1905. No Binding. Photograph of 'The camp at mouth of the Ashburton, March 1905'.The image shows a number of cabins and tents on a rather bleak campsite above a beach at the mouth of the Ashburton river. Some foxing on mount, but the photographic print is clean. 15 x 10.5..... More
Christchurch: E Wheeler & son. No Binding. Photograph of a punt loaded with a carriage with 3 horses, and the ferryman with a punting pole ready to push off and cross the river. Image faded but still an evocative image of a river crossing in the South Island, c.1870s. From..... More
1902. No Binding. Photograph of the Spit, Napier in 1902, showing roads and housing on the spit, and in the distance shipping and port activities, which all disappeared during the1931 earthquake. Some slight marking on the upper part of the image (sky), but a very good, historically interesting, print. 24..... More
1994. No Binding. Photograph titled in early hand 'Native Cottage, Wairakei, (where we lodged).' dated 18.4.94. The cottage, with a raupo roof is shown at the end of a path with a flower garden either side. 20 x 15.5 cm on 31 x 18.5 cm mount. An unlikely title to..... More
1914. No Binding. 44 b&w photographs (16.5 x 12 cm) of New Zealand troops on battlefields in France 1914-1918. Most have descriptive pencil titles on the back. They include trench scenes, troops on the move on horse and foot, ruined buildings German prisoners, troops operating artillery, in position on the..... More
Zangaki, 1880. Hardcover. An album of 32 photographs showing portraits and studies of middle eastern people showing daily live, costumes, street markets, oasis scenes, ports and shipping, etc. A fine photographic record of Egypt and the North African region. Original half roan boards detached. The photographs are by the Zangaki..... More
London: The Gentlewoman. No Binding. Coloured photographic print, with black margins, of Queen Victoria on silk, published by "The Gentlewoman" headed 'In Memoriam of our Beloved Queen Victoria". From a photograph by Walery of Regent St. c 1902. 24 x 38 cm. More
No Binding. Original photographs of three views of Lake Whakatipu and Queenstown, including a panorama of the developing town (15 x 44 cm), lake and mountains. c 1880s On the reverse is a full page close-up view of the pink terraces in Rotorua, destroyed in 1886. 24 x 29 cm..... More
No Binding. Photograph of a group of settlers dressed up for a country outing, surrounding a hut being constructed? or having fallen down! The group includes 4 women in large sun hats, and 9 men all in suits and hats. c 1880s. 19.5 x 15 cm. More
1949. No Binding. B&W photograph of Alberto Ascari winning the 1949 Gran Premio Peron motor race, at Palermo, Buenos Aires, on January 30. The photograph shows the winning Maserati, the maker's vehicles taking out the first three places. Part of the huge 200,000 crowd is shown as Ascari goes over..... More
1899. No Binding. 11 photographs mostly from Alf Hosking, Bruton's Studio, of Boer War scenes, mounted on 3 cards 27 x 35 cm. These include: "Arrival of 1st New Zealand contingent, November 1899", showing New Zealand troops and horses on the Capetown docks; "They leave Cape Town for the front"..... More
No Binding. Sepia photograph, 6 x 10.5cm, of two well-dressed little children in the arms of finely dressed coloured people, possibly members of a society household. The card is from the Ryde, Isle of Wight studio of Arthur Debenham, the noted photographer of the turn of the century. Debenham photographed..... More
1880. No Binding. Original sepia photograph of Auckland harbour c1880s. The image shows a collection of waterfront buildings including the large Northern Roller Mills, the shipping merchant Wingate & Co, the cupola of the Customs Hourse, and others. In the foreground are a number of small sailing vessels and on..... More
Wanganui: 1907. No Binding. Sepia photograph of trains that have collided, from the Bankside collision in Christchurch, 1907. The image shows the wreckage and workmen. Some minor tears at edges. Image 20.5 x 15.5 cm, in card mount 30.5 x 25 cm. More
Auckland: Bartlett & Co. No Binding. Large photograph of a Wanganui coal mine c. 1860s, from the studio of Bartlett & Co, Auckland. The image shows a coal wagon being pulled on a track by horses, tents and buildings, cleared bush, in all a striking image of a colonial coal..... More
New York, London, Toronto: Underwood and Underwood, 1900. No Binding. 4 stereoscopic cards of photographic images from the Boer war: Australian Mounted Rifles just before the taking of Belmont (Dec. 31st), South Africa, showing a line of mounted soldiers. An Army "Baker's Wagon". British Camp, De Akar, S. Africa. Showing..... More
No Binding. Photograph of troops marching across scrubland to their camp after unloading from a troop train in the background. The soldiers are carrying their guns across their backs, and includes an image of a family accompanying them. 24 x 18 cm. c. 1900. More
No Binding. A collection of 8 photographs of Sir Donald Bradman at various stages in his cricketing career. They include a touching photograph of Bradman signing an autograph book for a young disabled boy, Bradman at the wicket, meeting the press and dignitaries, and one with him strolling with his..... More
Dunedin: Burton Bros. No Binding. B&W silver gelatin photograph of a large group of Maori, including men, women, children and babes in arms, in European dress, including military attire. The group is posed before a large whare at Waipahihi, on the eastern shores of Lake Taupo, now a suburb of..... More
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Burton Bros, 1890. Unbound. Original sepia photograph depicting a large group of indigenous people on a beach with outrigger canoes in New Hebrides (Vanuatu). c1900. A good clear image with no damage. Image size: 145 x 200mm. Mounted on card. More
Dunedin: Burton Brothers, 1888. 4to Oblong. Hardcover. 24 full size original photographs. some foxing Original boards and spine, damaged but reparable. Views include Franz Joseph Glacier, Lake Wakatipu, Dusky Sound, etc. 4 of Cook Islands. One of the classic collections from Burton Brothers. More
Burton Brothers, 1890. Audio Book (Cassette). 10 original photos of New Zealand, of Taupo, near Motutere, Milford Sound, Otira Gorge, Dusky Sound, etc, hillside view of Napier showing the coastline and the city below .Plates are loosely arranged and carefully slotted in to each leaf. Towards the end of the..... More
Dunedin: Burton Bros. No Binding. B&W silver gelatin photograph of two Maori wahine in full cloaks, posed in front of a whare with fine carving. Taken in the King Country as part of a Burton Bros. series, c.1880s. On the revers is an early photograph of Dunedin taken from the..... More
Dunedin: Burton Brothers. No Binding. Original B&W full length photograph of the Chief, clothed in a blanket. Wetere was implicated in the attack on Pukeruhe in 1869 which resulted in the death of the missionary the Rev John Whitely and garrison staff and their families. On the reverse is an..... More
No Binding. A collection of 13 sepia photographs of New Zealand's thermal region pre theTarawera eruption of 1886 showing the terraces etc,. Two photographs of early Whanganui. More
