Niagara Falls

From: Page Collection :Christchurch and general New Zealand towns and scenes; costume. ca. 1880-1910

Reference: PA4-0749

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Cave of the winds, Niagara Falls Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - At the Cave of the Winds, Niagara Falls; Recto - right of image - M H Zahner, Publisher, Niagara Falls, N.Y.; Recto - left of image - Sold only by Griffith & Griffith Philadelphia, Chicago, London, Hamburg Ger. St Petersburg, Russia Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1860s

From: Wilkie Loan Collection :Albumen photographs from the collection of Sir William Fox

Reference: PAColl-D-0191

Description: Close-up photograph of the falls. In the foreground (to the right) are buildings including a dining saloon. One of a series of photographs of the falls taken by an unidentified photographer, ca 1860s Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 343 x 435 mm on card

Date: ca 1960

From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-599

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1860s

From: Wilkie Loan Collection :Albumen photographs from the collection of Sir William Fox

Reference: PAColl-D-0193

Description: One of a series of photographs taken of the Niagara Falls. Rocks and land on the far left. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer in 1860s Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 345 x 435 mm mounted on card

Date: 1878

From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].

Reference: E-881-f-009

Description: Shows two views of Niagara Falls, on efrom the Canadian side, and one of the Horseshoe Fall. At top left is a watercolour illustration of a trail of ivy leaves on a stem. Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, page 9 Quantity: 2 photograph(s). 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia photographs, sizes varying, a watercolour, on page 412 x 305 mm.

Date: 1897

By: Morice, Louisa Jane Spotswood, 1873-1957

Reference: PA1-f-069

Description: Photographs, chiefly taken by Louie J Seddon in 1897 on a trip around the world on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. They include several photographs on the group's return, especially one of Parliament Buildings, and five views of a reception for Mr Crow (R J Seddon's private secretary) by Ministerial Secretaries celebrating his return. Beneath the main inscription inside the first page is further information in Louie Seddon's copper-plate writing which reads "Our party consisted of my Father (the Right Hon. R J Seddon; Mother; Sister (Mary); Myself and Mr W Crow (Father's private secretary). We left Wellington, 15th April 1897, went via San Francisco - New York route to London - and returned by the overland (to Naples) and Suez Canal route, arriving Wellington, 8th Sept. 1897". En route to England a number of photographs show shipboard life, and several of the party in Samoa, one with Bishop and Mrs Wallis, and King Malietoa. In England there is one photograph cut from an English paper showing R J Seddon at Hawarden Castle with the Right Hon. Sir Wilford Laurier, Rt Hon and Lady Carrington, Rt Hon and Mrs W E Gladstone, Rt Hon G H Reid and Sir Louis Davies, July 1897. Also a sequence of views of the "Agent General's River Excursion on the Thames". The group visited various British Seddon family members at Eccleston and Bickerstaffe; and they visited Scottish writer and philosopher Thomas Carlyle's birthplace and grave. Photographs take up 32 pages with the rest blank apart from two newspaper cuttings attached to page 53. One is about Lady Freyberg at the Linen Guild (Evening Post, August 11, 1948?); the other about the ship Janie Seddon which was about to be sold (September 1946). On page 009 is a newspaper article on "King Dick" (Richard John Seddon), written in 1951 "By one who knew him" 45 years after his death. Inscriptions: Album page - "A memento of our trip around the world on the occasion of the celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1897" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, red leather corners and spine, entitled "Louie J Seddon, 1897" in gold lettering; 27.5 x 39.5 cm

Date: [19--]

Reference: PAColl-D-0588

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 498 x 418 mm on card

Date: 1860s

From: Wilkie Loan Collection :Albumen photographs from the collection of Sir William Fox

Reference: PAColl-D-0192

Description: Photograph of the falls. In the background are buildings (hotels, etc). Wooden walkways can be seen on the rocks to the right of the falls. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer, ca 1860s Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 343 x 435 mm on card

Date: [1897]

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: PA1-f-195-13

Description: View of Niagara Falls, taken ca 1897 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: One photographic print mounted on album page, 416 x 286 mm (page size)

Date: [1897]

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: PA1-f-195-16

Description: Views of Canada, taken ca 1897 by various photographers. The upper photograph (PA1-f-195-16-1) shows a group of native americans at an encampment. The centre photograph (PA1-f-195-16-2) shows "Lundy's Lane", a museum at Niagara. The lower photograph (PA1-f-195-16-3) shows the Canadian Pacific Railroad Hotel at Banff, and the Bow Valley. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Three photographic prints mounted on album page, 416 x 286 mm (page size)

Date: 1916 - 1917

By: Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: Eph-B-TOURISM-USA-Zachariah

Description: Not yet listed. Includes hotel promotions, invoices, city and railway maps, brochures on the Grand Canyon, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Atlantic City, Chicago, Washington DC, Detroit Quantity: 12 folder(s) in box. Physical Description: Booklets and brochures, sizes varying to approximately 290 mm. Provenance: Papers of Joseph Zachariah.

Date: 1947-1948, [circa 1995]

From: Willinger, Beth, active 2023: Collection relating to Erla Saunders Lambert

Reference: MS-Papers-12913-02

Description: Comprises letters sent by Erla Saunders Lambert to her family in New Zealand, 12 March 1947 to 20 April 1948. Letters sent by Erla from various locations, including Noumea and Suva in the Pacific; Los Angeles, Seattle, and Chicago in the United States; and Calgary, Banff, Niagara Falls, Ottawa, Montreal, and Arvida in Canada. Also includes transcriptions of the letters made after Erla's death in 1995; a letter from Ella Wilcox to Mrs Saunders, 18 November 1947, and a photocopy of newspaper clipping featured in Alberton which includes a story about Erla and Ella Wilcox, 4 December 1947. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Materials arrived at the Library in a box labelled "Erla Lambert Colln | Box 1 of 3" on the top, "Newcomb College Center for Research on Women | Newcomb Archives" and "Erla Lambert letters and transcriptions Jan 1951 - Dec 1957" on the side. The box had been reused by the donor. Each letter and transcription had been housed together in archive safe folders by the donor. Quantity: 1 box(es) contains 44 letters, corresponding transcriptions, and one photocopy of a newspaper clipping. Processing information: Original letters have been enclosed in archival paper envelopes or wrapped in acid free paper for reasons of storage and preservation.

Date: April 1904 - September 1904

From: Thomson, Frank David 1877-1934 : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11494-01

Description: 5 postcards and 1 greetings card - Niagara Falls (sent from New York), handpainted birthday card, Glasgow (sent from Glasgow, Furness (sent from Granoe over Sands, Lanc.)Edinburgh (sent from Edinburgh), "Dispatching foreign mails" cartoon (sent from Edinburgh) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and printed matter

Date: 1897-1898

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1985

Description: Scrapbook of Pearce family holiday to Canada, United States of America, Great Britain, and Egypt in 1897-1898. Photographs show cities, tourist sites, and boats and train scenes. Includes pamphlets related to travel and tourist prints. Also pressed leaves and hand-drawn illustrations. Donor's note that accompanied album read: "Overseas trip from NZ." Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 50 b&w photographs, 14 items of ephemera, five photomechanical prints, one watercolour, and pressed leaves. Physical Description: Two tone brown scrapbook, 36 x 28 cm Transfers: Loose photographic prints to PAColl-10493-4 - Loose mss and ephemera to MS-Papers-12245.

Date: 1982-[ca 1989]

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10645-18

Description: Contains photographic prints, largely showing the United States of America, 1982 to circa 1989. Photographs taken by Les Cleveland as well as other, unidentified photographers, possibly including Mary Cleveland. Also some photographs of family in New Zealand. Prints show city scenes in New York and Washington D.C. including residential and commercial buildings, museums, street scenes. parks, monuments, shop window displays, and sculptures. People are largely unidentified and include family groups (Watkins family), pedestrians, people eating at a diner, homeless people, and protestors. Les and Mary Cleveland also appear in a number of photographs. A number of photographs relate to the Washington Redskins, including street stalls selling merchandise and banners of support around Washington D.C.. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian Museum (including space and aviation related exhibits). Scenes from Buffalo, Baltimore, and New Harmony feature historic and modern buildings and street scenes. The USS Constellation museum ship is photographed. Also photographs of Niagara Falls and the cityscape of the Canadian city Niagara Falls. Photographs of Edward and Peter Cleveland canoeing on a pond or lake are taken at an unidentified location in New Zealand and with an older woman [a Cleveland relative?]. Also contains original photo wallets, some of which have receipts attached. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Prints and negatives arrived at Library in print wallets inside a file box labelled "Noel Mangin Southern Voices." They were layered on the top of the box. Quantity: 167 colour original photographic print(s). 6 item(s) of photographic ephemera photo wallets. Physical Description: Dye coupler photographic prints and paper and plastic photo wallets Transfers: Negatives separated from these prints to be found at 35mm-109962 to 35mm-109211.. Processing information: Prints were separated from negatives to facilitate appropriate storage. Not all prints have a corresponding negative.

Date: 19 August 1871-15 January 1872

By: Llewellyn, Robert William, 1848-1910

Reference: MSX-10004

Description: Holograph manuscript volume recording the travels of Llewellyn in the United States of America and New Zealand in the form of draft letters to his family. Journal begins with Llewellyn's departure on 'The Java' from Liverpool on 19 August 1871. Journey continues to Cork and Queenstown [Cobh] in Ireland, before crossing the Atlantic to New York. In the United States visits are made up the Hudson River to West Point, and to Albany by railway, and on to Niagara Falls, Toronto, Chicago, and Salt Lake City, before finally departing for New Zealand from San Francisco on 13 September 1871. Voyage on the SS 'Moses Taylor' to Honolulu and then on the SS 'Nevada' to Auckland. Most of the journal recalls Llewellyn's travels, friendships, and experiences in New Zealand, particularly in Wellington where he was largely based. Some notable experiences are the many balls and dances attended in the Houses of Parliament in Wellington, releasing the first brown trout in North Island rivers with Sir James Hector, learning to take photographs with William Thomas Travers, meetings with railway contractor John Brogden and the military secretary and soldier Sir George Whitmore. The journal ends abruptly on 15 January 1872 even though Llewellyn indicates he is to remain in New Zealand for a longer period before travelling on to Australia. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Bound volume, ribbed red leather boards with gilt ruled borders, 66 pages of holograph in ink on ruled laid paper (120 pages blank), 17.8 x 11.6 cm.

Date: 1852 - 1853

By: Jacques and Brothers (Firm); Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-349

Description: A sunset view, with a table-shaped rock looming over part of the falls to the right. Several figures on rocks and a path in the foreground dwarfed by the falls. On acquisition by the Library this lithograph was thought to be the work of William Fox. Instead it is the cover illustration for Table Rock Schottisch, piano music by John Cooke, (New York, Jacques and Brother, 1852). Likely to have been given to or purchased by Fox during his visit to Niagara in 1853 Source of title: First section of title thought to be from an accompanying label or backing board, discarded by the Library Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured 257 x 185 mm Provenance: Wilkie collection of works by William Fox.

Date: [Circa 1870s]

By: Arnoux, Hippolyte, active 1860s-1880s

Reference: PA1-f-047

Description: Photographs taken in the 1870s, covering a wide range of places, photographers mostly unidentified, and most images with no captions. The first group were taken in an around the Mediterranean, including Gibraltar, but particularly focussing on the Suez Canal. The sequence includes a copy of a montage produced by Hippolyte Arnoux, showing a map of the route of the canal, surrounded by photographs of canal designer Ferdinand de Lesseps and various sites along the route. Other images in this sequence were probably taken by Arnoux who was working in Egypt during this period. The next group of images travel via India (?), to Australia. Views of Melbourne include Government House, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Houses of Parliament, the Scots' Church (in Collins Street), the Post Office, the Town Hall, and the Public Library. Following these is a panorama of Sydney, and views of Tasmania. The New Zealand scenes start with a panorama of Auckland, the Mount Eden residence of G.B. (?, pencilled name undeciphered), and the Auckland Domain). Images further south include Ohinemutu; the Pink and White Terraces; Napier; the Manawatu Gorge; Wellington (with the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel visible in the foreground); Nelson; the wreck of the ship Otago, at Chasland's Mistake; and a number of views in the Dunedin area. The last sequence shows parts of Canada, including the Rockies, Montreal and the Niagara Falls. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark brown leather cover, with decorations stamped in gold; 28 x 40 cm

Date: [ca 1886]

Reference: PA4-0619

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Niagra Falls U.S.A. taken by B W Kilburn, ca 1886. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - The Glory of Niagra Falls. U.S.A; Verso - Photographed and published by B W Kilburn.... Littleton N.H.; Recto - right of image - Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1886 by B W Kilburn, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington D C. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: December 1977, February-March 1978

From: Downstage Theatre (Wellington): Photographs of productions

By: McCurdy, Stephen John, 1949-

Reference: PAColl-7704-04

Description: Photographs of the Downstage Theatre productions of 'Palace of Varieties - East Lynne' (December 1977) and 'Crossing Niagara' (February to March 1978), including 7 colour postcards with images of Niagara Falls. Quantity: 74 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 b&w original photographic print(s) contact sheets with 19 images. 7 postcards.