Places

Date: 13 Nov 1869

From: Seager, Edward : Photograph album

By: Barker, Alfred Charles (Dr), 1819-1873

Reference: PAColl-4508-01

Description: Statue of John Robert Godley, Christchurch, with Dr Alfred Charles Barker seated below, 13 November, 1869. Photograph taken by Dr Barker. Note on back of file print reads: "In the background is the open tower where the bills were put up. The tower was for ringing the time." Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 20.3 x 14.6 cm

Date: ca 1860s

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: PAColl-5381-02

Description: Johann Franz Julius von Haast and (Mary von Haast?) alongside a house (in Christchurch?), circa 1860s. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.4 x 20.6 cm

Date: ca 1860s

Reference: 1/2-004131-F

Description: A coach and four horses laden with passengers outside a Cobb & Co office and Page's Livery and Commission Stables in Christchurch. The shadow of the photographer is in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

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: May 1860

By: Barker, Alfred Charles (Dr), 1819-1873

Reference: 1/2-022719-F

Description: Looking west along Armagh Street in Christchurch, May 1860. Riccarton bush is in the left background. The long building with three dormers, under the left end of the bush is the Plough Inn. Taken by Alfred Charles Barker. Cranmer Square and Hagly Park are in the background, but not visible. The keeper of the Plough Inn was J Dilloway, who was also a gunsmith. The last house on the right, going towards the river, is near the corner of Armagh Terrace and Park Terrace, and was at some time occupied by Sir Henry Wigram (1857-1934). Note on back of file print reads: "Second house from right in background is Thacker's `Guardian' Printery where the first sessions of the Prov Govt were held - 1853-4." This photograph is published in Johannes C Andersen's book `Old Christchurch in Picture and Story', 1949, page 235. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Transfers: Other photographs in this series include (1/2-022712 to 022714, 022719, 022720, 022722, 022733).

Date: ca 1880s

From: Foxley Norris album

Reference: PA1-q-094-130-1

Description: Trams in Christchurch, alongside a paddock, circa 1880s. One of the four men, probably the one on the right, is Mr Evans, secretary (of the Canterbury Tramway Company?). Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Christchurch Tramway; Album page - right of image - Mr Evans secretary Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1880 - 1889

By: Spiller, John, 1850-1928

Reference: PA2-1688

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1872 - 1878

By: Lawrence, Samuel Charles Louis, active 1833-1891

Reference: PA2-0986

Description: The name attributed to the person in this photograph is based on the likely match to the person in PA2-0985. The person in PA2-0985 had been identified by a Library staff member as Harena Kauamo Te Kotuku in 1995. The person in this photograph was identified in the Facial Recognition project results as a likely match to the person depicted and identified in photograph PA2-0985. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: The photograph described in this record was included in a Library Facial Recognition project conducted in 2018. The project used an open source Python algorithm and verification by staff to find facial matches across a dataset of digitised carte-de-visite photographs held by the Library. This record was previously titled "Lawrence, C (Christchurch) fl 1872-1878 :Portrait of unidentified woman". The descriptive title and name fields were updated in October 2019 using information generated by the project.

Date: 1880s

From: Tonks album

Reference: PA1-o-497-05

Description: View of Colombo Street taken fron the north bank of the River Avon looking towards the Cathedral. The Port Hills can be seen in the distance. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1890s-1930s]

From: Head, Samuel Heath, 1868-1948 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-007230-G

Description: Photograph taken by Samuel Heath Head, Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative register. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1878-1890

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Cherrill, Nelson King, 1845-1916

Reference: PA2-0470

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1898 - 1905

Reference: Eph-C-HOSPITAL-1900-01

Description: Small poster advertising extensions to the hospital features a photograph of the hospital building in a garden setting. Applications could be made to the Matron. The hospital was in Ferry Road Christchurch "just over East Belt". The photograph used on the poster is dated 1898 in the Christchurch City Libraries catalogue record. See information at http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Photos/Disc5/IMG0080.asp Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, on sheet 320 x 252 mm.

Date: 1890 - 1891

From: Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012 :Photographs

By: Dutch & Bull (Firm)

Reference: PA3-0066

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1880s-1920s]

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-019473-G

Description: Photograph taken by the Steffano Webb Photographic Studio, Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1867

Reference: PAColl-8850

Description: Photograph taken in 1867 of a building known as Big School, at Christ's College, Christchurch. Shows a building designed by James Edward Fitzgerald in the Gothic Revival style. Photographer unidentified. Publication note - This photograph published in Don Hamilton, College!: a history of Christ's College (Christchurch, NZ : Christ's College Board of Governors, 1996), p 57 In 1996 Big School was being used as the school library. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Don Hamilton, College!: a history of Christ's College (Christchurch, NZ : Christ's College Board of Governors, 1996), pp 57-59 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16.3 x 21.5 cm

Date: May 1860

By: Barker, Alfred Charles (Dr), 1819-1873

Reference: 1/2-022714-F

Description: Christchurch, in May 1860. Looks from the Provincial Buildings, south west along Gloucester Street. The open paddock along Durham Street, in the foreground, ran through from Gloucester to Armagh Street. Photograph taken by Alfred Charles Barker. This photograph is published in Johannes C Andersen's book `Old Christchurch in Picture and Story', 1949, page 233, from which much of the Scope and Contents information is taken. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: [ca 1895]

From: Minson, Marian :Minson family photographs

Reference: 1/2-145260-F

Description: William Minson, circa 1895, probably in Christchurch. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1869-1875

By: Christchurch Fancy Bazaar

Reference: PA2-1320

Description: Inscriptions: Verso - Christchurch Fancy Bazaar Photographic Studio Colombo St. [stamped in ink] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Carte de visite, 10.4 x 6.3 cm (mount), 9.0 x 5.7 cm (print).

Date: [1892?]

From: Creator of Collection Unknown : Series of captioned photographs

Reference: 1/2-002755-F

Description: Sunnyside Hospital, Christchurch, photographed (1892?) by an unidentified photographer. Exterior view. Source of descriptive information - Notes from negative register Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1850 - 1851

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Cridland, Henry John, 1821-1867; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-195-014

Description: Shows 2 men on left, boiling a billy over a fire, with sheep and dogs, Bridle Path in centre with three men, a horse, sheep and cattle, the Heathcote River and part of the Heathcote-Avon Estuary, Pegasus Bay, and smoke and trees at the site of the future Christchurch. Original sketch for etching by T.Allom published in "Four Illustrative Views of the Canterbury Settlement" (London, 1851. Art f919.31 / FOU). On verso: "Alphabetical list of the first purchasers of land at the Canterbury settlement" and references to correspondence between Governor Grey and Earl Grey. Other Titles - Lyttelton = Christchurch; River Avon or Shakespeare = Heathcote River; Forty Miles Beach = Pegasus Bay Cf similar watercolour in the Hocken Library: Part of the Great Plain Canterbury, N.Z. 1851 (neg.1/2-105095-F) taken from the same spot by the same artist but with no staffage. This ink drawing may be a copy by H. J. Cridland of Fox's original, or of one of the prints of the same scene published in August 1851. Compare the style of A-195-016, especially the foreshortening of perspective, and the style of rendering figures. The artist was present to welcome the first settlers in Canterbury in 1850. In 1851 he was back in England for some time before returning to New Zealand. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 206 x 321 mm (wedge cut from upper left corner) Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull in London? Processing information: Originally tipped in to Great Britain. Parliamentary Papers, 1850, cd [1136]. Removed 1987 or 1988.