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Kirk album
Date: [1880s]
From: Kirk, Thomas William, 1856-1936: Photograph album
By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PA1-q-138
Description: Photograph album of New Zealand and Pacific Island scenes. Most were taken by George Dobson Valentine, in the North Island of New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, and Tahiti; a few were taken by the Burton Brothers in the South Island. Within the New Zealand scenes there are a large number of views inside and out of the Waitomo Caves; and another group show the area around Lake Rotomahana with the Pink and White Terraces before and after the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera. Pages 88 to 150 are blank. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown cover, mottled brown corners and spine, with gold lettering on black panel on spine `Kirk. Prints of New Zealand'; a bookplate inside the front cover reads `Thomas William Kirk'; 35.0 x 26.5 cm
Auckland wharves ca 1870s
Date: ca 1870s
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: 1/2-002194-F
Description: Demolition of Britomart Point in the background and the wharves in the foreground with associated businesses such as C Leahy and Odlum & Smith. Photograph taken by the Burton Bros. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative
Photographs of the Arapuni dam, the Catlins and other views
Date: [ca 1890-1927]
From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); France, J W, active 1890s
Reference: PAColl-0348
Description: Mounted photographs by the Burton Brothers of the junction of Eden and Tees Streets, Oamaru showing St Luke's Church, shops, tram lines and part of the Council Chambers; looking down on the wharves of Port Chalmers with the Presbyterian Church in the right foreground; and the Kakahi Falls, near Tawhata on the Whanganui River. Two smaller mounted photographs of a river in the Catlins District. Three pages from a photograph album holding five photographs of the building of the Arapuni Dam on the Waikato River including the buried forest exposed by the Waikato River diversion. Three loose prints by J W France of an early settlers' cottage made of ponga with a turf roof and with the family outside; a group of six workmen standing on the road they were building with long handled shovels and a boy and a dog in front of them; and the funeral procession of Sir John MacKenzie in 1901 led by a pipe band up the main road in Oamaru working. Finally a loose print of the bridge over the Waiho River. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-68928 to 1/2-068934. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.
Wellington wharves
Date: ca 1890s
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: 1/2-008083-F
Description: Ships moored at the wharves in Wellington with Point Jerningham in the background ca 1890s. Taken from the tower of the Post Office by Burton Brothers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative
Field album 19
Date: [1850s-1890s]
From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs
By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Finch, F, active 1878-1900; Hodgkins, William John Parker, 1866-1945
Reference: PA1-q-089
Description: Photographs of the Field and Hodgkins families, taken by William Hughes Field; and of New Zealand scenes. A number of views are of Dunedin taken between 1850 and 1868. Professional photographers include W J P Hodgkins, the Burton Brothers, F Finch and F A Coxhead. Individual views show scenes including a match played between the English cricket team vs Wellington, at the Basin Reserve, March 23-24, 1888; fire that destroyed the offices of Buckley & Co, a legal firm in Wellington, circa 1890s; views of a yachting party in Pelorus Sound; a house built of punga logs, circa 1858; various houses belonging to the Field and Hodgkins families, including Cranmore Lodge (Dunedin), and the Field house in Everton Terrace (Wellington). Also includes photographs of the Hodgkins' rented house in Ravensbourne. Inside the back cover is a black and white photographic copy of an illuminated address to Bishop Selwyn in farewell on his departure from New Zealand, with vignettes painted by Charles Decimus Barraud. Album signed `W Hughes Field, Terrace, Wellington, 1890-' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black covers, 30.0 x 25.5 cm
Turnbull album
Date: [Circa 1880s]
By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903; Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890
Reference: PA1-f-076
Description: Album of photographs taken by various photographers circa 1880s, including the Burton brothers, George Valentine, and W T L Travers. Photographs of Tenerife, Cape Town (and probably the views of Hobart) were taken from the ship "Doric" in 1885, possibly by Alexander Turnbull on one of his return trips from Europe. Other Titles - New Zealand, Tasmania [and] Ships Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled in gold lettering on spine "New Zealand, Tasmania, Ships, A H Turnbull"; 31.5 x 43.0 cm
Hill-Trevor album 1
Date: 1897-1904
From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly
By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Pulman (Firm); Shepherd, Cromwell, active 1903-1934
Reference: PA1-f-142
Description: Charles Hill-Trevor's personal album of the time he spent as personal secretary to Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. It records the New Zealand contingents sent to the South African war and public events, personalities and patriotic entertainments associated with that enterprise. Visits to Government houses in Australia record other governors, officials and official residences. On one occasion in Melbourne a New Zealand versus Australia polo match was played. Hill-Trevor shows an interest in Māori, wildlife conservation (including the bird sanctuary on Resolution Island), and the sports of fishing, polo and horsemanship. There are photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their principal servants as well as the Governor engaged in official functions such as opening the Kaiapoi council offices and laying the foundation stone of the Veterans Home, Mt Roskill, Auckland in 1903. Also photographs relating to the play 'The Geisha'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Railway yards and wharf, Auckland
Date: 1880s
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: 1/2-002196-F
Description: Railway yards and wharf, Auckland, circa 1880s. Signs advertise: "Coal depot Hammond & Bryon" and "Casey & Co Waikato Coal Depot". Photograph taken by the Burton Brothers. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 2439 Auckland Harbour Burton Bros Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Lyttelton
Date: 1878
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: 1/2-027865-F
Description: Lyttelton wharf and township in 1878. Shows railway sheds in the foreground. Photograph taken by the Burton Brothers. Note on back of file print reads: "Railway station at end of Oxford Street - 2nd position. Later moved to right of [unreadable]." Burton Brothers number unknown. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - [unreadable] Lyttelton Burton Brothers Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Paddle steamer Mountaineer berthed at Kinlock, Lake Wakatipu - Photograph taken by the ...
Date: ca 1880s-1890s
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 18
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PAColl-7581-83
Description: The paddle steamer "Mountaineer" berthed at Kinlock, Lake Wakatipu. Shows the wharf alongside, and stacks of timber piled upon it. Photograph taken by the Burton Brothers circa 1880s-1890s. PA7-33-19 is a similar image taken at the same time Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - [unreadable] at Kinlock; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Burton Bros Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.4 x 20.4 cm
Lyttelton wharves
Date: between 1868-1898
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 18
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PAColl-7581-47
Description: Lyttelton wharves, photographed by the Burton Brothers between 1868 and 1898. Shows buildings on (Norwich Quay?) in the foreground. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 1485 - Lyttleton Burton Bros Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.1 x 21.3 cm