Places

Date: 1860-1900

By: Masterton Historical Society

Reference: PAColl-7329

Description: Photographs of Masterton including: Bannister's farm on the north bank of the Waipoua River at Akura with Charles Bannister standing on the bank; the militia of 1866, presenting arms, led by Captain Walter Perry (all names given in the caption); the Coles' house on Bridge Street (now Queen Street) and a studio portrait of what may be the Coles family; views of Queen Street; a crowd in the street for the opening of the new Post Office with the Public Institute behind it; a sale of sheep at the saleyards; a procession by friendly societies past the Prince of Wales stables; James Wrigley and his family outside his bootmaking business; James Wrigley and his wife and son John; a cart travelling over the Te Ore Ore bridge; the Anglican church; the first Post Office next to Iorn's Bannister store ca 1856; panoramic views of the town; the Waipoua River near the site of the old Kaikokirikiri Pa; Masterton school picnic at Woodroofe's farm; a painting of Worksop Farm owned by the Dixons by Charles Barraud; a band and procession on Queen Street passing Westlake's saddlery and Winzenberg's photography shop; Masterton's first band outside the Royal Hotel with E Braggins, the licencee and conductor (other names given on the reverse of the print); a ballast train coming from the ballast pit near the railway train with men standing on the carts; the Wrigley family in a field of cattle at their farm; a baby show; an 1854 land receipt for a section purchased by Iorns; a group of eighteen blacksmiths holding their implements; Liberal Party celebrations at Solway Show Grounds after the 1905 election with Seddon, Ward and others (named on the reverse of the print); William Hodgson Donald; Sergeant Price of the Masterton police; Donald Solway Donald; Mr and Mrs Charles Dixon; W W McCardle; and a tinsmith, one of the early residents. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 30 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Processing information: Negatives were allocated at 1/2-003434 to 1/2-003471 and 003673 to 003674 (duplicate at 1/2-004343) although only sixteen of these were made. Replacement negatives for two images at 1/2-132742 and 151351. 1/1-000763 to 1/1-000778 may also relate to this collection.

Date: Between 1910s and 1930s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-f-002

Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-061

Description: Shows Ohiro Bay (or valley) with a flock of sheep attended by a shepherd and a large-single storied house nestled against trees, the home of Judge Halswell, unfinished according to the accompanying note by the artist. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 85 x 130 mm on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1885

By: Bidwill, William Edward, 1858-1933

Reference: qMS-0233

Description: Comprises copy of letter from Sir F A Weld describing journey taking sheep along the south coast from Wellington to Wairarapa and extract from letter from William Swainson describing an early survey party to the Wairarapa and extract from letter from W J Swainson reminiscing about Bidwill's father and describing the same journey along the south coast, both written 1885 Both letters are printed in W E Bidwill and A Woodhouse's `Bidwill of Pihautea' Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (16 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon) (28 cm, ¼ grey cloth, light boards)

Date: 2003 - 2004

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-

Reference: H-742-001/009

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. Quantity: 9 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Further papers

Reference: MSX-6335

Description: A book with station names, owners, stock markings and brands of wool Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1999

From: Henshaw, David, 1939-2014 :[Twelve cartoons from Jock's Country Life calendar published in 1999.]

Reference: J-050-006

Description: A ewe, with her sister ewes and lambs around her, makes the ram aware of his responsibilities in sireing their offspring. Quantity: 1 colour page from calendar. Physical Description: Reproduction of watercolour and pen. Image size 280 x 390 mm.

Date: [Circa 1890s]

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

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919

Reference: PA1-o-520

Description: Album of tourist views of New Zealand and the sub-Antarctic Islands, chiefly taken by John Richard Morris, Jnr, circa 1890s. Places and subjects listed above where identified. The Sub-Antarctic Island views are all of native flora and fauna of the different islands, listed on the images as mollymawks, albatrosses, sea lions, crested penguins and erect-crested penguins On page 32 there is a view of the SS Knight Templar leaving Lyttelton on February 17, 1900, taking about 260 soldiers and 300 horses of the 3rd Contingent "the New Zealand Roughriders" to Durban, en route to fight in the South African War. The wharf is crowded with people seeing the ship off, soldiers lined up alongside the ship, and bunting flying on two ships nearby. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 24.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1842 - 1857

By: Smith, Hannah Stephenson, 1813-1891; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-256-039-a

Description: Mount Taranaki on the left in the distance. Two cottages in a clearing backed by tall trees in the middle ground, with fenced in gardens. In the foreground a field with sheep and cattle and hay being hauled on a cart by oxen. The artist is very likely to be Hannah Stephenson Smith who drew views of a later family home in Taranaki, and was also the sister of the author of the book in which this view appeared as the frontispiece. Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, C. New Zealand or Zelandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Frontispiece. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 90 x 150 mm on sheet 120 x 180 mm

Date: 1950-1969

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to sheep breeds, sheep farming, and sheep health and diseases]

By: Merck, Sharp & Dohme (New Zealand) Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-SHEEP-1950/1969

Description: Includes pamphlets and booklets: 1951: Bushey Park Southdowns. Complete unreserved dispersal sale on account of estate late J A Johnstone. Bushey Park, Palmerston, Otago, 10 May 1951. Catalogue. Riverslea Romneys, flock no 633. Complete dispersal sale on account of J Mosley and Sons, to be offered at "Mt Wallace", Stirling, South Otago, 12 July 1951. Catalogue. 1954: Canterbury Flock Ram Fair, held on the Showgrounds of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association Addington, 18019 March 1954. Catalogue of entries. 1957: Dannevirke District A & P Association. Forty eighth annual ram fair, held at Showgrounds Dannevirke, 8 February 1957. Catalogue. 1958: Cheviot Sheep Society of New Zealand (Inc). First New Zealand Stud Cheviot fair. Feilding Showgrounds, 14 January 1958. [Sales catalogue] 1959: Cheviot Sheep Society of New Zealand (Inc). Second New Zealand Stud Cheviot fair. Feilding Showgrounds, 20 January 1959. Sales catalogue 1960: Cheviot Sheep Society of New Zealand (Inc). First New Zealand Stud Cheviot fair. Feilding Showgrounds, 19 January 1960. Sales catalogue 1967: Merck, Sharp & Dohme (New Zealand) Limited. Thibenzole; a proven way to increase lambing percentages. Thibenzole all the way. New Zealand Department of Agriculture. Foot rot in sheep [1967] See related material at the subject locations: FARM, FARM MACHINERY, MEAT, WOOL Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 8 pieces of ephemera. Physical Description: Offset prints and typescripts, on sheets sizes up to 250 mm.

Date: 1886

By: Mears, R W, active 1886; Weekly press (Newspaper); Buckland, Francis Edward, active 1886

Reference: B-055-020

Description: Includes: Lincoln ram "Young Rifleman" exhibited by J B Sutton, New River, Southland. Shorthorn cow "Flower of Brunswick III", exhibited by John Deans, Riccarton. Merino ram (fine combing), exhibited by W H Teschemacher, Oamaru. Shorthorn bull "Alvie's hero", exhibited by W Watson, Ellesmere Clydesdale stud horse "Kelvin", exhibited by John Gilmour, Elgin, Ashburton. Extended Title - Supplement to the Canterbury "Weekly press", 12th November, 1886. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - (On each image): Whitcombe & Tombs Ld. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Five black & white lithographs on sheet, 285 x 440 mm.

Date: [Circa 1910s?]

By: New Zealand. Government Tourist Bureau

Reference: PA1-o-473

Description: Photographs of the South Island taken by various photographers, mostly unidentified, circa 1910s Other Titles - New Zealand photographs - South Island Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "New Zealand photographs. South Island" in gold lettering; 26 x 32 cm

Date: [late 1930s]

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-110419-F

Description: View looking down to woolshed with sheep in adjacent pens and paddocks photographed by Robert E Wells, probably in the late 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1880s

From: Main, William :Two photograph albums

Reference: PA1-q-638

Description: Views of farmland, homesteads, mountains, forest, and people associated with Merrivale, Blackmount, and other stations in Southland. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1920 - 1929

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to sheep breeds, sheep farming, and sheep health and diseases]

By: Fisher Printing Company

Reference: Eph-A-SHEEP-1920s

Description: Includes booklets: 1920s?: Docking with safety. Necadok docking fluid. Sole agents The N.Z. Farmers' Co-Op Distributing Co., Ltd. [1920s?] 1920s: Rules of the Southdown Sheep Society of New Zealand (Incorporated). Fisher Printing Co., Feilding 1926: Westmere imported Southdowns, the property of John Donald, esq, Westmere, Wanganui. Sale on Tuesday 9th February. Auctioneers Wright Stephenson & Co Ltd [1926] See related material at the subject locations: FARM, FARM MACHINERY, MEAT, WOOL Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and typescripts, on sheets sizes up to 250 mm.

Date: 1930

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-2-172

Description: Newly-shorn sheep in a pen outside the shearing shed at Mangatoi Station photographed in 1930 by Robert E Wells. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - One of Sunday's. Their trials are over for another year - newly-shorn sheep in the pen outside the shearing shed. Note door through which new arrivals are pushed.; Verso - bottom centre - 1930 shearing at Mangatoi Station Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 10.2 x 7.9 cm

Date: 1880 - 1900

From: Artist unknown :Canterbury Plains (looking north) from the Port Hills [and] Canterbury Plains (Looking South) from the Port Hills [ca 1890?]

Reference: A-089-017-1

Description: View from the hills above Heathcote, with Ferry Road visible, Christchurch City to the left, the Southern Alps in the distance and Pegasus Bay on the right. A few sheep are grazing in the foreground Mounted with A-089-017/2 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, hand-coloured 72 x 203 mm

Date: 1992

From: Scott, Thomas 1947- :Editorial cartoons. 1 July - 30 September 1992

Reference: H-110-043

Description: Shows a sheep and a lamb as buskers, half-buried in snow. The sheep is playing a trumpet. A bowl lies on the snow in front of them with a sign asking for bales of hay. Refers to stock feed shortages caused by the snow storms in the South Island Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1931 - 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Whites Aviation Ltd; Orr, R W, active 1950; Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Dunstan, Harold J, active 1939-1947; Wilson, James Lloyd, 1915-1980

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-033

Description: Photographs of the Hawke's Bay Region, 1931 to 1950, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of the Hawke's Bay flood of 1938, Lake Waikaremoana, Napier city and Cape Kidnappers. Photographers include R W Orr, Lloyd Wilson and White's Aviation. Quantity: 51 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: ca 1945

By: Watson, Launa, active 2003; Bettridge, Ethel, active 1945

Reference: PAColl-7915

Description: Photograph of the Tawa fire station (background) with a flock of sheep in the foreground, taken 1945 or 1946 from 1 Roy Street, by Ethel Bettridge. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 6.7 x 11.2 cm