Harbours - New Zealand - Southland Region

Date: 1883

From: Nairn, Betsey Wright, -1906 :Sketchbook

Reference: E-443-q-025

Description: Top image shows a scene at Wellington Harbour and lower image shows a boat tossing in rough seas at Bluff Harbour. Quantity: 2 drawing(s) on one page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, 200 x 160 mm.

Date: 1895

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; Field, George Alexander Hughes, 1905-1992

Reference: A-151-002

Description: An unfinished pencil sketch of Bluff Harbour, looking along the beach to the east, with the wharves, shipping, port buildings and a tall smoking chimney visible. There are also telegraph poles and houses along the waterfront road in the left foreground Attribution on stylistic grounds. Colour notes are in the artist's hand Date from his S. S. Wakatipu leaving Bluff Harbour, 26/12/95 (A-183-007) Supplied title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 251 x 380 mm

Date: 1876

By: George, Thomas, -1889

Reference: A-215-001

Description: An uninhabited harbour Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 114 x 210 mm

Date: 1882

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

By: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: E-357-107/108

Description: View from above Bluff Harbour, with the wharves to the left, the harbour entrance and low hills ahead, the roof of a house below the viewer in the centre foreground Bluff was part of Otago Province in the 1880s Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double image). Physical Description: Pencil 180 x 360 mm

Date: 1883

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-065-2

Description: A view of Bluff Harbour showing SS Wairarapa in port Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Bluff Harbour. SS Wairarapa. 12/1/83 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 87 x 245 mm

Date: 1989

From: Watt, James Norwood, 1928-2018: Collection

Reference: PA12-11164

Description: Colour transparencies of birdlife, scenery, and shipping scenes taken by James (Jim) Watt during his solo circumnavigation of New Zealand in his yacht 'Matariki' in 1989. Contains numerous images of the Port of Bluff. These include oyster boats, fishing boats, larger container ships, tug boats, the Harbourmaster building, a freight train, and 'Matariki' docked alongside the boat 'Mokai'. Also contains images of the signpost at Stirling Point, Big Glory salmon fishing facilities at Stewart Island, a weka on Ulva Island, the rocky coast of Green Island (Foveaux Straight), and a sunset off the coast of Stewart Island. Inscriptions: Note from depositor reads: "Jim Watt - sailing round NZ solo, 1987 - yacht 'Matariki'" Watt attempted to follow the path of Captain James Cook on this voyage. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: 2 Dec 1998 - 02 Dec 1998

From: Southland oral history project

By: Ashwell, Reginald George, 1914-; Christiansen, Pat, active 1998

Reference: OHInt-0464/01

Description: Reginald Ashwell was born in Bluff in 1914. Discusses his children, parents, grandparents and kaumatua. Mentions his wife Peg worked in the Bluff Theatre. Talks about being in the army and World War II. Discusses oysters, muttonbirding and the Irwin's (Urwin's) Fishing Company. Talks about the Stewart Island ferries, the harbour and Bluff shops in the 1920s. Discusses his hobby of making walking sticks and woodwork. Interviewer(s) - Pat Christiansen Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008600; OHC-008601; OHC-008602; OHC-008603 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2678. Photograph of Reginald Ashwell and Reginald Ashwell (with wife Peg?)

Date: 1880-1880

From: Simpson, Ralph Annand, 1908-1994 : Papers relating to New Zealand ports and harbours

Reference: MS-Papers-11505-16

Description: Printed matter from Appendices to the Journal of House of Representatives, 1880 and sketches of plans of various harbours Other - original file - NZCS ARC AG01 S01 F16 T01 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 3 Mar 1960

From: NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd: Mosaic aerial negatives, prints, transparencies, and index

Reference: NZAM-C/610-F

Description: Aerial mosaic made by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd in 1960 showing Bluff Harbour in Southland District. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - S.181, 182 5D Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, approx 59.4 x 84.1 cm (A1 size), approximate scale 1000 feet to 1 inch

Date: 1877

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-016-7

Description: View of Bluff Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Top of page, above all images] The Bluff; Recto - bottom left - K Holmes Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 63 x 116 mm

Date: 1880 - 1888

From: Hodgkins family :[Album of sketches 1880s]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-311-q-009-1

Description: A sunset in Southland at the mouth of Bluff Harbour Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 95 x 190 mm glued to album page 259 x 161 mm.

Date: [ca 1904-1950]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-092

Description: Photographs of New Zealand and overseas ships, and New Zealand ports, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1904-1950s. New Zealand related images include: Aerial photograph of Lyttelton Harbour; series of photographs of ports - Ahuriri (Napier), Timaru, Dunedin, Bluff, Gisborne, Wanganui and Waitara. Also: Wreck of iron barqe Antiope (14 Sep); wrecked barque Rewa near Kawau Island; MV Hornby Grange at Auckland prior to departure for Britain; scow Bee stranded at mouth of Puhoi River; schooner Fairburn stranded on Opotiki Bar; coastal steamer Awahou; wrecked NZSCo steamer Tongariro on Bull Rock, off Portland Island (Aug 1916). Series of photographs of the sailing ship Pamir; Orient Line steamers Orsova and Orcades; sailing ship Canterbury in Timaru Harbour, Apr 1904; barque Joseph Craig damaged in Rangitoto Channel tied up at King's Wharf, Auckland, 1912; 2 unidentified ships in NZ waters. Also a number of overseas passenger and cargo ships. Quantity: 47 album leaves with black & white photochemical prints and 2 album leaves with 5 black & white photographic prints. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and photochemical prints

Date: 20 May 1863-6 Jan 1864

By: Falconer, John, 1834-1886

Reference: qMS-0712-0713

Description: Records weather conditions, the schooneer's position, details of places visited especially harbours, etc Relationship complexity - True log of this voyage of the `Matilda Hayes' at qMS-0714 Kept by the schooner's master during Sir James Hector's geological expedition; at that time the west coast of Otago included the Fiordland area which is now part of Southland Region. Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (32 cm, ¼ maroon cloth, marbled boards)

Date: 1949

By: Hale, Allen Matthew, 1890-1973

Reference: Eph-E-BOAT-1949-01

Description: An arrangement of text listing the officials and organisers (President C S Hunter, secretary Frank Dawson); the programme of yacht, motor boat and dinghy races, and 12 rowing events. There were to be sideshow attractions and the Bluff Harbour Board's tug "Awarua" would run harbour excursions to Stirling Point. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on white paper, 890 x 570 mm. Provenance: From the papers of A M Hale. Transfers: See other posters from this donation, at Eph-D-ROWING-Hale..

Date: 1871 - 1873

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1871-1873]

Reference: E-016-1-057

Description: A view across water towards a hill. There are two rowboats, a steamer and a sailing ship in the harbour. The nearer rowboat is moored, probably to the jetty or land on which the artist is standing. Dated 1873 because of a view of Bluff, a few pages earlier in the same sketchbook, dated May 1873 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 78 x 148 mm (page size)

Date: 1st January 1918

From: Brocklebank, Norris Athol, 1904-1988 :Albums of scenes of New Zealand, and one album of shipboard life and views of Canada and England

Reference: PA1-o-061

Description: Views of Stewart Island, including Half Moon Bay, Golden Bay, Thule Bay, Green Vale House (listed now as Greenvale House), and the ship Theresa Ward in Half Moon Bay. Photographs taken by Norris Athol Brocklebank in 1918. Inscriptions: Album page - Stewart Island. January 1. 1918 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth-bound album with gold lettering "Florentine album", 8.5 x 11 cm

Date: 1875

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-182-003

Description: Shows a broad view of the inlet, with a sailboat in the left distance. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 105 x 340 mm

Date: 1840

By: Williams, Edward Marsh, 1818-1909

Reference: A-083-005

Description: Shows the Herald, moored in a bay surrounded by rocks and bush in Stewart Island, during its voyage around the more heavily-inhabited parts of New Zealand to obtain signatures on the Treaty of Waitangi. Other Titles - Stewart Island Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title & initials E. M. W. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 110 x 185 mm

Date: Between 1925 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1075-F

Description: Panoramic view of Bluff, taken ca 1925-1928 by R P Moore from a vessel moored offshore, showing a motor launch in the centre foreground with four men on deck wearing suits and hats, and other ships behind at the wharf. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Panoramic view of Bluff, New Zealand, no 671 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 133.0 cm

Date: 1895 - 1905

By: Green, Samuel Edwy, 1838-1935; Green, George Herbert (Dr), 1916-2001

Reference: A-250-007

Description: Shows a curved coastline with headland, and a sailboat offshore at the right. Identified by Dr Hall-Jones (TL 3/1/1/2, 29 Aug 1984) & agreed by Prof Green, 1 Mar 1985. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - More light on sandhill. Grass green Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 190 x 230 mm