Places

Date: 1853

Reference: MapColl-832.45gbbd/[1853?]/Acc.8105

Description: Topographic map of the area from Cape Palliser and Cape Turakirai [sic], the Rimutaka and Tararua Ranges, to Taumatawanga and the Warehana River. Shows land blocks taken up by various runholders, lands not purchased, and includes various Maori names for natural features. Rivers and streams are named. Names include G. Scott, M.A. Buxton, R. Collins, F. Burton, J. Paine, E. Meredith, G. Moore, M. Hill, S.M. Scroogs, H. Donald, Masters, Smith and Rerans, J.H. Northwood, C. Hales, G. Murch, G.P. Bidwell, A. Gillies, Cameron, D. Riddiford, P. Hume, J. Kelly, R. Russel [i.e. Russell], R. Barton. Title supplied by cataloguer Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 1853 - presumed date Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and coloured wash on brown paper, linen backed, mounted on stiff card, 61.4 x 49.1 cm.

Date: 1860 - 1869

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 :Maps from papers

Reference: MapColl-832.45gbbd/[186-?]/Acc.1939

Description: Map of Akitio station from the coast includes the Akitio River to the Puketoi range to the boundary between the Wellington and Hawkes Bay districts. Donald Mclean's land is divided into two areas, one marked 'purchased land' and the second shaded area 'estimated contents ac. 10.000'. Two pencilled notes refer to the estimated acreage of the shaded area as 8,500 rather than 10,000 acres. Handwriten on top left: From the McLean papers Handwritten on bottom right: Survey office fee, 2'/6 Sticker on reverse states No.13 Title supplied by cataloguer Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and colourwash on paper and card, linen backed, coloured, 43.8 x 32.5 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 Papers - MS-Papers-0032.

Date: [ca 1870]

From: Orua Wharo Estate : Photographs

Reference: 1/2-026739-F

Description: Mount Herbert farm buildings, Waipukurau, photographed by Alexander St Clair Inglis circa 1870. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1881

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Aitken, Robert Walter, 1828-1910

Reference: C-003-007

Description: Shows a view looking down from a rocky outcrop (partially seen in the extreme left foreground), on to the field of a farm with horses, cattle, a farmhouse, outbuildings, and at far right a haystack. A row of trees runs along one of the boundaries of the property, parallel to the river in the background. On the far side of the river are limestone cliffs and hills. The locality is more commonly known as Clifden, and Cyclopedia of New Zealand, volume 4, Otago and Southland, decribes it as having been a large sheep station. Other Titles - Clifden Notes on backing board recto: Painting of Clifdene Station on the Waiau River, Southland. Formerly owned by R W Aitken. Painted by a French artist. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 394 x 620 mm. Provenance: "This work originally belonged to a descendant of the Aitken family who owned Clifdene when Aubrey painted this work" (Auction catalogue, International Art Centre, 16 September 2008) Processing information: Deframed by the Library

Date: 1860 - 1895

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-182-009

Description: Shows farm buildings on the bank of the river at the right. The Clutha River was formerly called the Molyneaux Other Titles - Stirling Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash, 85 x 215 mm

Date: 1852

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 1] 1851-1852

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-332-072

Description: Shows a view looking down from slightly above, on four farm buildings with thatched roofs and sod chimneys. There is flax in the foreground, and the gorge of the river can be seen in the left middle distance. The tail of a dog called Harry is visible in the right foreground (his body being out of frame). Other Titles - Kakaho Gorge Other Titles - Waiaukarua Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 182 x 229 mm.

Date: 1863 - 1922

From: Cowan, James :The New Zealand wars. Wellington, Government Printer, 1922.

By: Bates, Henry Stratton, 1836-1918

Reference: PUBL-0054-1-241

Description: Conical military tents on a field, with farm buildings to the right, the redoubt spread across a low hill in the middle distance and wooded hills behind. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of watercolour (book illustration)

Date: 1881

By: Green, Samuel Edwy, 1838-1935; Green, George Herbert (Dr), 1916-2001

Reference: A-250-004

Description: Shows cattle on a coastal farm near where the Tararua was wrecked. There are sand dunes between the paddocks and the seashore. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - in pencil: Breakers at Waipapa & slope. Land on slope pale. Tussock hill above dark. Breakers over left hummock Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 190 x 305 mm

Date: 1865 - 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Herd, L (Mrs), active 1978

Reference: B-084-018

Description: Shows a view of the two-storeyed homestead and two other closer single-storey buildings. There are cattle and sheep grazing in the paddock to the right, and bare hills in the background. Identified as Cheviot Hills Station by a previous owner. It is possible that the hills are bare as a result of the painting's being unfinished, with the top of the bush line just sketched in. Cf a more wooded image of Cheviot Hill Station, showing [the same?] buildings from a different angle, at NON-ATL-P-0083 (digitised). There is some doubt about the identification of this house as Cheviot Hills. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 243 x 345 mm (sight)

Date: [1880-1889]

From: Seaton, Mary, 1889-1967 :Seaton album

Reference: PA1-o-460-04

Description: View of Cheviot Hills Station showing buildings and shelter belts of gums and weeping willows with hills in the background. Photographed by an unknown photographer in the 1880s. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - Cheviot Hills Station. Nelson Province. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20.5 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page

Date: 1844

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-020

Description: A front view of a single-storeyed house with a path leading through a garden to the front door. To the left, a man stands alongside a seated dog, near a large barrel. Tree, possibly manuka or kanuka, surround the house. The house is that of James Baber, an architect Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and sepia wash 140 x 217 mm

Date: 1882

From: [Stowe, Jane], 1838?-1931 :[Sketchbook of Rio de Janeiro, Wairarapa and Wellington. 1882?]

Reference: E-633-036/037

Description: Shows a view of fields and groups of houses and farm sheds, with snowy hills in the background. There are sheep in the field at the right. Other Titles - September Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on double page spread 168 x 494 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Mary Watt, Wellington, through the family of the artist, in 2004.

Date: 1896 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-014

Description: Shows `Matara', the homestead of H Harper at Wai Ora, Aramoho, Wanganui, in the 1890s. The Whanganui River runs alongside on the left, the farmhouse and outbuildings are on cleared flat land with a slight indication of a garden, fences and rows of trees. Two horses (or cows) are grazing near the river. Flax in the foreground In 1859, Mary Medley's sister, Laura, married Thomas Henry Harper of Wai Ora, Aramoho, Whanganui. Thomas Henry Harper died in 1873. This view is likely to show the Wai Ora property of his son, Henry Harper, nephew of the artist. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Wanganui H Harper; Recto - beneath image - Matara H Harper Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

Date: [ca 1860s-1880s]

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-193-038b-2

Description: Wooden buildings and bullock teams on Donald McLean's Maraekakaho Station, Hastings District. The bullock teams are waiting to transport bales of wool. Photograph taken circa 1860s-1880s, by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Caption in album and notes on back of file print. Inscriptions: Album page - McLean's Station, Ahuriri Plains Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic print, 9.8 x 13.6 cm, on album page

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: [Stowe, Jane], 1838?-1931 :[Sketchbook of Rio de Janeiro, Wairarapa and Wellington. 1882?]

Reference: E-633-034

Description: Shows a view across fenced fields towards a wooded hill. There is a house behind trees on the left. Other Titles - Featherston Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash on page 168 x 247 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Mary Watt, Wellington, through the family of the artist, in 2004.

Date: [ca 1880]

From: Bennett, J R E (Mr): Photographs of early Auckland and Maori children

By: Webster, Hartley, -1906

Reference: PA2-1849

Description: View of the junction where Manukau Rd meets Great South Road in Epsom, Auckland, with Mt St John in the background. Shows houses, trees, and fields walled with stones. Photographed in circa 1880 by Hartley Webster. Source of descriptive information - Information provided on back of file print, source unidentified Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 5.8 x 9.2 cm, in cartes de visite format

Date: 1850 - 1859

By: Perston, John Roberton, 1893-1962

Reference: A-034-034

Description: Shows cows grazing, pasture, bush and distant hills Locality identified by A G Bagnall. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 210 x 340 mm Transfers: Removed from Smith's European sketchbook, E-011-f, page 22..

Date: 1870

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 :Maps from papers

Reference: MapColl-832.3gc/[ca.1870?]/Acc.6424

Description: Relief map of Donald McLean's run from the Ngaruroa River to the Waipiropiro, Patangata and the Mangaonuku Rivers. The roads to Napier, Kereru and Hampden are marked. Streams, lakes, swamps and hills are named. The sites of houses belonging to Capt. McLean, A. McLean. A homestead and an accomodation house are shown at the junction of the Ngaruroro and Maraekakaho Rivers. From McLean papers Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colourwash on paper, linen backed, coloured, 46.3 x 46.7 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 Papers - MS-Papers-0032.

Date: 1845

From: Thomson, Arthur Saunders, 1817?-1860 :The story of New Zealand (London, John Murray, 1859).

By: Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: PUBL-0144-1-330

Description: Flax bushes in the foreground and three standing Maori; cows fenced in on the left. In the middle distance on the left, a church and a cluster of buildings beyond a fenced area on a low hill. Another two buildings on the right, possibly barns with a distinctive hill beyond Derived from Cyprian Bridge's watercolour View of the Waimati (missionary station) and Poka Mie hill, 1845 (A-079-036) Extended Title - From: Thomson, A. S. The story of New Zealand. (London, John Murray, 1859), volume 1, p. 330 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 59 x 84 mm

Date: 1850 - 1865

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Waghorn, Florence Mary, 1908-1989

Reference: A-035-027

Description: Shows T. P. Russell's farm in the Wairarapa, established 1846-7. The house, surrounded by fencing is in the middle distance, with hills behind. North east Wairarapa, near the Akitio River? Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink, with some watercolour 180 x 260 mm Provenance: Previously in the collection of Russell Mein Smith, Wairarapa.