Carriages and carts - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 10 January 1985

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1985/0172-F

Description: Cart, specially made for Wellington Zoo, taking visitors for a ride. The cart is pulled by Joy, a Clydesdale horse. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Greg King on the 10th of January 1985. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative

Date: 1905 - 1925

By: Watkin, Len, active 1910s

Reference: B-062-015

Description: Shows tram and horse-drawn dray. Signed: Len Watkin. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 440 x 340 mm

Date: 1900 - 1910

By: Rouse and Hurrell (Firm); Hughan, Oxley Alexander Edgar, 1907-1992

Reference: Eph-A-TRANSPORT-1900-01

Description: A list of carriages and carts for sale from Rouse & Hurrell, coachbuilders of Courtenay Place. Prices ranged from a Pair-horsed landau from 180 pounds, to a Eureka cart from 14 pounds. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, on flier 202 x 135 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Oxley Hughan in 1969.

Date: 22 January 1912

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1395-b-1/2-F

Description: View looking down on the Ngauranga Gorge Road, with many bends, and fencing on the lower side. There is a laden cart pulled by two horses, centre foreground, with two men sitting on the cart, and a young man standing at the edge of the road. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, 22nd January 1912. This image is a film negative copy taken from the print in Godber Album Vol 110, p 161 (PA1-q-103). This negative is a film negative copy taken from a print at Pa1-q-103 (Godber Album vol 110, p 161) Inscriptions: Album page - bottom centre - Ngahauranga Gorge Road. 22/1/12 Another copy negative taken from this page in Godber's album is at APG-1395-a-1/2-F Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 12.50 x 10.00 cm

Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

By: Erskine & Whitmore (Firm); Coxhead & Le Sueur (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: PA1-o-151

Description: Views of New Zealand collected by Invercargill firm Erskine & Whitmore. Scenes taken by various photographers including Hart, Campbell & Co., and Coxhead & Le Sueur. Several views show Queenstown under floods in 1878; others of the Queenstown-Lakes Region, Waitati, Gore and Dunedin in the South Island. In the North Island, one shows a large picnic party travelling in three horse-drawn coaches, stopped at Ngauranga; many show a range of steam locomotives including J Class, K Class, F43, E22, H Class and A Class, in the Upper Hutt area, the Wairarapa, and on the Rimutaka line. Several at the end of the album show the effects of a major slip which blocked the mouth of the Summit Tunnel at the top of the Rimutaka Incline. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Erkine & Whitmore Inscriptions: Album page - `A choice collection of New Zealand views carefully selected from the best artists'. Erskine & Whitmore, Invercargill Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, 24.5 x 35.0 cm Provenance: Part of Alexander H Turnbull's collection

Date: circa 1890-1910

From: Shaw, G W :Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna

By: Wilson, Alex R, active 1900s; Shaw, Helen M G, active 1976

Reference: PA1-q-269

Description: Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna. William M Wilson was born in Glasgow in 1868, coming to New Zealand when 8 years of age. He was apprenticed to John Fitchett, coach builder in Wellington, then with other firms including Rouse & Hurrell. He was employed by Wilfred Woolf in Eketahuna in 1894, and subsequently bought his business, and entered the firm of Kibblewhite and Wilson. See Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Wellington Provincial District, Eketahuna. Includes dwellings; carriages; group outings and portraits; 1 of the Club Hotel of F D Pelling; 3 of the Ryan family at Tawa Flat; 1 of a house at Island Bay, 1 of a thatched whare at Plimmerton, a Ghuznee St boarding house; 2 relating to the Burnett family; 2 scenes in Manakau; 1 of D A Greenlees store; 2 of Rarotanga; 2 relating to the business of Lyon & Blair, steam printers and lithographers; 1 of a group outside a house in Eastbourne; 3 relating to the Manson family; 1 of a military camp in New Zealand in preparation for the South African War. Also includes a pocket on the inside back cover containing newspaper clippings, and a photocopy of a letter written by the donor Mrs Helen M G Shaw, which gives some information about the album. Inscriptions: Album page - Alex R Wilson, Central Terrace, Kelburne, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover; 28.5 x 20.5 cm

Date: 1893

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.

Reference: E-373-040

Description: Looking across the harbour towards the two-storied Gear Homestead above the sea. Flat land in the foreground with a church and a house, both fenced and with gardens, along with a man and a cart. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, in sketchbook, 130 x 360 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..

Date: [ca 1904]

Reference: PAColl-9668

Description: Photograph of women coaching group in Wellington ca 1904. Travellers are Mrs Mackin (wife of Dr Mackin of Vivian Street, Wellington), Mrs William Irwin, Dr Macdonald and Mrs Hales?. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 10 x 15.5 cm framed in card

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

By: Walker, A (Mr), active 1968; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; C M (Photographer), active 1905; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Pratt, A A, active 1900s

Reference: PAColl-6639

Description: Postcards of ferries at wharves in Auckland, interior and exterior of St John's Cathedral in Napier, Waihi from Martha Hill, bowling green on the Domain at Te Aroha, Lyttelton at regatta time, Lyttelton harbour, Opera House, St Luke's Danish Church and All Saints Church and the Municipal Buildings, Palmerston North; the Triangle, Dunedin; Auckland Hospital, Grafton Road; Palmerston North Post Office; a view over Auckland from Mount Eden; the bridge over to the Cafe Continental; Hastings Street, Napier; Perry Street, Masterton with a hall on the right; tea kiosk in the park, Masterton; two carts on the road to Lansdowne, Masterton; the tramline to Onehunga, Auckland; Queen Street, Auckland; and Auckland harbour and wharves. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negative at 151877 Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 14 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Postcards

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: 1893

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.

Reference: E-373-038

Description: Looking across the harbour towards a two-storied house above the sea. Flat land in the foreground and a man in a cart being drawn by a horse. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, in sketchbook, 130 x 360 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..

Date: [ca 1860s-1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6886

Description: 22 images: 18 are copy negatives of images in books of Old Wellington in the 1860s many of which are captioned; two are of people milling around in front of the Cathedral in Christchurch; one is of the ship Marama ca 1920s; and one is probably an original negative of two older children and a baby in a garden. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044160 to 044181 Quantity: 22 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate copy negatives

Date: [ca 1930]-1968

From: Hunt, John & Jenny :Photographs relating to the Wellington Milk Co. and upper Tory Street

Reference: PAColl-9716-4

Description: Horses, carts, and motorised milk delivery vehicles. These include - Milk trucks and tankers from about the late 1930s to the 1960s. Ford milk tanker, 1960s. Bedford milk tanker, 1960s. Leyland milk tanker, 1960s. Trucks of Cunningham Carrier Co and Macdonald and Hosie, unloading cans of milk at Tory Street. New covered milk delivery van, early 1950s. Electric van for houshold milk deliveries, early 1950s. Large truck loaded with milk cans, late 1930s. Horses at the Milk Department stables and the men who looked after them. Carts for milk delivery 1931-1950s. Returning empty milk bottles and cans at Tory Street. Scalding milk cans at Rahui milk station, Otaki. Cool room at the Levin dairy. Quantity: 79 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1880 - 1920

By: Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association; F W Niven & Company

Reference: D-009-009

Description: The print shows the View of Masterton (257 x 643 mm irreg.) surrounded by 28 vignettes advertising Wairarapa businesses. These include (from top left) H. Phillips Occidental Hotel, F. Hollway Family Butcher Queen Street, Dixon Bros ... cordial manufacturers, Chapel St, J. L. Murray mercer & outfitter, Isedore Mandel hot baths and showers, H. Pearson taylor, Pinhey Bros livery & stables, William Whitt cabinet maker Queen Street, John Henderson tailor, James Wickens pastrycook, Wairarapa Star offices, Hounslow & Hoar cabinet makers, Chas E. Daniell general contractor, O. Pragnell draper, [two illegible advertisements], A. White tobacconists and hairdressers, Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative, Masterton Coach Factory, J. Graham general merchants, Waipoua Coach Factory Queen street, John Watt bookseller & stationer. Attributed to F. W. Niven from its strong similarity to other large chromolithographs of the same period. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: 1 print on backing board; chromolithograph 668 x 995 mm

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

Date: ca 1870s

From: Best, Walter, 1848-1929 :Album of photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-009246

Description: View down Manners Street with the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel on the left. Photographer unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1884

From: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926 :New Zealand sketches in black and white. 1884.

Reference: E-310-q-015

Description: Four sketches of travel by mail-coach and its perils. The coach and four horses negotiating a steep gorge road cut into a cliff-face (possibly Ngauranga or Ngaio Gorge although it is named Waikakariki, not a current name); the four horses balking at a stream; the driver urging the horses on; the coach and horses proceeding along the beach at speed. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink in bound album, page size 173 x 252 mm

Date: 1894

From: Estate of W Wilson :Photographs of the Wilson family and Eketahuna

By: De Loree, Peter P, 1820?-1899

Reference: PA7-43-15

Description: Photograph of the premises of Kibblewhite & Dowdeswell at [Wilson's Corner?], Eketahuna, 1894. Shows a blacksmith at work shoeing a horse and other blacksmiths and wheelwrights gathered outside posing for the photographer, P P de Loree. Two carts are parked outside awaiting repair, and a third cart, drawn by a team of four horses, stands to one side. 1/2-065853 to 065864 Inscriptions: Backing board recto - beneath image - 1894; Backing board verso - centre - P P De Loree, Tourist photographer, New Zealand (stamp); Backing board verso - top centre - Wilson's Corner (pencil). Wilson. Eketahuna 1933 (ink); Backing board verso - centre - No 12. 2 (in red pencil) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15 x 20.5 cm on card 24 x 30.4 cm

Date: 1848 - 1851

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863; Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889

Reference: B-030-001

Description: Shows Maori launching a canoe; a horse and cart are on the road to the right, at the base of a cliff Title taken from handwritten slip on back; compare with slip on back of B-030/002. Both slips removed in the course of conservation and no longer present. There is a faint pencil drawing of a bush scene on the verso. The backing of the work has been partially removed and the drawing is hard to see. This work was attributed by the Library to Cuthbert Clarke until 2008. However Clarke is not known to have visited the Wellington region and the style appears closer to that of R. A. Oliver, who was based in Wellington and visited the Hutt Valley on more than one occasion. One watercolour of the Hutt by Oliver is dated March 1848, another September 30th, with no year. Compare the articulation of the figure dragging the canoe at the right, with a figure in the same position, dragging a canoe at Wahapu, Bay of Islands, in Oliver's watercolour at C-001-011 Other Titles - Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1819-1863. 1848-1851 Inscriptions: Recto - 'Title taken from handwritten slip on back; compare with slip on back of B-030-002' according to catalogue card. Neither hand-written slip has been retained. The wording of the title suggests a later attribution, not the artist's own title. For location of this view compare with Charles Barraud's "[River valley] 1856" at B-084-005; and with G Swainson's "Road round the second gorge", lithograph in British Library - see file print of this at E-143-067. Several of Swainson's lithographs are after originals by other artists. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 241 x 327 mm

Date: 1946

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: B-154-054

Description: Shows a draughthorse drawing a two-wheeled cart beside a sports ground (Basin Reserve?) The cart driver is a bearded man smoking a pipe, and his passenger is a cricket player in a striped blazer and cap. A farm dog bounds along in the right foreground. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on sheet 444 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Margaret Colvin in 2000.