Places

Date: [1890s]

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-236

Description: Photographs of South Island scenes, including Waitaki Boys' High School, a regatta at Port Chalmers, school athletic sports, picnic at Hanmer, camping at Kinloch. Place names are mostly given, but people are not identified, except one woman who is named as "Aunt Sally". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with pinkish card cover, entitled `Braithwaite's School of Art drawing book'; 25.5 x 18.5 cm

Date: 1906 - 1908

From: [Programmes and ephemera of octavo size for drama productions in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-1906-01

Description: Postcard issued as promotion for the Sheridan Musical Comedy Company. Shows Miss Barlowe in a boater and long dress, plying the oars of a rowboat on the Avon River. The Sheridan Musical Comedy Company visited New Zealand in 1906. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 95 x 140 mm.

Date: 1880 - 1890

Reference: B-187-005

Description: A scene on the River Avon. Three boats can be seen on the water. Various women are either in boats or on the river bank, shading themselves with umrellas, or under the willows. The man closest in the foreground rows with two oars, and wears a boater Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - H Miller [Sc?] [handwritten] Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 360 x 265 mm, on sheet 430 x 275 mm Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Ephemera; three art prints transferred on appraisal to Drawings Paintings & Prints, 4 January 2013 - From Ephemera Collection -.

Date: [ca 1895-1915]

Reference: PAColl-6904

Description: A large collection of miscellaneous original and copy negatives mostly of Christchurch and the surrounding area. Some are studio portraits of family groups. The rest of the collection includes: a street scene in front of the old railway station; a cycling race; men rowing and canoeing; children playing in a swing park; a brass band playing on board a steamer; various beach scenes including donkey rides; train pulling into Kaiapoi station; a small bach; two girls next to a waterfall; trams and a cyclist going past the Jubliee Clock Tower; the front facade of St Paul's Presbyterian Church; three views of the old Public Hospital next to Hagley Park; the Chamber of Commerce building on the corner of Oxford Terrace and Worcester Street; a copy negative of a carte de visite of a couple kissing; a monument incorporating a tiki on a tall pole and other maori carvings (location unknown); a man at the doorway of his shed with an array of gardening implements; two men pulling a covering back from a hangi pit; the cathedral with a number of trams in front; a tram advertising Ballantynes; a kitchen interior showing a range with kettles on top and a cupboard and dresser with crockery; six Maori on horseback possibly in a procession; a porter bringing a cart of luggage up to a train; five men giving friends piggy backs on the beach; sheep being driven past stock yards; the Avon River; a crowd outside the Avon Rowing Club; Wilson the maltman's horse and cart crossing a bridge; and two images of a harvest festival in a hall with a painted back drop and sheaves of corn arranged in front of it. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-045133 to 045196 and 045802 to 045816 Quantity: 76 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives Processing information: These were originally part of a sequence of unidentified negatives. They were assumed to form a collection due to the similarity in date and location. At the time of entry 1/4-045190 was missing.

Date: [Between 1870s and 1880s]

By: Hart, Campbell & Company; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hart, William Paterson, active 1870s-1900s

Reference: PA1-o-390

Description: Early photographs of New Zealand, most taken by Hart, Campbell & Co, and Wheeler & Son. Inserted in a pocket attached inside the front cover are two items. One an old print of a hut at Milford, taken by Hart, Campbell & Co, and the other a newspaper cutting (Evening Star Friday March 23, 1934), of Dunedin from View Street, and Dunedin from Dowling Street, both taken in 1861. The photograph of a Cobb & Co. coach at Palmerston, has the caption `2. Cobb's coach. E Devine, driver. Palmerston, Otago, N.Z. 1876' and the photographers are named as Hart, Campbell & Co. One set of photographs have no captions and no identification of photographer. They follow a group of men travelling along a river bed, with small rowing boats, on river banks, and at the foot of waterfalls. Another sequence shows native bush, tree ferns and rivers. Two views (pages 8, 10) show Linnburn Station. One is unidentified in the album, but identified from the same image at Te Papa (digital view on the internet), the other closer view of the homestead has a caption. Relationship complexity - The photograph of Cobb's Coach at Palmerston (p. 7), is the same image as one at PAColl-7344-54 (Box 16), with the same caption `2. Cobb's coach. E Devine, driver. Palmerston, Otago, N.Z. 1865', but the photographers are identified as Hart, Campbell & Co. on this image, but identified as Burton Bros. on the PAColl copy. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with very dark blue-green cloth cover, black corners and spine, entitled `New Zealand views' in gold lettering; 24.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1885]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-387

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken by various photographers before 1886, of whom F A Coxhead and James Ring are identifiable. Most of the images have captions, and names of places and buildings etc. are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine, entitled `New Zealand scenery' in gold lettering; 20 x 26 cm

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

Date: 1924

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1425-F

Description: Panorama of Redcliffs with the sea on the right. The Christchurch Sailing Club rooms and jetty centre left. Small dinghies are moored close into shore. Yachts moored further out into the harbour. A large two-masted sailing ship is seen centre left. Houses in valley on the left, and up on a ridge centre left. Steep cliffs in the centre of the image. Photograph taken in 1924 by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Panorama of Redcliffs Christchurch N.Z. No. 530; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Redcliffs ChCh 1924 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 116.8 cm

Date: 1864

By: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926

Reference: A-447-009

Description: Shows a scene on the Waimakariri River running through the town of Kaiapoi, facing seaward. In the foreground is a man in a red coat and blue hat sitting in a row boat; in the middle of the river is a two-masted sailboat with a red and blue ensign. A house and outhouse can be seen on the bank to the right. A bridge spans the river, and it would appear a train is crossing it, as billows of smoke are visible. Banks Peninsula can be seen faintly in the distance. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Kaiapoi 1864 [in pencil]; Recto - top right - Book 10 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 158 x 260 mm, on sheet 355 x 260 mm Provenance: Collection of Joseph Lowthian Wilson. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - - Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive and transferred to other sections.