Ferries - New Zealand - Otago Region

Date: [1900s-1910s?]

From: Mercer, Robert, fl 1964 :Photographs and albums of Maori, New Zealand views, and illustrations

Reference: PA1-o-339

Description: Album of photographs taken by unidentified photographers, taken in central North Island, and Otago and Southland regions, circa 1900s and 1910s. Some of the images are related to railways, including North Island scenes of the first passenger trip on 14th February 1909, during which the train stopped on the Raurimu Spiral because of a lack of engine power to haul it; the railway station at Longburn; a locomotive owned by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company; various engines including one image showing a J Class locomotive and an A Class locomotive with the caption "Note the difference in 20 years". South Island trains are shown in the Catlins District, including the construction of the Catlins River Railway, the Houipapa Quarry on the Catlins River Extension, loading wagons in the Balclutha ballast pit, the viaduct across the Catlins River at Houipapa, the Clutha Railway Bridge, and the Houipapa terminus on the Catlins River Railway. The North Island scenic views include the areas around Lake Rotorua, the Government Sanatorium at Rotorua, Sophia's Whare, a group of Maori boys diving for pennies, Whakarewarewa, Okere and Ohakune. Scenic views in the South Island are mostly around Dunedin (including Telford's country house in the Balclutha District), Clutha River, Balclutha, and the Catlins, including flax swamps and flax mills in the Catlins District. Many of the images are taken with an emphasis on atmosphere, includingGathering storm", "Beside the winding river", "Outward bound", "A heavy pull" and "A calm day". Inscriptions: Album page - "Thus we remember many a sunny hour with bike and camera"-Inside back cover Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with very dark blue cover, black leather corners and spine; 22 x 29 cm

Date: 1871 - 1875

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Lake Wakatipu, Banks Peninsula, Dunedin and its outskirts, Central Otago, Lake Wanaka, Oamaru, 1868, 1872, 1876, 1878]

Reference: E-016-5-093

Description: View across Lake Wakatipu towards Mount Dick. The Queenstown steamer is crossing the lake. Other Titles - Wakatipu Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, page size 98 x 154 mm

Date: 1896

From: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948 : Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-181

Description: Views, chiefly unidentified, of a trip in the South Island in January 1896, photographed by Algernon Charles Gifford. Most of the photographs are landscape views of lakes and mountains in the Wakatipu area, but there are a number showing a group of six unidentified people in the garden of a single-storeyed house with verandahs, at Paradise. In another scene a man and woman, two of the previous group, are shown in a field with the man wearing riding clothes, seated on a white horse, and the woman standing by the horse's head with a dog beside her. Also one photograph shows three young girls, Bessie and Daisy Fergus, and Agnes Mill, also at Paradise. A large two-storeyed house with verandahs upstairs and downstairs is seen in one image. An envelope attached inside the back cover, contains 14 loose photographs of similar views. Inscriptions: Album page - Some mementos of a trip to Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown, Glenorchy & Paradise via Invercargill, Jan. 1896 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark maroon cover, entitled `Photographic views'; 22.5 x 19.0 cm

Date: between 1891-1899

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-003428-G

Description: The ferry Tarewai in Port Chalmers harbour, with sailing ship at the wharf, two whaleboats and small yacht nearby, photographed by David Alexander De Maus. The ferry Tarewai was built in 1891 at Port Chalmers. Name could be Tarowai from negative, but listed as Tarewai in Stones' Directory, and in MN Watts "Index to the New Zealand section of all British ships", 1840-1950. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: ca 1920s

Reference: 1/4-016177-F

Description: Car sitting on the ferry as it arrives at the jetty with a new bridge being built next to it. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1900s-1910s]

Reference: PAColl-6793

Description: 2 copy negatives of images from books of the Lowburn ferry which operated over the Clutha River prior to the building of the bridge. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-028826 and 028860 Quantity: 2 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1870

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Sumner, Lyttelton, Central Otago, Lake Wakatipu, Kawarau Gorge, Oamaru, Dunedin, Clutha River. 1870 to 1873]

Reference: E-016-4-029/030

Description: A view from Queenstown, looking down the Frankton Arm of Lake Wakatipu, with surrounding mountains. An unrelated mountain-top is drawn on the opposite page The title word transcribed as Boyes is not fully legible and may be incorrectly interpreted. The Boyes Brothers owned a station adjacent to the Frankton Arm in the 1870s Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, page size 88 x 153 mm.

Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Finch, F, active 1878-1900; Iles, Arthur James, 1870-1943; Le Grice, Edward, 1881-1959; Malaghan, Patrick Thomas, -1938; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Ross, Charles S, active 1890s-1900s; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Valentine, James, -1880

Reference: PAColl-0959-40

Description: New Zealand scenes including thermal areas in the North Island, and river, mountain and roading scenes in the South Island, taken by various identified and unidentified photographers between about the 1880s and 1900s. Two photographers, Josiah Martin and Patrick Thomas Malaghan took most of the images. Other identified photographers include Edmund Wheeler, F. Finch, A.J. Iles, Charles Spencer, Edward Le Grice, J.V. (James Valentine), and Ross (Photographer, Invercargill). Several of the unidentified photographers are listed under their initials only, and include one with the initials T.S.M (or S.T.M. in a monogram), also A.A.B., R.G., Rooney, Luney (?), and L.M. A large number of those taken by Patrick Malaghan show Skippers Road and the Shotover River, with Pinchers Bluff, Huttons Cutting, Hell's Gate, and Skippers Creek. Thermal areas in the North Island show the Pink and White Terraces before the 1886 eruption of mount Tarawera, and also a number taken after the eruption, including the remnants of Te Ariki Pa. A large number also show various geysers, mud pools and hot springs. One method of crossing rivers is shown with the Hooker Wire Bridge (or Hooker Cage) and a "chair" travelling across a wire in Skippers over the Shotover River. Note on this box reads: "1st Ball Hut print" (no. 33); and "J. Martin "Mt Cook"" (no. 66). Most of the places identified are listed above. Other Titles - Old P.O.P. Quantity: 154 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: [Between 1885 and 1919]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0959-15

Description: Views of the Southern Lakes District, interspersed with a few scenes in the North Island taken by the Burton Brothers and Muir & Moodie between about 1885 and 1919. Most of the places mentioned are listed above. Image no. 63 shows a party of men and women at Sandfly Point (Milford Sound) showing some of the women wearing veils over their hats for protection from sandflies; image no. 79 "Phantom canoe as seen on Lake Tarawera" is an artist's impression of the phantom canoe which appeared to a group of tourists on Lake Tarawera on May 31st prior to the eruption of Mount Tarawera on June 10th 1886 and which was considered to be a bad omen; image no. 82 shows a collage "No. 1. Maori Land. The portraits are originals - taken from life"; image no. 094 shows a close-up view of the "wire tram" over the Taramakau River; no. 095 shows a logging tramway in the Taupaki Kauri Bush belonging to Matthew Henry Roe, while no. 120 shows his Kauri Point Sawmill, with the paddle steamer "Oregon" in the background; no. 096 shows a self-acting tramway incline at Wairongomai used for gold extraction; nos 104 and 105 show gold dredges, "the Dunedin Gold Dredge" and "Sew Hoy's Dredge". Quantity: 122 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Some items retouched with white, showing snow-covered peaks. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: 1868 - 1872

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketches of Central Otago, Dunedin and Hawkes Bay, 1868-1889]

Reference: E-031-q-4-003

Description: Looking across the Clutha River towards houses, mountains beyond. A flying fox with rop and poles is partially indicated and there are two small boats on the water, probably ferries Dating: the artist has made another drawings of Beaumont dated 1868 (E-031-q-4-029); on the other side of this drawing is a view of Blue Spur, Gabriel's Gully, visited by the artist in 1872 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 147 x 239 mm

Date: [Circa 1909-1930s]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: C B and Company Ltd; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918; Sun (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-0959-21

Description: Photographs of areas in the South Island taken by various identified and unidentified photographers, with several taken by "Guy" (i.e. Guy Clayton Morris). Photographs include a very clear image of the interior of a mountain hut (no. 04) showing two unidentified men, one lying on an upper bunk and the other seated on a box under the window, cooking and kitchen equipment and a metal-bound soda siphon. There are two interior photographs of the Hermitage, one showing the closed-in verandah, and the other showing the dining room. Others of interest are an early view of the first Lower Greenstone Huts, and one which is possibly of the early days of William Batson's accomodation house. Many of the places shown are listed above, though many have no identification. Quantity: 44 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: [1900s]

By: Pringle, Thomas, 1858-1931; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA1-o-316

Description: Album of scenic views of New Zealand, many taken by Thomas Pringle, others taken by photographers from the New Zealand Tourist Department, and others by unidentified photographers. A number are hand-coloured. South Island scenes include Milford Sound, lake and mountain views, and some of Christchurch city. North island scenes include a number in Wellington, with views of city streets, the Chief Post Office, Government Buildings, St John's Church and the railway station. Most of the other North Island views are of tourist destinations, particularly in the thermal regions, with hot springs, geysers and mud pools. There are a large number relating to Maori, especially at Whakarewarewa, with taniko weaving, flax weaving, poi dancers, te hongi, and posed portraits of young girls in front of a meeting house wearing different styles of cloaks. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown textured cover; 25.5 x 30.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1226-F

Description: Panoramic view of Glendhu Bay, Lake Wanaka with Mount Aspiring on the right. A ferry boat carrying passengers is seen centre left. Other mountains in the background. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1187, Pan-1190 Inscriptions: No marginal notes - Glendhu Bay. Lake Wanaka. New Zealand ([Mt. Aspiring on Right]). No. 282 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 110.0 cm

Date: [ca 1880s-1890s, 1910]

Reference: PAColl-9333

Description: Collection comprises: Yacht on Dunedin harbour. Photograph taken 1880s or 1890s by Burton brothers. Launching of Amos McKegg's ferry Moturata from Miller Brothers boatbuilders yard, Port Chalmers. Photograph taken 9 February 1910 by David De Maus. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [Between 1943 and 1965]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-201

Description: Album of photographs; many are contacts from 35mm film, some are prints, taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1943 and 1965. Consists mainly of trips, including camping trips, in the North Island and the South Island of New Zealand. Some are related to his zoological and botanical interests, including photographs of "vegetable sheep" (cushion plants that grow in New Zealand's mountain ranges (Raoulia australis)); and wetas. Others relate to his interest in photography. One trip shows members of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society at a camp at Dawson Falls (Mount Egmont); and another shows members of the Photographic Society of New Zealand attending a convention at Queenstown in 1956. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cream cover, Cobra ring binder; 30 x 24 cm

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

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

By: Ingley, J H, active 1901

Reference: MNZ-1738-1/2-F

Description: Lowburn ferry punt over the Clutha River. Photograph taken by J H Ingley circa 1900. Formerly wrongly identified as Loburn ferry punt Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1889

From: Lister, Joseph Jackson 1857-1927 :[Lister album] 1886-1890 [Watercolours by Joseph, and possibly Isabella and Gulielma Lister]

Reference: E-394-f-031-1

Description: A jetty with the Earnslaw moored, a wheeled cart on the jetty and piles of boards, with a timber mill further along the shore Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 149 x 250 mm

Date: 1926

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1787-F

Description: Panoramic view from Queenstown Gardens across Lake Wakatipu to the waterfront at Queenstown. Two ferries (the Earnslaw and paddle steamer Mountaineer) are moored across the bay. A smaller ferry and three launches are moored nearer the town. Several houses on hill behind the town on the right. A path through the gardens on the right. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Panorama of Queenstown waterfront. New Zealand. No. 654; Marginal notes on negative - Panorama of Queenstown Waterfront. New Zealand 1926; Marginal notes on negative - 5 5 5 5 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 114.8 cm

Date: 1895

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-449-003

Description: View of a number of people waiting at the pier at Glenfalloch, on the Otago Peninsula, as a steam boat ferry approaches, probably early in the morning. The view is across the harbour to the hills, looking towards Saint Leonards The library holds a number of pencil sketches of Glenfalloch by Hodgkins, dated between 1885 and 1896 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - At Glenfalloch Pier / W Hodgkins / 11 May [18]95 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink, wash and watercolour on paper, 190 x 280 mm