Places

Date: 1909

Reference: 1/2-080806-F

Description: Percy Smith with ash beds uncovered by rain at Rotomahana, 1909. Photograph taken by T Anderson. Note on back of file print reads: Rotomahana - denudation of ash beds by rain in 1909. Percy Smith in foreground. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1850 - 1860

By: Smith, Hannah Stephenson, 1813-1891; Gorton, Millicent, 1877-1966

Reference: A-036-004

Description: The artist's house and garden with Mount Taranaki in the background Identification, attribution and dates from Hannah Smith's other drawing Oku Warra Taranacki, 1851, A-090-032 Oku Warra, the home of the parents of Stephenson Percy Smith, was first occupied by the family in 1850 and burned down in 1860 during the Taranaki wars Inscriptions: Verso - Mrs Gorton, Badingham Rectory, Saxmundahm [sic], England, Suffolk Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on laid brown paper 130 x 122 mm (irregular)

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Crompton-Smith, Annie Marian, 1901-1996:Photographs of New Zealand scenes by unidentified photographers

Reference: 1/2-028204-F

Description: Picnic at New Plymouth, circa 1900. Stephenson Percy Smith is on the far right. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1901

By: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937; Crompton-Smith, Annie Marian, 1877-1965

Reference: D-007-002

Description: Testimonial presented to Stephenson Percy Smith, founder of the Polynesian Society, on his retirement from the position of Surveyor-General and Secretary for Crown Lands, in 1901. The painted testimonial features a list of the names of the officers of the District Lands and Survey branches, and vignettes showing a Māori chief, the landing place of Tainui at Kawhia, Mount Tarawera after the eruption of 1886, and a surveyor's camp and settlement 'at the Kermadecs'. In addition there is a view of the Southern Alps, a Taranaki scene, a surveyors' camp, road-making through dense bush, a pastoral scene with a farmhouse in the distance, a section of kauri forest, and a mining scene at Thames (Grahamstown Goldfield) with working mines, mine machinery and houses. The whole is surrounded and divided into sections by painted Maori carvings, with kowhai, a theodolite, a tree-fern, native clematis, a nikau palm and flax. Title supplied by Library. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - G. N. Sturtevant fecit MCMI Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 604 x 905 mm.