Places

Date: 1857

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-109-043-a

Description: View looking down from Mount Pleasant towards the township of Lyttelton, with streets, houses, churches, commercial buildings and wharves visible. Several ships moored in the stream, Quail Island can be seen to the right and the hills opposite (Diamond Harbour, Purau, Teddington). In the foreground are cabbage trees to the left and rocky outcrops to the right After Edmund Norman's lithograph: Lyttelton, Port Victoria, 1855, reference number B-051-006, which in its turn is based on an ink drawing in the Library's collection, Lyttelton Port Victoria, reference number B-009-008. A second very similar drawing with the same title is held at B-009-009 Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia. Opposite p.226 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted, 89 x 153 mm

Date: 1897 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-055

Description: A coastal scene with a beach viewed through flax bushes and cabbage trees. A house on the right, hills in the distance. The album seems to have been labelled some time after some watercolours were painted. This view does not appear to show Masterton. It is located in the album amidst view of Peel Forest, and may show the Timaru area Other Titles - [Coastal scene, South Canterbury?] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Masterton Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-532

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by E Wheeler & Son, circa 1870s to 1880s Most of the views are identified, either on the photograph itself, or in hand-written captions below; places shown are listed above. One image has caption "Flax cutting" on the photograph which shows a man standing be a group of cabbage trees, with a house? or possibly a mill with a water wheel in the background behind the trees, while the hand-written caption reads "Valley scene, Hokianga". Other Titles - New Zealand views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover (damaged), entitled "New Zealand Views" in gold lettering; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-009

Description: A road surrounded by bush, heading towards mountains. Cabbage trees amongst the bush Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1857

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-109-043

Description: View looking down from Mount Pleasant towards the township of Lyttelton, with streets, houses, churches, commercial buildings and wharves visible. Several ships moored in the stream, Quail Island can be seen to the right and the hills opposite (Diamond Harbour, Purau, Teddington). In the foreground are cabbage trees to the left and rocky outcrops to the right After Edmund Norman's lithograph: Lyttelton, Port Victoria, 1855, reference number B-051-006, which in its turn is based on an ink drawing in the Library's collection, Lyttelton Port Victoria, reference number B-009-008. A second very similar drawing with the same title is held at B-009-009 Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia. Opposite p.226 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted, 89 x 153 mm

Date: 1884

From: Hands, Alfred Watson, 1849-1927 :[Scenes in New Zealand] 1865, 1881, 1887

By: Hands, Alfred Watson (Rev), 1849-1927

Reference: A-254-009

Description: A small wooden chapel with a belfry and lancet windows in Gothic Revival style, a grave and a garden outside, with a cabbage tree and bush beyond Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 175 x 245 mm Provenance: Donation; Mrs M S G MacLeod, Tunbridge Wells, 12 August 1977

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-031

Description: Orari Homestead (South Canterbury), the home of the Tripp family, with its surrounding garden (including cabbage trees) and a conservatory to the left, attached to the house. Hills in the background. The preliminary drawing for this view is on the previous page of the sketchbook. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-029

Description: Orari Homestead (South Canterbury), the home of the Tripp family, with its surrounding garden and a woman standing to the left in the foreground. Hills in the background. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-346-2-026/027

Description: A view from near the Mount Peel homestead, taking in the Church of the Holy Innocents to the right, the woolshed and other buildings in the middle distance and looking towards the Rangitata River and the cliffs on the opposite side of the river. Cabbage trees and flax on slopes in the foreground and plantings around the church, possibly of yew trees. The churchyard is enclosed in a fence and garden The church was designed by Edward Ashworth, earlier resident in Auckland as an artist. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on 2 sketchbook pages, 129 x 356 mm

Date: ca 1880-ca 1889

From: Reid, Robert Stuart :Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PA1-q-921

Description: Views of Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, Lake Waihola, Lake Moke, Mount Cook, Mount Sefton, the Hooker Glacier, Tapanui, Oamaru, Milford Sound, Dusky Sound, Hooker River, Moonlight Gorge, Bowen Fall, and general views in Canterbury and Otago taken by an unknown photographer in the 1880s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1857

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s

Reference: A-109-043-b

Description: View looking down from Mount Pleasant towards the township of Lyttelton, with streets, houses, churches, commercial buildings and wharves visible. Several ships moored in the stream, Quail Island can be seen to the right and the hills opposite (Diamond Harbour, Purau, Teddington). In the foreground are cabbage trees to the left and rocky outcrops to the right After Edmund Norman's lithograph: Lyttelton, Port Victoria, 1855, reference number B-051-006, which in its turn is based on an ink drawing in the Library's collection, Lyttelton Port Victoria, reference number B-009-008. A second very similar drawing with the same title is held at B-009-009 Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia. Opposite p.226 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted, 89 x 153 mm Processing information: Transferred from the collection of the National Library of New Zealand, November 1975

Date: 1919

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948; Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898-1980

Reference: A-157-006

Description: Shows old cottage with lattice windows and shutters, a church spire visible behind and a cabbage tree in front. Hills in the background Rough sketch on back Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 132 x 183 mm

Date: 1870s

By: Cox, Horace A, active 1883

Reference: PA1-o-110

Description: New Zealand scenery photographed circa 1870s. Views include the Pink and White Terraces and Lake Rotomahana; a digger's hut in the Tararua Range; Mercury Bay; carriers changing horses in Oripi bush; a group of Maori holding a runanga at an unidentified meeting house; two views of the new road being created between Lake Coleridge and Hokitika. Inscriptions: Album page - Horace A Cox, from his old schoolfellow Harry [?], Lyttelton, New Zealand, 9 July 1883 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cover with gold outline, 22.5 x 31 cm Provenance: Presented to Horace A Cox on 9 July 1883.

Date: [1934-1935?]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-052

Description: Publicity photographs taken by various unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways. The only identifying information is a few pencilled notes giving some locations, but there are no captions identifying people. There is a large sequence showing events surrounding the first celebrations marking the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi on 6th February 1934 attended by Lord Bledisloe. He had purchased the site, and donated money for the Treaty House renovations in 1932. The celebrations brought 10,000 Maori to Waitangi. The images show huge crowds, haka parties, various iwi performing, and parties of dignitaries including Lord and Lady Bledisloe, Joseph Gordon Coates and George William Forbes. Other scenes with Lord Bledisloe show him visiting the Waitaki Hydroelectric power station. Views of New Zealand include Government Tourist Bureau accomodation houses including those at Waitomo and the Hermitage (Mt. Cook); accomodation houses at Helensville and Parakai with interior and exterior views, and showing activities available (spa pools, games such as croquet, golf, and bowls); anglers standing by swordfish they have caught; skiing and ski lessons; and waterfalls. Industrial and agricultural views show dairy cows, citrus groves, the Kiwi Bacon Factory, printing presses, and race courses. A number show people at the beach at Mount Maunganui, and a large group picniking. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, red spine, entitled `Tours Book B3'; 40 x 58 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Boyle, Fanny, 1861-1930

Reference: Pan-1464-F

Description: Panoramic view of a large two-storeyed house in the centre of the image, surrounded by a garden with flower beds and established trees set into sloping lawns. House partially hidden by trees. Steps up to a deep entrance porch on the right. Verandahs upstairs (with wrought-iron balustrade) and downstairs on the left. Decorative trim around gable in the centre. Trees include silver birch, conifers, cabbage trees, [and possibly a rimu? behind the house on the right]. Standard roses along a path slightly below the house in the right middle distance, and shaped rose beds amongst trees on the far left. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - R.P. Moore, 80 Manners St. Wgtn. (All rights reserved); Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Mrs A. Boyle. ChCh. 3-40x10; Marginal notes on negative - 2 2 2 2 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 129.1 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Kitto, Frederick William Middleton, 1861-1932

Reference: Pan-1451-F

Description: Panoramic view of a large two-and-a-half storeyed wooden house on a rise on the far right, above a water lily lake in the foreground. Established trees all around house and by the lake including cabbage trees, flaxes, weeping elm, conifers. Drive up to the house, decorative portico with deep arched balcony. House partially hidden by trees. Finials on gables. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1448 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - A private garden. Christchurch N.Z. No. 532; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - R.P. Moore. 80 Manners St., Wgtn (All rights reserved); Marginal notes on negative - Mr Kitto. Ch.Ch. 3x40x10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 120.8 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Squire, F E, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1966-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed roughcast farmhouse at the head of a wide driveway centre left. Wide border of shrubs and trees to the left of the drive, outbuildings partially visible to the left of the house. Another wide border of trees and shrubs to the right of the drive then lawn to the edge of a cliff above a wide area of scrub and then farmland on flat land below. Plants in the borders include cabbage trees and flax. Creepers growing up the front of the house. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "The Cliffs"; Marginal notes on negative - F E Squire. Tycho [i.e. Taiko]. Timaru. 3 B&W. The Cliffs Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 133.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Gill, H R, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1964-F

Description: Panoramic view looking up a slope to a single-storeyed wooden farmhouse at the head of a drive on the far left. High hedge behind the house, outbuildings behind. Lawn around the house. Area of thickly planted shrubs to the right of the drive. Border of shrubs and flowers on the left. Rolling paddocks on the right half of the image, with a vegetable garden and fruit trees in the centre between the garden and the paddocks. Plants include pampas grasses, cabbage trees and flax. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - H R Gill. Tycho D [i.e. Taiko [Downs?]]. Timaru. 1 oils. 2 B&W. Cream house. Red roof. White chimney. Blossoms on trees pink. White heather. Pansies yellow, purple daisies. Various coloured foliage. Various coloured foliage yellows. Red tipped roses in centre of lawn Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 125.0 cm

Date: 1880 - 1939

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926; McCormack, Thomas Arthur, 1883-1973

Reference: E-960-f

Description: Features scenes of New Zealand and Australia, including: [Foundations for Parliament Buildings, Wellington, 1912?] (see also A-071-019); [Mission mill, Otaki, ca 1900] (see also A-071-016); [HMS Nelson, Sydney, 1916] (see also A-071-023); Old mill, Ngahauranga [ca 1900] (see also A-071-015); Whaler's whare, Kaikoura [ca 1890] (see also A-071-014); Fishermen's jetty, Rotorua [1880s] (see also A-071-003); [Mount Cook, ca 1910] (see also A-071-013); Stockade, Upper Hutt, [ca 1900] (see also A-072-022-a); [Taradale, ca 1900] (see also A-071-002); [Australian camp, 1890s] (see also A-071-012); [G.P.O. Wellington, ca 1910] (see also A-071-020); Sundown Ohinemutu [ca 1910] (see also A-071-010); Sundown, Wanganui River [ca 1902] (see also A-071-004); A corner of Rotorua [ca 1890s]; Foveaux Strait [ca 1900]; Canoes, Pipiriki [ca 1910] (see also A-070-014); [Maori by steaming pool, Rotorua, ca 1890]; Pencarrow [ca 1910]; [Deserted cottage, Riverton, ca 1910] (see also A-071-022); [Cabbage trees, 1880s] (similar to A-071-018); [Princes' Bridge, Melbourne, ca 1900] The album also includes two drypoint etchings by T.A. McCormack: Terrace steps [1930s] (see also B-096-008); and Station yards, Thorndon [1930s] (see also A-320-002) Also includes etchings depicting Italy, Switzerland, Holland and England, as well as seven engravings from an 18th century French publication Spine title reads 'Prints / Barraud'; spine embossed with gold lettering and decorative detail Parliamentary Library location at B269 (withdrawn) Accompanied by the artist's hand-written list of 43 works sent to Edwin Murray Fuller's gallery, some of which are included in the album Other Titles - Ngauranga Other Titles - Kelburn Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album (50p. populated), brown laid paper, buckram binding with leather spine, 380 x 290 mm (cover)

Date: [1925]

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

By: Grigg, John Hutton, 1895-1974

Reference: Pan-1970-F

Description: Panoramic view of a large brick two-storeyed homestead, slate roof with two conical turrets. The house is seen across a lake with flaxes, willows and cabbage trees around the edge. Outbuildings on the far left middle distance and gum trees behind the house. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1973 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - J.H. Grigg. "Longbeach". Ashburton. 2 B&W. 1 oils. Red brick house. Grey slate roof. Various tints. Willows light green; Marginal notes on negative - 3 3 3 3 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 100.2 cm