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Date: [1890s-1900s]

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: PAColl-D-0185

Description: Photograph of the Gear Meat Company, Petone looking south to Somes Island. Photographer unidentified; date possibly 1890s or early 1900s. A closer view of image at PAColl-D-0162 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 320 x 570 mm with mount

Date: 1874

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

By: Lister, Samuel, 1832?-1913

Reference: Eph-B-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-1874-01

Description: Includes illustrations of elevations and plans of cottages, sashes and window frames, mantlepieces, mouldings, railings, and fences, counters, turnery. Quantity: 1 sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Letterpress, 25 pages, 277 x 205 mm.

Date: [187-?]

By: Nicholas Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-9698

Description: View of Woodlands, Longbush, Southland, taken 1870s by Nicholas Brothers of Riverton and Invercargill. Shows factories. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Nicholas Bros Photo; Mount recto - beneath image - Woodlands, Longbush, Otago, New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.4 x 20.8 cm, on mount 24.9 x 30.9 cm

Date: 1895 - 1910

From: Various artists :[Two New Zealand autograph albums including watercolour landscapes of Auckland. ca 1895 - 1896]

Reference: E-894-039

Description: Watercolour shows a view looking across a harbour, with wharves and smoking industrial chimneys on the near right shore. Across the water, are houses on a peninsular, and in the distance is a high hill. The view may be across Auckland Harbour towards the North Head and Rangitoto Island. Extended Title - In Writing album [New Zealand autograph album, ca 1895], page [39] (loose) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on album page, 225 x 180 mm.

Date: Between 1873 and 1880

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-45-13

Description: Photograph of Mechanics Bay looking seaward probably taken in the 1870s by Herbert Deveril of Wellington. Another print of this image is at PA7-45-12. It is unclear from which print the copy negative is taken. Inscriptions: Mount verso - centre - Akld Mech. bay Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 260 x 341 mm

Date: 1880 - 1895

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :Sketchbook. ca 1880-1895.

Reference: E-594-029

Description: Shows two men standing at a table where containers are filled by machine nozzles. At the left, a man lowers or lefts a heavy object above a vat, using a pulley. Extended Title - From his Sketchbook, 1880-1895. Page 29. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and wash drawings, on page, 182 x 270 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Bill Power, grandson of the artist, via Dunbar Sloane, Auckland, in July 2001.

Date: 1885 - 1895

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, one sketch dated 1864, one 1893]

Reference: E-014-q-1-032-1

Description: A view probably across Otago Harbour with two smoking chimneys at the foot of hills. Partial drawings of figures and men's heads in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and crayon on paper, 134 x 135 mm, glued to larger page on left

Date: 1886

By: Woodville Examiner (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-B-FOOD-1886-01

Description: Certificate with printing block border. At lower right is a rubber stamp of the Woodville Cheese & Bacon Factory Company Limited, being of a horizontal oval shape with the central image of a cow. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, ink holograph and rubber stampmark on sheet, 207 x 264 mm.

Date: 1880 - 1895

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :Sketchbook. ca 1880-1895.

Reference: E-594-031

Description: Shows three men seated and standing at a bench where cans are processed. Extended Title - From his Sketchbook, 1880-1895. Page 31. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil drawing, on page, 182 x 270 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Bill Power, grandson of the artist, via Dunbar Sloane, Auckland, in July 2001.

Date: 1894-1899

From: Jenkin, Robert :Albums of photographs by Arthur Jenkin, ca 1895-1898

By: Jenkin, Arthur, active 1890s

Reference: PA1-o-1048

Description: Opens with Queenstown and Dunedin, and closes with the SS Rotorua in George Sound and Mitre Peak, Milford Sound. But most of the rest of the album relates to the Auckland region. There is a strong emphasis on Piha its coastal features like Lion Rock, and on groups of mainly men who went there on camping, hunting and fishing weekends or holidays. There is also one image of a group of surveyors and their camp at Piha dated 1894. Many images record social outings and picnics, especially at Northcote. These include both men and women dressed up for the occasion. There is a goup image of the St James Football Club dressed for the game dated 1895. Two photographs show a horse and buggy driven by a youthful Uncle Harold accompanied by Grandpa Jenkin and baby Irene. Another shows Mr Ogles's horse and cart, and another Jim Bailey's (of Cabbage Bay) ox team. There is also an image of a team of horses and a sled taking the milk to the factory at Onewhereo. There are images of waterfalls at Karekare and Nihotapu (Waiatura), and of the Nihotapu Creek. Some views of Auckland City and one of Waitemata Harbour probably on a weekend with yachts out on the water. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: Between 1873 and 1880

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-45-12

Description: Photograph of Mechanics Bay looking seaward probably taken in the 1870s by Herbert Deveril of Wellington. Another print of this image is at PA7-45-13. It is unclear from which print the copy negative is taken. Inscriptions: Mount verso - centre - Auckland - St Stephen's Chapel? Mechanics Bay? Sugar Works, Chelsea? Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 260 x 350 mm on mount of same size

Date: 1880 - 1895

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :Sketchbook. ca 1880-1895.

Reference: E-594-033

Description: Shows three women and one man standing at benches where cans are processed. The woman on the right may be pasting labels on, using a large bucket of glue. Extended Title - From his Sketchbook, 1880-1895. Page 33. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil drawing, on page, 182 x 270 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Bill Power, grandson of the artist, via Dunbar Sloane, Auckland, in July 2001.

Date: 1890 - 1899

By: Armitage, Charles Edward, 1869-1954

Reference: A-048-002

Description: View from a high point to the south-west of Gisborne, looking north-east over the town, with houses, the river, factories, the port area and Kaiti Hill in the background. There are smoking chimneys in the factory and port area Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 170 x 240 mm

Date: 1885

From: Dillberg, Gustaf, 1858-1934 :[New Zealand sketchbook. 1879-1887]

Reference: E-085-051

Description: Three views on one page. The top view is of two yachts. The central view is of the Sugarloaf Islands, New Plymouth. The lower view is of the sugar refinery at Auckland Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 178 x 254 mm (page size).

Date: 1885

Reference: PAColl-D-0766

Description: Photograph taken by Wrigglesworth & Binns to mark the laying of the foundation stone for the Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Company's mill in Cornish Street, Petone. Sir Robert Stout can be seen standing beside the stone as it is ready to be lowered into position. Surrounded by a large gathering of men and women including the company directors, architect, contractors and other invited guests. Individual portraits of Thomas Scoular; R S Ledger; T Turnbull; Chas. St.Barbe; T Kennedy Macdonald; Hon R Stout; W T S Travers; J Bransfield; J Coutts Crawford; W A Fitzherbert. Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Title This building was closed in 1968 and demolished in 1970 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 375 x 438 mm and 10 x 70 x 45 mm oval portraits on card 550 x 630 mm

Date: 1892

From: New Zealand Graphic & Ladies Journal

Reference: PUBL-0163-1892-002

Description: A view of women seated at long benches with cut-out leather in front of them, some with sewing machines, in Sargood, Son and Ewen's Dunedin factory. Item not sighted. Extended Title - From: New Zealand Graphic & Ladies Journal, 1892. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving

Date: 1893

By: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; F W Niven & Company; Moody, John George, active 1893

Reference: Eph-E-BUILDINGS-Dunedin-1893-01

Description: Shows a view of Dunedin from Waverly Bay in the centre. Surrounding it from top left (clockwise) are: Sargood, Son & Ewen buildings in Invercargill and Dunedin (warehousemen and manufacturers including boot factory); Girton College; J J Arthur (tailors); McGavin and Co Union Brewery and Cellars; John Edmond (iron and hardware merchant); Evening Star Office; P Miller (importer); Grand Hotel (Watson Brothers); Bennett & Son (cordial manufacturers); James J Pryor and son (nurserymen); DIC (Drapery and General Importing Company - B Hallenstein, Cahirman of Directors); Hordern & White Dunedin Carriage Factory; Geo M Marshall (homeopathic chemist); Scoullar & Chisholm (furniture manufacturers and importers); Joseph McKay (boot and shoe manufacturer and importer); Dick & McKechnie Drapery Supply Association; The Phoenix Company (makers of jams, biscuits and confectionery); H S Fish & Son (paperhangings and window glass). Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Printed for the proprietors of the "Evening Star" Dunedin, by F W Niven & Co., and published by John George Moody, Mornington. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured, 637 x 1015 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1980.

Date: 1885

From: Shepherd, R (Mr), fl 1983 :Photographs of Mount Eden, Auckland

Reference: 1/2-136066-F

Description: The original Colonial Ammunition Company factory in Mount Eden. Taken by an unidentified photographer in 1885. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1889

From: Wakefield, Edward 1845-1924 :New Zealand illustrated. The story of New Zealand and descriptions of its cities and towns by Edward Wakefield; also (by various writers) the natural wonders of New Zealand (past and present). Wanganui. A. D. Willis, 1889.

Reference: PUBL-0019-04

Description: An extensive view of the city of Wanganui from the south bank of the River, with houses and gardens in the foreground, a bridge and the civic buildings houses and churches. Mount Taranaki can be seen in the distance to the left and Ruapehu to the right. Cows in a paddock on the left and several boats in the river Probably based on a photograph Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 167 x 370 mm

Date: 1866 - 1877

By: Reid, Thomas, active 1866-1877

Reference: B-038-011

Description: A plain, with hills in the background and in the middle ground, a river winding past a settlement with a sawmill and other buildings. There are various human activities, including a man moving logs in the stream, a man leading a horse, men working around the sawmill, a yacht on the river, and logs floating along it. In the foreground, amongst tree ferns, toitoi, ferns and flax, is a barrel marked (in monogram) TR and In memoriam RD 1864-66. On verso: B-034/005 Inscriptions: Signed: T R (monogram) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 10.1 x 15.5 in Provenance: Bequeathed by Dr James Churchill Dunn, Glasgow, 18.1.1956