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Date: 1871

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Sketchbook [of New Zealand views. 1871-1876].

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908; Hamblett, Irene Beatrix, 1915-1995

Reference: E-400-f-010

Description: Shows blockhouse in distance atop a small hill. In the foreground, in front of small cliffs on the shoreline, is a stretch of water, a canoe, and three figures, possibly spear fishing. The title includes "Manukau Hrbour". The Whau River arises north of the Manukau Harbour, and flows into the Waitemata Harbour at Avondale. Nevertheless this view could have been taken from Manukau Harbour looking north to a blockhouse built near the source of the Whau, rather than at its mouth on the Waitemata. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J.P.B. / 16.5.71; Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and monochrome wash, 261 x 370 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1964

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: Great Britain. Hydrographic Office

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-5/26/337/Acc.55023

Description: Hydrographic chart 279.39. New Zealand North Island West Coast. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. Originally published at the Admiralty Office, London, 1 March 1860. This copy based on electrotyped edition of 1931, with additions and corrections to 1937, and manuscript annotated corrections to 1944. Manuscript annotations includes extensive notes in margin dated up to 1964. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Printed map on paper, annotations in ink, natural scale 1:48,600, 70 x 102 cm

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Various artists :[Album of watercolours, cards and published pictures, including scenes in New Zealand and European countries, belonging to Cherie Templer (nee Connell)]. 1830-1890

By: Templer, Cherie, 1856?-1915

Reference: E-943-q-028

Description: Shows a farmhouse with slab chimney. Appears to be the first Titirangi farmhouse, that of John Bishop and family, surrounded by kauri forest. Little Muddy Creek is below and Manukau Harbour can be seen in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 160 x 180 mm, pasted to page of album 265 x 220 mm

Date: 1863

By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906

Reference: B-061-020

Description: Shows H.M.S. Harrier at a wharf on the Manukau Harbour, military personnel and tents, a Union Jack on a flagpole, and the opposite bank of the river in the distance. Signed: H.A.S. Title from accompanying caption. Other Titles - Harrier Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 245 mm

Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-010

Description: Looking down on a group of houses and across to two churches in a clump of trees with Manukau Harbour to the right, and a volcanic cone to the left Other Titles - Manukau Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil in the artist's hand, with spelling of Manukau as Manakau Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 235 x 343 mm Provenance: By family descent to the Wilkie family.

Date: 1843

By: Johnson, John (Dr), 1794-1848

Reference: A-275-004

Description: Looking across the harbour out to the entrance, with Paratutai Rock to the north of the entrance. A group of three people, possibly two Maori (dressed in cloaks) and a European (with broad-brimmed hat and staff) are standing looking towards the sea. On the verso of the drawing is a map 'View of the entrance to the harbour of Manukao from Puponga Head'. It shows the harbour bar, Puponga Head, an anchorage just east of the Head and opposite Puponga Point a bay with an illegible inscription, possibly Orua Bay and 'Missionary ...' Dr Johnson was part of Lady Franklin's party from Auckland in April 1841, which visited Manukau Heads, Orua and James Hamlin's mission station, on the way to Waikato Heads and Rev Maunsell's Mission Station. Other Titles - Manukau Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 196 x 282 mm

Date: 1861

From: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906 :[Three works - Graves of those who were killed at Rangariri [sic], New Zealand, 20 Nov. 1863; Entrance to Manakau [sic] Harbour, New Zealand, 4 June 1861; and, Bridlington, Yorkshire, visited 20 November 1882.

By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906

Reference: B-064-030

Description: Shows elevation of the land at Manukau harbour mouth from out at sea. A ship steams near entrance. On same sheet as Scrivener's "Bridlington Yorkshire visited 20 November 1882" (B-064-031). On verso of: "Graves of those who were killed at Rangariri, New Zealand 20 Nov 1863 (B-064-028). Other Titles - Manukau Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On backing sheet): Entrance to Manakau Harbour New Zealand - 4 June 1861 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 86 x 274 mm, mounted on sheet 305 x 392 mm.

Date: 6 May 1854

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0678B-03

Description: Written from Manukau regarding a land sale Quantity: 1 piece (2 pages on 1 leaf).

Date: 1862

By: Stack, Frederick Rice, -1873; Day & Son (Firm); Thomas, Beatrice Rosemary, 1911-1996

Reference: C-060-023

Description: Looking out to Manukau Harbour, with a stream (Little Muddy Creek) to the left, winding through bush-clad hills in the area known as Laingholm. In a clearing in the foreground is a tent, with Maori attending to a cooking fire. To their right, a group of Maori is meeting several Europeans on horseback. To the left of the stream, some bush clearing has occurred, with logs lying along the bank in rows. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured, 200 x 404 mm on sheet 358 x 564 mm

Date: 1850 - 1860

By: Martin, Albin, 1812?-1888

Reference: A-160-016

Description: Shows drover with cattle and Maori canoe with sail. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on paper 190 x 262 mm

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-021

Description: A panoramic view of the harbour from near the Heads, looking towards the North Head. There are no houses visible Awitu in the 1840s when this watercolour was done referred to the whole southern head at the entrance to Manukau Harbour. In addition, the Maori village of Awhitu was on the coast, inside the Heads Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Other Titles - Manukau Harbour, Awhitu Sketched on Ashworth's trip to the Waikato, December 1843 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 83 X 381 mm

Date: 1844 - 1862

From: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809-1877 :[Panorama of St John's college, Tamaki, Auckland, founded by Bishop G A Selwyn in Nov. 1844. Drawn by Mrs Abraham, wife of the bishop, and lithographed by Miss Cotton. Auckland ; St John's College? 1862?]

Reference: A-220-008-a-3

Description: The 5th and 6th sections (of 8) showing the site of St John's College, Meadowbank, looking towards Manukau Harbour on the right, with a road in the foreground. A carriage drawn by a team of bullocks is on the left, then the barn and several haystacks, Mt Wellington in the centre background, the stables as an outbuilding to the tall half-timbered weaver's house on the right, and farmland beyond that. Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 170 x 493 mm on sheet 210 x 1973 mm

Date: 1880

By: Sharpe, Alfred, 1836-1908; Boylan, John Francis, 1850-1922

Reference: D-033-007

Description: The centre foreground shows the site of an ancient pa of the Waiohua people, with a view of the southern approach to the Manukau Harbour and Auckland isthmus. A track leads on to the wooded promontory from the left foreground. Beyond the rock and to the right of it is a settler's farmhouse showing fenced fields, tree stumps, and rows of garden plantings. Two figures on horseback ride on the road at the base of the promontory, near the farm, and a woman and child stand in the centre of a nearby field. In the left distance, two rivers flow away into the Manukau Harbour and the Waitakere Ranges appear on the far horizon. The light effects and appearance of the sky indicate that the time is shortly before sunset "Art unions" were raffles or lotteries for works of art, and helped artists to get their works known. The Gaming and Lotteries Act of 1880 regulated this activity. Roger Blackley, in "The art of Alfred Sharpe" (Auckland, 1992) notes that the period around 1880 represents the peak of Alfred Sharpe's career; he held two art unions, and published the first of his technical writings. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 610 x 942 mm Provenance: From the collection of artist and writer Tui McLauchlan. In 1880, this work, valued at 15 guineas, was the first prize in Alfred Sharpe's Christmas art union. The ten prizes were exhibited over December at Edward Wayte's stationery shop in Queen Street. The first prize winner (and therefore first owner of this work) was John Boylan, C.E., an Auckland civil engineer.

Date: 1871

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Sketchbook [of New Zealand views. 1871-1876].

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908; Hamblett, Irene Beatrix, 1915-1995

Reference: E-400-f-002

Description: Shows panoramic view over rolling hills to the harbour, with figure of boy in extreme right foreground, and goat on rock in left foreground. Picture now in two pieces, as sketchbook has been conserved and separate leaves placed between acid-free paper. Left half on verso of E-400-f-001. Right half on verso of E-400-f-005. Other Titles - Harbour Other Titles - Mount Eden Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J.P.B. / 30.6.71 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Monochrome wash, 261 x 740 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1863

By: Nixon, Marmaduke George, 1814?-1864

Reference: MapColl-832.12gbbd/[186-]/Acc.427

Description: Cadastral map of Manukau harbour Auckland, depicting Native Land blocks, named settler sections (with acreage between 74 and 303 acres), a reserve (over 74 acres), swamp lots, a native village, a spring reserve, and identifying Nixon's 'hut'. Settler names include Grahame, six separate blocks totalling over 833 acres, Greenwood, four blocks totally over 468 acres, Nixon, four blocks of over 420 acres, Gitti's, 1000 acres, Fairburn, Bagston, and 184 acres bought 'for some person in England'. A vast area is titled 'unsettled claims'. A pencilled note reads 'Those lots not coloured are state unsold'. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, linen backed, 60 x 48 cm.

Date: 1860 - 1866

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-011

Description: Looking down to Manukau Harbour, with a sailing ship at a breakwater on a point of land to the left, and small craft at a jetty on the right. A few houses strung along shore with sections laid out in the foreground and a small church to the left. Mangere mountain is in the middle distance with Puketutu Island to the right. The background volcanoes are Ihumatao, near the modern airport. Two women, one with a parasol, and a man are gazing at the view from a low hill in the foreground Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Other Titles - Manukau Inscriptions: On separate label, once part of the backing board. Title in pencil. The first four words have been written over the erased fuller title including the words 'The western part of Auckland' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 234 x 342 mm Provenance: By descent to the Wilkie Family.

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[New Zealand sketches, 1864-1866]

Reference: B-045-002/003

Description: Shows view overlooking harbour with houses at lower left and lower right. Sailing vessels move to and fro on the calm harbour, and there are outlying islands and headlands. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Manukau Harbour; Recto - bottom right - Manukau 15 July 64 (1864) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 138 x 464 mm.

Date: 1852

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875

Reference: A-050-024

Description: A view from the shore, with a tree-fern, cabbage tree and another tree to the left, a Maori man on the shore close to a small canoe, yachts in the bay and houses, a church and businesses around the shore. A wharf is visible in the distance on the right. Dating: Another view of Auckland by Norman is known to be dated 1852. Norman spent most of his time in New Zealand in the Wellington region between 1842 and 1845 when he returned to England, and in the South Island after his return to New Zealand in 1852 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink on paper, 200 x 320 mm

Date: 1863

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0033-1863-437

Description: The Orpheus in a gale, half-submerged and with timber and other objects floating around her. Another ship is visible in the left background and there are hills in the distance Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 230 x 170 mm

Date: [ca 1870s]

From: Foster, L W : Photographs of Cornwallis

By: Foy, Joseph Michael, 1847-1923

Reference: 1/2-046668-F

Description: Horse and cart on a bridge over Manukau Harbour, alongside Cornwallis sawmills. Photograph taken by Joseph Michael Foy, circa 1870s. Inscriptions: beneath image - J M Foy, Photo.] Cornwallis Saw Mills, Manukau Harbour, NZ. [Onehunga Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).