Places

Date: 1887-1891

Reference: PA1-q-610

Description: There are three main themes in this album. 1. The Royal Navy, Australian Squadron, based at Sydney. Pictures of naval cadets and war ships, some of which are in dry dock. The creator of the album, or a relative, seems to have been associated with HMS Orlando. Many photos of this ship appear in the album. The Orlando served as the flagship of the Australian Squadron from July 1888 to December 1897. The Sydney Morning Herald reported on 11th Feb 1889 that HMS Orlando and Dart were docked in Calliope Dock, Auckland, because Sydney facilities could not undertake the work. There are a number of Photographs of HMS Orlando in dock at Auckland in this album. Thus the photos of officers and naval cadets may also have associations with the Orlando. There are also 3 photos of a gun accident which occurred on the HMS Cordelia of the Australian Squadron. This happened on the 26 June 1891 while the Cordelia was on a cruize from Fiji to Noumea. During Gun Practice a gun burst killing 6 ratings and wounding 13 others. The photos show the broken gun casing littering the deck. 2. Of the New Zealand section much of it concentrates on the town of Lawrence. Many of the captions and photographs relate to the Anglican parsonage at Lawrence. This suggests the possibility of the album belonging to the Vicar or a member of his family. If this were the case, and given the period of the late 1880s-early 1890s, it may be associated with the Rev George Pice Beaumont vicar and archdeacon from 1872 to 1900. On the other hand the name of Beaumont does not appear anywhere in the album. 3. Samoan civil wars of the late 1880s and the hurricane of 1889 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1890s

From: Donne, Anne, fl 1975 :Photographs mainly of Richard John Seddon in New Zealand and the Pacific

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3329-01

Description: Photographs of: a group of people gathered to watch sports on the Queen's Birthday in Tonga including Seddon; a view of the coast at Cape Foulwind; a letter addressed to "Sire Sedone, Pirima, Neuseland" from Niue; a gathering of Tongans outside a marquee in Nuku'alofa for the Queen's birthday celebrations; Seddon and what are probably other parliamentarians standing on the steps of a building; a large totara; the Seddon family on a visit to the state schoolhouse in Levuka, Fiji; the Seddon family gathered round an ornately framed certificate noting Seddon's achievements; Huka Falls taken by the Burton Brothers; Seddon holding a taiaha seated in a group of seven working men; the recreation ground in New Plymouth looking towards Mount Taranaki; two portraits of Samoan girls; a cart travelling on the Cable Bay Road looking out over the bay taken by Tyree Studio; Lake Taupo from Motutere taken by Burton Brothers; and a group of men, possibly including Seddon, sitting and standing on the steps of a building. Other than the first six, these prints are all stuck to pages from what may have been an album. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1880s - 1960, 1974

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Muir & Moodie (Firm); Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949; Barnicoat, John Wallis, 1814-1905

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-041

Description: Photographs of places and personalities, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes Maori portraits and groups on marae, including the Duke and Duchess of York meeting Maui Pomare in 1927. Includes a photograph of the crowded deck of the `Waikere' a few minutes before the boat struck land in Dusky Sound in 1910. Also photographs of knighthood being confered upon George Richardson in Samoa; an archaeological site near Rotorua; Kumara, Westland, in 1886; Empire Day celebrations 1905; the first annual apprentice exam held at the Hutt shops, Hutt Valley, in 1930; and sketches of Riccarton House, Canterbury, made by J W Barnicoat in 1844 and R Park circa 1859. Photographers include Burton Bros, Muir & Moodie and Paul Popper. Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1885-1945]

By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PAColl-0422

Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1868 and 1898]

By: Long, W H (Mrs), active 1970; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Zangaki (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-146

Description: Album of photographs, most taken by the Burton Brothers in New Zealand, including a large number of Maori images, group portraits, identified men and women, pa, and storehouses. Scenes also taken by them in Tonga and Samoa. A number of images show scenes in England, including a group taken near Egremont in Cumbria, of ice on the Mersey River in 1895. There are a large number of copies of paintings of romantic scenes. Several photographs of the Suez Canal, and the Nile River, were taken by Greek photographers `Zangaki' Brothers Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with reddish brown cover, brown corners and spine with single raised cords; fleur de lys pattern stamped between cords; 33.5 x 27.0 cm

Date: 1891-1978

By: Tyndall, Arthur (Sir), 1891-1979

Reference: MS-Papers-2002

Description: Papers covering Tyndall's service as civil engineer in Public Works, Western Samoa Public Works, Highways, Mines, and Housing Construction Depts; judge in Court of Arbitration, 1940-1965; ILO Commissioner in various countries; with personal reminiscences. Includes unpublished autobiography, official and personal correspondence, documents, financial records, notebooks, reports, speeches and articles; also records of Associations, press cuttings, photographs, and annotated published material Quantity: 394 folder(s). 11.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs Finding Aids: Paper inventory for MSI-Papers-2002-395A and MSI-Papers-2002-395B is available in the Katherine Mansfield Reading Room. Distance researchers may request a copy be sent to them.. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Tyndall, Arthur (Sir), 1891-1979: Photographs relating to road and building construction (see Library reference PAColl-0866). Processing information: Records in this collection were updated on 13 June 2023 when the Access Statement "Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission" was changed to "no access restrictions", and the Access Conditions text "Access requires the permission of the Chief Librarian. Restriction does not apply to pictorial material in Series 6" was removed.

Date: 1886-1891

From: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922 :Maori and Polynesian photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Andrew, Thomas, 1855-1939

Reference: PA1-o-469

Description: Album of photographs taken by Thomas Andrew during a Pacific voyage on Henderson and Macfarlane schooner "Buster", leaving Auckland 19 September 1886, and calling at Niue, Manihiki, Suwarrow, Starbuck Island (where they rescued the crew of the Swedish barque Diana), Christmas Island, Swains Island (now part of American Samoa), Nauru, Tokelau, Gilbert, Ellice, Marshall and Caroline groups. They returned to Auckland in April 1887. Several photographs show ruined stone buildings at Ponape (Pohnpei), including one view of four men sitting in a boat at the entrance to a canal leading to the ruins The final photograph in the album is a group portrait of the Federal Convention 1891 Inscriptions: Album page - "From Mr S. Percy Smith" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, leather corners and spine; 24.5 x 31.5 cm

Date: [1888-1892]

By: Bourke, Edmund G, active 1888-1892; Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890; Connolly & Company; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919; Hart, Campbell & Company; Butcher, Pablo, active 2004

Reference: PA1-f-242

Description: Album compiled by Captain Edmund Bourke RN of HMS Hyacinth, on voyages in the Pacific ca 1888-1892. New Zealand views include Auckland, Tikitapu Bush, Waitakere Creek, Pink & white Terraces, Atiamuri, Ohinemutu, Wairakei, Napier, Wellington, Upper Hutt, McNab's Gardens (Lower Hutt), the Teremakau river and cable car, Nelson, Westland, Otira Gorge, Taipo, the Waimakariri River, Christchurch, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Dunedin and Invercargill. Pacific views include Rarotonga, Samoa, Fiji (including Suva), New Caledonia, Tahiti and Hawaii. Photographers represented include George Valentine, James Connolly, Wheeler & Son, J R Morris, and Hart, Campbell & Co. Includes of gold mining and sluicing in Westland, HM ships Ringarooma and Hyacinth, and games of croquet and polo in Hawaii. HMS Hyacinth, a 3rd class cruiser commissioned in 1886, cruised in the Pacific under the command of Captain Edmund G Bourke RN. In October-November 1888 Bourke sailed around the Cook Islands with the Vice-Consul, hoisting the flag in Rarotonga, Mangaia, Atiu, Mitiaro and Mauke. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Finding Aids: Manuscript list of images housed with album.

Date: 21 Aug 1872-15 May 1873, 22 May 1873-20 Sept 1875

By: Barnes, L A W, active 1872-1875

Reference: MSY-6144

Description: Log book kept by Barnes while he was serving aboard HMS Minotaur, HMS Pearl and HMS Sappho. During the first voyage HMS Minotaur travelled from Portsmouth to Lisbon, Madeira and Gibraltar. During the second voyage HMS Pearl and HMS Sappho travelled from Portsmouth to Lisbon, Cape of Good Hope, Perth, New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania, Adelaide and New Hebrides. During the second voyage Barnes was aboard HMS Sappho for most of the month of August 1875. The log book contains nautical entries, facts, maps and watercolours relating to the voyages. After the October 3rd 1874 entry, there is a longer commentary on the recovery of the ship McGregor off the coast of Fiji. Relationship complexity - See Micro-MS-Coll-20 for items relating to these voyages Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Processing information: Digitisation details - Volume includes inserted maps and sketches. These pages have been digitised in situ.

Date: [1820-1910]

By: Phillips, Coleman, 1846-1925

Reference: 73-150

Description: Comprises papers relating to the Hoar family including wills and marriage certificate; essays on British colonization, and rabbits (including his manuscript, `The Rabbit'); papers re his business in Fiji; corrected pamphlets; papers on rabbits including minutes of settlers meeting, Martinborough re formation of Rabbit Board (1884); clippings re South Sea Island papers; notes re Godfrey, the slave trade and Muslim Africa, skinning and curing sea-birds, Mr James Gillies and New Caledonia, settlement, sketch map of Apia Harbour, papers from first French exam; copies of proceedings of Otaria & East Coast Rabbit Board; list of steamers for sale; and correspondence re cession of Fiji (printed) Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See TAPUHI for further collections of Phillips' material Quantity: 1 box(es) (10 folders). 1 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available.

Date: 1863, 1957-2006

By: Wendt, Albert, 1939-

Reference: ATL-Group-00142

Description: Includes correspondence from the early 1960s onwards, although mainly from the 1970s and 1980s; the subject matter varies from the personal through to his work as a writer and an academic, and his correspondents include many literary figures, both New Zealand and international. The drafts of his work include heavily revised handwritten and typed copies through to galley proofs. His academic papers comprise both notes of lectures and addresses which he has delivered and university administration papers. As a successful writer and an academic he received poems and other literary works from aspiring writers, especially from the Pacific Islands, and these are included in the collection. The diaries are mainly consist of brief entries and are often little more than appointment books. His notebooks, converted usually from school exercise books, date from the 1960s and as well as school notes contain fragments of early drafts. There are also conference papers of the events at which he attended and often addressed, newspaper cuttings, early study notes, a radio interview and other material relating to his wide-ranging career. Source of title - Supplied by Library Arrangement: The collection came to the Library with no clear arrangement. The papers have been organised into series, comprising correspondence, diaries and notebooks, drafts, non-literary work, university administration work, printed material, and newspaper cuttings. Born and raised in Samoa. Educated in Samoa and New Zealand. Trained and taught as teacher in New Zealand and then in Samoa, where he became principal of Samoa College. His first published book was 'Sons for the Return Home' in 1973. He has since published novels, essays, poetry collections, plays and anthologies of Pacific writing. Is also an artist. Has also had a notable academic career at Auckland University and the University of the South Pacific (in Fiji and Samoa). In 2013 he was awarded the Order of New Zealand. Quantity: 449 folder(s). 12 Linear Metres. 4 b&w original photographic print(s). 119 Electronic document(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). Physical Description: mss, typescript, printed matter, photographs, digital files, audiocassette Transfers: Five published items transferred to the book collection at PR-14-0311, posters to Ephemera, plans of a fale to Drawings and prints (at Plans-2014-085-001/013) and copies of the Samoa Bulletin to Serials. The collection as a whole is with the Manuscripts Collection. - To Serials Collection - Copies of Samoa Bulletin - To Ephemera Collection - Posters - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Plans of a Samoan fale at Plans-2014-085-001/013 - To Book Collections - Five printed items at PR-14-0311 - To Sound and Music Centre - Four cassettes..