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Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

From: Nairn, Douglas, fl 1973 :Photographs of New Zealand and Fiji

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA1-q-167

Description: Album of photographs taken between the 1860s and 1890s by various unidentified photographers, with one identified as being possibly by Daniel Louis Mundy, and one by James Bragge. Two early photographs, one of `Oakbourne Station', the home of John Davis Canning was taken circa 1860s, and one of `Orua Wharo' the home of John Johnston, and later his son Sydney Johnston, was taken circa 1870s, before the new house was built in 1879. Page 7 contains pressed ferns. Non-New Zealand photographs include several of Fiji, including Levuka, Taveuni, and an avenue of palms; one of the carving on Sir Joshua Reynold's bed at Tarrington; one of an Elizabethan glass cup; a carved overmantel; two views of Arundel House at Brighton, and one of Heston Church near Osterley Park. In the North Island, apart from the views of Oakbourne and Orua Wharo in the Hawke's Bay region, there are several views of the Pink and White Terraces, two showing the White Terraces both empty and full, Clay Island beneath the White Terraces; two views of the Manawatu Gorge and Seventy Mile Bush; and a view of Wellington City. South Island views include Milford Sound, Stewart Island, Braida Crags, the Wyndham River; a large group of people at celebrations surrounding the laying of the foundation stone for St John's Church in Invercargill; and two views of an exhibition of a Japanese village displaying such things as banners, lanterns and furniture, held in a hall in Invercargill. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown leather cover, gold decoration; 31.0 x 27.5 cm

Date: [ca 1870s]

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA7-48-01

Description: View of Akaroa taken from a hillside looking south-west with French Bay and the harbour on the right. Photograph taken by Daniel Louis Mundy in 1870s Same image as PA7-48-02 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 19.3 x 24.5 cm

Date: [ca 1870s]

From: Pitman, Mrs : Photographs of New Zealand scenes

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA7-48-02

Description: View of Akaroa taken from a hillside looking south-west with French Bay and the harbour on the right. Photograph taken by Daniel Louis Mundy in 1870s Same image as PA7-48-01 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 17.5 x 23 cm on card 23.7 x 30.2 cm

Date: [ca 1870s-1890s]

From: Bridge family :Photograph albums

By: Anson Brothers (Firm); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Pulman (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-271

Description: Views of New Zealand, England, Australia and Canada, associated with family of Charles Joseph Bridge (d 1876), settler at Homebrook, near Lake Ellesmere; and his son, Charles Hastings Bridge. Includes pressed flowers and leaves, a coloured sketch of a rowing boat on a river lined with willow trees. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Henry Hugh Chapman 1881; Henry Walter Bridge 1886 Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1868, 1871 etc

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-041

Description: Photographs of the North Island of New Zealand taken by Daniel Mundy during the 1860s to 1871. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in this album at p. 51) The Thames goldfields are shown in a number of images, including some with captions Shortland and Grahamstown (now part of Thames); the Moanataira [i.e. Moanatairi] wire tramway, with the Rainbow Hotel nearby; Hunt's claim (known as the Shotover Mine); the Missouri Battery; the Bank of New Zealand building at Grahamstown; and miners' huts. The timber industry is shown with kauri logs being transported by bullock teams and awaiting transport by water. Photographs associated with Maori include military outposts at Terewera (i.e. Tarawera) and Ormond; "Kawiti's Runanga, or court houses, now `tapu', Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 21); "limestone caves at Waiomeo [sic], Bay of Islands; the burial place of the Mangakahia tribe. Strictly tapu" (p. 22); "Group at Waimeo feast, Bay of Islands" (p. 20); "Native feast - or bone-scraping at the burial of the remains of several chiefs at Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 46); "Waipawa Valley, Poverty Bay, scene of the massacre by Te Kooti" (p. 47); "Here the moa feet impressions were found, Poverty Bay, Sept. 1871, D.L.M." (p. 51). There are two-image panoramas of the Thames goldfields and Napier. In this album they are not on following pages, but are separated. (Thames goldfields, Mundy numbers 121 & 120, here seen on pages 9 and 15); Napier (Mundy numbers 164 & 165, here seen on pages 50 and 52). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover, geometric pattern, gold decoration, entitled `New Zealand' in gold; 30.5 x 42.5 cm

Date: [ca 1873-1874]

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: 1/2-029171-F

Description: Hut made of ponga logs set amongst bush in Thames. Photograph taken by Daniel Louis Munday between 1873-1874. Note on back of file print reads: Possibly a Maori dwelling, gum diggers or gold diggers hut in Thames ca 1873-1874" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [Between 1860 and 1870]

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-040

Description: Photographs taken by Daniel Mundy in the 1860s. All but one were taken in the South Island. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in Mundy Album III, p 51). The North Island view was taken in Napier, and shows a two-storeyed house with quoinings, a horse-drawn coach outside, and to the right there is a wooden church. South Island views include many landscapes; hotels; the Christchurch government buildings, the Victoria Bridge, High Street and Cashel Street; and three sheep stations. Two are well-known, Benmore Station and Gramere Station (then known as Hawden's Station [i.e. Hawdon's Station]. The third is possibly that of George Gilbert Suman [the hand-written description appears to be `Sumans Station' at German Bay, and according to Wise's Post Office Directory, William Gilbert Suman lived in German Bay in 1875). There are three photographs showing Daniel Mundy's travelling darkroom (p 13, 25, and page 43) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather album, geometric pattern, gold decoration, entitled `New Zealand' in gold; 30.5 x 42.5 cm

Date: 1868

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PAColl-8216

Description: Photograph of the homestead at Grasmere Station, near Cass, Canterbury, photographed in 1868 (14th of June or August) by Daniel Louis Mundy. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - [barely visible] Mundy NZ No 27 14/[6 or 8 ?]/68; bottom left - Sheep station Canterbury 158 Relationship complexity - Another print of this image is in the Mundy II album PA1-f-040, page 45 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.9 x 21.5 cm