Places

Date: ca 1880

Reference: PAColl-7406

Description: Photographs of Auckland including: looking across the harbour to Devonport; the Rakaia in Caliope dock; the Scotch church; looking down College Hill; Victoria Street looking across Queen Street to Albert Park showing businesses in the area such as Sharland & Co and R White boot shop; Mount Eden; the Supreme Court; the flagpole and cannons at the top of Albert Park looking out over the harbour; two views of Karangahape Road showing shops, carriages and carts; the first St Matthew's Church; St Paul's Church on Symonds Street; the public hospital showing the tennis court in front and the screens on the balconies; houses on Franklin Road, Ponsonby; the Railway Station with advertising for the New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd and Arthur Cleave & Co; Ponsonby Road with a church on the left and J Clarke, undertakers, on the right; Ponsonby Road with a bakers and butchers on the right; the Synagogue on Princes Street; looking north along Queen Street with the DSC building on the right; a ship in dry-dock at the wharves; Hobson Street with St Matthew's Church on the right; and four views of the wharves including one showing the ferry. Photographs of Lyttelton: two elevated views to the harbour one with a church in the centre and the other with an artist painting the view at an easel; the railway lines at the wharves; and three men next to coal carts being loaded with coal from a ship at the wharves. Described on the reverse of the file prints as "copy negatives taken from faded prints". Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004172 to 004200 Quantity: 30 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1880s, 1900s

From: Creator of collection unknown :Contact prints from 10x12 negatives of scenes in the Wairarapa, Manawatu-Wanganui and Taranaki regions

By: Martin, Alfred, 1846?-1906; Denton, Frank James, 1869-1963; Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920; Winzenberg, Albert Edward, 1865-1931; Harding, William James, 1826-1899

Reference: PAColl-3722-1

Description: Arrangement: In order by copy negative number Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s) in one box.

Date: ca 1880s

From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7301

Description: A road through the bush in Paradise; path next to Lake Wakatipu near Queenstown; a view of Queenstown showing the wharf; a paddle steamer at the wharf in Queenstown with Eichardt's Hotel in the background; Kawarau Falls with a mill next to them; Kawarau Falls station; Remarkables from Frankton; seated portrait of John Hodge; head and shoulders portrait of Henry Hodge; and a view of the Remarkables with Queenstown to the left. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003189, 003233 to 003236, 003510 to 003512, 005107 and 005108 Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918 :[South Island sketches, 1870-1888]

By: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918

Reference: A-120-031

Description: View across the water towards Port Chalmers in the distance with moored ships visible, and a line of houses on the left. Noted are "Quarantine Island & Buildings" (in the left foreground), "Mihiwaka" (the central cone on the range behind), and "Moponui" (the cone on a distant hill to the right). A paddle steamer is moving towards the port. Other Titles - Port Chalmers Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 9.6 x 15.4 inches

Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-013

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by various photographers including the Burton Brothers, Tyree Brothers, James Ring, Josiah Martin, and Henry Thomas Lock. Includes images of flooding in Blenheim, and a wire cable tram across the Taramakau River (West Coast). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red cloth bound folio album, 415 x 300 mm

Date: 1882 - 1884

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-084-004

Description: Shows the lake with mooring poles in the foreground, a wooden jetty at the right, and further away at right, a boatshed with a paddle-steamer pulled up beside it. (Possibly the paddle-steamer "Antrim", constructed in 1868, or the "Mountaineer" built in 1879 - see R J Meyer's "All aboard" (NZ Railway & Locomotive Society, 1980), frontispiece and page 22). See also C-173-005 for a more finished version of this scene Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title and illegible date] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 230 x 470 mm.

Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

By: James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Hawley & Company

Reference: PA1-q-251

Description: Album of photographs taken by James Valentine & Sons, circa 1880s-1900s. Most of the images have a caption printed into the photograph, and many also have a hand-written caption beneath. At some point many of the photographs have been removed from their slots, and others have been placed in the wrong slot so that the subject and caption on the photograph does not match with the caption below. Places are listed above. There are five photographs of Maori, three of women, two of chiefs. The names given are difficult to identify, having complicated spelling, and the captions on photographs have faded in some cases. They include "Maori wahine Ngareti"; "Maori chief Hoera Watene"; "Maori chiefs Panapa Tenihotiti and Topopoki" and "Maori wahine Huihana?". One photograph, of Atiamuri, has the name "Hawley" as photographer. Other Titles - "Valentine & Sons. Photographs" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with greenish cover, entitled "Valentine & Sons. Photographs" in gold lettering; 39 x 31 cm

Date: [Circa 1880s]

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903; Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA1-f-076

Description: Album of photographs taken by various photographers circa 1880s, including the Burton brothers, George Valentine, and W T L Travers. Photographs of Tenerife, Cape Town (and probably the views of Hobart) were taken from the ship "Doric" in 1885, possibly by Alexander Turnbull on one of his return trips from Europe. Other Titles - New Zealand, Tasmania [and] Ships Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled in gold lettering on spine "New Zealand, Tasmania, Ships, A H Turnbull"; 31.5 x 43.0 cm

Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Finch, F, active 1878-1900; Iles, Arthur James, 1870-1943; Le Grice, Edward, 1881-1959; Malaghan, Patrick Thomas, -1938; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Ross, Charles S, active 1890s-1900s; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Valentine, James, -1880

Reference: PAColl-0959-40

Description: New Zealand scenes including thermal areas in the North Island, and river, mountain and roading scenes in the South Island, taken by various identified and unidentified photographers between about the 1880s and 1900s. Two photographers, Josiah Martin and Patrick Thomas Malaghan took most of the images. Other identified photographers include Edmund Wheeler, F. Finch, A.J. Iles, Charles Spencer, Edward Le Grice, J.V. (James Valentine), and Ross (Photographer, Invercargill). Several of the unidentified photographers are listed under their initials only, and include one with the initials T.S.M (or S.T.M. in a monogram), also A.A.B., R.G., Rooney, Luney (?), and L.M. A large number of those taken by Patrick Malaghan show Skippers Road and the Shotover River, with Pinchers Bluff, Huttons Cutting, Hell's Gate, and Skippers Creek. Thermal areas in the North Island show the Pink and White Terraces before the 1886 eruption of mount Tarawera, and also a number taken after the eruption, including the remnants of Te Ariki Pa. A large number also show various geysers, mud pools and hot springs. One method of crossing rivers is shown with the Hooker Wire Bridge (or Hooker Cage) and a "chair" travelling across a wire in Skippers over the Shotover River. Note on this box reads: "1st Ball Hut print" (no. 33); and "J. Martin "Mt Cook"" (no. 66). Most of the places identified are listed above. Other Titles - Old P.O.P. Quantity: 154 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: 1867 - 1888

From: Bloch, Theodor Thorlacius, 1844-1935 :Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PA1-q-035

Description: Chiefly photographs of Nelson and surroundings; also includes images of Wellington, Port Chalmers and Mitre Peak. Photographs taken by Theodor Bloch, circa 1867 to 1888 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green covered album with ornamental decoration in black and gold, containing albumen prints of varying sizes; 285 x 250 mm

Date: 1888

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] Ravensbourne, 1888

Reference: E-016-3-049

Description: Looking up to the bridge of a steamer. A man stands against the guard rail with the ship's funnel behind him Probably at Bluff or in Foveaux Strait. The surrounding images in the sketchbook are of Bluff, Foveaux Strait or Stewart Island Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 89 x 156 mm (page size)

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/2-008411-G

Description: Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1888

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] Ravensbourne, 1888

Reference: E-016-3-068/069

Description: A view across water to steep mountains. Sheds and houses, a jetty and a paddle steamer, possibly the Earnslaw, are on the left The drawing occupies part of page 068 and all of page 069 in the sketchbook. The remainder of page 068 contains 'Memo for 2 lake subjects' with tiny outlines of hills, lakes, boats, etc. Colour notes include 'near bluff all in light', 'White pad[dle] box', 'Snow in shade' on the hill to the right Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 89 x 181 mm

Date: [1900?]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/2-140458-G

Description: Photograph taken by William Williams Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Photographer identified by curator John Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Stereographic dry plate glass negative

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918 :[South Island sketches, 1870-1888]

By: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: A-120-023

Description: A small paddle-steamer in the foreground, the river, several houses on the opposite bank and high hills in the background In: Welch, J. S. [Album of Sketches] 1876 Copied by Joseph Sandell Welch from a watercolour by John Clarke Hoyte Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 170 x 355 mm

Date: 1885

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-012-008

Description: Shows a view of a corner of Lake Wanaka, with a small paddle steamer approaching from the left towards a jetty at the right. The steamer flies a flag from both its mast and stern, and around one dozen gentlemen and lady passengers stand aboard. The smoke from the single funnel floats back to the left and the boat's wake extends past the picture's left edge. The jetty at right is piled with bales and a quantity of timber, and a man and a woman with a parasol are standing on the jetty. In the background are the mountain ranges around Wanaka. Four gulls fly in the right foreground. Other Titles - Lake Wanaka Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Signed and dated]; Backing board recto - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 338 x 498 mm. Provenance: Previously purchased from a Christchurch estate. The note on the backing board adds that the SS Theodore was built for Theo Russell and Captain Hedditch, and that Tom Creig was the engineer. "He [Tom Creig?] gave this painting to Sam McSkimming as a parting gift when S. McSkimming & family left Pembroke to go to Arrowtown, then a busy goldmining town in 1900" Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1888

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] Ravensbourne, 1888

Reference: E-016-3-052/053

Description: View from land looking at a small paddle-steamer tugboat steaming into harbour. Other ships are at a wharf in the background The same tugboat is shown in stormy conditions crossing to Stewart Island two pages earlier in the sketchbook (E-016-3-050) Other Titles - evening Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, 89 x 156 mm (page size)

Date: ca 1880s-1890s

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 18

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-7581-83

Description: The paddle steamer "Mountaineer" berthed at Kinlock, Lake Wakatipu. Shows the wharf alongside, and stacks of timber piled upon it. Photograph taken by the Burton Brothers circa 1880s-1890s. PA7-33-19 is a similar image taken at the same time Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - [unreadable] at Kinlock; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Burton Bros Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.4 x 20.4 cm

Date: [187-?]

From: Bloch, Theodor Thorlacius, 1844-1935 :Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PA1-q-034-31-2

Description: Scene at a wharf at Nelson Harbour showing a paddle steamer, and other vessels. Photograph taken circa 1870s by Theodor Bloch. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Nelson Harbour Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 10.2 x 13.9 cm, on album page

Date: 1886

By: Schell, Frederic B, -1905; Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co. Ltd.

Reference: A-109-008

Description: A paddle steamer, possibly the Devonport ferry arriving in the harbour, while a large liner to the right (the Mariposa) is drawing out from the wharf, with smoke pouring from its funnel and is probably the mail steamer referred to in the title. The Auckland Harbour Board buildings can be seen to the far left. Extended Title - Published in: Picturesque Atlas of Australasia 1886. v. 3. op. p.577 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 7 x 11 in