Places

Date: [192-?]

From: Blair, Mary: Photographs taken in the Gisborne area

Reference: 1/2-015678-F

Description: Greacen Joseph Black in his garden, standing by a Maori wood carving. Photograph taken circa 1920s by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date from PAColl-6513 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1914]

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

Reference: 1/2-000736-G

Description: View of the fountain in Albert Park. A woman nearby with children, and two men are looking at the fountain. Houses in Princes Street can be seen on the lefthandside. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, ca 1914. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Albert Park. Auckland. 717. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1840

From: Polack, Joel Samuel, 1807-1882 :Manners and customs of the New Zealanders. London, James Madden & Hatchard and son, 1840.

By: Polack, Joel Samuel, 1807-1882

Reference: PUBL-0064-2-TP

Description: Two sailing ships and a Maori canoe in the foreground, with other smaller craft beyond. Across the water is the artist's house, with three buildings and a fenced formal garden rising behind the house, a circular bed to the right and a large tree near the top. The name Parramatta, from Parramatta in Sydney, is no longer in use; Kororareka has been renamed as modern Russell Other Titles - Kororareka Extended Title - From: Polack, J. S. Manners and customs of the New Zealanders. London, James Madden & Hatchard and son, 1840. Vol 2, opp. title page. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 72 x 92 mm

Date: ca 1870

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/1-000201-G

Description: Overlooking Wanganui from Shakespeare Cliff, circa 1870. Moutoa Gardens, the battle monument and the courthouse are on the left. Photograph taken by William Harding. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1912]

Reference: PAColl-9488

Description: Postcard with a photograph of the hotel 'Arawa House', Rotorua. Photograph taken circa 1912 by an unidentified photographer. Postcard has a postal date stamp of 191(2?), was sent to Mrs J W Court of Birkenhead, and was addressed to 'Rose'. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on item. Quantity: 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Postcard, 9 x 14 cm, including photomechanical print

Date: 1885

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1879-1888]

Reference: E-035-q-1-036/037

Description: A view from Otago Harbour, looking across at Otago Peninsula and Glenfalloch, with the large house and garden of G G Russell on a rise above the water. A yacht is in the harbour in the right foreground. A preliminary sketch with many colour notes and notes indicating 'rocks', 'clear', 'grass' etc Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream paper across two pages in sketchbook, page size 151 x 240 mm

Date: 1835 - 1836

By: Williams, Samuel, 1788-1853

Reference: PUBL-0031-1836-81

Description: View across a plain, with a flat-topped hill in the background and the Church of England mission station buildings in the middle ground. Two whare, a pataka, and a group of Maori with a dog are in the foreground After a drawing by Samuel Williams 'South-west view of the Waimate' engraved to illustrate William Yate's 'An account of New Zealand' (London, Seeley & Burnside, 1835), opp. p. 192 Other Titles - Williams, Samuel, 1788-1853. South-west view of the Waimate, 1835 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 100 x 150 mm

Date: Aug 1907

From: Longuet, Lenore Liocadia, 1916-2010: Photographs of James John Taine and descendants

Reference: 1/2-041426-F

Description: James John Taine and his daughter Marie, in a garden with a tree fern, at Bluff Hill, Napier, 1907. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-182-029

Description: Looking out across Otago Harbour from the Hodgkins family's house in Ravensbourne, Dunedin Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 175 x 250 mm

Date: 1859

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886; Hutton, Maia Thomas, 1918-1989

Reference: C-003-001

Description: Nine-part panorama, forming a complete circle, of the view from the parsonage attached to St James' Anglican Church, Lower Hutt. The parsonage itself is shown, along with surrounding houses and farms, cleared land, bush and the encompassing hills. There are cows, horses and a man using a plough pulled by two horses Extended Title - South Eastern part of Valley, looking towards Wellington. The distant hills are those lying behind Wellington. Western boundary of hills. St James Parsonage Hutt. Tararua Range in distance, north west end of valley. Hills forming eastern boundary of the valley. Inscriptions: Verso - Most sections have notes in ink as transcribed under title and additional title above Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in 9 sections with linen hinges on verso. Physical Description: Watercolour over pencil in nine sections (mounted in 3 groups of 3) 125 x 159 mm (whole panorama); 125 x 530 mm (each strip)

Date: 1830 - 1838

By: Gardiner, Thomas, active 1830s-1850s; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: A-049-020

Description: Waimate North Mission Station seen from the front, with its flag inscribed Rongopai flying in the foreground and several outbuildings, including a dovecot to the right. The beginnings of a circular garden with two small small bushes and a surrounding drive can be seen in the foreground. The building has dormer windows in the roof and verandah posts. A copy of the engraving after Samuel Williams' 'The missionary house, Waimate' in William Yate's Account of New Zealand (London, Seeley and Burnside, 1835) p. 197 Title from mount Another view of the same house by Richard Taylor, drawn between 1839 and 1843, (NON-ATL-0131) shows much more development in the garden, including climbing plants, possibly roses, growing up onto the roof of the house, a fenced-in verandah, a garden developed in front of the verandah, and a much more developed central circular garden bed in the foreground The artist, Gardiner, is known to have copied other views of both New Zealand and Tasmania, published between 1835 and 1856. None of his work is signed, and the source of his name is unknown, although it may have come from the owner of his work in the 1950s, Captain A W F Fuller. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 175 x 250 mm Provenance: Previously Collection of Capt A W F Fuller, London (died 1961).

Date: ca 1930s

From: Wilkinson, Alexander Stanley, 1881?-1962 :Negatives

Reference: W-0532-1/2-G

Description: View of a rock garden with plants in flower on Kapiti Island. Probably part of the well developed garden established by Utauta and Hona Webber on their property at Waiorua, Kapiti Island. Utauta Webber (nee Parata) was the last surviving child of Wi Parata Te Kakakura Waipunaahau to live on Kapiti Island. Her father was one of the largest land owners on Kapiti. Utauta and her husband Hona farmed Waiorua-Kapiti until the late 1940s or early 50s when they retired to Paraparaumu. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1847

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-061

Description: A detailed view of the houses and streets in the town from a high viewpoint, (the hill behind St Mary's Church) looking out to the west towards the sea. St Mary's Church and the churchyard are in the left foreground. The names of several house-owners are given, along with details of other features, including the houses of [William] Lakeman, Dorset, [Richard] Brown, "G. Inn" [Government Inn?] New Zealand Company houses [i.e. the immigration barracks], the gaol, Kawau Pa on the right, near the sea, a store (or stone?) house, the mill [Huatoki] stream, grass, streets, the bridge and gardens. The position of the South Huatoki Reef is also given, just out to sea, in line with the corner of the pa on the right. Brougham Street runs down the centre of the view, diagonally from the right bottom corner, with Vivian Street branching off to the right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 163 x 243 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1830 - 1858 - 1843 - 1860

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886; Williams, Henry, 1792-1867; Lennard, Leslie Maurice Wyn, 1903-1988

Reference: A-048-007

Description: A lawn in front, with croquet hoops, inset garden and winding paths on both sides, leading to the house, with an outbuilding on the right and trees on both sides. A woman is moving along the path on the right and another on the path on the left. Henry Williams moved into this house in 1830. There is a drawing of the house by him in Auckland Institute and Museum, location PD 52 (2). The Library has a photograph of the drawing under Williams, Henry. House at Paihia ... 1830. Possibly the work of T B Hutton, Williams' son-in-law. He visited Paihia about 1858-1860. The style appears similar to his work. Other Titles - Archdeacon Henry Williams' house. Thomas Biddulph Hutton, 1859 1860 Inscriptions: Recto - Old mission house at Paihia. Archdeacon Henry Williams' house later mostly demolished by Rev. Burrows. Re Mrs Colenso making mortar from observing Bp Williams making it for building stone building close to this house (lathe & plaster) which was the 1st stone house built in N.Z. - Burnt down & ruins now stand. (1914). [Inscription in pencil by an unknown owner of the watercolour, many years after its creation] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & pencil, 124 x 182 mm Provenance: Owned by a Mr Lennard of Auckland in the 1960s, possibly Mr Maurice Lennard of Pukekohe (a donor to the Library in 1981).

Date: [ca 1887-1889]

By: Connolly & Herrmann (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-028386-F

Description: Farmhouse at Longwood Station, Wairarapa. Members of the Pharazyn family stand in the garden. Taken by Connolly & Hermann circa 1887-1889. Shows from left: unidentified, unidentified, Charles Pharazyn, Maud E Pharazyn, possibly Ella Pharazyn, possibly Charles Elgar, possibly Mabel Pharazyn, and Mary Pharazyn. This house was the property of Charles Pharazyn, who lived there for most of his life Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1894]

From: Bibby, Edward Stuart, 1896-1991: Collection

Reference: PAColl-5636-1-10

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer circa 1894, showing the Bibby family home at 11 Rose Street, Waipawa. On the front steps are James Woodhouse Bibby holding daughter Ann, his wife, Mary Glover Bibby, and a maid. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 15.5 x 11 cm

Date: 1878

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903

Reference: A-226-009

Description: Part of a garden in the foreground with young trees and a fence and gate. A cluster of shops and houses nearby, with other houses in the distance on a low hill amidst cleared bush Note on lithograph: Halbombe from Mr Skiswill's garden Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (two-tone) 109 x 195 mm

Date: 1873 - 1877

By: Horsfall, John Atherton, 1819-1900

Reference: B-079-030

Description: Looking towards the Taita Gorge, with a road and houses in garden settings to the right, a stream in the foreground, cattle grazing, two dead trees and further houses in the centre, and hills behind Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 281 x 495 mm

Date: 1869

By: Bothamley, Arthur Thomas, 1846-1938; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-032-016

Description: View across Wellington Harbour with the Hutt Valley and Tararua Range in the background towards the left. In the foreground, on gently sloping land, are two small sheds or houses and a larger two-storied house, the latter with a fenced garden with trees. According to a note on the back 'From window in Princess Hotel at top of Molesworth St w. Mrs Bannantyne's later Pynsents in Hobson St. A T. Bothamley'. Inscriptions: Recto - title, date and signature in pencil; further information about location of the view Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 140 x 254 mm

Date: 1844 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: B-031-036

Description: Map of Porirua Harbour, Paramata, Plimmerton and Pukerua districts with Mana Island. Location of several pa sites indicated: Wairaka Pa near Pukerua Bay; Taupo Pa (built 1844) at Plimmerton, Warakoua Pa on Porirua Harbour's North shore, and a pa at Titahi Bay. Also shows location of Jackson's Hotel, Thom's hotel and whaling station, Maori gardens beyond Taupo pa and Maori path to Pukerua Bay. Subdivisions of land are indicated around Porirua Harbour. Attributed to Charles Heaphy until 1993, because sketches referred to in title were thought to be Heaphy's. Reattribution to Brees because 1. Brees was Principal surveyor for the N.Z.Company and the map shows land subdivisions. 2. Handwriting very similar to Brees' on MS map held by the Admiralty (photo held by Cartographic Collection (823 at / 1844-5 / acc 855) 3. Indications of points of view of sketches can mostly be linked with known originals by Brees. The following list gives the numbers on this map followed by titles and plate numbers of the matching illustration from Brees' Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand (London, 1847). No.21 [i.e. no. 1 or 2?] = Porirua Harbour no. 35, described as looking towards the north from near Jackson's towards Thom's. No.3. Thom's whaling station, Porerua, no.14. No.4. Porerua Harbour no. 29; also Porirua Harbour, ATL's watercolour (B-031-006), looking south towards Thom's and Paramata Pa. No.5. Paramata Pa, Porerua, no.52. No.6 Porerua Bay, no.12. Taken from the native path towards Pukerua, showing the "native potatoe gardens". No.7 Island of Mana. No.8. No parallel image traced. No.9 Pokaroa and the Island of Kapiti, no.37. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Title. Other place names and geographical features elsewhere. "Portfolio D. Marked &c by Mrs Allom" inscribed above title by the New Zealand Company Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & Watercolour 319 x 409 mm on laid paper, watermarked 1840 Provenance: New Zealand Company; purchased by A.H.Turnbull in 1915.