Places

Date: ca 1898-1905

By: Parker, Daniel, active 1890-1911; Main, William, 1934-2023

Reference: PAColl-7431

Description: Photographs of Kamo (Whangarei), Rodney County and Coromandel, taken, probably in the 1900s, by Daniel P Parker of Coromandel. Includes views of the construction on a timber dam (probably in Coromandel), Coromandel Public Hospital, Kennedy Bay (Coromandel), a stream crossing between Opitonui and Coromandel, bush camps in the Coromadel district and a traffic bridge in Rodney County. Daniel P Parker is recorded in the Wise's Post Office directories as an engineer in Coromandel from 1902 to 1930. Between 1906 and 1911 he is also recorded as a photographer. Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1864 - 1865

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Harris, A, active 1864; Martin, Albin, 1812?-1888; Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: E-106-f-039-2

Description: Shows a man on horseback to the right, approaching flat land at the edge of Coromandel Harbour, houses, hills and the harbour in the distance Possibly based on a watercolour in the Library's collection by A. Harris, reference number B-035-009. However the associated text states that the set of Coromandel views is 'from sketches by Mr Allen Martin'. This may be an error for Albin Martin. A. Harris may have copied his view from the Illustrated London news, not supplied the original. Other Titles - Kapanga Flat Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 150 x 240 mm

Date: 1853

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: E-144-062

Description: Half-length three-quarters frontal portrait of Te Horeta te Taniwha. He has moko, a greenstone ear adornment and wears a hei tiki. He wears a white European shirt, Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: Chas. Heaphy. Title bottom centre in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour, original, 12 x 9 in

Date: 1886

By: J H Bethune and Company Ltd

Reference: PAColl-1830

Description: Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envlope.

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: 1880 - 1890

From: Willis, Archibald Dudingston (Firm) :N. Z. Christmas cards. - Wanganui ; A.D. Willis [1886 or later].

Reference: E-068-017-1

Description: A circular view of Coromandel township from the hills behind, looking out to sea, framed by a red-berried plant, possibly cotoneaster. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chomolithograph 104 x 72 mm on album page ca 137 x 180 mm

Date: 1864 - 1865

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Harris, A, active 1864; Martin, Albin, 1812?-1888; Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: E-372-f-020

Description: Shows a man on horseback to the right, approaching flat land at the edge of Coromandel Harbour, houses, hills and the harbour in the distance Possibly based on a watercolour in the Library's collection by A. Harris, reference number B-035-009. However the associated text states that the set of Coromandel views is 'from sketches by Mr Allen Martin'. This may be an error for Albin Martin. A. Harris may have copied his view from the Illustrated London news, not supplied the original. Other Titles - Kapanga Flat Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 155 x 235 mm

Date: [ca 1890s-1940s]

By: Vine, H R, active 1939

Reference: PAColl-6604

Description: The collection covers mining buildings; interior machinery including the use of scales and smelting; miners both at work and posed for the camera; panning for gold; mine railways and the carts used on them; general views of the area; and other houses and buildings in the area. Also included are the building of the power house for the Talisman Gold Mining Company in Karangahake, a gold mine battery possibly in Karangahake, and a coach pulled by five horses possibly in the Karangahake district. The dating is from the vehicles in some of the images and the geographical area is from information in the negative accession register. Photographer possibly H R Vine. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015702, 015704 to 015711 and 015713 to 015774; 1/2-023583 to 023585 Quantity: 68 b&w original negative(s) film. 3 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass negatives

Date: 1899

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: PA1-f-195-64

Description: Scenes in the East Coast, Coromandel and Northland, taken in 1899 during visits by Lord Ranfurly, by unknown photographers. The top photograph (PA1-f-195-64-1) shows Te Tokanganui A Noho meeting house, Te Kuiti. The photograph in the 4th row (PA1-f-195-55-2) shows a group at St Paul's, Whangaroa. The photograph in the 3rd row, left, shows a welcoming party at Kawa Kawa, Hicks Bay. The photograph in the 3rd row, right (PA1-f-195-64-4) shows a haka party at a marae near Gisborne. The photograph in the 2nd row, left (PA1-f-195-64-5) shows an official party at a meeting house near Gisborne. Lord Ranfurly is standing near the right of the group. The photograph in the 2nd row, right (PA1-f-195-64-6) shows a group in front of a kauri log, Kaihu forest. Captain Collin Post of the Tutanekai is standing 3rd from left. Richard John Seddon is 4th from left, and James Carroll is 5th from left. The photograph in the bottom row, left (PA1-f-195-64-7) is a view of Coromandel. The photograph in the bottom row, right (PA1-f-195-64-8) shows a group at Waitangi. Hone Heke MP is standing 4th from left. James Carroll is standing 6th from left, wearing a bowler hat. Richard John Seddon is standing 8th from left. Charles Hill-Trevor is standing 9th from left, with his hand to his face, wearing a top hat. Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Eight photographic prints mounted on album page 416 x 286 mm (page size).

Date: 1888

Reference: Eph-B-GOLD-1888-01

Description: Single sheet reports on the company's profits and dividends, as well as the works carried out: tunnelling, rising and sinking, and the new reefs being worked on - mention is made of the Tribute lode and the Poverty Reef. The amount of gold from the mine for the year was 640 ounces. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on sheet, 342 x 215 mm.

Date: [ca 1890s-1940s]

From: Cornwall, James Caleb, 1879-1964: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10268

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenes taken between circa 1890s and circa 1940s, chiefly by James Caleb Cornwall. Many images have a brief explanatory captions. Contains images including a kapa haka group performing on a barge, a building decorated for Royal [Coronation 1937?] with cameo portraits of George VI and Queen Elizabeth, animals at a zoo (pelican and [thar?]), a thermal area, and a bush scene. Transportation is featured, with photographs showing trains (locomotives and carriages, including a Fairlie locomotive) and railway architecture (train tracks and Main Trunk Line viaduct) as well as car and horse and cart scenes. Places and buildings include Hastings Main Street, Blenheim Memorial (clock tower and fountain), Palmerston North (including birds on pond [Domain?], a church, shops, and the main square), Arthurs Pass and Porters Pass, a Coromandel homestead, house and garden of Cara [Sawings?], and [Otago Settlers?] Museum, Dunedin. Unidentified figures appear in some photographs. Quantity: 10 loose album pages, with 38 b&w original prints. Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints adhered to loose card album pages

Date: 1852

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: E-144-007

Description: View from a hill above Coromandel Harbour looking down at a large gathering of Maori and some Pakeha among houses and tents, with canoes pulled up, yachts in the harbour, an island, two ranges of hills in the background. The gathering was to finalise the sale of the Coromandel goldfields Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: Chas. Heaphy. Title bottom centre in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour, original, 10.3 x 13.3 inches

Date: 1852

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: E-144-005

Description: View from a high point looking west down into Coromandel Harbour on the left, and Colville Bay on the right, across the Firth of Thames, with Auckland in the distance. Features identified along the bottom in pencil Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour, original, 8.5 x 27.6 inches

Date: 1852

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: E-144-011

Description: Four men using shovels and a pick-axe alongside a long Tom water chute, above a stream among hills. A tent is at a higher point. A large tree fern is in the centre. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Signed: Chas. Heaphy. Title bottom centre in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour, original, 11.2 x 8.3 inches

Date: 1852

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: E-144-004

Description: View from a high point looking west down into Coromandel Harbour on the left, and Colville Bay on the right, across the Firth of Thames, with Auckland in the distance. Features identified along the bottom in pencil Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pencil drawing, original, 2.6 x 6.8 inches

Date: 1870 - 1898

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook

Reference: E-208-q-013-3

Description: Newspaper cutting of a photograph showing three men at their camp site in the bush. Tree ferns surround the area. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 155 x 210 mm

Date: 1853

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Hawkins, C W (Mr), active 1960s

Reference: A-138-041

Description: View from a hill above Coromandel looking down at the curve of the waterfront, with cottages, tents, sailing ships and canoes, the hills south of Coromandel in the distance The watercolour was also reproduced as a wood engraving in the Illustrated London news, vol 23, no. 656, p. 465, 3 December 1853. The copyist is possibly the donor, C. W. Hawkins. The conference held at Coromandel in 1853 was between Maori chiefs and Lieutenant-Governor Wynyard, concerning the purchase of the land containing the Coromandel goldfields. Kikowhakarere Bay is now the site of modern Coromandel township. Other Titles - Committee at Pata Pata, Coromandel Harbour. A copy of a watercolour by Charles Heaphy 'Committee at Papa Pata, Coromandel Harbour, 1853' a watercolour in the collection of the British Library, reference number Add. MS 19954, folio 7 (7). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing 80 x 130 mm

Date: 1880-1901

Reference: PAColl-8960

Description: Photographs of Auckland and Coromandel, taken between 1880 and 1901 by an unknown photographer. Includes views of Parsons & Fowler families (1890), St Heliers Bay (1890), Imperial Troops in the Auckland Domain, an arch erected for the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901, Onehunga Hotel in Princess Street, the Auckland Domain, Views of Northcote, Birkenhead, and Birkenhead Wharf (1880), tradesmen's processions in Domain, and the Mercer Regatta. This group of negatives have crenelated notches along their sides. This indicates that they were manufactured for a Frena Camera. This camera was the first type of film-pack camera. (see "Deja View 37," August 2003, edited and published by Bill Main, Wellington, New Zealand). Information that came with these negatives is filed at PAColl-8960, and is in the Photograph Archive collections sequence. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 57 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [Circa 1860s]

From: Marvin, W G (Captain) :Marvin family photographs

By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Marvin, William, 1834-1915

Reference: PA1-q-320

Description: Album of photographs taken during the 1860s by various photographers. All the images are related to Colonel William Marvin (1834-1915) who came to New Zealand circa 1858 and was possibly attached to the 70th Regiment of Foot during the New Zealand wars. There are many photographs relating to military activity, including military working parties at Fort Britomart; military and naval camps at Maungatawhiri Creek, Queen's Redoubt, Drury, Ngaruawahia and Albert Barracks; a monument to the 43rd Regiment at Gate Pa near Tauranga; Potatau's tomb with a sentry guarding it; and the Auckland cemetery. Many of the images are of Auckland, including `Hale's Boarding House, where I first slept in N.Z.'; `The Masonic Hotel where I was made a mason in 1861'; `My last batchelor home near Constitution Hill green, next door to the Dacres'; `St. Mary's where I was married 4th August 1862'; a long sequence showing Queen Street from different angles in 1866'; and various homes that he knew, including Heaphy's house in St George's Bay, Dillon Bell's House in Parnell, and `Little Sutton' in St. George's Bay. Other images of interest include a mining camp at Coromandel; the tree on which Volkner was hanged, with a seated group of Maori beside a whare; a Maori church that is completely thatched, in the Waikato; and two views of the sailing ship Ida Ziegler [i.e. Zeigler] `In which we returned from N.Z. round Cape Horn, 29th Jany to 1st May 1867'. Photographs in England are all related to Tipner Barracks near Portsmouth, and Malpas Cemetery, Newport Monmouthshire. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with albumen prints. Label attached to cover `Pictures of N.Z. (N. Island) & Tipner with captions by Col. Marvin'. Textured black cover; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1898

By: Huddlestone, William, active 1890-1899

Reference: G-015

Description: Shows a coastal mine with a tall metal pulley rig and shed on a small island at the end of a wharf. The pulley at the top of the rig is linked by ropes to two buildings on the shore at the right, where there is also a smokestack. In the right foreground lies a rusted Lancashire boiler, which has possibly been condemned and discarded. May show part of the waterfront at Thames and the front face of the mines also known as the Thames-Hauraki Mine covering the Queen of Beauty and Bright Smile mines further east in the hills behind Thames Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title on attached gilt-painted wooden strip]; Recto - bottom right - W Huddlestone, '98 Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvasboard, 440 x 590 mm (sight) Provenance: Previously from the collection of Bob and Barbara Harvey.