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Date: 1863-1921

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

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-1138

Description: News and personal photographs, taken and collected by J L Wilson, featuring North Canterbury 1863-1921, with the majority dated 1908-1919. Also includes coverage of South Africa's Eastern Cape and England. Series include: Wilson family portraits, with Joseph Lowthian, his wife, son Leonard, daughter Estelle, mother-in-law Emma Matthews, and brother Thomas. Estelle's children also feature, with some images taken in their adopted home in South Africa. Also Wilson family dogs Bruce and Nigger appear in a number of images. Street scenes and buildings in Kaiapoi are emphasised, with many taken following the July 1918 and 2 September snow storms. A number also depict World War One peace celebrations (including Kaiapoi 'tank' and parade). Interior and exterior images of Kaiapoi Woollen Mills and buildings in Hamner Springs (including Jollie's Hotel, Hamner Hall, Post Office, churches, and Public School) also feature. Events include funeral procession of trooper Nicholson (Kaiapoi) who was killed in the South African War, parade with decorated traction engine (Rangiora), celebration of coronation of Edward VII (Oxford), an unidentified shipwreck, street scene of 1908 Christchurch fire, the relocation of St Paul's Presbyterian Church (Kaiapoi), crowd at collie dog trials (Waikari), delivery of Anderson's boiler to Woollen Mills factory, railway accident at Chaimey's corner and funeral of R J Alexander, Armistice Day celebrations (Rangiora), Lord Ranfurly's visit to Kaiapoi Woollen Mills, Ashley water supply project luncheon, and the relocation of assembly rooms building. Named figures include J Lang, J Perrin, and J M McGarvy; Mrs W A Parham with her flock of turkeys; J R Leithead; Chief Dinizulu (postcard from Estelle Wilson, annotated); portraits of soldiers Ralph and Leslie Feldwick (both killed in action in Dardanelles) and soldier C J Brighing; Reverend Wynter Blathwayt, Maaka Hape, and T Hape of St Stephen's Maori Church, J Murray and his three boys in Highland dress; cyanotype of Edward Devine, Miss Alice Bennett and her nieces; Mr Jeffrey; and S Johnston (Kaiapoi Postmaster). Group photographs depict [1st Wellington Battalion?] in France, the officers of the 1st Battalion of the Canterbury Rifles on Queen Victoria's 1887 jubilee, group (mainly Maori) at the Kaiapoi Bridge (1869 visit of the Duke of Edinburgh), Woodend Volunteer Rifles, unidentified Maori group outside Runanga Hall (Tuahiwi), and territorial soldiers in 1913 (Rangiora). Premiere Richard Seddon [last photograph before death?] with group at Newport Railway Workshops (Melbourne), soldiers at Trentham Military Camp (1918), Sir Apirana Ngata and the Mahaanui Maori Council, wedding party photographs from the Leech and Parsons wedding, old scholars of Kaiapoi Church School, North Canterbury Ploughing Match organisers (figures named), Kaiapoi Woollen Mills directors (1879), Captain Chaffey and Lieutenants Douglas and Grey of the Amuri Mounted Rifles, Parham family, and the Matthews family outside school house at Kaiapoi Church Day School. Buildings include Bruce Hotel (Akaroa), Hydro Grand Hotel (Timaru), Kaiapoi Parish Church, Wellington Post Office, Bank of New Zealand (Kaiapoi), Beauthorne, W J Robinson's stables and manager's house (Cheviot), Christ's College (Christchurch), South British Insurance (also Press Office, Kaiapoi), S Baldwin's home (Canada), Buckeye Hotel (with Cob and Co coach outside), Marston (Kaiapoi), J Sim's sawmill and store, Kaiapoi Parish Church, Glenmark Station homestead, Church of the Holy Innocents (Amberley), Woollen Mills Cashel Street, Maori pa formerly at site of Woollen Mills (painting), Malcolm Ross Cottage, and Glen Hoon (Hamner). Miscellaneous images include a volunteer camp in Oamaru (Easter, 1886), Akaroa monument to Captain Stanley, Dunedin (from Roslyn Hill), the construction of the Kaiapoi dredge, Rangiora War Memorial, Tikitere (Rotorua), Ashburton Domain, Wellington (from Te Aro Hill), Challenge Shield trophy (of the 1st Battalion, Canterbury Rifle Volunteers), Volunteer Rifle target practice on Kaiapoi beach, Cam bridge (with unidentified family group), the ferry 'Windermere' with Coniston Lake coach on board, Gore Bay and other images from Cheviot area, Reece Valley, Shetland pony Wee Davie, Kingston-Invercargill coach (cyanotype of photo taken by American Astronomical Mission), Purau farm panorama (site for 1893 volunteer military camp), fancy dress, the ketch 'Jannet', Lyttelton Harbour, the steamer 'Kairaki', farmland at Highfield (Waiau), Amuri, Dogs Creek intake, Otira Gorge, various Blue Mountain scenes (New South Wales), Conical Hill (Hamner), Rogerson Valley, D Rutherford Bridge and upper bridge cutting (Waiau River), an original pen drawn caricature, a copy of a painting of a coach by E M Lovell-Smith, and a number of river, garden, and street scenes. Various images (some postcards) from South Africa include three men in front of a cave, St Andrew's College and St Aiden's College (Grahamstown), Prince Alfred's Guards Memorial and Port Elizabeth, Hellgate, and the road to Walmer. Also images (many postcards) of England, including Penrith, Keswick, Braithwaite, Torquay, Boscobel House and Royal Oak (Shropshire), Cumberland Church, and Christchurch Gate (Canterbury). Collected photographs include many Burton Brothers' images of various New Zealand scenes (mainly scenic, including Wanganui River, Waitakere area, Manawatu Gorge, and Lake Manapouri) and work by other unidentified photographers. Album includes cyanotypes, copies of daguerreotypes, postcards, hand coloured images as well as original and reproduced artworks. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album Provenance: Purchase, 2011. The album was purchased from Mr Robin Rapley of Christchurch.