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Date: 1844 - 1846

From: [Selwyn, George Augustus], 1809-1878 :[Three watercolours. 1. Purewa Creek, Auckland Ch., Flying Fish and Marian, Okahu N. Village. 1840s; 2. Purewa [and first St John's College] ca 1845; 3. Putiki, Island of Waiheke. 1840s]

Reference: A-439-006

Description: Shows a view from inside a fence with a cart or plough on the near side of it, looking west northwest from the position of the Purewa Cemetery towards the Orakei Peninsula, the Orakei Basin and in the distance the hill of Parnell with a church (St Pauls' with the spire completed) on top of it. There are two small sailing ships (Selwyn's 'Flying Fish' and 'Marian' and a yacht off the Orakei point, and a group of huts ("Okahu N. Village") at the far right above the stream that flows into the Basin. St Paul's Church was built in 1843 but did not acquire the spire seen in this picture until a year or two later. Selwyn arrived in Auckland in 1843. Other Titles - Church; North Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 146 x 214 mm.

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000189-G

Description: St Stephens Avenue (near Parnell Road) with horse drawn carts. Bishop's Court can be seen on the lefthandside. "Auckland Farmers" is written on the cart in the immediate foreground, and the horse is drinking from a water trough at the side of the road. Photograph taken by William A Price, ca 1910. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - St Stephen's Ave Parnell Auckland No 3006 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1849

By: Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884

Reference: B-065-003

Description: Two cottages enclosed within fenced gardens, with Nelson Haven and ships visible to the right and a road to the left, with families and a horse and cart passing along it. Maplestone is not known to have visited New Zealand and despite the date of 1849 almost certainly copied this image from the lithograph published in C. F. Hursthouse's 'New Zealand, or Zealandia, the Britain of the South' (London, Stanford, 1857), p. 122 - see copy held at A-256-014. The 1849 date is likely reflect the stage to which Nelson was developed, rather than the date of execution. Inscriptions: bottom right - Signed: H Maplestone These two houses were in Selwyn Place, below the Cathedral and approximately where the Nelson Club now is. Mr Butt conducted a school in Upper Collingwood Street. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 287 x 446 mm

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-533

Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm

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