Aristocracy (Social class)

Date: 1860s-1904

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: Series-6662

Description: The collection mainly covers the period of Lord Ranfurly's term of office as Governor of New Zealand from 1897 to 1904. The photographs fall into the following categories; a record of the Ranfurly family's journey out the New Zealand via Canada, Hawaii and Fiji; the Government Houses of Auckland and Wellington, their gardens, and their interiors as arranged by Lady Ranfurly; the annexation of the Cook Islands and Niue in 1900; a journey through the Ureweras to Ruatoki and then to the Far North, as part of Ranfurly's official farewell to the Maori people in 1904; the Ranfurly Veterans Home in Mount Roskill, Auckland; portraits of the Ranfurly family and household; and sporting and social occasions. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Albums housed at PA1-q-633, PA1-q-634, PA1-f-194 and PA1-f-195. Individual prints housed at PAColl-5745-1. Quantity: 4 album(s). 24 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1811

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-012

Description: A satire on the admirers of the heiress Catherine Tylney-Long, whose fortune included Wanstead House, which had cost over £360,000. On the Lady's right are Lord Kilworth and Wellesley-Pole who had fought a duel over her favours. At the foot of her throne kneel Romeo Coates and Sir Lumely Skeffinton, and on her left are the Duke of Clarence and the Baron de Geramb. In 1811 the Duke of Clarence, pressed for money and anxious to marry, parted from Mrs Jordan with whom he had lived for twenty years and made repeated unsuccessful proposals to Miss Tylney-Long. It is Mrs Jordan who empties a chamber pot, or Jordan, over the Duke. The suitor Wellesley Pole was ultimately successful and he became engaged to Miss Tylney Long in November 1811. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board recto - beneath image - Typed descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 218 x 410 mm

Date: [ca 1970]

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004 : Photographs relating to Maori

Reference: PAColl-10140-7

Description: Photocopies of two articles on Tom Ashby, aged 88 at the time that they were written (no dates). Also ten portraits of of Tom Ashby at his home at Wharepuhunga, about 30 kms south-east of Te Awamutu. There is also a letter from the British High Commission in Wellington to the news editor of The Times relating to Tom Ashby. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1897-1904

From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly

By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Pulman (Firm); Shepherd, Cromwell, active 1903-1934

Reference: PA1-f-142

Description: Charles Hill-Trevor's personal album of the time he spent as personal secretary to Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. It records the New Zealand contingents sent to the South African war and public events, personalities and patriotic entertainments associated with that enterprise. Visits to Government houses in Australia record other governors, officials and official residences. On one occasion in Melbourne a New Zealand versus Australia polo match was played. Hill-Trevor shows an interest in Māori, wildlife conservation (including the bird sanctuary on Resolution Island), and the sports of fishing, polo and horsemanship. There are photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their principal servants as well as the Governor engaged in official functions such as opening the Kaiapoi council offices and laying the foundation stone of the Veterans Home, Mt Roskill, Auckland in 1903. Also photographs relating to the play 'The Geisha'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1914 - 1918

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Over 4 years episodes of the war (and during armistice) by Major General H G Robley. [ca 1920]

Reference: E-024-f-1-056

Description: A British policeman, an aristocrat in a top hat and monocle and a French policeman, marching in line. Refers to the defence of Britain and France by English and French civilians Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

Date: 1914 - 1918

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Over 4 years episodes of the war (and during armistice) by Major General H G Robley. [ca 1920]

Reference: E-024-f-1-056-a

Description: A British policeman, an aristocrat in a top hat and monocle and a French policeman, marching in line. Refers to the defence of Britain and France by English and French civilians Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

Date: 1814

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830

Reference: B-021-004

Description: A group of English and French aristocrats in an orangery. A number of the plants growing in pots represent people, including Wellington, as a laurel tree on the right Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 218 x ca 470 mm (1 section missing)

Date: Jul-Aug 1884

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-113

Description: Inward and outward correspondence; identified persons entered under Name below. Also includes incomplete letter written from Hazel Manor, Compton Martin nr Bristol; letter to Atkinson; piece of dried manuka in letter from John Enys; loving letters from Hall's wife; letters and notes relating to Sir George Grey's wish to have a territorial aristocracy. Includes reference to proposed publication of book 'Men of mark of New Zealand' by Alfred Cox, published by Whitcombe & Tombs, Christchurch, 1886. Language - Letter in German; untranslated Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1910-1912

Reference: PAColl-6031

Description: These photographs are part of a larger collection comprising an Illuminated address to Lady Islington on her departure from New Zealand signed by representatives of the organizations presenting it, YWCA, Victoria League Girls' Branch, Richmond Free Kindergarten, Girls' Friendly Society, Society for Promoting Health of Women and Children, Society for Protection of Women and Children, Girls' Peace Scouts Pioneer Club and Girls' Realm Guild (1912); and visitors' book (1924-1930) Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1868 - 1889

By: Mayall, John Jabez, 1810-1901; Collins, Thomas Henry, 1828-1875

Reference: PA2-2078

Description: Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - H R H The Princess Alexandra Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1897-1903

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: PA1-f-194

Description: Views of the interiors and exteriors of the Government Houses in Wellington and Auckland during the term of Lord Ranfurly as Governor. There are also some views of the Gardens and of nearby public buildings, as well as photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their staff. There is also one group photograph taken during the royal tour of 1901 outside the Governor's residence in Christchurch. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1950]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-NZ Obits-Bledisloe, Lord-01

Description: Photograph of Lord Bledisloeinspecting a crop of apples in his orchard. Photographed by a staff photographer with Sports and General Press Agency, London, in about 1950. Lord Bledisloe was Governor General of New Zealand from 1930 to 1935. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.7 x 15 cm

Date: 1745

From: Hogarth, William 1697-1764 :The original works of William Hogarth. London, sold by John and Josiah Boydell, 1790

By: Ravenet, Simon Francois, 1706-1774

Reference: D-020-050

Description: The scene is a room at the Turk's Head bagnio. The Earl has discovered the lovers' hideout and fights a duel to defend his `honour'. The astonished landlord and watchman enter to the left while Silvertongue retreats through an open window in his night shirt. Squanderfield slumps in death from the wound to his heart and the Countess tearfully kneels before him to beg foregiveness. The flames of a fire shine on a mask, a set of stays, and a hooped petticoat. The masquerade costumes of a nun and friar lie crumpled on the floor. A quivering sword, piercing the floorboards, has been dropped by Squanderfield while the other lies nearby. A portrait of a prostitute with a squirrel in her hand hangs on the wall behind and a painting of St Luke above the door. Squanderfield's awkward pose mimics a Deposition scene in which a repentent Magdalen (the Countess) kneels before `Christ'. Other - The engraver, given on the print as R F Ravenet, is known to be S F Ravenet, the elder. Source of descriptive information - Uglow, Jenny. Hogarth, a life and a world. London, 1997; and other sources Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 385 x 466 mm, on sheet 485 x 652 mm

Date: April 1935

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-NZ Obits-Galway,Lord-02

Description: Lord and Lady Galway with aide-de camp Captain A Heber Percy on the deck of the Rangitata in Wellington harbour. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer in April 1935. Lord Galway was Governor General of New Zealand from 1935 to 1940. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 21 x 16 cm

Date: March 1904

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

By: Ross, Malcolm, 1862-1930

Reference: PA1-q-634

Description: Photographic record of the state visit of Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand, to the Bay of Plenty and the Far North in March 1904. The vice-regal party, which comprised Lord Ranfurly, his secretary Dudley Alexander, James Carroll, Dr Maui Pomare, Gilbert Mair, and the journalist Malcolm Ross, travelled on horseback through an unroaded region via Lake Waikaremoana and the Huiarau Ranges, to attend a meeting of the representatives all the Maori Councils of New Zealand, at Ruatoki. The party then returned to Auckland and sailed on HMCS Iris to the Far North, where they attended a number of hui. Most of the photographs were taken by Malcolm Ross, whose pamphlet "Through Tuhoe land" (Christchurch Press, 1904), describes the journey. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: April 1935

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-NZ Obits-Galway, Lord-01

Description: Lord and Lady Galway and their children grouped on the deck of the Rangitata. The children are (from left) the Hon Celia Monkton, the Hon Isabel Monkton, the Hon Simon Monkton-Arundell, and the Hon Mary Monkton. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer in April 1935. Lord Galway was Governor General of New Zealand from 1935 to 1940. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 26 x 16 cm

Date: January 1934

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Kingsford, Alfred Reginald Bellingham, 1891-1987

Reference: EP-NZ Obits-Bledisloe, Lord-02

Description: Lord and Lady Bledisloe standing with a gathering of Maori on Picton foreshore at the presentation of a large totara chair and a pounamu for the Waitangi Treaty House. The organiser of the presentation, Te Ari Pitima, is seated at the front. Photographed by A R Kingsford of Nelson 18 January 1934. Standing left to right: Ted Hemi (with headband), Pongi Hemi, Lord Bledisloe, Peter Macdonald (with white hair), Hariata Huntley, Dolly Tonga (just behind Lady Bledisloe), Lady Bledisloe, Tete Arthur, George Tonga, Poi Love (immediately behind Nancy Riwaka), Nancy Riwaka, Tom Riwaka (behind and to the right of Nancy Riwaka), Puhi Huntley, Joe Riddell. Kneeling: Eddie MacDonald (Huntley) (to left of Lord Bledisloe), Lemon Holder, Doris Riwaka, Peki Riwaka, Buna Riwaka (with taiaha), George Riwaka. Sitting: Rachael and George Huntley (part shown), Te Ari Pitama, May Horrey (Tonga), Lily Matangi, Vera Arthur, Kathy Riwaka, Kelly Tonga Photograph published in the Evening Post 19 January 1934. Originally identified as at Waitangi. Corrected after contact by family of Hariata Huntley, who is also in the photograph. Names supplied by a researcher. Lord Bledisloe was Governor General of New Zealand from 1930 to 1935. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20 x 15.3 cm

Date: 1860 - 1892

By: London Stereoscopic Photographic Company

Reference: PA2-2075

Description: Inscriptions: Verso - In pencil: Tennyson Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 2004

From: Ekers, Paul, 1961-:[Digital cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald and other publications]

Reference: DX-017-102

Description: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh lies in bed advising one of his servants about what to do in case of security breaches by superheroes. Relates to an incident where a protester dressed as Batman entered Buckingham Palace. Extended Title - "Batman" breaches palace security. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 1745

From: Hogarth, William 1697-1764 :The original works of William Hogarth. London, sold by John and Josiah Boydell, 1790

By: Scotin, Louis Gerard, 1690-

Reference: D-020-046

Description: The scene is set in the opulent home of Lord Squanderfield. Suffering from gout he is seated to the left under the magisterial canopy, crutches by his side. He is engaged in negotiations of matrimony concerning his son who is seated on the right. The father is displaying a chart of his family tree (which shows his direct lineage to William of Normandy) to the father of the projected bride who sits across the table from him. Plainly dressed he scrutinizes the marriage contract through half-raised spectacles. Between them stands the userer who is passing Lord Squanderfield a mortgage document. The reason the Earl is marrying his son to an untitled family is evident through the window where work on his new mansion has ceased due to lack of funds. The architect waits at the window for a resumption in activities. The son is showing no interest in his prospective bride. He is more fascinated with his own reflection in the mirror as he takes snuff from a box. The black beauty patch on his neck may shield a syphilitic sore. The bride is discontented and bored. She threads her muslin scarf through the constricting hoop of her gold ring. Standing beside her the whispering barrister, Silvertongue. In the lower righthand corner is a pair of dogs - their manacled state is clearly symbolic of the couple's marriage. On the walls hand portraits of Lord Squanderfield, many of them ridiculously heroic. Source of descriptive information - www.artoftheprint.com Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 385 x 466 mm, on sheet 485 x 652 mm