Places

Date: 1870

From: Illustrated Australian news [1860s-1870s]

By: Illustrated Australian news (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0119-1870-013

Description: Looking south along the waterfront at Akaroa, from a hill to thenorth. A road, houses, gardens and a church can be seen. Possibly based on a photograph Extended Title - From Illustrated Australian News, No. 166, 26 December 1860, p. 13 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving

Date: 1906

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-005491-G

Description: Exterior of the house Matitiki at Opawa, Christchurch, designed in the arts and crafts style by architects Clarkson and Ballantyne for Robert Malcolm. Looks across a pond and a lawn, towards a wooden house with a brick chimneys and a corrugated iron roof. Photograph taken by Steffano Francis Webb in 1906. For interior views see 747. House. Interiors. 1906 G 5492 1/1 and G 5493 1/1 This photograph was published in Progress, 1 November, 1906, page 25 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1882

From: Artist unknown :[North Canterbury sketches] 1882-1883

Reference: E-404-008

Description: Shows a fountain in the garden of the Horsely Down station. This is the middle section of a three-part picture of the Horsely Down station (left and right sections precede and follow this one in the sketchbook). The station was the home of John Willoughby Mallock, built in 1872 and occupied by him until his death in 1879. It was built in brick with a slate roof and had a fine surrounding garden. The fountain, still standing, was fed by a water-race several kilometres long and dug by hand from springs on the far side of the hill. Other Titles - Horsely Down Inscriptions: Album page - Inscription faces image. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, and sepia wash on page 90 x 130 mm. Provenance: Purchased for £5.00 at charity auction by Mr David Gibson. Forwarded to the Library by Norman Morris

Date: 1869

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Five sketchbooks with views of Dunedin and district and manuscript notes]

Reference: E-017-1-007

Description: A large house and garden, on flat land, the home of T M Hassal. The house has a second storey at one end. A winding path leads past tall trees to the right T M Hassal's funeral was held in Christchurch in October 1879, from his 'late residence, The Oaks' in Opawa, according to the Christchurch Star of 9 October 1879 Other Titles - Opawa Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook, 74 x 128 mm (page size)

Date: [1950s]

From: Jacques, James Anthony, 1901?-1987 :Slides of family, friends, holidays and world trips

Reference: PA12-2544-24

Description: Group of men, women, and children in a garden, Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand. Photographed by J A Jacques sometime in the 1950s. Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1925

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

By: Millton, Edward Bowler, 1861-1942

Reference: Pan-1844-F

Description: Birch Hill Station farmhouse, garden and grounds at Rangiora, in 1925. House centre left, with Arts and Crafts features, attic windows in the roof. Curved lawn in front of the house, flower beds and high clipped hedges on both sides. Sweeping lawns on a lower level with specimen trees including cabbage trees and shrubs. Gardens and house surrounded by tall shelter belts of trees. Mountains in the background. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - - `Birch Hill Station' 1925 -; Marginal notes on paper attached to negative - Col E B Milton [i.e. Millton]. Title `Birch Hill' Station. Rangiora. 1925. 1 Oils. 1 B & W. Red roof. Cream house. Put roses on rose bower. Dark green hills on right. Autumn tints. Red geraniums in front windows. Small amount of snow on hills. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative

Date: 1884

By: Anderson, Georgina Gertrude, 1863-1953; Case, Reginald Joseph, 1920-2003

Reference: A-253-034

Description: Shows Sir George Clifford's early home 'Stonyhurst' in the Amberley district, North Canterbury. The single-storied house is surrounded by tall trees, hills behind and a flower-garden and lawn in the foreground Other Titles - Stonyhurst [home of Sir George Clifford, Amberley district, North Canterbury] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Artist's initials: G G [or S] A; verso: 1884. Title & date & artist's initials (in pencil), Later inscription in ball-point pen by previous owner: "This painting by Aunt Georgie Anderson sent to me by Dorothea Cox through Mary M Anderson is of Sir George Cliffords early home in Canterbury South Island N.Z. His wife a friend of the Andersons in England" Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 354 x 252 mm

Date: 1869

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Five sketchbooks with views of Dunedin and district and manuscript notes]

Reference: E-017-1-006

Description: A large house and garden, probably a farm homestead. A stream runs in the foreground and tall hills are in the background. The hills appear to be Christchurch's Port Hills, and the house may be in the Opawa or Heathcote area The drawing on the following page of the sketchbook is of an Opawa residence, apparently visited by Hodgkins Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook, 74 x 128 mm (page size)

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Scenes from Geraldine to Oamaru] [ca 1950?]

Reference: A-227-341

Description: Shows a large single-storied house, painted dark red, with a verandah in front, a lawn, flower beds in the foreground, trees behind Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 285 mm

Date: 1852 - 1854

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: A-048-036

Description: View from Lyttelton, looking towards Quail Island and Governors Bay, showing several houses and their fenced in gardens in the foreground. There is washing hanging on a line behind a house to the left. One house to the right is larger with dormer windows in an upper storey and a verandah and large garden For attribution and provenance see A-048-027 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 175 x 252 mm

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: A-048-041

Description: A single-storied house with verandah and verandah posts across its front, set at the base of bush-clad hills on rising land. There is another structure, either a shed or dog-kennel at a lower point to the left For attribution and provenance see A-048-027. The house, called Glencarrig by Aylmer, still stands in Percy Street, Akaroa. It was much altered in the later nineteenth century Inscriptions: Verso - Title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 175 x 252 mm

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Akaroa scenes] / Cranleigh Barton [ca 1950]

Reference: A-227-330

Description: Shows a curved road leading to some buildings containing farm equipment. Includes trees in the foreground, part of a garden, and grassy plains and snow capped mountains in the background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 192 x 285 mm

Date: 1869

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Five sketchbooks with views of Dunedin and district and manuscript notes]

Reference: E-017-1-010/011

Description: A large house and garden, on flat land with the Port Hills in the background. The house has a verandah along the left side and other buildings adjacent on the right. Two men an a woman are playing croquet on the lawn to the left. A lawn roller is alongside a path on the right The area shown may be Opawa. A view on page 7 of this sketchbook shows Thomas Hassal's home in Opawa Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil across two pages in sketchbook, 74 x 256 mm

Date: [1950s]

From: Jacques, James Anthony, 1901?-1987 :Slides of family, friends, holidays and world trips

Reference: PA12-2544-25

Description: Group of men, women, and children in a garden, Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand. Photographed by J A Jacques sometime in the 1950s. Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1860 - 1869

By: Babington, Thomas A, active 1860s; Ray, Kenneth J, active 1950-2005

Reference: A-253-030

Description: Shows the farmhouse, barns, and property of surveyor Charles Reginald Shaw. The property is backed by tall trees, a drive runs towards the homestead through a small stream and several horses graze in the foreground Mounted on board Identified as the work of T A Babington from photographs of similar privately-owned paintings and drawings, several associated with C R Shaw, including the Library's watercolour of Shaw's house at Timaru (Reference number B-035-037) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 160 x 354 mm

Date: 1862

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Hogg, Neville William (Dr), 1927-2007; Cornes, Don, active 1974-1995

Reference: B-121-020

Description: Shows Weld's third New Zealand home "Brackenfield" near Amberley with his wife and two oldest children in the foreground. A horse is beside Mrs Weld and the two children. The house and garden look newly established with clumps of cabbage trees and flaxes in flower and flower gardens closer to the house. There is a conservatory to the right of the house and another building, probably a barn, to the far right. To the left of the house is a small chapel. The Welds married in March 1859, so the two children, two-and-a half years later are likely to be the two oldest. Weld purchased the initial 304 acres of land for Brackenfield in July 1861. The 16-room kauri house, its timber shipped from Auckland, was demolished in 1964. Weld also laid out the park-like grounds and imported English deer and game birds. The chapel, one of the first Catholic churches in Canterbury, was moved from the Brackenfield entrance in the 1950s to the main road through Amberley Other Titles - Amberley Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Brackenfield N Z F.A.W. Nov 1862 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 248 x 358 mm Provenance: Purchased by Don Cornes in Melbourne from Julian Sterling, owner of Southern Cross Gallery, Exhibition Street, ca 1973. Brought to New Zealand. (Information from Don Cornes, personal communication 19 April 1995). Purchased at Dunbar Sloane's, Wellington, by Dr Neville Hogg for $1400 in 1977.

Date: ca 1915

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-011938-G

Description: Looking over a field of daffodils, towards Otahuna homestead, Taitapu, Canterbury. Photograph taken circa 1915 by an unidentified photographer for The Press newspaper. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: 1945 - 1955

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Akaroa scenes] / Cranleigh Barton [ca 1950]

Reference: A-227-319

Description: A brick house with gable windows in the roofl, another smaller red house behind it. The houses are viewed from their surrounding garden through deciduous trees showing Spring growth Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 285 mm

Date: [ca 1880s-1920s]

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-021916-G

Description: Meadowbank house, Ellesmere, Christchurch. Photographed by the Steffano Webb Photographic Studio, Christchurch, probably in 1913.. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative. Designed by Christchurch architectural firm, Collins and Harmon, for George Edward Rhodes. Built in 1891. This photograph is probably part of the sequence on Meadowbank that includes views of the garden taken in 1913. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: [1950s]

From: Jacques, James Anthony, 1901?-1987 :Slides of family, friends, holidays and world trips

Reference: PA12-2549-26

Description: Group of women, and children at the entrance to a house, Euston Street, Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand. Photographed by J A Jacques sometime in the 1950s. Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies.