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Date: 1866-[ca 1955]

From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9827-1

Description: Includes - Photographs of explorer Charles Edward Douglas. Group of men in a cart drawn by four horses, 1920. Group of South African War veterans outside the Beverly Home, Timaru, 1950s. Antarctic explorer Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd laying a wreath at the Scott Memorial, Christchurch, ca 1928. View of Lyttelton. Men crossing a river. Farmers tree at Beverly. Bowen Falls, Milford Sound. The Prince of Wales at Ashburton, 17 May 1920. Galloway homestead. Fraser's jewellery shop, Timaru, ca 1935. Views of Southland, ca 1905. Crowd at Invercargill celebrating the relief of Mafeking, May 1900. Early settler's houses, one built of cobb and thatched. Photographs relating to the centenary of T & J Thompson Ltd, Timaru, 1944. Brunner coal mine, 1866. TSS Earnlaw on Lake Wakatipu. Quantity: 45 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1866, 1872

From: Hope, Charles Webley (Rear Admiral) 1829-1880 : Letter journals of Captain Charles W Hope of HMS Brisk

Reference: qMS-1002-01

Description: Three photographs: "Capt. C.W. Hope, HMS Brisk, 1866; Capt C.W. Hope, c 1872; Monument in Royal Dockyard Chapel, Devonport [no date]." Quantity: 1 page. Physical Description: Three sepia photographs on page 210 x 349mm

Date: 1866

By: Liardet, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn, 1799-1878

Reference: B-035-018

Description: Flax and toitoi in the foreground, a group of Pakeha and Maori to the right, the Tuamarina Hotel with verandah and a shed in the middle ground, the Picton-Blenheim road with horse-drawn carriage, telegraph poles alongside and the hill with a monument where the Wairau Affray occurred in 1843 Liardet painted two copies of this scene. The Library holds an almost identical watercolour at C-030-017 Liardet was passing through Tuamarina to investigate iron sand deposits in the Nelson area when he painted this view. Quantity: 1 photograph(s) black & white. Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour 240 x 350 mm Provenance: Cowan left the painting with the Rutherford family at Canvastown and when their possessions were dispersed, an aunt of the owner bought the picture, said to be an "oil and watercolour with Indian Ink" [i.e. probably watercolour with Indian ink, possibly with gum arabic]. Information from the donor of the photograph, Tuamarina, 11.7.1955

Date: 1866 - 1868

By: Liardet, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn, 1799-1878

Reference: C-030-017

Description: Flax and toitoi in the foreground, a group of Pakeha and Maori to the right, the Tuamarina Hotel with verandah and a shed in the middle ground, the Picton-Blenheim road with horse-drawn carriage, telegraph poles alongside and the hill with a monument where the Wairau Affray occurred in 1843 Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. The monument to the victims of the Wairau Affray was unveiled in March 1866. This watercolour may show part of the unveiling ceremony Liardet painted two copies of this scene. A photograph of a privately-owned oil and watercolour is held at B-035-018 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 305 x 480 mm