Places

Date: 1860 - 1900

By: Mair, Gilbert, 1843-1923; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-081-001/006

Description: Sketches depicting incidents arising out of a taua or raiding party visiting Parawera settlement to exact revenge after a case of adultery. The marae, various groupings of iwi, dances, fights, haka, horseriding, and competitions are depicted, along with a visit from the police. The Parawera group were Ngati Apakura, Te Wherowhero's iwi, and the visitors in search of payment were Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Hourua and Ngati Koroki. Ngati Haua are also mentioned in one sketch. Quantity: 6 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper ca 230 x 320 mm Provenance: Given to Alexander Turnbull in 1913 by Gilbert Mair. See covering letter of 17 November 1913 in MS 57, Folder 64. A typescript copy is held with the drawings in Box A-081. Mair ironically compares the artist to the French portraitist of Napoleon, Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier

Date: 1840, 1941 - 1959

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Hardcastle, Peter Richard, 1921-1991; Whites Aviation Ltd; Ross, Neville, active 1959

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-025

Description: Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: ca 1880-1920

Reference: PAColl-6613

Description: 4 images of Wellington harbour ferries: one of a ferry at the pier in Day's Bay with a mother and daughter on the beach in the foreground, described on the reverse of the file print as Mr Hugh Downe's Bay View House; a panorama of a ferry at the pier showing the football pitches in Williams Park; one of a ferry leaving Wellington; and one of the pleasure gardens and boating pond in Day's Bay. One of the ferries may be the Duchess. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-018459 to 018462 Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1840 - 1865 - 1908 - 1850

By: McCormick, Arthur David, 1860-1943; Fry, Patricia Susan, 1924-2019

Reference: A-004-037/047

Description: Titles: Heke fells the flagstaff at Kororareka; Farewell to Hawaiki; Victors in the fight; The fight in Massacre Bay; A dreadful recognition; Signing the Treaty of Waitangu; Phillpotts at Oheawai; A boy's heroism: "Awake! Awake!"; Major Witchell's charge at Nukemaru; The frenzy of the Hauhau. The incantation; Butters gives the alarm - Poverty Bay. Title supplied for each image. ATL has Reginald Horsley's "New Zealand. Romance of Empire" at NZ&P 993.1 HOR Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 11 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, coloured, each image 155 x 112 mm, on sheet 203 x 135 mm.

Date: ca 1892-1906

Reference: PAColl-7321

Description: Photographs of: a panorama of Toko taken from the top of Bruce's Hill February 1906; the road through Toko showing the cleared land and some houses ca 1900; pack horses being loaded in the mud 1895; the New Zealand flag being raised in front of a crowd around some speakers 19 November 1900; two of men standing amongst planks in the first sawmill in Toko 1893; men next to logs at the Tariki Road Sawmill their names - Rudkin, Bridgeman, Beesley, Brosky, Cranen and Wilson ca 1900; the Tariki Road Sawmill showing the rail tracks leading to it; two of the children of Toko School in 1894 and 1896; three of school children tending the gardens and planting trees at the school 1900; group of Toko school children under some trees 1900; and the children of Toko Sunday School 1897. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003366 to 003380 Quantity: 14 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1882

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948; Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898-1980

Reference: E-060-1

Description: North Island scenes including Auckland, the Thermal Area (Rotorua, Ohinemutu, Tarawera, Te Wairoa), Mohaka River, Napier, and the ships Rangitikei, Titan and Fawn. Also a view of Sumner, Canterbury. A group of humorous sketches, p. 21-33 Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Pencil, page size 20 x 194 mm Finding Aids: Shelf-list with sketchbook.