Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Photographer. Born 4 August 1826 and baptised 24 September 1826 at Saint Mary Independent, Devizes, in Wiltshire, England. Died 30 November 1881 at Emerald Hill, Victoria, Australia. Active in NZ as photographer from 1863 to 1872. Bought Meluish's photographic studio in Dunedin in 1864, and in 1867 moved to Christchurch in partnership with Graham La Mert. From there travelled throughout NZ. Left NZ 1872. According to Hardwicke Knight 'Photography in New Zealand: a social and technical history' he was active in Christchurch, 1858-1875.

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Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881: View looking up Gibsons Quay, Hokitika

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA7-17-31

Description: Duplicate of PA7-17-29 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Carroll album

Date: 1868

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-o-094

Description: Views of New Zealand chiefly taken by Daniel Mundy circa 1868, with some taken by Charles S Spencer. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Decorated tan coloured cover "Scraps", 25.5 x 33 cm Provenance: Alexander Turnbull Library donation slip on front page reads: "Scrapbook of old photos collected by Mr Mundy about 1868."

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Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881: "The Southern Wonderland"

Date: ca 1875

Reference: PAColl-7724

Description: Advertisement for a series of photographic views of Rotomahana and the boiling springs of New Zealand, published ca 1875 by Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle. Quantity: 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Letterpress on flyer, 15 x 10.6 cm

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Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881: View of the residence of Sir George Grey

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA7-17-23

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881: View looking up Gibsons Quay, Hokitika

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA7-17-29

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881: Photograph of Bealey Gorge

Date: 1868

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA7-17-24

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881: Captain Gilbert Mair and his Arawa Flying Column at Kai...

Date: 7 Jul 1870

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA7-48-04

Description: Photograph of the Arawa Flying Column on parade, standing in a row with Captain Gilbert Mair on the extreme left. Photograph taken by Daniel Louis Mundy on 7 Jul 1870 Copy negative 1/2-020010-F Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Names in pencil (indecipherable); Mount recto - top right - Bunting Palmerston North & Napier; Mount verso - top left - To Capt Mair with best wishes from H Elliott, 64 Harding Rd, P.Ahuriri Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 14.3 x 19 cm on card 22.5 x 30 cm

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Nairn album 1

Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

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

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA1-q-167

Description: Album of photographs taken between the 1860s and 1890s by various unidentified photographers, with one identified as being possibly by Daniel Louis Mundy, and one by James Bragge. Two early photographs, one of `Oakbourne Station', the home of John Davis Canning was taken circa 1860s, and one of `Orua Wharo' the home of John Johnston, and later his son Sydney Johnston, was taken circa 1870s, before the new house was built in 1879. Page 7 contains pressed ferns. Non-New Zealand photographs include several of Fiji, including Levuka, Taveuni, and an avenue of palms; one of the carving on Sir Joshua Reynold's bed at Tarrington; one of an Elizabethan glass cup; a carved overmantel; two views of Arundel House at Brighton, and one of Heston Church near Osterley Park. In the North Island, apart from the views of Oakbourne and Orua Wharo in the Hawke's Bay region, there are several views of the Pink and White Terraces, two showing the White Terraces both empty and full, Clay Island beneath the White Terraces; two views of the Manawatu Gorge and Seventy Mile Bush; and a view of Wellington City. South Island views include Milford Sound, Stewart Island, Braida Crags, the Wyndham River; a large group of people at celebrations surrounding the laying of the foundation stone for St John's Church in Invercargill; and two views of an exhibition of a Japanese village displaying such things as banners, lanterns and furniture, held in a hall in Invercargill. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown leather cover, gold decoration; 31.0 x 27.5 cm

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Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881: View of the residence of Sir George Grey

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA7-17-27

Description: Duplicate of PA7-17-23 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881: Photograph of Days Hotel, looking east from big rock at...

Date: 1868

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA7-17-25

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Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881: Sir George Grey's place, Kawau Island

Date: [1860s-1870s]

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA7-48-06

Description: View of Sir George's Grey home on Kawau Island, taken from `The Terrace' to the left of the house, by Daniel Louis Munday, in 1860s or as late as 1870s. Shows the garden area to the left of the house, the flagpole and the jetty. Other views of Sir George Grey's house and garden possibly taken on same day at PA1-f-039, p11 and PA7-48-03. Same image at PA1-f-039, p 10. Inscriptions: Mount verso - bottom left - Title Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20.3 x 25.2 cm on card 26 x 34 cm

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Larkworthy, Falconer, 1833-1928: Photograph album

Date: Between 1868 and 1890

By: Larkworthy, Falconer, 1833-1928; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-140

Description: Photograph album of New Zealand scenes The first sequence contains views of the road from Christchurch to the West Coast, taken by Daniel Mundy in February 1868. Another group are of further scenes in the South Island taken by the Burton Brothers around the Dunedin area. There are several views of Scotland and England, including one of the Brendon Hill Incline, an iron-mining area in Exmoor, and a view of the Larkworthy family castle in Aberdeenshire (name of the castle not clear in album). Later views in the album are taken by unidentified photographers, and include scenes of the Franz Josef Glacier, with the Waiho River; sluicing for gold at Black Gully; a tubular flume at Donnellys Creek; the Totara Ferry; viaduct at Jones' Creek; bush at Donoghues; and views of Ross and Hokitika. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Larkworthy album Relationship complexity - See also qMS-1129-1132 (donated at the same time) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, entitled `Scrap book'; 32.5 x 27.0 cm Provenance: Donated by Mrs W M Lowry and Mrs V M Matthews, England, 1956

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Photograph of Captain Gilbert Mair and his Arawa Flying Column at Rotokakahi Pa, Kaiter...

Date: February 1870

From: Mair, Gilbert Henry, 1875-1966 :Photographs

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PAColl-3397

Description: Photograph of Captain Gilbert Mair and his Arawa Flying Column at Kaiteriria Pā, Lake Rotokakahi Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope. Physical Description: Photoprint 158 x 210mm on mount 204 x 267mm Provenance: Photograph found in "B" sequence of loose prints series

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Tonks album

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

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Album of photographs of New Zealand by Daniel Louis Mundy

Date: 1867-1868

From: Cooke, I V :Photographs of New Zealand and Australia

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-045

Description: Photographs taken in 1867 and 1868 by Daniel Louis Mundy. Collection comprises: moa skeletons on display in the Canterbury Museum, Maori man sitting in front of a flax plant in the Hokianga, a black pine forest in Westland, miners' whares at Tararu creek in the Thames goldfield, Punch Bowl Falls, Otira Gorge, fern trees at Governor's Bay, waterfall at Waihi at the head of lake Taupo, tramway at Moanataiari in the Thames goldfield, bush at German Bay (Akaroa), Waitohi creek in the Thames goldfield, Onoke (Hokianga), kauri forest at Wairere Stream (Hokianga), Wild Missouri and Russell's batteries at Tararu Creek, waterfalls at Banks Peninsula and Otira Gorge. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album bound in green morrocco, with gold tooling, 41.2 x 30.2 cm

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Field album 13

Date: [Between 1868 and 1890s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-q-085

Description: Album of photographs. Most of the views of Canterbury and Thames were taken by Daniel Mundy, between 1868 and 1872. New Zealand scenes are mostly taken by Daniel Mundy, and include many landscapes; a few taken in Christchurch City; several show the Raukapuka Station and Raukapuka Bush, near Geraldine; several taken in and around the Thames Goldfields, at Moanatiri Valley and Te Puhi Flat, with one view of the workings of `The Wild Missouri. Quartz crusher. Thames'. A section of the album shows parts of England, including a number of Glastonbury Abbey and St Joseph's Chapel, Wells, Mitford and Mitford Castle, and Pang bourne [i.e. Pangbourne]. Near the end of the album is an obituary and lithograph of William Charles Wentworth (1790-1872) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cover with gold decorations entitled `Scrap album', 28.5 x 24.5 cm

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Young, Archibald, d 1954: Photograph album relating to Archibald Young's voyage to New ...

Date: [ca 1863-1888]

By: Young, Archibald, -1954; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Caney, Ebenezer, active 1883-1887; De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Savage, Charles Roscoe, 1832-1909; Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA1-q-748

Description: Photograph album of images taken by various photographers (identified below). Chiefly scenic views of New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii, and United States of America. Also eight images of Fijian and Samoan persons. Album compiled by Archibald Young ca 1888. - Album features photographs of New Zealand, including Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Gisborne, Port Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Hutt Valley and river, Waitakere Falls, Oamaru, Queenstown, Waikato River at Ateamure [sic], Mt Earnslaw and Lake Wakatipu, Milford Sound, Lake Manapouri, Ohinemutu, Lake Rotorua and Mokoia, and Wairakei. Also includes series of George Dobson Valentine images relating to the eruption of Mount Tarawera (before and after), including the Pink and White Terraces, Tikitapu Bush, Lake Rotomahana, Echo Lake and rent in the side of the mountain. Album also contains images relating to Maori, including King Tawhiao but also unidentified group images, meeting houses, various carved object, and dried heads. - Images from Australia feature: Cape Raoul, Mount Wellington and other Tasmanian scenes; Melbourne city scenes, including 1888 Exhibition building, Scots Church, Federal Coffee Palace, Princess Theatre, and Bourke Street; Ballarat; Garden Gully Goldmine; Sandhurst, including the School of Mines and Industry and the Shamrock Hotel; Blue Mountains, New South Wales, with Katoomba Falls, Govett's Leap, Weeping Rock, and Jenolan Caves featured; and a panorama of Sydney, including the harbour. - Photographs from the Republic of Hawaii feature Diamond Head, King's Palace and Princess Ruth's Palace, Coconut grove at Waikiki, Hawaiian Hotel, E C Hall's residence, gardens at Queen Hospital, and various dance groups. Photographs from the United States of America feature: San Francisco images include general city views, the observatory at Golden Gate Park, and Beach Drive from Cliff House; various images of geological formations in Yosemite Valley including Yosemite Falls, Merced River, and an unidentified group standing on Glacier Point; Salt Lake City, including the house of Brigham Young and the Mormon Tabernacle; Colorado Springs' Antlers Hotel and Garden of the Gods; and a number of images of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Line, including railway engine and passenger cars, Castle Gate, Marshall Pass, and Royal Gorge. - Also contains a number of portraits of unidentified Fijian and Samoan women and girls, and one group portrait of Fijian men. - Photographers include John R Morris, [James?] Connolly, Burton Brothers, Daniel Louis Mundy, George Dobson Valentine, David Alexander De Maus, Josiah Martin, Ebenezer Caney, [W M?] Reynolds, Chuck Photo, Faber Photo San Francisco, Charles Roscoe Savage, and William Henry Jackson -Miscellaneous materials include a loose print of a construction [mining? drilling?] scene [ca 1880s-1890s] and pressed leaves that are dark brown against paper but reddish brown when held to the light. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Opposite leaf to album page one `Daddy went twice around the world but the second time he got a chill playing deck cricket'; On album page 45, above photograph of Hawaiian Hotel (Honolulu) `Daddie had breakfast with the King & Queen of Honolulu'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album Provenance: Donor is a distant relative of Archibald Young.

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Brodie, J W (Mr) fl 1996

Date: 1880s

By: Perkins, William Herbert, -1927; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PAColl-5267

Description: Most record the bridges and flumes bringing the water-race from Lake Hochstetter to the Nelson Creek gold workings. Also Brook Street Valley Nelson and Sumner, Christchurch Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881: Akaroa

Date: [ca 1870s]

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA7-48-01

Description: View of Akaroa taken from a hillside looking south-west with French Bay and the harbour on the right. Photograph taken by Daniel Louis Mundy in 1870s Same image as PA7-48-02 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 19.3 x 24.5 cm

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Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881: Digger's whare, Punga Flat, Thames goldfields

Date: [ca 1870s]

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA7-48-07

Description: Photograph of a whare at Punga Flat, Tararu Range, near Thames taken by Daniel Louis Mundy, ca 1870s Same image as PA1-f-039, p 6 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 24.2 x 19.5 cm on card 30 x 23.5 cm