Places

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: ca 1860s-1890s

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Spencer, Harriet Dyke, 1866-1948; London Stereoscopic Photographic Company

Reference: PAColl-4721

Description: Photographs on album pages: photograph of Mount Peel Station, its interior and grounds including Mr Acland in his study, his daughters and their friends identified by inititals, including one of L D Acland and B B Acland, the latter knitting a sock, and the Church of the Holy Innocence viewed across a field of hay stacks with the forest planted by Acland behind it; more of the same women boating and picnicking, including a view of a gorge taken by Harriet Acland, a church interior and Bishop Harper playing cricket with a young boy; Ilam homestead covered in clematis with balconies and verandahs and extensive grounds next to the Avon River, and the Watts Russell family group at Pareora August 1894 with their dog and saddled horses in the background; the West Coast Times printing office with the men outside it, C G Tripp and family and a Centerbury view; and two views of Tripp's homestead at Orari. Photographs mounted on card: a studio portrait of Dr Shortland; John Charles Watts Russell taken by the London Stereoscopic Company; Rev R H Codrington's garden in Norfolk Island while a missionary in the South Pacific with eight local men, either Solomon Islanders and New Hebrideans; five interior views of a well-furnished house (possibly Wildwood, Christchurch) with heavy wooden furniture and fireplaces, gas lamps, drapery, paintings (including a copy of The Order of Release by Millais) etc.; the officers of HMS Invincible on the deck of their ship next to the lifeboats; a view looking down a street of two boats in "the bay of Taranaki" (probably near New Plymouth) one named SS Taupo ca 1860s; and a view over buildings near the shore in New Plymouth ca 1860s. Loose prints of: a brick-built house with a verandah, and a duplicate of the officers of the Invincible. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. 28 b&w original photographic print(s) on loose pages from an album. 2 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.

Date: 1889-1911

From: Carterton Rugby Football Club :Photographs of teams from the Rovers, Dalefield, Carterton Druids, and Carterton rugby football clubs

Reference: PAColl-7074-01

Description: Group photographs of the Carterton Rugby Club's rugby football teams. Carterton District, Wairarapa, New Zealand Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-23

Description: William Hunt of the Bluff, Pitt Island, his two mastifs, wife Frances, daughter Frances Mary, and sons Frederick William and Herbert Alexander. They are standing and seated among nikau palms. (Information from George Hough and Bill Carter). According to George Hough and Bill Carter this a Karl Gerstenkorn photograph taken in 1891. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

Date: 1890 - 1901

By: Shaw, Allen Desmond, 1944-; Child, Edward George, 1860-1949

Reference: PAColl-2171

Description: Photographs of: seven men leaning on shovels outside a hut and two men with shovels holding the reins of drays at the harbour side (both taken by Anglo New Zealand photo); the railway line and water tank at Rata with men, women and children in an open railway carriage on the right; D class locomotive with four men standing next to it; men cutting flax on a wooden jetty next to a river; men outside a hut with piles of flax bundles; the Delphic captioned as "the largest boat that trades to New Zealand" moored in Wellington (taken by E G Child); a large crowd outside the Parliament Buildings for the memorial service on the death of Queen Victoria; and a group of men and one woman outside a corrugated iron hut. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.

Date: 1891

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-40

Description: William Hunt of the Bluff, Pitt Island, one of his two mastifs, wife Frances, daughter Frances Mary, and son Frederick William. They are standing and seated among nikau palms. A horse stands in the background. Photographed by Karl Gerstenkorn in 1891. (Information from George Hough and Bill Carter). According to George Hough and Bill Carter this a Karl Gerstenkorn photograph taken in 1891. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

Date: [ca 1887-1891]

By: Gant, Robert, 1854?-1936

Reference: PA-Group-00058

Description: Two albums of photographs taken mainly in Masterton about 1887-1891, probably by Robert Gant. Most photographs of individual men and groups of men, often posed in tableaux, and including men dressed as women. Many subjects appear to be homosexual men. Most photographs have captions. Some landscape scenes of Masterton, Wellington, Woolwich and other overseas locations. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchase, 2007. Albums belonged to Jennifer Blackburn, great-grandaughter of Charles Blackburn (the 'CB' of the photograph captions). Jennifer Blackburn given the albums by her Aunty Coll (Colleen)

Date: 1867

From: Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918 :Illustrations of New Zealand 1865?-1867

Reference: E-370-007-1

Description: The artist (on the right, seated on the bed) and two other men, his cousin James Yorke (centre) and "Parson" Rev. John C. Andrew (left, with a beard) seated around a firebox, warming their hands, and smoking pipes. Smoke is coming out of the top of the firebox. A candle on top of a table lights the scene. The location is likely to be Ica Station, Castlepoint. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 100 x 205 mm

Date: 1880

From: Walsh, Philip 1843-1914 :[Waitara sketchbook]

By: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: E-357-061

Description: Shows a man sitting at a desk writing probably on board ship. A separate coastal profile above shows the Cavalli Islands, Northland Other Titles - Cavalli Inscriptions: Recto - top left - from S S E Cavallas Islands; Recto - top right - 9.30 am Nov 27; Recto - beneath image of man writing - Nov 30 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 110 x 180 mm

Date: 1879-1892

From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9826

Description: Photographs of mountaineers, glaciers, mountains, lakes and rivers. Included are - Crossing the Hooker River by cable car (flying fox?). Percy Hawkins Johnson, W Low, J W Annan, George Edward Mannering, and Marmaduke J Dixon in the Murchison Valley, 1880. Irishman Rev William S Green and his two guides, Ulrich Kaufmann and Emil Boss, 1882. Mountaineers George Edward Mannering, Percy Hawkins Johnson and Mamaduke J Dixon photographed in 1889. Lake Pukaki, 1889. Tasman Glacier. Lake Tekapo. Hut in the Godley Valley. Mount Aorangi and the Hooker Glacier. Mount Aorangi seen from Ball spur. Panoramic View of mountains seen from Mount Sealy. Murchison glacier and river. Views of Aorangi, De la Beche Peak, and Tasman Glacier. Views of the Godley Glacier, 1892. Volynteers digging for Smith and Morrison in the avalanch of snow on the Rollesby Range, 28 August 1879. Quantity: 10 card mounts containing 33 images.

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-33

Description: Unidentified house and family, Chatham Island. George Hough and Bill Carter suggest that this is probably the Moreroa homestead of A J Blackiston, Chatham Island. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

Date: 1860s-1980s

From: Wills Johnson, Kate Miria, 1929-1995: Papers and photographs relating to the Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-964

Description: People of the Chatham Islands, and people with Chatham Island associations. There are photographs of people attending a Chatham Island picnic at Days Bay, Wellington, in 1989. Other photographs are of groups of people attending the centennial of Te One school in 1985. There are family photographs, many of them copies from originals and more modern colour prints of family get togethers. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: Previous access statement 'Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission" was removed in May 2022.

Date: 1860 - 1890

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; Hodgkins, Percy D'Esterre, 1873-1956

Reference: E-405

Description: p.1. [Street scene in ?Dunedin with tram, hansom cab and a reference to the BNZ]; p.2 [Two elderly men]; p.3 Geo McLeod, Star bg [i.e.building?]; p.4 [Man reclining in chair with his feet up]. p.5 [Two men, one carrying a large basket on his shoulder]; p.6 [Two men's faces, with red colouring]; p.7 Sketch for "Land carriage ...". The eleven mile swamp between ?Madialloc and Western port in Victoria. Light carts bring the fish across the neck to Melbourne - 1860. p.8 Coastal steamer entering Preservation.; p.9 [Man in bowler hat and overcoat with walking stick]; p.10 [Three portraits of the same bearded balding man]; p.11 [Sketch of dinghy] Inscriptions: On cover in pencil: W.M.Hodgkins. Several sketches titled, but not all titles fully legible Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) Green card covers, inscribed "The reporter's notebook ... J.Wilkie & Co ... Dunedin". Physical Description: 11 pencil sketches in album of 37 pages, page size 113 x 818 mm Provenance: Hodgkins family by descent to Percy D'Esterre Hodgkins. Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts & Archives 1989. MS acc. no. 73-129.

Date: 1843

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-035-017

Description: A clearing amongst tall native trees, with a the house of George Compton in the background, surrounded by a low fence, the whole viewed through a gap between the trunks of two large trees. There is a fallen tree trunk in the centre with a man seated on the trunk, his back to the viewer and staff in his hand. Note on verso: Compton's cottage on Daniel's Island, River Hutt in 1843. (The whole cut down and the buildings destroyed - 1847). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. S. 1843-54. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 165 x 224 mm

Date: 1845 - 1975

By: Wallace, John, 1788-1880; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-048-b

Description: Sandy beach in the foreground with Maori and Pakeha standing singly and in groups, (including a man on the right identified as "Robinson"), a sea-chest, a small boat and stacks of wood, jetties at the water's edge, several Maori canoes and ships in harbour identified as the U. S. Brig "Falco", the "Catherine Johnson" and the brig "Bee" (in the far distance). Reproduced by the Library in 1975 as one of the "Colonial Wellington" prints, with title From Thorndon Beach. The original watercolour is titled View of Wellington Harbour from Thorndon Beach 12 July 1845 (B-079-007. IRN 177622) Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - J Wallace pinxt 12 6 1845 [or possibly 12/2 1845]. "Falco" U.S. Brig. Raft of ... and Whale Boat. Maori Girls. Catherine Johnston Cutter. Canoes leaving Te Aro pah. Robinson. Bee Brig. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) framed. Physical Description: Photolithograph 253 x 449 on sheet 431 x 570 mm

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-08

Description: Native forest with nikau palms, Pitt Island, Chatham Islands. In the right foreground seated are (from left) William Hunt, and sons Frederick William Hunt, and Herbert Alexander Hunt. (Information from George Hough and Bill Carter). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

Date: 1875

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-377-33

Description: Isabella Lowes with her two daughters (Phyllis and Lily) and two step daughters (Annie and Charlotte) in the open in front of a stand of totara or kahikatea (white pine), Te Ore Ore, Masterton. With them is a nurse maid seated on a log, and two unidentified men. From left:- Annie Lowes, Charlotte Lowes, unidentified man, nurse maid, Phyllis or Lilly Lowes, Isabella Lowes, Lily or Phyllis Lowes, unidentified man. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: [1949]-1999

From: Berzins, Baiba, fl 1960-2000 : Papers relating to the Coates family

Reference: MS-Papers-6723

Description: Comprises list of contents and background information on the collection and the Coates family, particularly relating to the links with Latvia, by Berzins; note on copyright and access to the papers; 11 letters from Kitty Coates to Lucija Berzins describing family matters and aspects of life in Rotorua and New Zealand (1949-1955); six letters from Percy Coates to his niece Lucija Berzins in which he writes particularly of his family and also of life in Timaru (early 1950-1962); letter from Jimmy Coates to Lucija Bezins with letter from Percy Coates to him, with `Reminiscences of a a new chum'; and transcript of the `Reminiscences', probably transcribed by Jeannete Coates; and copy of obituary for Lucija Berzins by Baiba Berzins (1999). Also photocopy of photograph transferred to Photgraphic Archive. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Copy of photograph taken in 1949 of Arthur and Kitty Coates, Win Kellett, Susan Kellett (now Baing), Margaret and Percy Coates.

Date: 1845 - 1975

From: [Brees, Samuel Charles] 1810-1865 :Colonial Wellington; three views by Barraud, Brees, Wallace. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board 1975

By: Wallace, John, 1788-1880; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-048-a

Description: Sandy beach in the foreground with Maori and Pakeha standing singly and in groups, (including a man on the right identified as "Robinson"), a sea-chest, a small boat and stacks of wood, jetties at the water's edge, several Maori canoes and ships in harbour identified as the U. S. Brig "Falco", the "Catherine Johnson" and the brig "Bee" (in the far distance). Reproduced by the Library in 1975 as one of the "Colonial Wellington" prints, with title From Thorndon Beach. The original watercolour is titled View of Wellington Harbour from Thorndon Beach 12 July 1845 (B-079-007. IRN 177622) Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - J Wallace pinxt 12 6 1845 [or possibly 12/2 1845]. "Falco" U.S. Brig. Raft of ... and Whale Boat. Maori Girls. Catherine Johnston Cutter. Canoes leaving Te Aro pah. Robinson. Bee Brig. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) framed. Physical Description: Photolithograph 253 x 449 on sheet 431 x 570 mm

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-47

Description: A group of Moriori or Maori men and women standing and seated beside two nikau palms. A stand of native forest can be seen behind them in the distance. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm