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Date: [Circa 1906 to 1909]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, Charles Tenison, active 1906-1910

Reference: PA1-o-456

Description: Photographs of the West Coast, Christchurch and Dunedin taken by Charles Tenison Salmon, circa 1906 to 1909. Two photographs show unidentified children; a small boy wearing a sunhat, shorts and a jacket and socks and shoes playing with a toy boat at the edge of a stream (p 6); and a young girl wearing a dress, socks and shoes, and a lacy hat (p 23). A number of images show native clematis flowering in the Otira Gorge; and several show wild coastal scenes in the Dunedin area. Other - Negatives are held of these images Inscriptions: Album page - Photographs taken by Charles T. Salmon, about 1906-1909 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 19.5 x 26.5 cm

Date: [1890s-1900s?]

From: Angus, Robert K, fl 1964 :New Zealand photograph albums

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-019

Description: Album with [18] pages of images of the Otira Gorge area and the West Coast. Includes views of Bealey Hotel, Porter's Pass, Otira Gorge, the wire ropeway with cage across the Teremakau River, the Grey-Kumara tramway, native bush on the West Coast, horse and buggy under Hawks Crag on the Buller Gorge road, Arthur's pass. Most of the photographs are taken by James Ring, and are inscribed with title, photographer's initials, and photographer's number. Five images have no inscriptions, and the final one was taken by the Burton Brothers. Pages 1-17 and 21 have photographs inserted, pages 18-20 are blank. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 175 x 255 mm brown buckram

Date: 1865

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-074

Description: Topographical map indicating places north to south on the West Coast between Potikohua and Te Oma Matu (in the north) and Grey River (Mawera) (in the south). Also Lake Brunner, Lake Ponerua (Poerua), Taramakau River, and the source of the Tutaikuri (Tutaekuri). In two sections numbered 17 & 18. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on sheet, 170 x 250 mm.

Date: 1961

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Gough, Robert Philip, 1910-1988; R E Owen (Firm)

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-4/20/268/Acc.54954

Description: New Zealand Cadastral Map - Kumara - NZMS 177 Sheet S 51. Published by the Department of Lands and Survey, New Zealand, under the authority of R P Gough, Surveyor General. Printed by R E Owen, Government Printer, Wellington. Manuscript annotations include additional place names inscribed in red ink with references to Government Gazette with year and page number. Also features place names added in black ink without Gazette references. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Printed map on linen-backed paper, with ms annotations, scale 1:63,360 (1 inch to 1 mile), 59 x 74 cm

Date: 1961

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Gough, Robert Philip, 1910-1988; R E Owen (Firm)

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-4/20/269/Acc.54955

Description: New Zealand Cadastral Map - Harper Pass - NZMS 177 Sheet S 52. Published by the Department of Lands and Survey, New Zealand, under the authority of R P Gough, Surveyor General. Printed by R E Owen, Government Printer, Wellington. Manuscript annotations include additional place names inscribed in red ink with references to Government Gazette with year and page number. Other annotations in blue and black ink. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Printed map on linen-backed paper, with ms annotations, scale 1:63,360 (1 inch to 1 mile), 59 x 74 cm

Date: 1863

By: Lauper, Jakob, 1815-1891

Reference: MS-Papers-0348

Description: Account of his journey, as guide for John Henry Whitcombe, from the headwaters of the Rakaia River across the Southern Alps to the mouth of the Taramakau River, near Kumara. Whitcombe was working on contract for the Canterbury Provincial Government and drown during the expedition. Also, holograph notes by William Young of Lauper's and Whitcombe's exploration. A typescript copy is at qMS-2304 Publication - Published as: Over the Whitcombe Pass: the narrative of Jakob Lauper, reprinted from the Canterbury Provincial Gazette, 6 July 1863 (Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd, 1960), edited by John Pascoe Accompanying material - Photocopy of death certificate in folder and carbon copy of a letter to donor from the Librarian Source of title - Transcribed from item Other Titles - Translated as `Draft report of the expedition and death of Mr Withcomb' Swiss mountaineer, guide and lighthouse keeper Quantity: 1 folder(s) (36 pp; 11 pp). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Processing information: Transferred from Misc MS G4 & N6, Jun 1969

Date: 1846

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-048-025

Description: Looking south along the coastline of the West Coast, showing travellers fording the mouth of the Taramakau River, and Mount Cook, its height exaggerated, amongst the Southern Alps By the same hand as A-048-026: [Taupo Lake]. Corresponds closely to the chromolithograph in: Hochstetter, F. von. New Zealand, its physical geography. Stuttgart, 1867, p. 38, entitled: The Southern Alps ... Ch. Heaphy del. A. Meerman sc. The chromolithograph has slightly more details, suggesting that this is a comtemporary careful copy. The Heaphy drawing on which it is based was done in 1846. Other Titles - New Zealand, its physical geography Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, image, 113 x 182 mm

Date: Between 1860 and 1870

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-039

Description: Photographs of New Zealand, both North and South Islands, taken by Daniel Mundy between 1860 and 1870. 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 views include a number in the Thames goldfields, with scenes of gold batteries, miners' huts, and a tramway. Mundy includes two rivers which are now differently named, the Tekihe River [i.e. Taheke River], and Tiremakau River [i.e. Taramakau River]. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover; spine title "New Zealand scenery, 1860-80. Mundy. 4638-4685"