Places

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

Reference: A-020-048

Description: The palisades of Motuopuhi Pā [Motuapuhi/Motupoi], near Tongariro, on Lake Rotoaira. Compare the Library's finished watercolour of the same scene 'Motupoi Pa'; also the lithograph in Angas' The New Zealanders illustrated. Plate 32, p. 75. Loose, not bound in volume, issuable separately Appears to have been in the Angas album at page 37, under an earlier numbering system. Other Titles - Ko Rotoaira ko Motoupuki Pa [inscription on verso] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 261 x 325 mm

Date: [1911-1912]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-019576-G

Description: Looking south east on Courtenay Place, Wellington, toward Kent and Cambridge Terraces. Shows cabbage trees and people waiting for trams on the left. In the middle ground, centre left, on Kent Terrace, is a group of 4 businesses including the Cafe Royal with a sign advertising `Oysters'. Houses and other businesses are alongside the Cafe. Photograph taken by Charles Sydney Smith between 1911-1912. A similar image at 1/1-019569 Where the Cafe Royal stands will later be the site of the De Luxe theatre. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1861 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-004

Description: Shows dog(?) and cattle in river at right, high rolling country with flax and cabbage trees, and the mountains near the Rakaia Gorge in the distance. Hurt farmed near the Selwyn River from about 1861. He was listed in the Rakaia electorate for 1872-73. Other Titles - Rakaia Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 139 x 214 mm.

Date: [between ca 1911-1912]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 10x8-1743-G

Description: Looking south east on Courtenay Place, Wellington, toward Kent and Cambridge Terraces. Shows cabbage trees and trams. In the middle ground, centre left, on Kent Terrace, is a group of 4 businesses including the Purvis millinery shop and the Cafe Royal with its sign advertising `Oysters'. Photograph taken by Charles Sydney Smith between 1911-1912. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025660-G

Description: Scene with cabbage trees, Mangatewainui district, Tararua district, circa 1890. Men under trees are Stubbs, L H Duval, and McSherry. Stereographic photograph taken by William Williams. Source of descriptive information - E R Williams collection worksheet. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Stereographic dry plate glass negative

Date: 1885

From: [Doubleday, William and John], fl 1880s :[Twenty-three watercolours of New Zealand and the Pacific. 1884-1885]

Reference: C-150-005

Description: Shows a view looking across a bay to distant sea and headlands. There are tree ferns and cabbage trees in the foreground, and a house at the far right in the middle distance. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 120 x 185 mm.

Date: 24 May 1889

From: Halse, Frederick James, 1863-1936 : Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/2-004063-G

Description: Overlooking Lowry Bay, Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, Wellington. Shows hills in the foreground, covered with native bush and cabbage trees. Photograph taken on 24 May 1889 by Frederick James Halse. Identified and dated from typescript index to negatives, housed at file TL 6/1/17. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches Processing information: Originally housed in Halse Collection box 4.

Date: 1864

Reference: A-306-011

Description: Shows the Motueka River in the foreground, with cabbage trees, hills and bush, possibly near William Douglas' property at Riwaka or Motueka. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 130 x 210 mm.

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025772-G

Description: Scene by the East Coast Railway line at Hatuma, Hawke's Bay, with a man on a jigger, and landscape with cabbage trees behind. Photographed circa 1890 by William Williams. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print: "The East Coast Railway at Hatuma, showing cabbage trees in background. ca 1890. Identified from lantern slide. Dated from W Williams residence in Napier, ca 1887-90" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1911-1912

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-019569-G

Description: Courtenay Place at the intersection of Kent and Cambridge Terraces, Wellington ca 1911-1912, showing a Miramar bound tram picking up passengers. The cafe Royal faces Courtenay Place and on its left is the Milliner, E O Purvis. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. A very similar image taken from same vantage point, at 1/1-019576 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Sketchbook of English and New Zealand scenes] 1860 - 1864

Reference: E-349-088

Description: Shows a horse swimming across a stream, a laden canoe being paddled across, another horse on the bank on the left and cabbage trees and other vegetation on both banks. Inscriptions: Album page - on opposite page - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 100 x 160 mm.

Date: ca 1910

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-019629-G

Description: Looking north-west over Newtown Park towards Newtown, Wellington, circa 1910. Shows rows of pine trees in the foreground and young cabbage trees in the middle ground. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1879 - 1881

From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].

Reference: E-881-f-045

Description: Shows a section of a harbour or wide river at dusk, with a tree fern and cabbage tree in the right foreground. Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, page 45 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 230 x 145 mm.

Date: ca 1930

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-045675-G

Description: View east dowm Courtenay Place from the junction with Taranaki Street. A bus marked "lambtons" is taking on passengers beside the Taranaki Street men's toilets which are screened by a rangiora hedge and surrounded by cabage trees planted in the 1910s. Two policemen stand talking in the middle of the street, and a hording for "Fuller's Vaudiville" can be seen above the St James' Theatre. Photographed by Sydney Charles Smith about 1930 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1930-1937

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-041049-G

Description: Courtenay Place, Wellington, taken from Taranaki Street. Trams and cars can be seen on both sides of the street. There is a public toilet just below the photographer, which has cabbage tree and shrubs around it. Taken by an unidentified photographer between 1930 and 1937. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: [1940s]

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-091477-F

Description: Zeila Wells, wife of the photographer, Rene and Pro sitting ashore in a boat beside a cabbage tree, photographed by Robert E Wells,in hthe 1940s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1884

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/2-140255-G

Description: House by a road in Lower Hutt, Wellington, with Frederick William Devereux left of centre by a picket fence. Alongside, a young Maori man holds the reins of a horse. A cabbage tree is on the right. Photograph taken in 1884 by William Williams. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print: "from PA Series 11: 14a Lower Hutt 1884 Fred and the Grey. F W Devereux identified by comparison with 1/1-025941." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1926

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0879-1/2-G

Description: The Maori Hill tram, viewed across a bushy slope, with cabbage trees in the foreground. Photographed in Dunedin by Albert Percy Godber, 1926. Original print in Godber Album Vol 109, p 246 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - Maori Hill tram. Dunedin. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: Christmas 1892

From: Hector, James (Sir), 1834-1907 :Album of Wellington and Petone views

Reference: PA1-o-879-01

Description: View of Petone and Wellington Harbour from a hillside above Ratanui, Sir James Hector's house on the Western Hutt Road. In the Foreground can be seen a group which may be members of Hector's family. Photographed by an unknown photographer, Christmas 1892. Dated from inscription on album title page. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 12.7 x 17.2 cm, with cropped corners, mounted on album page.

Date: 1886

From: Hodgkins, Isabel Jane 1867-1950 :Sketchbooks

Reference: E-037-q-1-009

Description: Shows the sun with a face, looking down on a steep mountain slope where four climbers (two women and two men) struggle to reach the ridge. One climber rests on a rock at the bottom right. At the lower left is a cabbage tree with a prostrate figure under it. A high peak can be seen at the right. Diary entry on previous page says: "Manapouri Station is very lovely, situated just underneath the Takaitimos [Takitimu Mountains], the highest summit of which is "Excelsior" [now known as Spence Peak]. Thursday morning, the greater number of the party started about 10 o'clock to climb "Excelsior". I wish them luck - it looks sublimely unapproachable ..." Other Titles - Frightfully hot Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - [Title]; Album page - top left - (On opposite page): Thursday / Frightfully hot Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil drawing on page 213 x 144 mm.