Founded in 1934 by the gift of £100 from George and Margaret Shirtcliffe, abetted by the Minister, Under-Secretary, and Accountant of the Department of Internal Affairs, and the then Chief Librarian, Johannes Andersen.
Since 2020 the trust has been trading as Turnbull Endowment Trust.
Date: 1930 - 1985 - 1940
From: Northwood Brothers fl.1910-1930s :The Northwood Brothers. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of the Listener, 1985. (Imagers of a new land, series 4).
By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Listener (Periodical); Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-
Reference: C-106-021
Description: Shows 5 people and a dog: one man and a boy sharpen a knife on rotary sharpener, one man sits on barrel, one on the ground. A woman stands near doorway of slab hut whose chimney is to left. Container has not been assigned location number and is therefore not separately catalogued. Other images have been separately catalogued. Other Titles - Photographs by the Northwood Brothers. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original glass plates by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of the Listener. / [Title] / Arthur Northwood photograph Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 258 x 334 mm, on sheet 350 x 440 mm.
Date: 1863 - 1870
By: Powell, David, active 1860s; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Fletcher Challenge Ltd
Reference: C-112-042-b
Description: Shows the town's main street, with horse hitched outside hotel, a wagon going away along the street, Staite Bros Molyneux Store, an American flag hanging limp on a flagpole in the distance. There is a blacksmith's forge at right, a wagon resting on the road at left. Accompanied by an information text sheet, by Marian Minson. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This facsimile reproduction of an original watercolour in the Fletcher Challenge Collection, Auckland, was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust in association with Fletcher Challenge Ltd, 1987.; Recto - bottom right - Edition limited to 3000 copies. Dunstan Hotel built 1863. Molyneux is the old name for the Clutha River. Dated in the 1860s because trees were flourishing by 1970. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 250 x 450 mm, on sheet 400 x 600 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright.
Date: 1870 - 1984 - 1880
By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988
Reference: C-106-013-a/018-a
Description: Contains 6 images: Wanganui family and possessions, 1870s; Unidentified man, Wanganui, 1870s; Mrs Morgan and child, Wanganui, 1870s; Staff and premises of the Wanganui Evening Herald, 1868; Mr and Mrs Thomas Roots and their twelve children in front of their home at Springvale, 1870s; Mother and child, Wanganui, 1870s. Title from illustrated container, also bearing descriptive notes. Container has not been assigned its own location number and is therefore not recorded separately. However, the individual photolithographs have separate entries. Other Titles - Imagers of a new land. Other Titles - Portraits by W. J. Harding. Inscriptions: (On verso of container/ envelope): Portraits by W.J. Harding,/ chosen by Brian Brake and John Sullivan / and published with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited.; Recto - beneath image - (On each photograph): Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 6 photolithographs, 259 x 213 mm, and 213 x 259 mm, on sheets 415 x 350 mm, in container 510 x 390 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit regulations, 1986.
Date: 1890 - 1984
By: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust
Reference: C-112-032-a
Description: Edition of 3000. One of 4 prints advertised under title: "Wellington to the Wairarapa" (C112/031 to 034). Original Watercolour held by the Library (405 x 735 mm) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured ; image 320 x 589 mm on sheet 420 x 630 mm + 1 information sheet (27 mm)
Date: 1900 - 1986
By: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust
Reference: B-123-026-a
Description: A grandmother seated in a chair, looking down at a sleeping baby. The grandmother is wearing her best clothes and a hat, the baby a long nightgown and shawl 'Special reprint of the cover illustration for A woman's work, the Alexander Turnbull Library Photographic Print Series 5, 1986' 'From the original glass negative. Reference no. 60493 1/2' Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 331 x 238 mm on sheet 449 x 349 mm Provenance: Received under legal deposit, 1986
Date: 1848 - 1983
By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust
Reference: C-112-029
Description: A reproduction of an original watercolour in the Library's collection Other Titles - Waitohi Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph ; image 351 x 549 mm on sheet 440 x 610 mm
Date: 1910 - 1985 - 1935
By: Northwood, Richard Alfred, 1881-1955; Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Listener (Periodical); Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-
Reference: C-106-019-a/024-a
Description: 6 images: Dalmation gumdiggers, Ahipara district, 1914; Group in Okahu Bush, near Kaitaia, felling tree for shingles to repair roof of St Saviours Anglican Church, ca 1934; Slab hut, Northland, ca 1930s; Baling flax, Lake Ohia ca 1920; Bullock team hauling kauri log from Hokianga bush 1910s; Gumdiggers camp, Houhora district 1910s. On container: An old gumfield warrior. Container has not been assigned location number and is therefore not separately catalogued. Other images have been separately catalogued. Other Titles - Photographs by the Northwood Brothers. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (beneath each of 6 photolithographic images): Reproduced from the original glass plates by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of the Listener. / [Title]; Verso - top left - Photographs by / The Northwood Brothers / Published with the assistance of the Listener Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (2 copies of set with 6 images).. Physical Description: Cardboard envelope 510 x 390 mm, containing 6 images 258 x 334 mm, on sheets 350 x 440 mm. Provenance: Deposited on Legal Deposit, 1986.
Date: 1910 - 1985 - 1920
From: Northwood Brothers fl.1910-1930s :The Northwood Brothers. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of the Listener, 1985. (Imagers of a new land, series 4).
By: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Listener (Periodical); Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Northwood, Richard Alfred, 1881-1955; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-
Reference: C-106-023-a
Description: Shows a bullock team of about 12 animals standing attached to wagon which is at left foreground, with three men on, and one beside it. Another man is further away at right with goad / switch. A copy of an original negative in the Library's collection, reference number PA1-q-180-039 Container has not been assigned location number and is therefore not separately catalogued. Other images have been separately catalogued. Other Titles - Photographs by the Northwood Brothers. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original glass plates by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of the Listener. / [Title] / Northwood Brothers photograph Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 258 x 334 mm, on sheet 350 x 440 mm.
Date: 1971
By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Pictorial Publications Ltd
Reference: C-028-031/033
Description: Contents: Barraud, C D. The White Terraces, ca 1880; Blomfield, C Ohinemutu Village, Lake Rotorua, 1882; Barraud, C D Lake Taupo with Mounts Tongariro, Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu, 1874 Issued with text sheet, Prints of the Thermal Regions Ohinemutu Village, Lake Rotorua is taken from the original held at G-459: Roto Rua from Maroi [sic] Village of Ohinimutu [sic]... Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithgraphs, 304 x 430 mm ; 250 x 429 mm ; 262 x 430 mm on sheets 431 x 557 mm in illus. folder
Date: 1914 - 1985
From: Northwood Brothers fl.1910-1930s :The Northwood Brothers. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of the Listener, 1985. (Imagers of a new land, series 4).
By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Listener (Periodical); Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-
Reference: C-106-019-a
Description: Shows a group of 3 seated and 6 standing gumdiggers with prods, kete and spades. Container has not been assigned location number and is therefore not separately catalogued. Other images have been separately catalogued. Other Titles - Photographs by the Northwood Brothers. Other Titles - Dirty but happy Austrian gummdiggers. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original glass plates by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of the Listener. / [Title] / Arthur Northwood photograph; Recto - bottom centre - DIRTY BUT HAPPY AUSTRIAN GUMDIGGERS. 45 A. NORTHWOOD. PPOT 1-8-14 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 258 x 334 mm, on sheet 350 x 440 mm. Provenance: Deposited on Legal Deposit, 1986.
From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Three watercolours / Colonel Charles Emilius Gold. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, 1976
By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust
Reference: C-028-050-b
Description: Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph
Date: 1877 - 1983
By: Sharpe, Alfred, 1836-1908; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust
Reference: C-112-030
Description: The Domain in the foreground, buildings and the harbour in the background Same as C-112-030-a Original watercolour in the Library, measures 420 x 620 mm Publisher's title, not on original Edition of 3000 One of 4 prints issued as `the twenty-eight set of the `Turnbull Prints', with single information sheet ([4] p. ; 30 cm) but without portfolio. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 450 x 630 mm on sheet 450 x 630 mm
Date: 1863 - 1870
By: Powell, David, active 1860s; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Fletcher Challenge Ltd
Reference: C-112-042-a
Description: Shows the town's main street, with horse hitched outside hotel, a wagon going away along the street, Staite Bros Molyneux Store, an American flag hanging limp on a flagpole in the distance. There is a blacksmith's forge at right, a wagon resting on the road at left. Accompanied by an information text sheet, by Marian Minson. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This facsimile reproduction of an original watercolour in the Fletcher Challenge Collection, Auckland, was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust in association with Fletcher Challenge Ltd, 1987.; Recto - bottom right - Edition limited to 3000 copies. Dunstan Hotel built 1863. Molyneux is the old name for the Clutha River. Dated in the 1860s because trees were flourishing by 1970. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 250 x 450 mm, on sheet 400 x 600 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright.
Date: 1849 - 1977 - 1851
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust
Reference: C-028-057-b
Description: A Maori fishing party with canoes, tents, fish-drying racks on the shores of Rangitoto Island Reproduced in an edition of 2500 copies from an original watercolour in the Library (C-025-002). Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 400 x 521 mm on sheet 448 x 600 mm in col. illustrated folder
Date: 1870 - 1880
From: Harding, William James 1826-1899 :W. J. Harding. [Wellington], Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited, 1984. (Imagers of a new land, series 3).
By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988
Reference: C-106-014
Description: Shows top-hatted man with long (legal?) collars standing in front of narrow hanging and holding open book. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 259 x 213 mm, on sheet 415 x 350 mm.
Date: 1919 - 1985 - 1921
From: Northwood Brothers fl.1910-1930s :The Northwood Brothers. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of the Listener, 1985. (Imagers of a new land, series 4).
By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Listener (Periodical); Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-
Reference: C-106-022-a
Description: Shows two men holding bundles of flax fibre as they work in doorway of barn, with other bales of flax fibre inside and at doorway. Container has not been assigned location number and is therefore not separately catalogued. Other images have been separately catalogued. Other Titles - Photographs by the Northwood Brothers. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original glass plates by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of the Listener. / [Title] / Arthur Northwood photograph Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 258 x 334 mm, on sheet 350 x 440 mm.
Date: 1861 - 1967
From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967
By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust
Reference: C-028-011
Description: Shows ships in harbour, houses, and a man driving cows on a hillside path at right. From Brooklyn looking across Te Aro and the harbour to the Hutt Valley. At left is a Maori wood-gatherer. Tall tree in left foreground has the creeper kie kie growing on it. A tree has been felled in centre foreground, and there is a cabbage tree at right. Upper Willis Street runs down to Clay Point, at the junction of the present Willis Street and Lambton Quay. Thorndon Flat lies beyond ending at Pipitea Point. Colour photolithograph was reproduced from the original "[View of Wellington. 1861]" held at ATL G-670. Other Titles - View of Wellington, 1861. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud / NZ. 1861.; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board.; Recto - bottom right - Print no. 4 / Serial 10: 1967 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 310 x 510 mm.
Date: 1889 - 1982 - 1891
From: Tyree Brothers :Tyree. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, 1982. (Imagers of a new land, series 1).
By: Tyree, William, 1855-1924; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust
Reference: C-106-002-a
Description: Shows Frederick Tyree on hillside at left centre, with small township of Collingwood, and the bay water behind. Hills in the distance. One of the buildings at centre right has a sign with the name TYREE on it. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title in box]; Recto - centre right - COLLINGWOOD 1021 / TYREE NELSON. N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 254 x 345 mm, on sheet 400 x 450 mm.
Date: 1844 - 1973
By: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust
Reference: C-028-039/042
Description: Reproductions of original watercolours in the Library's collections: Motupoi Pah with Tongariro; On the Waikato at Kapou, travelling party with their canoes halting to cook their midday meal; Nene [of] Hokianga; Women of the Nga Te Toa tribe, Porirua, Cooks Streights, August 1844. On folder: Karoo, a native of Anatam, New Hebrides [1850] "The Alexander Turnbull Library prints 1973". Reproduced from watercolours held by the Alexander Turnbull Library. Issued with descriptive text sheet; includes portrait of Angas and a preliminary pencil sketch Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Loose coloured photolithographs 323 x 232 mm; 330 x 221 mm; 333 x 242 mm; 333 x 242 mm on sheets 432 x 507 in col. illustrated folder.
Date: 1839 - 1966
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust
Reference: D-001-046
Description: Mount Egmont (Taranaki) rising symmetrically between trees, including tree-ferns From an original watercolour in the Library's collection, C-025-008. Published in an edition of 2000 copies of which this is an unnumbered copy. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 380 x 610 mm on sheet 635 x 1010 mm