Hansen family photographs

Contains photographs relating to the Hansen family, circa 1862 to 1990s. Taken by Hansen family members and photographers including Frank Arnold Coxhead, Fredrick George Radcliffe, Arthur Waldemar Schaef, William Meluish, and Burton Brothers.

A commercial set of "New Zealand Graphic Series" stereoscopic prints shows a trip down the Whanganui River and the town of Whanganui. These are taken by Fredrick George Radcliffe with the exception of one photograph by Arthur Waldemar Schaef. The collection also contains a stereoscopic print titled "Milford Sound Starvation" by the Burton Brothers showing two men posed with empty barrels and an empty bottle on the rocky shore at Milford Sound.

Photographs by Frank Arnold Coxhead show numerous views of Puyseger Point and its surrounds including Preservation Inlet. Futher nineteenth century prints include photographs, largely taken in Fiordland and the Otago Region, of landscapes (including Milford Sound, Dunedin gardens and coast, and Lake Wakatipu and surrounding peaks) and buildings in Dunedin (Garrison Hall, Knox Church, First Church, and Royal Exchange Hotel). There are also photographs of roading (Otira Gorge, Hokitika Road), railways (Rimutaka Incline), and an unidentified shepherd with his dog and herd of sheep. Other photographs include a William Meluish photograph of the goldrush at Gabriel's Gully, Tuapeka, taken in 1862. There are photographs relating to roads, railways, buildings, mainly in the Otago Region

Assorted family prints from circa 1900s to 1930s include a photograph of Anders Hansen on board the government steamer 'Hinemoa' and further photographs taken on board the 'Hinemoa'. Other identified Hansen family members are George and Annie Hansen, who are also photographed on board a ship, which is likely bound for the Auckland Islands circa 1925. Other photographs relating to boats and shipping include row boats and small steamers on the water [delivering supplies from lighthouse tenders?] and wool being loaded into barges at a coastal woolshed and wharf.

Photographs from the Wellington Region show Eastbourne and Wellington Harbour scenes. Photographs relating to a coastal farm, possibly Orongorongo Station, feature farm buildings, an unidentified group of three women and a boy riding in a cart drawn by a draught horse with another saddled horse behind, and two men shooting and bludgeoning a shark on the rocky shore. There is also a photograph of an unidentified wedding party.

Two photographs from circa 1990s to 2005 show carved greenstone and bone Māori artefacts, collected by Anders Hansen and his family when he was the lighthouse keeper at Little Papanui on the Otago Peninsula.

A Hansen family trip to Rarotonga and Aitutaki in 1977 includes photographs of accommodation (a resort, Rapae Motel) and other buildings, beach scenes, vehicles (bus, cars, motorcycle, tractor), a variety of flora (trees, flowers, and other plants), a waterfront scene, thatched roofs under construction, and local people (children by the road, women collecting water lilies, group selling produce). Identified buildings are Cook Island Liquor Supplies and a post office. Also photographs relating to Vaipae and the Ngatangiia Passage.

Donor identified some images as being taken on a journey to the Auckland Islands.

Greenstone and bone artifacts that appear in photographic prints are now at the Otago Museum.

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Quantity: 61 b&w original photographic print(s). 54 colour original photographic print(s). 13 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) stereoscopic. 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera.

Physical Description: Photographic prints and ephemera.

Provenance: Series of photographs by Frank Arnold Coxhead were given to Anders Hansen by the photographer while he was the lighthouse keeper at Puysegur Point circa 1880s to 1900s.