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Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

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

Reference: PA1-o-386

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm

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: [ca 1872-1880s]

By: Perkins, J (Mr), active 1967; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4608

Description: Photographs of Mount Taranaki; Mount Cook; Tasman Glacier near Malte Brun hut site; lower Tasman Glacier with Mounts De La Beche, Minarets, Green and Elie de Beaumont; Tasman Glacier with Mounts Cook, Tasman and Haidinger behind; main divide south of De la Beche with Glacier Dome and the Rudolf Glacier on the lower left; and the junction of Ball and Tasman Glaciers with the Anzacs ridge in the background. Photographs taken by Burton Bros. Photographs of view down Princes Street with the Colonial Mutual building on the left and the Exchange building on the right; Victoria Bridge over the Avon, Christchurch, with the Supreme Court building on the right; the Glacier Hotel at Bealey with a carriage and four pulling up; and Jackson's on the West Coast Road. Photographs taken by Wheeler & Son. Photograph of the flood in Mawhera Quay and Catholic School in Greymouth. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). 14 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph album, photographic prints

Date: [Circa 1890s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919

Reference: PA1-o-520

Description: Album of tourist views of New Zealand and the sub-Antarctic Islands, chiefly taken by John Richard Morris, Jnr, circa 1890s. Places and subjects listed above where identified. The Sub-Antarctic Island views are all of native flora and fauna of the different islands, listed on the images as mollymawks, albatrosses, sea lions, crested penguins and erect-crested penguins On page 32 there is a view of the SS Knight Templar leaving Lyttelton on February 17, 1900, taking about 260 soldiers and 300 horses of the 3rd Contingent "the New Zealand Roughriders" to Durban, en route to fight in the South African War. The wharf is crowded with people seeing the ship off, soldiers lined up alongside the ship, and bunting flying on two ships nearby. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 24.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-532

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by E Wheeler & Son, circa 1870s to 1880s Most of the views are identified, either on the photograph itself, or in hand-written captions below; places shown are listed above. One image has caption "Flax cutting" on the photograph which shows a man standing be a group of cabbage trees, with a house? or possibly a mill with a water wheel in the background behind the trees, while the hand-written caption reads "Valley scene, Hokianga". Other Titles - New Zealand views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover (damaged), entitled "New Zealand Views" in gold lettering; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: [Circa 1880s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Lomer, Albert, active 1862-1900; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-262

Description: Album of Australian photographs of Brisbane and Tasmania, and views of a range of sites in New Zealand, taken by various photographers circa 1880s. Names and places identified in the album are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: [Circa 1870s-1880s]

From: Sarney, H F (Mr), fl 1959 :Photograph albums of New Zealand scenes

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

Reference: PA1-f-065

Description: Album of landscapes taken by various photographers including Wheeler & Sons and the Burton Brothers, circa 1870s and 1880s. All the views are of New Zealand except the last sequence (p 33-37) showing Rio de Janeiro. Of particular interest are views of a wool wagon drawn by oxen, crossing a ford; a series showing an unidentified curved viaduct under construction (p 28-32); and a number showing a farm run by J F L Jetter at Te Puke when the land was partially cleared, with cattle grazing in paddocks, and Mr Jetter standing by a horse in a paddock in front of his home. Many of the images show uncleared land, with a deep ravine filled with native bush and tree ferns, and a stream running through (p 24-27). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover with embossed diamond shape pattern, bordered with gold; 32 x 38 cm

Date: ca 1880s

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-004704-F

Description: Cathedral Square, Christchurch showing the cathedral in the centre and the Post Office on the right with horses and carts in the foreground ca 1880s. Photographer was Wheeler & Son. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [1890s?]

By: Finch, Olive, 1883-1984; Cowdell, Joseph Tuffley, -1907; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hawley & Company; Iles, Arthur James, 1870-1943; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Verrall, John Miles, 1849-1921; Wilson, George Washington, 1823-1893

Reference: PA1-o-172

Description: Photograph album containing views of the South Island, including Christchurch, Diamond Lake, Otira Gorge, Bluff, Skippers Gorge, Waiau River and Hanmer. North Island views include views of Mount Tarawera after the eruption in June 1886, and views of the Pink and White Terraces before they were destroyed in the eruption. Other views show Napier, showing the first ship to berth at the new breakwater, SS Flora, on 22nd October 1895; Marine Parade in Napier; street views in Gisborne and Whangarei; Parihaka; and the Rotorua, Wairakei area with the Huka Falls, Aratiatia Rapids, and the Waimangu Geyser. Photographs taken circa 1890s, by some unidentified photographers, but many by named photographers, including Arthur James Iles (Thames), E Wheeler & Son (Christchurch), Hawley & Co (Napier). All named photographers are listed in the name sequence. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, with ornate gold decoration on spine, 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1885

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: MNZ-1209-1/4-G

Description: Crowd during demonstration relating to the railway line between Christchurch and Westland, 1885. Shows a crowd milling around the square. Photograph taken by E Wheeler & Son. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Provenance: Photograph from the Early Colonists' Room, Canterbury Museum for the Department of Internal Affairs' publication 'Making New Zealand' (1939-1940).

Date: [ca 1890]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA7-53-17

Description: View of Lyttelton Harbour from Quail Island. In the middle foreground is a man pointing to something in the far distance. The jetty (with winch) can be seen on the left. Photograph taken by Wheeler and Son, date unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 19 x 24 cm

Date: [Circa 1890s]

By: Mannering, George Edward, 1862-1947; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Fox, C D, active 1890s; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-325

Description: Album created by G E Mannering, some photographs taken by him. A number of these are of children, only identified by nick-names, or Christian names; and one of an older man in a top hat is named `Grandad'. Several views of the children are taken at the beach at New Brighton in 1893. An interior photograph of an office `The consulting desk' was taken by `HMP'. Photographs also include a scene of hay making, and several of scenes relating to sheep farming, including sheep drafting, and one of 120 bales of wool from `Double Hill Estate' loaded onto four wagons, towed by W.A. McLaren's traction engine. Other scenes in Christchurch include the Christchurch Cathedral; and early photographs of Christ's College, when the buildings were in `corrugated iron Tudor' style; and a house with a century plant (agave americana) in the foreground. The rest of the scenes are mixed, with a few tourist scenes of Maori outside a meeting house, and a group in a hot spring at Tokaanu, and a newspaper cutting with photograph of Rewi Maniapoto from the Christchurch Press (no date). One photograph shows George Edward Mannering with a group on Mount Hutt. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, with `A. P. Mannering Album, 4444-4485' lettered in gold on spine; 25 x 33 cm

Date: [ca 1872]-1888

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-1878

Description: Photograph album produced in 1888, titled 'Some representative sheep farms. Canterbury and neighbourhood.' Photographs taken by E Wheeler and son, of Christchurch, New Zealand. Album is dedicated to Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Governor of New Zealand. - Images feature farms and homesteads, with the photographer's inscription on the print identifying the farm and the owner (name and place spellings are transcribed from the item). These comprise: Mount Peel (Hon J B Acland), Waikanini (W Barker Esq), Otekaike (Hon R Campbell), Peel Forest (G J Dennistoun & Co), The Warren Woodbury (F W Donkin), Mount Palm (T Chapman), Mount Fyffe Kaikoura (A S Collins), Waimate (J Douglas), Homebush (J Deans), Longbeach (J Grigg), Grassmere, Westerfield (C Hawdon), Hororata (Sir J Hall), Horsley Down (Mallock & J D Lance), Underwood (A Hawdon), Fernside (S Heywood), St Helen's (W A Low), Windsor Park Otago (E Menlove), Lyndon (Macfarlane Bros), The Warren E Oxford (Langton), Waitakahi (A McLean), Glenmark (G H Moore); Achray (Macfarlane), Mt Somers (A E Peach[e?]), Raukapuka Geraldine (W Postlethwaite), Cheviot (Hon W Robinson), Orari Gorge (C G Tripp Esq), Mount Messing (R Rutherford), Montrose (Rutherford), Waireka (R Wade), Swyncombe Kaikoura (W D Wood), and Highfield (Wharton & Co). - Gardens and surrounding scenic landmarks (such as rivers and mountain ranges) are often visible as part of building portraiture. Buildings and structures other than main homesteads include woolsheds, manager's houses, a meat freezing factory (Belfast), the Port Robinson slipway, stock yards, worker's whares, ferret houses, and Glenmark Station's extensive lakes and water features. Images are almost exclusively of the exterior of buildings with only the interiors of woolsheds seen. Many images include the families that lived in the houses and often their dogs. Farm workers are seen in some images. Farm animals pictured include sheep, horses, mules, farm dogs, and oxen. Activities such as shearing with a Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine, wool sorting, wool scouring, wool transportation (horse drawn carts and ox wagons), sheep dipping, and sheep drafting are shown. Other activities include rowing in a boat, lawn mowing, and lawn tennis. Other - Album has covers that appear to have been created by the General Assembly Library. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Dedicated by Permission to His Excellency Sir W F D Jervois, G.C.M.G., C.B. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green and black album embossed with gold typeface, 24.4 x 32 cm Provenance: Donated by Parliamentary Library, Wellington, 2014 Transfers: From Book Collections - NZ&P: as part of a large ongoing donation of mainly published material..

Date: 1885

From: [Ephemera of quarto size concerning photography, photographers and photographic processing]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Canterbury times (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-B-PHOTOGRAPHY-1885-01

Description: Catalogue list of 497 photographic views and several other unnumbered views in the North and South Islands, with some small border illustrations of children. Dated with reference to advertising by Wheeler in the "Star", 16 February 1885, Page 2 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on folded pamphlet, 277 x 222 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Les Cleveland, Wellington, in 1994

Date: [ca 1890-1900]

By: Foster, Susan E, 1946-; Beckett, Ethel Mary, active 1890s; Beckett, Amy Middleton, -1964; Beckett, Thomas Wrench Naylor, 1839-1906; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6244

Description: Photographs, mostly of the South Island, from the collection of the Beckett family. Most were taken by Ethel Mary Beckett, with some being the work of Amy Middleton Beckett. The work of Wheeler & Son, of Christchurch, and Albert E Winzenberg of Masterton is also represented. A photograph of Palmerston Atoll, in the Cook Islands, is included in the collection. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-181858-G to 1/2-181894-G Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s). 37 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1860s-1870s]

By: Wilkinson, R M (Mrs), active 1961; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-9633

Description: Photograph of Christchurch Post Office, taken ca 1860s-1870s by Wheeler & Son The building was originally Market Hall (1860), then became a Post Office (1862), then a coffee palace (1879) Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Mount recto - left of image - Wheeler & Son, Christchurch; Mount recto - beneath image - P. Office Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Carte de visite

Date: [ca 1880s-1966]

By: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979; Burke, Walter Ernest Messervy, 1866-1954; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-4454

Description: Mounted photographs of a moa skeleton compared with a human one; a view from Cains Terrace, Timaru showing the Post Office and old St Mary's Church; a group of Maori in traditional clothes outside the carved meeting house at Ohinemutu, Rotorua; view of Parihaka pa with Te Whiti's house on the left and Mount Taranaki in the background; Sir George Grey's house at Kawau Island with a jetty; two stuffed kiwi and a kiwi egg; a woman sitting outside a Maori whare with a pig; a man standing outside the Vulcan Hotel, St Bathans with advertisements for Gaytime ice-cream and Speights beer 1966; and a loose print of a young woman sitting at the pihanga of a meeting house with a carved pare. Photographers include Walter Burke. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-029165, 071676, 071677, 071678, and 071696. Two of the images are described as the same as 1/2-031035 and 1/2-015845 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 7 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.

Date: [ca 1870s-1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA7-46-13

Description: View of the rail bridge over the Waimakariri River. Photograph taken by Edmund Wheeler & Son, ca 1870s-1880s Another copy at PA7-46-14 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 18.2 x 34 cm

Date: 1880-1889

From: Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898?-1980 :Photographs

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-q-116

Description: Album compiled by Arthur Lagden Haylock, containing views of Lyttelton, Christchurch, Wellington, Nelson, New Plymouth, Tauranga, Ohinemutu, Mangarewa Gorge, Pink & White Terraces, Napier, Timaru, Porters Pass, Castle Hill (West Coast Road), Craigieburn, Waimakariri River, Arthur's Pass, Otira Gorge, Otira, Jacksons, Taipo River, Mount Alexander, Dillmanstown, Hokitika, and Greymouth. Also includes photographs of ships Annie Bow, Ganymede, and City of Perth and Benvenue stranded at Timaru in 1882. Photographs taken 1880s, by James Ring, Burton Brothers, Wheeler & Sons (including prints made by Wheeler from the negatives of D L Mundy) and others. Other Titles - Ramblings through New Zealand. By A.L. Haylock Quantity: 1 album(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Brown album with gold borders, entitled `Ramblings through New Zealand. By A.L. Haycock', lettered in gold; 36.5 x 31.5 cm

Date: [ca 1870s-1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA7-46-14

Description: View of the rail bridge over the Waimakariri River. Photograph taken by Edmund Wheeler & Son, ca 1870s-1880s Another copy at PA7-46-13 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 18.2 x 34 cm