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Foxley Norris album
Date: [1870s-1880s]
By: Norris, Joseph Foxley, active 1880s; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Wilson, George Washington, 1823-1893
Reference: PA1-q-094
Description: Photographic album created by Joseph Foxley Norris, with many images of places visited in Great Britain, including castles, cathedrals, stately homes, ports, landscapes, and bridges. Joseph Foxley Norris was a founding member of the Cyclists' Touring Club in England, and was a member of the Pickwick Bicycle Club in England with one image being a group portrait of members of the club. A number of the English scenes were photographed by G.W.W. (George Washington Wilson). Other regions visited include Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro. Views of New Zealand are mostly in the South Island, with a few of Wellington (including Government Buildings, Parliament Buildings and Government House). One photograph taken by James Bragge shows a group of unidentified Maori standing outside a meeting house in Masterton. South Island views include a bicycle "meet" in Christchurch, with a large crowd gathered, and a number of penny-farthing bicycles visible. A number of images show men riding penny-farthing bicycles and the dangers of so doing, with posed views of two men underneath their bicycles and one clutching a fence, taken in and around Christchurch. On page 108 is hand-printed award `Anniversary Sports, Christchurch,N.Z. 16th December 1880. The following ten views taken from the Cathedral Tower, Christchurch, are the 3rd prize in the One Mile Champion Bicycle Race won by J. Foxley Norris, Pioneer Bicycle Club'. Other views include a group of about four men touring along the West Coast Road, and notable buildings in Christchurch and Dunedin. One image shows the "cage" crossing the Teremakau River. A group portrait in Christchurch shows members of Harper & Co. (Solicitors) Inscriptions: Album page - J. Foxley Norris. 1880 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with a black cover, spine title `Photo's'; 29.0 x 24.5 cm
Photograph album, volume two
Date: [ca 1870s-1890s]
From: Bridge family :Photograph albums
By: Anson Brothers (Firm); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Pulman (Firm)
Reference: PA1-f-271
Description: Views of New Zealand, England, Australia and Canada, associated with family of Charles Joseph Bridge (d 1876), settler at Homebrook, near Lake Ellesmere; and his son, Charles Hastings Bridge. Includes pressed flowers and leaves, a coloured sketch of a rowing boat on a river lined with willow trees. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Henry Hugh Chapman 1881; Henry Walter Bridge 1886 Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s).
Wheeler and son album 2
Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]
By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)
Reference: PA1-o-533
Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm
Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Te Rehe, Katihuirapa. Oct 9 [1848. Waiterua...
Date: 1848
From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849
By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895
Reference: E-334-056
Description: A panoramic view of Te Wai a te Rua Ti Pa (near Temuka, South Canterbury) running along the top half of the page, with Mantell's tent to the right. A smaller view of a large storage platform titled 'Taraputikitiki' with a ladder leading up the platform and a palisade below it. In the bottom right, a profile head and shoulders portrait of Te Rehe, the Waiteruati chief, a member of the Kati Huirapa iwi, a sub-tribe of Ngai Tahu. Behind him is another view of the storage platform in the distance and there is a frontal view of facial features, possibly those of Te Rehe, a separate drawing of a mouth, and of chin moko, probably also those of Te Rehe Other Titles - Te Wai a te rua ti Pa, near Temuka. Mahatinui. Tanetiki. Urekura. Tanaputakitaki. Quantity: 3 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 200 mm (page size)
Walsh album 1
Date: 1882-1890
From: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914 :Photograph albums
By: Foy Brothers (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Pulman (Firm); Scowen, Charles T, active 1870s-1890s
Reference: PA1-q-255
Description: Album of views in Auckland, Thames, Coromandel and Papanui (all New Zealand), Norfolk Island, Egypt (including the Suez Canal), Aden, Bombay, Ceylon (including Colombo), Victoria (including Ballarat, Geelong and Melbourne), Kilkenny, Paris, Bordeaux and London. The photographs were collected by Philip Walsh, and include photographic copies by Josiah Martin of paintings by Walsh himself. The photographers include Josiah Martin (Auckland), Foy Brothers (Thames), Pulman (Auckland), and Charles T Scowen (Colombo). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown leather bound album, impressed with black and gold pattern; 35 x 27 cm