Harding, William James, 1826-1899

Practised as a photographer in Wanganui from 1856 to 1889. Arrived in New Zealand in 1855. Two brothers had already emigrated - John in 1842 and Thomas in 1848.

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Album of photographs of Maori

Date: 1860s-1949

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949; Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Johnston, Owen, active 1940-1987; New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: PA1-o-1038

Description: Contains photographs of a Maori group at Wanganui, Te Rangitahau of Waitahanui, inscription at Wairaka meeting house (Whakatane), Pohaturoa Rock (Whakatane), Tainui anchor stone at Mokau, Matahourua anchor stone at Dominion Museum, Tokomaru anchor stone at New Plymouth Museum, hui at Rangitukua (March 1945), Ngarimu hui at Ruatoria (1943), hui at Hiruharama (1945), Tahi hohepa at Otukou (1947), reception to Field-Marshall Montgomery at Ohinemutu (1947), Sir Apirana Ngata speaking at erection of Porourangi meeting house (Waiomatatini), scenes in Parihaka, and Sir Peter Buck at Te Araroa (March 1949). The photographers represented are W J Harding, A P Godber, Burton Brothers, Owen Johnston, and the New Zealand Railways Publicity Department. A number of images were provided by the Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Graphic drawing book 23 x 31 cm

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Harding, William James 1826-1899 :W. J. Harding. [Wellington], Alexander Turnbull Libra...

Date: 1870 - 1984 - 1880

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988

Reference: C-106-013-a/018-a

Description: Contains 6 images: Wanganui family and possessions, 1870s; Unidentified man, Wanganui, 1870s; Mrs Morgan and child, Wanganui, 1870s; Staff and premises of the Wanganui Evening Herald, 1868; Mr and Mrs Thomas Roots and their twelve children in front of their home at Springvale, 1870s; Mother and child, Wanganui, 1870s. Title from illustrated container, also bearing descriptive notes. Container has not been assigned its own location number and is therefore not recorded separately. However, the individual photolithographs have separate entries. Other Titles - Imagers of a new land. Other Titles - Portraits by W. J. Harding. Inscriptions: (On verso of container/ envelope): Portraits by W.J. Harding,/ chosen by Brian Brake and John Sullivan / and published with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited.; Recto - beneath image - (On each photograph): Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 6 photolithographs, 259 x 213 mm, and 213 x 259 mm, on sheets 415 x 350 mm, in container 510 x 390 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit regulations, 1986.

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Donor unknown :Possibly Harding Collection

Date: ca 1885

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899

Reference: PAColl-3501

Description: Studio portraits and street scenes Arrangement: Negative numbers G174782-85-1/2, G26822-25-1/1 Quantity: 7 b&w original negative(s).

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Harding, William James 1826-1899 :Unidentified man, Wanganui, 1870s. [Wellington], Alex...

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: Harding, William James 1826-1899 :W. J. Harding. [Wellington], Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited, 1984. (Imagers of a new land, series 3).

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988

Reference: C-106-014

Description: Shows top-hatted man with long (legal?) collars standing in front of narrow hanging and holding open book. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 259 x 213 mm, on sheet 415 x 350 mm.

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Harding, William James 1826-1899 :Mrs Morgan and child, Wanganui, 1870s. [Wellington], ...

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: Harding, William James 1826-1899 :W. J. Harding. [Wellington], Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited, 1984. (Imagers of a new land, series 3).

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988

Reference: C-106-015-a

Description: Shows slightly blurred figure of woman with hand to face at left, and small child in dress in centre, seated on draped pedestal. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 259 x 213 mm, on sheet 415 x 350 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit regulations, 1986.

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Contact prints from 10x12 negatives of scenes in the Wairarapa, Manawatu-Wanganui and T...

Date: 1880s, 1900s

From: Creator of collection unknown :Contact prints from 10x12 negatives of scenes in the Wairarapa, Manawatu-Wanganui and Taranaki regions

By: Martin, Alfred, 1846?-1906; Denton, Frank James, 1869-1963; Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920; Winzenberg, Albert Edward, 1865-1931; Harding, William James, 1826-1899

Reference: PAColl-3722-1

Description: Arrangement: In order by copy negative number Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s) in one box.

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Harding, William James 1826-1899 :W. J. Harding. [Wellington], Alexander Turnbull Libra...

Date: 1870 - 1984 - 1880

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988

Reference: C-106-013/018

Description: Contains 6 images: Wanganui family and possessions, 1870s; Unidentified man, Wanganui, 1870s; Mrs Morgan and child, Wanganui, 1870s; Staff and premises of the Wanganui Evening Herald, 1868; Mr and Mrs Thomas Roots and their twelve children in front of their home at Springvale, 1870s; Mother and child, Wanganui, 1870s. Title from illustrated container, also bearing descriptive notes. Container has not been assigned its own location number and is therefore not recorded separately. However, the individual photolithographs have separate entries. Other Titles - Imagers of a new land. Other Titles - Portraits by W. J. Harding. Inscriptions: (On verso of container/ envelope): Portraits by W.J. Harding,/ chosen by Brian Brake and John Sullivan / and published with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited.; Recto - beneath image - (On each photograph): Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 6 photolithographs, 259 x 213 mm, and 213 x 259 mm, on sheets 415 x 350 mm, in container 510 x 390 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit regulations, 1986.

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Various artists :[Cards produced by the Sarjeant Gallery in conjunction with scupture a...

Date: 1985 - 1995

By: Sarjeant Gallery; Harding, William James, 1826-1899

Reference: Eph-A-ARTS-Sarjeant-01

Description: Includes cards and postcards showing photographic views of the Sarjeant Gallery, and reproductions of works by William James Harding, Matt Pine, Frank Denton, Andrew Drummond, Mervyn Williams, R P Moore, Laurence Aberhart, Bob Negrijn, Peter Nicholls, Neil Pardington, Peter Peryer, Don Driver. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 22 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (cards and postcards). Physical Description: Photolithographs, on cards, sizes varying from 140 x 110 mm, to 220 x 160 mm. Provenance: Deposited under legal deposit in 2000. Transfers: Cards reproducing works by painters and other artists accessioned by Drawings & Prints (DP-2000-028)..

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Photographs compiled while on active service with the 18th Royal Irish Regiment during ...

Date: 1860-1864, 187?

From: Haines, Bernard Gilpin, b 1842 :Photographs compiled while on active service with the 18th Royal Irish Regiment during the New Zealand Wars

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899

Reference: PAColl-3483-1

Description: Includes unidentified military group, probably taken in England, and a yachting scene, probably on the Solent. All images except unidentified military group are loose prints from album Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

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Harding, William James 1826-1899 :Mr and Mrs Thomas Roots and their twelve children in ...

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: Harding, William James 1826-1899 :W. J. Harding. [Wellington], Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited, 1984. (Imagers of a new land, series 3).

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988

Reference: C-106-017-a

Description: Shows the family in a line in front of their verandahed house with two dormer windows. A fence is in the foreground. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 213 x 259 mm, on sheet 350 x 415 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit regulations, 1986.

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Harding, William James 1826-1899 :Wanganui family and possessions, 1870s. [Wellington],...

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: Harding, William James 1826-1899 :W. J. Harding. [Wellington], Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited, 1984. (Imagers of a new land, series 3).

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988

Reference: C-106-013

Description: Shows man in pin-stripe waistcoat and trousers seated in centre, and standing wife holding small child in dress at right. At left is table on which are a sewing machine and a bird in a cage. On the wall behind are toetoe plumes arranged decoratively, and on floor is decorative patterned carpet or cloth.. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 259 x 213 mm, on sheet 415 x 350 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit regulations, 1986.

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Harding, William James 1826-1899 :Mr and Mrs Thomas Roots and their twelve children in ...

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: Harding, William James 1826-1899 :W. J. Harding. [Wellington], Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited, 1984. (Imagers of a new land, series 3).

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988

Reference: C-106-017

Description: Shows the family in a line in front of their verandahed house with two dormer windows. A fence is in the foreground. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 213 x 259 mm, on sheet 350 x 415 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit regulations, 1986.

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[Posters advertising exhibitions of photographers, photographs and photography. 1979. F...

Date: 1979

Reference: Eph-C-PHOTO-EXHIBITION-1979-1

Description: Includes: Andrew Drummond: Exhibition. Elva Bett Gallery [Wellington], 2-13 July, 1978. Canned Photos; A pin-hole camera experience. Waikato Art Museum, 13 December to 20 January 198 (2 copies) Gorden H Burt: Photographs. National Art Gallery [Wellington], 6 June - 29 July (2 copies) Grant Douglas - Photographs. PhotoForum Gallery [Wellington], 20 November - 8 December, 1979 (2 copies) W J Harding, 1826-1899, photographer in Wanganui. Exhibition at the Alexander Turnbull Library [Wellington], 6 November - 28 February (2 copies) Mihaia; The Prophet Rua Kenana and his community at Maungapohatu. Snaps Gallery [Auckland], 10-21 December 1979. Peter Hannken - Self Portrait. PhotoForum Gallery [Wellington], 24 July - 11 August 1979 (2 copies) Photo Art 79: An exhibition of student photographs. National tour July-November 1979. New Zealand Student's Arts Council with support of Kodak NZ Ltd. (2 copies) Photographs by Gary Blackman. PhotoForum Gallery [Wellington], 18 September - 6 October 1979. Photographs [by] Gillian Chaplin. PhotoForum Gallery [Wellington] 9-27 October 1979 (2 copies) Photographs by Gillian Chaplin. Snaps Gallery [Auckland], 2-20 July. Race Meetings in New Zealand: Photographs by Glenn Jowitt, PhotoForum Gallery [Wellington], 28 August - 15 September. Snaps Gallery [Auckland]: A Group Show. Photographs by - Baigent, Chaplin, Foster, Gruar, Hewson, Jenkinson, Mackenzie, Noble, Stone, Wills. 11-29 June. The PhotoForum Gallery [Wellington] Re-Opening. An exhibition by 6 NZ Photographers, 3-21 July. Two Dozen Colour Photographs by James Stratton. PhotoForum Gallery [Wellington], 9-20 October. Quantity: 13 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying up to 500 x 350 mm. Provenance: Donated at various times.

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[Posters advertising exhibitions of photographers, photographs and photography. 1977. F...

Date: 1977

Reference: Eph-C-PHOTO-EXHIBITION-1977-1

Description: Includes: Historical Show: [Includes photographs by] J N Crombie, Swan and Wrigglesworth, H Webster, Kinsey, Tyree, Foy Bros, William England, Herbert Deveril, Carlo Ponti, James Bragg, Burton Bros, Charles S Spencer, American Photo Co, William J Harding. Snaps Gallery [Auckland], opening 12 December. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying up to 500 x 350 mm. Provenance: Donated at various times.

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[Posters advertising exhibitions, and other events, associated with the Alexander Turnb...

Date: 1962 - 1979

Reference: Eph-C-TURNBULL-1962/1979

Description: Includes: An Exhibition of English Children's Books in the 18th & 19th Century; Arranged by the British Council. Alexander Turnbull Library, 6 November to 6 December, 1968. Aotearoa Takes Shape; Map exhibition. Alexander Turnbull Library, March-May 1977. (5 copies). Charles Heaphy, VC; Exhibition. Alexander Turnbull Library, October-November 1977. (3 copies). Colonel Charles Emilius Gold; Three watercolours. [Information sheet published by the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1976, to go with an edition of three prints taken from paintings by Gold]. Grand and Glorious Exhibition of Electioneering - New Zealand Style. Alexander Turnbull Library, 2 October - 30 November 1975. Official opening by the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Wallace Edward Rowling, MP. Printed by McKenzie Thornton Cooper Ltd, Wellington. (6 copies). Pacific History in Pictures from the Turnbull Library. Architectural Centre Gallery, Wellington, until Friday 6 July, ca 1962. W J Harding (1826-1899) Photographer in Wanganui. On exhibition at the Alexander Turnbull Library, 6 November - 28 February 1979. Quantity: 5 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying up to 500 x 350 mm. Provenance: Donated at various times.

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[Calendars for the year 1978, of approximately A3 size. 1977].

Date: 1977 - 1978

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1978-3

Description: Calendars include - The Owens Group Limited. (Contains six colour reproductions from `A History of the Birds of New Zealand' by Walter Buller, 1888. W J Harding [and] F J Denton: Photographs: Whanganui Collection. (23 views of Whanganui by Harding and Denton, 1850-1902. Published by the Mangamahu Flying Hotel in 1977). Maori legends calendar 1978. (Contains 12 Maori legends illustrated by A R N). (2 copies). 1978 Shell Calendar. (Contains six portraits of native birds by Allan Mitchell with text by Dennis Mackay). Quantity: 4 calendars, and 1 duplicate.. Physical Description: Offset lithographs, varying sizes.

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Harding, William James 1826-1899 :Wanganui family and possessions, 1870s. [Wellington],...

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: Harding, William James 1826-1899 :W. J. Harding. [Wellington], Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited, 1984. (Imagers of a new land, series 3).

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988

Reference: C-106-013-a

Description: Shows man in pin-stripe waistcoat and trousers seated in centre, and standing wife holding small child in dress at right. At left is table on which are a sewing machine and a bird in a cage. On the wall behind are toetoe plumes arranged decoratively, and on floor is decorative patterned carpet or cloth.. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 259 x 213 mm, on sheet 415 x 350 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit regulations, 1986.

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Harding, William James 1826-1899 :Unidentified man, Wanganui, 1870s. [Wellington], Alex...

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: Harding, William James 1826-1899 :W. J. Harding. [Wellington], Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited, 1984. (Imagers of a new land, series 3).

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988

Reference: C-106-014-a

Description: Shows top-hatted man with long (legal?) collars standing in front of narrow hanging and holding open book. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 259 x 213 mm, on sheet 415 x 350 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit regulations, 1986.

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New Zealand Listener Limited :Photoprint of Thomas Roots and family and mounted photopr...

By: Scott, Jean, active 1991; Listener (Periodical); Harding, William James, 1826-1899

Reference: PAColl-1866

Description: Quantity: 2 b&w copy photographic print(s) in one envelope.

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Harding, William James 1826-1899 :Staff and premises of the Wanganui Evening Herald, 18...

Date: 1868

From: Harding, William James 1826-1899 :W. J. Harding. [Wellington], Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited, 1984. (Imagers of a new land, series 3).

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988

Reference: C-106-016

Description: Shows a line of 9 men in front of Evening Herald building. A ladder leans against the building at left, and posters in the window advertise the imminent arrival of Edward Lewis and 30 valuable cows on 27 March. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 213 x 259 mm, on sheet 350 x 415 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit regulations, 1986.