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Date: 1889-1909

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

By: Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-q-1137

Description: News and personal photographs, taken and collected by J L Wilson, featuring North Canterbury 1889-1909, with an emphasis on 1901-1903. Series include: Wilson family portraits of Joseph Lowthian, his wife, son Leonard, daughter Estelle, and mother-in-law Mrs Emma Matthews; various views of Highfield Annan settlement land (including Wandle Valley, farmland) with land ballot at Waiau and Canterbury Land Board meeting relating to settlement; Maori performance group (kapa haka) and various unidentified portraits and group images; opening of the Kaiapoi Swimming Baths with Mayor J Daly and Premiere Richard Seddon; re-opening of Ashley Gorge bridge (between Glentui and Oxford); inspection of North Canterbury Volunteer Mounted Rifles by Colonel Porter [Woodend?], with officers including Captain R W Chaffey and Lieutenant Horne; flooding in Rangiora and Waverley; views of Hamner Springs; Kaiapoi railway station buildings (built 1872 and 1904 respectively) and trains, with J Ward opening new station; massed school display at Lancaster Park, with cadet competition and girls' drill; and Governor Lord Plunket (and Lady Plunket) visiting Kaiapoi and Tuahiwi. Events include general election at Tuahiwi schoolhouse, fire at Hobday's Drapery (Christchurch), Lady Stewart and A W Rutherford opening track at Conical Hill (Hamner), reception for General Booth at Cathedral Square (Christchurch), Amuri sheep sale (Culverden), Amberley South African War Troopers Memorial unveiling (with Sergeant Turner), J Ward laying foundation of Kaiapoi Post Office, Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Show, sheep sale at Rangiora, Mrs Harrison Lee addressing temperance rally at Junction Hotel (Rangiora), and Rangiora New Year's Day sports meeting with crosscut sawing event. Named figures include Charles Luger of West Oxford (with goat), Mr Thomas Leech of Brooklands (with woodcarvings), and G H Blackwell. Group photographs include Brown and Alexander wedding at Riverside, Mr Smith's family of nineteen (Oxford), Claire Parham's wedding party, Kaiapoi Men's Hockey Team in fancy dress (cross-dressing), and Leithead and Blackwell family members at Main Drain. Buildings include Jollie's Pass Hotel (Hamner Springs), R Evans' flour mill (Ohoka), Kaiapoi Borough School, John Sims residence (Kaiapoi), Tuahiwi Town Hall, Waverley Railway Station, Hamner Post Office, Hamner Plains Sanatorium, Blencowe Grammar School (Cumberland, England, 1859), Marston (Kaiapoi), and Cheviot Post Office. Interior of Wanganui Museum (featuring [whale?] skeleton) and Christchurch Cathedral. Miscellaneous images include various coach scenes, Paterson's Creek rail bridge (Otorama), sheep dipping in the high country, first grave and early working-man's cottage (Rangiora), scenic images of farmland and mountains in Canterbury Region, sheep at R W Chapman's estate (Lowland Leas), trees planted by J L Wilson and Inspector Buckley at post office site, cliffs at Summerhill, Waimakariri Water Supply (Brown Rock intake), shingle being carted to Main Drain (Skew Bridge, Flaxton), triumphant arc on Kaiapoi Bridge (coronation of Edward VII), Hereford Street (Christchurch), swans gifted to Kaiapoi Domain by Glenmark Station, R Evans' wheat crop at Clifton (Waikari), Waimakariri Gorge railway and dray bridge, entrance to Riccarton Racecourse, crowd in Runanga Hall courtyard (Tuahiwi), HMS 'Powerful' and HMS 'Challenger' docked at Lyttelton, and riverside camping and the bluff at Cheviot. Collected images by named photographers include Maori portraits and objects by Charles Spencer. Album includes cyanotype of Richard Seddon and a group of unidentified men. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1864-1907

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

By: Burke, Walter Ernest Messervy, 1866-1954; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-1127

Description: Personal and news photographs taken and collected by J L Wilson featuring North Canterbury 1864-1907, predominantly from 1900-1907. Contains various scenes illustrating Maori life at Tuahiwi, and the powhiri welcoming Governor General Plunket and Lady Plunket (27 April 1905). Plunket series also covers Kaiapoi receptions at Borough Council Chamber and Oddfellows Hall. Other named figures include Wiremu Te Kakakura Parata, Mrs Rotangi, Chief Pohipi outside his Ashley dwelling, Manihi and his wife, and George Leech. Extensive coverage of June 1905 flood featuring damaged Ashley Railway Bridge, Waimakariri River, Gorge Bridge, Stewart's Gully Bridge, submerged farmland, and numerous images of, and relating to, the railway accident at Chaimey's Corner, including train wreck and the burial of R J Alexander (Kaiapoi Public Cemetary) and the funeral procession of John Richards (both accident victims). Other bridges in album include Rutherford's Bridge (Waiau River), Kaiapoi Suspension Bridge, and the Cust Bridge (opened 1906). Empire Bridge opening series features politician Joseph Ward, regional officials, speeches, crowds, and traction engine. Other miscellaneous photographs include Kaiapoi (funeral of trooper Nicholson of Woodend, Wilson family at Marston (Estelle, Jamie, Myra) and homestead, boat landing and bridge, domain, and woollen mills), Rangiora (Helmore's residence, high school, streets scenes, tree planting), The Lodge in Hamner Springs, Cust Dairy Factory, Cheviot (post office (1893), workmen building road (1895), and coastal scene), John Dobson's farm near Ashley, swimming races at Lyttelton dock, horse sale at farmers' co-operative, Mrs Harrison Lee speaking on balcony of Scott's Junction Hotel (Rangiora) during a prohibition rally, and workmen laying electric tramway at Bank Corner (Christchurch). Churches include Horsley Down (interior and exterior), Durham Street Methodist (Christchurch), St Barnabas (Woodend), and the opening of a new vicarage at St Stephen's (Tuahiwi), by Bishop Julius. Various boats including ketch 'Emma Sims' beached at Kaiapoi, ketch 'Winnie' on Heathcote River, and SS 'Wootton' on Kaiapoi River. Group portraits include: Reverend J Holland and the Kaiapoi parish church choir; Premiere Richard Seddon at Rangiora Sale Yards; Seddon, Ward, Lady Onslow and her son Hui, and a visiting group of North Island Maori; a group of women in matching fancy dress; Mahaanui Maori Council official photograph (1902-05); Ngai Tahu leader and politician Hori Kerei Taiaroa and family; Kaiapoi School Cadets (1904); Arbour Day in Kaiapoi Domain; and Parham and Blackwell Wedding. South African War images include parade of Amuri and also North Canterbury Mounted Rifles, members of the Cust Mounted Rifles at camp, Jack and George Oram at Durban, and Sergeant Major Crisbin on his horse. Album also includes various images taken by other photographers, including Burton Brothers and Walter Burke, and also illustrations depicting Maori life from unknown sources. Joseph Lowthian Wilson appears in an image with Maori MP [Hone?] Heke, and Thomas Wilson is also pictured with his niece in garden. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1897-1904

From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly

By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Pulman (Firm); Shepherd, Cromwell, active 1903-1934

Reference: PA1-f-142

Description: Charles Hill-Trevor's personal album of the time he spent as personal secretary to Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. It records the New Zealand contingents sent to the South African war and public events, personalities and patriotic entertainments associated with that enterprise. Visits to Government houses in Australia record other governors, officials and official residences. On one occasion in Melbourne a New Zealand versus Australia polo match was played. Hill-Trevor shows an interest in Māori, wildlife conservation (including the bird sanctuary on Resolution Island), and the sports of fishing, polo and horsemanship. There are photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their principal servants as well as the Governor engaged in official functions such as opening the Kaiapoi council offices and laying the foundation stone of the Veterans Home, Mt Roskill, Auckland in 1903. Also photographs relating to the play 'The Geisha'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).