Grain - Harvesting

Date: [Circa 1937]

Reference: PA1-f-054

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways between 1937 and 1938 by unidentified photographers. Photographs in the North Island include tours between Stratford and Ongarue; Ngaruawahia celebrations in 1938 (including views of King Koroki's house which was built in 1938); Rotorua and six lakes trip; and opening ceremonies for the Hutt Railway. In the South Island views include Caroline Bay with events at the soundshell; in Timaru, views of a two-storied clubhouse and men playing bowls, a person practising croquet, and several games of tennis on a series of tennis courts; areas in Queen Charlotte Sound, Portage, Pelorus and Kenepuru Sounds and Blenheim Aerodrome; Tasman and Franz Josef Glaciers; Milford Sound; Punakaiki; and Cromwell. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, dark green spine, entitled `Tours 5'; 40 x 60 cm

Date: [1896-1913]

From: Warburton, Edward Darien :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-1601

Description: Photograph album compiled by E D Warburton. Includes photographs of the Lincoln Agricultural College at Lincoln, Canterbury. Shows photographs of livestock, harvesting machinery, draught houses, crops, animal housing and husbandry and agricultural students. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 16 x 22 cm

Date: 1880

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-083-2

Description: Shows a woman, wearing a hat, sitting by stacks of corn with the sea in the background. A scene on Otago Peninsula Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - K H; Recto - beneath image - Harvest field on the Peninsula 1880; Recto - top of page: Dunedin 1880 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 158 x 243 mm

Date: 1860 - 1876 - 1862 - 1878

From: [The George Henry Wood collection of prints]

By: Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910; Dalziel Brothers (Firm)

Reference: A-420-134/136

Description: Images include a portrait of infant Gladys Mulock Holman Hunt, 9 October 1876 at Jerusalem; a Biblical quotation about a reaper; and an illustration entitled "Witches and witchcraft". Engravers include the Dalziel Brothers. Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Black and white prints mounted on sheets, sizes approximately 335 x 223 mm

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Crombie, George, active 1900

Reference: PA4-0943

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a man harvesting, using machinery drawn by three horses, taken by George Crombie of Dunedin ca 1900. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Harvest; Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Backing board recto - left of image - Geo. Crombie, Photo (obscure) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1905 - 1915

From: [Ephemera and sales catalogues of octavo size, for agricultural machinery and farm equipment. 1910-1930]

Reference: Eph-A-FARM-MACHINERY-1910-01

Description: This company had a Melbourne office and had "sold machines in Australia and New Zealand for many years and our familiarity with the conditions peculiar to those countries give us an advantage over other manufacturers. The machines here catalogued are built to meet these conditions". Includes illustrations for farm machinery including thrashers, mowers, reapers, rakes, hay tedders, the "New Century" grain binder. Not found 25 May 2018. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 v., illus., 255 x 200 mm.

Date: 1945

By: Peter, Juliet, 1915-2010

Reference: A-434-010

Description: Shows three young women in shorts, relaxing, dozing and smoking under the sun amongst sheaves of grain. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 260 x 349 mm.

Date: [190-?]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 :Collection of photographs

Reference: PAColl-4307-003

Description: Harvesting grain with Massey-Harris machinery, taken ca 1900s by an unknown photographer. Exhibited in 'Collect' exhibition on the role of collection in the Alexander Turnbull Library, mounted in National Library Gallery, 15 December 2006. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - South Westland Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.4 x 29.3 cm

Date: [ca 1915]

From: New Zealand. Department of Agriculture :Negatives

By: McCusker, Arthur John, 1868-1943

Reference: 1/1-007604-G

Description: Sons of George McCleod Gunn, with six horses, amongst stooks in a harvested oat field at the farm Marathon, near Seddon, Marlborough, circa 1915. George Alexander Gunn is on the left. Looks over a paddock, showing rows of oat plants after harvest, men and horses in the centre, and hills in the background. Photograph taken by Arthur John McCusker. This image was exhibited in the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, where it won a prize. Marathon was owned by George McCleod Gunn. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - left of image - A440 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 17 Sep 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/4-009520-G

Description: Maori soldiers, members of the Pioneer Battalion accommodated behind the front line in rest billets, assist French peasants to bring in the harvest. Photograph taken by Henry Armytage Sanders on the 17 September 1918. Title and caption information obtained from PA1-f-103 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1922]

From: Hazledine, Percival Charles, 1892-1954 :Negatives of Invercargill district

Reference: 1/1-022078-G

Description: Horse drawn harvester on the Dyet farm, West Plains, Southland. Shows a team of three horses hauling harvesting machinery in a grain field. Photograph taken circa 1922 by Percival Charles Hazledine. Other - Another photograph of this harvester on the Dyet farm is at 1/1-022084 Source of descriptive information - File print Inscriptions: On neg - Dyet 6032 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1855 - 1879

By: Florance, Augustus (Dr), 1812-1879; Moffatt, Ethel Jane, 1883-1970

Reference: C-031-008

Description: Shows a house at the right with a verandah along the front of one of its sections and with a lawn with five circular or oval flowerbeds in front of it. A treefern is adjacent to the front fence. A fence divides the house and garden from the field on the left, where the grain has been harvested and is standing in sheaves. In the left foreground is a juvenile lancewood. Separated from the house, and to its left behind a hedge is a haystack or a house with thatched roof and walls. There are also several nikau palms in the neighbouring property. The hills in the background are covered with trees, probably native bush, although drawn in rows. Other Titles - Taita Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title]; Verso - top right - Dr Aug Florance's old home at Taitai, Welln, painted by himself Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 475 x 665 mm. Provenance: Mrs Moffatt was the granddaughter of the artist

Date: ca 1920s

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-005567-G

Description: Harvesting grain with a Samson Sieve-Grip tractor and reaper binder, circa 1920s. Photograph taken by Steffano Francis Webb, probably in the Christchurch region. Men unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: ca 1920s

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-005646-G

Description: Grain harvesting machinery and unidentified workers, circa 1920s. Shows Samson Sieve-Grip tractor and reaper binder. Photograph taken by Steffano Francis Webb, probably in the Christchurch region. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1939]

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

By: Green & Hahn (Firm)

Reference: MNZ-2729

Description: Men making grain (wheat?) stacks, Omihi, North Canterbury, circa 1939 Photograph taken by Green and Hahn. Publication note - Not published in Making New Zealand (Wellington [N.Z.] : New Zealand Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1940) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16.2 x 20.9 cm Provenance: Photograph from Green and Hahn for the Department of Internal Affairs' publication 'Making New Zealand' (1939-1940).

Date: [ca 22 Feb 1952]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-8163-30

Description: Thresher at work in a grain paddock. Shows a Caterpillar tractor towing a threshing machine. Photograph taken circa 22 February 1952 at an unidentified location. Photographer unidentified. Other - Published in the New Zealand Free Lance, 3 March 1952 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.6 x 22 cm

Date: ca 1900?

From: Campbell, R E, (Mrs) :Photographs of the Reynolds family

Reference: 1/2-055940-F

Description: Frank Reynolds, and others, harvesting grain, Mayfield farm, East Taratahi, Wairarapa, circa 1900. Photograph taken by Frank May Reynolds. Inscriptions: below image in original album: In the harvest field. Mayfield Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 25 Aug 1917

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013711-G

Description: New Zealand soldiers with pitch forks pile hay onto a haystack to help local French farmers with the harvest in World War I. Photograph taken 25 August 1917 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-092 Caption - "Almost like home. N.Z. soldiers are helping with the harvest close up to the firing lines. 25.8.17." (Album) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H1162 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: late 1880s

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025842-G

Description: Threshing using a portable engine, probably in Hawkes Bay. Photograph taken by William Williams in the late 1880s. Inscriptions: Note on back of file print reads "from neg bag: No 184"; Note on back of file print reads "from file 6/1/41: Threshing scene, portable engine. H B? late 80s" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative (sterescopic)

Date: 25 Aug 1917

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013710-G

Description: New Zealand soldiers use pitch forks to pile hay onto a haystack to help local farmers with the harvest in World War I. Photograph taken 25 August 1917 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-092 Caption - "Almost like home. N.Z. soldiers are helping with the harvest close up to the firing lines. 25.8.17." (Album) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H1161 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches