Shipping - New Zealand - Southland Region

Date: 1895

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

Reference: A-151-001

Description: Subject: Cutter on cradle in foreground; ships at wharves behind. A wharf shed to the right. Includes colour notes Attribution on stylistic grounds. The title is in the artist's hand. Date from his S. S. Wakatipu leaving Bluff Harbour, 26.12/95 (A-182-007) With pencil annotation: "4 p. m. S. West weather clearing up" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 251 x 380 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

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

Reference: A-151-012

Description: View from the foreshore, looking towards Mitre Peak crossed by rays of sunlight. Shows a steamer in the sound Supplied title. Unfinished Attribution: may not be the work of W M Hodgkins, although it was originally part of his collection Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash on card 270 x 252 mm

Date: 1888

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] Ravensbourne, 1888

Reference: E-016-3-048

Description: A broadside view of a small sailing boat at a jetty; another larger vessel beyond it, moored in the stream Another view of the same ship is on the opposite page of the sketchbook (E-016-3-047) named as the pilot boat at Bluff Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 89 x 156 mm (page size)

Date: 1875 - 1896

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] 1860 [- ca 1890?]

Reference: E-405-008

Description: View from land looking towards a large steamer seen from the bow end, entering Preservation Inlet W. M. Hodgkins' other drawings of Preservation Inlet are dated either 1875 or 1896 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch in album, page size 113 x 818 mm

Date: 1888

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] Ravensbourne, 1888

Reference: E-016-3-046

Description: A small sailing ship with a headland to the left, dark clouds above Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 89 x 156 mm (page size)

Date: 1891

By: Gibb, John, 1831-1909

Reference: G-273

Description: Shows a steep headland and sailing ships. There is a lighthouse on top of the headland Monochrome, painted in black and white only Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil painting 238 x 325 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: 1888

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] Ravensbourne, 1888

Reference: E-016-3-041/042

Description: A rough panoramic view of six ships in a harbour, one on the hard in the foreground. Probably Bluff Harbour. Surrounding views in the sketchbook include Bluff and the approach to Stewart Island Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, 89 x 156 mm (page size)

Date: Between 1910-1913

From: Atkinson, J :Photographs taken in the Middle East during World War I, and postcards of New Zealand

By: Stewart, (Mr?), active 1897?

Reference: PA5-0293

Description: A shipping scene at the Wharf, Bluff New Zealand. Stewart series. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 89 x 139 mm

Date: 1770-1900, [ca 1941]

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948

Reference: MS-0947

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (31 pages). Physical Description: Ms (¼ green cloth, grey boards)

Date: 1888

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] Ravensbourne, 1888

Reference: E-016-3-047

Description: A broadside view of a small sailing boat; a donkey's head lower right Another view of the same ship is on the opposite page of the sketchbook (E-016-3-048) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 89 x 156 mm (page size)

Date: 1892-1895, 1862, 1867

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: Ayr Record Office

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2683

Description: Comprises letters from Lord Glasgow in New Zealand to Charles G Shaw, County Clerk of Ayrshire and a personal friend; also miscellaneous correspondence and deeds Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 1993

Date: 1884 - 1885

From: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm) :[Sample album of greeting cards, produced by A D Willis of Wanganui. ca 1885]

Reference: E-936-f-028-1

Description: Shows a small girl in bonnet and short dress to the right, looking over the bay, with a steam-ship in the water. The message included mid-right reads 'A merry Christmas' Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 71 x 103 mm

Date: probably between 1908-1913

From: Miller, E D N :Photographs by Isaac Jeffares, and of family

Reference: 1/2-077748-G

Description: Unidentified ship berthed at a wharf in Greymouth. Stereographic photograph taken by Isaac Jeffares, probably between 1908-1913. Jeffares lived in Greymouth between 1908-1913. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass stereograph negative

Date: 1871

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook. Southland views. 1871]

Reference: E-016-6-010/011

Description: The rivermouth to the left, with several houses, the library, small boats, including one labelled Stewarts Island, the masts of a larger vessel visible beyond one house A building in the centre with chimneys both sides of a gabled roof, is labelled Circulating Library Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, page size 101 x 177 mm

Reference: 1/2-117194-F

Description: Trading vessels moored at Bluff. Taken by Daniel Manders Beere. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 4 January 1910

From: Lamond, G (Miss), fl 1966 :Postcards

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6338-01

Description: Group on board the ship `Waikare' at Dusky Sound, 4 January 1910, photographed by Muir & Moodie. According to the caption at bottom right, the image was taken a few minutes before `the vessel struck' an uncharted rock between Indian Island and Passage Islet, and was wrecked. (Information from OTS record) from OTS record) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - No 1. Wreck of S.S. "Waikare" Dusky Sound, NZ. Ship's company photographed just a few minutes before vessel struck. Protected 4/1/10, Muir & Moodie. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcard.

Date: 1890 - 1910

By: Taylor, W, active 1890s-1900s; Smith, Francis, active 1960s

Reference: G-299

Description: View from the land looking out into the fiord towards Mitre Peak. The view is framed by a tree to the left. There is a small steamer on the water, which may be either the 'Rotomahana' or 'Mararoa'. The steamer is probably a Union Steam Ship Company ship. It has a dark-coloured hull, probably dark green, and a red funnel. It may be the USS Co Rotomahana. Another privately-owned oil by the same artist, shows the Rotomahana. The privately-owned oil is dated 1894 Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil painting on canvas, 215 x 302 mm

By: Deverell, Walter, 1853?-1920

Reference: E-203-q-005

Description: View from the hills behind Bluff looking north east down towards the factories and wharf area, with houses and a church to the right and Tiwai Point in the background. The railway line runs to the left in the foreground. One factory has the inscription J. G. Ward Farmers Association along its side. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed W. Deverell in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash sketch, 95 x 231 mm