Places

Date: [ca 1875-1899]

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Grayston, Daphne, -1966

Reference: PA-Group-00198

Description: Photographs taken by David Alexander De Maus at his Port Chalmers studio, ca 1875-1899. Collection consists mainly of portraits of sailing ships and steam ships visiting Port Chalmers, but also includes views of Port Chalmers and environs. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives catalogued at 1/4-009294, 009439, 009579, 009586, 009617, 009681, 009687, 009768, 009822, 009826, 009829, 009834, 009838, 010123, 010167, 010215, 012551, 012552; 1/2-003202 to 003215, 003217 to 003227, 180393, 190155, 190172 to 190173; 1/1-003300 to 003500, 003503 to 003515, 005724 to 005750, 021643 to 021657. Prints at PAColl-3035-1. Negatives made by D A De Maus at his Port Chalmers studio, at 62 George Street. Quantity: 625 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 1/1 and 1/2 plate glass negatives Provenance: The collection was divided on the death of De Maus; the shipping photos being taken to England by his daughter, Mrs D Grayston, another group being held in Outram by another daughter, Mrs O J Armour, and a third group being left in the studio, which had passed in 1932 to Miss Catherine Euphemia Matheson. She worked as a photographer from that address. Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 1993. Reference number changed from PAColl-3035 to PA-Group-00198 in 2008.

Date: 1880 - 1920

By: Reffin, Joyce Hazel, 1918-1987; De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925

Reference: PAColl-4629

Description: Photographs of men on a fire truck outside the Thorndon Fire Station ca 1919, a montage of the six staff of No.3 Station (Thorndon), the engine of the Wellington Harbour Board fire brigade, 'SS Airedale', 'Margaret Ann', Captain Edmonds' house at Port Chalmers, George Edmonds, Wellington Central Fire Station. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1889-1890

From: Angus, Robert K, fl 1964 :New Zealand photograph albums

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925

Reference: PA1-o-018

Description: Album of photographs of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition held in Dunedin, 1889-1990, taken by David Alexander De Maus. Other Titles - New Zealand Exhibition Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 178 x 240 mm brown cover with title "New Zealand Exhibition. D.A. De Maus. Official photographer" in gold

Date: [Between 1870s and 1880s]

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd.

Reference: Pa1-o-389

Description: Early photographs of New Zealand, mostly taken by unidentified photographers. One collage of Union Steam Ship Company ships, ship captains and the head office building in Dunedin was photographed and issued by David Alexander De Maus. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album cover pink and white pattern with gold tracery, red spine; 24.0 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1890

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925

Reference: Eph-A-PHOTO-1890-01

Description: Envelope designed to hold photographic prints, by the Port Chalmers photographic studio run by David De Maus. Shows an inset illustration of the buildings of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, 1889-1890. At head of recto: By special appointment to their Excellencies Sir Jas Ferguson & Sir Wm Jervois. Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on blue envelope, 210 x 130 mm. Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2008. Other material of the same provenance is at PAColl-9337. Transfers: From Photographic Archive - PAColl-9337.

Date: [ca 1890]

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925

Reference: PAColl-8123

Description: Mills & Co Wool and Grain Stores at Port Chalmers. Photographed ca 1890 by David Alexander De Maus. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Mills & Cos Wooland Grain Stores Port Chalmers; Mount recto - beneath image - De Maus exhibition photo. And fine art publisher, Dunedin and Port Chalmers. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14 cms, mount 27 x 22.4 cms

Date: [Between 1873 and 1900]

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925

Reference: PAColl-4332

Description: A view of the ship `Margaret Galbraith' in Otago Harbour photographed between 1873 and 1900 by David Alexander De Maus. Other - The negative from which this print was made is held by the Library at 1/4-009822 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Margaret Galbraith [written in reverse] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 7.3 x 10.2 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance inforamtion available for this collection. Possibly part of a larger collection.

Date: 1873?

From: Dickie, John, 1869-1942 :Collection of postcards, prints and negatives

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925

Reference: PAColl-3037-1-09

Description: Sailing ship Allahabad photographed at Port Chalmers by David Alexander De Maus, probably in 1873. The Allahabad made one voyage to Port Chalmers, in 1873. Source of information: Comer Index. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 87 x 139 mm

Date: 1922

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925

Reference: 1/2-190172-G

Description: The wreck of the steamship 'Rona' at Auckland in 1922. Photographed by an unidentified photographer. Copy negative made by David Alexander De Maus with his own title. See also negative taken from the same print, with slightly differing inscription, at 1/2-016163-G. File print for the similar negative available at: 387. Rona (1/2-016163) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - S.S. "Rona" ashore at Auckland 1922. The 'Rona' was a steel screw steamer of 6205 grt, built in 1918 by Sir R Dixon & Co., Middlesborough; owned by the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., Sydney. See Lloyd's Register (1921-1922). Still registered in "Ships in the Australian, New Zealand & Islands registers" (1951). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Dyson, Mrs, fl 1958 :Photographs, chiefly of scenic views in the South Island in New Zealand, and Victoria in Australia

By: Clifford & Company; De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Finch, F, active 1878-1900; Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?

Reference: PA1-q-069

Description: Various photographers including De Maus, Henry Lock, F. Finch and Clifford & Co. Photographs include scenes at various gold-mining claims on the West Coast; bridges Over rivers on the West Coast and Otago regions; one of a large group of Freemasons carrying banners relating to various Lodges; and a number of images of Ballarat, Geelong and Queenscliff in Australia. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black album with gold decoration, 31 x 26 cm

Date: 1902

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925

Reference: PA7-43-16

Description: The sailing ship Chance, lying on its side aground in shallow water at Bluff. Photograph taken by David Alexander De Maus, 1902 Original negative 1/1-001999-G Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - The old `Chance' as man of war, merchantman and whaler for over one hundred years. In her last resting place. Bluff, N.Z. d'Maus. Pro 1902; Mount verso - centre - 7905 Darroch Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.5 x 18.8 cm mounted behind card 25.2 x 30.4 cm

Date: ca1875-1893

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Main, William, 1934-2023

Reference: PAColl-1873

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1863-1888]

By: Young, Archibald, -1954; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Caney, Ebenezer, active 1883-1887; De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Savage, Charles Roscoe, 1832-1909; Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA1-q-748

Description: Photograph album of images taken by various photographers (identified below). Chiefly scenic views of New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii, and United States of America. Also eight images of Fijian and Samoan persons. Album compiled by Archibald Young ca 1888. - Album features photographs of New Zealand, including Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Gisborne, Port Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Hutt Valley and river, Waitakere Falls, Oamaru, Queenstown, Waikato River at Ateamure [sic], Mt Earnslaw and Lake Wakatipu, Milford Sound, Lake Manapouri, Ohinemutu, Lake Rotorua and Mokoia, and Wairakei. Also includes series of George Dobson Valentine images relating to the eruption of Mount Tarawera (before and after), including the Pink and White Terraces, Tikitapu Bush, Lake Rotomahana, Echo Lake and rent in the side of the mountain. Album also contains images relating to Maori, including King Tawhiao but also unidentified group images, meeting houses, various carved object, and dried heads. - Images from Australia feature: Cape Raoul, Mount Wellington and other Tasmanian scenes; Melbourne city scenes, including 1888 Exhibition building, Scots Church, Federal Coffee Palace, Princess Theatre, and Bourke Street; Ballarat; Garden Gully Goldmine; Sandhurst, including the School of Mines and Industry and the Shamrock Hotel; Blue Mountains, New South Wales, with Katoomba Falls, Govett's Leap, Weeping Rock, and Jenolan Caves featured; and a panorama of Sydney, including the harbour. - Photographs from the Republic of Hawaii feature Diamond Head, King's Palace and Princess Ruth's Palace, Coconut grove at Waikiki, Hawaiian Hotel, E C Hall's residence, gardens at Queen Hospital, and various dance groups. Photographs from the United States of America feature: San Francisco images include general city views, the observatory at Golden Gate Park, and Beach Drive from Cliff House; various images of geological formations in Yosemite Valley including Yosemite Falls, Merced River, and an unidentified group standing on Glacier Point; Salt Lake City, including the house of Brigham Young and the Mormon Tabernacle; Colorado Springs' Antlers Hotel and Garden of the Gods; and a number of images of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Line, including railway engine and passenger cars, Castle Gate, Marshall Pass, and Royal Gorge. - Also contains a number of portraits of unidentified Fijian and Samoan women and girls, and one group portrait of Fijian men. - Photographers include John R Morris, [James?] Connolly, Burton Brothers, Daniel Louis Mundy, George Dobson Valentine, David Alexander De Maus, Josiah Martin, Ebenezer Caney, [W M?] Reynolds, Chuck Photo, Faber Photo San Francisco, Charles Roscoe Savage, and William Henry Jackson -Miscellaneous materials include a loose print of a construction [mining? drilling?] scene [ca 1880s-1890s] and pressed leaves that are dark brown against paper but reddish brown when held to the light. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Opposite leaf to album page one `Daddy went twice around the world but the second time he got a chill playing deck cricket'; On album page 45, above photograph of Hawaiian Hotel (Honolulu) `Daddie had breakfast with the King & Queen of Honolulu'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album Provenance: Donor is a distant relative of Archibald Young.

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925

Reference: PA7-09-07

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1865-1874

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925

Reference: 1/2-015488-F

Description: The Peter Denny in Otago Harbour, taken by David Alexander De Maus, between 1865-1874 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - "Peter Denny" The Peter Denny was built for the Albion Company in 1865 by Duthie of Aberdeen Scotland, for use as a vessel for immigration. During the first five voyages from 1865-1872, she brought out a total of 376 passengers. The Peter Denny was a ship of near 1000 tons and was a fast ship. She made seven trips to Port Chalmers betweem 1865-1874. (Information from 'White wings: fifty years of sail in the New Zealand trade 1850-1900, Volume I by Henry Brett, 1924). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [ca 1910-1925]

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Winkelmann, Henry, 1860-1931

Reference: PAColl-0603

Description: Postcards of New Zealand scenes mostly in Waikato and Northland, including the new Awanui Wireless Station at Kaitaia; a steam locomotive on the railway bridge next to Victoria Battery; the interior of Union Battery; view of Whakatane with Regan's Commercial Hotel on the left and a billiards hall at the end of the street; a view over Port Chalmers; Mount Ruapehu covered in snow; a steam ship docking at the wharf at Tauranga; a steam ship pulling away from the wharves at Whangarei; view over Dargaville from Mount Wesley; view down Victoria Street, Dargaville looking towards the railway station; view over Kaitaia from the hotel; sheep mustered next to the Kaeo River; the road and rail bridges over the Waikato River in Hamilton; the Hauraki Pumping Plant in Thames; the extension works at Waihi Grand Junction Battery; the steam ship Clansman at the wharf at Mangonui; the Mokau Coal Mines on the Mokau River with boats moored at the jetty; the school and church at Mangonui; the Topeheihei Falls near Morrinsville; a crowd of people outside the mountain house with Mount Taranaki in the background; Marine Parade, Napier looking north; view over Petone towards Somes Island showing the carriage works and the mill next to the jetty; Glaxo factory at Matamata; a viaduct near Te Kuiti; a train on the Rimutaka Incline; and three views from the Northern Steam Ship Company's annual summer cruise of Port Fitzroy, Whangaroa, and Doubtless Bay. Quantity: 50 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1848, 1862, 1898, 1927 - 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Anderson, G D, active 1934; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; Whites Aviation Ltd; De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Pickard, D, active 1940s-1950s; Johnson, W E, active 1927; Robertson, David Ogilvie, 1850?-1920

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-030

Description: Photographs of the West Coast of the South Island, Otago and Southland, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1927 to 1950. Includes a painting of the `Philip Laing' and `John Wickliffe' in Port Chalmers in 1848, painted by D O Robertson in 1898 and photographed by De Maus. Also includes a photograph of Gabriels Gully, Lawrence, in 1862, and later photographs of memorials to Gabriel Read. Photographers include W E Johnson, J D S Roberts, G D Anderson, D Pickard, Whites Aviation, D A De Maus and L A Inkster. Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1870s-ca 1910

By: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Ring, James, 1856-1939; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Valentine, James, -1880; Cottier, Charles Percy, -1950; Wilson, George Washington, 1823-1893; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Ross & Sons (Firm); New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PAColl-0195

Description: Tourist photographs of the major scenic places in New Zealand Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 container(s) 214 photoprints. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [Between 1914 and 1918]

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925

Reference: PAColl-9336

Description: Photograph of the troopships 'Waikare' (left) and 'Moura' at Port Chalmers. The contingent is leaving 'Moura' for farewell addresses at Port Chalmers. Photograph taken between 1914 and 1918 by David De Maus. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: [ca 1866-1915]

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925

Reference: MS-Group-0539

Description: The collection includes scores, songs, programmes, lectures and associated papers Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Quantity: 15 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Many of the music scores have covers illustrated by D A De Maus