Railways - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: 1877

From: Seed Family, creator :Cuttings from the illustrated papers [Scrapbook of nineteenth-century illustrations and cuttings. 1870-1880s?]

By: Illustrated Australian news (Newspaper); Ebenezer & David Syme (Firm)

Reference: E-927-f-038-5

Description: Shows a view of Timaru from the south, with several ships in toe roadstead, The buildings of the town include a tall smoking chimney. At the left, and steam train travels southward. Date taken from State Library of Victoria catalogue (Retrieved from http://www.slv.vic.gov.au). This site also states that the engraving appeared in the Illustrated Australian news, published in Melbourne by Ebenezer and David Syme. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 106 x 228 mm.

Date: 1899

By: Bowring, Walter Armiger, 1874-1931; Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: B-094-013

Description: Caricature and full-length portrait of William Rolleston, Superintendant of Canterbury, with a farmer and a sheep tucked under one arm and the Cheviot Railway in the background Published as: supplement to the Weekly Press, May 31 1899 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 452 x 288 mm

Date: ca 1880

Reference: PAColl-7406

Description: Photographs of Auckland including: looking across the harbour to Devonport; the Rakaia in Caliope dock; the Scotch church; looking down College Hill; Victoria Street looking across Queen Street to Albert Park showing businesses in the area such as Sharland & Co and R White boot shop; Mount Eden; the Supreme Court; the flagpole and cannons at the top of Albert Park looking out over the harbour; two views of Karangahape Road showing shops, carriages and carts; the first St Matthew's Church; St Paul's Church on Symonds Street; the public hospital showing the tennis court in front and the screens on the balconies; houses on Franklin Road, Ponsonby; the Railway Station with advertising for the New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd and Arthur Cleave & Co; Ponsonby Road with a church on the left and J Clarke, undertakers, on the right; Ponsonby Road with a bakers and butchers on the right; the Synagogue on Princes Street; looking north along Queen Street with the DSC building on the right; a ship in dry-dock at the wharves; Hobson Street with St Matthew's Church on the right; and four views of the wharves including one showing the ferry. Photographs of Lyttelton: two elevated views to the harbour one with a church in the centre and the other with an artist painting the view at an easel; the railway lines at the wharves; and three men next to coal carts being loaded with coal from a ship at the wharves. Described on the reverse of the file prints as "copy negatives taken from faded prints". Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004172 to 004200 Quantity: 30 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1853-1857

By: Selfe, Henry Selfe, 1810-1870

Reference: MSX-8815

Description: Correspondence mainly concerns the Canterbury Association and the settlement of Canterbury Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (27 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (26cm, blue pamphlet case)

Date: 1895

By: New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works; New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal

Reference: G-368

Description: At the top left of this view in four sections, Lyttelton, looking north along the railway lines and wharves. In the centre, Christchurch Cathedral viewed from Cathedral Square. Top right is a further view of Lyttelton township from the hills above it, looking down. The bottom half of the picture is a view in Cathedral Square forming a half-circle with Colombo Street looking south to the Port Hills in the centre, and east and west Worcester Street on the left and right. Warner's Hotel and the Central Post Office are to the right of Colombo Street. Main panorama measures 195 x 870 mm ; main title trimmed Lithographed from photographic originals Extended Title - Supplement to New Zealand Graphic, Dec 18, 1895 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, ca 350 x 870 mm

Date: 1929 - 1940

Reference: MapColl-834.44gbbd/[post1929]/Acc.34487

Description: Cadastral and topographic map of Arthur's Pass township showing 109 numbered sections alongside the Bealey River and the railway line. The railway station is marked. Avalanche Creek and Rough Creek intersect blocks of sections. Half of a chain access is noted alongside part of the Bealey River. Roads are shown. Areas of land are divided by colour coding or cross hatching to determine Railway Land or that which is under the control of the Board of Control for Arthur's Pass National Park. Note on left of map states: Arthur's Pass township area edged red is the area vested in the Board, over which they have leasing powers by special Act. Area edged yellow is railway Land and the part of this land with a hatched edging, is the approximate area which the railway authorities have agreed to hand over to the Board. Area shown cross hatched is area which the Hon. the Minister of Lands has agreed to hand over to the Board. Action in this direction is under way. All the rest of the land is already under the control of the Board except the bed of the Bealey River, and action is being taken to bring this under the control of the Board. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and colourwash on paper, scale not given, 66.7 x 35.8 cm.

Date: 1934

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Mt-Cook-1934-01

Description: Combination of colour print, photographs and text on brochure. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cover of booklet.. Physical Description: Coloured print on folded brochure, 228 x 380 mm.

Date: [ca 1800s-1900s]

From: General Assembly Library : Miscellaneous manuscripts

Reference: MS-Papers-10077-1

Description: Includes a typescript of ‘Journal of a journey from Nelson to the Port Cooper Plains’ (1850-1851) by Edward James Lee, and a typescript of ‘Wakapapa [sic] of Joseph Robinson with explanatory notes, etc’ (1940). Also included is a brief biography of Dr William Chapman, an early physician in Christchurch and a notice of indenture relating to Edward Corner, draper (1837). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Processing information: Description updated 12 July 2023 following information from a researcher.

Date: [1903-1920]

By: Grant, F J, active 1980s; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-0362

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of New Zealand made by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Many of the images are of military inspections and displays by school children. There are also displays of Maori dancing and singing, the sailors of the HMS Renown, on which the prince had travelled , prior to their soccer match in Dunedin, the prince addressing the crowds etc. A number of the images are in two-part panoramas. Also included are four scenic photographs by the New Zealand Tourist Department which may have been taken in 1903. The photographer for the tour photographs was Guy. Other - Similar images at 1/2-032642, 045102 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1930s-1940s

Reference: PAColl-6610

Description: 9 views of Canterbury towns: Lincoln hotel, supply store and railway station; Hawarden Post and Telegraph Office; Waikari Post and Telegraph Office; street scene in Waikari; the promenade at Caroline Bay with a large hotel above it; the premises of the Dominion Compressed Yeast Company in Christchurch; and an unidentified town which is probably Timaru with boats moored in the harbour. Photographer unidentified. The image which is probably Timaru is identified in the negative accession register as Rotheram but this town is inland and near neither a lake nor a river therefore this is not likley to be correct. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-018080, 1/4-018082 to 018088, and 1/4-018170 Quantity: 9 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1920

By: New Zealand Railways. Christchurch Section; Alex Wildey Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-ROYAL-1920-05

Description: Booklet contains two publications: New Zealand Railways. Christchurch District. Visit of HRH The Prince of Wales to Christchurch, May 13th to 16th, 1920. Races at Christchurch, May 15th 1920 (26 pages) New Zealand Railways. Christchurch District. Visit of HRH The Prince of Wales to Ashburton, Temuka, Timaru and Oamaru, May 17th 1920 [and] Departure of HRH The Prince of Wales from Lyttelton, May 21st 1920. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 26 and 16 pages, each 260 x 195 mm, inside purple suede cover 272 x 205 mm, with gilt lettering. Accompanying original envelope Provenance: Donated by Mr R Waters, 1980. Accompanying envelope is addressed to the Prince of Wales, per favour R W McVilly, esq, General Manager, New Zealand Railways. Presumably it was never presented; or else presented and abandoned.

Date: 1866-1867

By: Braithwaite and Morton (Firm)

Reference: Micro-MS-0684

Description: Outward correspondence of a firm of iron merchants, operating in Christchurch and Nelson. Mostly concerns supplying fencing materials to Canterbury runholders, but includes letters to Government regarding materials for telegraph and railway needs. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (ca 270 pages).

Date: 1938 - 1952

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-027

Description: Photographs of Canterbury Region made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance between 1938 and 1952. Includes a series of photographs, dated 23 February 1938, recording the clean up after a flood in an unidentified location, probably in the Canterbury region. Also includes photographs of pea crops and tulip harvesting in Waimate. Quantity: 59 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: Circa 1927

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

Reference: Pan-2108-F

Description: Panoramic view showing the beach at Caroline bay with the bay on the right. A horse-drawn carriage and two people are seen on the beach. There are buildings on a high ridge on the far left above a train on a railway line below. There is a walkway below the railway line and public gardens on a level below that. A road with a row of parked cars is between the gardens and an area of lawn lined with trees beside the beach. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Caroline Bay, Timaru. 691; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - No. 691 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 134.2 cm

Date: 1925

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

Reference: Pan-1120-F

Description: Panoramic view looking over Caroline Bay, Timaru. Wharves on right, children's play area in right foreground. Changing sheds on beach. Railway line beneath a steep cutting far left with houses above. Small ship in harbour. Public park area far left. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1115 for No. 2 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Caroline Bay Timaru New Zealand No. 598; Marginal notes on negative - 2 2 [in list formation]; Marginal notes on negative - Caroline Bay. Timaru. New Zealand. 1925. No. 1 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 134.0 cm

Date: [ca 1890-1900]

By: Foster, Susan E, 1946-; Beckett, Ethel Mary, active 1890s; Beckett, Amy Middleton, -1964; Beckett, Thomas Wrench Naylor, 1839-1906; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6244

Description: Photographs, mostly of the South Island, from the collection of the Beckett family. Most were taken by Ethel Mary Beckett, with some being the work of Amy Middleton Beckett. The work of Wheeler & Son, of Christchurch, and Albert E Winzenberg of Masterton is also represented. A photograph of Palmerston Atoll, in the Cook Islands, is included in the collection. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-181858-G to 1/2-181894-G Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s). 37 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1917

By: Empson, Estelle, active 2000

Reference: PAColl-6121

Description: Arthurs Pass/Otira tunnel and the first passengers to go through on the 21 July 1917. Also a photograph of a bach at Lake Moana with Ernest Empson in front. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [190-?]

By: Dust, I R (Mrs), active 1973

Reference: PAColl-4344

Description: Postcards of Newtown Park with a crowd gathered outside the pavilion, Timaru from St Mary's Church tower, duck pond in Timaru Botanical Gardens, Wellington Post Office, St Mary's Church in Timaru, Church of the Sacred Heart in Timaru, Auckland wharves, Sumner beach with the railway, Cuba Street in Wellington, Christchurch intersection, and Dargaville streets. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negative at 1/2-151782 Quantity: 13 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1935

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch; Timaru Publicity Committee; Timaru (N.Z.). Borough Council; Goodwin, Jill Marion, 1947-

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Canterbury-1935-01

Description: Includes colourful covers and twelve pages of text and photographs about the Timaru area. Date taken from Page 1, column 2, paragraph 2. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Photolithographs on 12-page booklet with colour prints on covers, 232 x 203 mm. Provenance: Donated by Jill Goodwin, from the collection of her father B W Collins, in 2000.

Date: ca 1859-1879

Reference: PAColl-7469

Description: View from Le Cren's Terrace showing the original St Mary's Church on the right; the town with the sea behind and the custom house on the left; a two-storey house in a garden which became the site of the public library; houses near Stafford Street, 1859; the government landing terrace with warehouses nearby, ca 1860s; looking down George Street towards the sea to what is now reclaimed land ca 1869; Stafford Street ca 1870s showing the Empire Hotel in the centre, Stubbs Auction Rooms on the right, Bank of New Zealand opposite, Purdie & Co seed warehouse on the left and other commercial buildings; view over Timaru from the tower of Parr's windmill showing a carriage works and foundry to the right and the premises of Miles Archer & Co ca 1860s; Stafford and George Streets showing Clarkson & Turnbull in the centre with the post office in the small building with the verandah next to it, the upper storey of the Bank of New Zealand on the right, and the two-storied Club Hotel on the left; two women and a girl in a field with the railway across Caroline Bay on the left and Timaru behind them; men working on the construction of the breakwater; and the railway across Caroline Bay. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004521, 004525, 004528, 005334 Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s). 8 b&w original photographic print(s).