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Field album 7

Date: [Between 1880s and 1890s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-079

Description: Views of the Otago Region taken by unidentified photographers, circa 1870s to 1895. Many show buildings in Dunedin, including one house `Lisburn House' built for the Fulton family in 1865; also commercial buildings, church buildings, school buildings (Otago Boys' High School), and Dunedin Gaol. The church buildings include the Chapel in Leith Street, the Chapel in Great King Street, and the Baptist Chapel. Beyond Dunedin there are views of Naseby, Butchers Gully, Port Chalmers, Cromwell, Kyeburn, Shag Valley, and Lake Hayes, Lake Wanaka and Lake Hawea. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover decorated with gold birds, lettering and decorations outlined in black; 30.5 x 25.5 cm

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Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887: The Wilkin [River] from near its junction wi...

Date: 1863

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-047

Description: View of the Wilkin River and surrounding mountains Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on sheet, 180 x 270 mm

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Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1899 :A bit of the lower Shag Valley. 20.10.[18]90.

Date: 1890

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks] 1890-1893

Reference: E-315-q-3-001

Description: A river scene with mountains in the background Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - W M H 20.10.90; Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 180 x 128 mm

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[Surveyor unknown] :[Map of area in South Island including Haast River, Okura River, Tu...

Date: 1881

By: Brodrick, Thomas Noel, 1855-1931

Reference: MapColl-834.3at/[ca.1845]/Acc.35940

Description: Area in the South Island between Haast River in the north to Lake Wanaka in the south. Shows Open Bay Islands as well as many rivers and mountains in this regioon. From Ms - Brodrick Papers Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colour drawing on cream linen. Scale indeterminable. 82.5 x 98 cm.

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Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916 :Gorge of the Makarora. [1870-1900]

Date: 1870 - 1900

From: Douglas, Charles Edward 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast Sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. identified]

By: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916

Reference: E-059-q-068

Description: A river gorge among mountains Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on page of sketchbook. Physical Description: Pencil, crayon and watercolour, 24 x 173 mm

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[Barraud, Charles Decimus], 1822-1897 :[River valley snow-covered peak behind. 18--]

Date: 1850 - 1880

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-030-008

Description: Shows an unfinished watercolour painting of a river valley among mountains, with a bush-covered slope at the left. Thought by Fergus Collinson (28/4/1983) to show the Richardson Mountains, from either Greenstone or Kinloch on Lake Wakatipu. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash drawing 127 x 178 mm

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Richmond, Christopher William, 1821-1895 :Wakatipu. [1870s?]

Date: 1870 - 1879

From: Richmond, Christopher William, 1821-1895 :Sketch book ; sketches numbered 1 to 74 [i.e. 95] / [by] C W Richmond.

Reference: E-284-005

Description: A scene on Lake Wakatipu, possibly near the outlet to the Kawarau River Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 100 x 160 mm

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Photographs of the Arapuni dam, the Catlins and other views

Date: [ca 1890-1927]

From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); France, J W, active 1890s

Reference: PAColl-0348

Description: Mounted photographs by the Burton Brothers of the junction of Eden and Tees Streets, Oamaru showing St Luke's Church, shops, tram lines and part of the Council Chambers; looking down on the wharves of Port Chalmers with the Presbyterian Church in the right foreground; and the Kakahi Falls, near Tawhata on the Whanganui River. Two smaller mounted photographs of a river in the Catlins District. Three pages from a photograph album holding five photographs of the building of the Arapuni Dam on the Waikato River including the buried forest exposed by the Waikato River diversion. Three loose prints by J W France of an early settlers' cottage made of ponga with a turf roof and with the family outside; a group of six workmen standing on the road they were building with long handled shovels and a boy and a dog in front of them; and the funeral procession of Sir John MacKenzie in 1901 led by a pipe band up the main road in Oamaru working. Finally a loose print of the bridge over the Waiho River. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-68928 to 1/2-068934. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.

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Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911 :Matukituki River and Mount Aspiring, Otago

Date: [ca 1870s]

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-47

Description: View of the river and mountains lightly coated with snow. In the foreground is a dwelling and fenced paddocks including sheep yards. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril ca 1870s-1880s Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 23 x 35.3 cm

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Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :The mouth of the Taieri. 25/12/[18]65.

Date: 1865

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook. 1865-1867].

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995

Reference: E-511-003

Description: Shows view of the Taieri River mouth, with sandbank, and open sea at right distance. Two cabbage trees in left foreground. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. 6.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 123 x 206 mm. Provenance: Estate of Eric McCormick, 1995. Transfers: Transfer from Manuscripts and Archives, A95-145..

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Railway bridge over the Tokomairiro River - Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Gibbs, James Joseph, fl 1963 :Photographs of New Zealand towns and cities

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-51

Description: The railway bridge over the South Tokomairiro River with the railway continuing up the Woolshed Valley to Milton (Tokomairiro) beyond. There is a road running parallel to it. Photograph taken ca 1870s-1880s by Herbert Deveril ca 1880s. Same image as PA7-46-43 & PAColl-8197 The bridge was designed by John Carruthers and built in 1873 Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 26 x 35.5 cm

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Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :On the Water of Leith. 30.1.[18]66.

Date: 1866

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook. 1865-1867].

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995

Reference: E-511-011

Description: Shows view looking up river, over midstream boulders (rapids) in foreground, to calm water behind flowing from between treed banks. There is a young lancewood at right, and either the end of a fence, or a cemetery cross, at left. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. 6.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Watercolour, 205 x 123 mm. Provenance: Estate of Eric McCormick, 1995. Transfers: Transfer from Manuscripts and Archives, A95-145..

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Payton, Edward William 1859-1944 :On the "Water of Leith", Dunedin. [188-?]

Date: 1880 - 1889

By: Payton, Edward William, 1859-1944

Reference: A-045-013-a

Description: Shows the Water of Leith stream flowing down the Leith Valley. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - On the Water of Leith / Dunedin; Recto - bottom right - P. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching 90 x 127 mm

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Smytheman, V :Scenic views of New Zealand

Date: [ca 1890-1950]

From: Smytheman, V :Photographs from World War II and an album of New Zealand scenes

By: Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970

Reference: PAColl-0531-1

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand including a number of the glass houses and parks of Wanganui and New Plymouth. There are also an old photograph of W Stack's Hotel in Hastings with men and horses outside (in poor condition); a woman in what may be a 1930 Chrysler Plymouth with another snow away from the tyres; the gravestone of Julius von Haast; Queen's Wharf, Wellington showing a recently returned troop transport ship; an orchestra performing at the 1907 Christchurch exhibition; men of the No. 19 Platoon with a car at the summit of the Rimutakas; postcard from P B Davis to Mr A French showing a group of First World War soldiers with the message that they are about to leave for France; and six children at the base of a large Maori carving with a bell attached at Ohinemutu. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-053380 Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :Water races Teviot River. 4 p.m. [1877?]

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1877-1880]

Reference: E-014-q-3-001

Description: Rapids in a river valley with rocky cliffs on both sides Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Water Races Teviot River Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 190 x 290 mm

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Views of Dunedin and Port Chalmers

Date: ca 1880-ca 1889

From: Reid, Robert Stuart :Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PA1-q-921

Description: Views of Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, Lake Waihola, Lake Moke, Mount Cook, Mount Sefton, the Hooker Glacier, Tapanui, Oamaru, Milford Sound, Dusky Sound, Hooker River, Moonlight Gorge, Bowen Fall, and general views in Canterbury and Otago taken by an unknown photographer in the 1880s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Brewster's Rare Books :Photographs of Port Chalmers, the Franz Josef Glacier, and the S...

Date: ca 1890, 1923

By: Brewster's Rare Books (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6819

Description: View of Port Chalmers taken ca 1890s, and views of Franz Josef Glacier, Fox Glacier, Waiho River and Lake Kanieri taken in March 1923. Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911 :View of the Kawarau River, Central Otago

Date: [ca 1870s-1880s]

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-30

Description: General view of the Kawarau River and Gorge. In the middle distance a road and wire spanning the river can be seen. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril, ca 1870s-1880s. Inscriptions: Recto - centre - Kawarau River. Miners water race crossing river Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 24 x 36 cm

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Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911 :Taieri River at Henley, South of Dunedin

Date: [ca 1870s-1880s]

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-20

Description: View of three children sitting on a jetty on the banks of the Taieri River at Henley. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril in 1870s-1880s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 23.5 x 36 cm

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Burton Brothers album 14

Date: [Between 1868 and 1895]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-044

Description: Images of New Zealand, including the first photograph in the album made up of a collage of Maori portraits entitled "Maori land". Photographs taken by the Burton Brothers of Dunedin. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black covered album, 30 x 25 cm

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