Otira Gorge Hotel

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-386

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm

Date: [ca 1900]

Reference: PA4-0621

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Otira Gorge Hotel, showing a horse-drawn coach with passengers. Photograph taken by B W Kilburn ca 1900. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Otira Gorge Hotel, New Zealand; Verso - Photographed and published by B W Kilburn.... Littleton N.H. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: [Circa 1860s-1870s]

Reference: PA1-o-399

Description: Photographs of the South Island taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1860s-1870s Some of the scenes have captions, many of which are taken in the Otira Gorge area, Christchurch, Akaroa, Ashburton and West Coast. The first photograph, inside the front cover, shows a man with a full beard, standing behind a penny-farthing bicycle. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with reddish brown cover, darker spine; 19 x 28 cm

Date: 1930-1950

From: Elworthy, A C :Photographs of early aviation and mountaineering

By: Elworthy, Anthony C, active 1984; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PAColl-0075-1

Description: Photographs, taken by Anthony C Elworthy, chiefly of aeroplanes and general aviation in the 1930s, especially of a De Havilland Dragonfly but also including images of a Pan Am Boeing Clipper, Gloster Meteor, Hawker Tomtit, Bristol FZB and of a Percival Vega Gull. Also includes 1 photograph of aeroplanes at the Canterbury Aero Club. Also includes images of aeroplanes at Nandi, Fiji, circa 1940.. Also, photographs of World War II shipping, including prints relating to the ships Rangatira, Awatea, Aquitane and Aquitania. Also includes photographs of the Maadi Tank School during World War II and 1 of 5 members of 26 Battalion, D Company at Alamein in July 1942. Also, photographs of tame deer in Haast; mountaineering (including images of the Elworthy family) and aerial photographs of Sydney Harbour. Also, 7 photographs by James Ring, including 1 of Jacksons Accomodation House on Christchurch Road, 1 of Archer's punt on the Inangahua River, 1 of Hawkes Crag, 1 of sluicing at Humphrey's Gully, 1 of the Otira Accomodation House, 1 of the Otira Hotel, and 1 titled `Lake Pearson, Looking toward Cragieburn'. Quantity: 160 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: mid 1870s

By: Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-q-247

Description: Travers took all the photographs in this album Photographs of New Zealand taken circa 1860s-1870s, including views of Travers' own garden, Noon's garden, Roger Kingdon's house in Nelson, and John Oldham's house "Werneth" at Wakapuaka, Nelson Other Titles - New Zealand scenes Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, entitled "New Zealand scenes. W.T.L Travers" on spine; 29.5 x 38.5 cm

Date: 1880-1889

From: Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898?-1980 :Photographs

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-q-116

Description: Album compiled by Arthur Lagden Haylock, containing views of Lyttelton, Christchurch, Wellington, Nelson, New Plymouth, Tauranga, Ohinemutu, Mangarewa Gorge, Pink & White Terraces, Napier, Timaru, Porters Pass, Castle Hill (West Coast Road), Craigieburn, Waimakariri River, Arthur's Pass, Otira Gorge, Otira, Jacksons, Taipo River, Mount Alexander, Dillmanstown, Hokitika, and Greymouth. Also includes photographs of ships Annie Bow, Ganymede, and City of Perth and Benvenue stranded at Timaru in 1882. Photographs taken 1880s, by James Ring, Burton Brothers, Wheeler & Sons (including prints made by Wheeler from the negatives of D L Mundy) and others. Other Titles - Ramblings through New Zealand. By A.L. Haylock Quantity: 1 album(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Brown album with gold borders, entitled `Ramblings through New Zealand. By A.L. Haycock', lettered in gold; 36.5 x 31.5 cm

Date: 11 Mar 1868

From: Carroll album

Reference: PA1-o-094-39

Description: Otira Gorge Hotel, 11 March, 1868. Shows native bush on the hill behind, a road in the foreground, and two horse drawn coaches. Photograph taken by Daniel Louis Mundy. Note on back of file print reads: "Otira Gorge Hotel with Cobb's coach leaving for Christchurch. Walter Ray was the licensee. Photo taken by D L Mundy and Shepard driving the coach." File print differs from original item. Date on file print is April but photographers inscription is March. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Mundy N Z No 46 11/3/68; Album page - beneath image - Hotel Otira Gorge Westland Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 18.8 x 24.2 cm, on album page 24.4 x 32.1 cm

Date: ca 1870

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 18

By: Tait, John, 1836-1907

Reference: PAColl-7581-77

Description: Scene in the Otira Gorge , West Coast, circa 1870. Shows the Otira Gorge Hotel and the bush clad hill behind. Photograph possibly taken by John Tait. See also PAColl-7581-78: Otira Gorge Hotel by Tait Photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.3 x 19.9 cm

Date: ca 1870

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 18

By: Tait, John, 1836-1907

Reference: PAColl-7581-78

Description: Scene in the Otira Gorge , West Coast, circa 1870. Shows the Otira Gorge Hotel with a bush clad hill, and mountains, beyond. Photograph taken by Tait, possibly John Tait. See also PAColl-7581-77: Otira Gorge Hotel (also by Tait?) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.8 x 20.6 cm

Date: ca 1880s

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: 1/2-021022-F

Description: Orira Gorge Hotel, circa 1880s, photographed by James Ring. Same photograph is also at album PA1-q-116, page 41 Other Titles - Otira Accommodation House NZ Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Otira Accommodation House NZ 516 JR Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1870s]

Reference: 1/2-019865-F

Description: Back view of the Otira Gorge Hotel ca 1870s. Note on back of file print reads: "Said to have been built in 1865 and washed away c 1886. The first landlord was apparently Walter Ray and the last George Dyer" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [Between 1860 and 1870]

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-040

Description: Photographs taken by Daniel Mundy in the 1860s. All but one were taken in the South Island. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in Mundy Album III, p 51). The North Island view was taken in Napier, and shows a two-storeyed house with quoinings, a horse-drawn coach outside, and to the right there is a wooden church. South Island views include many landscapes; hotels; the Christchurch government buildings, the Victoria Bridge, High Street and Cashel Street; and three sheep stations. Two are well-known, Benmore Station and Gramere Station (then known as Hawden's Station [i.e. Hawdon's Station]. The third is possibly that of George Gilbert Suman [the hand-written description appears to be `Sumans Station' at German Bay, and according to Wise's Post Office Directory, William Gilbert Suman lived in German Bay in 1875). There are three photographs showing Daniel Mundy's travelling darkroom (p 13, 25, and page 43) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather album, geometric pattern, gold decoration, entitled `New Zealand' in gold; 30.5 x 42.5 cm