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Date: 1875 - 1885

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Collection of unidentified sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

Reference: A-213-081

Description: A small dinghy moored in the foreground. Beyond is a lake or Otago Harbour with distant hills Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 105 x 240 mm

Date: 1884 - 1886

From: Medley, Mary Catherine 1835- :Mary C. Medley's sketch book ; visit to Rotorua before Tarawera eruption [No.] 12. 1884-1886.

Reference: E-377-022

Description: A Peninsula overlooking Mokoia Island, showing St Faith's Church which is surrounded by smaller buildings. Shows three people rowing a boat in the water. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Ohinemutu. Id Mokoia of Hine Hinemoa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 125 x 210 mm.

Date: 1884

From: Harper, Laura 1833-1887 :Laura Harper's sketchbook. No. 10 1884

Reference: E-376-038/039

Description: Shows several people rowing a canoe on Lake Rotomahana with White Terrace ahead Other Titles - .... Rotomahana ... Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - White Terrace Roto Mahana Nov 4 1884 Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double page). Physical Description: Pencil, 140 x 450 mm. (page size)

Date: 1880 - 1889

From: Yeldham, A (Mrs), fl 1976 :Photograph albums containing views of New Zealand

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

Reference: PA1-o-541

Description: Photograph albums entitled 'Views of New Zealand', containing mostly Burton Bros photographs of New Zealand scenes Most of the scenes show the thermal areas around Lake Rotomahana, the Pink and White Terraces, a geyser, and the Mangarewa Gorge. Other areas include a view of North Shore, Auckland, from the water, and Tararu Creek (Thames) in the North Island; and Lake Hayes and Wet Jacket Arm in the South Island. Other Titles - Views of New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon leather cover, with gold decoration, entitled "Views of New Zealand"; 23.5 x 31.5 cm

Date: 1884

From: Smith, Maurice Crompton, 1864-1953 :[Sketchbooks] 1883-1899, 1904-1943.

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: E-300-q-1-008

Description: Harataonga Bay showing a sailing boat and a rowing boat in the water Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 138 x 225 mm

Date: 1880 - 1890

Reference: B-187-005

Description: A scene on the River Avon. Three boats can be seen on the water. Various women are either in boats or on the river bank, shading themselves with umrellas, or under the willows. The man closest in the foreground rows with two oars, and wears a boater Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - H Miller [Sc?] [handwritten] Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 360 x 265 mm, on sheet 430 x 275 mm Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Ephemera; three art prints transferred on appraisal to Drawings Paintings & Prints, 4 January 2013 - From Ephemera Collection -.

Date: 1875 - 1885

From: Various artists :[Watercolour and pencil drawings by members of the Lysaght and Stowe families. ca 1870-1930]

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: B-190-016-1/2

Description: On the recto, a view from above of Mokoia Beach, south Taranaki. A dinghy and boatsheds can be seen. On the verso, a pencil sketch of probably the same beach, from the other direction, with watercolour notes indicating light and dark stones, sand, waves, and brown weed Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Mokoia Beach / MGCL [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, 255 x 355 mm

Date: 1888

From: Hoare, E A, fl 1887-1888 :Drawings, watercolour sketches, photographs and notes of E A Hoare, Artiste, on board 'S S Tongariro'. December 1887 to March 1888

Reference: E-955-f-011

Description: View of a rainy day on the beach, possibly at Waiwera. A number of people stand huddled under umbrellas, and a dinghy comes towards the shore carrying more people, also sheltering under umbrellas Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 102 x 103 mm, on sketchbook page 255 x 370 mm

Date: [between 1884 and 1887]

By: Dunford, Graeme Wilmor, active 1980-1981; Williams, William, 1858-1949

Reference: PAColl-D-0055

Description: Photograph of the post office building and Customhouse Quay. Dinghies can be seen hoisted on davits on the quayside. The time on the clock tower is showing ten minutes past nine in the morning. Advertising on the seaward side of the shed on Customhouse Quay for Wilson & Richradson (Drapers, outfitters & importers), and Danks & Son (Brassfounders & outfitters, Brandon Street). Photograph taken by William Williams. Originally erected in 1884, burnt down in 1887 and rebuilt Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - General Post Office Similar view taken by F A Coxhead [PA7-41-30] Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: 43 x 58 cm

Date: [Between 1870s and 1880s]

By: Hart, Campbell & Company; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hart, William Paterson, active 1870s-1900s

Reference: PA1-o-390

Description: Early photographs of New Zealand, most taken by Hart, Campbell & Co, and Wheeler & Son. Inserted in a pocket attached inside the front cover are two items. One an old print of a hut at Milford, taken by Hart, Campbell & Co, and the other a newspaper cutting (Evening Star Friday March 23, 1934), of Dunedin from View Street, and Dunedin from Dowling Street, both taken in 1861. The photograph of a Cobb & Co. coach at Palmerston, has the caption `2. Cobb's coach. E Devine, driver. Palmerston, Otago, N.Z. 1876' and the photographers are named as Hart, Campbell & Co. One set of photographs have no captions and no identification of photographer. They follow a group of men travelling along a river bed, with small rowing boats, on river banks, and at the foot of waterfalls. Another sequence shows native bush, tree ferns and rivers. Two views (pages 8, 10) show Linnburn Station. One is unidentified in the album, but identified from the same image at Te Papa (digital view on the internet), the other closer view of the homestead has a caption. Relationship complexity - The photograph of Cobb's Coach at Palmerston (p. 7), is the same image as one at PAColl-7344-54 (Box 16), with the same caption `2. Cobb's coach. E Devine, driver. Palmerston, Otago, N.Z. 1865', but the photographers are identified as Hart, Campbell & Co. on this image, but identified as Burton Bros. on the PAColl copy. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with very dark blue-green cloth cover, black corners and spine, entitled `New Zealand views' in gold lettering; 24.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1885]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-387

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken by various photographers before 1886, of whom F A Coxhead and James Ring are identifiable. Most of the images have captions, and names of places and buildings etc. are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine, entitled `New Zealand scenery' in gold lettering; 20 x 26 cm

Date: 1864 - 1880

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford and Samuel Deighton. 1860-1880]

Reference: E-926-064/065

Description: Shows a panoramic view of the shore at Matakana with two rowboats pulled up on the shore in the right foreground. There is a small hill, and part of a fence and house at the far right. At the left is a long low headland, and there are islands across the water in the central distance. Another version of this image is at E-125-021/022 Other Titles - Kawau Extended Title - From his "Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford" [1860-1880], pages [64-65 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 145 x 470 mm

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-533

Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm

Date: 8 September 1888

From: Halse, Frederick James, 1863-1936 : Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/2-004067-G

Description: Ship Pleione on the Patent Slip at Evans Bay, with five men in the foreground, one sitting in a dinghy. The men include Ashcroft, Carrington, Archibald and Crombie. Photographed 8 September 1888 by Frederick James Halse of Wellington. Source of descriptive information - Identified and dated from typescript index to negatives, housed at file TL 6/1/17. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches Processing information: Originally housed in Halse Collection box 8.

Date: 1887

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: B-174-001

Description: Shows the outlet of the Waiau River as it leaves Lake Manapouri. There is a rowing boat with its oars lying across it, pulled up on the near shore, and two figures towards the right along the shore. The distant mountains are partly covered by cloud. Other Titles - Lake Manapouri Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - John Gully 1887 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 306 x 440 mm. Provenance: Owned in 1889 by Dunedin resident Mr Abraham who exhibited it that year (information sourced from label on backing board recto now attached to Rattray watercolour at B-174-002).

Date: 1888

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-002195-G

Description: The sailing ship 'Lady Jocelyn' while loading at Port Chalmers. Photograph taken by David Alexander De Maus in 1888. The `Lady Jocelyn' weighed 2138 tonnes, and was built in 1852 by Mare of London, originally for the East India trade. She was later bought by the Shaw, Savill Company and made several voyages to Auckland, Wellington, and Lyttelton, and two voyages to Port Chalmers, arriving 6 November 1873, and 15 April 1888. The photograph can be dated to the later voyage from the funnel of the refrigeration plant with which she was fitted in the 1880s. Up to the year 1878 she was the biggest immigrant ship trading to New Zealand. She was also the first immigrant ship to arrive in Tauranga. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - `Lady Jocelyn' loading at Port Chalmers; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 528; Marginal notes on negative - top left - 528 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1880s-1890s

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10X8-0346-G

Description: Oarsmen in sculls at the opening of the boating season in Nelson. There are seven sculls and two rowboats in the shot. Taken by the Tyree Brothers (firm) between 1880s and 1890s. Other Titles - Tyree No. 1173 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Opening of boating season - 1173, Tyree. Nelson.NZ Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Jan 1884

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

Reference: PA7-39-09

Description: Photograph of party of sightseers alighting from rowboats at Wet Jacket Arm in Dusky Sound taken by Burton Brothers, 1884. Print originally supplied by W R Robinson of Auckland. From `New Zealand through the camera' series of photographs Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 1059 - Milford Sound. Burton Bros, Dunedin; Backing board verso - centre right - Photographic agent, W.R.Robinson, Stone's Buildings, Wellesley Street East (stamp) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14 x 20.2 cm on mount 22.5 x 29 cm

Date: 1880s

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-002573-G

Description: Fish curing establishment at Carey's Bay, Port Chalmers, circa 1880s, with cottages, row boats, children, and a woman holding a baby. Captain George Edmonds is on the far left. Photograph taken by David Alexander De Maus. Note on back of file print reads "Port Chalmers. Family gathered about a cottage on the shore - one of the many fish-curing establishments around Otago harbour." "The cottage on the left clearly shows the typical gable roof with built on lean-to which would have contained the kitchen. Both houses are made of weatherboard and have corrugated iron roofs. The small cupboard-like structure on the right could be an outdoor "safe" for storing perishable foods. Note the variety of livestock around the foreground house - dogs, poultry, and a bird in a cage on the front of the house." (Information taken from caption used in "Darling, I'm home!" display). Exhibited in 'Darling, I'm Home!' exhibition at the National Library of New Zealand, 1 June - 5 July 1999. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Fish Curing Establishment. 78 There were a number of fish curing plants established in the Port Chalmers area in the late nineteenth century. They supplied other New Zealand towns, as well as the Australian market, with smoked fish such as ling, moki, blue and red cod. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1888

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-002194-G

Description: Shows the ship `Lady Jocelyn' loading at Port Chalmers. Photograph taken by David Alexander De Maus. Built in 1852 as an auxiliary steamer for the East India trade. Later purchased by Shaw Savill & Co. for Australasian trade, with engines removed. Made two voyages to Port Chalmers, arriving on November 6 1873 and April 15 1888. This photograph can be dated to the latter voyage, from the funnel of the refrigeration plant with which she was fitted in the 1880s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Photograph's title: `Lady Jocelyn' loading at Port Chalmers Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches