with trees in the background. May originally have been part of a larger picture. Title "Shooting party" supplied by International Art Centre auction catalogue March 2001. Backing board housed with the original art work. The title 'Mansion House, Kawau, 1853' appears to have been added in the 20th century. It is written in ball-point pen. Mansion House was not known as such until about 1900 and the property was not purchased by Sir George Grey, its best-known early owner, until 1862. The date 1853 is quite convincing in terms of the dress of the women although the dress styles could also date from 1860 or slightly later. The location may be elsewhere in Auckland. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - centre - Painting by Major Heaphy, VC; Backing board recto - centre - For Peter, July 1973; Backing board recto - bottom centre - Mansion House Kawau 1853 (in biro) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 67 x 90 mm.

Date: [ca 1900-1905]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000250-G

Description: Mansion House and nearby buildings, Mansion House Bay, Kawau Island, taken from off shore. Mansion House was possibly a guest house at this time. A group of people are waiting on the wharf for the ferry. Photograph taken by William A Price, early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Kawau Island Auckland NZ No 1870 Relationship complexity - One of a series of three photographs taken from the ferry as it appraoched the wharf at Mansion House Bay. See also 1/2-000249 and 1/2-000251 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1900-1905]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000249-G

Description: Mansion House and nearby buildings, Mansion House Bay, Kawau Island, taken from off shore. Mansion House was possibly a guest house at this time. A group of people are waiting on the wharf for the ferry. Photograph taken by William A Price, early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Kawau Island Auckland NZ No 1878 Relationship complexity - One of a series of three photographs taken from the ferry as it approached the wharf at Mansion House Bay. See 1/2-000250 and 1/2-000251 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1900-1905]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Matthews, W T, active 1920s

Reference: 1/2-000026-G

Description: View of Mansion House Bay looking down on the bay from a vantage point to the north. Mansion House can be seen on the left partially obscured by trees and the wharf is in the middle distance. A tent is erected near the foreshore. A number of boats and yachts are moored in the bay. In the immediate foreground is a yacht with people on board and a sail up. A dinghy is alongside. Photograph attributed to W. T. Matthews, taken in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - W.T. Matthews Photo.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Kawau No 2 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1900-1905]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000027-G

Description: View of Mansion House, Mansion House Bay taken from a vantage point overlooking the bay to the north. The view is been framed by two large pine trees in the immediate foreground. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Kawau Island. Auckland, NZ. No 1885 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1868, 1871 etc

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-041

Description: Photographs of the North Island of New Zealand taken by Daniel Mundy during the 1860s to 1871. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in this album at p. 51) The Thames goldfields are shown in a number of images, including some with captions Shortland and Grahamstown (now part of Thames); the Moanataira [i.e. Moanatairi] wire tramway, with the Rainbow Hotel nearby; Hunt's claim (known as the Shotover Mine); the Missouri Battery; the Bank of New Zealand building at Grahamstown; and miners' huts. The timber industry is shown with kauri logs being transported by bullock teams and awaiting transport by water. Photographs associated with Maori include military outposts at Terewera (i.e. Tarawera) and Ormond; "Kawiti's Runanga, or court houses, now `tapu', Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 21); "limestone caves at Waiomeo [sic], Bay of Islands; the burial place of the Mangakahia tribe. Strictly tapu" (p. 22); "Group at Waimeo feast, Bay of Islands" (p. 20); "Native feast - or bone-scraping at the burial of the remains of several chiefs at Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 46); "Waipawa Valley, Poverty Bay, scene of the massacre by Te Kooti" (p. 47); "Here the moa feet impressions were found, Poverty Bay, Sept. 1871, D.L.M." (p. 51). There are two-image panoramas of the Thames goldfields and Napier. In this album they are not on following pages, but are separated. (Thames goldfields, Mundy numbers 121 & 120, here seen on pages 9 and 15); Napier (Mundy numbers 164 & 165, here seen on pages 50 and 52). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover, geometric pattern, gold decoration, entitled `New Zealand' in gold; 30.5 x 42.5 cm

Date: 1864

By: Calvert, Samuel, 1828-1913; Illustrated Melbourne post (Periodical)

Reference: A-109-077

Description: Shows groups of Maori sitting, standing, interacting, talking, on the shore of the inlet, with Governor Grey's house in the background. There is a small jetty and a mast erected on the foreshore in front of the house. Other Titles - Kawau Inscriptions: Recto - top right - [In pencil]: 25/11/64 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Handcoloured wood engraving, 170 x 225 mm, on partial page 220 x 282 mm.

Date: [ca 1900-1905]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Matthews, W T, active 1920s

Reference: 1/2-000025-G

Description: View of Mansion House Bay looking down on the bay from a vantage point to the north. Mansion House can be seen on the left partially obscured by trees and the wharf is in the middle distance. A tent is erected near the foreshore. A number of boats and yachts are moored in the bay. In the immediate foreground on the left are two rowboats. Photograph attributed to W. T. Matthews, taken in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - W.T. Matthews Photo.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Kawau No 3 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1900-1905]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000244-G

Description: View of Mansion House and nearby buildings taken from some distance off-shore at the entrance to the bay. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Kawau. Auckland. No 1857 Relationship complexity - One of a series of photographs taken as the ferry approached the wharf at Mansion House Bay. See also 1/2-000250, 1/2000249 and 1/2-000251 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1877

By: Gordon-Cumming, Constance Frederica, 1837-1924

Reference: D-022-010

Description: Shows Mansion House Bay also called Bon Accord Harbour, on Kawau Island, with the Mansion House, a flagpole on the water's edge, the wharf and a paddlesteamer approaching the shore. The view is framed by pohutukawa trees which are identified in a caption in the left foreground. The coastline of Auckland is in the far distance. The Mansion House is shown at a time before the verandah extension was built. The work is signed at lower right by the artist, and also by Sir George Grey ("G.Grey") and Lavinia Coates, the sister of Grey's banker friend Sir James Coates. The artist painted three views of Kawau Island while staying there in January 1877. The other two works are in Auckland Art Gallery and Te Papa. Only this view shows a steamer in the bay (Bon Accord Harbour) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 400 x 590 mm (sight)