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Date: 1893 - 1970 - 1975

From: [Various artists] :[Postcards depicting works of art]. National Art Gallery. Wellington, N.Z. [1970s]

By: Velden, Petrus van der, 1837-1913

Reference: E-278-q-047

Description: Postcard NAG 2- Reproduction of Petrus van der Velden's oil painting `Otira Gorge' showing rapids in the gorge, painted circa 1893. Gifted to the National Art Gallery in 1936 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-lithograph, 102 x 152 mm

Date: 1876

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Works

Reference: E-278-q-123

Description: Reproduced on front of a card printed for for the Ministry of Works, New Zealand to celebrate their centennial (1871-1971). Shows a steep rocky path leading down to a bridge over a stream. A family with a packhorse and three other men with baggage are crossing the stream, while other laden horses and men walk up the rough path on the other side. Part of a large wooden structure can be seen to the left, possibly part of a support for a vehicle bridge Published on front cover of Illustrated New Zealand herald, No 105, 3 May 1876 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photo-lithograph, 203 x 152 mm on folded card

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Willis, Archibald Dudingston (Firm) :N. Z. Christmas cards. - Wanganui ; A.D. Willis [1886 or later].

Reference: E-068-032

Description: A bridge over the Otira River with steep bush-clad hills on both sides and a snowy mountain in the background A sample Christmas card, including text, lower right, reading 'With loving wishes for a happy Christmas' Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chomolithograph, 145 x 105 mm on album page ca 137 x 180 mm

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: 1839 - 1841 - 1846 - 1848

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Page, George Hyde, 1823-1908; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-003-029-a/040-a

Description: Set of looseleaf offprints originally published as a set of 12 prints in "New Zealand calendar 1974". Contents: Goldmining at the Thames [i.e. Goldmining at Thames] / J.B.C. Hoyte. - Nelson Haven, 1841 / Charles Heaphy. - The Pink Terraces, 1874 [i.e. The White Terraces, 1888 (detail)] / C.D. Barraud. - St Mark's Church, Remuera [i.e. S. Mark's, Remuera & Mt Eden, 1859] / Rev. John Kinder. - The Barracks, Napier / C.D. Barraud. - Auckland, 1848 [i.e. Auckland, New Zealand, 1848] / Lt. Gen. G.H. Page. - The Aglionby or Matukituki Valley [i.e. In the Aglionby or Matukituki Valley, looking into the Otapawa, 20th Feb. [1846]] / Sir William Fox. - In Otira Gorge, 1864 [i.e. Otira Gorge, 1864?] / Sir William Fox. - Dunedin, Otago, 1861 [i.e. Part of the town and harbour of Dunedin, Otago, N.Z. [1861?]] / W.S. Hatton. - Kahu Kahu, Hokianga River [i.e. View of the Kahu-Kahu Hokianga River [December] 1839] / Charles Heaphy. - Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860 [i.e. Mount Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860] / Lt. Gen. C.E. Gold. - Bream Head, Whangarei / Charles Heaphy. Title from cover of calendar. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title and artist]; Recto - bottom left - Alexander Turnbull Library, / Wellington, N.Z.; Recto - bottom right - A.R. Shearer, Government Printer, / Wellington, N.Z., 1973. Quantity: 24 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 24 photolithographs, (2 sets of 12), variously sized from 157 x 238 mm, to 240 x 304 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright in the 1970s.

Date: 1880s

From: Three albums of New Zealand views

Reference: PA1-o-983

Description: Views of New Zealand, comprising Mt Egmont from New Plymouth Domain, Napier, bullock team hauling wool at Cheviot, Wellington, Manawatu Gorge bridge, Manawatu Gorge, Rimutaka railway, Mount Alexander, Otira Gorge, Lyttelton breakwater, Armagh Street bridge in Christchurch, and Christchurch Cathedral. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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: [ca 1890s-1900s]

Reference: PAColl-9669

Description: An album page with views of Otira Gorge and Mount Cook. Shows horses pulling a carriage on the Christchurch and Hokitika Road in Otiria Gorge. Shows Mount Cook from the Hooker Glacier. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album leaf with 2 b&w original photographic prints. Physical Description: 41.5 x 31 cm mounted album page

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: 1865

By: McArthur & Company

Reference: A-001-012/030

Description: Landscapes showing the landforms in the area from Porter's Pass, via Arthur's Pass to Otira. Found loose in: Canterbury Provincial Council. Proceedings, session XXIII, 1865. Relate to Dobson;s Report ..., 1865, which includes 40 tinted lithographs by Ward & Rees after Dobson and R. Sherrin (A-001-002) (see A-004-010/036) Not in Dobson's hand (see TL 3/1/1/, 3/11/1986, and Photo file), but consistent with A-001/031, Browning pass .., which relates to Ward & Reeves lithograph after Haast (q.v.). Supplied title Quantity: 19 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and Chinese white, between 107 x 171 mm and 127 x 178 mm

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: 1868

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-o-094

Description: Views of New Zealand chiefly taken by Daniel Mundy circa 1868, with some taken by Charles S Spencer. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Decorated tan coloured cover "Scraps", 25.5 x 33 cm Provenance: Alexander Turnbull Library donation slip on front page reads: "Scrapbook of old photos collected by Mr Mundy about 1868."

Date: 1896-1897

By: Roberts, George John, 1848-1910; Cundy, Horace Gordon, 1907-1983

Reference: PA1-o-124

Description: Photograph album of West Coast scenes, compiled, and in part photographed by surveyor George John Roberts. Several images show Roberts, including one image of him with L Cockayne and C E Douglas standing on ice at the Bealey in April 1897. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black bound album with cream cotton spine, entitled "Photographs", 26 x 32 cm Provenance: Donated by Mr H G Cundy, Palmerston North, 1977. The album was compiled by surveyor George Roberts, uncle of Mr Cundy.

Date: 1975 - 1887 - 1980

By: IHC New Zealand; Gibb, John, 1831-1909

Reference: Eph-F-GAMES-1970s-02

Description: Box cover shows a reproduction of the painting by John Gibb. It shows a horsedrawn carriage travelling along a rutted mud road beside a river, with misty mountains in the background, and a small group of houses or huts. Other Titles - Gorge Quantity: 1 box(es) containing jigsaw puzzle. Physical Description: Photolithograph on puzzle 365 x 490 mm, in box with illustrated lid, 215 x 278 x 32 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2006.

Date: 1865

From: Dobson, Edward 1816-1908 :[Illustrations for] Report...upon the practicability of constructing a bridle road through the gorge of the Otira... - [Christchurch] ; Ward & Reeves, [1865].

By: Dobson, Edward, 1816-1908

Reference: A-004-036

Description: Shows shrub growing on half a rocky hill with a raised piece of land and sloping hills covered in shrub in the background. Plate from: Dobson, E. Report to the Secretary of Public Works upon the practicability of constructing a bridle path through the gorge of the Otira... In: Canterbury Provincial Council. Proceedings session XXIII, 1865, p [41]-64. Figs. 14-40 (fig. 15 incorrectly numbered 13). (Vol. now discarded). Related pencil sketches (acquired loose in same vol.) held at A-001-012/030. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 90 x 144 mm

Date: [1860s-1880s?]

Reference: PA1-q-166

Description: Scrap book of miscellaneous photographs, many of which have no captions and have not been identified. At the front of the album is an undated newspaper cutting showing the original building used for the Colonial Museum in 1865, which `has been revealed by the pulling down of the Dominion Museum, at the back of Parliament House. For many years this building has been used for a variety of purposes, museum exhibits being housed in adjacent quarters, but it is about to be demolished'. The first group show interior scenes of the Canterbury Museum, with exhibits of bird skeletons, and mounted birds. Other scenes show mounted animals, possibly not in Canterbury. Scenery includes views of the Franz Josef Glacier; and a number which are identified showing the gold-mining area around Ross and Donoghues, the Totara River and Mikonui River. One page has six photographs of mountainous regions in Switzerland; several show the area near the Wellington caves in Queensland, Australia; and two views show the breaking of the Cook Strait Cable. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, maroon spine and corners, entitled `Photographic scrap book'; 30 x 24 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available. Possibly part of a larger collection.

Date: 1875

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook; Fiordland and West Coast views]. 1875

Reference: E-401-089

Description: Looking east up the Otira River Valley, a road to the right, the river to the left, the mountains and Otira Gorge ahead in the background Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two pages of sketchbook, image size 105 x 216 mm.

Date: 1872

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: A-195-001

Description: Shows a man standing on a bridge over a narrow gorge looking down into the river and rocks below. A dog is beside him and tall trees are behind him Dating: The West Coast Road between Canterbury and Westland via Arthurs Pass was completed in 1866. Fox visited the West Coast in February to March 1872, and probably crossed to Canterbury afterwards via Otira Gorge and Arthurs Pass, giving this view a date of late March or early April 1872. Source of title: the watercolour was donated to the Library as showing Otira Gorge. There are no inscriptions on the work. The bridge does not appear to be the same as another bridge in Otira Gorge shown in several other Fox watercolours held by the Library (WC-076, 077,and -078) in the details of the buttressing underneath, the approaches and the nature of the surrounding bush. The view may be of White Bridge over the Bealey River on the east coast side of the Arthur's Pass crossing. The term Otira was widely used in the 1870s and 1880s for the whole pass not just the West Coast side. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 255 x 356 mm

Date: 1893 - 1978

By: Baker, William George, 1864-1929; International Art Centre (Auckland)

Reference: C-083-056

Description: View of the Otira Gorge Proof copies of limited edition of 425 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 350 x 590 mm on sheet 460 x 640 mm

Date: [ca 189-]

By: Reinhold, Gustavus Henry Edward - 1868-1961; Canterbury Museum (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-2119

Description: Midland Railway, West Coast Quantity: 30 photocopy/ies in 1 data book file.