Auckland Institute and Museum

Date: [1975-1976]

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

Reference: 85-080-04/08

Description: Outward correspondence relating to text of King's biography in progress and completed text. Letters to identifed persons entered under Name below. Also includes letters to Heeni, Bob re translation, Mrs Winiata, Mrs Thomas, Dr McDowall, Sir Henry [Kelleher?], Mr Ropiha, Mr Ihaka, Dr Meade, Dr Jones, Mr Metekingi, and the Cape Reinga lighthouse. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1971

By: Arthur, Nola Valmai, 1924-1990

Reference: MS-0101

Description: Inventory of the unpublished material of Dr L Cockayne, teacher and botanist, contained in the Auckland Institute and Museum Source of title - Transcribed Compiled to answer a request concerning a survey of Royal Society Fellows between 1845 and 1939, conducted by University of Sussex, Science Policy Research Unit Quantity: 1 volume(s) (22 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) (27 cm; ¼ navy buckram, marbled boards)

Date: 1832

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: G-402

Description: A portrait of the seated figure of Tohitapu, with long hair and beard. Inscribed on verso: 'Tohitapu from sketch by Rev. H. Williams. Carved and coloured wooden frame is from church at Te Wairoa which was buried by the eruption of Tarawera in 1886'. Tohitapu feasted on the body of Marion du Fresne. Frame: in a frame carved with Maori designs A copy of an original drawing in Auckland Museum Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pencil drawing, 215 x 165 mm Provenance: Unknown

Date: 1853 - 1858

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-144-006

Description: A view of the north side of St Paul's Church, Parnell, a Gothic revival building. There is a large fenced grave in the left foreground Copy of an ink drawing in Auckland Museum The artist's father-in-law, Rev J F Churton, was the minister at St Paul's until his death in 1853 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of drawing 105 x 153 mm

Date: [ca 1939]

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

By: Gresham, T E, active 1939

Reference: PAColl-3060-015

Description: Exterior view of the entrance to the Auckland Museum, showing steps and columns. Photograph taken by T E Gresham, circa 1939. Details of photographer T E Gresham not found. Possibly still in copyright. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 151 x 202 mm

Date: 1855

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-144-009

Description: A view from inside a verandah with creepers winding up supports and across the top, looking down towards a garden and road, and across the harbour towards North Head, with the outline of Rangitoto Island in the distance on the right. North Head's signal station is included The reference to 'Mrs Churton' suggests the drawing was done after the death of Rev J F Churton in 1853. Mrs Mary Churton was the artist's mother-in-law, mother of his wife Catherine Churton. The family lived in St George's Bay Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. Heaphy Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pen drawing 113 x 152 mm

Date: 1930-1934

From: Scrimgeour, P :Albums and photographs relating to Reverend Colin Scrimgeour

Reference: PA1-o-1021

Description: Aerial views of down town Auckland and the museum building. Napier showing earthquake damage to buildings and buildings damaged by the fire. Several images show people with their belongings along the beach front. Other images may relate to the riots in Auckland in 1932 when shops along Queen street had their windows broken and were looted. Associated with these are photographes of marines, soldiers and police. There are also three photographs of the Polish pianist Leff Pouishnoff who visited New Zealand in 1934 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1929

By: Donner, Tibor Karl, 1907-1993

Reference: A-128-013

Description: View of the whole frontage of the building seen from between tall tree trunks in the left foreground, a bed of flowers and a cabbage tree in the right foreground. The artist "Tib" Donner was Auckland City Architect and a friend of architect Cedric Firth's Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signature and date Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on paper 257 x 309 mm

Date: [1880s-1900s?]

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

By: Iles, James, active 1878; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-518

Description: Includes photographs of Maori artefacts in museum context. Possibly created by James Edge-Partington, an anthropologist who studied artefacts in New Zealand and the Pacific. This volume is in the same style of album, with similar photographs and articles as Webster album 4 (PA1-o-519) which has Edge-Partington's named bookplate inside the front cover. Studies of a variety of artefacts including an instrument giving a decoy call for kiwi; a sea leopard's tooth carved and worn as a pendant (from Stewart Island); whale teeth pendants; weapons; tools; carved waka, prows of waka; carved meeting houses; Te Kooti's house "Te Waho"; carved storehouses; a Maori kite; eel traps and fish hooks. The artefacts are from various collections in New Zealand and overseas, including the Chapman Collection, the Hamilton Collection, the Hocken Collection and General Robley's Collection. Cuttings from articles written by James Edge-Partington from anthropological journals are inserted in the album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Abum with dark grey cover; 26 x 21 cm

Date: [Circa 1900 to 1905]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-300

Description: Photographs probably taken by George William Barltrop, between 1900 and 1905. The images follow on from McIntosh album 15, (these are pages 815-835) starting at Opunake (a church building). Pihama (a memorial to members of the crew of the barque Lizzie Bell which was wrecked off Oeo, 24th July 1901), a view of the Oeo Hotel (F. Morgan, proprietor), and a view of the mast of the Lizzie Bell standing as a memorial at Pihama. These are followed by a panorama of Parihaka (p. 822-823), and a portrait of a man named Ruru, at Parihaka. The rest of the album has scenes in the Auckland area, including a view of Queen Street in which the chemist shop of Charles J Ratgen is clearly visible. A series of images show various Maori artifacts on display at the Auckland Museum. Scenery in Auckland includes the Auckland Domain, Epsom, Tamaki, Auckland Harbour, Rangitoto, St Heliers, Mount Hobson and Mount Eden. Two church buildings are seen, one at Opunake, and the remains of a stone church at Tamaki. A group of photographs show horse-drawn carriages decorated with flowers for a floral fete (p 835-838). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, entitled `Photographic views'; 20.5 x 17.5 cm

Date: 195-

From: Mandeno, M W L, fl 1988-2000 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-7802

Description: Colour transparencies showing Auckland in the 1950s, mostly taken from the Auckland Domain. Includes views of Auckland Museum. Quantity: 11 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: 1938

By: Kelly, Leslie George, 1906-1959; Auckland Institute and Museum; Carpenter, Ken, active 1995; Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976

Reference: MapColl-832.12ee/1938(1980)/Acc.16368

Description: Map of Tamaki Makaurau, Auckland Region, detailing Maori place names, from Paremoremo, eastwards to Rangitoto, southwards to Papatoetoe and westwards to Titirangi, including the Waitemata, Awanui-o-Peretu, and Manukau harbours. Includes drawings of marae and waka. Compiled in 1938. Other Titles - Tamaki Makaurau :map of the Tamaki isthmus with Maori placenames See second copy, photographic file print, 16.2 x 14.5 cm, shelved at MapColl--832.12ee/[n.d.]/Acc.39823. This copy has been reduced, so text is difficult to decipher. It was left to daughter of Pei Jones, Mrs H Carpenter, and donated by Ken Carpenter of Australia. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 68.5 x 60.6 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-0358.

Date: 1960

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :[Cartoons from the Free Lance Collection 1950s, by Nevile Lodge and Winton Bristow]

By: Bristow, Winton, 1914-1994

Reference: B-074-062

Description: Panorama of the central Auckland business area, showing the wharf area in the foreground and Mount Eden in the background. The view takes in the Auckland Domain and Museum on the left and extends as far as the Kerridge-Odeon and Civic Centre on the right. There is a large catamaran berthed at the wharf in the immediate foreground. See similar panorama at B-074-063 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 155 x 315 mm

Date: 1905

From: Birch, A E :Scenic negatives and prints taken by Thomas Pringle

Reference: 1/1-007031-G

Description: The pataka Puawai-O-Te-Aroha at the Auckland Museum,photographed ca 1905 by Thomas Pringle of Wellington. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Protected, Thos Pringle, Wellington N.Z. 1-10-05; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - No 547 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8 x 6 inches

Date: [ca1908]

From: Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums

By: Pringle, Thomas, 1858-1931

Reference: PA1-f-179

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Circa 1932]

By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984

Reference: PA1-f-131

Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Roland James Searle, circa 1930s. The first subject is the opening of the Wellington Citizens' War Memorial (Cenotaph), and includes a programme of the dedication and handing over on Sunday 17th April, 1932 (p 001-012). That is followed by the consecration ceremony for the National War Memorial and War Memorial Carillon (again with a copy of the programme), held on Anzac Day, April 25th, 1932 (p 015-023). Pages 029-033 show the arrival of the Wellington Jubilee Dock in 1931, the floating dock which was towed from England by two Dutch tugboats. The next sequence is entitled "The Express pulls out - Thorndon", and follows the Express to Wanganui where views show a river-boat trip up the Whanganui River (p 037-056), and include a map of historical areas on the river compiled by Annabell & Marchant, surveyors of Wanganui (p 055). The train trip is continued in the next section, and includes an illustrated diagram of the Raurimu Spiral, then arrival at the new Beach Road Auckland Railway Station. Photographs of Auckland include the Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland University, Grafton Bridge, a sailing ship at the wharves, and the Auckland Zoo. Further North there are scenes of ploughing, a mine entrance, rock formations at Waro, and the Taheke Falls; before travelling to Rotorua and the surrounding thermal regions. A number of images were taken at Whakarewarewa, including photos of Paul Thomas and his wife, along with scenes showing women washing clothes in hot pools, a woman with a baby on her back holding a rope with a food basket cooking in the pool, children in a hot pool, and men at work carving. Paul Thomas wrote to thank Searle for sending him copies of photographs (p 101, written on May 1st 1932). Later photographs again with the train often in view show timber felling and milling, and views of the Arapuni hydroelectic power station. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured grey cloth cover, entitled "Snapshots"; 28.5 x 39.0 cm

Date: 1930 - 1939

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Auckland scenes] / Cranleigh Barton. - [1930s?]

Reference: A-227-044

Description: Trees, including a Norfolk pine, in the foreground the roofs of the city's buildings, Waitemata Harbour and North Head, with Rangitoto in the background Inscriptions: Recto - Signed: Cranleigh Barton Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 190 x 275 mm

Date: 1916-1978

By: Falla, Robert Alexander (Sir), 1901-1979

Reference: MS-Papers-2366

Description: The collection consists of correspondence, field notebooks, diaries, and scientific papers. There is a large amount of material both scientific and historical on the Sub-Antarctic Islands. Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - See also fMS-Papers-6160 Sir Robert Falla was a ornithologist, conservationist and Museum Director Quantity: 538 folder(s). 6 box(es) (hollinger). 11 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Large collection of photographs - To Drawings & Prints Collection - 2 lithographs - To Book Collections - La Nouvelle Heloise ou lettres se deux amans. Vol 2 [Chez Francois Lacombe. 1792].

Date: 1969

By: Auckland Institute and Museum

Reference: Eph-D-PEOPLE-Cook-1969-01

Description: Poster for an exhibition shows a photograph of a Polynesian carved figure. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 520 x 390 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives -.

Date: 1886-1929, 1933

By: Graham, George Samuel, 1874-1952

Reference: qMS-0868

Description: Graham believes the myths preserve historical origins of the Maori arts as the result of contact with other Pacific culture groups. Sources are cited and dated, 1886-1929. Source of title - Transcribed Lecture delivered before the Anthropological and Maori Race Section of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 8 June 1933 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (11 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (21 cm, ¼ blue linen, marbled boards)