Places

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

From: Commons family :Assorted negatives, photographs and postcards relating to the Commons family

Reference: PA5-0070

Description: Road through the Buller Gorge showing a horse-drawn vehicle Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 89 x 137 mm Provenance: Donated by Commons family 1976

Date: [ca 1900]

Reference: PA4-0621

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Otira Gorge Hotel, showing a horse-drawn coach with passengers. Photograph taken by B W Kilburn ca 1900. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Otira Gorge Hotel, New Zealand; Verso - Photographed and published by B W Kilburn.... Littleton N.H. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

Reference: PA5-0156

Description: Mahuri Gorge Ford Pahiatua, showing a horse drawn vehicle crossing Verso contains message from Grace and addressed to Miss Cramp?, Waiwetu, Hutt Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 88 x 138 mm

Date: Circa 1927

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2108-F

Description: Panoramic view showing the beach at Caroline bay with the bay on the right. A horse-drawn carriage and two people are seen on the beach. There are buildings on a high ridge on the far left above a train on a railway line below. There is a walkway below the railway line and public gardens on a level below that. A road with a row of parked cars is between the gardens and an area of lawn lined with trees beside the beach. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Caroline Bay, Timaru. 691; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - No. 691 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 134.2 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1530-F

Description: Panoramic photograph of a small cart with Thomsons Pure lemonade on the side driven by a man in a uniform and drawn by ten Shetland ponies for an advertising campaign. Another man is seen on the path on the far left. Taken in the Dunedin Botanic Garden by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1528, Pan-1531 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Geo. Thompson [i.e. Thomson]. Dunedin. 3 oils. No. 3; Marginal notes on negative - 4 4 4 4 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 121.2 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1531-F

Description: Panoramic photograph of a small cart with Thomsons Pure lemonade on the side driven by a man in a uniform and drawn by ten Shetland ponies for an advertising campaign. A man wearing a cap and waistcoat is standing at the head of the first pair of ponies. Taken in the Dunedin Botanic Garden by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1528, Pan-1530 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Geo. Thompson [i.e. Thomson]. Dunedin. 3 oils. No. 2 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 110.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1528-F

Description: Panoramic photograph of a small cart with Thomsons Pure lemonade on the side driven by a man in a uniform and drawn by ten Shetland ponies for an advertising campaign. Taken in the Dunedin Botanic Garden by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1530, Pan-1531 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Geo. Thompson [i.e. Thomson]. Dunedin. No. 4 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 113.5 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1107-F

Description: Panoramic view of the junction of the Hope and Buller Rivers near Kawatiri. A railway line is visible in far right curving into the distance. Man on a horsedrawn cart (three horses visible) on a stony island across the river bed (probable river fords). Few shrubby trees centre left, bush-clad hills in the background. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Hope & Buller Rivers; Photographer's title on negative - Junction of Hope & Buller Rivers No. 484 New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 96.1 cm

Date: [190-?]

Reference: PAColl-9236

Description: Horse and cart belonging to G Hefford & Co, Draper of Ashburton. Photograph taken ca 1900s by an unknown photographer. The driver is probably George Daniel Horace Hefford, the proprietor. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 8.7 x 13.8 cm

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

Reference: PA5-0142

Description: The Square, Feilding NZ taken ca 1910-1913 as part of the Carthew series. Shows Wm Carthew, booksellers and stationers, The London & Berlin Piano Co the shop of W B Watson, the clock tower and some horse-drawn vehicles. Verso contains page of message from Perc. Morphy? to Mr P Spirosen C/- The Press Christchurch thanking him for the Jubilee Daily. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 89 x 137 mm

Date: [ca 1907]

From: Hargreaves, Frederick Ashby, 1854-1946 :Collection of photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/1-002637-G

Description: Horse drawn wagons carrying wool bales, fording the Waiapu River. Photograph taken by Frederick Ashby Hargreaves, circa 1907.

Date: [Circa 1900-1908]

From: North, Esther Mary, 1892-1968: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-393

Description: Photographs collected by Mrs Esther Ecclesfield for her daughter Esma Ecclesfield (i.e. Esther Mary Ecclesfield, later known as Esther Mary North, or Esma North). None of the people shown are identified. Several images show camping and views of bays on Waiheke island. Many of the photographs were taken in the Napier area, including several of a woman and two young girls with bicycles standing outside a house in Seaview terrace, Napier, and an interior view of the house; yachts; the Napier Arcade, with the Arcadia Tea-Rooms; children at a Napier beach; and a horse-drawn carriage travelling through water along the foreshore to Cape Kidnappers. Page 4 shows the original Otatara (Ashridge) homestead. Various views around Wellington include Lower Hutt, Belmont Road, Wilton's Bush, Breaker Bay, Muritai and Titahi Bay. In the South Island most of the views were taken around Dunedin, showing Tomahawk Beach, Lawyer's Head and "Cargill's Gates" at St. Clair. Inscriptions: Album page - `Esma. With love from Mother. October 7th 1908' (inside front cover) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with beige cloth cover, entitled `Post cards'; 13.5 x 21.0 cm

Date: [ca 1910]

Reference: PA4-0960

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a distant view of Nelson, showing a cart drawn by two small horses (ponies). Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Waiting for the tide, Days Bay, Wellington; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: Between 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0244

Description: Shows a woman sitting in a pony and gig outside Elederslie church, taken ca 1910-1913. Verso has Christmas and New Year Greetings from L A Holt, also identifies area and church, and addressed to Miss Corry of New Plymouth Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 89 x 139 mm

Date: ca 1910

From: Williams, Edith Emily, 1887-1981: Photographs

Reference: 1/1-024429-G

Description: Scene at Ohakune with and a man driving a horse drawn cart. Photograph taken by Edith Emily Williams. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 7 April 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1144-F

Description: Panoramic view of the Palmerston North taken from the Bank of New Zealand building, looking down over The Square. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: No marginal notes - No. 357. Panorama of Palmerston North, N.Z. (from Bank of N.Z.) 7.4.1923 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 117.6 cm

Date: 21 May 1972

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/397

Description: Kathleen Yule recalls travelling over the Raglan Road by coach, buggy, bus and car and compares with comforts of to-day `skimming along at good speed, seated comfortably on well sprung, softly upholstered seats, with tyres singing on the smoothly sealed surface and the dust on the other side of the shatter proof glass windows while travelling so quickly that nothing shows in detail, so unlike the leisurely clip clop progress of horse and buggy times'. Also recalls various incidents from childhood. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Accompanying material - Script at MS-Papers-1239, folder 109 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0408 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 8 Minutes Duration.

Date: 19 Nov 1972

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/420

Description: M C Matthews of Timaru reminisces on the days of the baker and the butcher with their horse-and-trap deliveries and the memorable service provided and wonders what has happened to the word service. Describes the prominent part those humble horses played in the lives of their little township. Describes the Chinese gardener who brought the vegetables on Saturday mornings. Explains how the coal man had a dray not a cart and used draught horses and hearses were also horse-drawn. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Interviewer(s) - Pat Evison, reader Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Accompanying material - Script at MS-Papers-1239, folder 116 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0431 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 10 Minutes Duration.

Date: ca 1880s

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10x8-0445-G

Description: Horse drawn Cobb & Co coach, Pelorus Valley, photographed by the Tyree Studio between circa 1871 and circa 1920. Other Titles - Tyree No. 5333 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - In Pelorus Valley. Tyree photo, Nelson 5333 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Child, Edward George, 1860-1949 :Photographs of the Ohingaiti district

Reference: 1/4-016540-G

Description: School house at Ohakune; Pipiriki-Tokaanu coach outside the Post Office at Ohakune; Makatote viaduct under constuction. Photographs taken circa 1900. Photographer(s) unidentified. Other - These photographs, published in an unidentified publication, were copied by Edward George Child between circa 1892-1910. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative