Grasmere Station

Date: [ca 1872]-1888

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-1878

Description: Photograph album produced in 1888, titled 'Some representative sheep farms. Canterbury and neighbourhood.' Photographs taken by E Wheeler and son, of Christchurch, New Zealand. Album is dedicated to Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Governor of New Zealand. - Images feature farms and homesteads, with the photographer's inscription on the print identifying the farm and the owner (name and place spellings are transcribed from the item). These comprise: Mount Peel (Hon J B Acland), Waikanini (W Barker Esq), Otekaike (Hon R Campbell), Peel Forest (G J Dennistoun & Co), The Warren Woodbury (F W Donkin), Mount Palm (T Chapman), Mount Fyffe Kaikoura (A S Collins), Waimate (J Douglas), Homebush (J Deans), Longbeach (J Grigg), Grassmere, Westerfield (C Hawdon), Hororata (Sir J Hall), Horsley Down (Mallock & J D Lance), Underwood (A Hawdon), Fernside (S Heywood), St Helen's (W A Low), Windsor Park Otago (E Menlove), Lyndon (Macfarlane Bros), The Warren E Oxford (Langton), Waitakahi (A McLean), Glenmark (G H Moore); Achray (Macfarlane), Mt Somers (A E Peach[e?]), Raukapuka Geraldine (W Postlethwaite), Cheviot (Hon W Robinson), Orari Gorge (C G Tripp Esq), Mount Messing (R Rutherford), Montrose (Rutherford), Waireka (R Wade), Swyncombe Kaikoura (W D Wood), and Highfield (Wharton & Co). - Gardens and surrounding scenic landmarks (such as rivers and mountain ranges) are often visible as part of building portraiture. Buildings and structures other than main homesteads include woolsheds, manager's houses, a meat freezing factory (Belfast), the Port Robinson slipway, stock yards, worker's whares, ferret houses, and Glenmark Station's extensive lakes and water features. Images are almost exclusively of the exterior of buildings with only the interiors of woolsheds seen. Many images include the families that lived in the houses and often their dogs. Farm workers are seen in some images. Farm animals pictured include sheep, horses, mules, farm dogs, and oxen. Activities such as shearing with a Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine, wool sorting, wool scouring, wool transportation (horse drawn carts and ox wagons), sheep dipping, and sheep drafting are shown. Other activities include rowing in a boat, lawn mowing, and lawn tennis. Other - Album has covers that appear to have been created by the General Assembly Library. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Dedicated by Permission to His Excellency Sir W F D Jervois, G.C.M.G., C.B. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green and black album embossed with gold typeface, 24.4 x 32 cm Provenance: Donated by Parliamentary Library, Wellington, 2014 Transfers: From Book Collections - NZ&P: as part of a large ongoing donation of mainly published material..

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-435

Description: Photographs taken circa 1880s by James Ring, photographer based in Greymouth. Scenes in Greymouth and nearby include views of severe flooding (p 3-5, 7); loading ships at the wharf showing hydraulic cranes raising hoppers of coal, and rolling stock laden with coal for transportation. Three shipping photographs including the SS Gerda wrecked on the Greymouth Breakwater in June 1888; the SS Mawhera ashore on North Beach, Greymouth in 1886, and the SS Rosamond crossing the Greymouth Bar. Beyond Greymouth views include the Grey River, Rocky Island, Brunnerton and the Brunnerton Bridge, and the West Coast Road. Then views of Lake Brunner, Refuge Island and Mitchell Falls. The Teremakau [now Taramakau] River is next, one view showing the road bridge, and one showing the flying fox (wire bridge) leading over to the Teremakau Hotel. These are followed by scenes along the Otira Gorge, including Warnock's Nob, Westley's Creek (Wesley Creek), and Starvation Point, before reaching Porter's Pass, Broken River, Arthur's Pass and the Devil's Punch Bowl Falls. The last sequence show Grasmere Station, Castle Hill Station (with one view of snow gates) and Craigieburn Station; the town of Cass; Bealey, Bealey Hotel, and Bealey Gorge, Lake Pearson and Lake Mapourika. Other Titles - New Zealand Views, by James Ring, Greymouth, N. Z. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with quarterbound red cover, red leather corners and spine; entitled "New Zealand Views, by James Ring, Greymouth, N.Z."; 24 x 31 cm

Date: 1868

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PAColl-8216

Description: Photograph of the homestead at Grasmere Station, near Cass, Canterbury, photographed in 1868 (14th of June or August) by Daniel Louis Mundy. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - [barely visible] Mundy NZ No 27 14/[6 or 8 ?]/68; bottom left - Sheep station Canterbury 158 Relationship complexity - Another print of this image is in the Mundy II album PA1-f-040, page 45 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.9 x 21.5 cm

Date: [ca 26 Jan 1944]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000901-F

Description: Men during sheep dipping, Grassmere Station, near Cass, Canterbury region, circa 26 January 1944. Photograph taken by John Pascoe. Other - Pascoe's heading from the Photographic Archive file at 6/1/30, for the set of photographs at 1/4-000880 to 000913 reads: "Sheep country life in New Zealand" Caption - Caption with Pascoe file at 6/1/30 in Photographic Archive reads: "The boss, nearest the camera, yarns to the men about the weather. A shower of rain makes the dipping easier, but too much will hold up the shearing. " Source of descriptive information - File print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Celulosic negative, 5.5 x 5.5 cm

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

Date: [ca 1890s]

Reference: PAColl-8193

Description: Grasmere Station, near Cass, Canterbury, with Craigieburn in the background. Photograph taken ca 1890s by an unknown photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Grassmere Station Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Grassmere Station. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.2 x 19.3 cm mounted on card

Date: 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000913-F

Description: Sheep dogs on the back of a truck at Grasmere Station, near Cass, Canterbury, photographed by John Dobree Pascoe in 1944. Original caption reads: "Sheep dogs at the end of their working day. Rock mountains are tough on their feet, so on the road they are given a lorry ride. In winter time, when the mountains are under snow, conditions are even harder on the dogs. No shepherd can think of anything worse than mustering without dogs." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Sep 1872

From: Barker, Alfred Charles :Negatives

Reference: 1/4-032235-G

Description: Grassmere Station, near Cass, Canterbury, photographed by Alfred Charles Barker in September 1872. Looks over rocks, and paddocks of tussock grass, towards a group of buildings including the homestead. Snow covered mountains are behind. An unidentified man sits on a rock on the left. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top right - Grasmere Station Canty NZ Sept [22?] 72 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass copy negative

Date: 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-002024-F

Description: Sheep branding at Grasmere Station, near Cass, Canterbury, photographed by John Pascoe in 1944. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - [unreadable] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000905-F

Description: Looking from Grasmere Station, near Cass, Canterbury, towards bush covered peaks and the Waimakariri River. Just visible, left of centre, is a musterer from Grasmere station, with his dogs. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Other - Pascoe's title from the Photographic Archive file at 6/1/30, for the set of photographs at 1/4-000880 to 000913, reads: "Sheep country life in New Zealand" Caption - Pascoe's caption for this image in Photographic Archive file 6/1/30 reads: "And it is early morning on this muster. George, with his dogs, looks out across the Waimakariri river to bush mountains." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: Jan 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000898-F

Description: Sheep awaiting dipping at Grasmere Station, near Cass, Canterbury, with mountains, including Hawdon Pyramid (right), in the background. A sheep dog appears in the foreground. Station owner David McLeod stands on the left. Photograph taken by John Pascoe in January 1944. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 20 898 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000909-F

Description: Reg Ferguson, a shepherd at Grasmere Station, near Cass, Canterbury, in 1944. Shows him outdoors, eating a sandwich, during a break from mustering. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Other - Pascoe's title from the Photographic Archive file at 6/1/30, for the set of photographs at 1/4-000880 to 000913, reads: "Sheep country life in New Zealand" Caption - Pascoe's caption for this image in Photographic Archive file 6/1/30 reads: "Reg, who took the bottom beat of the muster, grabs a sandwich during a spell. He is a handy man anywhere; can manage a hotel, stalk deer, handle pack horses, build a hut, as well as being competent in sheep station routine." Reg Ferguson was a shepherd, deer hunter and publican of the Bealey Hotel. From a well known Springfield family, Reg and his brothers worked at Grasmere during the 1930s and 1940s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: Jan 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000900-F

Description: Sheep being dipped at Grasmere Station, near Cass, Canterbury, photographed by John Pascoe in January 1944. Looks down upon the wet sheep which are being prodded by a man on the right. Photographer's caption reads: "The sheep flounder around in the dip. Lter they are pushed through the gate into another yard." Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 20 900 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000882-F

Description: Men sharpening shearers' blades on a grindstone at Grasmere Station, near Cass, Canterbury Region, photographed by John Dobree Pascoe in 1944. Alan Rose stands on the right. Caption - written by John Pascoe: "In the back country, that is in the mountainous or inaccessible parts of New Zealand shearing is still done by hand with 'the blade', though most North Island or low country stations use machines. Blades are sharpened by grindstone, later a fine oilstone." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).