Banks family
Photographs of New Zealand houses, interiors, scenes and people
Date: ca 1860s-1890s
From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection
By: Spencer, Harriet Dyke, 1866-1948; London Stereoscopic Photographic Company
Reference: PAColl-4721
Description: Photographs on album pages: photograph of Mount Peel Station, its interior and grounds including Mr Acland in his study, his daughters and their friends identified by inititals, including one of L D Acland and B B Acland, the latter knitting a sock, and the Church of the Holy Innocence viewed across a field of hay stacks with the forest planted by Acland behind it; more of the same women boating and picnicking, including a view of a gorge taken by Harriet Acland, a church interior and Bishop Harper playing cricket with a young boy; Ilam homestead covered in clematis with balconies and verandahs and extensive grounds next to the Avon River, and the Watts Russell family group at Pareora August 1894 with their dog and saddled horses in the background; the West Coast Times printing office with the men outside it, C G Tripp and family and a Centerbury view; and two views of Tripp's homestead at Orari. Photographs mounted on card: a studio portrait of Dr Shortland; John Charles Watts Russell taken by the London Stereoscopic Company; Rev R H Codrington's garden in Norfolk Island while a missionary in the South Pacific with eight local men, either Solomon Islanders and New Hebrideans; five interior views of a well-furnished house (possibly Wildwood, Christchurch) with heavy wooden furniture and fireplaces, gas lamps, drapery, paintings (including a copy of The Order of Release by Millais) etc.; the officers of HMS Invincible on the deck of their ship next to the lifeboats; a view looking down a street of two boats in "the bay of Taranaki" (probably near New Plymouth) one named SS Taupo ca 1860s; and a view over buildings near the shore in New Plymouth ca 1860s. Loose prints of: a brick-built house with a verandah, and a duplicate of the officers of the Invincible. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. 28 b&w original photographic print(s) on loose pages from an album. 2 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.
Family correspondence and papers
Date: [1795-1936]
From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : Further papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6368-3
Description: Includes codicil to will of Benjamin Banks (1795); letter, J D Ormond of Wairarapa re land, wool and other matters (1857); letters from the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, API, the Canterbury Provincial Council, and letter from Jane Montgomery to Isabel [? Banks]; brochure, Burnes Quoiting Club; telegram; account, Kilpatrick & Co, goldsmiths and jewellers, Melbourne (1872); letters from James Banks, brother of Frederick, from Melbourne, copy of letter, Hanson & Harper to John Philpot re Rissington Estate and copy of proposal for steamer route; and list of inward letters to Banks (1852-1853). Also `East Africa', newspaper 30 Oct 1930 with enclosures re members of the Banks family Webster collection items 845, 846, 847, 848/1, 848/2, 848/3, 852, 858, 861, 862, 866 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Permits to travel
Date: 1875, 1885
From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : Further papers
Reference: fMS-Papers-6368-2
Description: Permit for Frederick Banks, accompanied by his wife, to travel on the Continent (1875) and permit for Mrs Isabel M G M Banks, Miss Mary E Fendall and Miss Isabel Violet Banks to travel on the Continent (1885) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Various Artists :[Portraits of the Banks family]
Reference: A-038
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