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Date: 1880s

From: Three albums of New Zealand views

Reference: PA1-o-983

Description: Views of New Zealand, comprising Mt Egmont from New Plymouth Domain, Napier, bullock team hauling wool at Cheviot, Wellington, Manawatu Gorge bridge, Manawatu Gorge, Rimutaka railway, Mount Alexander, Otira Gorge, Lyttelton breakwater, Armagh Street bridge in Christchurch, and Christchurch Cathedral. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-532

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by E Wheeler & Son, circa 1870s to 1880s Most of the views are identified, either on the photograph itself, or in hand-written captions below; places shown are listed above. One image has caption "Flax cutting" on the photograph which shows a man standing be a group of cabbage trees, with a house? or possibly a mill with a water wheel in the background behind the trees, while the hand-written caption reads "Valley scene, Hokianga". Other Titles - New Zealand views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover (damaged), entitled "New Zealand Views" in gold lettering; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1880-1889

From: Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898?-1980 :Photographs

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-q-116

Description: Album compiled by Arthur Lagden Haylock, containing views of Lyttelton, Christchurch, Wellington, Nelson, New Plymouth, Tauranga, Ohinemutu, Mangarewa Gorge, Pink & White Terraces, Napier, Timaru, Porters Pass, Castle Hill (West Coast Road), Craigieburn, Waimakariri River, Arthur's Pass, Otira Gorge, Otira, Jacksons, Taipo River, Mount Alexander, Dillmanstown, Hokitika, and Greymouth. Also includes photographs of ships Annie Bow, Ganymede, and City of Perth and Benvenue stranded at Timaru in 1882. Photographs taken 1880s, by James Ring, Burton Brothers, Wheeler & Sons (including prints made by Wheeler from the negatives of D L Mundy) and others. Other Titles - Ramblings through New Zealand. By A.L. Haylock Quantity: 1 album(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Brown album with gold borders, entitled `Ramblings through New Zealand. By A.L. Haycock', lettered in gold; 36.5 x 31.5 cm

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

From: Crawford family :Photographs of James Coutts Crawford and family

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: PA1-o-118

Description: Views of New Zealand taken circa 1870s to 1880s by the Burton Brothers, photographers in Dunedin. Other Titles - New Zealand views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover entitled "New Zealand views", 233 x 316 mm

Date: 1877 - 1875

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The illustrations by C. D. Barraud. Edited by W. T. L. Travers. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877

By: Picken, T (Mr), active 1870s

Reference: PUBL-0016-40

Description: View looking east into the gorge, with the Otira River, the road to the left, with four horses pulling a Cobb & Co coach, alone horseman further up the road. Rata forests on both sides and mountains in the background. According to the accompanying text, the view is taken just below the well-known zig-zag and just before the house of accommodation where the coach changes horses. The Library holds the watercolour on which this chromolithograph was based at B-004-022, with title Otira Gorge, West Coast Road, from Mount Alexander, Dec 1874. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 252 x 355 mm

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-004-022

Description: View looking east up the Otira River towards Arthur's Pass, with the road crossing a bridge and running to the left of the river. The original for Barraud's chromolithograph of the same scene (with the addition of a Cobb & Co coach and four horses, plus a lone horseman) in New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive (London, 1877) opp. p. 40. The associated text mentions that the scene is just before the 'Zig-Zag' not long before the first of the accommodation houses on the road, where the horses were changed. See ref. no. PUBL-0016-40 for the details of the chromolithograph Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in pencil in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 244 x 352 mm

Date: 1860

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-055

Description: 360 degree panoramic view of the Paparoa Range with the coast drawn on the far left and far right of the drawing. Identified features include: Waimangaroha River, Mount Owen, Mount William, Observation Point, Maruia, Table Mountain, Mount Victoria, Inangahua, Mount Alexander, Black Hill, and other indecipherable words. Includes compass bearings. Title is inscribed in German. Other Titles - Panorama from Paparoa (Mount Rochfort) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Title; Verso - centre - Papahaua Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on pages glued together to make sheet, 115 x 2215 mm