Foy Brothers (Firm)

Date: 1977

Reference: Eph-C-PHOTO-EXHIBITION-1977-1

Description: Includes: Historical Show: [Includes photographs by] J N Crombie, Swan and Wrigglesworth, H Webster, Kinsey, Tyree, Foy Bros, William England, Herbert Deveril, Carlo Ponti, James Bragg, Burton Bros, Charles S Spencer, American Photo Co, William J Harding. Snaps Gallery [Auckland], opening 12 December. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying up to 500 x 350 mm. Provenance: Donated at various times.

Date: [Circa 1900s]

From: Kenrick, Evelyn Helen, 1907-1991 : Photographs of New Zealand scenery

By: Foy Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-249

Description: Album of New Zealand scenery photographed circa 1900s. Includes one image of Thames Maori chief Taipari, who presented land for St George's Anglican Church at Thames in 1871 (taken circa 1870s by Foy Brothers). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Cream buckram album, with dark red leather spine and corners, spine entitled `Kenrick'; 17.5 x 22.5 cm

By: Deverell, Walter, 1853?-1920

Reference: A-114-009

Description: Head and shoulders frontal portrait of a Maori man with moko, a traditional cloak, ear adornments and huia feathers in his hair. Probably based on a photograph of a chief named thus, by the Foy Brothers, dated 1880s Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: W D Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash drawing 152 x 127 mm

Date: [1878-1884]

By: Aitken family; Bartlett, Robert Henry, 1842-1911; Clifford & Morris (Firm); Foy Brothers (Firm); Hemus & Hanna (Firm); Martin, Charles, 1842?-1905

Reference: PA1-q-1083

Description: Album of photographs of Aitken family of Kereone. Includes photographs of Fiji by Dufty studio, and photographs from well-known New Zealand studios including Foy Bros of Thames, Clifford & Morris, Hemus & Hanna, R H Bartlett, Charles Martin, J Martin, and London Portrait Rooms. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top right - To Sandy from Jeannie - March 31st 1879 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 29.5 x 23 cm Provenance: Album was a gift from Jeannie Richmond to her brother Sandy (Alexander) Aitken on March 31, 1879. Sandy consequently filled the album with photographs of family.

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

By: Foy Brothers (Firm)

Reference: E-328-f-088-5

Description: Shows a Maori woman carrying a young child on her back. Shows Ana (or Hanne) Rupene. The photograph was used as source material by artist Gottfried Lindauer for his paintings A copy of a carte-de-visite produced by the Foy Brothers of Thames, between 1872 and 1886 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Maori woman and child Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 86 x 55 mm

Date: 1872-1886

By: Knight, Dinah, 1954-; Foy Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-7884

Description: Carte de visite portraits by Foy Brothers of Thames, identified on the mount as Chief Rihia and Wikepa's wife. The Foy Brothers studio operated in Thames between 1872 and 1886. Source of information: Hardwicke Knight, 1981. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen prints Provenance: They were formerly in the possession of the donor's mother, Janet Bower Wright.

Date: [ca 1900s-1910s]

By: Iles, Arthur James, 1870-1943; Foy Brothers (Firm); Price, Thomas Edward, 1863-1928

Reference: PAColl-6842

Description: Copy negatives of cartes de visite portraits of Maori taken by various photographers. Includes what may be a page from a photograph album (1/4-030078). The images have been pinned to a board and photographed. A carte de visite exists (PA2-0722) in the collections for the same image as 1/4-030072 although it is not from this negative. 1/4-030073, 031735 and 031736 all have the same lettering on the verso giving photographer's reference number, customer's name and photograph size. It is not known who compiled this collection or who donated them. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-029461, 030071 to 030079, 031735 to 031736 and 031738. Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: ca 1880s

From: Creator of Collection Unknown : Cabinet cards of Maori women by Foy Brothers

By: Foy Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-7511-2

Description: Cabinet card of a head and shoulders portrait of Pare Te Koa. Photographer was Foy Brothers. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1870s-1880s]

From: Harper, Laura Helen Bruce, 1888-1970: Photographs

By: W R & R Gowland (Firm); Foy Brothers (Firm); Smith, W G, active 1860s; Botterill, John, 1817-1881

Reference: PAColl-4395-1

Description: Carte de visite portraits of Samuel Wiley, Mrs Stacpoole, Dr George Stacpoole, Edith Tylee, Tomaki, Ahiwera Te Arero, an unidentified Maori man, and William Selwyn, taken 1860s-1880s by various photographers. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: ca 1880s

From: Creator of Collection Unknown : Cabinet cards of Maori women by Foy Brothers

By: Foy Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-7511-1

Description: Cartes-de-visite of Mare Paori in a kakahu over European dress; Paori with Tamerangi wrapped in the same kakahu; and Towhia with feathers in her hair. Photographer was Foy Brothers. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1872

From: Ramsden, Eric :Photographs relating to Ramsden and his family and Maori subjects

By: Foy Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA2-0724

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1872-1886

From: Ramsden, Eric :Photographs relating to Ramsden and his family and Maori subjects

By: Foy Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA2-0730

Description: Unidentified Maori man from the Thames district, wearing Huia feathers, photographed by Foy Brothers, Thames. The moko has been highlighted with greasepaint. The same huia feathers and cloaks appear in other portraits by the Foy Brothers, and were probably owned by the studio Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1872

By: Foy Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA2-0726

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1872

From: Ramsden, Eric :Photographs relating to Ramsden and his family and Maori subjects

By: Foy Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA2-0722

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1872

From: Ramsden, Eric :Photographs relating to Ramsden and his family and Maori subjects

By: Foy Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA2-0717

Description: Member of Aperahama family of Manaia, Coromandel (information from iwi source). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1872

From: Ramsden, Eric :Photographs relating to Ramsden and his family and Maori subjects

By: Foy Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA2-0716

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1880]

By: Hill, Emily, 1847-1930; Foy Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-227

Description: Album, probably compiled by Emily Hill, née Knowles, of Napier, containing carte-de-visite portraits of Maori (mostly by Foy Brothers of Thames) and views of the gannet colony at Cape Kidnappers. Photographs taken ca 1880s. Album also contains "Lay me low", a poem written 18 January 1880 by William Colenso at Waipukurau. Record title adjusted October 2016 based on additional biographical information provided by Rhys Owen. Original title: "Hill, Emily, fl 1880 :Photograph album" Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - Emily Hill, Napier (illustrated, lettered and coloured by hand) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth bound album 23 x 19 cm

Date: 1872

By: Foy Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA2-0731

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1872

By: Foy Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA3-0073

Description: Inscriptions: Verso - In pencil: Ruto Raniera Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1872

By: Foy Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA2-0729

Description: Possibly Hatapaka, or Hata Paka. Identified as "Hatapaka" on another copy of this photograph (in a Webb's Auction Catalogue). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).