Canterbury Rowing Club (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Date: 1905

Reference: Eph-B-VARIETY-1905

Description: Includes programmes and fliers for the following: Professor Fred Andrews and his magic kettle. Remarkable demonstration of the properties of liquid air. Theatre Royal. With Will and Rob Thomas, the Great Alma (magician) and Miss Elsie Dwyer (soprano). [Dunedin? - Daily Times print]. Thursday 24 August [1905]. Promotional pamphlet. Canterbury Rowing Club. C.R.C. Entertainers Ladies' night. The Boathouse [Christchurch], 26 July 1905. Programme and letter Czerny, prince of prestidigitateurs and his company of trained illusionists. Promotional pamphlet Czerny, "a magician most profound in his art". His Majesty's Theatre Wellington, Boxing night and every evening [1905]. Programme (2 copies) Dix's Gaiety Company. Theatre Royal Wellington, 22 April 1905. Programme Dix's Gaiety Company. Theatre Royal Wellington, 6 May 1905. Programme. The Navy League, Canterbury branch. Nelson Centenary concert. Friday October 20 1905, King Edward Barracks. Programme and book of words. Mr Harry Rickards' world-star touring company. Opera House Wellington, 15 May 1905. Programme (2 different; 2 copies green, 1 copy orange cover) St Peter's Missionary Guild. Grand concert and entertainment. Tuesday Sept 5 1905. Raymond & Howard, society magicians and entertainers; and other performers. Part II. "A blighted being" (a comedy). Programme. Mr Geo Stephenson's Refined Entertainers. Theatre Royal Wellington. 24 August 1905. Programme. Quantity: 11 programmes and fliers. Physical Description: Printed programmes, under 300 mm.

Date: 1910 - 1987

By: Alexander Turnbull Library; Webb, Steffano Francis Pavlovich, 1880-1967

Reference: B-168-023

Description: Shows a group of elegantly-dressed club members and partners at the opening of the rowing season. Some members are embarking upon the river in the foreground whilst others stand outside the turretted club-house. There are several willow trees and a cabbage-tree. Extended Title - From: An Edwardian city; Christchurch at the turn of the century / Alexander Turnbull Library; The Star, Christchurch. Wellington, Alexander Turnbull Library, 1987. (Photographic print series 6, 1987). Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of the Star, Christchurch, from the original glass negative.; Recto - beneath image - Reference no: 9160 1/1; Recto - beneath image - [Title and name of photographer] Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Black and white photolithograph, image 252 x 358 mm, on sheet 360 x 450 mm. Originally one of set of 6 prints in envelope 388 x 505 mm. Provenance: Legal deposit (6 prints only).

Date: 1906-1907, and [1940s-1960s?]

Reference: PA1-o-029

Description: Photographs taken on a trip to New Zealand by Dr Freda Bage, 1906-1907; includes several photographs taken by unknown photographers at later dates, most of new Zealand, but one of Rotten Row in London, and one of the Victoria Dock in Sydney. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black hard cover, cream binding tape spine, 230 x 300 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-0115. Transfer information - MS-0115.

Date: 1940 - 1947

From: [Posters collected by Allen Matthew Hale, for rowing regattas. 1935-1962]

By: Hale, Allen Matthew, 1890-1973

Reference: Eph-D-ROWING-Hale-1940s-01

Description: Poster listing all the events to take place at the regatta at Stewart's Gully, north of Christchurch. Entry fees and prizes are also listed. According to perpetual calendar, date could be 1924, 1930, 1941, 1947. The Christchurch Regatta is documented for 1897 and 1936 (see Jim Renaut's \"History of Canterbury Rowing Club\" (Christchurch 1987), pages 164 and 171). The A M Hale papers contain another dated poster for a Stewart's Gully regatta in 1946, making the 1947 date most likely. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on orange paper, 560 x 380 mm. Provenance: From the papers of Mr A M Hale donated in 1976.

Date: 1903

Reference: Eph-A-ROWING-1903-01

Description: A programme for a regatta of nine rowing events. The following clubs participated: Union Rowing Club, Star Boating Club, Christchurch Amateur Rowing Club, Canterbury Rowing Club, Akaroa Boating Club, Cure Boating Club, Avon Rowing Club, Wellington Rowing Club, Otago Rowing Club. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, 135 x 110 mm.

Date: 1893-1949

From: Hale, Allen Matthew, 1890-1973 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8359-13

Description: Annual reports from a variety of New Zealand rowing clubs Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-533

Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm

Date: [ca 1905-1926]

From: Maclay, Adam Henry Pearson, 1873-1955 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-028346-G

Description: Photograph taken by Christchurch photographer Adam Henry Pearson Maclay. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 1/1 plate