The Octagon

Date: [Between 1880s and 1890s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-079

Description: Views of the Otago Region taken by unidentified photographers, circa 1870s to 1895. Many show buildings in Dunedin, including one house `Lisburn House' built for the Fulton family in 1865; also commercial buildings, church buildings, school buildings (Otago Boys' High School), and Dunedin Gaol. The church buildings include the Chapel in Leith Street, the Chapel in Great King Street, and the Baptist Chapel. Beyond Dunedin there are views of Naseby, Butchers Gully, Port Chalmers, Cromwell, Kyeburn, Shag Valley, and Lake Hayes, Lake Wanaka and Lake Hawea. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover decorated with gold birds, lettering and decorations outlined in black; 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Date: 1901

Reference: PA1-f-064

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901. Scenes include the arrival of the royal visitors at various places, by ship, Royal carriages, and Royal train; ceremonies and rites welcoming them; views of triumphal arches erected for the tour, including Marble Arch (Queen Street, Auckland), the Auckland Harbour Board Arch, the Citizen's Arch (Wellesley Street), and the Government Arch (City of Wellington). Other ceremonies are associated with the presentation of war-medals; the laying of foundation stones (Victoria College for Maori Girls, Parnell, Auckland), the Wellington Town Hall, and the Queens Memorial Statue in Dunedin); and the march past and inspection of various guards, troops and veterans. One photograph shows Lord Ranfurly in Auckland, reading the proclamation extending the boundaries of the colony to include the Cook Islands (p 16). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "Visit of Duke of Cornwall and York (King George V.). 1901. Maoris - Auckland. Wellington. Christchurch". Hand-printed in ink on slip attached to front cover.

Date: 1903

By: Caxton Printing Company (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: ArtEph-1903-S-01

Description: Catalogue of 43 works, and 16 additional black and white drawings. The front cover shows an art nouveau panel at the left. A substantial review of this exhibition can be found in the Otago Witness , Issue 2558, 25 March 1903, Page 14. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on folded pamphlet, 157 x 125 mm.

Date: 1885

From: [Various artists] :[Exhibition certificates 1865-1924]

By: Bock & Cousins Lithographers (Firm)

Reference: C-098-009

Description: Exhibition certificate with decorative border using Maori carving and weaving patterns. Within the border are 5 circular vignettes, showing First Church Dunedin, Government House Wellington, the New Zealand seal, Custom House Auckland and Victoria Bridge with the Provincial Council Chambers, Christchurch. In the bottom half framed on the left by a tree fern and flax and on the right by a nikau are the wharves and Post Office building in Wellington, the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition buildings and a Maori man and woman, with Mount Taranaki as a background. Surrounding the printed and hand-written text is a border of leaves and grasses (toetoe, hoheria and maidenhair fern) with taiahas and tekotekos (carved Maori weapons) on both sides Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph with holograph 460 x 355 mm

Date: Circa 1900 to 1905

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-295

Description: Album of photographs, probably taken by George William Barltrop, chiefly taken on a tour around the South Island. The first images relate to an area around Wellington, including Waiwhetu and Wainuiomata, including scenes of the Wainuiomata Reservoir. Two photographs taken in a park show three women wearing hats, full-length outfits, and carrying umbrellas, the "McNabs". One photograph shows a group of men and women, members of a camera club. The tour aound the South Island travels from Sheffield, down to the Otira Gorge, up to Lake Brunner and Inangahua, past Murchison, through Longford. In Wellington Harbour the steamship Ophir is sailing out, with people standing on the wharf in the foreground. Also in Wellington, is a large group portrait of men associated with the Missions to Seamen, gathered together on Labour Day 1901. Five photographs are taken around Otaki, one a pastoral scene, and two of three young Maori people (a young woman and a young girl in two scenes, with a second young girl in the third scene); a water mill; and a group of four people having a picnic in a field (two women (one obscured) and a young boy on the left, and a man with a bandaged hand on the right). The last few scenes are again of the South Island, at Temuka, Otago Harbour, Dunedin (including the Octagon), and a tram belonging to the Roslyn Tramway Company with a group of men on the front cab, and three standing in front. Inscriptions: Album page - G W Barltrop Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green album, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: [Circa 1880s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Lomer, Albert, active 1862-1900; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-262

Description: Album of Australian photographs of Brisbane and Tasmania, and views of a range of sites in New Zealand, taken by various photographers circa 1880s. Names and places identified in the album are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: 1900 - 1941

From: Cherry, Arthur Leonard, 1884-1947 :[New Zealand sketches. 1910s-1920s]

Reference: A-104-075

Description: View of St Paul's Cathedral and the statue of Robert Burns in the foreground, in The Octagon, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 165 x 120 mm on sheet 200 x 145 mm

Date: 1880

From: Graham, E J :[New Zealand scenes] [188-]

By: Graham, E J, active 1880s-1890s

Reference: A-256-009

Description: Looking down from a hill towards the South East quadrant of the Octagon, with First Church beyond, the harbour, St Clair and the sea in the distance Possibly based on a photograph. The second view in this group is based on a Burton Brothers photograph Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 151 x 188 mm, mounted on board with printed title

Date: 1885

From: [Various artists] :[Exhibition certificates 1865-1924]

By: Bock & Cousins Lithographers (Firm)

Reference: C-098-056

Description: Exhibition certificate with decorative border using Maori carving and weaving patterns. Within the border are 5 circular vignettes, showing First Church Dunedin, Government House Wellington, the New Zealand seal, Custom House Auckland and Victoria Bridge with the Provincial Council Chambers, Christchurch. In the bottom half framed on the left by a tree fern and flax and on the right by a nikau are the wharves and Post Office building in Wellington, the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition buildings and a Maori man and woman, with Mount Taranaki as a background. Surrounding the printed and hand-written text is a border of leaves and grasses (toetoe, hoheria and maidenhair fern) with taiahas and tekotekos (carved Maori weapons) on both sides Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph with holograph 460 x 355 mm

Date: 1913

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 16

Reference: PAColl-7344-42

Description: Trams passing through the Octagon, Dunedin with the premises of Herbert Haynes & Co on the right. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Provenance: Provenance unknown

Date: [ca 1920s-1940s]

Reference: PAColl-6881

Description: A large collection of negatives concentrating on the Otago area. They include images of: Byrd's and Ellsworth's expeditions; Sir Joseph Ward's funeral procession along Dee Street, Invercargill; snow scenes in Dunedin; the 1926, 1928, 1938 and 1939 Saunders Cup; the 1928 Annette Kellerman cup; ploughing match in Taieri and Outram; the 1936 and 1938 Dunedin show; league test 1928; cup winners of the Cornwell Cup (possibly for yachting?); HMS Australia; yachting in Broad Bay 1927 and 1928; 1936 New Zealand surfing championships; a Karitane home in 1938; Waikouaiti races; Otago athletic championships 1937; the launch Annabella in Dunedin harbour; an athletics event including girls' hurdling; pipers round the Robert Burns statue in the Octagon; an amateur dramatics production of a play set in the 19th century; steam ships; the opening of the railway at Roxburgh; a children's party on HMS Dunedin; storm damage in 1937; celebrations in Kaikoura 1940; skating at Alexandra 1938; fire at Seacliff Hospital; Waitaki Dam; air raid precautions in 1939; trotting races; Portobello regatta 1909; Ellison's funeral; a series of 22 negatives of stuffed birds at the Otago University Museum; the opening of a Maori church at Otakou; an Auckland vs Otago rugby match; the opening of the Clydevale bridge; and Otago golf championship 1937. The photographer was Field. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-034982 to 035760, 035779 to 035871, 035916 to 036295, 036699 to 036914, 038264 to 038353, 038364 to 038476 and 052188 to 052355 Quantity: 1839 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1900 - 1941

From: Cherry, Arthur Leonard, 1884-1947 :[New Zealand sketches. 1910s-1920s]

Reference: A-104-073

Description: View of Dunedin Town Hall and St Paul's Cathedral in The Octagon Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 165 x 120 mm on sheet 200 x 154 mm

Date: 1947

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-224

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1947. Duck shooting at Lake Ellesmere; sign of the Pick and Shovel at Gabriel's Gully; disabled soldiers in wheelchairs watching a horse race; first aid clinic; locomotive having its tender filled with coal at Paekakariki; Herekino State Forest; Lake Wakatipu; The Chateau; Mount Ruapehu; Vogeltown Bowling Club, New Plymouth; Youth Travel Association party at Waiouru; rugby referees examinations held in Wellington (G R Penhale & D Chant); Hilton Thomassen and Jimmy Black of Taneatua Bowling Club, Whakatane (tallest & shortest players). House moving (Dr H B Berney's surgery, Masterton); Horsa Glider home and houseboats (England); Silver Jubilee display of sewing done by Correspondence School pupils held at Central Library, Wellington; English family building their own home; Les Curtice sounding the Last Post; Rehabilitation Committee meeting; R J Jacobs & C O Bell laying a wreath at the Cenotaph, Wellington (view of shops in lower Molesworth Street in background). Series of photographs taken at Ruatoki - Jim Merritt (Native Department supervisor), Rev Rangi (Maori Battalion padre), Takerau Tamerau (paramount chief of Tuhoe) and others. Series of photographs relating to the Post Office training school courses. Named participants included K R Murray, G H Glozier, T J Nixon, H McLachland, R W Hundy, D C Mundy, L W Palmer, H C Waterhouse, A J L Hamilton, B Story, R Innes, T Collins, A S Beck, R Cleary. Courses included engineering, morse code, switch board operators, automatic exchange switches; dismantling and testing telephones, etc. Helicopters (United States); Naseby (children's fancy dress parade); Tekapo; Country Library Service (librarian-driver Evelyn Franklin of Waikato, Coronation Library at Little River, and bus at Gropers Bush); Series of photographs relating to the Government Home Aid Scheme and day in the life of employee Edna Chandler. WAACS for welfare work in Japan - Subaltern J N Bullard & Junior Commander W M White; Pat Pysden and Pear Hunt; on parade (Ruth Ransfield, Margaret Bown and Doris Dempsey); Quartermaster-Sgt M V Wilson and P Cronin; Yvonne Trainor. Hine Hopu (carved guardian on Hongi's Track); Thomas Burn's statue in The Octagon, Dunedin; Young woman planting cauliflowers at Waimate farm; deerstalker's camp in Woodgrove district, North Canterbury; boy scouts in France; hikers on road to Milford Hotel; hydro-electric generating plant at Karapiro; holiday makers on board launch in Marlborough Sounds; Deepwater Cove, Bay of Islands; speed boat racing at New Plymouth; Pelorous Bridge; mayor of New Plymouth Mr Gilmour at civic reception held in Pukekura Park. Opening of the air service between New Zealand and Canada - Captain I N Holyman, managing director of Australian National Airways receiving first mail from Hon F S Hackett, Postmaster General; J A C Allum, Mayor of Auckland and Captain P Taylor. Quantity: 94 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: between 1860-1863

By: Meluish, William, 1822?-1888; Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-o-143

Description: Photographs taken by William Meluish between 1860 and 1863, printed and published by Frank Arnold Coxhead. PA1-o-143 and PA1-o-144 are very similar. They each hold 19 images from the same negatives, but in different page order. The only images not repeated are those on page 4 of PA1-o-143, and the image on page 18 of PA1-o-144. Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Album of 10 pages, with 20 albumen prints; blue buckram cover, 22.5 x 29.0 cm

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).

Date: 1913 - 1914

By: New Zealand Tablet Print; Cliff, Edward William, active 1913; Sherriff family

Reference: Eph-E-CALENDAR-1914-01

Description: Single sheet calendar shows the saints' days for each month of the year, around a central illustrative panel showing Christ and His Mother, and the caption "Mother of Sorrows, pray for us". Around the border are advertisements for twenty businesses around New Zealand, including: Dawsons Ltd (Dunedin), Herb Price Hats and Jackets (Wellington), Frapwell & Holgate (monumental masons, Dunedin), Marsden & Chamberlain (dentists, Wellington), McNab & Mason (monumental masons, Auckland), W H Hillyar & Co (undertakers, Westport), Kells & Pike (undertakers, Palmerston North), H Louis Gallien (chemist, Dunedin), E Morris, jnr (undertaker, Wellington), Baxter's lung preserver, Military pickles and sauce, Chas Begg & Co (Wellington), Lewis's (fashions, Invercargill), Bradley Bros Studios (leadlights and stained glass, Christchurch), W F Durward & Co (Palmerston North), T Roche (jeweller, Invercargill), Geo. Court & Sons Ltd (Auckland), J Tait (monumental mason, Christchurch), E Pearce & Co Ltd (shoe store, Wellington), David Connell (bookseller, Dunedin). Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 885 x 574 mm. Provenance: Donated by Claire Baillie, Wellington from the papers of the Sherriff family, in 2010. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A2010-162.

Date: [ca 1931-1949]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-203

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1931-1949. Dunedin - Rattray Street cable car, 1935; Leith Stream; lower Stuart Street; The Exchange looking south; Robert Burns statue in The Octagon; elevated view of St Paul's Cathedral and Dunedin Town Hall; The Centotaph, Queen's Gardens; Otago University, 1931; Dunedin Botanic Gardens; Otago Boys' High School; tram in Princes Street; elevated view looking north along George Street; panoramic view taken from Mornington looking north; aerial view over Mornington showing High Street School, Hawthorne Avenue, Kaituna Bowling Club etc; aerial view showing St Kilda and Forbury Park Trotting Club; Larnach's Castle (taken during the Baptist Union Annual Assembly); Otago Peninsula from above Macandrew Bay looking towards Port Chalmers; wharves at Port Chalmers, 1935; new wing of the Medical School, 1948. Christchurch - Captain Cook's statue, Victoria Square; group under a tree near Bridge of Remembrance; canoeing on the Avon River; Hagley Park; Christchurch Botanic Gardens; Band Rotunda; Cathedral Square; Avon River; Mona Vale; Captain Scott's Statue with Christchurch Club in background; Worcester Street Bridge; Rolleston statue and Canterbury Museum in Rolleston Avenue; Bridge of Remembrance; Christchurch World War One memorial, 1937; Christchurch Hospital, 1941; daffodils beside the Avon; aerial view showing Christ's College, etc; aerial view of Addington Racecourse, 1934 & 1937; aerial view of Christchurch Botanic Garden; Edgar Stead's home, Ilam; hillside suburb showing access path and stone retaining walls; pupils at Fendalton School during PE class, 1948; Kerr's Reach, Burwood, 1949 Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1960 - 1970

By: McFarlane, Shona Graham, 1929-2001; Lilburn, Douglas Gordon, 1915-2001

Reference: C-119-026

Description: Shows the facade of the church. Shona McFarlane was resident in Dunedin in the 1960s, hence the suggested date on this work. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Shona McFarlane Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on sheet, 635 x 449 mm. Provenance: These items were held in the home of Douglas Lilburn at the time of his death and were bequeathed to the Library Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A2001-172.

Date: 1885

From: [Various artists] :[Exhibition certificates 1865-1924]

By: Bock & Cousins Lithographers (Firm)

Reference: C-098-011

Description: Exhibition certificate with decorative border using Maori carving and weaving patterns. Within the border are 5 circular vignettes, showing First Church Dunedin, Government House Wellington, the New Zealand seal, Custom House Auckland and Victoria Bridge with the Provincial Council Chambers, Christchurch. In the bottom half framed on the left by a tree fern and flax and on the right by a nikau are the wharves and Post Office building in Wellington, the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition buildings and a Maori man and woman, with Mount Taranaki as a background. Surrounding the printed and hand-written text is a border of leaves and grasses (toetoe, hoheria and maidenhair fern) with taiahas and tekotekos (carved Maori weapons) on both sides Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph with holograph 460 x 355 mm

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Bailey, Conrad, fl 1980 : Photograph albums of New Zealand scenes, one including pressed ferns

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

Reference: PA1-o-030

Description: Album of photographs mostly of towns and buildings in Canterbury and Otago, chiefly taken by the Burton Brothers, circa 1880s. They all show city scenes including street views, and images of important buildings. The buildings include church buildings, bank buildings, insurance company office buildings, and hotels (both exterior and interior views of the Grand Hotel, Dunedin). In the North Island, there is a view of the Auckland Synagogue, and a view of Taratahi Homestead, the home of Lady Tancred and Sir Thomas Tancred, in the Carterton District. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cloth-bound album with leather spine and corners, lettered in gold "Views of New Zealand"