Photographer and portrait artist who worked in Dunedin in the 1860s (arrived in Dunedin in 1857), Greymouth 1867, and later in Auckland. According to the following website John Tensfeld (or Tensfield, or Tensfeldt), was born in Germany circa 1830-1832, and died in Missouri USA, in 1893. The article also says he possibly arrived in New Zealand in the Alhambra in 1866. http://canterburyphotography.blogspot.com/2009/07/tensfield-john.html.
Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882
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Gapes, Muriel :Photographs of Queen Street and the Grafton Bridge in Auckland
Date: ca 1860-1880
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882
Reference: PAColl-0582
Description: View looking down Queen Street towards the wharves from a point just above an intersection with the Anchor Hotel on the left and the firm E George & Co on the right, taken by John Tensfeld ca 1860. View of the first Grafton Bridge with the Symonds Street cemetery in the background taken by Burton Bros ca 1880. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).
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Photographs from the West Coast Album by Tensfeld
Date: ca 1866-1872
By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882
Reference: PAColl-7634
Description: A flume bridge for gold mining near Ross ca 1870s; the first bridge between Blaketown and Greymouth ca 1870s; and Charleston ca 1866-1872. Photographer was John Tensfeld and the images were captioned West Coast Album in the bottom left of each image. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-008043, 008047 and 008048 Quantity: 3 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives
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View of Te Aro from The Terrace
Date: ca 1860s
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 16
By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882
Reference: PAColl-7344-39
Description: View over Te Aro from The Terrace looking towards Mount Victoria but without including the harbour. The Criterion Family Hotel is in the foreground which was later renamed the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
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A Trip through New Zealand album
Date: [Circa 1860s]
By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882
Reference: PA1-o-506
Description: Five mounted photographs taken by John Tensfeld. Dunedin, view from Queens Street; and view of Princes Street Lyttelton from the harbour Christcurch Government Buildings Wellington, view from The Terrace, with the Criterion Family Hotel visible in the front The name Churton is pencilled inside the front cover Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth-bound hard cover, entitled "A trip through New Zealand" in gold block lettering on front cover"; 25 x 32 cm
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Tensfeld, John, fl 1869-1882: Panoramas of Lyttelton harbour
Date: 24 March 1882
By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: PA1-o-494
Description: Contains seven mounted photographs, taken on 24th March 1882. Four of these are 1/2-004680 and 004681 and 1/2-004683 and 004684 which are halves of two very similar panoramas of Lyttelton harbour taken from the same point and showing the graving dock in the foreground. They both name the same ships moored in the harbour which are: Carnarvon Castle, Pet, Midlothian, Guy Mannering, Harbour Board's dredge and barge, Ione, Wigtonshire, Duchess of Argyle, Inch Murren, Cairnbulg, Seriol Wyn, Glenburn, Perthshire, Alexa, Brilliant, Lurline, Mataura, Duncraig, Enterpe, City of Perth, Lock Eck, Roman Empire, Loch Dee, British Yeoman, Glamis, Gareloch and Woollahra. Also included are two pictures of the graving dock and a view of reclaimed land at the edge of the harbour. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Album with folded green binding, tied with canvas ribbon, containing seven photographs. Provenance: From the library of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull. Given the original numbering of 3784-3790.
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Tensfeld, John, fl 1869-1882 :Photograph of Kilgour's Hotel, Greymouth
Date: [187-?]
By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882; Brewster, Barney, active 1991-2019
Reference: PAColl-7960
Description: Photograph of Kilgour's Hotel, Greymouth, taken ca 1870s by John Tensfeld of Greymouth. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 5.7 x 9.4 cm on mount 6.4 x 10.1 cm
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Nelson cemetery
Date: ca 1860s
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 16
By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882
Reference: PAColl-7344-36
Description: A view of Nelson with the cemetery in the foreground. Photographer was John Tensfeld. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
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Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs of Nelson, Auckland, Thames County and Hoki...
Date: ca 1867-1880s
By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882
Reference: PAColl-7478
Description: Waterloo Quadrant, Auckland with the Supreme Court on the left; Eden Crescent, Auckland with the Supreme Court in the distance; elevaated view of Grahamstown looking towards the wharves with the Moanataiari Hotel in the foreground; a view of Shortland; view of Nelson looking across the harbour to the Post Office on the waterfront and the cathedral beyond; and the waterfront at Hokitika showing a bonded store on the left and a boat and a coil of rope in the foreground. Photographer was Tensfeld. The prints have the same format and two are duplicates of prints in the Tensfeld album PA1-o-493 but the provenance is otherwise unknown. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004560 to 004563 and 004777 (copy negatives from original prints) Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 b&w copy negative(s).
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Creator of collection unknown :Photographs of various New Zealand locations, mostly Bur...
Date: 1869-190-
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882
Reference: PAColl-2150
Description: Cityscapes; street scenes; historic buildings; landscapes; chronological tree of NZ history. Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.
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Dunedin from Bell Hill
Date: 1858
From: NZ Institute of Engineers :Photographs used in F W Furkert's publication Early New Zealand Engineers
By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882
Reference: PAColl-0077-03
Description: Dunedin city and harbour, from Bell Hill, 1858, photographed by John Tensfeld, and copied by Muir and Moodie. Inscriptions: Bottom right: Dunedin from Bell Hill 1852 [sic] The oldest known photo. Muir and Moodie. For further information about this image see "Dunedin Early Photographs, Second series from the Hardwicke Knight Collection", 1985, text facing plate 1. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15 x 20.3 cm
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Dunedin from Bell Hill
Date: 1858
From: Lamond, G (Miss), fl 1966 :Postcards
By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882
Reference: 1/2-038710-F
Description: Overlooking Dunedin from Bell Hill, 1858, photographed by John Tensfeld. For further information about this image see "Dunedin Early Photographs, Second series from the Hardwicke Knight Collection", 1985, text facing plate 1. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
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Dunedin from Bell Hill
Date: 1858
By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882
Reference: 1/2-091262-F
Description: Dunedin from Bell Hill in 1858, photographed by John Tensfeld and copied by Muir and Moodie. This photograph is a copy negative of a print made by Muir & Moodie, probably between 1900 and 1910, from an original photograph by the Dunedin photographer John Tensfeld. Tensfeld arrived in Dunedin in 1857 and, according to Hardwicke Knight, the original photograph was clearly dated by Tensfeld to 1858. For further information about this image see "Dunedin Early Photographs, Second series from the Hardwicke Knight Collection", 1985, text facing plate 1. Other Titles - Dunedin from Bell Hill 1852 Inscriptions: Bottom right: Dunedin from Bell Hill 1852 [sic]. The oldest known photo. Muir & Moodie. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
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Tensfeld, John album
Date: [Circa 1860s-1870s]
By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: PA1-o-493
Description: Album of photographs taken by John Tensfeld circa 1860s-1870s. Title page reads: "New Zealand souvenir, by John Tensfeld, artist, Dunedin. Containing twenty interesting views of the most important places in New Zealand" Photographs as shown: Port Chalmers; Dunedin (view from jetty); Dunedin (Princes Street); Dunedin (view from Bell Hill); Dunedin (view towards bay); Waikouaiti (Otago); Christchurch (Government Building); Christchurch (Council Chambers); Nelson; Nelson (view from cemetery); Hokitika, Westland (Gibson's Quay); Kanieri, Westland (diggings on Hokitika River); Greymouth, Westland (Mawhera Quay); Cobden, West Coast (on Hokitika [i.e. Grey] River); Westport, West Coast (Gladstone Street, Buller); View near Nelson; Dunn Mountains (Province of Nelson); Old Porirua Road (near Wellington); Forest scene (North Island). Album from A H Turnbull's own collection, with his own bookplate inside front cover. The album had the original numbering 3791-3809. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover; 23.5 x 31.0 cm Provenance: From the library of Alexander Turnbull.