Places

Date: 1890 - 1901

By: Shaw, Allen Desmond, 1944-; Child, Edward George, 1860-1949

Reference: PAColl-2171

Description: Photographs of: seven men leaning on shovels outside a hut and two men with shovels holding the reins of drays at the harbour side (both taken by Anglo New Zealand photo); the railway line and water tank at Rata with men, women and children in an open railway carriage on the right; D class locomotive with four men standing next to it; men cutting flax on a wooden jetty next to a river; men outside a hut with piles of flax bundles; the Delphic captioned as "the largest boat that trades to New Zealand" moored in Wellington (taken by E G Child); a large crowd outside the Parliament Buildings for the memorial service on the death of Queen Victoria; and a group of men and one woman outside a corrugated iron hut. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.

Date: 1895

By: Ross, Samuel G, active 1890s

Reference: E-341-f

Description: Scenes of St Paul's pro-cathedral, Bishop's Court, Government House, Queen's wharf and Lake Manapouri. Surrounded by native vegetation including nikau, toetoe, tree fern, flax, a cabbage tree, rata, clematis paniculata and ferns. There are also taiaha and tewhatewha (Maori weapons) used as backgrounds to two of the inserts. Image of Lake Manapouri inaccurately shows a nikau and cabbage tree, neither of which occur naturally in southern Fiordland Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour in bound format, dark green watered silk front endpaper, inlaid ornamental wood cover-folder in kauri, 450 x 360 mm