Places

Date: 1925

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

By: Miles, Henry, 1881-

Reference: Pan-1828-F

Description: Panoramic view of farmland near Fernside, Rangiora area. Single-storeyed farmhouse on a slight rise in the centre middle distance with a stand of trees on the right. Sloping fields with haystacks on the left, several cows in a paddock in front of the hosue. Marshy ground in the right foreground in front of the wide braided river, the Ashley/Rakahuri River. Hills in the background on the right with snow-capped mountains in the centre distance. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Sunnyslope" [?] 1925; Marginal notes on negative - Harry Miles. "Sunnyside" 1925, Fernside, Rangiora. 3 B&W; Marginal notes on negative - 1 1 1 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 121.9 cm

Date: 1870

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: D-033-005

Description: Shows a South Island high country sheep station, with homestead and outbuildings, with a river flowing past, and mountains in the background. Sheep are scattered over the hill in the foreground, and there is a haystack beyond the stand of trees around the homestead. A horse and cart stand outside the outbuildings to the far left. Almost identical to the work at D-022-007, from which the location has been ascertained. The river is probably the Harper River and the location is probably Lake Coleridge. On acquisition catalogued as [Millbrook, the Wakatipu Valley, Queenstown?]. Other Titles - [Millbrook, the Wakatipu Valley, Queenstown. Former title] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 455 x 795 mm (sight)