Places

Date: [1931?]

Reference: PAColl-9376

Description: Photograph of King Koroki's carved house at Ngaruawahia taken (1931?) by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15.5 x 21 cm

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-009

Description: View from across the Waikato River towards the main buildings of the Maori king's residence. The long low building on the left is the 'General's quarters', the 'King's palace' is in the centre with dark red barge boards, the 'council chambers' are futher to the right and the closest building and the flagstaff is on the far right. There are two small canoes at the landing place, along with people and horses. There are also tents amongst the remaining buildings on the site Copied from a watercolour by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams 'Ngaruawahia from opposite bank of Waikato. 1864' in E. A. Williams' diary in the Hocken Library, p. 77 (The Turnbull holds a slide of this view) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 98 x 187 mm

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-010

Description: A few of the outer buildings of Ngaruawahia with tents and a fence to the left. Three men, two standing, one on horseback are in the left foreground. A paddle steamer is crossing the Waikato River, towing two small barges, on the right. Hills on the other side of the river. Copied from a watercolour by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams 'Ngaruawahia 1864' in E. A. Williams' notebook in the Hocken Library, p.41 (The Turnbull holds a slide of this view) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 121 x 205 mm

Date: 1864 - 1870

Reference: B-174-003

Description: Shows a view across a river, to the settlement of Ngaruawahia on the far side, with the Māori King's residence, tents and huts and a red flag flying. A Māori man in traditional cloak surveys the scene from the centre foreground holding a taiaha. There is a paddlesteamer in the river at the right. The presence of military tents probably means the scene dates from the Waikato wars 1860-1872. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 245 x 358 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1860

By: Bates, Henry Stratton, 1836-1918; Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979

Reference: A-159-004

Description: View across the Waikato River towards the Maori King's residence and village. 'The house on the extreme left with the sentry box near it is the King's' (note on verso). A large flagpole and ten other houses are visible. A small canoe is in the foreground, with another in the middle distance and others moored at the distant bank. The King was Potatau te Wherowhero Accompanied by letter and newspaper article about the picture. "The house on the extreme left with the sentry box near it is the Kings", and other notes on back Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title; Verso - various inscriptions Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 127 x 170 mm Provenance: Found loose inside volume 2 of Rees' 1892 biography of Sir George Grey. The volume was once the property of the artist, Henry Stratton Bates.

Date: 1863 - 1864

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-074

Description: The front of a wharenui with four Maori seated outside around a cooking pot. The whare has carved bargeboards, and door and window surrounds, and tukutuku panels beneath the verandah roof. On the right is a flax bush, with bush in the background including tree ferns Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 105 x 169 mm

Date: 1860 - 1869

Reference: A-036-014

Description: Shows main residence, flagpole, and king's tomb, at Ngaruawahia; known as Newcastle, not Queenstown, in 1860s. Cf. TL. 3/1/1/, 2/11/80. Also shows the junction of the Waikato and Waipa Rivers Compare a very similar sepia wash sketch, also by an unknown artist, held by Auckland Public Library (Scrapbook relating to Grey (i) GNZ 995.03 G85) entitled Ngaruawahia 18th Nov 1861. Photocopy in Drawings & Prints file prints. Other Titles - Ngaruawahia known as Newcastle in 1860s Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 132 x 202 mm

Date: [ca 1864]

By: Martin, Albin, 1812?-1888

Reference: A-160-008

Description: Shows Ngaruawahia Maori village at the junction of the Waikato and Waipa Rivers with military tents around it. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 120 x 180 mm

Date: Ca 1910

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

Reference: 1/2-001593-G

Description: View along a wide road at Ngaruawahia with houses on the left. Two young girls are going away from the camera, centre left. Photographed in summertime. See a similar image at 1/2-001592, taken in winter, with the two trees centre right without leaves. Photograph taken by William Archer Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Ngaruawahia. No. 3642 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: Circa 1910

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

Reference: 1/2-000956-G

Description: View of Ngaruawahia, showing a bullock team hauling a small office building across a field. There are houses on the slope behind the building. Photographed by William Archer Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Early days. Ngaruawahia. No. 2407 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1864

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

Reference: WC-029

Description: Shows a wharenui with carved barge-boards and entrance porch, two European-style houses, two tents, the lower part of the King's flagstaff inside a fence in the right foreground, and barrels or cooking pots with several people moving around on the marae in front of the wharenui. In the foreground is a pile of planks, with three European men leaning or sitting on it, surveying the scene or conversing. 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 - Title on mount: Kings palace & flagstaff. Ngaruawahia. N.Zd 1864 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink. Additional title & date in pencil on backing board lower right Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 157 x 235 mm Provenance: By descent to Wilkie family.

Date: Circa 1910

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

By: Fleming, Robert Stanley, active 1910-1915

Reference: 1/2-000974-G

Description: View of the Waikato River at Ngaruawahia. The railway bridge crosses the river centre left, the Ngaruawahia Rowing Club building is centre right, with several houses on the road behind the rowing club. Photographed by R.S.F. (probably Robert Stanley Fleming, owner of the Novelty Depot, Ngaruawahia). Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Waikato River view. Ngaruawahia. 38; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - R.S.F. Protd 1.8.10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches