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Date: 1893 - 1970 - 1975

From: [Various artists] :[Postcards depicting works of art]. National Art Gallery. Wellington, N.Z. [1970s]

By: Velden, Petrus van der, 1837-1913

Reference: E-278-q-047

Description: Postcard NAG 2- Reproduction of Petrus van der Velden's oil painting `Otira Gorge' showing rapids in the gorge, painted circa 1893. Gifted to the National Art Gallery in 1936 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-lithograph, 102 x 152 mm

Date: [ca 1890s-1900s]

Reference: PAColl-9669

Description: An album page with views of Otira Gorge and Mount Cook. Shows horses pulling a carriage on the Christchurch and Hokitika Road in Otiria Gorge. Shows Mount Cook from the Hooker Glacier. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album leaf with 2 b&w original photographic prints. Physical Description: 41.5 x 31 cm mounted album page

Date: 1893 - 1978

By: Baker, William George, 1864-1929; International Art Centre (Auckland)

Reference: C-083-056

Description: View of the Otira Gorge Proof copies of limited edition of 425 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 350 x 590 mm on sheet 460 x 640 mm

Date: 1891 - 1979

By: Velden, Petrus van der, 1837-1913; American Express Company

Reference: C-117-015

Description: A turbulent stream among mountains Reproduction of an oil painting in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery An edition of 250 copies offered to American Express card-holders. See record for A-107-005 for further details Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, col. 270 x 460 mm

Date: [ca 1900

From: Various artists :1. Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912. Photolithographs of watercolour drawings of New Zealand. [1910?] 2. Department of Maori Affairs. Maori housing. Departmental Standard plans. [1953-1954] 3. Walter Armiger Bowring, 1874-1931. [Cartoons of important New Zealanders]. 1902-1903

By: New Zealand. Parliamentary Library; S and W Mackay (Firm); Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912

Reference: E-962-q-1

Description: Image titles include: 'A Maori maiden'; 'Manawatu Gorge'; 'Hinemoa's Bath, Rotorua'; 'Wanganui River'; 'Otira Gorge, West Coast Road'; 'Mount Cook, Canterbury'; 'Mitre Peak, Milford Sound'; 'Nihotupu Falls, Auckland'; 'Lake Manapouri'; and 'River Avon, Christchurch' Total of ten pages out of 44 used. Bound by Parliamentary Library, using blank pages to bulk out the contents. Red buckram, half red morocco Catalogued by Parliamentary Library as the work of I W Wilson and ca 1910. The signature and style is that of L W Wilson, although the signature appears to read I W Wilson. The Alexander Turnbull Library holds the original watercolour for one reproduction, the view of Lake Manapouri (reference number A-123-002). It also holds second copies of several other reproductions, 5 with a separate printed portfolio cover titled 'New Zealand scenery. From water colour drawings by L W Wilson Esq. S and W Mackay, booksellers, Wellington'(reference number A-192-018/022). The portfolio-style cover with the latter group includes cotton ties opposite a spine binding, suggesting that the reproductions were unbound. Dating: Wilson left New Zealand in 1904. He probably had these copies made before leaving. The view of Manawatu Gorge was also published as a postcard. The Library holds a copy at E-279-160 sent in 1906. Title supplied by Library. Other Titles - [New Zealand scenery. From water colour drawings by L W Wilson Esq. S and W Mackay, Booksellers, Wellington] Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithographs on paper, 200 x265 mm, in binding 1/2 red calf and red buckram, 205 x 290 mm

Date: 1890 - 1900

From: Various artists :[Watercolour and pencil drawings by members of the Lysaght and Stowe families. ca 1870-1930]

By: Lysaght, Emily Muriel, 1875-1971

Reference: B-190-058

Description: A view of a gorge, with the road cut into the mountainside near the river, and snow-covered mountains rising in the distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on loose sketchbook page, 167 x 225 mm

Date: [ca 1895-1920]

By: Jones, B (Mrs), active 1962?; Cowdell, Joseph Tuffley, -1907

Reference: PAColl-3393

Description: Photograph of two men sorting kauri gum in a shed one sitting on a packing case with Poroli written on it. Photographer unidentified. Photograph of three bullock teams of fourteen to sixteen bullocks pulling loads of dressed timber with a man on top of each load near Whangarei; and the river near Whangarei Falls both taken by Cowdell. Postcards of two men on horseback with four work horses in a field of harvested oats near Blenheim; and a cart at the summit of Otira Gorge. Postcards of logs at the top of Wairua Falls and a view of Napier from the hill Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Provenance: Donated by Mrs B Jones, 1962

Date: 1893 - 1978

By: Baker, William George, 1864-1929; International Art Centre (Auckland)

Reference: C-083-056-a

Description: Proof copies of limited edition of 425 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 350 x 590 mm on sheet 460 x 640 mm

Date: [1890s-1900s?]

From: Angus, Robert K, fl 1964 :New Zealand photograph albums

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-019

Description: Album with [18] pages of images of the Otira Gorge area and the West Coast. Includes views of Bealey Hotel, Porter's Pass, Otira Gorge, the wire ropeway with cage across the Teremakau River, the Grey-Kumara tramway, native bush on the West Coast, horse and buggy under Hawks Crag on the Buller Gorge road, Arthur's pass. Most of the photographs are taken by James Ring, and are inscribed with title, photographer's initials, and photographer's number. Five images have no inscriptions, and the final one was taken by the Burton Brothers. Pages 1-17 and 21 have photographs inserted, pages 18-20 are blank. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 175 x 255 mm brown buckram

Date: [Circa 1890s-1920s]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Beck, Dick, active 1895; Beken, Charles Albert, 1859-1944; Frazer, William D, active 1920s-1940s; Grace, W, active 1890s; Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950; Lee, A A, active 1920s?; Manson, (Mr), active 1920s; Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972; Peart, Heaton Clairemont, 1894-1991

Reference: PAColl-0959-25

Description: Photographs of mountains and valleys in the Arthur's Pass National Park, including numbers of views of the Otira Tunnel under construction, with interior and exterior views. Various photographers have been identified, some with only their surname. They include H C Peart, A A Lee, [?] Manson, [?] Beck, T.C., John Pascoe, W D Frazer, [?] Barrett, and C Beken. From information about William Alexander Kennedy it appears that a large number of the photographs were taken by him, taking groups of former students on mountaineering trips. Many of the images show groups of young people, none of whom are identified, taken circa 1925-1926. (See article at http://www/nzine.co.nz/features/wak.html) Many of the images show winter views including icicles formed on waterfalls, frozen spray on twigs, and one with frozen spume near the Otira Tunnel. Image no. 25 shows an undentified woman standing at the foot of a semi-frozen waterfall, and image no. 64 shows an undentified woman wearing a woollen coat with fur collar and a felt hat, looking at icicles in Arthur's Pass. Image no. 43 shows "The Birches" in winter, near the summit of Arthur's pass on the Bealey side. Image no. 65 shows four women and a men with armfuls of mountain lilies in Arthur's pass. Images no. 70-71 show a small ferry [?] by the pier at Lake Brunner. Image no. 89 shows three men and a dog standing near a mountain hut, with a camera on a tripod. Most of the places shown are listed above. Other Titles - Arthur's Pass National Park Quantity: 150 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: 1890 - 1910

By: Jessett, George F, active 1900s?

Reference: A-247-042

Description: A road cut into a steep bush-clad hillside above the Otira River Supplied title Originally mounted on sheet with A-247-039/48 Inscriptions: Mount verso - Descriptive notes, signed: Geo. F Jessett Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 120 x 149 mm

Date: 1891 - 1971

By: Velden, Petrus van der, 1837-1913; Minerva Bookshop (Auckland)

Reference: E-279-q-058

Description: Greeting card with a reproduction of Van der Velden's watercolour `Otira Gorge study', 1891, original held by the Auckland City Art Gallery. View looking up into the Otira orge with the river in spate. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 148 x 104 mm