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Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-386

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm

Date: [ca 1872-1880s]

By: Perkins, J (Mr), active 1967; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4608

Description: Photographs of Mount Taranaki; Mount Cook; Tasman Glacier near Malte Brun hut site; lower Tasman Glacier with Mounts De La Beche, Minarets, Green and Elie de Beaumont; Tasman Glacier with Mounts Cook, Tasman and Haidinger behind; main divide south of De la Beche with Glacier Dome and the Rudolf Glacier on the lower left; and the junction of Ball and Tasman Glaciers with the Anzacs ridge in the background. Photographs taken by Burton Bros. Photographs of view down Princes Street with the Colonial Mutual building on the left and the Exchange building on the right; Victoria Bridge over the Avon, Christchurch, with the Supreme Court building on the right; the Glacier Hotel at Bealey with a carriage and four pulling up; and Jackson's on the West Coast Road. Photographs taken by Wheeler & Son. Photograph of the flood in Mawhera Quay and Catholic School in Greymouth. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). 14 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph album, photographic prints

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: [Circa 1870s-1880s]

From: Sarney, H F (Mr), fl 1959 :Photograph albums of New Zealand scenes

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-065

Description: Album of landscapes taken by various photographers including Wheeler & Sons and the Burton Brothers, circa 1870s and 1880s. All the views are of New Zealand except the last sequence (p 33-37) showing Rio de Janeiro. Of particular interest are views of a wool wagon drawn by oxen, crossing a ford; a series showing an unidentified curved viaduct under construction (p 28-32); and a number showing a farm run by J F L Jetter at Te Puke when the land was partially cleared, with cattle grazing in paddocks, and Mr Jetter standing by a horse in a paddock in front of his home. Many of the images show uncleared land, with a deep ravine filled with native bush and tree ferns, and a stream running through (p 24-27). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover with embossed diamond shape pattern, bordered with gold; 32 x 38 cm

Date: [Between 1870s and 1880s]

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd.

Reference: Pa1-o-389

Description: Early photographs of New Zealand, mostly taken by unidentified photographers. One collage of Union Steam Ship Company ships, ship captains and the head office building in Dunedin was photographed and issued by David Alexander De Maus. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album cover pink and white pattern with gold tracery, red spine; 24.0 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1876 - 2000

By: Saunders, Frank Lewis, 1902-2002

Reference: MapColl-834.48a/1876-2000/Acc.32346

Description: Shows: The Black stump (Pou o tu Mokai); Claridge House; Weirs house; G Meredith, Dohrmans Road; Suspension foot bridge; Sir Charles Creek (named after a race horse drowned in creek, owned by Mr Studholme); Mayers Rd; Waimate creek; Maori hut occupied by man now known as Kinita Karate Hir; Char Creek; Yorkeys creek (named after a man employed to clean it); Poingdestres Road. Accompanied by two records: (i) Note on North Branch of Waihoa River (MapColl--1834.48a/1876-2000/Acc.32345A) and (ii) Biography of Frank Sanders (Map-Coll--q834.48a/1876-2000/Acc.32345C) Other Titles - [Map of Waihao River North Branch] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - A request by Arthur Rollinson to supply him with a plan of this part of the Waihao, eventually turned into a map showing objects of interest past and present. Signed Frank Sanders 26.8.2000. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) in two parts + booklet by Frank Saunders giving history of area. Physical Description: Ink drawings. No Scale given. 30 x 42 cm

Date: ca 1860s-1870s

Reference: PAColl-4553

Description: Twelve photographs from the same series: Roto Kanapanapa or Boiling Mud Lakes; Otukapuerangi or Pink Terraces (front and side views); Rotomahana or Hot Lakes; cascade in the bush, Canterbury; Punsh (sic) Bowl Falls, Westland; footbridge over the Avon, Christchurch; East Town Belt footbridge, Christchurch; Missouri Gold Battery, Aukland (sic); Provincial Council Chamber, Christchurch (back view); birds-eye view of the Provincial Government Building, Christchurch; and Russell, Bay of Islands. Captions taken from the photographs. Photographer unidentified but probably the Burton Bros. Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: According to the Donations Book there were 40 photographs in the accession so others have yet to be located.

Date: 1877

From: Seed Family, creator :Cuttings from the illustrated papers [Scrapbook of nineteenth-century illustrations and cuttings. 1870-1880s?]

By: Illustrated Australian news (Newspaper); Ebenezer & David Syme (Firm); Sleap, F A, active 1880s

Reference: E-927-f-039-5

Description: Shows a view of horsedrawn carriages travelling along Victoria Street, with the bridge over the Avon River. Over the river on the western side is the Supreme Court building. There is a row of weeping willow trees beside the river at the left. Date taken from State Library of Victoria catalogue (Retrieved from http://www.slv.vic.gov.au). This site also states that the engraving appeared in the Illustrated Australian news, published in Melbourne by Ebenezer and David Syme. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 150 x 230 mm.

Date: [ca 1870s-1890s]

From: Bridge family :Photograph albums

By: Anson Brothers (Firm); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Pulman (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-271

Description: Views of New Zealand, England, Australia and Canada, associated with family of Charles Joseph Bridge (d 1876), settler at Homebrook, near Lake Ellesmere; and his son, Charles Hastings Bridge. Includes pressed flowers and leaves, a coloured sketch of a rowing boat on a river lined with willow trees. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Henry Hugh Chapman 1881; Henry Walter Bridge 1886 Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Between 1870s and 1880s]

By: Hart, Campbell & Company; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hart, William Paterson, active 1870s-1900s

Reference: PA1-o-390

Description: Early photographs of New Zealand, most taken by Hart, Campbell & Co, and Wheeler & Son. Inserted in a pocket attached inside the front cover are two items. One an old print of a hut at Milford, taken by Hart, Campbell & Co, and the other a newspaper cutting (Evening Star Friday March 23, 1934), of Dunedin from View Street, and Dunedin from Dowling Street, both taken in 1861. The photograph of a Cobb & Co. coach at Palmerston, has the caption `2. Cobb's coach. E Devine, driver. Palmerston, Otago, N.Z. 1876' and the photographers are named as Hart, Campbell & Co. One set of photographs have no captions and no identification of photographer. They follow a group of men travelling along a river bed, with small rowing boats, on river banks, and at the foot of waterfalls. Another sequence shows native bush, tree ferns and rivers. Two views (pages 8, 10) show Linnburn Station. One is unidentified in the album, but identified from the same image at Te Papa (digital view on the internet), the other closer view of the homestead has a caption. Relationship complexity - The photograph of Cobb's Coach at Palmerston (p. 7), is the same image as one at PAColl-7344-54 (Box 16), with the same caption `2. Cobb's coach. E Devine, driver. Palmerston, Otago, N.Z. 1865', but the photographers are identified as Hart, Campbell & Co. on this image, but identified as Burton Bros. on the PAColl copy. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with very dark blue-green cloth cover, black corners and spine, entitled `New Zealand views' in gold lettering; 24.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1872-1874

By: Canterbury (N.Z. : Province). Provincial Council

Reference: MS-Papers-2758

Description: Sent in for consideration by the Council and comprising: Petition from Pleasant Point Farmers Club concerning the railway Petition from Waitohi settlers concerning the Epworth Bridge Petition from Milford residents concerning the Opihi Bridge Petition from Waimate residents concerning the railway Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (7 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Unknown

Date: [1870s-1880s]

By: F Bradley & Company; Walton, Grahame M, active 2009

Reference: PA1-o-1605

Description: Photograph album of Views and landscapes of New Zealand, Second Series, published by F Bradley & Company. Includes photographs - No. 1 Meeeting of the waters, Oripi; No. 2 Maori group; No. 3 Lake Hope, White Island; No. 4 Timaru; No. 5 The Bealey, Hokitika Coach Road; No. 6 Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula; No. 7 The River Avon; No. 8 Shag Rock, Sumner Road, looking towards Christchurch; No. 9 Princes Street, Dunedin; No. 10 Christchurch; No. 11 Bullock team and wool waggon, Cheviot; No. 12 Oamaru; No. 13 Cheviot Station, Nelson Province; No. 14 Normal School, Christchurch; No. 15 German Bay, Akaroa; No. 16 Port Lyttelton; No. 17 Kawau, Sir George Grey's residence; No. 18 Pink Terrace, Rotomahana; No. 19 Akaroa; No. 20 Rangatata Traffic Bridge; No. 21 Armagh St bridge & watering place, Christchurch; No. 22 River Bealey Crossing, Hokitika Coach Road; No. 23 Post Office, Christchurch; No. 24 View on the Heathcote; No. 25 Russell's Gold Battery, Tararua Creek, Thames Gold Fields; No. 26 Glacier Hotel & Cobb's Coach, West Coast Road; No. 27 Crossing the Teremakau; No. 28 Greymouth, West Coast; No. 29 Kaiapoi, Canterbury; No. 30 Chalky or Dark Inlet; No. 31 Waimakariri Gorge Bridge; No. 32 Nelson; No. 33 Christchurch; No. 34 Group of Maoris, Lake Taupo; No. 35 Alfred Falls, North Island; No. 36 Christchurch; No. 37 Governor's Bay; No. 38 Oamaru; No. 39 Timaru breakwater; No. 40 Dunedin; No. 41 Christchurch; No. 42 Christchurch hospital; No. 43 House of Representatives, Wellington; No. 44 Arthurs Pass; No. 45 The Cave Rock, Sumner; No. 46 Government buildings, Christchurch; No. 47 Otira Gorge; No. 48 The River Avon; No. 49 Group of Maoris, Bay of Islands; No. 50 Sheep mustering, South Canterbury; No. 51 The Christchurch Cathedral, C.E.; No. 52 Nelson Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints Transfers: Transfers - From Published Collections.

Date: [Circa 1860s-1870s]

From: Murray, H N :Photograph of Queens Wharf and an album

By: Murray, Herbert Nicholas, 1899-1974; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-q-165

Description: Photographs of the Wellington area in the North Island, and in the South Island views particularly of Lake Guyon and surrounds, the Mount Travers Station, and the Waiau River and bridge, taken by William Thomas Locke Travers. The Wellington views include several of the `Nghauranga' [i.e. Ngauranga] Valley, including one of two wagons laden with timber crossing a wooden bridge; one of a small group of buildings at the foot of the gorge; and one of a bend in the road, a man seated on a log in the foreground, and smoke coming from the chimney of a house partially hidden to the right. All the other scenes in the Wellington area are in the Hutt Valley, or Belmont Hills, including `Fitzherbert's' (the home of Sir William Fitzherbert?). The view of the Mount Travers Station on the edge of Lake Guyon shows a building partially hidden by trees on the left, a woman and child sitting in front of a camera on a tripod, and a man sitting in a dinghy on the edge of the lake. A number of scenes are in the Lake Guyon area, with various streams and creeks; and views of the Waiau River into which the lake drains. Inscriptions: Album page - `H.N. Murray, Motueka. His book'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather binding, entitled `New Zealand scenery' in gold lettering; 29.0 x 38.5 cm

Date: [1870s-1880s]

By: Whinray, William James Longmire, 1885-1961; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-534

Description: Photograph album entitled 'Views of New Zealand' by E Wheeler and Son, taken circa 1870s and 1880s. Views include landscapes; city views; one of tree ferns with a digger's hut in the Thames gold diggings; sheep mustering at Waireka Station; a wool wagon from Cheviot Station in North Canterbury hauled by an ox team across a river ford; a bush scene at Teremakau (Taramakau); and a pataka (storehouse) at Taupo. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Views in New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album in folded concertina form with dark brown cover, black corners and spine, entitled "Views in New Zealand. E. Wheeler & Son"; 24.5 x 31.5 cm

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: 1861 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-067

Description: Shows a figure on horseback crossing a bridge over the gorge of the Waiau River, near Hanmer. Location decided with reference to Pictorial Reference Section negative 1/2-04716. The artist is known to have been in the Hanmer district. There are several rivers in New Zealand called Waiau Other Titles - Waiau Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 160 x 205 mm.

Date: 1870 - 1875

From: Artist unknown :[Eight pencil sketches of Christchurch buildings and the Avon River. 1870-1875?]

Reference: C-081-005

Description: Shows a foreground bridge across a stream. with a row of houses along the far bank. Colour notes and sketch notes indicate foreground fern, and flax and the colour green. Artist may be Rev James West Stack (see similar style of image at A-210-016; Government Buildings Canterbury. [1860?]) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 240 x 410 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A85-097..

Date: 1860 - 1891 - 1870

By: Joachim, Susanna White, 1842-1915; Sisarich, Warren, active 1980s-1990s

Reference: B-139-010

Description: Shows a bridge of three planks laid over rapids in a stream, and supported by two piles of rocks. A range of snowy mountains is visible in the background. The artist arrived in New Zealand in 1876. She is not known to have had any relations by the name of Orbell. The name 'Grannie Orbell' may be an affectionate description of an older local woman, rather than suggesting a blood relationship. 'Grannie Orbell' has not been identified. Other Titles - Raukapuka Inscriptions: Backing board recto - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 185 x 339 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Warren Sisarich in 1998.

Date: 1861 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-036

Description: Shows the river winding from background dry hills, towards right foreground, passing limestone? cliff at left middle distance. In immediate foreground is dilapidated wooden bridge, but it is not clear if this bridge crosses the river. This is probably the Waiau River in North Canterbury, as this area was part of Nelson Province in the period 1852-76. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 120 x 154 mm.

Date: 1861 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-037

Description: Shows the river and its stony bed, flanked by limestone cliffs in two places. Middle distance is occupied by dry grappsy hills, and there are bare mountain peaks beyond these in the distance. This is probably the Waiau River in North Canterbury, as this area was part of Nelson Province in the period 1852-76. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 178 x 230 mm.