Places

Date: 11 May 1864-12 Oct 1865

By: Canterbury (N.Z. : Province). Provincial Council

Reference: MS-0449

Description: Survey diary detailing Sealy's work laying out roads and boundaries, Rakaia area; also map work at the Land Office. Also details weather conditions. Variations in title - Spine title : Canterbury Association - Survey diary, Ashburton Edward Percy Sealy was conducting contract survey work for the Canterbury Provincial Government Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 200 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (9 cm; marbled end-papers, red roan, marbled edges, in slip case)

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925

Reference: A-104-048-a

Description: Shows cattle and horses grazing, farm buildings, a man on horseback at the left, and a carriage with horses at the right. There is bush on the hills, and mountains in background. See Ellis, E M. Early prints of N.Z. 1642-1875. Christchurch 1977 p. 192-193 Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - (On printed label): [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 210 x 300 mm

Date: 1868 - 1869

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Central Otago goldmining areas, 2 dated 1880]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-032-q-3-015

Description: View from the sea looking towards a large port on Banks Peninsula with eight vessels at anchor. The view appears to be of either Akaroa or Lyttelton The drawings numbers E-032-q-3-014-1 to E-032-q-3-019 were originally in the back pocket of the sketchbook numbered E-032-q-2 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 74 x 250 mm

Date: 1849-1861 (1940)

By: Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 1796-1862

Reference: MS-2205

Description: Letters mainly concern the foundation and settlement of Canterbury Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (1, 180, xvii pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; ¼ dark green morocco) Finding Aids: Indexed.

Date: 1865

From: Dobson, Edward 1816-1908 :[Illustrations for] Report...upon the practicability of constructing a bridle road through the gorge of the Otira... - [Christchurch] ; Ward & Reeves, [1865].

By: Dobson, Edward, 1816-1908

Reference: A-004-031

Description: Shows a river in the foreground surrounded by trees with mountains in the background. Plate from: Dobson, E. Report to the Secretary of Public Works upon the practicability of constructing a bridle path through the gorge of the Otira... In: Canterbury Provincial Council. Proceedings session XXIII, 1865, p [41]-64. Figs. 14-40 (fig. 15 incorrectly numbered 13). (Vol. now discarded). Related pencil sketches (acquired loose in same vol.) held at A-001-012/030. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 90 x 143 mm

Date: 1866-1872

By: Shaw, Charles Reginald, 1829-1906

Reference: MS-Papers-3803

Description: Shaw's diary covers the period 10 Dec 1866 to 5 August 1872. The brief daily entries describe the land he surveyed (the number of acres and the owner), and his activities around his home (gardening, maintenance of the house and furniture, and paying for household purchases). He also records information relating to the health and recreation of his wife and children. Source of title - supplied title Shaw came to NZ in 1853. He was a surveyor living in Timaru. Quantity: 2 folder(s) (172 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1868-1929

From: Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9287-2

Description: Group photographs of girls attending the school run by the Convent of the Sacred heart, Timaru. Photographs of bishops include Bishop Grimes, Archbishop Redwood, and Bishop Brodie. The family of Dr M S and Agnes Grace, ca 1886. The family of Mr and Mrs A C Nottingham of Halswell, Christchurch, 1920. Group including Bishop Grimes on the front steps of St Patrick's Basilica, Oamaru (possibly the dedication of the church on the 18th of November 1894). Group photographs of clergy attending the jubilee celebrations of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Timaru, in 1929. Original wooden gothic Roman Catholic church, Timaru, which burnt down in 1910. Maryville College of the Sacred Heart, St Louis, USA, which is where the founder of the Sacred Heart order in Timaru came from in 1880. Sacred Heart primary school building, Timaru, in the 1880s. Buildings of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Timaru. Timaru Railway station. The ship SS Australia. Cobb and Co coach and Bank of New Zealand, Timaru, 1868. Yankee-K class locomotive. Quantity: 45 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 Pen drawing.

Date: 1863

By: Duppa, George, 1817-1888

Reference: E-081-q

Description: Two complete 360 degree panoramas, back-to-back. The first one is 12 pages with two inserts, with a closer view of the station, homestead, outhouses, etc. The second, 14 pages plus 1 insert is a wider view of the countryside from a higher, more distant position. Notes include vegetation and landmarks, including Tekoa, Mt Veto, Jollie's Pass, Maori Kaik, Domett's run, top of Mt Pam [i.e. Mt Palmerston], Duppa's nephew Bryan, and his dog Norma. The drawing of Bryan Duppa is a back view of him seated by a flax-bush, the dog Norma seated at his side. His initials are below the drawing Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 2 pencil drawings on both sides of 14 sheets 228 x ca 3500 mm and 228 x ca 4000 mm on sheets 228 x 285 mm

Date: 1868-1869

By: Green, George, active 1860

Reference: qMS-0881

Description: Annotated copy of petition to Legislative Council covering land on Stewart Island that the South Island claimed to have been purchased between 1830 and 1840. Letters from Green to W B D Mantell and Andrew Buchanan; copies of letters to Green from Alfred Domett and Land Claims Commission. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (31 cm, ¼ red morocco, pink boards) Transfers: Transferred from qPAM, 22 April 1976.

Date: 1868

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, between 1860 and 1868]

Reference: E-033-4-030

Description: View looking south along Akaroa Harbour with men in a rowboat pulling a seine net from the water in the foreground. The view may be from Wainui Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on buff wove paper, 118 x 199 mm

Date: 1865

From: Stiller, John 1945- : Documentation of historic pipe organs in New Zealand

Reference: 82-112-16

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1865

By: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: Eph-D-NEWSPAPER-Evening-Mail-1865-01

Description: Arrangement of text. Reproduces a double spread of the newspaper, showing the shipping intelligence, commercial news, latest telegrams, local news. Editorial starts with the words :"We have much gratification in laying before our readers this, our first issue printed with our own plant in our own printing office". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on silk, 540 x 690 mm. Provenance: Previously part of the Webster Collection, stamped and numbered 3418.

Date: 1868

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, between 1860 and 1868]

Reference: E-033-4-020/021

Description: View from behind German Bay, Akaroa Harbour, with mature native trees to the left, a seated cow, cleared land and housing with fences in the centre and the harbour to the right. The name German Bay was changed to Takamatua Bay during World War I Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper, 118 x 398 mm

Date: 1855 - 1863

From: [Duppa, George 1817-1888] :[Sketchbook ca 1852-1860]

Reference: E-080-q-3-011

Description: A series of quick sketches. A two-storied house with another at right-angles (or the same house seen from a different angle) is the most finished. It may show the artist's house at Amuri. There are fifteen drawings of men's faces, including one of a moustached man with upper body including, possibly in a military uniform. There are several cows drawn from several angles and one horse's head. There is also a small drawing of two stick-figure men lining up to fight one another with seated figures behind them. The drawing is undated but the details are likely to have been observed at Duppa's Amuri run in the 1860s. The inside back cover of the sketchbook includes the name and English address of Duppa's nephew, Bryan, who visited Amuri in 1863 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 185 x 270 mm

Date: 1868

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-027-004

Description: A view from near the entrance to Akaroa Harbour, with cliffs to the right, a steamer leaving the harbour on the left, and hills in the background. Acquired before 1941 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 133 x 216 mm

Date: 1868

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, between 1860 and 1868]

Reference: E-033-4-037

Description: View from the promontory north of the town, looking along the waterfront at the houses of the town, with a tall hill behind Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on dark green wove paper, 118 x 199 mm

Date: 1862

Reference: PAColl-7470

Description: Two views of Arowhenua homestead one with some re-touching in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004519 and 004520 Quantity: 2 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1852 - 1860

From: [Duppa, George 1817-1888] :[Sketchbook ca 1852-1860]

Reference: E-080-q-2-002

Description: A large bull viewed in profile. Behind it is a large single-storied homestead, with mountains in the background, possibly Duppa's home at St Leonard's, Amuri The same building is shown in the background of a drawing of cows in sketchbook E-080-q-3-005 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 190 x 279 mm

Date: 1860 - 1869

By: Duppa, George, 1817-1888

Reference: Plans-80-0713

Description: Plan view of a house Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour

Date: 1861

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-146

Description: Righthand section of a panoramic view of mountains with Kowai River in foreground, looking from south to north (right). Peaks are numbered 121 to 135. Include Benmore Lefthand section is C-097-146-1 Other Titles - Russells Creek Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink, 130 x 660 mm