Breakwaters - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

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

By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Hart, Campbell & Company; New Zealand Railways; Ring, James, 1856-1939; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-f-025

Description: Album of photographs collected by Albert Percy Godber which related to his interests. Photographers include Daniel Manders Beere, William Thomas Locke Travers and James Ring. Scenes in Australia include Adelaide waterworks, Currency Creek, the Murray River Bridge, the Thorndon Park Reservoir, and Port Adelaide River road & rail bridge. New Zealand scenes are chiefly in the South island, many relating to early railway construction, particularly areas involved in working on the Dunedin to Balclutha railway along the Waimakariri River, and around the Purakanui Cliffs. Of particular interest throughout the album are the construction and design of railway features such as bridges, viaducts and tunnels. North Island railway scenes include the Rimutaka Incline, the bend known as `Siberia', the Summit, and Pakuratahi. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 4 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 42 x 33 cm

Date: 1880-1889

By: F Bradley & Company; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA1-o-497

Description: Album of photographs compiled ca 1880s, from print published by F Bradley & Co, of Christchurch. Comprises views of Shag Rock, Timaru, Christchurch, Bealey, Greymouth, Oamaru, Rangitata River bridge, Dunedin, Taupo, Waimakariri River bridge, Governor's Bay, Kaiapoi, Arthur's Pass, Kawau Island, Cheviot, Akaroa Harbour, Alfred Falls, the Pink Terrace, White Island, Otira Gorge, Pigeon Bay, gold mining at Thames, Nelson, Heathcote River, the cable car across the Taramakau River, Sumner, and Tamatekapua meeting house at Ohinemutu. Also included are carte de visite portraits of Maori. Among the photographers whose work is shown are Herbert Deveril and Daniel Louis Mundy. Each photograph has a printed inscription attached on the back of the page. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 25 x 32 cm

Date: 5 May 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1731-F

Description: Panoramic view of Lyttelton Harbour and wharves. Looking down over the roofs of the port warehouses in the foreground. Six steamships in port. Pleasure craft, yachts, fishing boats moored in small harbour to the right of the wharves, inside the breakwater. Houses on hills far right and far left. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1732 for view taken further up the hill behind the wharves Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Lyttelton. N.Z. No. 544A Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 98.7 cm

Date: 5 May 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1732-F

Description: Panoramic view of Lyttelton Harbour and wharves. Looking down over lyttelton Port with the wharves in the centre. Township on the left above the port, houses and gardens and cleared land on the right and left on the hills behind the port. Hills across the harbour. Quail Island far right. Several steamships in port. Pleasure craft, yachts, fishing boats moored in small harbour to the right of the wharves, inside the breakwater. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Port of Lyttelton (New Zealand) No. 545 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 98.0 cm

Date: 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1733-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over Lyttelton Port and the breakwater. A large area of mudflats on the right beyond the breakwater. Several steamships in port. Pleasure craft, yachts, fishing boats moored in small harbour to the right of the wharves, inside the breakwater. Township on the far left, some houses far right. Cleared hills across the harbour, mountains in the background. Quail Island visible far right. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1731 and Pan-1732 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Lyttelton. N.Z. No. 546 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 105.4 cm

Date: [ca 1880]

From: Tonks album

Reference: PA1-o-497-24

Description: View of the breakwater at the Port of Timaru, showing the concrete construction of the breakwater and masts and funnels of ships on the other side of the wall. Two cranes (probably mobile) can be seen along with railway lines on the top of the breakwater. A shingle covered beach is in the foreground of the image. Photographed by F Bradley & Co in about 1880. The Timaru Breakwater was built in 1870. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 20 x 13.7 cm, mounted on album page

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1900s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-289

Description: Photographs of New Zealand circa 1890s, probably taken by George William Barltrop. They cover two areas, the first is in the Canterbury region, including a series of views of the Avon River, the road to New Brighton, New Brighton itself, Timaru (including the Timaru Breakwater, and the Timaru Lighthouse), and Mr Prudhoe's house in Christchurch. The other region is around Wellington, including Wadestown, St Thomas' Church in Newtown (views of the church, and several scenes of a bazaar held near the church; some with children wearing fancy dress). Out of Wellington views include Plimmerton, Mana Island and Pauatahanui. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, impressed title `Photographic views'; `McIntosh V' lettered in gold on spine; 17.5 x 24.0 cm

Date: 1880-1889

From: Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898?-1980 :Photographs

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-q-116

Description: Album compiled by Arthur Lagden Haylock, containing views of Lyttelton, Christchurch, Wellington, Nelson, New Plymouth, Tauranga, Ohinemutu, Mangarewa Gorge, Pink & White Terraces, Napier, Timaru, Porters Pass, Castle Hill (West Coast Road), Craigieburn, Waimakariri River, Arthur's Pass, Otira Gorge, Otira, Jacksons, Taipo River, Mount Alexander, Dillmanstown, Hokitika, and Greymouth. Also includes photographs of ships Annie Bow, Ganymede, and City of Perth and Benvenue stranded at Timaru in 1882. Photographs taken 1880s, by James Ring, Burton Brothers, Wheeler & Sons (including prints made by Wheeler from the negatives of D L Mundy) and others. Other Titles - Ramblings through New Zealand. By A.L. Haylock Quantity: 1 album(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Brown album with gold borders, entitled `Ramblings through New Zealand. By A.L. Haycock', lettered in gold; 36.5 x 31.5 cm

Date: 1884 - 1885

From: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm) :[Sample album of greeting cards, produced by A D Willis of Wanganui. ca 1885]

Reference: E-936-f-024-4

Description: Shows a scene looking north along the beachline towards the breakwater, with ships moored alongside. Port buildings can be seen to the left on shore. A seagull flies overhead, bearing a sign hanging from its beak that reads 'A joyous Christmas' Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 105 x 145 mm

Date: [188-?]

Reference: PAColl-8669

Description: Photograph of the breakwater at Timaru taken circa 1880s by an unidentified photographer. Shows vessels alongside. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14 x 20 cm