Places

Date: 1930

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-048206-G

Description: People on the beach at Days Bay, Lower Hutt, in 1930. Includes a man in a bathing costume, women with parasols and sun hats and a baby in a pram in the foreground. The ferry `Muritai' is docked at the Days Bay Wharf in the background. Appears to have been taken on the same day as 1/2-048207. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [1902-1922]

From: Miller, E D N :Photographs by Isaac Jeffares, and of family

Reference: PA4-0299

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the the new `Lauderdale' arriving at Greymouth, taken by Isaac Henry Bowen Jeffares ca 1900-1922. Note on back of photograph reads: S S Kittawa Grey bar Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 2001

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: Smith, Ashley W, 1948-; New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DX-023-175

Description: The scene is the disembarkation door of the Arahanga. A bearded and cobweb- covered passenger who thought he was getting off the ship in Picton is faced with an Indian cityscape and men brandishing hammers and saws. Extended Title - Boy, Picton has certainly got cosmpolitan. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

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-006

Description: Shows two men on bank in foreground pointing out the small sailing boat arriving. At right distance is house on crest of hill. E-400-f-007 is on verso. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J.P.B. / 13.3.71; Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and monochrome wash, 261 x 370 mm.

Date: 2013

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0024057

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key dressed as a pirate, standing on rocks along side the sea, and conjuring a ghost pirate ship of 'boat people'. The figures on the ship call out, 'Job! Job!' and the words, 'fear of immigrants' appears in the sky. Refers to a controversial plan for New Zealand to resettle 150 of Australia's refugees and asylum seekers (commonly referred to as 'boat people') each year. (One News, 9 Feb 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1866

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: D-040-002

Description: A view from Bluff Hill, Napier, looking north down to Westshore and Port Ahuriri. There are houses on a spit of land surrounded by water and further low-lying islands without houses. A steam ship and a number of sailing ships can be seen in the harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C D Barraud / N.Z. 1866 See also NON-ATL-P-0124, which describes a photograph taken of this painting. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 515 x 735 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase: privately owned, Hawke's Bay. Previously purchased from McArthur's auction, Auckland, 1980s? Prior to that from Sotheby's, London.

Date: 2013

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0025431

Description: Shows a ship labelled 'United Future' and featuring Peter Dunne's haircut sinking head first, while some rats jump ship. Refers to the seeming political demise of United Future leader Peter Dunne, whose fortunes were rapidly declining: he has lost his ministerial salary, his Crown limo and his party's registration and has been stripped of his status as a leader in Parliament at a cost of more than $100,000. It was also ruled that United Future no longer qualified for taxpayer party funding and that Mr Dunne would be treated as an independent MP in Parliament. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: [Between 1923 and 1928]

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-0220-F

Description: View over Nelson port area looking out to sea. Ship berthed at wharf. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - The Port No. 443 - Nelson Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.9 x 110.9 cm

Date: 1872

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington, George Hildebrand, 1850-1905

Reference: A-446-038

Description: Shows a view of three men on the deck of the Crusader, which sailed from London in October 1872 and arrived in Lyttelton in January 1873. Two of the men are painted in mostly grey-black hues, but the man in the foreground has on a brown double-breasted jacket and fawn trousers, and a black hat. He sports a thick black beard and smokes a pipe. It might be assumed that this is a picture of George Hildebrand Alington on his passage to New Zealand. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Onboard the Crusader 1872; Verso - bottom left - This side not very clean Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, pencil and pen on paper, 180 x 127 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.

Date: 1884 - 1885

From: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm) :[Sample album of greeting cards, produced by A D Willis of Wanganui. ca 1885]

Reference: E-936-f-023-2

Description: Shows a view from the sea looking into the entrance to the sound, with a tiny steamer dwarfed by the surrounding mountains. The message included reads 'Many happy returns of the day' Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 105 x 145 mm

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

Reference: E-943-q-008-1

Description: Shows Rangitoto Island, North Head and Mt Victoria, the Waitemata Harbour with sailing ships and a steam ship in the distance, painted from the top of Grafton Gully, near where the Connell family lived in Khyber Pass Road. The bush is dense in the foreground, and houses in fenced sections can be seen on the inclines either side of the gully, with more houses in the middle distance.The painting is on a piece of "Goodall's Bristol Board", the stamp of which appears in the bottom left corner Unsigned and undated. Very similar in aspect and detail to John Guise Mitford's 'Entrance to the harbour, Auckland' (E-216-f-041), painted in or about 1843 and which appears in the Hobson Album. Information about that painting states that one of the houses on the right of the picture (and likely on the right of this album's picture) is the home of the Poatmaster General, William Connell, Cherie's father See also E-216-f-111, [View from above Grafton Gully showing graveyard and Government House, Auckland. 1843], also attributed to Mitford, which again shows an almost identical view to Auckland Harbour from Grafton Gully, with the house on the right possibly being that of the Connell family Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and gum arabic on paper, 160x 194 mm pasted to page of album 265 x 220 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs E. J. Templer, UK (formerly of Tasmania), September 2012

Date: [between 1866 and 1880s]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

Reference: 1/1-039675-G

Description: Photograph taken by William Henry Whitmore Davis. Source of descriptive information - Negative register. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 1/1 plate

Date: 2014

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0027571

Description: Cartoon shows a blind pilot in a tugboat tapping a fog cloud with his white cane to determine obstacles while guiding a ship through thick fog in Wellington harbour. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0027677

Description: Cartoon depicts a construction worker in a high visbility jacket and hard hat stand up paddling a log across Whangarei Harbour. In the background is a container ship craning the logs on to the wharf. A speech bubble "Oops" and a few floating logs show some logs have fallen. Refers to near collisions by boaties with floating logs lost when ships are being loaded at Marsden Point. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1845

By: Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898

Reference: C-173-002

Description: Shows a lone gravestone with a small gated surround, high atop a hill above Nelson, with the Boulder Bank in view below. The gravestone is inscribed 'Sacred to the memory of Henry A Bell, aged 19'. Arrow (Fifeshire) Rock is set just out of view of the painting, to the lower left. Various ships and boats can be seen in the Nelson Haven area of Tasman Bay, between the Boulder Bank and the coast. One of the boats is a waka with two sails Bell's brother Henry (called by his middle name, Angelo), went to Nelson about 1841 as secretary to Arthur Wakefield. He died of typhoid within a year of arriving. Like Angelo, Francis was usually called by his middle name, Dillon Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 235 x 315 mm Provenance: Previously purchased from a Parisian dealer, and surfacing at a a French provincial auction. Possibly originally part of the collection of Francis Dillon Bell. Transfers: The Library owns several other works from the same provenance, by William Fox and Charles Heaphy purchased 2006 and 2014 (Reference numbers C-025-025, C-013-007, C-173-001 and A-465-015).

Date: 2014

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0028661

Description: Shows Capt James Cook landing on New Zealand. His feet are covered in marine fouling growth. In the background is his ship and rowboat with drunken sailors and further marine fouling growth. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0029211

Description: Cartoon shows an inspection officer falling backwards off a ladder that has come loose from a ship. A voice says, "Right, so I can assume that you're not quite ready to sign off yet, sir." Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1835

By: Paris, Edmond Francois, 1806-1893; Himely, Sigismond, 1801-1872

Reference: B-195-008

Description: The French ship La Favourite crossing rough seas, to enter the Bay of Islands in stormy conditions in October 1831 during the visit of its captain, LaPlace and his crew The title of the print, and its appearance, suggest that there is a bar, or difficult sea passage at the entrance to the Bay of Islands, near Kororareka (modern Russell). This is not the case A bound copy of this image is held at PUBL-0133-067 Other Titles - La Favourite crossing Kororareka Pass [translation] Extended Title - From: LaPlace, C. P. T. Voyage autour du monde ... La Favourite. Album historique. (Paris, 1835). Plate 67 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Monochrome aquatint, 290 x 380 mm

Date: 1940s

From: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955 :Negatives of New Zealand towns and scenery, and Fiji

Reference: 1/4-020615-G

Description: Side view of the ship 'Dominion Monarch' on Wellington Harbour, photographed by William Hall Raine in the 1940s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1866

By: Murray, Herbert Nicholas, 1899-1974

Reference: 1/2-018448-F

Description: Photograph of the Hokitika River showing ships ashore on the bar, taken 1866, by an unidentified photographer. Note on back of file print reads: "Stopped at the bar - frequent scene at the mouth of NZ rivers. Hokitika River showing vessels ashore 1866." Source of title - Title supplied by Library A print of this identical image is also PA1-o-530, page 28 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative