French Farm

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

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Port Levy, Governors Bay and French Farm] [1960s?]

Reference: A-227-293

Description: Shows an old wooden house with two dormer windows in its second storey. One of the lower windows may be boarded up. It has a lawn and flower bushes, with trees and hills in the background. The house shown is thought to be possibly the oldest building on Banks Peninsula. It is owned by members of the Brocherie family, descendants of the French settlers to Akaroa in 1840. It was not part of the school, although both the school house and the house shown here were both owned by the Brocherie family. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 285 mm

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Port Levy, Governors Bay and French Farm] [1960s?]

Reference: A-227-290

Description: Shows a two-storied wooden dwelling with dormer windows. It stands in a grassy field with daffodils, and trees in the background. A side view of the same house with a porch door is at A-227-291 The house was originally the school teacher's house. It became privately owned after the school was closed down. It is still standing (by 2006) and is being restored. The school building was to its right. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 285 mm

Date: 1868

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, between 1860 and 1868]

Reference: E-033-4-024

Description: View looking across Akaroa Harbour, with a ship in the water. French Farm is indicated on the opposite site of the harbour. Probably a view from just north of Akaroa township, showing the Onawe Peninsula to the right Page is loose in sketchbook Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on buff wove paper, 118 x 199 mm

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Port Levy, Governors Bay and French Farm] [1960s?]

Reference: A-227-294

Description: A view from a hill, looking down on a wharf and boatsheds on Akaroa Harbour. The houses at French Farm are indicated slightly in the background at the foot of the further hill, by the water Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 285 x 195 mm

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Port Levy, Governors Bay and French Farm] [1960s?]

Reference: A-227-292

Description: Shows a road running between two fenced paddocks with a tree and a bridge. Akaroa Harbour and the end of Onawe Peninsula and other hills can be seen in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 285 mm

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Port Levy, Governors Bay and French Farm] [1960s?]

Reference: A-227-291

Description: Shows a view of a side of a two-storied house, with an awning over a bay window. The house has a garden. Akaroa Harbour and the hills behind Akaroa can be seen in the background The same house (originally the school house) is shown from the front in A-227-290 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 160 x 285 mm

Date: 1925

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

By: Brocherie, James J, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-2264-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over a farming valley, hills all around, French Farm Bay is on the left. On a slope in the right middle distance there is a large two-storeyed farmhouse surrounded by trees and fencing. There are other houses in the image including one on the flat near the water. Pockets of trees. Road running across the foreground. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - J. Brocherie. French Farm. Banks Peninsula. 2 B&W. 1 oils. 8.8.0 [pounds]. Print from white house in trees on right to as far as possible. White House. Iron roof; Marginal notes on negative - 2 2 2 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 117.5 cm