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Date: 1875 - 1885

From: Various artists :[Watercolour and pencil drawings by members of the Lysaght and Stowe families. ca 1870-1930]

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: B-190-020-1/2

Description: On the recto, a view across the Lysaght farm at Mokoia, featuring a hillock with a single cabbage tree. On the verso, another watercolour, most likely also of the Mokoia farm, showing a native tree at the foot of a small hill. A tree stump can be seen either side of the tree Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Cabbage Tree Hill Mokoia [in pencil] Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on two sides of sheet, 228 x 293 mm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Nairn, Eric Wright, 1880-1925

Reference: Pan-1430-F

Description: Panoramic view taken from behind the homestead. Hills sloping down from the right with a creek running down to left foreground. Cabbage trees in gullys, sheep grazing on hillside paddocks. Water tanks up the hill far right. Roof of homestead and small farm building partially hidden by trees on the far left. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] E.W. Nairn. Waipawa. 3 15 normal 3; Marginal notes on negative - 1 1 1 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 112.0 cm

Date: [Circa 1870s and 1880s]

From: Nairn, Douglas, fl 1973 :Photographs of New Zealand and Fiji

By: (W N) Tuttle & Company; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Hart, Campbell & Company; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland)

Reference: PA1-o-359

Description: Photographs of New Zealand, taken by various photographers. Some are unidentified, but many are taken by the Burton Brothers, J V (James Valentine), Tuttle & Co, for Simpson & Co., and Hart, Campbell & Co. In the North Island, a large number of photographs show the area around Mount Tarawera before and after the volcanic eruption in 1886. There are a number showing the huge deposits of mud and ash which covered the area, with views of the landscape and of ruined buildings, followed by scenes of the Pink and White Terraces, before the eruption. On page 8, there is a view of Ranana (London), on the Wanganui River with the caption, "Maori village similar to those overwhelmed by the eruption". Other scenes in the North Island were taken in Auckland City, Ohinemutu, Rotokakahi, and Whakarewarewa, Ti Eke [i.e. Tieke] on the Wanganui River, and one of Wellington City taken from Mount Victoria. South Island views include many around the main lakes, including Wakatipu, Wanaka, Manapouri, Queenstown and Hawea; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; the Otira Gorge; Kawarau Gorge and Bridge; Oamaru; Port Chalmers; and Dunedin. Views of gold mining areas in Otago include excavation sluiced out by hydrants at St Bathans, and the miners' towns of Naseby with the river choked with tailings, and Nokomai. Portraits of Maori including Ana Rupene. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with marron leather binding covered with waxed brown-paper cover, entitled `New Zealand photographs, [E?] Nairn'; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: February 22 - 25, 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8790

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides were taken earlier than those on some of the preceding sheets. (Information from his diary). The first image shows a typical mountain sheep station scene; the next seven images show aspects of the Winchmore Irrigation Research Station, including irrigation canals, a feeder canal, a "dam", treated and untreated fence posts, sheep in a grazing plot, and the inside of one of the laboratories. From there Williams travelled to Ashburton with views from the bus, coming into town; the Ashburton Domain showing the Florence Nightingale Memorial, a sequoia tree, cabbage trees, and large beds of zinnias. Further views from the bus were taken between Ashburton and Nelson. In the Nelson area there are views of the Nelson Cathedral, a huge pumpkin patch, tobacco growing and hop vines. Slides on this sheet are numbered 457 to 480, with one gap where no. 476 was removed for lectures on New Zealand. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slide (no. 476) showing the Early Settlers' Monument in Nelson, which he took as part of a representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Hodgkins family including William Mathew Hodgkins :[Sketchbook and scrapbook, 1880s]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-038-q-2-020

Description: Four connected vignettes showing three views of an Otago lake, probably Lake Wakatipu with The Remarkables, and a man on horseback traversing a path through a mountain valley, with sheep on one hillside. Two views include cabbage trees, one a yacht Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 205 x 151 mm. Loose in sketchbook

Date: 1958 to 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8810

Description: Transparency slides of New Zealand selected by Mr Williams as a representative collection to be used in a series of lectures on his return to England. This group includes both slides Mr Williams took himself, and slides he purchased. This sheet shows a sheep drover on horseback with a pack horse and two dogs herding a flock of sheep near Gisborne; a woman sitting on a tree stump overlooking Lake Taupo and the mountains; fumarole vents near Lake Taupo; the Chateau Tongariro on Mount Ruapehu; a man standing beside the Crater Lake on Ruapehu; Mount Ngauruhoe; a garden in New Plymouth; a distant view of the house "Tupare" near new Plymouth; Mount Egmont; views on the road to Tokaora; railway line running through the centre of Palmerston North; the Manawatu Gorge; a street in Masterton; the Wairarapa plains and sheep farms; a stand of cabbage trees; dry riverbed of the Putangirua River en route to the Putangirua Pinnacles, and a view of the Pinnacles. The slides are not in his original numerical sequence, and are selected by subject relating to particular talks. Arrangement: These slides were selected by Mr Williams from his original sequence to create a representative collection of New Zealand images which he used in illustrated lectures on his return to England. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1863

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903

Reference: A-247-022

Description: View across a plain towards distant hills and faintly indicated mountains. A farm fence is in the foreground, cabbage trees frame the view and small clumps of cabbage trees are dotted on the plain, along with sheep. Warrengate is a small settlement south of Fordell Inscriptions: Recto - title, date and artist's name in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 180 x 230 mm Provenance: Purchased 1970 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Taylor-Harper papers, MS-Papers-0254.

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Trapp, H H, active 1983

Reference: B-062-022

Description: Possibly shows Blue Range (a spur of the Tararuas) seen from Upper Plain ; sheep, with fence in middle ground. (identified by A G Bagnall 4/7/1983) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour ; image 211 x 313 mm on sheet 340 x 460 mm

Date: 1881

From: Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Smith, John Stace, active 1880

Reference: PA1-f-186

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).