Beaches - New Zealand - Manawatū-Whanganui Region

Date: ca 1890

By: Schaef, Arthur Waldemar, 1867-1940

Reference: PA4-0847

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a scene looking towards Castlecliff from the mouth of the Wanganui River, taken by A W Schaef ca 1890 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Looking towards Castlecliff from the mouth of Wanganui River; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Recto - left of image - Photograph by A W Schaef Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1896-1897

By: Roberts, George John, 1848-1910; Cundy, Horace Gordon, 1907-1983

Reference: PA1-o-124

Description: Photograph album of West Coast scenes, compiled, and in part photographed by surveyor George John Roberts. Several images show Roberts, including one image of him with L Cockayne and C E Douglas standing on ice at the Bealey in April 1897. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black bound album with cream cotton spine, entitled "Photographs", 26 x 32 cm Provenance: Donated by Mr H G Cundy, Palmerston North, 1977. The album was compiled by surveyor George Roberts, uncle of Mr Cundy.

Date: 1894

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: C-007-012

Description: Shows the Castlecliff freezing works near Wanganui, on the waterside near the bluff, in the distance at the far end of a beach which curves along the right of the picture. Two horsemen ride along the beach, droving a flock of sheep. In the right distance a steam train approaches the freezing works. Several craft are tied up at the wharf, and other ships sail or steam away in the left distance. White shags (?) stand on driftwood branches in the left foreground, and an old basketwork fishing trap (perhaps an eel trap or crayfish pot) lies half submerged in the bottom left corner. Signed and dated C. D. Barraud 1894, lower right. However the work appears to be that of Christopher Aubrey and the signature has probably been added much later by an unknown person. The signature is similar to Barraud's lower-case printed style of signature but not identical. The watercolour is almost identical in subject to other watercolours by C. Aubrey, also dated 1894. The Whanganui Regional Museum holds three versions of the Aubrey watercolour, two dated 1894, one 1901. There is also one, dated 1894, offered for sale at Dunbar Sloane's Wellington auction, 17 November 2004, lot 29 (illustrated in the catalogue). All five views are very strongly similar, even to the details of the people sheep-droving along the beach, although the smoke from the factory chimney in the other known versions is being blow to the right; in the Library's version it is being blown to the left. The style of the work is much closer to Aubrey's style than to Barraud's, with slightly awkward rendering of people and animals, generous use of white highlighter, and a characteristic way of rendering vegetation Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C D Barraud 1894 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 284 x 438 mm. Provenance: Purchase: J. Travis, Wellington, 17 October 1975

Date: [ca 1870s]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/2-011816-F

Description: Copy of an original photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Other - This is a copy, made by the Alexander Turnbull Library, of a discarded 10x12 negative Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 7 March 1975

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-72389-F

Description: Aerial view of the Whanganui River mouth, beaches and Castlecliff, Wanganui. Photograph taken 7 March 1975 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 11.9 x 13.9 cm

Date: 1853

From: Pharazyn, Edward de C 1810-1879? :[Sketchbook]

Reference: E-293-q-005

Description: A rocky coastline, a single man in the distance and Cape Turnagain in the background. Inscriptions: Opposite page: title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil with ink inscriptions 142 x 231 mm

Date: [ca 1910]

Reference: 1/2-002779-F

Description: Photograph of the beach at Kai Iwi, thirteen miles north of Wanganui, with cliffs to the right and footprints in the foreground. Taken circa 1910 by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by cataloguer Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date estimated by catalguer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1840 - 1860

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-119-2

Description: Shows a beach with remains of tree stumps on the land at the left, and in the water on the right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 90 x 155 mm.