Carriages and carts - New Zealand - West Coast Region
Cooper, William Marshall 1833-1921 :Greymouth. [Hokitika, Harnett & Co., 1869?]
Date: 1868 - 1870
By: Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925; Harnett & Company; Taranaki Museum
Reference: A-104-024-b
Description: View from close to the mouth of the river, looking inland. Shows boats on the river, including (possibly) the Cobden ferry, and a horse-drawn cart on the road to the right, leading along the south side of the riverbank towards the houses and shops of the town Title from inscription on verso of 24a. See Ellis, E M. Early prints of N.Z. 1642-1875. Christchurch, 1977. p. 192-193. Other Titles - Lithographed by John Diedrich Schmidt from a sketch by William Marshall Cooper Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 210 x 300 mm Provenance: Deacessioned from the collections of Taranaki Museum, 1994.
Cooper, William Marshall 1833-1921 :Greymouth. [Hokitika, Harnett & Co., 1869?]
Date: 1868 - 1870
By: Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925
Reference: A-104-024
Description: Shows boats on river, including (possibly) Cobden ferry, and horse-drawn cart Title from inscription on verso of 24a. See Ellis, E M. Early prints of N.Z. 1642-1875. Christchurch, 1977. p. 192-193. Other Titles - Lithographed by John Diedrich Schmidt from a sketch by William Marshall Cooper Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 210 x 300 mm
Cooper, William Marshall 1833-1921 :Greymouth. [Hokitika, Harnett & Co., 1869?]
Date: 1868 - 1870
By: Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925; Harnett & Company
Reference: A-104-024-c
Description: Shows boats on river, including (possibly) Cobden ferry, and horse-drawn cart Title from inscription on verso of 24a. See Ellis, E M. Early prints of N.Z. 1642-1875. Christchurch, 1977. p. 192-193. Other Titles - Lithographed by John Diedrich Schmidt from a sketch by William Marshall Cooper Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 210 x 300 mm Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in July 2001.
South Island album
Date: [Circa 1910s?]
By: New Zealand. Government Tourist Bureau
Reference: PA1-o-473
Description: Photographs of the South Island taken by various photographers, mostly unidentified, circa 1910s Other Titles - New Zealand photographs - South Island Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "New Zealand photographs. South Island" in gold lettering; 26 x 32 cm
Creator unknown :Photograph album page of views of Otira Gorge and Mount Cook
Date: [ca 1890s-1900s]
Reference: PAColl-9669
Description: An album page with views of Otira Gorge and Mount Cook. Shows horses pulling a carriage on the Christchurch and Hokitika Road in Otiria Gorge. Shows Mount Cook from the Hooker Glacier. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album leaf with 2 b&w original photographic prints. Physical Description: 41.5 x 31 cm mounted album page
Tyree Brothers (Firm) :Photograph of some unidentified men on a cart and horses on the ...
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
By: Tyree Brothers (Firm)
Reference: PA7-23-16
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Cundy album
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.
New Zealand Society for the Intellectually Handicapped :500 piece jigsaw puzzle. "Clear...
Date: 1975 - 1887 - 1980
By: IHC New Zealand; Gibb, John, 1831-1909
Reference: Eph-F-GAMES-1970s-02
Description: Box cover shows a reproduction of the painting by John Gibb. It shows a horsedrawn carriage travelling along a rutted mud road beside a river, with misty mountains in the background, and a small group of houses or huts. Other Titles - Gorge Quantity: 1 box(es) containing jigsaw puzzle. Physical Description: Photolithograph on puzzle 365 x 490 mm, in box with illustrated lid, 215 x 278 x 32 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2006.
Horse drawn carriage on Buller Road, Lyell
Date: [189-?]
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
Reference: PAColl-3064-2-03
Description: Horse drawn carriage on Buller Road, Lyell. Photograph taken circa 1890s, by the Tyree Studio. Source of descriptive information - Photographer's inscription. Date estimated by cataloguer. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - On Buller Road Lyell Tyree Photo Nelson 5211 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
Grant, F J (Mr), fl 1981 :Photographs of the tour of the Prince of Wales in 1920 and Ne...
Date: [1903-1920]
By: Grant, F J, active 1980s; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918
Reference: PAColl-0362
Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of New Zealand made by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Many of the images are of military inspections and displays by school children. There are also displays of Maori dancing and singing, the sailors of the HMS Renown, on which the prince had travelled , prior to their soccer match in Dunedin, the prince addressing the crowds etc. A number of the images are in two-part panoramas. Also included are four scenic photographs by the New Zealand Tourist Department which may have been taken in 1903. The photographer for the tour photographs was Guy. Other - Similar images at 1/2-032642, 045102 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).
Sleap, F A, engraver :The coach road to Hokitika [Illustrated Australian news, May 12, ...
Date: 1879
From: Seed Family, creator :Cuttings from the illustrated papers [Scrapbook of nineteenth-century illustrations and cuttings. 1870-1880s?]
By: Illustrated Australian news (Newspaper); Ebenezer & David Syme (Firm); Sleap, F A, active 1880s
Reference: E-927-f-053-2
Description: Shows a horse-drawn carriage on a road that winds around the slope at the near left. In the right background is a river, and mountains beyond. Native bush is seen at left and right. Date taken from State Library of Victoria catalogue (Retrieved from http://www.slv.vic.gov.au). This site also states that the engraving appeared in the Illustrated Australian news, published in Melbourne by Ebenezer and David Syme. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 228 x 228 mm.
[Barraud, Charles Decimus], 1822-1897 :[Homestead, bridge, river flat, with snowy peaks...
Date: 1860 - 1885
By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926
Reference: A-029-072
Description: Unfinished watercolour showing a river valley with farmstead in the centre foreground, with a bullock wagon on the road going past it at the left, and high country and river behind. Possibly looking east up the Taramakau valley towards the Southern Alps, Otira Gorge and Arthur's Pass. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 240 x 350 mm.
Creator unknown: Two photographs of the Prince of Wales at Otira during his tour of New...
Date: 13 May 1920
Reference: PAColl-10374
Description: Two photographs of 'The Prince of Wales', Edward Duke of Windsor, seated on top of a carriage at Otira during a tour of the West Coast in 1920, taken by an unidentified photographer. The caption inscriptions on the reverse of both images are in the same hand, and state: - 'Prince of Wales' Otira - Prince waving 'Farewell' Otira - time coaching The royal visit of the Prince of Wales to Otira took place in the afternoon on 13 May 1920. See 'The Prince of Wales West Coast tour ended, overland journey to Christchurch, scenery greatly admired', Otago Daily Times (issue 17935), 14 May 1920, page 5. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints
Artist unknown :New Zealand forest on Hokitika and Christchurch road. [ca 1870]
Date: 1870 - 1880
Reference: A-465-007
Description: Shows a carriage pulled by two horses travelling through dense bush and trees, on the road between Hokitika and Christchurch. Two men can be seen sitting atop the carriage. Ground ferns, tree ferns and what is probably kahikatea dominate the foreground Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Woodcut, hand-coloured, 228 x 176 mm Provenance: Donation: Mr John Pfahlert, Wellington, May 2014
Junction of the Hope and Buller Rivers, New Zealand
Date: Between 1923 and 1928
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: Pan-1107-F
Description: Panoramic view of the junction of the Hope and Buller Rivers near Kawatiri. A railway line is visible in far right curving into the distance. Man on a horsedrawn cart (three horses visible) on a stony island across the river bed (probable river fords). Few shrubby trees centre left, bush-clad hills in the background. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Hope & Buller Rivers; Photographer's title on negative - Junction of Hope & Buller Rivers No. 484 New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 96.1 cm
Album of trip to West Coast
Date: 1913
From: Hitchcock family: Collection
Reference: PA1-o-2025
Description: Album of photographs of a trip to the West Coast Region of New Zealand in 1913, taken by unidentified photographer (possibly Daisy Hitchcock). Captions inscribed on the photographs and sometimes on the album page. Images show landscapes, and women and men travelling by horse and carriage from Christchurch to Greymouth and around the West Coast and Southland Regions. Identified locations are Otira Gorge, Bealey River, Bligh Sound, Bowen Falls, George Sound, Hokitika Gorge, "McDonalds Inlet", Lake Kaniere and Hans Island, a suspension bridge over the Waiho River, Hokitika Gorge, Dorothy Creek, and Dorothy Falls. One image shows a child in a clearing in the bush near a punga house, he is identified as three year old "Jim". Inscription on the back of the back cover reads "d. Hitchcock May 1st 1913". Title provided by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 34 photographs. Physical Description: Brown card album bound with string, 16 x 26.5 cm, containing black and white photographs and annotations in ink.
Jones, B (Mrs) :Photographs
Date: [ca 1895-1920]
By: Jones, B (Mrs), active 1962?; Cowdell, Joseph Tuffley, -1907
Reference: PAColl-3393
Description: Photograph of two men sorting kauri gum in a shed one sitting on a packing case with Poroli written on it. Photographer unidentified. Photograph of three bullock teams of fourteen to sixteen bullocks pulling loads of dressed timber with a man on top of each load near Whangarei; and the river near Whangarei Falls both taken by Cowdell. Postcards of two men on horseback with four work horses in a field of harvested oats near Blenheim; and a cart at the summit of Otira Gorge. Postcards of logs at the top of Wairua Falls and a view of Napier from the hill Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Provenance: Donated by Mrs B Jones, 1962
Ring album 1
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
West Coast scenes and activities
Date: [1920s-1960s]
From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn
Reference: PAColl-9543-29
Description: Collection comprises parades of soldiers; school sports day (races and novelty games); winners of fire brigade competitions; railcars, railway excursion and railway accident; organiser of croquet tournament; fancy dress; elderly men in carriage; Angus McLagan addressing miners; waterfall; trout fishing; and Rewanui railway station. Photographs taken 1920s-1960s by L A Inkster, Greymouth. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).
Tyree Brothers (Firm) :Photograph of a Cobb & Co coach and horses on the Buller Road, M...
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
By: Tyree Brothers (Firm)
Reference: PA7-23-15
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).