Derwent River

Date: [1890s-1900s?]

From: Teale, Edmund Oswald (Sir), 1874-1971 : Birell album

By: Charles H Kerry & Company; Shearsby, A J, active 1913-1928; Star Photo Company; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA1-q-029

Description: Postcards, chiefly of Australia, including Tasmania, Adelaide, Queensland, New South Wales, with several showing various tin mines in Tasmania. There is a section of New Zealand postcards in the middle of the album, many taken by an Australian photographic company "Charles H Kerry & Co", labelled "Series 53. Hot Lakes District, New Zealand". These images are tinted, and include views of the Huka Falls, the Pink and White Terraces, Waiotapu, Ohinemutu, Whakarewarewa, Lakes Waikaremoana and Taupo, and the Aratiatia Rapids. The NZ images also include views of the Mount Cook region of the South Island, including Franz Josef Glacier, Hooker Glacier, Mounts Darwin, Sefton and Cook, and Lakes Te Anau and Wakatipu. Many of the postcards show the photographers' names, and include R C Harvey, A J Shearsby, the Star Photo Co., de Tourret, and the New Zealand Tourist Department. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown "Postcard album" with red, green and blue decoration, 285 x 240 mm

Date: 1883

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-131-2

Description: A scene on the Derwent River near New Norfolk, Tasmania Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - On the Derwent, near New Norfolk Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 105 x 182 mm

Date: 1888

By: Sandys, Edward Roper Stapleton, 1845-

Reference: B-075-018

Description: View from a partially cleared hill, through eucalypts and other trees, towards the river below Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Charcoal on paper, 290 x 457 mm

Date: [Circa 1880s-1890s]

By: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942; Bayliss, Charles, 1850-1897

Reference: PA1-f-012

Description: Album of fine sepia views taken by various photographers. They show views of Australia, including Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney (panorama taken by Charles Bayliss), Hobart. Views of New Zealand, including Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, Dunedin, Port Chalmers & Lyttelton; Auckland; Ohinemutu, including a Maori meeting house, head and shoulder portraits of Maori, showing moko, and views of Lake Rotomahana with the Pink and White Terraces. Two views of Honolulu life show Princess Ruth and her house. One view of San Francisco, one of the Sandwich Islands. There are several views of a railway line winding through the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas, in the Rocky Mountains, taken by W H Jackson in 1880. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album 470 x 360 mm, lacking covers, in phase box Provenance: Creator and provenance information not known

Date: 1869

From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]

By: Calvert, Samuel, 1828-1913; Cooke, Albert Charles, 1836-1902

Reference: E-043-q-093

Description: The wood engraving (top left) by artist Albert Cooke and engraver Samuel Calvert, shows the bridge over the Derwent River. It was published in The illustrated Australian news, 6 Dec 1869. The wood engraving (top right) by artist Albert Cooke and engraver Samuel Calvert, shows the junction of the Plenty and Derwent rivers. Published in The illustrated Australian news, 6 Dec 1869. The wood engraving (bottom left) by engraver Samuel Calvert, shows the Derwent River near the Salmon Ponds. The wood engraving (bottom right) shows the wooden bridge on the North Esk River about 6 miles from Launceston. High basaltic rocks rise perpendicularly from the edge of the stream. Published in The illustrated Australian news. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Titles Quantity: 4 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engravings, stuck to page 275 x 215 mm

Date: 1883

From: [Moreton, Samuel Horatio], 1845?-1921 :Tasmania and New Zealand sketch book, 1883-1896

Reference: E-175-f-021

Description: The entrance to the harbour at Hobart, Tasmania Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 132 x 213 mm

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: Hannam, John (Sir), active 1936; Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-111

Description: Photograph album of views of New Zealand and Australia, taken by various photographers. Three photographs taken by the Burton Brothers show the sunken pa at Ohinemutu (Burton Bros. 3880); two Maori rangatira, image entitled `Were Were & Kiriwere, Waipahihi, Lake Taupo' (Burton Bros. 3747); and Maori meeting at Whare-Komiti-Haerehuka, King Country (Burton Bros. 3624). Other - Photograph `Maori meeting at Whare-Komiti-Haerehuka, King Country' (Burton Bros. 3624) appears to have been taken at the same time as image at PA7-36-30 `Great chiefs at Whare-Komiti-Haerehuka, King Country (Burton Bros. 3622). Several of the chiefs who were named in the Great Chiefs image can be identified in the view in this album. Other - Photograph `Were Were & Kiriwere, Waipahihi, Lake Taupo' (Burton Bros. 3747) appears to have been taken at the same time as the image at PA1-o-088-13. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram covers; 28 x 38 cm Provenance: Donated by Sir John Hannam, London, 1936

Date: 1862 - 1866

From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: E-340-q-005

Description: Top image shows a pencil sketch of the distant roof tops of Melbourne, with the rigging of many ships, with title, `Melbourne from Ascot Vale Flemington October 31st 1862'. Lower image is a watercolour titled `Betsey Island, Derwent, Hobart Town 1866' showing a house and jetty to the right, and water surrounded by low hills and trees An itinerary inside the front cover of the album suggests that the artist and her husband Isaac were staying with the Puckle family at Ascot Vale, Flemington, from 27 October to 26 November 1862. Quantity: 2 drawing(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 95 x 260 mm & smaller, on page 175 x 260 mm

Date: 1883

From: [Moreton, Samuel Horatio], 1845?-1921 :Tasmania and New Zealand sketch book, 1883-1896

Reference: E-175-f-020

Description: Features, including the small island, Iron Pot, with its lighthouse, near the entrance to Hobart harbour Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 132 x 213 mm

Date: [1880s-1910s?]

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

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Ferrez, Marc, 1843-1923; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA1-q-260

Description: Collection of photographs taken by various photographers including the Burton Brothers, George Valentine, Josiah Martin and Marc Ferrez. On page [67] there is a hand-traced map of the world with a route marked on it from London, to Plymouth, Canary Islands, Cape Town, Tasmania, Wellington, Lyttelton, Cape Horn, Rio de Janeiro, Canary Islands and back to Plymouth and London. The distance travelled out was 12,948 miles, and distance home was 11,915 miles. The photographs cover most of these places, with more detailed travel through Tasmania, and especially New Zealand. Scenes in New Zealand were mostly taken by the Burton Brothers and Josiah Martin. They include views of the main cities, and a large number in the thermal area around Lake Rotorua and Mount Tarawera, showing the area around the Pink and White Terraces before and after the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886. Photographs by Josiah Martin include portraits of Maori, and one entitled "The old order changeth" with Maori artifacts, shrunken heads, and a portrait of Tawhiao. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover, black leather coners and spine; 27.5 x 37.5 cm

Date: 1883

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-131-1

Description: A scene on the Derwent River near New Norfolk, Tasmania Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - On the Derwent, near New Norfolk Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 105 x 182 mm

Date: 1878

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-024

Description: View across a river with trees to both sides, a house in the distance across a field and hills in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 227 x 291 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1854

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-024-009

Description: A plain with a large tree and two cows in the right foreground, a house in the middle distance and hills in the background. The large tree on the right may be an acacia Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Titled in pencil and W. Swainson fct Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 203 x 183 mm (sight)