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Date: [Circa 1880s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Lomer, Albert, active 1862-1900; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-262

Description: Album of Australian photographs of Brisbane and Tasmania, and views of a range of sites in New Zealand, taken by various photographers circa 1880s. Names and places identified in the album are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: 1895-1900

From: Denton, Frank J, 1869-1963 :Collection of negatives, prints and albums

Reference: PA1-o-130

Description: Photographs taken in the Bay of Islands and Hokianga districts in the late 1890s, by Frank J Denton. Include several of Paihia; the church with ruins of Archdeacon Williams' house; church belfry (standing alone in a field in front of the church); monument to Archdeacon Williams, Paihia Cemetery, `raised solely by Maori subscription'; and monument to the Treaty of Waitangi. Views of Kerikeri include the oldest wooden house, and the oldest stone house in New Zealand; and Kerikeri Falls (Rainbow Falls). At Waimate views show ruins of the first mill in New Zealand, remains of a factory near the old mill; puriri trees; and Waimate Church. Pakaraka views show interior and exterior views of Pakaraka Church; and `The Retreat', Archdeacon Williams' residence. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth-bound album entitled "Photographic views", 28 x 21 cm

Date: [Between 1863 and 1872]

From: Holder, Miss: Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-f-030

Description: Album of undated photographs taken by Daniel Louis Mundy, owned by `Miss Holder' (her name printed facing page 1) Scenes are all of the North Island, in particular Bay of Islands, Thames, Rotorua, Taupo, Waikato and Napier. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black leather-bound album entitled `New Zealand views'; 30.5 x 42.0 cm

Date: 1895-1915

From: Allan, John Calder, 1879-1963 :Photographs of Cable Bay, Nelson

Reference: PA1-o-015

Description: Photographs of tht Cable Bay area, including the Cable Bay Station and homestead, with images showing something of the life of the Cable Bay Station employees. Includes photographs of children, families, picnicking, and camping, taken by John Calder Allan between 1895 and 1915. There are several images of the Franz Josef Glacier and surrounding area. Other Titles - Photo views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 315 x 265 mm green buckram, with border of gold decoration separating the green buckram from red buckram of spine; title "Photo views" embossed in gold on cover, in phase box

Date: 1878

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: G-468

Description: A river valley and clearing in native bush, with tree ferns in the foreground, the elevated rock formation of Castle Rock in the background. There are logs by the river and some cleared, some bush-clad hills, suggesting the beginnings of forest clearance The second Blomfield oil purchased from Cordy's as a pair to this oil, dated 1878, and showing a distinctive rock formation, was sold as being a Coromandel scene like this one. It has subsequently been reattributed as a Whangaroa Harbour landscapes with Taratara Rock in the background Other Titles - Coromandel scene showing distinctive rock formation, river and bush [former title] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signature and date Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil painting on canvas 431 x 683 mm

Date: 1881

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Australasian views [New Zealand scenes] [ca 1880]

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908

Reference: E-052-q-001

Description: Part of a river in the foreground with a road running alongside it. A lone man on a white horse walks past bush and a distinctive hill, possibly in the Coromandel area Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and chinese white on paper 137 x 200 mm mounted into sketchbook

Date: 1863 - 1867

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: A-234-012

Description: Four slab huts with raupo thatched roofs and slab chimneys in a clearing in New Zealand bush, with tree ferns and cabbage trees, as well as other large trees and dense bush in the background. There is a high rocky bluff to the right and tall hills in the background. Smoke is coming from the chimneys of the left- and right-most huts, there are steps leading to the central hut and the right-hand hut has a woman in a red skirt standing in the doorway. The top of the chimney for this last hut is formed by a barrel. Bush combined with rock formations suggest the Coromandel district, visited by Hoyte during the gold-mining era. The settlement is likely to be of semi-permanent miners' huts. Other Titles - Early settlers' camp. [title in auction catalogue] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J.C.Hoyte Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white 156 x 336 mm

Date: 1858 - 1864 - 1860

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Grefe, Konrad, 1823-1917

Reference: B-187-012

Description: Shows the volcanic rock formations at Mercury Bay, with two sailing ships in the bay and two waka at the water's edge. Tree ferns feature prominently in the foreground A similar view by Heaphy in pencil and sepia ('Moturoa basaltic rock. Mercury Island. No.8' [1850s?]), privately owned Although the item states 'zu Seite 89' (opposite p.89), it is in fact opposite p.80 in the published work Other Titles - Motu roa, Mercury Bay, North Island (column-shaped trachyte) Extended Title - Published in: Hochstetter, Ferdinand von. Reise der osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wullerstorf-Urbair. Geologischer Theil. Erster Band. Erste Abtheilung: Geologie von Neu-Seeland. Wien. Aus der kaiserlich-koniglichen Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, 1864 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 205 x 253 mm (sight)

Date: Photographs of New Plymouth and district including Mount Egmont, and a sequence of views of Parihaka (including the campaign of 1881).

By: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920

Reference: PA1-q-183

Description: Photographs of New Plymouth and district, including Mount Egmont, and a sequence of views of Parihaka (including the campaign of 1881). Scenes of Parihaka, especially with relationship to the 1881 incident, include views of the pa (with Te Whiti's house visible); the Rahotu volunteer camp, the Rahotu Redoubt; Fort Rolleston; Sentry Hill; Pungarehu officers' quarters and redoubt; Nelson Camp; the Taranaki Rifles and Wellington Navals. Scenic views in the area show Mount Egmont, Bell's Falls, the `Meeting-of-the-Waters', White Cliffs, Sugar Loaf Islands, the New Plymouth breakwater, and views of the New Plymouth Recreation Ground. Relationship complexity - Negatives, from which many of the prints in this album were made, are at PAColl-3032. See 10x8-1073 etc Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, dark green corners and spine; 28.0 x 36 5 cm