Places

Date: 18 January 1899

By: Burgess, William Frederick, 1856-1920

Reference: A-089-010

Description: A woman in a horse and cart in the foreground, a flat plain bisected by an eroded river valley, with a small house on a river flat area. Stockyards in the distance at the base of hills. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - signature; Verso - title and date Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone watercolour 9 x 13.5 inches

Date: [Circa 1890s-1900s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Skeen & Co.; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: Pa1-o-517

Description: Album of photographs taken by various photographers many of whom are unidentified. Photographs are seen on pages 1-31, with pages 32-50 unused. Colombo is shown in the first part of the album, and includes street scenes, the "Old Colombo Lighthouse", the Galle Face Hotel(?), views of outrigger fishing canoes, carts drawn by humped cattle, "padda" boats on a canal, and a group of young Sri Lankan women. The second part of the album contains views of New Zealand, chiefly in the thermal regions with views of Ohinemutu, Hamurana Springs, the Poutuhu Geyser, Waimangu Geyser, the "Fairy bath" at Okoroire and the "Okoroire Natural Bridge Rapids". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, darker red corners and spine; 24.0 x 31.5 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: 1893

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-o-550-34-1

Description: Original caption reads: "Women vote at their first election, Tahakopa". Shows a horse drawn carriage, and an unidentified group of men and women standing by the entrance to a building. Taken in 1893, by an unidentified photographer. Note on back of file print reads: "Bruce Herald, No 24, 1893 published Polling Places for Electoral District of Clutha. No 6: Dabinett and Young's store, Tauhuokupu. [sic]." Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Women vote at their first election at Takakopa Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 11.2 x 15.2 cm, on album page 24.2 x 17.5 cm

Date: 1890

From: Hill, Mabel 1872-1956 :[Sketchbook]

Reference: E-514-034

Description: Two views in the centre of a short fat soldier marching, his rifle over his left shoulder, titled 'One of our gallant defenders'; another of a similarly armed policeman in helmet and cape. At the bottom left of the page a drawing of a short stout woman holding a bag and an umbrella. At the bottom right 'how we went to the review' shows two women in a cart with a groom with a whip. The sketches appear to relate to a public military review Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title in pencil; also title in centre Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on page of sketchbook, 132 x 182 mm.

Date: ca 1908

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001735-G

Description: Delivering mail, Te Rauamoa, circa 1908, photographed by William Archer Price. Shows a horse drawn carriage on a road and a group of men and women. One of the women holds a mail bag. A dog lies under the carriage. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Delivering mail Te Rauamoa NZ 2033 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1866

By: Liardet, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn, 1799-1878

Reference: B-035-018

Description: Flax and toitoi in the foreground, a group of Pakeha and Maori to the right, the Tuamarina Hotel with verandah and a shed in the middle ground, the Picton-Blenheim road with horse-drawn carriage, telegraph poles alongside and the hill with a monument where the Wairau Affray occurred in 1843 Liardet painted two copies of this scene. The Library holds an almost identical watercolour at C-030-017 Liardet was passing through Tuamarina to investigate iron sand deposits in the Nelson area when he painted this view. Quantity: 1 photograph(s) black & white. Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour 240 x 350 mm Provenance: Cowan left the painting with the Rutherford family at Canvastown and when their possessions were dispersed, an aunt of the owner bought the picture, said to be an "oil and watercolour with Indian Ink" [i.e. probably watercolour with Indian ink, possibly with gum arabic]. Information from the donor of the photograph, Tuamarina, 11.7.1955

Date: 1866 - 1868

By: Liardet, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn, 1799-1878

Reference: C-030-017

Description: Flax and toitoi in the foreground, a group of Pakeha and Maori to the right, the Tuamarina Hotel with verandah and a shed in the middle ground, the Picton-Blenheim road with horse-drawn carriage, telegraph poles alongside and the hill with a monument where the Wairau Affray occurred in 1843 Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. The monument to the victims of the Wairau Affray was unveiled in March 1866. This watercolour may show part of the unveiling ceremony Liardet painted two copies of this scene. A photograph of a privately-owned oil and watercolour is held at B-035-018 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 305 x 480 mm

Date: 1857 - 1859

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-170

Description: Three women standing on Mulgrave Street, with the harbour as a background and Mt Victoria and Te Aro in the distance. A horse and cart are on the right, in front of a building belonging to a plumber named Warcup, and the Thistle Inn is beyond, closer to the shore. Quantity: 1 photograph(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Photograph, 102 x 123 mm