Places

Date: ca 1910

Reference: 1/2-066389-F

Description: Maori women with kettles, alongside hot springs (possibly Whakarewarewa), circa 1910. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 28 Dec 1846

From: Bambridge, William, 1819-1879 : Diary

Reference: qMS-0122-074

Description: Sketch by William Bambridge of his wife, Sophia, and their son William Samuel Bambridge, in their sitting room, at Purewa. The baby is sitting in a potato basket which has been hung from the ceiling by his mother. The sketch is on p 74 of the diary. Quantity: 1 page. Physical Description: Sepia ink 110 x 145 mm, on sheet 253 x 205 mm

Date: 1909 - 1920

From: [Postcard album of cards donated by Mrs Brabin. 1909-1920s].

By: Brabin, Agnes, 1929-; Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937

Reference: Eph-F-POSTCARD-Vol-1-11-1

Description: Shows the interior of a Maori home, with the father trying to wash his screaming child in a pan on the floor. The mother smokes a pipe and reading the gossip column of the paper in a deckchair, toasting her feet on the stove though her elegant boots are on the floor nearby. Another son makes himself smart in the back room, struggling with his tie. The family all have European clothes and live in a European house, but through the back door is a whare and pigs root in the back yard while a dog sits in the doorway. Context: The cartoon is an illustration of a popular view of Maori by European immigrants of the time who regarded themselves as rather more sophisticated, perhaps 'civilised'. The cartoon reflects an attitude of mockery at Maori attempts to imitate Pakeha behaviour. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard in album.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 84 x 139 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs A S Brabin in 1980.

Date: 1908

By: Auckland weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: C-065-006

Description: Shows railway workers, one identified as Thomas Alexander Evans, at a construction camp with shacks, tents, food supplies, clothes on a clothes line and domestic articles outside in a clearing among tall trees. Text beneath states: "Our picture shows a phase of the magnificent scenery which is to be met with along the route of the North island Main Trunk Railway, which links up the Cities of Auckland and Wellington, and is now practically completed. The numberless beautiful views and the impressive grandeur of many of the sights adjacent to the line should make one of the most popular routes for tourists in New Zealand, and the only thing to be regretted is that scenes such as that depicted above must vanish within a short space before the steady advance of the sturdy pioneer settler". Another cropped copy at Eph-D-RAIL-1908-01. Another copy at C-065-006-a Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 170 x 230 mm

Date: Jun 1844

From: Bambridge, William, 1819-1879 : Diaries

Reference: MS-0130-159

Description: Sketch by William Bambridge, writing master at St John's College, Auckland, of his wife Sophia and infant son, William Samuel Bambridge, in their drawing room at Purewa. The sketch appears on p 159 of the diary. Quantity: 1 page. Physical Description: Sepia ink 60 x 70 mm, on sheet 203 x 157 mm

Date: 1901

From: Various artists :Collection of newspaper clippings, photocopies and bromides of cartoons by Fox (A-313-2), T Ellis - ie Thomas Ellis Glover (A-313-3), J. C. Blomfield (A-313-4) and John McNamara (A-313-11). Also folders of cartoons by various artists published in New Zealand Free Lance (A-313-6), in The Guardian (A-313-7), in Xrays (A-313-8), in the New Zealand Observer (A-313-9), in The Standard (A-313-12) and in various publications (A-313-1).

By: New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal

Reference: A-313-5-022

Description: Father and mother sit at their ease beside the fireside with their extensive family behind them. Other Titles - Member of the House of Representatives Extended Title - Mrs Smith (the modern Cornelia) - 'H'as H'I allus say, "These are our jewels. Where would we be without 'em?"' Mr Smith (the father of twelve) - 'Most like breakin' stones'. Mr O'Meara, M.H.R. pointed out to the Premier last week the millions that have been spent on assisting immigration, and urged as a better means of increasing the population that the government should pay a bonus to the parents of large families. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size photocopy.

Date: 1926

By: Blomfield, William, 1866-1938; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: H-711-016

Description: A family eat their meal and read about the new Family Allowances. In 1926 Parliament passed the Family Allowances Act, which provided for the payment of a means-tested benefit to families with more than two children under fifteen whose breadwinners earned less than 4 pound weekly. Exhibited in 'Harpies & Heroines: A cartoon history of the changing roles of women in New Zealand' Exhibition curated by Rachel Macfarlane and Cerridwyn Young of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited at the National Library Gallery, 11 July - 26 October 2003. Extended Title - Family Allowances. Upon application a father of 3 or more children an allowance of 2/- a week is to be made payable in respect.... Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy.

Date: 26 Nov 1844

From: Bambridge, William, 1819-1879 : Diaries

Reference: MS-0130-214

Description: Sketch by William Bambridge, showing his wife Sophia, son William and baby "shelling the peas for dinner", in the drawing room at their house at Judges Bay, Auckland. Also in this sketch is a young woman `Emma' who was engaged by the Bambridges to help with household duties. The sketch appears on p 214 of the diary and the activity is described in the adjacent text. Quantity: 1 page. Physical Description: Sepia ink 115 x 136 mm, on sheet 203 x 157 mm

Date: [ca 1900-1908]

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

Reference: 1/2-001436-G

Description: Two women squatting down and preparing food for dinner. From the photograph it is not clear exactly what they are doing. There is a covered metal container on the ground between them and they may be going to place it in a hole in the ground. Steam is rising up from the ground. Photograph taken in early 1900s by William A Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Preparing dinner. Ohinemutu. 1353. William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1945]

Reference: 1/2-115895-F

Description: Scene outside a house, circa 1945 including an unidentified woman, a coal miner's wife. Shows her at her sewing machine, which is on a Bell Tea chest. A child plays at her feet. Washing is on a line, and geese are in the foreground. A wicker pram can also be seen. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print of 1/2-105137 at 309. Housing conditions Relationship complexity - Same image at 1/2-105137. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1843 - 1850

By: Spooner, James Swinton, 1816-1884

Reference: C-030-019

Description: An extensive view from a high point over Wainui Inlet and Golden Bay, with a promontory in the right foreground, with Maori drying fish (including stingrays and barracuda) on racks, individuals and groups standing and sitting. Tata Beach is at the far left foreground of the picture, at Abel Tasman Point. A cabbage tree is in the left foreground. There are more fish-racks, tents and long canoes, some with masts and sails on the beach below in the foreground, with other Maori. A large European vessel in full sail is near the shore. Two other larger European ships and two smaller are out in the deeper water of the bay. A small island on the right may be Taupo Point, which is an island now only at high tide. It may also be one of the Tata Islands. The other island further away is one of the Tata Islands. The hills in the distance across the water are, to the right, the Wakamarama Range, with Mount Burnett on the far right and the Aorere Valley to the left of it. The highest peak on the left is Parapara Peak, and further to the left are the lower hills near Takaka. Purchased from description and assumed to be the work of Charles Heaphy, but seen to be too primitive in style for him. Another suggestion has been W. F. E. Liardet, but it is not his style. Also suggested has been James Swinton Spooner, an artist and surveyor with the New Zealand Company in Nelson in 1843. However, the Library has no other examples of his work with which to make a comparison. The Maori activities and the absence of any major European presence (apart from the ships) do suggest a date in the 1840s. Probably Tata Bay. Compare also Charles Heaphy's The Anchorage at Massacre Bay, with very similar terrain. Modern Aorere is upstream from the coast on the Aorere River. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Other Titles - James Swinton Spooner Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 760 x 555 mm

Date: [ca 1900-1908]

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

Reference: 1/2-001435-G

Description: View of St Faith's Church (old church), at Ohinemutu, taken from the lakeside looking south. In the foreground a Maori woman is washing clothes at the lake edge while a young boy stands nearby. Photograph taken in early 1900s by William A Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Washing day. Ohinemutu. Rotorua. 1354. William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1895-1905]

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

Reference: 1/2-001117-G

Description: View taken at Whakarewarewa showing women and young girls holding bags containing potatoes ready to place in a hot pool to be cooked. Guide Sophia in second from left; the rest of the group have not been identified. There is a wooden building in the background. A copy made by William Archer Price from a photograph taken by an unknown photographer in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 205 Cooking at Whakarewarewa. Placing potatoes in boiling pool. William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches