Fords (Stream crossings) - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: [Circa 1870s-1880s]

From: Sarney, H F (Mr), fl 1959 :Photograph albums of New Zealand scenes

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-065

Description: Album of landscapes taken by various photographers including Wheeler & Sons and the Burton Brothers, circa 1870s and 1880s. All the views are of New Zealand except the last sequence (p 33-37) showing Rio de Janeiro. Of particular interest are views of a wool wagon drawn by oxen, crossing a ford; a series showing an unidentified curved viaduct under construction (p 28-32); and a number showing a farm run by J F L Jetter at Te Puke when the land was partially cleared, with cattle grazing in paddocks, and Mr Jetter standing by a horse in a paddock in front of his home. Many of the images show uncleared land, with a deep ravine filled with native bush and tree ferns, and a stream running through (p 24-27). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover with embossed diamond shape pattern, bordered with gold; 32 x 38 cm

Date: 1931

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PA1-o-412-060

Description: "Snares and delusions that beset the rakaia pilgrim. Fording the "great grey green greasy Limpopo" a boulder rumbling torrent." Photographed by John Dobree Pascoe on the 26th of December 1931 Top photograph (PA1-o-412-060-1) "Drama in a nasty side stream. Bones, Bill, and Allen fishing for Basil Honour who was well and truly "over" with his pack holding him down in the roaring flood. [It] looks like an eel spearing expedition, but was nearly more serious. This was only a side stream, the main stream had yet to come" Bottom left photograph (PA1-o-412-060-2) view of the Rakaia River showing the main stream and the nasty side stream Bottom right photograph (PA1-o-412-060-3) "Safely over the Rakaia floods at this cost. [We are] shivering with misery and wet as shags. Packs upside down to empty surplus water" Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Three siver gelatin photographic prints mounted on album page 305 x 250 mm (page size)

Date: [1907]

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

Reference: PA1-o-185

Description: Photographs of a group travelling in two Darracq automobiles, photographed by Algernon Charles Gifford. Probably a trip taken by Gifford and friends along Lake Pukaki to Mount Cook [in 1907]. Views show the cars on the road, fording rivers, and negotiating rough patches on the unsealed road. This album appears to be linked with Gifford albums 2, 4, 6 and 7. An undated article written by Gifford `To Mount Cook by motor car' (pasted in the back of Gifford album 2, at Pa1-o-182) was written for the Oamaru Mail. It describes the trip in detail, and this album appears to follow events spoken about in the article. The other albums show the party in the mountains, with mountain views, scenes of the group crossing the Tasman Glacier, and relaxing at various spots, including at Ball Hut and Malte Brun Hut. Relationship complexity - Original glass negatives of some of the images are filed at 1/2-060482-G, and 1/2-060484-G to 1/2-060487-G Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card cover, darker grey pattern on front; 13 x 19 cm

Date: 1882

Reference: C-068-002-5

Description: One of nine wood engravings showing William Spotswood Green's attempt to ascend Mount Cook. Green with Swiss mountaineers Kaufmann and Boss are shown roped together, up to their waists in the Hooker River, crossing with sticks Page from The Graphic London, 29th July 1882 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 100 x 151 mm on sheet 405 x 587 mm

Date: ca 1900s

Reference: PAColl-7350

Description: A coach and four horses fording the Waiau River on the Cheviot to Kaikoura Road; and a coach and four described as Derrett's Hanmer coach fording a river next to a bridge. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negative at 1/2-004416 (copy negative of an original print yet to be located) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [1870s-1880s]

By: Whinray, William James Longmire, 1885-1961; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-534

Description: Photograph album entitled 'Views of New Zealand' by E Wheeler and Son, taken circa 1870s and 1880s. Views include landscapes; city views; one of tree ferns with a digger's hut in the Thames gold diggings; sheep mustering at Waireka Station; a wool wagon from Cheviot Station in North Canterbury hauled by an ox team across a river ford; a bush scene at Teremakau (Taramakau); and a pataka (storehouse) at Taupo. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Views in New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album in folded concertina form with dark brown cover, black corners and spine, entitled "Views in New Zealand. E. Wheeler & Son"; 24.5 x 31.5 cm

Date: 1882

From: Green, William Spotswood, 1847-1919 :[Journey to New Zealand and the attempt on Mount Cook, November 1881 to March 1882, and] Dodging about Switzerland in 1879.

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919

Reference: E-581-q-025

Description: Green and his two companions roped together and fording the Hooker River after their attempt on the summit of Mount Cook. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 125 x 177 mm

Date: 1850 - 1851

From: Fox, William 1812-1893 :Four illustrative views of the Canterbury settlement with descriptions; I. Port Lyttelton. II. Landing of the passengers from the "Cressy". III. Part of the great plain. IV. The Rivers Courtenay and Hinds. / From drawings made on the spot, by Miss Mary Townsend and William Fox Esq. London, John W Parker & Son ... 1851

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872

Reference: PUBL-0001-4

Description: View looking down onto a braided riverbed, with a party of men walking and on horseback, crossing its rivulets. The Hinds River joins from the far left, and Mt Torlesse can be seen in the right distance. The Waimakariri River was formerly called the Courtenay River. The Hinds River, so-called today, is not a tributary of the Waimakariri. The major tributary is the Kowai River, probably the one depicted here. The accompanying descriptive text reads: The main river is the Courtenay, which enters the sea near the middle of the Forty-miles Beach, delineated in the preceding Sketch. The junction of the Hinds with the Courtenay is at a short distance below the spot where this view was taken, more than thirty miles from Lyttelton. The time was the height of summer, when the bed of the Courtenay, a mile wide at this place, is a dry shingle, intersected by a network of streams. These streams are maintained in the driest weather by the melting of snow on Mount Torlesse, but are fordable at some places except at the time of heavy rains. The woods here delineated are of evergreen trees of great size; and they exhibit the general character of the natural forest in New Zealand. Indeed, the present combination of mountain, grassy plain, bright flowing water, and evergreen forest, is highly characteristic of the scenery of the Middle Island. Other Titles - Harewood Forest Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted etching, black and white, 164 x 355 mm