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Date: 1850-1909

By: Baines family

Reference: MS-Papers-1125

Description: Correspondence and diary of William Mortimer Baines who came to New Zealand in 1850 on the `Sir Edward Paget'. The papers deal with his interests in mining, timber and land. Includes letters from the Fooks, Dixon and Hunt families of Australia. Includes letters from Maryanne Verdon Baines (1859-1869), mostly to her husband after his departure for England. These are concerned to a large extent with her loneliness in Auckland and with plans for her voyage to England. In addition there are a number of letters written in 1869, by Maryanne and William's children, Fanny, Katherine and Rosa. Source of title - Supplied William Mortimer, came to New Zealand in 1850 on the `Sir Edward Paget'. In 1869 he returned to Britain, although he retained a financial interest in land in New Zealand. Quantity: 10 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (photocopies) Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1865-1911

By: Northwood Brothers (Firm); Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6996

Description: A printed christmas message from the headmaster, Frederick Knapp, to the pupils of Central Girls' College, Nelson 1907; carts on Commerce Street, Kaitaia, one passing the Kaitaia Hotel ca 1890s; newspaper photograph of early Nelson settlers W H Cole and M P Hargreaves in 1924 taken by Tyree; two of bullock teams in Kaitaia; Devonport and Northcote ferry terminal in Auckland ca 1911; girls of Nelson College for Girls with L Sheat on the left of the second row with Muriel Bell next to her in 1914; Awanui looking towards the wharf ca 1914 by Northwood Bros; Marsland Hill Memorial to the men who died in the New Zealand Wars in New Plymouth designed and erected by W Parkinson & Co, Auckland; seated portrait of Thomas Thompson 1865; a group of gum diggers outside Tynan's gum store in Waihopo ca 1890s; a group of Maori adults and children on an outing by bullock team, one man holding a concertina ca 1890s; a group of twelve Austrian gum diggers some with shovels and one holding a cat ca 1890s; Elizabeth Levestam and her four sons ca 1900; three of the camp site set up by a surveying party in the Victoria Valley ca 1890; the school at Richmond with the children lined up in the yard ca 1900s; the Anglican church at Richmond 1910; Headingly, the home of Thomas Thompson with Mrs Thompson and her eldest son in front of it 1911; a carriage outside a house holding about 12 people; John Sheat ca 1880; Alfred Sheat ca 1880; and Victoria Street, Hamilton showing a number of shops and businesses and some advertising hoardings on the left 1908. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-007700 and 007708 Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original negative(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Albumen prints and silver gelatin prints

Date: 1885, [ca June 1946]

By: Shepherd, R (Mr), active 1983

Reference: PA-Group-00453

Description: Collection comprises: Photograph of Colonial Ammunition Company, Mount Eden, Auckland, taken 1885 by an unidentified photographer Aerial photograph of Mount Eden, Auckland, showing Henderson & Pollard Ltd and the Colonial Ammunition Company, taken ca June 1946 by Whites Aviation Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: 1/2-136066 is a copy negative created from print at PAColl-0268..

Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Spratt, Henry Thomas, 1827-1908; Smith, Barry, active 1990s

Reference: E-572

Description: Includes sketches of scenes in Taranaki, Auckland, Tauranga, Rotorua, and Wairoa. Artist attributed by inscription inside front cover. Artist assumed to be Dr Henry Thomas Spratt, rather than his son Henry Howell Spratt. See Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Volume 1, Wellington, page 884. Boxed with two sketchbooks by Jock McEwen. There is no connection with this sketchbook and the Jock McEwen sketchbooks Inscriptions: Album page - [Inside front cover]: Dr Spratt / Greytown W. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Sketchbook of 10 leaves, interleaved with tissue, size 184 x 246 mm. Provenance: Donated by Barry Smith in 1999. Donor is descendant of William Mein Smith.

Date: ca 1870s

Reference: PAColl-4511

Description: Photographs of Queen Street, Auckland; sailing ships moored in Auckland harbour; Government House, Auckland; the Auckland Supreme Court; Lyttelton, with a church in the middle distance and commercial buildings in the foreground; Dunedin Hospital (built in 1864); view looking down Princes Street towards the Exchange Building (built as the Post Office but never used as such) with business premises on either side of the street and a sign for a dentist's on the right; the Exchange Building with a horse and cart to the left; and the town reservoir, Dunedin. Photographer unidentified but they have similar captions below the image. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-002193, 002206, 002207, 002215, 002367, 002368, 002370, 002379, and 002838 Quantity: 9 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1895 - 1897

By: Weeks Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-1895/1897

Description: Includes: 1895?: Wednesday popular concert, Wellington (with Mabel Jones, Mr F W Jones, Mr E J Hill, Miss Parsons, Mr J M Clark, Mrs H J Miller, Mr W J Haybittle). 5 June [1895?]. Flier / programme Wednesday popular concerts, Wellington (with Mabel Jones, Mr F W Jones, Mr Geo Parsons, Mrs H J Miller, Mr J M Clark, Miss Clarice Brabazon, Mr E J Hill, Mr Walter Haybittle). 5 June [1895?]. Flier / programme 1895: Auckland College and Grammar School Old Boys Association. Celebration of the twenty-sixth anniversary of the foundation of the school. Programme of smoke concert. Sydenham Presbyterian Church. Soiree and concert; welcome to Rev R S Allan. Thursday October 10, 1895. Programme /flier. Weeks, Printer, High Street, Christchurch - 13016. (With performers Mr Lovell, Miss Neave, Mr John McLean, Miss Watson, Mr Russell Halley, Misses Kissel and Bella Forrester, Miss Aggie Currie, Mr H Johnston, Miss Picken, Mr A J Sparkes) 1896: Caledonian Society of Wellington. Eleventh annual concert under the patronage and in the presence of His Excellency the Earl of Glasgow, the Countess of Glasgow & suite. opera House, 24 September 1896. Conductor Mr John McGlashan, accompanist Miss Upham, director of music Mr John Jack. Programme (With performers Mr Hugh Wright, Miss Orr, The McGregors, Mr D Campbell, Miss Jeanie Ramsay, Mr A S Paterson, Mr A Nicol) Wellington Industrial Exhibition 1896-7. Evening opening performance in Entertainment Hall, 18 November 1896. Programme (With Maugham Barnett's Musical Society performing "Hinemoa" by Arthur H Adams and Alfred F Hill; and the Festival Choral Society singing psalms and anthems, including anthem "The earth is the Lord's" composed by T Tallis Trimnell) (2 copies) Wellington Industrial Exhibition. First national night (England), under the direction of Mr Robert Parker. Programme (With performers Miss Dugdale, Mrs Burfoot, Madame Eveleen Carlton, Mr R B Williams, Mr J Murrell, Mr J Whittall) 1897: Whiteley Hall. Orpheus Musical Club's concert. 15 July 1897. Cowen's cantata "The rose maiden". Taranaki Herald Print. Programme / flier. Quantity: 7 programmes. Physical Description: Letterpress items, varying sizes up to quarto.

Date: 1842

By: Mathew, Felton, 1801-1847

Reference: A-220-002

Description: Coastal profiles of New Zealand coastlines Copied from pencil drawings Other Titles - North Island Inscriptions: Signed Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of survey drawings

Date: [Circa 1870s-1880s]

From: Sarney, H F (Mr), fl 1959 :Photograph albums of New Zealand scenes

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-065

Description: Album of landscapes taken by various photographers including Wheeler & Sons and the Burton Brothers, circa 1870s and 1880s. All the views are of New Zealand except the last sequence (p 33-37) showing Rio de Janeiro. Of particular interest are views of a wool wagon drawn by oxen, crossing a ford; a series showing an unidentified curved viaduct under construction (p 28-32); and a number showing a farm run by J F L Jetter at Te Puke when the land was partially cleared, with cattle grazing in paddocks, and Mr Jetter standing by a horse in a paddock in front of his home. Many of the images show uncleared land, with a deep ravine filled with native bush and tree ferns, and a stream running through (p 24-27). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover with embossed diamond shape pattern, bordered with gold; 32 x 38 cm

Date: 1853-1885

By: Richmond, Christopher William (Hon), 1821-1895

Reference: E-284

Description: Include views of Central Otago, West Coast, Marlborough, Wellington, Bream Head, Egypt, England, France, voyage to England, seascapes, yachts and ships. For details see records for individual pages. At head of title: Richmond and Atkinson family papers, vol 45. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) containing. 85 drawing(s) (pencil). 4 drawing(s) pencil and ink. 1 drawing(s) pencil and wash. Physical Description: Art originals, pencil, 170 x 230 mm or smaller, in album, 240 mm, 1/2 blue moroccco, blue buckram Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - acc. 77-253: Richmond and Atkinson papers.

Date: 1870-1890

From: Saxby, Stephen Hector, 1907- :Photograph albums

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Ring, James, 1856-1939; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-q-213

Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand and Pacific scenes, compiled ca 1870s-1880s. Includes views of Nelson. Bridge over the Waiau River near Hanmer. Hutt Valley (showing junction of Belmont Road), Manaia (showing Dr Hector, and oysters in foreground). James Hector's house `Ratanui,'near Petone, his family, and views from the house. Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu (showing flooding, acclimatisation ponds, and the road between Queenstown and Martin's Bay). Greymouth. Castle Hill. White Island. Mount Ruapehu. Otira Gorge. Arthur River. Milford Sound (with steamship Rotorua). Christchurch. Auckland (including a series of interior views of Kilbryde, the home of Sir John Logan Campbell). Cable car over Taramakau River. Hawks Crag. Brunnerton. Arnold river. Arthur's Pass. Buller River. Denniston (showing coal mines and incline). Mount Cook. Wellington (including views of the Botanic Garden). Lake Mapourika. Sutherland Falls. Tahiti. Wanganui. The Wainuiomata Reservoir. Napier. Photographers represented include W T L Travers (scenes on Waiau river), Hart, Campbell & Co (Queenstown and Wakatipu), James Ring (Greymouth, Castle Hill, and Buller), H T Lock (Hawks Crag and Denniston), Wheeler & Son (Christchurch), Connolly & Co (Wellington Botanic Garden) and Burton Brothers (Sutherland Falls). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded maroon cover, entitled "New Zealand ferns"; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: ca 1880

Reference: PAColl-7406

Description: Photographs of Auckland including: looking across the harbour to Devonport; the Rakaia in Caliope dock; the Scotch church; looking down College Hill; Victoria Street looking across Queen Street to Albert Park showing businesses in the area such as Sharland & Co and R White boot shop; Mount Eden; the Supreme Court; the flagpole and cannons at the top of Albert Park looking out over the harbour; two views of Karangahape Road showing shops, carriages and carts; the first St Matthew's Church; St Paul's Church on Symonds Street; the public hospital showing the tennis court in front and the screens on the balconies; houses on Franklin Road, Ponsonby; the Railway Station with advertising for the New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd and Arthur Cleave & Co; Ponsonby Road with a church on the left and J Clarke, undertakers, on the right; Ponsonby Road with a bakers and butchers on the right; the Synagogue on Princes Street; looking north along Queen Street with the DSC building on the right; a ship in dry-dock at the wharves; Hobson Street with St Matthew's Church on the right; and four views of the wharves including one showing the ferry. Photographs of Lyttelton: two elevated views to the harbour one with a church in the centre and the other with an artist painting the view at an easel; the railway lines at the wharves; and three men next to coal carts being loaded with coal from a ship at the wharves. Described on the reverse of the file prints as "copy negatives taken from faded prints". Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004172 to 004200 Quantity: 30 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 23 Dec 1841-30 Jun 1846

By: Bambridge, William, 1819-1879; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: MS-0129-0132

Description: The diaries give detailed descriptions of life in the mission settlements, frequent references to Selwyn's work, and numerous drawings of New Zealand scenes Relationship complexity - Volume 5 (1846-1848) is shelved at qMS-0122 William Bambridge sailed from England with Bishop Selwyn in the Tomatin, 23 Dec 1841. He was appointed writing master at St John's College till 1848 when he returned to England Quantity: 4 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs (Various sizes and bindings, in ¼ red morocco red buckram slip cases) Provenance: Purchased by Alexander H Turnbull, 1914. Numerous illustrations

Date: 1849 - 1858 - 1872 - 1875

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horse racing in New Zealand]

By: Auckland Racing Club

Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-RACING-1840/1870s

Description: Includes programmes for: 1849: Auckland races. First day, Tuesday December 11, 1848 (silk flier / programme). 1858: Auckland races. First day, January 1, 1858. Silk flier / programme. 1872: Waikato annual races, 28 and 29 February 1872. First day. 1874: Kowai Park races, May 29 1874. (Colour photocopy only; original is in Enys, John D. (John Davies), 1837-1912. [Natural history, agriculture and other topics. 1869-1874], page 8 - Ref P f591.9931 ENY 1869-1874). Horse owners include Messrs Markey, Lunn and D W S O'Brien 1875: Wellington Jockey Club Races to be held at the Hutt Racecourse on Tuesday and Wednesday, December 7 and 8, 1875. First day, Tuesday December 7. Blundell Bros, Printers, Wellington. [Programme card]. Quantity: 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (racing programmes). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on fliers, some silk, sizes varying up to 210 mm. Provenance: Some purchased from Anah Dunsheath in 2005. 1875 programme from the papers of Marjorie Connell, 2006.

Date: 17 Feb 1884-3 Jan 1885

By: Wright, Alfred, active 1884-1885

Reference: MS-Papers-1755

Description: Letters from Wright to family in England describing voyage to Auckland on the `Lady Jocelyn', his work as carpenter on arrival and comments on social and economic conditions One letter is written on the `Ruapehu', in the English Channel (3 Dec 1885) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typed transcripts (photocopies)

Date: 7 Jan 1853-3 Dec 1880, 1922, 1939,1946

By: Smith, Elizabeth Gael, active 1946-2006

Reference: MS-Group-1550

Description: Collection comprises: Two letters and one telegram to Mr David Smith concerning employment on power line construction at Maungatapere and Tutira, and possible accommodation there. From Robert Williamson and C McIntyre. Also includes correspondence relating to the McLeod family, Nova Scotian settlers of Waipu. A letter to Rev Norman McLeod in Australia and letters to his daughter-in-law, Margaret McLeod, and her family, from her sister Catherine Matheson and her family. A copy of the booklet `Idyll of the Shipbuilders' on the history of the Nova Scotia settlement at Waipu. Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typed transcripts, printed matter Transfers: Material received into Manuscripts, material transferred from here to the Published Collection, November 2006 - From Photographic Archive - Three letters - To Published Collections - Copies of `Idyll of the Shipbuilders' (PR-06-0568).

Date: [ca 1880-1922]

By: Le Grice, Edward, 1881-1959; Lennard, Leslie Maurice Wyn, 1903-1988

Reference: PAColl-0398

Description: Photographs by Edward Le Grice of Piha and Huia showing the coastline, streams and the houses of early residents including Le Grice's boarding house. The collection also includes photographs of sawmills and bullock teams hauling kauri logs. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Copies of original prints Provenance: Donated by Maurice Lennard, Pukekohe, 1983

Date: 1860-1884 (1894)

By: O'Halloran, George S, 1844?-

Reference: MS-Papers-1345

Description: O'Halloran arrived in Australia in 1860 from Ireland and held a variety of jobs in Melbourne and Victoria before coming to New Zealand in 1861. He worked at gold mining in Otago, hotel and store-keeping, driving and contracting in the Thames, Auckland, and central North Island. He spent nine years with the Mounted Militia, 1865-1874, in Taranaki, central North Island and East Coast and saw frequent action. O'Halloran returned in Australia in 1884. This autobiography was completed in 1894. Quantity: 2 folder(s) (132 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: [ca 1903]

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: PA1-f-195-76

Description: Scenes in Christchurch, Temuka and Mount Roskill, taken by unidentified photographers The upper photograph (PA1-f-195-76-1) shows a group at the back of a grand stand in Christchurch, circa 1903. The middle photograph (PA1-f-195-76-2) is a group portrait taken in Temuka, circa 1903. Lord and Lady Ranfurly are 3rd and 5th from the left respectively. Dudley Henry Alexander is on the far right. The lower, left photograph (PA1-f-195-76-3) and the lower, right photograph (PA1-f-195-76-4) depict the laying of the foundation stone for the Ranfurly Veteran's home, in Mount Roskill, Auckland, in 1903. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Four photographic prints mounted on album page, 416 x 286 mm (page size)

Date: 1835-1978

By: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Diocese of Auckland

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-19

Description: The collection is of selected baptismal registers deposited in the Auckland Diocesan Office Archives. Where the registers have also been used concurrently for marriages and burials, those pages have been included. Maori registers have been identified as such. Source of title - Title transcribed The Auckland Diocese covers the area from the Archdeaconaries of Waimate in the north to Hunua in the south. Quantity: 21 microfilm reel(s) positive. Physical Description: Mss (microfilm) Finding Aids: An inventory details the contents of each reel and registers are arranged in alphabetical order with some minor variations. The inventory gives the name of the church, parish, dates and indicates if it is a Maori register..

Date: 1852-1930

By: New Zealand. Lands and Deeds Office (Auckland)

Reference: 99-234

Description: Conveyances and mortgages for the Auckland land registration area. There are no documents for 1853, 1855-1858, 1860-1862, 1890-1894, 1899, and 1915 Relationship complexity - See also Deeds and conveyances (73-149). Provenance unknown but very likely part of the same collection Arrangement: Arranged in chronological order Quantity: 2 box(es) (24 folders). 0.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs Provenance: Unknown Donor/Lender/Vendor - Provenance unknown. Box labelled `Conveyances ex Sydney Street MSS Room 10/12/68'