Merchants
Crichton & McKay :Alterations and additions to building, Customhouse Quay, Wellington, ...
Date: 1921
From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By: Crichton & McKay (Firm)
Reference: Plans-91-0610/0611
Description: Plan view of first floor with offices and a strongroom, along with elevations of details of windows and doors Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, and on dressed linen, sizes varying
[Crichton and McKay] :Foundation plans and section [for office building for] W M Bannat...
Date: 1907
From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By: Crichton & McKay (Firm)
Reference: Plans-91-0609
Description: Plan view of foundations. Elevation of section See also related blueprints at Plans-91-0590, -0591 and related drawings at -0593 and -0594 Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprint, 393 x 578 mm
Letter from Walter Day of Dunedin
Date: 22 Dec 1858
From: Traill, Charles, 1825-1891 : Correspondence
Reference: MS-Papers-2191-2
Description: Letter from Day to Traill wwritten from Dunedin regarding goods ordered Other - Formerly Misc Mss 1139 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 item). Physical Description: Holographs and typed transcripts (photocopies)
Boon and Sullivan, timber merchants' buildings and yards at Whakatane
Date: Between 1923 and 1928
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
By: Boon and Sullivan (Firm)
Reference: Pan-0862-F
Description: Boon and Sullivan, District Agents for the Bay of Plenty Timber Company. Five vehicles and four drivers shown, one touring car at the front entrance, and four flat-bed trucks. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Boon and Sullivan Whakatane 3 B&W; Marginal notes on tape - Boon and Sullivan Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 109.4 cm
[Crichton & McKay] :Premises for W H Bannatyne & Co. New warehouse. [ca 1907]
Date: 1907
From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By: Crichton & McKay (Firm)
Reference: Plans-91-0593/0594
Description: Foundation plan and section through existing party wall; ground, first, second and third floor plans, with offices for Mr Beauchamp and Mr Nathan indicated See also blueprints at Plans-91-0590 and Plans-91-0591 for related plans Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil on tracing paper, sizes vary
Crichton & McKay :[Plans for alterations to] W M Bannatyne & Co. Ltd, November 1921
Date: 1921
From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By: Crichton & McKay (Firm)
Reference: Plans-91-0612
Description: Plans for first floor offices Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on brown tracing paper
[Crichton and McKay] :New Business Premises for W. M. Bannatyne & Co. 1907
Date: 1907
From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By: Crichton & McKay (Firm)
Reference: Plans-91-0590/0591
Description: Ground, first, second and third floor plan and detail of party wall between Thomas & Co and Bannantyne and Co. The plan view includes offices for Mr Beauchamp and for Mr Nathan Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprints, sizes vary
[Ashworth, Edward] 1814-1896 :Hong merchant's pack house boat, Canton. [1845]
Date: 1845
By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896
Reference: A-207-005
Description: View from a wharf of a small boat with an ornamented deck-house. Two Chinese men stand on board. Other smaller boats surround the larger boat Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink Sketched on Ashworth's voyage from Sydney to China, before he returned to England Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 190 x 258 mm Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's auction, London, 1966
[Creator unknown] :A sketch of the entrance of Tauronga [Tauranga], a small harbour in ...
Date: 1835
By: Wing, Thomas, 1810-1888; Great Britain. Hydrographic Office; Wyld, James, 1812-1887
Reference: MapColl-832.16aj/1835/Acc.3899
Description: A hydrographic chart sketching the entrance of the Tauranga Harbour, depicting the path of the ship 'Fanny', around Mount Maunganui and Waikouai, with full sounding information. Identifies fortified pa site named 'Tumaitai Pa', the accompanying diagram depicts six whare or houses, and two tree-like storage huts. On the other side of the water, text reads 'the chief of this place anutra (sic)'; text on water reads 'going to Tomonalap (sic) Pa'. Denotes several sentences of text on geographical features, hydrographic detail and information on safe entrance and exit to the harbour. Catalogue card: 'Made by Thomas Wing in the schooner Fanny. Shows tracks, navigations notes.' Note on map reads 'Copied from a rough tracing belonging to Mr Wyld, May 12, 1841.' Note on map reads: 'The Fanny's track into Tauronga (sic) June 1835 south by compass from the Mayor Island.' See also MapColl-832.16aj/1835/Acc.423 which is the original drawing of this map, attributed to Capt. Thomas Wing, of the ship 'Fanny'. Extended Title - Tauranga Inscriptions: Stamped 'Hydro Office 13.My.41' Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 41 x 61 cm.
[Hutchison, William] 1820-1905 :The Laird of Rabbitboro' No. 3. [Wellington, 1881] The ...
Date: 1881
By: Daily advertiser and Wellington register (Newspaper); Hutchison, William, 1820-1905
Reference: A-095-002
Description: Head and shoulders caricature portrait of Wellington Merchant and Member of the Legislative Council, John Martin. He was known in the Legislative Council for his failure to speak up a great deal. Martinborough (Wairarapa) and Martin Square (in Wellington) are both named after him. The portrait is in the form of a painting on an easel. Beneath it is a humorous verse 'Lord Johnny Martin - who a silent part in - our Legislative Council plays - / Tis said, tho' lame there, in another Chamber, they in the Empire sing his praise, / All know that figure, attired de rigeur, white waistcoat, silk umbrella, flow'r. / Tollhurst and Christie on either fist, he represents the monied pow'r, / He's honest, thorough - but Martinborough - how honeycombed for many a mile, / By those thieves of rabbits - with their borrowing habits, has much reduced his goodly pile.'. Extended Title - Supplement to: The Daily Advertiser, Wellington, 24th September, 1881 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 215 x 185 mm
Photograph of an ink drawing depicting John Israel Montefiore
Date: [Date of drawing unknown]
By: Bartlett, Robert Henry, 1842-1911
Reference: 1/2-004965-G
Description: Photograph of an ink drawing depicting John Israel Montefiore. Artist R H Bartlett of Auckland. Date of drawing unknown. I have assumed that the artist is the photographer Robert Henry Bartlett, fl 1875-1880. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass copy negative
Photographer unknown :Portrait of Eruera Patuone
Date: [ca 1870]
From: Ramsden, Eric :Photographs relating to Ramsden and his family and Maori subjects
Reference: PA2-2262
Description: Eruera Maihi Patuone, circa 1870. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Verso - In pencil: Eruera Patuone Ngapuhi Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Photographer unknown :Portrait of Eruera Maihi Patuone
Date: [ca 1870]
Reference: PA2-2736
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Eruera Maihi Patuone, circa 1870. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Verso - Eruera Patuone a Ngapuhi chief and elder brother of the friendly chief Tamati ... Nene Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 9.4 x 6.1 cm, mounted on to card
Charles Sew Hoy
Date: [ca 1895]
From: Burt, Gordon Onslow Hilbury, 1893-1968 :Negatives
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: 1/2-037249-F
Description: Copy negative made by Gordon Burt between 1920 and 1968. Shows a carte de visite, or cabinet photograph, of Charles Sew Hoy, originally taken by the Burton Brothers circa 1895. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
William Hogg Watt
Date: ca 1870
Reference: PA2-2840
Description: William Hogg Watt, circa 1970. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - W H Watt MHR Wanganui Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 9.1 x 5.9, mounted on card
Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939 :Mr Harris (a resident of 40 years) and his family, Pleasant ...
Date: [January 1887]
From: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922 :Maori and Polynesian photographs
By: Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939
Reference: PA1-o-469-39
Description: William Harris, a resident of Nauru since 1842, photographed in January 1887 by Thomas Andrew. Thomas Andrew, in company with Frederick Joseph Moss and George Dunnett (the supercargo), was in the course of a Pacific voyage on Henderson and Macfarlane schooner "Buster", which arrived in Nauru on 22 January 1887. (Source: "Through atolls and islands in the great south sea", by Frederick Moss) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.2 x 19.6 cm mounted on album page
Head and shoulders portrait of George Gatonby Stead
Date: [ca 1901]
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: 1/2-070072-F
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of George Gatonby Stead, circa 1901. Photographer unidentified. Published in the New Zealand Free Lane, 2 Mar 1955, page 3 with the caption: "Owner, breeder and administrator. G G Stead was a towering figure in New Zealand Turf and bloodstock annals. The roll of winners of all handicaps, classics and near-classics is studded with the names of his horses. He never ran a horse in a hack event. His large-scale importations bulk largely to-day in the Dominion's winning lines. He influenced many of our distinctive methods of managing the sport, notably the relation of stakes to totalisator turnover." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
David Nathan
Date: [ca 1861]
From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district
Reference: 1/2-004975-G
Description: David Nathan, circa 1861, photographed by Hemus & Hanna. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Redfern, George W, d 1901 :Portrait of Eruera Maihi Patuone
Date: [ca 1870]
By: Redfern, George W, -1901
Reference: PA3-0197
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Eruera Maihi Patuone, circa 1870. He has a full facial moko, and wears a tiki around his neck. Photograph taken by George W Redfern. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Verso - Patuone, Eruera Maihi; Mount recto - beneath image - Photographed by G Redfern, Auckland; Mount recto - beneath image - Patuone Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 10.1 x 6 cm, mounted on light card
[Hutchison, William] 1820-1905 :Mr John Ballance. No. 18. Over the garden wall. The Wel...
Date: 1882
By: Daily advertiser and Wellington register (Newspaper); Hutchison, William, 1820-1905
Reference: A-095-014
Description: John Ballance on his knees in a garden, a disappointed look on his face. He is holding a butterfly net with a handle marked Experience and a net marked Ability. Beside him are flowers marked Past experience. A large butterfly marked Wanganui is flying away from him and in the background is a shop marked W. H. Watt, General Merchant. Ballance was defeated in the Wanganui seat in the elections of late 1881 by W. H. Watt. Attributed to Hutchison on stylistic grounds Extended Title - Supplement to: The Daily Advertiser, Wellington, 7 January, 1882 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 255 x 229 mm