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O'Brien, George, 1821?-1888 :Davidson's sawmill, Woodhaugh, Dunedin. [Postcard]. Otago ...

Date: 1861 - 1875

From: O'Brien, George, 1821?-1888 :Paintings by George O'Brien reproduced on postcards. Otago Early Settlers' Museum Collection, Dunedin, New Zealand. [1970s]

Reference: E-278-q-063

Description: Reproduction of painting by O'Brien showing Davidson's sawmill at Woodhaugh, Dunedin Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-lithograph, 96 x 137 mm

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Field album 7

Date: [Between 1880s and 1890s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-079

Description: Views of the Otago Region taken by unidentified photographers, circa 1870s to 1895. Many show buildings in Dunedin, including one house `Lisburn House' built for the Fulton family in 1865; also commercial buildings, church buildings, school buildings (Otago Boys' High School), and Dunedin Gaol. The church buildings include the Chapel in Leith Street, the Chapel in Great King Street, and the Baptist Chapel. Beyond Dunedin there are views of Naseby, Butchers Gully, Port Chalmers, Cromwell, Kyeburn, Shag Valley, and Lake Hayes, Lake Wanaka and Lake Hawea. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover decorated with gold birds, lettering and decorations outlined in black; 30.5 x 25.5 cm

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Roger James Cotton - Cotton farm (Waipori)

Date: 2005

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-8640-16

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by Roger James Cotton; land documents; history of family and property (including `Cotton family' from printed publication (p524)); photographs The original owner of the land in Waipori District (formerly Tuapeka County) was Thomas Dickson who was granted 15 acres by the Crown in 1872. He died in 1873 and the land passed to his widow Margaret (nee Atkinson) who remarried Robert Cotton in 1875. The land was transferred to Robert Cotton in 1891. At the time of the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award in 2005 the farm was owned jointly by brothers Roger James and Stuart William Cotton (great-grandsons of Robert Cotton). Accompanying material - Email from Roger Cotton to Alexander Turnbull Library, 2006, clarifying details recorded on the award application Quantity: 1 folder(s) 30 pages. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter, photographs (some photocopies) 16 photographs - Portrait of Robert Cotton; family graves at Waipori Cemetery; O.P.Q. Canton stamping battery waterwheel at Waipori; plaque to honour the settlement of Waipori and the goldfields (1862-1924); views of the Cotton property (located 11 km from Lawrence)

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Chinese gold miners by the side of the Tokomairiro River, Otago - Photograph taken by H...

Date: [ca 1870s-1880s]

From: Scott, Mrs :Original and mounted photographic prints

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-46

Description: View of Chinese miners working in area on the banks of the Tokomairiro River. In the immediate foreground is a railway line. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril in 1870s-1880s Photograph No 72 in Deveril Collection. Title: "Chinamen gold mining by the side of the South Tokomairiro River, Otago, NZ." Another copy of the print at PA7-46-19 Inscriptions: Verso - bottom centre - 72 (crossed). 12 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 25.5 x 35.5 cm

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De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Date: [ca 1875-1899]

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Grayston, Daphne, -1966

Reference: PA-Group-00198

Description: Photographs taken by David Alexander De Maus at his Port Chalmers studio, ca 1875-1899. Collection consists mainly of portraits of sailing ships and steam ships visiting Port Chalmers, but also includes views of Port Chalmers and environs. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives catalogued at 1/4-009294, 009439, 009579, 009586, 009617, 009681, 009687, 009768, 009822, 009826, 009829, 009834, 009838, 010123, 010167, 010215, 012551, 012552; 1/2-003202 to 003215, 003217 to 003227, 180393, 190155, 190172 to 190173; 1/1-003300 to 003500, 003503 to 003515, 005724 to 005750, 021643 to 021657. Prints at PAColl-3035-1. Negatives made by D A De Maus at his Port Chalmers studio, at 62 George Street. Quantity: 625 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 1/1 and 1/2 plate glass negatives Provenance: The collection was divided on the death of De Maus; the shipping photos being taken to England by his daughter, Mrs D Grayston, another group being held in Outram by another daughter, Mrs O J Armour, and a third group being left in the studio, which had passed in 1932 to Miss Catherine Euphemia Matheson. She worked as a photographer from that address. Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 1993. Reference number changed from PAColl-3035 to PA-Group-00198 in 2008.

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Mackay, Robert Percy, 1862-1948: Papers relating to the whaler Splendid

Date: 1875-[ca 1930]

By: Mackay, Robert Percy, 1862-1948

Reference: MS-Group-0337

Description: Consists of 3 logs written by Mackay on the whaling ship Splendid for the years 1875-1877. The logs detail the voyages of the ship from Port Chalmers to various places around New Zealand, the Southern Ocean and into the Pacific. Also contains discharge papers dated Oct 1877; an annotated copy of `The Cruise of the Cachalot' by Frank T Bullen published in 1899 and an annotated proof of a galley for a newspaper article, ca 1930s, reporting on Mackay's life and his claim that Bullen's 1899 book was in fact based on the Splendid. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 4 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Quilters Bookshop, Wellington, 1994

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Orbell, MacLeod Clement, 1838-1914 : Reminiscences of my early life in New Zealand dati...

Date: 1849-1870 (1909)

By: Orbell, Macleod Clement, 1838-1914

Reference: MS-1731-1732

Description: Includes description of voyage to New Zealand on the `Mariner' in 1849 Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; brown calf)

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[Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Kawarau Falls and Lake Wakatipu. ca 1871]

Date: 1870 - 1872

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook. Southland views. 1871]

Reference: E-016-6-014/015

Description: Looking across river falls towards several houses on a sloping hillside, a jetty and a rowboat at the foot of the hill. A lake and high hills to the right. Possibly the settlement at Kawarau Falls, seen from the opposite bank Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, page size 101 x 177 mm

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[Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :Gabriels Gully from the Blue Spur. [1872]

Date: 1872

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Sumner, Lyttelton, Central Otago, Lake Wakatipu, Kawarau Gorge, Oamaru, Dunedin, Clutha River. 1870 to 1873]

Reference: E-016-4-064

Description: Looking down into a valley with faint indications of tents, buildings, and fences or chutes Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, page size 88 x 153 mm.

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Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :Down from Tuapeka Gorge. An island near [1877?]

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1877-1880]

Reference: E-014-q-3-031-1

Description: Two scenes from Tuapeka Gorge, showing hills, trees and rocks, a few buildings and an island, probably in the Clutha River. The upper view has a symbol indicating north Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - down from Tuapeka Gorge. An island near [on lower drawing, title unfinished] Quantity: 2 drawing(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Pencil 190 x 107 mm & 190 x 75 mm

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Perkins, J (Mr), fl 1967 :Photograph album and loose prints

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

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Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911 :Lawrence

Date: [Between 1873 and 1880]

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-45-05

Description: Photograph of Lawrence taken probably in the 1870s by Herbert Deveril of Wellington. The Tuapeka River runs across the foreground. Another print of this image is at PA7-45-06. It is unclear from which print the copy negative was taken. Inscriptions: Mount verso - top left - Lawrence Tuapeka Otago Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 261 x 357 mm on mount of same size

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Powell, David, jnr fl. 1860s :A diggings township, the Dunstan, Otago (1860s) / by Davi...

Date: 1863 - 1870

By: Powell, David, active 1860s; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Fletcher Challenge Ltd

Reference: C-112-042-b

Description: Shows the town's main street, with horse hitched outside hotel, a wagon going away along the street, Staite Bros Molyneux Store, an American flag hanging limp on a flagpole in the distance. There is a blacksmith's forge at right, a wagon resting on the road at left. Accompanied by an information text sheet, by Marian Minson. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This facsimile reproduction of an original watercolour in the Fletcher Challenge Collection, Auckland, was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust in association with Fletcher Challenge Ltd, 1987.; Recto - bottom right - Edition limited to 3000 copies. Dunstan Hotel built 1863. Molyneux is the old name for the Clutha River. Dated in the 1860s because trees were flourishing by 1970. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 250 x 450 mm, on sheet 400 x 600 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright.

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[Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Cliffs near Cape Wanbrow. ca 1870]

Date: 1868 - 1872

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Lake Wakatipu, Banks Peninsula, Dunedin and its outskirts, Central Otago, Lake Wanaka, Oamaru, 1868, 1872, 1876, 1878]

Reference: E-016-5-055/056

Description: Looking south along a beach towards high rocky cliffs. The nearest cliff has a fence at the top Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, page size 98 x 154 mm

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[Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Arched rock, Cape Wanbrow. ca 1870]

Date: 1868 - 1872

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Lake Wakatipu, Banks Peninsula, Dunedin and its outskirts, Central Otago, Lake Wanaka, Oamaru, 1868, 1872, 1876, 1878]

Reference: E-016-5-049/050

Description: An arched rock at the seaside, amongst other rocks, looking south Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, page size 98 x 154 mm

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The three-masted schooner Euphrosyne at Port Chalmers, before March 1875.

Date: Between 1873 and 1875

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/2-014446-G

Description: View of the three-masted schooner "Euphrosyne" moored at Port Chalmers. Photographed by David Alexander De Maus. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - "Euphrosyne." Foundered. 1875 Physical Description: Glass negative

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Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :Bold Peak. Humboldt Ranges. Lake Wakatip. From ter...

Date: 1877

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1877-1880]

Reference: E-014-q-3-007

Description: View of lake and mountains Other Titles - Wakatipu Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Bold Peak. Humboldt Ranges. Lake Wakatip. from Terrace near Kinloch 16 May 1877 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 190 x 290 mm

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[Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Waterfall beside the road, Lake Wakatipu. 1870s?]

Date: 1870 - 1879

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook. 1870s?]

Reference: E-030-q-2-015

Description: A waterfall between large rocks, high mountains beyond Supplied title Identification: The drawings on the preceding and following pages are of Lake Wakatipu Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on green paper, page size 137 x 223 mm

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Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911 :Port Chalmers

Date: [ca 1876]

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-06

Description: Elevated view looking down over the township of Port Chalmers and across the Otago Harbour to Quarantine Island, Goat Island (with single men's quarantine barracks visible) and beyond to the Otago Peninsula (Mt Charles on left and Harbour Cone on right). In the immediate foreground (on left) is the old cemetery. In the foreground there is a railway wagon and large stockpile of rocks waiting to be shifted. In foreground to the right is the cutting for the main Trunk Railway. Retail shops and commercial premises in George Street can be seen, including those of James Menelaus, James Bosworth Taylor (painter & paperhanger) & Simmonds & Sons. On the hill to the left in Grey Street is the Port Chalmers Grammar School and Holy Trinity Church (only partially visible). Photograph was taken by Herbert Deveril and dated ca 1876. The new Port Chalmers Grammar School in the foreground (centre right partially obscured by trees) was built 1874-1875 and occupied from December 1875. The building in George Street on extreme left was not completed until March 1875. Alongside this building is a large excavation for buildings eg Marine Hotel completed in 1881. Accompanying material - Sketch with roads and the main buildings and features identified by Ian Church of Port Chalmers Museum, 2008 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 24.2 x 36 cm

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Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs of early Auckland, Lyttelton, and Dunedin

Date: ca 1870s

Reference: PAColl-4511

Description: Photographs of Queen Street, Auckland; sailing ships moored in Auckland harbour; Government House, Auckland; the Auckland Supreme Court; Lyttelton, with a church in the middle distance and commercial buildings in the foreground; Dunedin Hospital (built in 1864); view looking down Princes Street towards the Exchange Building (built as the Post Office but never used as such) with business premises on either side of the street and a sign for a dentist's on the right; the Exchange Building with a horse and cart to the left; and the town reservoir, Dunedin. Photographer unidentified but they have similar captions below the image. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-002193, 002206, 002207, 002215, 002367, 002368, 002370, 002379, and 002838 Quantity: 9 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

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