South African War, 1899-1902 - Transportation

Date: ca 1899-1900

By: Middlebrook, J E, active 1899-1902

Reference: PAColl-7314

Description: Photograph of the 7th New Zealanders on the Manilla; and copy negatives of the men of the 10th Contingent (2nd Batallion) at Durban. Photographer was John Ernest Middlebrook. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-160154, 160155, 160173 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1902

By: Wright, Walter, 1866-1933; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: D-017-021-a

Description: Shows four-masted steamship, the "Surrey", filled with soldiers, and flying flags from all masts. A paddle steamer is stationed on her near side, and there are two more at the left of the picture. There are three other steamships further away at the right, and many sailing boats and rowing boats on the water. One rowing boat has a rowing team in rowing outfits, and some near boats contain ladies with parasols. The setting may be Auckland Harbour, with North Head seen in the right background. Supplement to New Zealand graphic, 24 December 1902. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Supplement to the Christmas number of the New Zealand graphic, December 24th 1902.; Recto - bottom right - W. WRIGHT; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 367 x 900 mm, on sheet stuck to board, 430 x 958 mm.

Date: 20 Jan 1900

By: Brown, John Henry, active 1899-1906

Reference: PA7-40-01

Description: Shows soldiers of the New Zealand Second Contingent on board the troopship `Waiwera' prior to departure from Wellington. Soldiers are crowded on deck, up the rigging and standing on the horse stalls. Photograph taken by J H Brown on 20 Jan 1900. Inscriptions: Mount recto - bottom left - J.H.Brown; Mount recto - bottom right - 180 Upper Willis Street, Wellington Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.4 x 19.5 cm on mount 25.2 x 30 cm

Date: 1900

Reference: PA1-o-242

Description: Album of views of the Second New Zealand Contingent at camp in Newtown Park, being reviewed by the Governor at Island Bay, in procession through Wellington from the Basin Reserve to Parliament, and embarking on troop ship Waiwera for South Africa. One group portrait shows Mr, Mrs and Miss Horneman, and Lieutenants Crawshaw and Banks in uniform. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - centre - Views of Second N.Z. Contingent, presented with love to my sister Edith, on the occasion of her birthday, 20th February 1900, from her brother Al. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green morocco binding 12.7 x 15.4 cm

Date: 1902

By: Wright, Walter, 1866-1933; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: D-017-021

Description: Shows four-masted steamship, the "Surrey", filled with soldiers, and flying flags from all masts. A paddle steamer is stationed on her near side, and there are two more at the left of the picture. There are three other steamships further away at the right, and many sailing boats and rowing boats on the water. One rowing boat has a rowing team in rowing outfits, and some near boats contain ladies with parasols. The setting may be Auckland Harbour, with North Head seen in the right background. Supplement to New Zealand graphic, 24 December 1902. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Supplement to the Christmas number of the New Zealand graphic, December 24th 1902.; Recto - bottom right - W. WRIGHT; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 367 x 900 mm, on sheet stuck to board, 430 x 958 mm.

Date: [1900s]

By: Jones, Alfred William, -1938

Reference: PA1-q-224

Description: Photographs of the North Island Regiment of the New Zealand Army 8th Contingent in preparation for leaving on the troopship Surrey to fight in the South African War. These photographs were taken by Alfred Jones & Co. mostly in Auckland. They include views of speeches by Richard John Seddon, and General Babington in Auckland., and the departure of the Surrey from Auckland. Other images show the Surrey in Wellington Harbour, rowing eights in the harbour and the Contingent's military camp in Newtown. Two views show warships in Wellington Harbour and a decorated gateway in the city for the Duke of York's visit to New Zealand. There are a number of views of the processions and ceremonies for the funeral of Cecil Rhodes in Cape Town. Richard Seddon's visit to the Hudson's Soap Works in Liverpool is shown in several photographs taken by an unidentified photographer. Page 45 shows a "review at Pretoria" at which there was a "presentation of V.C.s and also a Royal Humane Society medal to Sergt. Cassidy N.Z.M.R. by Lord Roberts". The information is hand-written over the photograph as a Christmas greeting. Inserted in an envelope is a sheet of paper with the signatures of "Colonel Wyndham and the Officers of the Imperial Representative Corps". (Colonel Wyndham was with the 21st Lancers). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with maroon cover; 30 x 25 cm

Date: [ca 1880s-1910s]

By: Holmes, Robert West, 1856-1936

Reference: PA1-o-1544

Description: Album compiled by civil engineer Robert West Holmes or a family member, ca 1880s-1910s. Shows North Island Main Trunk Railway works at Poro-o-tarao, Waiteti Viaduct, Huiroa Saddle, camp near Piriaka, Sew Hoy Dredge on Shotover River in 1890. Includes named portraits of railway engineers, family and friends in New Zealand and England. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 205 x 175 mm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009

Date: 1900

By: Christchurch Press Company Ltd; Hutt, Fay, active 1985

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-SA-1900-02

Description: Contains the Christchurch programme and the Lyttelton programme for this event, and explains the Marine procession on the back cover. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on pamphlet 225 x 143 mm (folded) Provenance: Donated by Fay Hutt in 1985.

Date: 1899

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-292

Description: Photographs of the Nelson Region, Wellington Harbour, Featherston, Ruamahanga Valley and the Rimutaka Hill Road, probably taken by George William Barltrop in 1899 (Identification from other albums in this sequence). None of the people in photographs are identified, but include several scenes with a woman and her husband; a group portrait at a wedding; two older women in a garden; a picnic group (6 women, one man and three children); two women carrying baskets of plants, with a man wheeling a bicycle (on the road to the Nelson Reservoir); and three young boys in a garden. A sequence of twelve photographs includes two men, members of the 2nd Contingent, at a military camp (possibly in the Nelson area), preparing to leave for the South African War, in 1899; rows of horses near tents at the camp; soldiers marching; a Nelson street with a banner reading `For Queen and country. God bless our boys'; and Wellington Harbour with crowds on the wharves to farewell the troops. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Underwood & Underwood (Firm)

Reference: PA4-0594

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Balloon Corps Transport Unit, with Lord Robert's Army advancing on Johannesburg, South Africa. Also shows a bullock team. Photograph taken by a staff photographer of Underwood and Underwood, ca 1897. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - left of image - Underwood & Underwood Publishers.....; Backing board recto - right of image - Works and Studios, Arlington NJ, Littleton N.H. Washington, DC; Backing board recto - beneath image - Balloon Corps Transport Unit, with Lord Robert's Army, advance on Johannesburg, South Africa. Copyright 1900 by Underwood & Underwood. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: Between 1898 and 1899

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-294

Description: Photograph album presented to George William Barltrop by Herbert Spackman of Rintoul Street, Wellington. Includes a letter attached inside the front cover which reads in part "Dear Mr Barltrop, Please accept the accompanying photo album as a small acknowledgement of the very valuable help you have so very generously afforded me in my early struggles in amateur photography...". Photographs are all of the Wellington area, and were probably taken by George William Barltrop. The first group of images show the process of inserting a middle section, thus enlarging St Thomas's Anglican Church in Newtown. Several views of Taita are followed by a group portrait of a man and two boys seated in a garden, wearing church vestments; and a woman also seated in a garden reading a book. The following sequence is chiefly related to The Wellington branch of The Missions to Seamen, and include two views of a cemetery in which a close view of a headstone commemorates the loss of Andrew Hughson (drowned aged 27, when lost overboard from the SS Takapuna in May 1899), and Captain Brewer, the officers and crew of the SS Ohau which foundered in the same storm. There is a photographic image of a receipt from the Missions to Seamen, Wellington, for 12 pounds, received from "Members of the City Police"; and a number of group portraits of Missions to Seamen picnics, the group in each case carrying the Missions banner. c Two views show steamships in Wellington harbour, and one is of a group of soldiers on the wharf in Wellington, prearing to embark for the South African War, with members of the public watching the parade. Inscriptions: Album page - Mr G W Barltrop from Herbert Spackman, Christmas 1898. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover, entitled `Photographs'; 18 x 22 cm

Date: 1897-1904

From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly

By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Pulman (Firm); Shepherd, Cromwell, active 1903-1934

Reference: PA1-f-142

Description: Charles Hill-Trevor's personal album of the time he spent as personal secretary to Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. It records the New Zealand contingents sent to the South African war and public events, personalities and patriotic entertainments associated with that enterprise. Visits to Government houses in Australia record other governors, officials and official residences. On one occasion in Melbourne a New Zealand versus Australia polo match was played. Hill-Trevor shows an interest in Māori, wildlife conservation (including the bird sanctuary on Resolution Island), and the sports of fishing, polo and horsemanship. There are photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their principal servants as well as the Governor engaged in official functions such as opening the Kaiapoi council offices and laying the foundation stone of the Veterans Home, Mt Roskill, Auckland in 1903. Also photographs relating to the play 'The Geisha'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1900

By: Henderson, Sidney J, -1901

Reference: MS-Papers-10308

Description: Three letters written on board SS Waiwera enroute to South African War. Composite photograph of Sidney and his brother and sister; another of his war grave Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Letter from donor with details of Henderson family history and note re provenance Sergent Henderson was killed during the South African War in 1901 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and photographs

Date: 1901

By: Wallis, William Fletcher, 1874-1958

Reference: PA1-o-1894

Description: Album of photographs taken in 1901 by Lieutenant William Fletcher Wallis during his service in the South African War (1899-1902) with Sixth New Zealand Mounted Rifles. One image showing Wallis was taken by an unknown photographer. Album probably compiled by Wallis. Images show various subjects, including: - Scenes aboard the steamship Cornwall transporting the 6th Contingent to South Africa, including pistol practice, horses in stables on deck, washing on line, soldiers relaxing in deck chairs, and arrival in Table Bay - Soldiers standing in line or posing informally with rifles and bandoliers. Also Africans attached to the New Zealand Contingent as labourers or scouts. - Blockhouses of various kinds - Soldiers marching and riding horses in columns across the veldt, and being transported in open train wagons - Scenes on the veldt and at encampments, including soldiers resting, washing, repairing equipment, butchering animals, having dental work, firing artillery, shoeing horses, and breaking in horses. Also wide views of encampments. - Regimental sports such as tug of war, bareback mule wrestling, and high jump. One image captioned "What are they doing?" may show soldiers gambling. - Zulu people in villages. One image shows the weaving of a hut. - Signalling using heliographs - Combat scenes with field artillery and pom-pom guns (QF 1 pounder) being fired by the Royal Artillery - Mounted soldiers burning Boer houses, escorting prisoners and refugees, and dead livestock - War graves, including that of Sergeant Major Sidney Smith, who is shown alive in several previous images - General Plumer riding across a stream and consulting with staff - William Fletcher Wallis riding in rickshaw with a `Lieut. Wood' in Durban Numbers appear on all the prints, but their significance is not known. Many of the photographs have captions, some illegible. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Front cover - "Boer War. South Africa. 1901" and "Taken by Lieut Wallis. 6th N.Z.M.R." Relationship complexity - One photograph was published in the 10 Oct 1901 issue of the Weekly News, and two others in the 31 Oct 1901 issue. Other images credited to Wallis and not found in the album were also published in these issues. Relationship complexity - Several identical images appear in the John Crawford book `To fight for the Empire' (Auckland: Reed, 1999), where they are credited to the Stowers Collection, Kippenberger Archive, Army Museum, Waiouru During 1901, when the photographs in the album were taken, William Fletcher Wallis served with the Sixth New Zealand Mounted Rifles in Transvaal, Orange Free State, and Cape Colony Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Green album measuring 18 x 25 cm, with white lettering and gold insignia on cover

Date: ca 1900

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: MNZ-0949-1/4-F

Description: Photograph of a horse drawn cart taking members of De Wet'sCommando across the Orange River. Photographed by an unknown photographer between 1899 and 1902 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1899

By: Barnes, Frank, 1859-1941

Reference: G-621

Description: Broadside view of the Waiwera steamship at sea, with troops visible standing on its decks The ship was ferrying soldiers of the first New Zealand Contingent to fight in the South African War (Boer War) Another oil by Barnes on offer at Dunbar Sloane, 11 Nov 2007, lot A121, shows the Waiwera with an escort of steamers, taking the 2nd New Zealand contingent, January 20th 1900. Purchased by the Library 2008, (G-083). Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil 546 x 914 mm

Date: 1902

From: Morice, Charles George Frederick, 1868-1966 :Photographs

Reference: 1/2-029354-F

Description: Richard John Seddon and members of the 10th New Zealand Contingent aboard the T.S.S. Drayton Grange bound for the South African War, 1902. Taken by unidentified photographer. Back of file print reads: "T.S.S. Drayton Grange (Joseph Bennett, Commander) in April 1902 carried 500 men and 30 officers of the 10th New Zealand Contingent and 550 horses from Wellington via Sydney and Albany to Durban. The Honourable Richard Seddon (Prime Minister of New Zealand) and his family also traveled in the vessel." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).