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Date: 1875 - 1890 - 1885 - 1891

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to John White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, 1890

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

Reference: A-274-055

Description: A reproduction of a photograph, showing Te Hauhau, a Maori chief or priest, seated at the entrance of a carved and painted wharenui. He is clad in formal Maori clothing with huia feathers in his hair and is holding a taiaha, point down, in front of him. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - in blue pencil: 10-6-89. Also in pencil above image, ringed: Printer Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, on sheet 291 x 230 mm

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: 1891

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to J White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, [1880s?] 1890

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Deverell, Walter, 1853?-1920

Reference: B-110-023-1

Description: A view of the steaming crater of Ngauruhoe One of three proof lithographs on a single sheet measuring 285 x 447 mm. A later stage of this page is at B-110-008 Other Titles - Ngauruhoe Nga-Uru-Hae Inscriptions: Recto - title Nga-uru-hae corrected in pencil to Nga-Uru-Hoe; also the word Duplicate inscribed across the top Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 99 x 170 mm

Date: 1868 - 1889 - 1888 - 1891

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to John White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, 1890

By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: A-274-057

Description: Standing portrait of Horonuku Te Heuheu Tukino IV. He has two huia feathers in his hair, wears two kiwi feather cloaks and carries a patu in his right hand. A redrawing of a photograph taken at Tokaanu, Lake Taupo, by the Burton Brothers, between 1868 and 1888 A copy by John Hugh Boscawen of a photograph. The photograph shows Te Heuheu with a background of a wharenui. Earle was in New Zealand for six months, 1827-1828 and met 'Aranghie' or Rangi in the Bay of Islands Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, on sheet 225 x 148 mm

Date: [Between 1872 and 1899]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-287

Description: An album probably created, and chiefly photographed by George William Barltrop, between 1872 (one image of the laying of the foundation stone of (?) Provincial Buildings in 1872), and the rest being views of New Zealand taken in the late 1890s. One sequence of images shows St Thomas' Church (Newtown, Wellington) under construction, and both exterior and interior views when finished, in 1895. One image shows the wreck of the SS Wairarapa in 1894, and there are views of several lighthouses around New Zealand, two of which were taken by the Burton Brothers. A number of scenes are taken in the Nelson area, including several of the Dun Mountain railway (for the Dun Mountain Copper Mining Company), the Maitai River and valley, Nelson City, and Washington Valley. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album bound in black morocco, with black leather spine, entitled `Photographs' in gold, and McIntosh III lettered in gold on spine; 21.5 x 28.0 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: 1870-1890

From: Saxby, Stephen Hector, 1907- :Photograph albums

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Ring, James, 1856-1939; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-q-213

Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand and Pacific scenes, compiled ca 1870s-1880s. Includes views of Nelson. Bridge over the Waiau River near Hanmer. Hutt Valley (showing junction of Belmont Road), Manaia (showing Dr Hector, and oysters in foreground). James Hector's house `Ratanui,'near Petone, his family, and views from the house. Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu (showing flooding, acclimatisation ponds, and the road between Queenstown and Martin's Bay). Greymouth. Castle Hill. White Island. Mount Ruapehu. Otira Gorge. Arthur River. Milford Sound (with steamship Rotorua). Christchurch. Auckland (including a series of interior views of Kilbryde, the home of Sir John Logan Campbell). Cable car over Taramakau River. Hawks Crag. Brunnerton. Arnold river. Arthur's Pass. Buller River. Denniston (showing coal mines and incline). Mount Cook. Wellington (including views of the Botanic Garden). Lake Mapourika. Sutherland Falls. Tahiti. Wanganui. The Wainuiomata Reservoir. Napier. Photographers represented include W T L Travers (scenes on Waiau river), Hart, Campbell & Co (Queenstown and Wakatipu), James Ring (Greymouth, Castle Hill, and Buller), H T Lock (Hawks Crag and Denniston), Wheeler & Son (Christchurch), Connolly & Co (Wellington Botanic Garden) and Burton Brothers (Sutherland Falls). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded maroon cover, entitled "New Zealand ferns"; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: 1895 - 1859

By: Lyttelton times (Newspaper); Brownlie, Edith Mary Jean, 1930-

Reference: Eph-C-HISTORY-1895-01

Description: Shows arrangement of text, with a Burton Brothers photograph at the top, showing High Street, Dunedin in 1859. The paper will also be starting a new serial story by G A Henty, "A woman of the Commune". The price of the paper is sixpence. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - "Lyttelton Times", Christchurch. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 415 x 235 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Jean Brownlie, in 1997. Transfers: Map transferred to Cartographic Collection..

Date: [ca 1890-1927]

From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); France, J W, active 1890s

Reference: PAColl-0348

Description: Mounted photographs by the Burton Brothers of the junction of Eden and Tees Streets, Oamaru showing St Luke's Church, shops, tram lines and part of the Council Chambers; looking down on the wharves of Port Chalmers with the Presbyterian Church in the right foreground; and the Kakahi Falls, near Tawhata on the Whanganui River. Two smaller mounted photographs of a river in the Catlins District. Three pages from a photograph album holding five photographs of the building of the Arapuni Dam on the Waikato River including the buried forest exposed by the Waikato River diversion. Three loose prints by J W France of an early settlers' cottage made of ponga with a turf roof and with the family outside; a group of six workmen standing on the road they were building with long handled shovels and a boy and a dog in front of them; and the funeral procession of Sir John MacKenzie in 1901 led by a pipe band up the main road in Oamaru working. Finally a loose print of the bridge over the Waiho River. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-68928 to 1/2-068934. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.

Date: 1875 - 1890 - 1885 - 1891

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to John White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, 1890

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

Reference: A-274-032

Description: A reproduction of a photograph, showing Te Hauhau, a Maori chief or priest, seated at the entrance of a carved and painted wharenui. He is clad in formal Maori clothing with huia feathers in his hair and is holding a taiaha, point down, in front of him. Image is reversed with printed photographers' number (3606) and title appearing back-to-front Inscriptions: Recto - centre left - in pencil 'Not clear, carving and the chief quite dim, can it be made so that it can shew all in the picture. J. White, 17 July '89'. Also lower right in pencil: 'Mr White. Reverse and name please'. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, on sheet 291 x 230 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives -.

Date: ca 1890s

From: Donne, Anne, fl 1975 :Photographs mainly of Richard John Seddon in New Zealand and the Pacific

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3329-01

Description: Photographs of: a group of people gathered to watch sports on the Queen's Birthday in Tonga including Seddon; a view of the coast at Cape Foulwind; a letter addressed to "Sire Sedone, Pirima, Neuseland" from Niue; a gathering of Tongans outside a marquee in Nuku'alofa for the Queen's birthday celebrations; Seddon and what are probably other parliamentarians standing on the steps of a building; a large totara; the Seddon family on a visit to the state schoolhouse in Levuka, Fiji; the Seddon family gathered round an ornately framed certificate noting Seddon's achievements; Huka Falls taken by the Burton Brothers; Seddon holding a taiaha seated in a group of seven working men; the recreation ground in New Plymouth looking towards Mount Taranaki; two portraits of Samoan girls; a cart travelling on the Cable Bay Road looking out over the bay taken by Tyree Studio; Lake Taupo from Motutere taken by Burton Brothers; and a group of men, possibly including Seddon, sitting and standing on the steps of a building. Other than the first six, these prints are all stuck to pages from what may have been an album. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s).

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: 1891

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to J White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, [1880s?] 1890

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Deverell, Walter, 1853?-1920

Reference: B-110-008-1

Description: A view of the steaming crater of Ngauruhoe One of four proof lithographs on a single sheet measuring 285 x 447 mm Other Titles - Ngauruhoe Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - in red ink: 'Can the words Burton Brother be put in where I have marked this; as it is only right to acknowledge where the drawings were obtained. J. White 18 4 88'. Also in red ink, lower right, beneath image: 'Burton Brothers'. In black ink, top right: 'Mr White. Cannot be done now. J. Barrow. 19.4.88' Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 99 x 170 mm

Date: [Between 1868 and 1895]

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

Reference: PA1-q-044

Description: Images of New Zealand, including the first photograph in the album made up of a collage of Maori portraits entitled "Maori land". Photographs taken by the Burton Brothers of Dunedin. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black covered album, 30 x 25 cm

Date: 1891

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to J White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, [1880s?] 1890

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Deverell, Walter, 1853?-1920

Reference: B-110-015-1

Description: A view of the steaming crater of Ngauruhoe One of four lithographs on a single sheet measuring 285 x 447 mm. All are proofs before lettering and all are signed either W. D. or W. Deverell. All are redrawings of photographs by the Burton Brothers Another copy, with printed lettering and hand-written annotations, held at B-110-008-1 Other Titles - Ngauruhoe Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 99 x 170 mm

Date: Between 1868 and 1890

By: Larkworthy, Falconer, 1833-1928; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-140

Description: Photograph album of New Zealand scenes The first sequence contains views of the road from Christchurch to the West Coast, taken by Daniel Mundy in February 1868. Another group are of further scenes in the South Island taken by the Burton Brothers around the Dunedin area. There are several views of Scotland and England, including one of the Brendon Hill Incline, an iron-mining area in Exmoor, and a view of the Larkworthy family castle in Aberdeenshire (name of the castle not clear in album). Later views in the album are taken by unidentified photographers, and include scenes of the Franz Josef Glacier, with the Waiho River; sluicing for gold at Black Gully; a tubular flume at Donnellys Creek; the Totara Ferry; viaduct at Jones' Creek; bush at Donoghues; and views of Ross and Hokitika. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Larkworthy album Relationship complexity - See also qMS-1129-1132 (donated at the same time) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, entitled `Scrap book'; 32.5 x 27.0 cm Provenance: Donated by Mrs W M Lowry and Mrs V M Matthews, England, 1956

Date: [Between 1868 and 1898]

By: Long, W H (Mrs), active 1970; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Zangaki (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-146

Description: Album of photographs, most taken by the Burton Brothers in New Zealand, including a large number of Maori images, group portraits, identified men and women, pa, and storehouses. Scenes also taken by them in Tonga and Samoa. A number of images show scenes in England, including a group taken near Egremont in Cumbria, of ice on the Mersey River in 1895. There are a large number of copies of paintings of romantic scenes. Several photographs of the Suez Canal, and the Nile River, were taken by Greek photographers `Zangaki' Brothers Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with reddish brown cover, brown corners and spine with single raised cords; fleur de lys pattern stamped between cords; 33.5 x 27.0 cm

Date: 1880-1890

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

Reference: PAColl-3350

Description: Various Wellington City scenes mainly from above Thorndon and from Mount Victoria Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s) in one box. Physical Description: Photoprints 259 x 305mm

Date: [ca 1890s]

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

Reference: PAColl-7324

Description: Photographs of the Rimutaka railway including a locomotive at Cross Creek, a locomotive and carriages at the summit with railway workers houses next to the track, a tunnel, and the part of the track called Siberia. Photographer was the Burton Bros. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003407 to 003411 and 003413 to 003414 Quantity: 7 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1890s]

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

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

Reference: PA1-o-542

Description: Photograph albums entitled 'Views of New Zealand', containing Burton Bros photographs of New Zealand scenes, as well as views in Tonga and Samoa. These island views include one of Princess Anaziene (grand-daughter of King Tupou I of Tonga) outside the palace at Nukualofa; another taken near Nuku'alofa, Tongatapu; one of Neiafu (Vava'u, Tonga); and one in Apia, Samoa. Places in in the North Island of New Zealand include the Pink and White Terraces before the Tarawera Eruption of 1886; Mangarewa Gorge (named as Mongarewa Gorge in the album); Rotokanapanapa, Lake Rotomahana; and Waiwera with the Waiwera Hotel centre left. The South Island images show Lake Moke; Wet Jacket Arm; Passage Point Cove in Dusky Sound; and Cabbage Tree Grove (Halfway Bay, Lake Wakatipu) in which a log hut with thatched roof is seen behind a large flax bush, surrounded by cabbage trees. 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" in gold lettering; 23.5 x 31.5 cm