Coxhead & Le Sueur (Firm)

Photographic studio in Dunedin operated by Harry Coxhead and Alfred A Le Sueur, fl 1881-1884. See `Photography in New Zealand, a social and technical history' by Hardwicke Knight

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Erskine and Whitmore :Photograph album of New Zealand views

Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

By: Erskine & Whitmore (Firm); Coxhead & Le Sueur (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: PA1-o-151

Description: Views of New Zealand collected by Invercargill firm Erskine & Whitmore. Scenes taken by various photographers including Hart, Campbell & Co., and Coxhead & Le Sueur. Several views show Queenstown under floods in 1878; others of the Queenstown-Lakes Region, Waitati, Gore and Dunedin in the South Island. In the North Island, one shows a large picnic party travelling in three horse-drawn coaches, stopped at Ngauranga; many show a range of steam locomotives including J Class, K Class, F43, E22, H Class and A Class, in the Upper Hutt area, the Wairarapa, and on the Rimutaka line. Several at the end of the album show the effects of a major slip which blocked the mouth of the Summit Tunnel at the top of the Rimutaka Incline. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Erkine & Whitmore Inscriptions: Album page - `A choice collection of New Zealand views carefully selected from the best artists'. Erskine & Whitmore, Invercargill Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, 24.5 x 35.0 cm Provenance: Part of Alexander H Turnbull's collection

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Cartes de visite by Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill photographers

Date: [1860-1900]

From: Packer, Robbie: Cartes de visite

By: Allen, Joseph Weaver, 1821-1886; American Photographic Company (Dunedin, N.Z.); Bashford, James, active 1870-1873; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Caledonian Portrait Gallery; Cambridge and Cooper (Firm); H Chatteris Art Photographic Studio; Cherrill, Nelson King, 1845-1916; Christchurch Fancy Bazaar; Clifford, Robert, active 1865-1885; Clifford & Morris (Firm); Coxhead Brothers (Firm); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Coxhead, Harry, 1846-1885; Coxhead & Le Sueur (Firm); De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; De Maus, James, 1836-1871; Dutch & Bull (Firm); E Dossetter and Company; Dougall, William, 1845-1924; Easter & Wallis (Firm); Edinburgh Photo Company; Exchange Court Studio; Frederic, Robert Charles Edward, 1863-1945; Frost, William Row, 1845?-1911; Gaul, John, -1876; George & Walton (Firm); George Eden & Company; Gill, H J, active 1912; Girvan and Gill (Firm); Grand & Dunlop (Firm); Hagen, Carl, active 1878-1895; Hart, Campbell & Company; Jones, Francis Lawrence, -1898; Lawrence, Samuel Charles Louis, active 1833-1891; Leves, Nathaniel, active 1884-1885; London Portrait Rooms (Dunedin, N.Z.); McGregor, John, -1894; Manning, Charles Henry, 1848-1895; Martin & Lawson (Firm); Martin, Charles, 1842?-1905; May and Company (Firm); Meers, Robert Walter, active 1880s; Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; National Portrait Gallery (Dunedin, N.Z.); New Zealand Photographic Company (Dunedin, N.Z.); Nicholas & Dougall (Firm); Nicholas Brothers (Firm); Nicholas, Richard John, active 1868-1881; Nicholas, James Martyn, 1833-1916; Rutherford & Company; Sherlock, William, 1846-1910; Schourup, Peter, 1837-1887; Spiller, John, 1850-1928; Standish & Preece (Firm); Tyree, William, 1855-1924; Vandyck Studio (Dunedin, N.Z.); Victorian Portrait Rooms; Walker, Charles F, active 1872-1876; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-1288

Description: Ring binder album containing cartes de visite studio portraits of women, men, children and groups, organised by location and photographer, circa 1860 to 1900. Almost all of the portraits are unidentified except for one of Walter Reynolds, taken by City Photo Company, Christchurch. Photographers are named, sometimes with a location and date. Christchurch photographers are May & Co, Martin & Lawson, Dutch & Bull, J Spiller, C H Manning, N Cherrill, H Chatteris, R Meers, W Sherlock, Parker & Harrison (?Crystal Palace), Grand & Dunlop, E Wheeler & Son, J Gaul, P Schourup, C Martin, Price & co, J Bashford, George & Walton, Eden George, C Lawrence, Standish & Preece, C F Walker, E Dossetter, Dossetter & Co, Cambridge & Cooper, City Photo Company, C F Walker, Christchurch Fancy Bazaar, Easter & Wallis, D L Mundy, and A V Gadd. Dunedin photographers are D Mundy & co, Girvan & Gill, Morris, Robert clifford, Clifford & co, Clifford & Morris, National Portrait Gallery, H J Gill, London Portrait Rooms, Burton Brothers, Carl Hagen (Mosgiel), J W Allen, New Zealand Photographic Co, Coxhead & LeSueur, Frank Coxhead, Coxhead Brothers, H Coxhead, F L Jones, Rutherford & Co, W R Frost, American Photo co, J G Wills, Eden George & Co, Hart Campbell & Co, Ries & Hart, Ries & Co, D A De Maus, James De Maus, Loves, Exchange Court Studio, Amphotoum Photographic Company[?], Victorian Portrait rooms, William Tyree, Edinburgh Photo Company, J McGregor, Caledonian Portrait Gallery,Vandyck Studio. Invercargill photographers are Dougall's Studio, R J Nicholas, J M Nicholas & Co, Nicholas Brothers, Frank Coxhead, Fredric's Portrait Rooms, Nicholas & Dougall, Hart Campbell & Co, and Ross Photographer. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) consisting of 220 photographs. Physical Description: White ring bolder of clear plastic enclosures containing carte de visite Processing information: Photographs and captions kept in original order

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Field album 16

Date: [Circa 1880s-1890s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

By: Wilson, Augustus William, 1845-1917; Clifford, Robert, active 1865-1885; Clifford & Morris (Firm); Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919; Coxhead & Le Sueur (Firm); Lawson, Albert, 1844?-1901; Bartlett, Robert Henry, 1842-1911

Reference: PA1-q-087

Description: Album of cartes-de-visite of unidentified people associated with the Field family. Photographers include Augustus W Wilson (Kingsland, London); Clifford, Morris, Clifford & Morris, Coxhead & LeSueur, all of Dunedin; Albert Lawson (Palmerston, Otago) and R H Bartlett (Auckland). The title page shows Shakespeare's birthplace, followed by an index of poets and their homes which have been illustrated in colour. The illustrations, with spaces for photographs to be inserted, are interspersed with plain pages, again with slots for the cartes-de-visite. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with embossed black cover and metal clasp (lacking linking clasp). Title page entitled `Our poets' homes album'; 29 x 23 cm