Highfield Station

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..

Date: Date unknown

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11729

Description: Transparencies of woolsheds in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the location, and sometimes the date of construction, of the woolshed. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title supplied by Library. Slides are not dated. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a metal case labelled 'Woolsheds slides', with 12 compartments, each able to hold approximately 8 slides. No arrangement order has been identified. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: [ca 1870-1898]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1044

Description: Most of the papers in this folder relate to R D D Maclean and include accounts and receipts, clippings, report on Hawke's Bay A & P Association AGM (1889), invitations to Lady Knutsford and from Ministre des Affaires Etrangeres, letters on breeding ponies from Fred [?] Swindley, request for attendance as HJP, re hares and hounds racing, property matters, schedule for game of haunted houses, also letter from Napier on headed `Rosam ne rode (1878), and letter in Maori from Rora Poneke, Korongata, asking R D D Maclean if could borrow a buggy (1883). Identified persons entered under Name. Language - Letter from Rora Poneke to R D D Maclean Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Seven small photographs showing aspects of farming, buildings, sheep and a horse.

Date: [ca 1925]

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

Reference: Pan-0394-F

Description: Panoramic view of Highfield, the home of A M H Shirtcliffe in Timaru, taken ca 1925 by R P Moore. [Large brick and tile home with verandah and central portico. Path around house. Grounds have cabbage trees and rhododendron bushes and shrubs. Sloping lawn]. Dated from other negatives in sequence. House identified by Mrs K Scott, 30 April 1999 (File 13/12/1). Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - "Mr A Shirtcliffe, c/- Farmers Co. of Timaru. Red tile roof, cream house, dark brown facing. Various colour tulips in bed on lawn in front of steps. White carnation border front of house. Purple creeper on end of verandah. Dark red prune trees at back of cabbage tree on right of end of verandah." [Last 20 cm of frame is repeated after a short gap in negative] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 129.6 cm