Places

Date: 1890 - 1910

From: Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :[New Zealand views]. Louis Glaser, Leipzig. [ca 1890s]

Reference: E-278-q-072

Description: View of River Avon and Victoria Bridge Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, 90 x 137 mm

Date: 1917

By: Fear, Robert, active 1988

Reference: MS-Papers-5784

Description: Cooper describes her early life in Greenwich, Kent and Camberwell, Surrey; the voyages of her father, Captain John Parsons, to New Zealand for the Canterbury Association with mention of John Godley, her voyage to Lyttelton in 1853 on the Minerva, life at Dampier Bay (now West Lyttelton) and in Christchurch as a governess, her marriage to Charles Edward Cooper in 1859 and her husband's job with the `Lyttelton Times'; later period living in Timaru and return to Christchurch in 1894; and at Sumner 1899. Many early Christchurch families are mentioned. Anne Elizabeth Parsons was the daughter of the first harbour master of Lyttelton Quantity: 1 folder(s) (17 leaves). Physical Description: Ms and typescript

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-8077

Description: Photographs of Glynn Wye homestead, North Canterbury, and surrounding countryside including the Waiau River, taken ca 1900 by Edmund Wheeler & Son of Christchurch. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Purchase, Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, 2004

Date: 1899-1910

By: Timaru Beautifying Association

Reference: MS-2149

Description: Minutes, together with numerous letters and newspaper cuttings inserted Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (Ca 105 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, 25x18 cm, ½ purple calf, marbled boards, marbled edges

Date: [ca 1890s]

By: Sorrell, William Edward, active 1890s-1900s

Reference: PA7-59-20

Description: Photograph taken in the studio of W E Sorrell, Christchurch of a family group comprising the parents and their young daughter. The child is seated on a wicker chair. Her hair is dressed in short ringlets and she is wearing a light-coloured dress with a large sailor collar edged with lace and fastened at the front with a ribbon bow. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 28.4 x 36 cm

Date: [1896-1913]

From: Warburton, Edward Darien :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-1601

Description: Photograph album compiled by E D Warburton. Includes photographs of the Lincoln Agricultural College at Lincoln, Canterbury. Shows photographs of livestock, harvesting machinery, draught houses, crops, animal housing and husbandry and agricultural students. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 16 x 22 cm

Date: 1863-1913

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2024

Description: Includes the log of Captain Jenkins (HMS Miranda), while serving in the New Zealand Wars Dec12863-Jun 1865. Describes the seige of Gate Pa, the battle at Te Ranga and themeeting between Sir George Grey, Sir Cuncan Cameron and the Tauranga Maori in Aug 1864, as well as copies of despatches, letters and a sketch map of the auckland and Waikato districts. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1911

By: Laugesen, Christian Louis, 1841-1915

Reference: Micro-MS-0559

Description: Reminiscences, 1872-1911, of Danish sawmiller at Oxford, Canterbury; refers to conditions of agricultural labourers, to economic difficulties of settlers and to European migrants in the Oxford area. Describes travel through both islands from 1890 and later residence in Auckland. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (58 pages).

Date: [1890s-1910s?]

By: Quartermain, Leslie Bowden, 1895-1973

Reference: PA1-q-190

Description: Photographs relating to the Quartermain family, none of which have captions. None of the people or places are named. Of interest are a number of views of the ruins of a house, with only the chimneys standing; several of the new St John's Church, Hororata, including laying the foundations, building construction, and the completed church with lychgate; one of the tombstones of Sir John Hall, and his wife, with the new St John's Church partially visible in the background (for which Sir John Hall bequeathed the money); and one photograph of a steam tractor fording a river with difficulty, with a tow-rope leading to three laden wagons on the far side of the river. A number of photographs show Leslie Bowden Quartermain as a boy, and as a young man Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mid-blue cover, entitled "Sunny memories"; 32 x 28 cm

Date: 1898 - 1910

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-039108-G

Description: The Tiki, Kaiapoi. Monument erected to commemorate those who died in the attack on Kaiapohia Pa by Te Rauparaha in the 1830s. The monument was erected in 1898 by Canon Stack. This image is a copy negative photographed by Albert Percy Godber from an unidentified publication. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - The Tiki. Kaiapoi Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1890 - 1910

By: Jessett, George F, active 1900s?

Reference: A-247-044

Description: View across a broad shingle riverbed towards hills. Driftwood on the riverbed and a few trees on the hills Supplied title Originally mounted on sheet with A-247-039/048 Inscriptions: Mount verso - Descriptive notes, signed: Geo. F Jessett Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 141 x 234 mm

Date: 1910-1913

By: Meredith, George Richard, 1834-1909

Reference: MS-Papers-1364

Description: Meredith describes his life on clipper ships before deserting to follow the goldrush in Victoria, coming to Otago in 1855 and settling in the Temuka district where he farmed and was involved with sawmilling, road building, lime burning. Some family information. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, typescript (photocopies)

Date: 1890 - 1910

By: Jessett, George F, active 1900s?

Reference: A-247-039

Description: A narrow wooden bridge on tall piles over a swift braided river, probably near Bealey. A house is visible beneath trees on the opposite bank Supplied title Originally mounted on sheet with A-247-039/40-48 Inscriptions: Mount verso - Descriptive notes, signed: Geo. F Jessett Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 80 x 150 mm

Date: 1883-1913

By: Langton, Bennet Rothes, 1840-1925

Reference: MS-Papers-0223

Description: Record of the development of The Warren Station near Oxford, Canterbury. Papers include annual accounts and progress reports, and outlines of any problems or policy matters requiring Bennet Langton's decision. Source of title - Supplied title Bennet Rothes Langton, of Spilsby Hall, Lincolnshire, England, acquired The Warren sheep station from Charlotte Lee, who had inherited it on the death of the former owner George William Henry Lee. It was administered through his solicitors and managed by Frederick Crowe. Quantity: 11 folder(s). 0.11 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and medals Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 20 November 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile.. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs of the run and stud sheep.

Date: 1864 - 1916

From: Morris, John Thomas, 1827-1890 :The first flourmill in South Canterbury, at Milford, erected by John Hayhurst in 1864. First accommodation house at The Point, 1884. [Copied in 1916]

By: Morris, John Thomas, 1827-1893

Reference: A-163-024

Description: A small house with shed and fence in a bare landscape, hills to the left On same sheet as A-163-023. Probably redrawn for and was reproduced in J. C. Andersen's Jubilee history of South Canterbury (p. 410) Reproduced in O. A. Gillespie, South Canterbury, a record of settlement, (Timaru, 1958) p. 280 'The Point', refers to Pleasant Point Source of title: Pencil note on verso of drawing Other Titles - Accommodation Pleasant Point Extended Title - Reproduced in: Andersen, J C, Jubilee History of South Canterbury, p. 649 Also in: Gillespie, South Canterbury, p. 280. Inscriptions: Recto - inscription, probably written in the 1950s or 60s, in the hand of the Library's curator, Anthony Murray-Oliver: 'Three miles from Waitohi and 13 from Timaru, lies Pleasant Point, just beyound The Point of old settlers, a guiding landmark for travellers making inland. The first accommodation house at The Point was opened by William Ware in 1864 & reproduced 'from a sketch by J T Morris' in Andersen's 'Jubilee history' p 649 ... presumably this one unless Andersen had it re-drawn. He does not give a date, but Gillespie does in his 'South Canterbury' p. 280 - 1864, not attributed to Morris, but acknowledged to the T. D. Burnett Collection.' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and wash, 30 x 107 mm

Date: 1897 - 1914

From: [Moreton, Samuel Horatio], 1845?-1921 :[Sketchbook, 1896-1898, 1904]

Reference: E-120-q-2-031

Description: Sketch by Moreton of view from Dyers Pass (inscribed `Herbert's last morning') with clipping relating to the loss of the barque Sultana (dated Feb 7th 1914) pasted in lower lefthand corner Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title (partially obscured by clipping) Quantity: 1 drawing(s) and printed matter. Physical Description: Pencil and printed matter, 284 x 205 mm

Date: 1995

From: Ted Gilberd Literary Trust : Essay competitions

Reference: MS-Papers-5757-06

Description: History of the Ruddock and Pratt families in Ireland and London before arrival in New Zealand. Includes Sadie Ruddock's memories of her farming childhood at Southbridge and of her grandparents. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1893-1914]

From: Cowan family: Collection

By: Buckland, Jessie Lillian, 1878-1939

Reference: MS-Papers-11946-049

Description: Published by Whitcombe & Tombs, 1893. Also loose material including photographs, clippings, and a typescript (annotated) of Ngāi Tahu whakapapa. The volume is annotated by Cowan, and includes notes relating to Ngāi Tahu place names from the Canterbury region. The photographs are in postcard format, and include images of Akaroa and Wainui, by Jessie Buckland. Also a real-photo postcard sent to Cowan by W. A. Taylor, which includes a personal message saying 'To Mr James Cowan, trusting he will have a Happy Christmas and Prosperous New Year, with a pen ever ready to promote an understanding of the Maori People'. The image on the postcard is of signatures of the Tuahiwi Runanga, 1870. According to Cowan's annotations on the typescript of whakapapa, the information had been supplied by Tame Kirini [Thomas Green], of Tuahiwi, in 1907. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed volume with loose papers, photographs, and postcards

Date: [ca 1890-1910]

From: Lightbourne, Ruth Elizabeth (Dr), 1949- : Photographs

By: Blackwell, Frank Bartrum, 1862-1934

Reference: PAColl-10177-2

Description: Stereoscopic prints taken circa 1900 around New Zealand, by Frank Bartrum Blackwell. Includes images of Christchurch (Post Office, Cathedral), the Mount Cook Hermitage, a Kea on the rocks near Ball Hut, the dining room at F B Blackwell's family homestead 'Karepo' and a view of the surrounding bush, a view of Mount Ruapehu [from the Rangipo Desert?], mangroves, Aubrey Island, Wanganui River [Tieke, rapids, Pipiriki House and landing), Pahi River, and an unidentified woman in the bush. Images from Auckland show 'Laocoon' sculpture in Auckland Museum, fountain at Albert Park, and a railway goods station. Quantity: 20 b&w stereoscopic cards. Physical Description: Stereoscopic cards

Date: 1917 - 1860 - 1870

By: Munday, Evelyn Mary, 1874-1950

Reference: B-193-007

Description: Shows a 19th-century timber residence, possibly derelict. Three of the five windows visible appear to be boarded up, although one upstairs window retains its glass and curtains, and a downstairs window retains its lattice leadlight. The garden is quite overgrown, and is scattered with wildflowers. Three poplar trees can be seen around the house Evelyn Munday exhibited with the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts between 1918 and 1928. In 1919 she exhibited 'Old house, Dallington' (exhibition catalogue no.248, p.35); in 1920 she exhibited 'Cottage Dallington' (no.229, p.35); in 1921 she exhibited 'Old house, Dallington' (no.147, p.21); and in 1922 she exhibited 'Deserted house at Dallington' (no.179, exhibition catalogue 1922; p.21) and 'Old house, Dallington' (no.203, p.23). She also exhibited 'Old house, Cashmere' in 1921 (no. 416, p.23) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - EM Munday 1917 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 235 x 320 mm (sight) Provenance: Purchase: Warren Sisarich, Waikanae, April 2014