Montrose Station

Date: ca 1880-1900

By: J H Bethune and Company Ltd; Burton, William Henry, 1823?-1898; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3359

Description: Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope. Physical Description: Four photoprints approx 180 x 240mm and seven photoprints approx 160 x 200mm

Date: [ca 1872]-1888

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-1878

Description: Photograph album produced in 1888, titled 'Some representative sheep farms. Canterbury and neighbourhood.' Photographs taken by E Wheeler and son, of Christchurch, New Zealand. Album is dedicated to Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Governor of New Zealand. - Images feature farms and homesteads, with the photographer's inscription on the print identifying the farm and the owner (name and place spellings are transcribed from the item). These comprise: Mount Peel (Hon J B Acland), Waikanini (W Barker Esq), Otekaike (Hon R Campbell), Peel Forest (G J Dennistoun & Co), The Warren Woodbury (F W Donkin), Mount Palm (T Chapman), Mount Fyffe Kaikoura (A S Collins), Waimate (J Douglas), Homebush (J Deans), Longbeach (J Grigg), Grassmere, Westerfield (C Hawdon), Hororata (Sir J Hall), Horsley Down (Mallock & J D Lance), Underwood (A Hawdon), Fernside (S Heywood), St Helen's (W A Low), Windsor Park Otago (E Menlove), Lyndon (Macfarlane Bros), The Warren E Oxford (Langton), Waitakahi (A McLean), Glenmark (G H Moore); Achray (Macfarlane), Mt Somers (A E Peach[e?]), Raukapuka Geraldine (W Postlethwaite), Cheviot (Hon W Robinson), Orari Gorge (C G Tripp Esq), Mount Messing (R Rutherford), Montrose (Rutherford), Waireka (R Wade), Swyncombe Kaikoura (W D Wood), and Highfield (Wharton & Co). - Gardens and surrounding scenic landmarks (such as rivers and mountain ranges) are often visible as part of building portraiture. Buildings and structures other than main homesteads include woolsheds, manager's houses, a meat freezing factory (Belfast), the Port Robinson slipway, stock yards, worker's whares, ferret houses, and Glenmark Station's extensive lakes and water features. Images are almost exclusively of the exterior of buildings with only the interiors of woolsheds seen. Many images include the families that lived in the houses and often their dogs. Farm workers are seen in some images. Farm animals pictured include sheep, horses, mules, farm dogs, and oxen. Activities such as shearing with a Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine, wool sorting, wool scouring, wool transportation (horse drawn carts and ox wagons), sheep dipping, and sheep drafting are shown. Other activities include rowing in a boat, lawn mowing, and lawn tennis. Other - Album has covers that appear to have been created by the General Assembly Library. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Dedicated by Permission to His Excellency Sir W F D Jervois, G.C.M.G., C.B. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green and black album embossed with gold typeface, 24.4 x 32 cm Provenance: Donated by Parliamentary Library, Wellington, 2014 Transfers: From Book Collections - NZ&P: as part of a large ongoing donation of mainly published material..