Places

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-007

Description: A house with garden, alongside either the Ashburton River or a road. The blue colouring suggests the river. The Southern Alps in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-031

Description: Orari Homestead (South Canterbury), the home of the Tripp family, with its surrounding garden (including cabbage trees) and a conservatory to the left, attached to the house. Hills in the background. The preliminary drawing for this view is on the previous page of the sketchbook. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-101

Description: View from lower Wadestown or Stowe Hill, past a fence the the roof of a house, towards the harbour and Eastbourne, with Somes Island. Several ships in the harbour. The second word in the title may be Day or Bay or an abbreviation starting with Da. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-019

Description: Mount Peel homestead with some of its surrounding garden Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-029

Description: Orari Homestead (South Canterbury), the home of the Tripp family, with its surrounding garden and a woman standing to the left in the foreground. Hills in the background. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-025

Description: Mount Peel homestead with some of its surrounding garden Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-346-2-026/027

Description: A view from near the Mount Peel homestead, taking in the Church of the Holy Innocents to the right, the woolshed and other buildings in the middle distance and looking towards the Rangitata River and the cliffs on the opposite side of the river. Cabbage trees and flax on slopes in the foreground and plantings around the church, possibly of yew trees. The churchyard is enclosed in a fence and garden The church was designed by Edward Ashworth, earlier resident in Auckland as an artist. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on 2 sketchbook pages, 129 x 356 mm

Date: ca 1880-1954

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); S P Andrew Ltd; Swan & Wrigglesworth (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0507

Description: A collection of photographs of the Hunter family particularly of George Ernest Hunter and his wife and dogs at their home in Watt Street, Wadestown but also of his brother Robert Henry Hunter (the two men look very alike). They include a number of photographs of their house, garden and neighbourhood but also a postcard of Paekakariki beach, a postcard of two wagons with passengers passing through the Devil's Elbow between Buttermere and Keswick in the English Lake District, seven men with penny-farthing bicycles ca 1880, a carte de visite of four young Maori wearing kakahu taken by Swan & Wrigglesworth, and a photograph of a sketch of Porerua Bay near Wanganui (mid 19th century). The collection includes a letter to a Mr Ellingham from I W Macdonald of 8 Lower Watt Street, Wadestown offering him the photographs. Quantity: 83 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1890s, 1930 - 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Robson, Edward Thomas, 1875-1953; Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946; Bremford Studios; Weigel, William George, 1890-1980; Collins, L, active 1940

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-017

Description: Photographs of Canterbury region and Wellington city taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes views of towns, lakes, gardens and mountains, the Garden of Memories at Kaikoura, Lake Pukaki and Tekapo, New Years Day at Caroline Bay and the Dominion Museum in Wellington during the 1940 Exhibition. Photographers include E T Robson, Thelma Kent, William George Weigel and L Collins. Quantity: 38 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-017

Description: A road leading towards a gate, possibly the front gate of Mt Peel Station, with bush beyond the gate. Two tall conifers flank the gate and hills and snow-clad mountains are in the background. There is part of a tennis net to the left and small specimen trees set in lawn, suggesting that the view is from the station's front garden, looking out. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: [ca 1880s-1920s]

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-021916-G

Description: Meadowbank house, Ellesmere, Christchurch. Photographed by the Steffano Webb Photographic Studio, Christchurch, probably in 1913.. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative. Designed by Christchurch architectural firm, Collins and Harmon, for George Edward Rhodes. Built in 1891. This photograph is probably part of the sequence on Meadowbank that includes views of the garden taken in 1913. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches