Greenstone River

Date: 1980 - 1890 - 1900

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926; International Art Centre (Auckland)

Reference: C-083-062

Description: View of the Greenstone River, Routeburn In set of 4 having title: Portfolio of four large hand-numbered lithographic colour prints by famous colonial artist (publicity brochure). From original oil painting 1905?. Limited edition of 500 copies; proof copy Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Art reproduction ; photolithograph, coloured 460 x 810 mm

Date: [Circa 1870s-1880s]

From: Sarney, H F (Mr), fl 1959 :Photograph albums of New Zealand scenes

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

Reference: PA1-f-065

Description: Album of landscapes taken by various photographers including Wheeler & Sons and the Burton Brothers, circa 1870s and 1880s. All the views are of New Zealand except the last sequence (p 33-37) showing Rio de Janeiro. Of particular interest are views of a wool wagon drawn by oxen, crossing a ford; a series showing an unidentified curved viaduct under construction (p 28-32); and a number showing a farm run by J F L Jetter at Te Puke when the land was partially cleared, with cattle grazing in paddocks, and Mr Jetter standing by a horse in a paddock in front of his home. Many of the images show uncleared land, with a deep ravine filled with native bush and tree ferns, and a stream running through (p 24-27). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover with embossed diamond shape pattern, bordered with gold; 32 x 38 cm

Date: 26 Dec 1902-7 Jan 1903

By: Collier, Ernest, active 1902-1903

Reference: MS-Papers-1195

Description: Diary kept on a tramping trip in the Greenstone area, Western Otago, with typescript copy Source of title - Supplied The tramping party comprised Ernest Collier and his wife Annie, Dr and Mrs Marshall and a Mr Graham. Dr Marshall was Professor of the Geology Department at Otago College (now the University of Otago) Quantity: 1 folder(s) (68 pages, 22 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typed transcript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Margaret Ritchie, Palmerston North, 1974 Photograph and sketch of the tramping party

Date: [1970-1977]

By: Owen, Alwyn, 1926-

Reference: MS-Papers-9907

Description: Comprises series of scripts and transcripts of interviews for programme on Arawata Bill for Open Country and includes memories by Mrs Dalley and Mrs Forbes, Fergie and Mrs Heffernan, Jim Bourke interviewed by George Taylor, interviews with Miss Rosey Grant, Jack Cron interviewed by George Taylor, Mrs M, Mr Murray Gunn (Hollyford) and Gilbert Koch (Glenorchy), Mr Swale and Dolly, Bill Beattie, Roy Joseph Elliot of Bridge Hill, Messrs McEwan and Swale, Colin McEwan and W Clingin Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts with corrections Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the NZBC, Wellington, per Mr A T Owen, Aug 1974

Date: [1880s]

From: Hawkins, C T, fl 1976 :Photographs, mainly New Zealand scenes by the Burton Brothers

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-38-03

Description: View from mouth of the Greenstone River across Lake Wakatipu to snow-covered mountains in the distance. In the immediate foreground are trees, including a group of cabbage trees, and a cart. Photograph taken by Burton Brothers, ca 1880s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 4420 - Mouth of the Greenstone from 25 Mile Point. Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.8 x 20.2 cm on mount 22.6 x 28.9 cm

Date: 1885

From: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :Earnslaw & [Lake] McKellar [Sketchbook]. 1884-85.

Reference: E-787-049/050

Description: Two views of mountain peaks from the Greenstone Track. Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on album pages, 113 x 190 mm each Provenance: Part of the papers of J H Christie, A85-097.

Date: [Circa 1870s and 1880s]

From: Nairn, Douglas, fl 1973 :Photographs of New Zealand and Fiji

By: (W N) Tuttle & Company; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Hart, Campbell & Company; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland)

Reference: PA1-o-359

Description: Photographs of New Zealand, taken by various photographers. Some are unidentified, but many are taken by the Burton Brothers, J V (James Valentine), Tuttle & Co, for Simpson & Co., and Hart, Campbell & Co. In the North Island, a large number of photographs show the area around Mount Tarawera before and after the volcanic eruption in 1886. There are a number showing the huge deposits of mud and ash which covered the area, with views of the landscape and of ruined buildings, followed by scenes of the Pink and White Terraces, before the eruption. On page 8, there is a view of Ranana (London), on the Wanganui River with the caption, "Maori village similar to those overwhelmed by the eruption". Other scenes in the North Island were taken in Auckland City, Ohinemutu, Rotokakahi, and Whakarewarewa, Ti Eke [i.e. Tieke] on the Wanganui River, and one of Wellington City taken from Mount Victoria. South Island views include many around the main lakes, including Wakatipu, Wanaka, Manapouri, Queenstown and Hawea; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; the Otira Gorge; Kawarau Gorge and Bridge; Oamaru; Port Chalmers; and Dunedin. Views of gold mining areas in Otago include excavation sluiced out by hydrants at St Bathans, and the miners' towns of Naseby with the river choked with tailings, and Nokomai. Portraits of Maori including Ana Rupene. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with marron leather binding covered with waxed brown-paper cover, entitled `New Zealand photographs, [E?] Nairn'; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1889

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Deverell, Walter, 1853?-1920

Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-Otago-1889-01

Description: Unfolded brochure, showing various scenes (Sketch of carriage outside Wanaka Hotel, Lake Wakatipu, The Remarkables, Mt Earnshaw, Greenstone Gorge, Pykes River, Lake Alabaster, Lake Harris, Mount Aspiring, Lake Hawea, Kingston), and a map of the lakes area. Drawings done by W Deverell. Verso shows an advertisement for Cook's Tours (Thos Cook & Son). Other Titles - The western lakes & sounds, Middle Island, New Zealand Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Engravings and letterpress on folded brochure, 475 x 603 mm (unfolded)

Date: 28 Sep 1863-5 Mar 1864

By: Bain, Robert Preston, 1825-1894

Reference: Micro-MS-0805

Description: Account of a surveying expedition to the Jacksons Bay area, ending with an overland journey from Martins Bay to Lake Wakatipu, via Lake McKerrow, and the Hollyford and Greenstone Valleys, then to Queenstown and Dunedin, via the Dunstan Road. Having chartered the schooner `Fawn', the party set out from Port Chalmers, making its way northward and through Cook Strait. The party went ashore at Ship Cove in Queen Charlotte Sound. The vessel then rounded Capes Farewell and Foulwind and landed the surveying party at Jacksons Bay. Account includes mention of parties of goldminers in the area, having been dropped off by vessels `Nugget' (p3) and `Courier' (p4), six miners from the `Courier' joining Bain's party; also visit to Claude Ollivier's grave (p3); meeting with miner Thomas Watson and his account of the drowning of his mining partner, Henry Cowell (p7); dropped supplies for Dr James Hector's party (p3); refers to drowning of crew member of the `Pryde' (ie `Pride of the Huron'), Thomas Davis, and his burial (p11); William Arthur's (Otago Provincial Chief Surveyor) camp (pp11-12) and von Tunzelman's Station on the shores of Lake Wakatipu (p12). Besides surveying the coast from Awarua Point to Abut Head, the party also explored the Jackson and Waiototo Rivers and surrounding areas. Account also refers to two members of the party as `Jones', who narrowly escaped death in a fall, and `Blackmore', who retrieved Davis' body from the Arawhata River, but they are not further identified. This typed transcript seems to have been made from Bain's signed holograph report held at the Canterbury Museum Archives. This document is on blue lined foolscap paper, originally tied but now bound in maroon buckram. The last page has been inscribed on rear: `Mr Bain / Journal / West Coast / 21 Mar 1864' and bears the number `268' circled. Source of title - Transcribed title Robert Bain was a surveyor contracted by the Canterbury Provincial Government to survey what was then the West Coast of Canterbury Province, from Abut Head to Awarua Point. Bain's survey was later completed by John Rochfort. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (13 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm Processing information: Micro-MS-0804 & Micro-MS-0806-0810 also on this reel

Date: 1871

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-029-050

Description: View across Lake Wakatipu from near the Greenstone River towards Mount Earnslaw. A yacht is visible in the distance The original for the chromolithograph published opposite p. 38 in C. D. Barraud's 'New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive' (London, 1877). See ref. no. PUBL-0016-38. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title, date and initials in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 10 x 14 1/2 ins

Date: 1885

From: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :Earnslaw & [Lake] McKellar [Sketchbook]. 1884-85.

Reference: E-787-037

Description: View of an unidentified mountain, taken from the Greenstone Track, between Lakes Howden and McKellar Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on album page, 113 x 190 mm Provenance: Part of the papers of J H Christie, A85-097.

Date: 1885

From: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :Earnslaw & [Lake] McKellar [Sketchbook]. 1884-85.

Reference: E-787-047/048

Description: Two views of mountain peaks from the Greenstone Track. A figure can be seen from behind in the foreground, resting against a rock on the ground. Tussock, veronica and grass are indicated for inclusion Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on album pages, 113 x 190 mm each Provenance: Part of the papers of J H Christie, A85-097.

Date: 1885

From: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :Earnslaw & [Lake] McKellar [Sketchbook]. 1884-85.

Reference: E-787-051

Description: A view of mountain peaks seen possibly from the top of the Greenstone Track Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on album page, 113 x 190 mm Provenance: Part of the papers of J H Christie, A85-097.

Date: 1885

From: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :Earnslaw & [Lake] McKellar [Sketchbook]. 1884-85.

Reference: E-787-046

Description: A very sketchy view of the lake, with no detail included or indicated Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on album page, 113 x 190 mm Provenance: Part of the papers of J H Christie, A85-097.

Date: 1926 to 1931

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-235

Description: Album of photographs, chiefly taken by Sir Thomas Hunter. Many of the images are of tramping, camping and climbing holidays with friends and family, both in the North Island (Lake Waikaremoana, the far north, and in the Ruapehu and Taupo Districts), and the South Island (Greenstone River, gold sluicing and gold panning at Moonlight, Queenstown and Wanaka). Most scenes state the location, but very few people are identified, and then only by Christian name. Photographs were taken overseas on a trip to London via Panama, and to New Zealand via San Francisco, May-September 1931. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled `Photographs'; 18 x 29 cm

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks and catalogue of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, 1889-1890] ca 1860-1893

Reference: E-324-q-2-113

Description: A view of Mount Earnslaw from the northern end of Lake Wakatipu Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Mt Earnslaw from near the Greenstone; Recto - beneath image - W Hodgkins Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 158 x 236 mm

Date: [ca 1900-1922]

From: Ainslie, Esme Airini Mollie, 1901-1983 :Photograph albums

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm); Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923

Reference: PA1-o-1284

Description: Photographs of South Island scenes, taken ca 1900-1922 by various photographers including Muir and Moodie, and Frederick George Radcliffe. Consists mainly of views of Queenstown and surrounding district. Inscriptions: Album page - inside front cover - To dear Ceal with best wishes for a happy Xmas. Madeline. 25/12/20. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown suede covered album 20.9 x 26.5 cm

Date: 1863 - 1864

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-188-032

Description: Looking down on a rocky defile towards mountains in the background Unsigned but title in Edith Halcombe's hand Unfinished sketch on back The date 1864 is suggested for this work because of another drawing by Edith Halcombe of Wakatipu, dated January 1864 (A-188-052) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on grey paper 250 x 178 mm

Date: 1926

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1684-1/2-G

Description: View of the Greenstone River Valley. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1926. Information from Godber's index held in Photographic Archives (under 97. Greenstone Valley. Lake Whakatipu. 1926.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches