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Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925

Reference: A-104-048-a

Description: Shows cattle and horses grazing, farm buildings, a man on horseback at the left, and a carriage with horses at the right. There is bush on the hills, and mountains in background. See Ellis, E M. Early prints of N.Z. 1642-1875. Christchurch 1977 p. 192-193 Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - (On printed label): [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 210 x 300 mm

Date: 1896 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-056

Description: A rural scene, possibly at Port Underwood, showing cattle grazing on the property of Mr A Hutt Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Underwood; Recto - beneath image - fields of Mr A Hutt. Underwood Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 (page size)

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: 1883

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: A-113-008

Description: Shows cows grazing in a fenced paddock, a homestead and farm buildings and a haystack in background Note on back: Timaru somewhere, I think. Possibly the work of Mary Grace Caroline Lysaght. The style is similar to hers and the handwriting may also be hers. Her sister, Annie Lysaght married Thomas Henry Wigley of Opuha Station, South Canterbury, in 1879. Mary Lysaght visited her sister in the early 1880s, and made other watercolours of the area. Other Titles - Timaru somewhere I think [Mary Grace Caroline Lysaght] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - date in brushpoint. On verso, in ink 'Timaru somewhere, I think' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 108 x 349 mm

Date: 1890

By: Gibb, William Menzies, 1859-1931

Reference: G-541

Description: Shows three head of cattle standing in a small field beyond the foreground stream. A tree in the foreground leans against one of the wooden picket fences, and there is a hut or stable beyond the cattle. The spire of a church in the middle distance is possibly St Mary's Merivale. Title from back Inscriptions: Signed: W. Menzies-Gibb Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil painting on canvas 356 x 500 mm

Date: ca 1950s-1960s

By: Robin Smith Photography Ltd

Reference: PAColl-0530

Description: Set of photographs of work and leisure in New Zealand, the majority of cattle and sheep mustering and skiing but including a woman water skiing, a woman painting a vase of flowers in oils, a Maori man carving wood, portraits of individual Maori, a procedure in the wine making process, men in the oyster fishing industry, a woman testing eggs, a man looking up at a tree with a chain saw etc. Photographer was Robin Smith. Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1925

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Judson, Richard E, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-2312-F

Description: Panoramic view showing a single-storeyed wooden farmhouse centre left. Garden furniture and pot plants are seen on a verandah at the front entrance, pergola over the path with climbing roses by the front door. Shrubs and flower beds around the lawn and around the base of the house. An unidentified man (possibly Mr Judson) is standing in a paddock with a herd of cattle on the far right. Paddocks up to the foothills on the right, hills partly bush-clad and partly snow-capped in the background on the right. River valley and river flats on the far left. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Glencoe" 1925; Marginal notes on negative - R.E. Judson "Glencoe" 1925 Oxford. 2 B&W; Marginal notes on negative - 12 12 12 12 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 115.4 cm

Date: 1906

From: Howorth, Charles Henry, 1856-1945 :Wolds Station, McKenzie Plains. 25/2/06; Puketeraki. 6/3/06.

Reference: A-128-028-1

Description: A watercolour showing cattle grazing in a high-country field with a homestead at the base of a low rise in the middle distance. There are blue mountains in the distance. On one side of sheet; other side has: Puketeraki 6/3/06. At the time the painting was done, William Grant was owner of The Wolds Station. Other Titles - 1906 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 180 x 261 mm.

Date: 1859

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-029-034

Description: Shows a general view of a broad river valley with cows grazing in the left middle distance. The river flows towards the right foreground, and a loaded bullock cart drives off to the right, having forded it. The buildings of the station are seen in the right distance. Clent Hills are near Lake Heron in the Ashburton district. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 260 x 370 mm

Date: 1862

Reference: A-219-007

Description: A view from flat land of the Puketeraki Range, its highest peak noted as Mount Pember. Dense native forest covers the lower slops. A track is marked winding up the right-hand peak Other Titles - Puketeraki Range Inscriptions: Signed: W.S.; Inscribed in ink: Track over this range into the Poulter and Esk Rivers. Plenty of wild cattle. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 220 x 290 mm Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts section from 'McEnnis, 1937' [not traced], 12 April 1978.

Date: [Between 1934 and 1938]

By: New Zealand Railways; Blaikie, William Nicol, -1938; Matthews, Marmaduke, 1885?-1949

Reference: PA1-f-060

Description: Album of publicity photographs, chiefly taken by unidentified photographers in the 1930s. Many are photographs of posters, artwork and advertisements, all emphasising the beauty of New Zealand, and how easy it is to travel through the country by rail, and by the New Zealand Railways bus and ferry services. Some of the artwork was done by Stanley Davis (one photograph shows the funeral of S. Davis, with the hearse parked outside the funeral parlour in Kent Terrace, Wellington); and by Marmaduke Matthews. (On page 53 there is a photograph of a black and white sketch of Victoria University College, by Marmaduke Matthews). There is a photograph also of the painting of Sir Ernest Rutherford, by Oswald Birley. Photographs of places include a sequence showing the Dominion Museum and Art Gallery in Wellington, with an exterior view with the Carillon, and interior views of museum exhibits, art gallery spaces (including one room containing the Murray Fuller Exhibition of Contemporary British Art), and the tea-rooms. Several views show the exterior and interior of the Alexander Turnbull Library, with Clyde Taylor the librarian in two scenes seated at his desk, and one of a reader in the reading room. Another sequence shows horses, sheep and bulls being readied for transportation by ferry. Two group portraits are associated with the Empire Games, one entitled `Empire athletes', and the other showing cyclist Roy Taylor with a group. Other group portraits are not identified, though one is entitled `Staff Xmas party 1937'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous 6'; 41 x 58 cm

Date: [1900s-1910s]

From: Warburton, Edward Darien :Photograph albums

Reference: PAColl-9575

Description: Loose photographs from albums PA1-o-1601 and PA1-o-1602. Includes photographs of Canterbury Agricultural College, Great War, Arthurs Pass railway, school boys and family pictures. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera.

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-022460-F

Description: A bullock team hauling a wagon full of wool bales through Cheviot, Canterbury. Photograph taken by Wheeler & Son, circa 1880s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Wool Waggon. Cheviot. Wheeler & Son, ChCh Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1866

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902

Reference: C-160-004

Description: Shows Leslie Hills Station in the Hurunui district, being the sheep and cattle station of George Rutherford. The single storey verandahed homestead with circular carriage drive, is placed on the gentle slope of a small hill, with neatly fenced fields and outbuildings to the left and right. At the left is a group of six conical haystacks. Several horses feed from a covered feed trough at the left. In the centre a horseman meets with a carriage drawn by two horses, one black and one white. In the far right foreground a group of longhorned cattle is grazing, and beyond, a figure is training two horses. A dark cloud at top left, brings a fleeting shower, but most of the farm basks in sunshine. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - N Chevalier 1866 Chevalier was employed by the Otago and Canterbury City Councils to make sketches of the regions, and travelled extensively throughout New Zealand over a period of eight months. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 530 mm Provenance: Previously sold at Christies South Kensington London, May 1989, lot 175. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1877

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The illustrations by C. D. Barraud. Edited by W. T. L. Travers. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877

By: Blatchley, W D, active 1877-1898; Picken, T (Mr), active 1870s; Kell, C F, active 1877

Reference: PUBL-0016-26

Description: Shows a general view of the river with bare mountains in the background. In the foreground a man on horseback and a standing figure meet on a road which slopes downhill, through trees. A group of cattle graze in a field in the left middle distance. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 251 x 353 mm

Date: 1868 - 1870

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-040

Description: Shows a partial view of the harbour, a rich turquoise, from a rutted dirt road in the foreground, through vegetation. Across the harbour, the hills of Wainui are in the background. A red-brown cow grazes beyond the road in the foreground Probably painted around the end of the 1860s. The artist is known to have been in the vicinity after the wreck of the ketch (probably the "Crest") in 1868 - his picture of Akaroa Heads is dated 1869. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 125 x 167 mm.

Date: 1861 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-004

Description: Shows dog(?) and cattle in river at right, high rolling country with flax and cabbage trees, and the mountains near the Rakaia Gorge in the distance. Hurt farmed near the Selwyn River from about 1861. He was listed in the Rakaia electorate for 1872-73. Other Titles - Rakaia Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 139 x 214 mm.

Date: ca 1890s

Reference: 1/2-004675-G

Description: Unidentified men and women watch a team of bullocks resting outside the Hermitage, Mount Cook. Taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1890s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - "The Hermitage" 2500 feet. Mode of conveying stores - team of 12 bullocks Note on back of file print reads: Team of bullocks which were used for bringing stores, in front of hermitage, ca 1890s Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: 1861 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-008

Description: Shows cattle and a packhorse at right, walking on grassland beside lake. At left is a bush-covered hill, and there are mountains in the background. May actually be Lake Taylor, rather than Lake Sheppard. Hurt farmed near the Selwyn River from about 1861. He was listed in the Rakaia electorate for 1872-73. Other Titles - Sheppard. Lake Taylor Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 126 x 180 mm.

Date: 1857 - 1870

Reference: A-253-037

Description: Shows scattering of buildings against background of bare land and hillside. Buildings include: wooden cottage with two doors and three windows along front; smaller cottage to the left, with two windows and one door, and another building partly obscured behind these. In right foreground is a low-walled garden, and a gibbet with carcass hanging, beside small hut. In right background is a large shed. Appears to be a picture of an early stage of development at the station, which was first settled by Alexander Lean in 1857, and bought by Hugh Percy Murray Aynsley in the mid-1860s. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Embossed paper mark at bottom right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink, 114 x 184 mm.