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Date: ca 1905

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 15

By: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962

Reference: PAColl-7081-69

Description: A view of the wharves in Nelson with the offices of the Anchor Shipping & Foundry Company in the foreground with piles of timber behind it. A sailing ship is moored at one of the wharves. Photographer was F N Jones. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-013

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by various photographers including the Burton Brothers, Tyree Brothers, James Ring, Josiah Martin, and Henry Thomas Lock. Includes images of flooding in Blenheim, and a wire cable tram across the Taramakau River (West Coast). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red cloth bound folio album, 415 x 300 mm

Date: 1899

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-292

Description: Photographs of the Nelson Region, Wellington Harbour, Featherston, Ruamahanga Valley and the Rimutaka Hill Road, probably taken by George William Barltrop in 1899 (Identification from other albums in this sequence). None of the people in photographs are identified, but include several scenes with a woman and her husband; a group portrait at a wedding; two older women in a garden; a picnic group (6 women, one man and three children); two women carrying baskets of plants, with a man wheeling a bicycle (on the road to the Nelson Reservoir); and three young boys in a garden. A sequence of twelve photographs includes two men, members of the 2nd Contingent, at a military camp (possibly in the Nelson area), preparing to leave for the South African War, in 1899; rows of horses near tents at the camp; soldiers marching; a Nelson street with a banner reading `For Queen and country. God bless our boys'; and Wellington Harbour with crowds on the wharves to farewell the troops. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: 1867 - 1888

From: Bloch, Theodor Thorlacius, 1844-1935 :Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PA1-q-035

Description: Chiefly photographs of Nelson and surroundings; also includes images of Wellington, Port Chalmers and Mitre Peak. Photographs taken by Theodor Bloch, circa 1867 to 1888 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green covered album with ornamental decoration in black and gold, containing albumen prints of varying sizes; 285 x 250 mm

Date: [ca 1890s]

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10X8-0190-G

Description: Nelson Harbour from wharves, circa 1890s, showing the sailing vessel 'Maid of Italy'. Photograph taken by the Tyree Studio. Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of file print identify the boat from "Ruth Allens History of Nelson". Other Titles - Tyree No. 1706 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: ca 1905-1906

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 1/1-000918-G

Description: Photograph by the Tyree Brothers of the Westland, possibly at the Nelson wharf. The Westland was in Nelson between Dec 1905-Nov 1906 and this image could be from that period. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca. 1848]

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Longueville, H N, active 19th century?; Ellis, Donald Grant, 1937-2010; Groshinski, Brian Peter, 1944-

Reference: A-465-015

Description: A view of Nelson Harbour from the hills above, and possibly from where William Fox was living. The Boulder Bank and Haulashore Island are visible, with snow-capped mountains in the distance. A two-masted ship and two waka can be seen in Nelson Haven, as well as two other vessels out in Tasman Bay. There are figures unloading barrels on the shore, and two houses in the foreground on the left Accompanied by a photocopied letter, originally adhered to the back of the painting, from Dawn Smith of the Nelson Provincial Library, dated 1982. It suggests the (unsigned) work is by William Fox, and that the handwriting on the recto is that of a Miss Longueville, some of whose works the Nelson Museum holds Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - View of the harbour, Nelson NZ [in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 253 x 340 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase, from collection of Don Ellis, art collector, until about 1983; may have come from the album of a Miss Longueville

Date: [Circa 1860s-1870s]

From: Bloch, Theodor Thorlacius, 1844-1935 :Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PA1-o-040

Description: Album chiefly containing views of the Nelson Region, including ships in the harbour, Boulder Bank, a hotel in Moutere, a partially built steamship being transported to sea, and a Thanksgiving service by the Bishop of Nelson for safe arrival. Other areas covered include two images of Wellington, one of Sale (Victoria, Australia), several of Switzerland and of Odense in Denmark (taken when the photographer travelled back to Denmark in 1873). Photographs taken by Theodor Bloch between the 1860s and 1880s. Inscriptions: Album page - [?] McMaster, 10 Airlie Rd., Montmorency Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue covered album with black and gold illustration, labelled "Album" "Citations quaint, in ink and paint, nor faces scant as is and aint. S...r.", 200 x 300 mm.