Late in 1861 Charles Cole arrived in Dunedin from Victoria, Australia with some 50 horses and several goods and passenger vehicles. He adopted the firm name of Cobb & Co from the company of the same name in Australia (see An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand Vol 1, pp 364-165)
Cobb & Company (N.Z.)
Field album 7
Date: [Between 1880s and 1890s]
From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs
Reference: PA1-q-079
Description: Views of the Otago Region taken by unidentified photographers, circa 1870s to 1895. Many show buildings in Dunedin, including one house `Lisburn House' built for the Fulton family in 1865; also commercial buildings, church buildings, school buildings (Otago Boys' High School), and Dunedin Gaol. The church buildings include the Chapel in Leith Street, the Chapel in Great King Street, and the Baptist Chapel. Beyond Dunedin there are views of Naseby, Butchers Gully, Port Chalmers, Cromwell, Kyeburn, Shag Valley, and Lake Hayes, Lake Wanaka and Lake Hawea. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover decorated with gold birds, lettering and decorations outlined in black; 30.5 x 25.5 cm
South Island album
Date: [Circa 1910s?]
By: New Zealand. Government Tourist Bureau
Reference: PA1-o-473
Description: Photographs of the South Island taken by various photographers, mostly unidentified, circa 1910s Other Titles - New Zealand photographs - South Island Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "New Zealand photographs. South Island" in gold lettering; 26 x 32 cm
Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918 :Pleasures of a public conveyance in New Zealand. C...
Date: 1867
From: Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918 :Illustrations of New Zealand 1865?-1867
Reference: E-370-008-1
Description: A coach inscribed Cobb & Co Line Coaches, Wellington Wairarapa, with passengers and with the artist sitting alongside the driver at the front, being accosted by a drunk man, who, according to the caption is saying "Cobb, old fellow. I'm glad to see you. Shake hands ole feller. Will you have a glass? etc etc." There is a dog standing in front of the pair of horses. The scene is at Tauherenikau. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 100 x 205 mm
Mair album
Date: [Between 1903 and 1906]
By: Mair, John Thomas, 1876-1959; New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts
Reference: PA1-o-321
Description: Album of scenic photographs, chiefly taken by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department, with views of the North Island and South Island. North Island scenes include a number of tourist views of Maori, showing carved meeting houses; a group performing a haka; two women demonstrating the hongi; a young woman wearing a feather cloak, hei tiki and huia feathers, and holding a mere; a group of young boys in a haka pose; a woman smoking a pipe; a group of children bathing in a hot pool at Ohinemutu; and Mr. Nelson's carved house at Whakarewarewa. Other North Island scenes show Mount Taranaki, the Auckland wharves, Lake Waikaremoana, and a man fishing at the Ohau Channel, Rotorua. South Island views cover Lakes Wakatipu, Manapouri and Te Anau; the Tasman Glacier; peaks in the Southern Alps; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; a team of four horses with a laden Cobb & Co coach on a ferry, crossing the Mangahua [i.e. Inangahua] River, the Lyell River Bridge and Hawks Crag, all in the Buller Gorge. The last few images are exterior and interior views of the Dunedin Railway Station soon after it was finished in 1906. Inscriptions: Album page - John T. Mair, Wellington, New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured black cover, entitled `Photographs' lettered in gold; 26.0 x 31.5 cm
Tonks album
Date: 1880-1889
By: F Bradley & Company; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911
Reference: PA1-o-497
Description: Album of photographs compiled ca 1880s, from print published by F Bradley & Co, of Christchurch. Comprises views of Shag Rock, Timaru, Christchurch, Bealey, Greymouth, Oamaru, Rangitata River bridge, Dunedin, Taupo, Waimakariri River bridge, Governor's Bay, Kaiapoi, Arthur's Pass, Kawau Island, Cheviot, Akaroa Harbour, Alfred Falls, the Pink Terrace, White Island, Otira Gorge, Pigeon Bay, gold mining at Thames, Nelson, Heathcote River, the cable car across the Taramakau River, Sumner, and Tamatekapua meeting house at Ohinemutu. Also included are carte de visite portraits of Maori. Among the photographers whose work is shown are Herbert Deveril and Daniel Louis Mundy. Each photograph has a printed inscription attached on the back of the page. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 25 x 32 cm
Hoyt, Charles James, fl 1868-1875 : Bankruptcy file
Date: 26 Jun 1875
By: Hoyt, Charles James, active 1868-1878
Reference: MS-Papers-3474
Description: Statement re insolvency by Hoyt in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia, listing creditors owed and application for bankruptcy Hoyt was one of 3 brothers in the employ of Cobb & Co in Dunedin. In 1868 the Hoyts went to Japan and established some of the earliest coach runs to Yokohama. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopy)
[Menus and restaurant ephemera of quarto size. 1984-1989]
Date: 1984 - 1989
From: [Menus and restaurant ephemera of quarto size]
Reference: Eph-B-DINING-1984/1989
Description: Includes: 1984: Bawdy Bill's, Wellington first fully licensed theatré [sic] restaurant, 24 Taranaki St Wellington. Advertising flyer [1984] Bellamy's. Bellamy's annual holidays [hours of opening 1984-1985 summer]. Flyer The Burlington, 19 Myrtle Street Lower Hutt. Promotional circular letter signed by Michel Jay. July 1984 Cobb & Co. Menu / placemat. 12/84 [December 1984?] The Great New Zealand Soup Kitchen, coffee house, restaurant & gallery, 32 Waring Taylor Street Wellington. Promotional yellow flyer 1984 Restaurant Club discount book. Limited offer. Flyer That's Natural BYO Cafe & Restaurant. Earthfood. 88 Manners Mall Wellington Aotearoa NZ. Menu/flyer 1985: Angkor Cambodian Licenced Restaurant. Luncheon / dinner menu [1985] As You Like It Café, 32-34 Riddiford St. Promotional flyer/sample menu [1985] McDonald's. The following shifts are now available in our Manners St Restaurant [1985. Yellow flyer] Skyline Restaurant. Menu [1985] Somerset Licenced Restaurant. Level 3 The Plaza, Manners Mall Wellington. [Advertising flyer signed by manager Selwyn Thomson. 1985] 1986: Plimmers bars & licensed eating house. Top of Plimmers Steps (Includes Windows on Wellington licensed restaurant) [Flyer. 1986] 1987? Coming soon: Lizard Lounge, the new eaterie, Lower Cuba Street ... [ca 1987] 1988: Air New Zealand Pacific Class. Menu August 1988 Asian Food Fair. Wesley Church Hall, 75 Taranaki St, 30 July 1988. Flyer Chances R Italian Eaterie. Village Complex, Rimu Street Eastbourne. Two different flyers (one yellow, one blue) Coastal Pacific Express. Christchurch-Picton Intercity. Devonshire teas, Buffet selection. Menu/timetable [1988] Old Bailey "two for one" lunch voucher. Offer expires 13 August [1988]. Flyer 1989: The Cobb & Co story. [Placemat. September 1989] Greenstone Room Restaurant. Smorgasbord. Flyer [1989?] Kasey's Food to U; delivering hot ready to eat meals, cooked to order. Effective from Thursday November 23rd [1989?]. Flyer/menu (2 copies) Zino's Restaurant, 351 The Parade Island Bay Wellington. Zino's 6 February 1989. Menu/flyer Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on cards, sizes varying below 210 mm.
Cobb & Co coach on the road to Glenhope
Date: ca 1910s
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 16
Reference: PAColl-7344-55
Description: A Cobb & Co coach pulled by four horses on the road to Glenhope. The driver is H Newman, Jack the Russian is in the coach, P S Scot is standing at the rear and the groom is J Broad. Photographer is unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Masonic Hotel, Havelock, Nelson, with Cobb & Co Coach outside
Date: Ca 1890s
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
Reference: 10x8-0413-G
Description: Other Titles - Tyree No. 5345 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Tyree Brothers (Firm) :Photograph of a Cobb & Co coach and horses on the Buller Road, M...
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
By: Tyree Brothers (Firm)
Reference: PA7-23-15
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Longford Accommodation House, Nelson with Cobb & Co coach
Date: Ca 1890s
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
Reference: 10x8-0411-G
Description: Other Titles - Tyree No. 5416 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Creator of Collection Unknown : Coaches outside the Motupiko Inn
Date: ca 1900
Reference: PAColl-7437
Description: A Cobb & Co coach pulled by four horses and driven by Harry Newman outside the inn; and another coach approaching the inn with a man swinging off it. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).
McIntyre, Peter 1910-1995 :Cobb & Co. coach at Middlemarch, by Peter McIntyre. [Aucklan...
Date: 1969
By: McIntyre, Peter, 1910-1995
Reference: C-079-024
Description: "Courtesy of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and the Southern Cross Hotel in Dunedin, to whom the mural is on extended loan." Issued as a gift print for Sharlands' clients, 200 prints being sold at the Southern Cross Hotel, at $1 each Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 235 x 545 on sheet 260 x 568 mm
Nelson-Blenheim mail coach crossing the Wairau River
Date: ca 1900s
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 17
By: Cameron, D D, active 1915
Reference: PAColl-7489-97
Description: A Cobb & Co mail coach pulled by four horses and carrying passengers and luggage crossing the Wairau River. Photographer was D D Cameron. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Longford Accommodation House, Nelson, with Cobb & Co coach
Date: Ca 1890s
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
Reference: 10x8-0412-G
Description: Other Titles - Tyree No. 5415 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Newman's Cobb & Co horse drawn coach, pulled up outside Pelorus Hotel, Canvastown
Date: [ca 1890's]
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
Reference: 10x8-0444-G
Description: Newman's Cobb & Co horse drawn coach, pulled up outside F Thomas' Pelorus Hotel, Canvastown. Photograph taken circa 1890s by the Tyree Studio. Original print from this negative at PAColl-3064-01 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Pelorus Hotel, Canvastown Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
New Zealand views album 1
Date: [Between 1870s and 1880s]
By: Hart, Campbell & Company; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hart, William Paterson, active 1870s-1900s
Reference: PA1-o-390
Description: Early photographs of New Zealand, most taken by Hart, Campbell & Co, and Wheeler & Son. Inserted in a pocket attached inside the front cover are two items. One an old print of a hut at Milford, taken by Hart, Campbell & Co, and the other a newspaper cutting (Evening Star Friday March 23, 1934), of Dunedin from View Street, and Dunedin from Dowling Street, both taken in 1861. The photograph of a Cobb & Co. coach at Palmerston, has the caption `2. Cobb's coach. E Devine, driver. Palmerston, Otago, N.Z. 1876' and the photographers are named as Hart, Campbell & Co. One set of photographs have no captions and no identification of photographer. They follow a group of men travelling along a river bed, with small rowing boats, on river banks, and at the foot of waterfalls. Another sequence shows native bush, tree ferns and rivers. Two views (pages 8, 10) show Linnburn Station. One is unidentified in the album, but identified from the same image at Te Papa (digital view on the internet), the other closer view of the homestead has a caption. Relationship complexity - The photograph of Cobb's Coach at Palmerston (p. 7), is the same image as one at PAColl-7344-54 (Box 16), with the same caption `2. Cobb's coach. E Devine, driver. Palmerston, Otago, N.Z. 1865', but the photographers are identified as Hart, Campbell & Co. on this image, but identified as Burton Bros. on the PAColl copy. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with very dark blue-green cloth cover, black corners and spine, entitled `New Zealand views' in gold lettering; 24.5 x 32.5 cm
Caukrodger's Hotel and Cobb & Co. coach, Foxhill, Nelson
Date: Ca 1890s
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
Reference: 10x8-0407-G
Description: Other Titles - Tyree No. 5404 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
J. O. W. :The Cass Accomodation House / J O W 3. 7. 1886
Date: 1886
Reference: A-159-041
Description: Extensive view of the Cass Accommodation house with outhouses and a Cobb & Co. coach, mountains behind Other Titles - The Cass Accommodation House Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on paper 125 x 174 mm
Reid album 1
Date: [Between 1880s and 1890s]
From: Bothamley family: Papers and photographs
By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911; Lindt, John William, 1845-1926; Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936
Reference: PA1-o-431
Description: Photographs taken during the 1880s and 1890s, chiefly by Henry Charles Clarke Wright, with others probably taken by Herbert Deveril. All show scenes in New Zealand except one, prabably taken by J W Lindt, of an Australian aboriginal man and woman standing over a kangaroo which they have caught. They have boomerangs and a spear. Photographs of the town of Tarawera and the White Terraces were taken before the eruption in 1886. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, coloured picture of two cats playing with a ball of wool inset, and bordered by gold and black decoration, entitled `Children's scrap book'; 25.0 x 32.5 cm