Bullock teams - New Zealand - Taranaki Region

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039540-G

Description: Bullock team on land being cleared of trees in the Taranaki Region. Two men are standing by the team. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1880 - 1882

From: Hobson, Henry, fl 1881 :Album [of military photographs, cartes de visite and watercolours, Armed Constabulary, Taranaki. 1881-1882].

Reference: E-814-018

Description: Watercolours show a view of a bullock cart on the Opunake-Pungarehu Road, and a white stone cross on the tomb of Miss Dobie. The photograph is by an unknown photographer and shows a man in a top hat on horseback outside steps to the entrance of a stone building. Extended Title - From Henry Hobson's Album of military photographs, cartes de visite and watercolours, Armed Constabulary, Taranaki, 1881-1882, page [18] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 170 x 247 mm, on page of album, with inserted photograph, 166 x 110 mm.

Date: 1906 to 1907

From: New Zealand. Department of Labour :Photograph albums for the International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-1907

By: New Zealand. Department of Labour; Squire, Edward, 1873-1947; Gungall, Arthur Frederick, 1863?-1927; Wells, Ernest Edward, active 1894-1902; St. Clair, William H, active 1905; McAllister, James, 1869-1952

Reference: PA1-o-369

Description: Photographs of various factories and businesses in the Taranaki District, taken circa 1906. They include interior and exterior views and employees. One sequence shows the felling of timber, its transportation and treatment at a timber mill for the New Plymouth Sash and Door Factory. Other Titles - N.Z. Department of Labour Other Titles - Factories and workrooms, Taranaki District Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with tan leather cover, entitled `N.Z. Department of Labour. Factories and workrooms, Taranaki District. N.Z. International Exhibition, Christchurch 1906-7'; 25.5 x 31.0 cm

Date: ca 1910

Reference: PAColl-4573

Description: Two men standing with a bullock team hitched to a cart at the bend of a road, captioned "a bullock team in Taranaki backblocks". Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-037

Description: Troops crossing the Oakura Stream, with a dray being pulled by two bullocks. Mount Taranaki in the background Copied by Hamley from the drawings & watercolours of his superior officer, E. A. Williams. Williams' version of this work is in the Hocken Library entitled "Mount Egmont from Oakura 28 June 1864" Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 177 x 248 mm

Date: 1864

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: C-140-005

Description: Shows a view of a shallow valley receding away to the distant Mount Taranaki. In the centre is the charred remains of a house; only the chimney and fireplace remain, along with burnt tree trunks. In the foreground is a pond or swampy land, with rushes at the left. In the middle distance at right and left are patches of bush. There are skeletal remains of cattle and cartwheels, likely to have been part of a bullock team. Dated from a watercolour sketch of the same scene, held at the Hocken Library. A further version 'Buggins Clearing, Taranaki, burnt by natives during Maori Wars 1864' was on sale at John Leech Gallery, 1999. All views are from the same standpoint. The version at John Leech Gallery had the addition of a group of Maori seated around a fire in the foreground, a horse and two other men close to the burned out house. Other Titles - New Zealand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 317 x 492 mm.

Date: 1860s

From: Haines, Bernard Gilpin, b 1842 :Photographs compiled while on active service with the 18th Royal Irish Regiment during the New Zealand Wars

Reference: PA1-f-027-32-1

Description: Bullock team hauling a house along Devon Street, New Plymouth, 1860s. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1869

From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]

Reference: E-043-q-050

Description: Wood engraving showing a view of Mount Taranaki, with the military camp of Turuturumokai in the foreground, with soldiers drilling, a bullock wagon, tents and walls. The redoubt was constructed in 1866. (According to Wise's New Zealand guide). Other Titles - Turuturumokai Extended Title - From James Henry Pope's Scrapbook [1860s], page 50. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) (handcoloured) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, hand-coloured stuck to page 275 x 215 mm.

Date: 1860

By: Harris, Edwin, 1810?-1895; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: C-030-010

Description: Shows the township seen from Marsland Hill with the harbour and Sugar Loaf Rocks in the background and St Mary's Church with the beginnings of the new additions, started in 1860, in the foreground. Also various regiments (including 40th?) and encampments near church, military hospitals, Marsland Hotel, and various other churches. cf. Taranaki Museum's watercolour and pencil drawings of the same scene, and Hocken's col. lithographs, all signed by Edwin Harris, Harris may have copied Gold, and this painting has been attributed to Gold in the past. See Otago Daily Times, 9 Jan 1982, p. 30 for further confirmation of attribution The lithographic copy of this image in St Mary's Church, New Plymouth includes a key to various features. The title is New Plymouth from Marsland Hill. To the left of St Mary's, the two-storied building is Marsland Hotel and military Hospital. To the right, across the road, past the troops, the high-gabled single-storey building with a small porch by its door is the Maori Chapel. The two-storied building opposite the chapel is the Military Hospital. Further off to the right, the tallest building is the Wesleyan Chapel. The flagstaff on the hill between St Mary's and the sea marks the "sailors camp on Mt Elliott". Inscriptions: Mount verso - 40th Regiment, Taranaki, New Plymouth, N.Z. about 1840? Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 270 x 560 mm Provenance: George Page Cooper, Melbourne; purchased Joel's Auction, Melbourne, Nov. 1967.

Date: [ca 1900]

From: McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district

Reference: 1/1-012361-G

Description: A ten and a twelve bullock team, photo9graphed by James McAllister of Stratford. M996 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1865

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: B-035-028

Description: In the foreground, a river crossing with a train of soldiers and a bullock wagon, moving towards an uprooted tree on the riverbank to the left, in a northwards direction. In the left background is Mt Egmont its aspect suggesting that the river is in south Taranaki However, the work appears very close to the Williams work "Mt Egmont from Oakura 28 June 1864" in the Hocken Library, copied by Joseph Hamley (see ATL E-047-q-037). Other Titles - Mt Egmont from Oakura 1864 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 242 x 345 mm