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Date: [ca 1900]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-8077

Description: Photographs of Glynn Wye homestead, North Canterbury, and surrounding countryside including the Waiau River, taken ca 1900 by Edmund Wheeler & Son of Christchurch. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Purchase, Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, 2004

Date: 1863-1918

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

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-1131

Description: Personal and news photographs taken and collected by J L Wilson featuring North Canterbury 1863-1918, predominantly dated 1905 to 1918. Series include: miscellaneous Wilson family photographs, including group and individual portraits (Estelle and family, Joseph Lowthian and wife, and more), Christmas at T R Leithead's home Lindean in 1917, [holidays?], croquet games, river (boating), beach, and garden scenes [Beauthorne?], pets including dogs Bruce and Nigger, Marjorie's canaries, and cat Billy Buster; and numerous street scenes of Rangiora and Kaiapoi with many taken during July 1918 snowstorm. Images of news and events cover the traffic bridge at Kaiapoi being re-decked and damage after a flood, flooding at Waverley (railway line), sheep shearing competition and equestrian parade at the Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Show, Mr Donald of Rangiora show jumping on horse, North Canterbury plowing match at Cunningham Farm (Rangiora), opening of Stoke traffic bridge by William Hall-Jones, Governor Plunkett's visit to Kaiapoi (including Mayor A Pierce), roasting bullock at Queen Victoria Jubilee, and Coronation procession. Named figures include J L Wilson and his grandson Lionel, Manahi, G S Porter, Johnny McLay Captain H Oram (with golfing trophy) and Major B S Jordan (in Cairo with horse presented by Northern A & P Association). Group photographs include G H Oram and family, reunion of shipmates from 'Chariot of Fame', Cass Volunteer Rifles, Captain Horne and North Canterbury Mounted Rifles, Oxford Resident's Committee, Waimate Ploughing Match Committee, Ashley Road Board, Turnbull family at Timaru, Christchurch Ladies' Hockey Club, Northern A & P officers, Oxford Sports Committee, Superintendant J Higgins and the Kaiapoi Fire Brigade, 47th Reinforcements non-commissioned officers (Trentham), Mr C Trelaven and family, and Kaiapoi [influenza relief?] Committee. Buildings include J C Porter's residence, G H Moore's mansion Glenmark, Trinity Presbyterian Church, Hamner Hall (W H Milliken & Co general store and tearooms, library, hairdresser, tobacconist and billiard hall), Kaiapoi golf pavillion, J Ingram's house (Oxford), Bramton Town Hall, John Barlow's house, Wilson's residence Marston (Kaiapoi), Marston Church (Oxfordshire), Dunedin Railway Station, Lincon Agricultural College, Kaiapoi Press Agency (J L Wilson's office), T R Leithead's home Lindean (Stonehurst), Woollen Mills (Kaiapoi), Sanson's shop and Red Lion Hotel (Rangiora), St Stephen's (Tuahiwi) and Christ's College and chapel (Christchurch). Miscellaneous images include unidentified Maori portraits, coach outside Culverdon Hotel, Ashburton Domain, flax at C Leech's Cam Mill and growing on farm, M J Dixon's scrub cutting machine, Tuahiwi scene, land clearance and timber milling at Kaiapoi Domain, sheep shearing at Glentui Station (including woolshed), horse and cart at Waikari, Dunedin in 1918 (street scenes, SS 'Marama' hospital ship at Port Chalmers), street scene after a fire, steamer on Kaiapoi River, Cure Club landing, Ashley roading development panorama, Corsair Bay (Lyttelton), and sailing on Akaroa harbour. Collected images, many colour photomechanical postcards including Kaiapoi (scenes, buildings, and landmarks), Hamner Springs (including Queen Mary's military hospital and The Lodge), Kaikoura, Timaru, Napier, South Africa (Capetown, Durban, Port Elizabeth), England, France, and Indonesia. Further miscellaneous postcards include one sent from Egypt by Major Gordon, the boat SS 'Maori' Queen's Statue (Ohinemuri), an Australian swag man, the Tarawera eruption, the arrest of King Dinizulu, and other images. Named photographers Burton Brothers and Wheeler and Son, with scenic images featuring Glen Dhu (Lake Wanaka), Toi Toi Valley (Nelson), Otira Gorge, and Bealey Road to West Coast, as well as Maori portraits. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album