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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: [Between 1872 and 1899]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-287

Description: An album probably created, and chiefly photographed by George William Barltrop, between 1872 (one image of the laying of the foundation stone of (?) Provincial Buildings in 1872), and the rest being views of New Zealand taken in the late 1890s. One sequence of images shows St Thomas' Church (Newtown, Wellington) under construction, and both exterior and interior views when finished, in 1895. One image shows the wreck of the SS Wairarapa in 1894, and there are views of several lighthouses around New Zealand, two of which were taken by the Burton Brothers. A number of scenes are taken in the Nelson area, including several of the Dun Mountain railway (for the Dun Mountain Copper Mining Company), the Maitai River and valley, Nelson City, and Washington Valley. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album bound in black morocco, with black leather spine, entitled `Photographs' in gold, and McIntosh III lettered in gold on spine; 21.5 x 28.0 cm

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 1875, ca 1885-1910

By: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: PAColl-3372

Description: Horse and wagons outside the Waiau Hotel; Steam tractor towing three trailer loads of wool bales; Jubilee Procession, Christchurch; Orari station; Orari homestead Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.

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: [Circa 1870s to 1885]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-387

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken by various photographers before 1886, of whom F A Coxhead and James Ring are identifiable. Most of the images have captions, and names of places and buildings etc. are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine, entitled `New Zealand scenery' in gold lettering; 20 x 26 cm

Date: [ca 1875-1916]

Reference: PAColl-4516

Description: Postcard of Victoria Arcade on Queen Street with carriages in the street and a telegraph pole with a large number of wires and cables; St Patrick's Cathedral, Monroe Street, Napier; Municipal Opera House, Napier; three men of a bush felling party having lunch probably near Dargaville; newspaper clipping of an old photograph of a crowd in Victoria Square with the old Post Office behind it ca 1875. Quantity: 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: One print at PAColl-4223.

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: [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: 1870

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Scrymgeour, William John Tyndal, 1922?-; Grey, George (Sir), 1812-1898

Reference: D-022-007

Description: View from a low hill of an extensive river plain surrounded by hills, with Lake Coleridge and snow-clad mountains in the background and a river to the left. Sheep are grazing on the lower hills to the right and on the flat valley. In the far left foreground is a road, with a dray being pulled by horses towards the station. In the centre left, there are farm buildings with a dray and horses, and a haystack surrounded by fences. In the centre is the homestead, surrounded by trees, with an older building, possibly the original homestead on the lower slopes of the hills to the right of the homestead. Lake Coleridge Station was originally purchased by A.C.Barker and others in 1855. In 1860 it was jointly owned by George Arthur Emilius Ross and Charles John Harper. At the date of this painting, Harper was the sole owner. There is now a hydro station occupying part of the land shown in the picture. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D.Barraud. 1870 The Library holds an almost identical second copy of this work at C-033-005 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white 457 x 784 mm Provenance: Hung, with a view of Wellington from Kelburn, 1870 (D-022-006) in Government House, Wellington, during the governorship of Sir George Grey. Sold at auction in Wellington to the vendor's grandfather, also a Mr Scrymgeour (or Scrimgeour) in the 1880s or 1890s. Mr Scrymgeour migrated to Australia in the early 1900s to Goondawindi Station. The paintings passed to his son (died 1968) then to his grandson, William John Tyndal Scrymgeour, born ca 1922, of "Arran", Warwick, Queensland.

Date: 1875

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: MNZ-0643-1/4-F

Description: Cobb and Co's coach crossing the Waimakariri River in flood. Engraving made from a drawing by Thomas Samuel Cousins for "The Illustrated New Zealand Herald" of 1875 From the caption in Making New Zealand: "The ferry man with a lifebelt is showing the way, as the fords shift in every flood...the river at the spot referred to consists of a number of steams, which in bad weather are sometimes quite impassable" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

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