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Date: 1865-1915

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

By: Gungall, Arthur Frederick, 1863?-1927

Reference: PA1-q-1134

Description: News and personal photographs, taken and collected by J L Wilson, featuring North Canterbury 1865-1915, with emphasis on 1893-1898 and 1911-1914. Series include: scenes from Cheviot (including Gore Bay boarding house, Port Robinson landing stage, farm displenishing sale (sheep), Baxton Creek, and Cathedral Bluffs); construction, testing, and opening of Ashley ferro-concrete bridge (with W McIntosh and Governor Islington); Wilson, Oram and Leithead family photographs in New Zealand (Lindean, Beauthorne, and Marston) and South Africa, featuring Christmas holidays, three generations portrait, grandchildren (Josie, Lionel, Bobby, and Alan) and pets (cat Billy Buster, various dogs); Ketches Amelia, Joseph and Emma Sims in Wellington and Kaiapoi, including naming ceremony; collected images of castles and estates in England; scenes from South Africa (Port Elizabeth, Bird Island, indigenous women, bullock train, and British cruiser off Capetown); and Winchester School. Events include Christchurch Agricultural and Pastoral shows of 1912 and 1914 (with J L Wilson and Dr Levenge present), King George V inspecting troops during royal tour, coronation parade at Woodford (including participants in fancy dress), Governor Ranfurly's 1898 visit to Kaiapoi, Silver Wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs R Wylie (Kaiapoi), rifle volunteer camp at Pareora (Timaru), and Victoria Jubilee. Named figures include A G Ashby in his motorcar, Lieutenant-Colonel Cossgrave, R J Alexander and son William, C Treleaven, J Leech and daughter at Brooklands (Rangiora), John O'Halloran, Henry Lauder, R S Bean and family (Ashburton), Thomas [McLeon?], and Jack Hardwick-Smith and teddy bear. Group photographs include: Dr C Nedwill, Captain Tom Bowling, J L Wilson, and shipmates at 'Chariot of Fame' jubilee; Mr Charles Leech (president) with Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Society Committee; Miss Barlow's class at Kaiapoi School (with Leonard Wilson); Mrs J Pattinson of Cumberland, and her eight grandchildren; North Canterbury Ploughing Match Committee at Mr [Peaches'] farm (Ashley); volunteer rifle officers, J H Hayman (superintendent) with Kaiapoi Fire Brigade; and Colonel Lean and officers and Springbank camp. Wedding portraits of Anderson and Scott (Lindean), Henry and Wright, Dr Hardwick-Smith and Friggs, Oram and Wilson (Beauthorne), and Leithead and Wilson (Marston) weddings. Buildings include Junction Hotel (Rangiora), interior of Press Newspaper building (lithographic department and main entrance), Bass residence at Bristol Street (Christchurch), Hansen's building (Australian Mercantile Union Insurance Company, F Gabites, W R Pengelly Tailor and Outfitter, Richards Watchmaker and Jeweller), St John's Church (Rangiora), Mansion House (Cheviot), and W Robinson's residence (Cheviot). Kaiapoi buildings and scenes include Bank of New Zealand, Golf Club pavilion, Emma Matthew's cottage, [Leonard?] Wilson's villa, Anderson's store, Press agency, Borough Council Chambers, Borough School, J Harold Evans' House, Parish Church, suspension bridge, Beswick and Birch's wharf, Kaiapoihia monument, gardens at Beauthorne and Marston, and various streets. Miscellaneous images include picnicking at Birch Hill, wood carvings by Thomas Leech, Waimakariri water supply scheme (Brown's Rock intake and luncheon), George V swimming baths (Rangiora), chickens, Skiddaw, P C Threkeld's prize dairy cows and Leicester ram, Waitangi Falls (Bay of Islands), cooking bullock [hangi?] at Rangiora New Year sports day, Timaru breakwater construction, Otira Gorge, and a Maori woman identified as 'Kaiapoi Maori Queen'. Postcards depict bath house at Hamner Springs, 'Land of the golden fleece', and an illustration of Port Elizabeth. Collected images by named photographers include Mt Egmont (A Gungall). Some hand coloured photographs in album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1896

From: Smith, Maurice Crompton 1864-1963 :[Sketchbook] 1885-1891

Reference: E-393-039

Description: A view on Cheviot Hills Station close to hills possibly including the Hurunui River. Other Titles - South North North East Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title and date in hand of artist Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 137 x 200 mm (page size)

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: 4 Dec 1889-27 Dec 1905

From: Bell, Gully and Company : Records

Reference: MSX-2141

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).

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: 1870 - 1900

By: Deverell, Walter, 1853?-1920

Reference: D-018-005

Description: Flax in left foreground, broad plains with sunset in distance. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, hand-coloured 330 x 690 mm

Date: 1899

By: Bowring, Walter Armiger, 1874-1931; Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: B-094-013

Description: Caricature and full-length portrait of William Rolleston, Superintendant of Canterbury, with a farmer and a sheep tucked under one arm and the Cheviot Railway in the background Published as: supplement to the Weekly Press, May 31 1899 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 452 x 288 mm

Date: 27 Jun 1912-25 Sep 1919

From: Bell, Gully and Company : Records

Reference: MSX-2139

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 11 Oct 1889-13 Apr 1893

From: Bell, Gully and Company : Records

Reference: MSX-2142

Date: 20 Jan 1908-25 Jun 1912

From: Bell, Gully and Company : Records

Reference: MSX-2138

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 7 Jan 1902-18 Jan 1908

From: Bell, Gully and Company : Records

Reference: MSX-2137

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: n d

From: CORSO : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1675-12/31B

Description: Includes files for Cambridge, Cheviot and Christchurch Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1880-1889

By: F Bradley & Company; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA1-o-497

Description: Album of photographs compiled ca 1880s, from print published by F Bradley & Co, of Christchurch. Comprises views of Shag Rock, Timaru, Christchurch, Bealey, Greymouth, Oamaru, Rangitata River bridge, Dunedin, Taupo, Waimakariri River bridge, Governor's Bay, Kaiapoi, Arthur's Pass, Kawau Island, Cheviot, Akaroa Harbour, Alfred Falls, the Pink Terrace, White Island, Otira Gorge, Pigeon Bay, gold mining at Thames, Nelson, Heathcote River, the cable car across the Taramakau River, Sumner, and Tamatekapua meeting house at Ohinemutu. Also included are carte de visite portraits of Maori. Among the photographers whose work is shown are Herbert Deveril and Daniel Louis Mundy. Each photograph has a printed inscription attached on the back of the page. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 25 x 32 cm

Date: [188-?]

By: Seaton, Mary, 1889-1967

Reference: PA1-o-460

Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand (pages 1-10), Australia, Egypt, Europe and Canada taken by unidentified photographers circa 1880s. The New Zealand scenes are mostly in the South Island, including the Bealey, Cheviot Hills Station, the flying fox across the Teremakau [i.e. Taramakau] River, the Canterbury Plains, Governor's Bay and Timaru. One view shows two men in a logging camp; two views of the North Island show Muemutu [i.e. Ohinemutu], and Russell's Gold Battery at Taruru Creek. Australian scenes include a group of New Caledonian Kanaka with their "humpies" (thatched dwellings) at Bundaberg in Queensland; and one of the Wombat Ranges "the haunt of the Kelly gang". Several photographs of Egypt include views of Port Said, the Suez Canal, camels, Egyptians, and early ruins. Canadian images include Port Levis taken from across the St Lawrence River, and views of the Niagara and Montmorency Falls both in summer and in winter. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured dark blue cover, black corners an spine, entitled "Scrapbook" on spine; 23.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: 31 Mar 1952

From: NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd: Mosaic aerial negatives, prints, transparencies, and index

Reference: NZAM-D/052-F

Description: Aerial mosaic made by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd in 1952 showing farmland with named paddocks Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - N141 F8 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, approx 59.4 x 84.1 cm (A1 size), 10 chains to 1 inch

Date: 2006-2007

From: La Plante, Steven, fl 2001-2015: Photographs of war memorials

Reference: PAColl-10421-07

Description: Photographic prints showing war memorials for WWI and WWII, in various localities in the South Island. Quantity: 52 b&w original photographic print(s) (Resin coated silver gelatin prints).

Date: 1962 - 1969

From: [Ephemera up to octavo size, relating to botany, botanical species and specimens, in New Zealand]

By: New Zealand Forest Service

Reference: Eph-A-BOTANY-1960s-01

Description: Pamphlet lists 26 significant trees of the species fir, copper beech, blackwood, gingko, macrocarpa, monket puzzle, kauri, oak, weeping lime, plane, ponderosa pine, sequoia, alder, weeping willows from St Helena, Norway spruce, cabbage tree, incense cedar, most to be found in Christchurch, but some in Cheviot, Homebush Station, Balmoral, Hanmer. The cabbage tree at Burnside High School is mentioned. The tree most recently planted is the oak planted by Lord Cobham in North Hagley Park in 1962 before his return to Britain. The front cover shows a photograph of the monkey puzzle tree in Christchurch Botanical Gardens. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on pamphlet folded to 208 x 132 mm.

Date: 1889-1909

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

By: Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-q-1137

Description: News and personal photographs, taken and collected by J L Wilson, featuring North Canterbury 1889-1909, with an emphasis on 1901-1903. Series include: Wilson family portraits of Joseph Lowthian, his wife, son Leonard, daughter Estelle, and mother-in-law Mrs Emma Matthews; various views of Highfield Annan settlement land (including Wandle Valley, farmland) with land ballot at Waiau and Canterbury Land Board meeting relating to settlement; Maori performance group (kapa haka) and various unidentified portraits and group images; opening of the Kaiapoi Swimming Baths with Mayor J Daly and Premiere Richard Seddon; re-opening of Ashley Gorge bridge (between Glentui and Oxford); inspection of North Canterbury Volunteer Mounted Rifles by Colonel Porter [Woodend?], with officers including Captain R W Chaffey and Lieutenant Horne; flooding in Rangiora and Waverley; views of Hamner Springs; Kaiapoi railway station buildings (built 1872 and 1904 respectively) and trains, with J Ward opening new station; massed school display at Lancaster Park, with cadet competition and girls' drill; and Governor Lord Plunket (and Lady Plunket) visiting Kaiapoi and Tuahiwi. Events include general election at Tuahiwi schoolhouse, fire at Hobday's Drapery (Christchurch), Lady Stewart and A W Rutherford opening track at Conical Hill (Hamner), reception for General Booth at Cathedral Square (Christchurch), Amuri sheep sale (Culverden), Amberley South African War Troopers Memorial unveiling (with Sergeant Turner), J Ward laying foundation of Kaiapoi Post Office, Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Show, sheep sale at Rangiora, Mrs Harrison Lee addressing temperance rally at Junction Hotel (Rangiora), and Rangiora New Year's Day sports meeting with crosscut sawing event. Named figures include Charles Luger of West Oxford (with goat), Mr Thomas Leech of Brooklands (with woodcarvings), and G H Blackwell. Group photographs include Brown and Alexander wedding at Riverside, Mr Smith's family of nineteen (Oxford), Claire Parham's wedding party, Kaiapoi Men's Hockey Team in fancy dress (cross-dressing), and Leithead and Blackwell family members at Main Drain. Buildings include Jollie's Pass Hotel (Hamner Springs), R Evans' flour mill (Ohoka), Kaiapoi Borough School, John Sims residence (Kaiapoi), Tuahiwi Town Hall, Waverley Railway Station, Hamner Post Office, Hamner Plains Sanatorium, Blencowe Grammar School (Cumberland, England, 1859), Marston (Kaiapoi), and Cheviot Post Office. Interior of Wanganui Museum (featuring [whale?] skeleton) and Christchurch Cathedral. Miscellaneous images include various coach scenes, Paterson's Creek rail bridge (Otorama), sheep dipping in the high country, first grave and early working-man's cottage (Rangiora), scenic images of farmland and mountains in Canterbury Region, sheep at R W Chapman's estate (Lowland Leas), trees planted by J L Wilson and Inspector Buckley at post office site, cliffs at Summerhill, Waimakariri Water Supply (Brown Rock intake), shingle being carted to Main Drain (Skew Bridge, Flaxton), triumphant arc on Kaiapoi Bridge (coronation of Edward VII), Hereford Street (Christchurch), swans gifted to Kaiapoi Domain by Glenmark Station, R Evans' wheat crop at Clifton (Waikari), Waimakariri Gorge railway and dray bridge, entrance to Riccarton Racecourse, crowd in Runanga Hall courtyard (Tuahiwi), HMS 'Powerful' and HMS 'Challenger' docked at Lyttelton, and riverside camping and the bluff at Cheviot. Collected images by named photographers include Maori portraits and objects by Charles Spencer. Album includes cyanotype of Richard Seddon and a group of unidentified men. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: Aug 1960

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-54088

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic negative

Date: 1880s-1920s

By: Morrison, Michael, active 20th century; Morrison, Delia, active 20th century

Reference: PAColl-10496

Description: Seven photographic prints taken between circa 1880s and circa 1920s, by a range of photographers. Comprises: - An image of the 'Cheviot football team' with a church in the background, taken by Rentoul, of Cheviot. - A group portrait of two women, two men, and a boy, with a wooden building in the background, possibly a school. Taken by S. Collins of Dunedin. - An image of a soldier in uniform. Inscription on the back reads: "The late Sergeant R. A. Fleming C. Y. C. Killed in action Aug 6th/15 Waldens Knob Gallipoli in his 25th year. To Mr M. Morrison, View Hill, Oxford. From R. Fleming 'Lowland Leas' Fernside". - A photographic postcard of the Waiau Butchery, including five men outside the shop, one on a horse, and one man on a cart with horse, and a dog. Four of the men are dressed in butcher's aprons. - An image of the Dominican Convent, Oamaru. Aotearoa Series. N102. Inscription reads "Wishing you a sale a day, Audy". - An image of five young people in fancy dress. One boy is dressed as a boy scout, two girls are in European dress, and two are dressed in Japanese style dress (kimono with fans). One girl is holding a ribbon on a pole which reads "Weldon's Fashions". - An image of a baby sitting on a woven chair with inscription on the back which reads "Ted Burgess, Cheviot". Michael and Delia Morrison were farmers and stock agents of Cheviot, North Canterbury, New Zealand. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Six mounted photographic prints, and one photogaphic postcard.