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Date: [ca 1873-1875]

By: Gaul, John, -1876; Lindt, John William, 1845-1926

Reference: PA1-q-330

Description: Includes views New Zealand, Pacific and Australia, including images of indigenous houses and plantations, and a series of 12 studio tableau portraits of Aboriginal Australians, taken by John William Lindt in 1873-1874. Kai Colo (Fijian people) - name for the people who live in the mountainous interior of Fiji. It's literal meaning is something like "mountaineer". This information was given by Dr Vicki Lukere (Luker), specialist in South Pacific history, Victoria University, 1997. A series of 12 studio tableau portraits of Aboriginal Australians by John Wiiliam Lindt, including three not found in this album, are at Library reference PA1-q-1317 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album. Provenance: Written comments in the album indicate that it might be associated with Commodore J Goodenough RN, who was appointed as a commissioner by the Crown to investigate the events that led to the annexation of Fiji. This album was compiled by an unidentified member of the Australian Division of the Royal Navy based at Sydney in the mid 1870s. The Australian Naval Station was responsible for policing the Pacific and supporting Britain's interests in the region. The one date associated with the album (1875) as well as some of the images, suggest that it was compiled soon after the cession of Fiji to the British Crown. The two ships associated with the album, HMS Blanche and HMS Pearl, were both stationed at Sydney and both were involved with events in Fiji before and during cession. HMS Pearl was Commodore Goodenough's flagship. He was the officer in charge of the Australian Naval Station at that time. He also played an important political role in the process of cession in Fiji. In the album he and his officers are shown swimming on Ovalau. The compiler of the album on the other hand, seems to have been personally associated with HMS Blanche. There are two pictures of this ship in the album as well as pictures of memorials erected by the captain and crew to one of their members. HMS Blanche had been active against the traffic in cheap labour in the South Pacific. In 1873 her paymaster, Lieutenant Nettleton, had acted as temporary British Consul in Fiji after the recall of E B March.

Date: [ca1895-1920]

Reference: PAColl-6759

Description: Scenes of returned soldiers being given instruction in agricultural techniques. They include a photograph of the syllabus offered, men in the field tending crops and cows and views of the men in a group eating from billies. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-028842 to 028851 Quantity: 10 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: A-228-008

Description: An extensive view of Kakanui beach, looking out to sea from the low hills just behind the beach. Moeraki is marked on the southernmost point on the right and the Kakanui River is also indicated to the right. Two small ticks on the top of the hill to the right indicate the location of 'a native garden out of which several Moa bones had been dug'. Three ticks, just south of the river mouth mark the spot where Wills' drawing no. 11 (A-228-009) was taken. 'The dotted lines are boundaries of native reserves'. Exhibitied in 'Drawn From Nature: Europeans Record New Zealand, 1770-1860' exhibition at the National Library Gallery, 31 March to 28 May 1989. Other Titles - Kakanui Inscriptions: Recto - top right - No 8. See also: E-281-009 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash in two colours 2.6 x 8 inches

Date: 1900-1910

From: Lightbourne, Ruth Elizabeth (Dr), 1949- : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10177-1

Description: Stereoscopic prints taken circa 1900 around New Zealand, by unidentified photographers. Includes images of a ferry coming into Auckland, an unidentified man photographed with Rangitoto Island in the background, various waterfalls and rivers, farmland, a thermal area [geyser?], mangroves, a monument with maori carving and a bust of Queen Victoria, an unidentified town, and a man on a kneeling horse. Quantity: 12 b&w stereoscopic cards. Physical Description: Stereoscopic cards

Date: [ca 1878-1920s]

By: Michelsen, Johan Oscar (Rev), -1936

Reference: PA1-o-1870

Description: Reverend J Oscar Michelsen's photograph album relating to his time as a missionary in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), circa 1878 to 1890s. Also some photographs relating to the Sprague family of Dunedin, New Zealand, taken circa 1900s-1920s. Photographer unidentified. Michelsen has written a short caption under each image. - Vanuatu images are mainly taken on the island of Tongoa. Other locations include the islands of Nguna, Efate, Epi, Emae, Erromanga, Aneityum, and Aniwa. Buildings featured include mission houses, churches and some private residences (both European and indigenous). There are also some images of boats, road building, a banyan tree and other flora, scenic landscapes (mainly beaches and harbours), men in traditional dress, traditional drumming, and a scene from a meeting regarding the purchase of land for Tongoan mission station. Single print of collaged images relating to Michelsen's life is entitled "Autobiography in Photography" and includes portraits of Michelsen and a Bible & Tract Depot. Also contains one photograph of a sketch of Futuna Island. - Contains images of clergy and their wives and children: Rev D McDonald (from Victoria), Rev Robert M Fraser and his wife, Rev H A Robertson (from Canada), Lily (Michelsen's baby daughter); Rev Charles Murray and his wife, Mr Milne and his four children; Rev J W MacKenzie (of Canada); Captain McLeod; and Rev J G Paton. Identified indigenous people include Taripoamata and Timataso (Tongoan chiefs); Kaiasi (cook of Rev Fraser); Tarisaliu (a Tongoan chief) and his wife; teachers Taripoa, Tarisogoliu, and Man[ooi?] (the first Tongoan martyr); Manamlaka (Tongoan chief and teacher) and his wife Leriki; teacher Maripan; Matokoali (a Ngunese chief and teacher) and unidentified Ngunese Christians; [Nalemahina?] servant of Mr Milne; Tongoan teachers Manutae, Tanioto, and [Tinafuna?]; and Tongoan chief Mataputi and his family. - Also includes [family?] photographs taken circa 1890s to circa 1920s, many of which are in Dunedin, New Zealand. Identified figures are Mr A Boles, Vera Burgess, Mrs Jock Campbell (nee Maggie Moffett), Mary Smyth, Mrs Lewis, baby Bill Lewis, Albert Smyth, Cecil [Smyth?], Ernie Sprague, Sprague family portrait (man and five children), Newton Sprague, and Francis Walter Sprague. There are many portraits of unidentified men, women, and children. Other photographs show Signal Hill, Dunedin Botanic Gardens (with band rotunda), Dunedin cityscape and street scenes, Smyth's dairy factory, Otago Harbour, coastal scenes, man driving a horse and trap, greenhouse (interior and exterior), rowboats, and a dog and girl on the beach. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Accompanying material - contains printouts on the background of the New Hebridies Mission which were interleaved in the album when it arrived at the Library Inscriptions: Album page - top right - first page inscription reads: "To Mrs Rang[imina?] with affectionate regards from her son-in-law OM" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with reddish brown cover embossed in black and faded gold with a cameo at the centre, 24 x 19 cm Provenance: Purchased 2014. Vendor purchased the album at an auction a few months before selling it to the Library.

Date: 1888-[ca 1930]

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

By: Berry and Company; Bunting, Frederick William, -1913; Canadian Studio; Gregory, George, 1843-1913; Illingworth Toska Studios

Reference: PA1-q-886

Description: Photographs taken between 1888 and circa 1929, chiefly by James Caleb Cornwall of his family, life, and work. Identified photographers of studio portraits include George Gregory (Auckland), Berry and Company (Wellington), Illingworth Toska Studio (Wanganui), Canadian Studio (Auckland), and Bunting Studio (Palmerston North). Many photographs in the album are captioned underneath the image or on the rear of the print. - Contains images relating to Cornwall's work as a creamery manager and farmer. Photographs feature creamery buildings and machinery, the transportation of milk products by horse and cart, and creamery workers. A number of buildings have the text 'NZ Farmers Dairy Union' painted on them. Farming images feature ploughing, clearance of land, and livestock portraits of cattle and horse prepared for showing. cows, and horses. Various dogs, a pig, and chickens are also seen. - Album features images of areas where Cornwall lived and worked. Locations covered are mainly in the Manawatu-Whanganui Region and include Linton, Shannon, Mangaramarama, Pahiatua, Longburn, Konini, Oringi, Upper Hutt, and Woodville. Specific locations are the farm of R D Knight at Mangaramarama (near Pahiatua), including scenes from Knight's annual horse sale, the Gaseford [Gaisford?] family property at Oringi, the Longburn Freezing Works, Pahiatua train station. Also included are photographs of houses (one hand coloured), cottages, farm buildings, and a bush camp. - James Cornwall appears in many images and his his friends, family, and associates (including employers) are included. Archie Curry, Florence Swan, Jack Capel, Rob Roy, Leo Harding, R D Knight, Ethel Bailey, Phoebe Bailey, Lucy Bailey, Phoebe Swan, Sydney 'Sid' James Short, Fred Bliss, and Jimmy Muir are identified. Prime Minister Richard Seddon is also seen in one image. Album also contains a group portrait of suppliers to the Upper Hutt creamery and another of the Woodville Fire Brigade. Unidentified people include an ex-girlfriend of Cornwall's (a teacher), men at a bush camp, men driving milk carts, and an unidentified family group. - Futher images include the transportation of wood by horse and cart, flooding at Konini, and some images relating to trains (bridges, locomotives, and carriages). Arrangement: Plastic sleeves removed from original orange plastic clear file photograph album (31.5 x 25 cm) due to conservation concern with tight binding warping prints. Original order of album maintained. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints on yellow backing paper in plastic clearfile sleeves

Date: 1847 - 1844

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: C-170-002

Description: Shows 14 views of Maori domestic life, including tools, clothing and household receptacles. Accompanying page of text (C-170-002-1) lists the numbered items as follows: 1. Mode of fishing with nets on Lake Taupo: the fish, which are still small, are caught in a seine with very fine meshes, and a pole about 20 feet long, with tufts of grass fastened at the end, to drive the fish into the net. 2. A fishing weir, or eel pah, on the river Mokau. 3. Wooden fish-hook. 4. Fish-hook generally in use, made of wood, with a layer of pawa [i.e. paua], or pearl shell (Haliotis), and the hook formed of human bone. A feather of the kivi kivi (Apteryx Australis) is fastened at the extremity. The lines are of flax and, as these hooks dangle astern of the canoes, the glittering appearance of the pawa attracts the fish. 5. Kupenga, or eel trap, formed of twigs, from Mokau. 6. Ko, a wooden spade, for rooting up ferns, and preparing the ground for plantations. 7. A pestle for beating flax, formed of volcanic trap. 8. Wooden flute, one of the orifices of which is tattooed to resemble the lips of a woman. 9. Bark bucket, and calabashes for holding water: the orifices of these latter are also tattooed in a similar manner. 10. Ornamented flax basket for household purposes. 11. E kumeti, ancient wooden bowl for kumeras, from the deserted pah of Otawhao, near Waipa, eight feet in circumference. 12. and 13. Flax sandals from Otago, in the Southern Island. 14. Portrait of an aged slave woman, at Pouketouto, in the interior, beyond Mokau Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Other Titles - and Extended Title - From: Angas, George French. The New Zealanders illustrated (London; Thomas M'Lean No. 26 Haymarket, 1847). Plate 57 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) (14 images on one page). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 455 x 310 mm, on sheet 545 x 365 mm Provenance: Purchase: Cordy's antique and art auction, Auckland, 21 May 2013; lot 665

Date: 1827 - 1838 - 1828

By: Beutel, Colin, active 1997; Earle, Augustus, 1793-1838

Reference: B-110-060

Description: A European man, probably Earle himself, seated on the banks of a stream, gazing towards a Maori village backed by a kauri forest. A Maori man is pointing towards the village (in which are food storage buildings and platforms), another is carrying Earle's baggage and two more have crossed the stream towards the village. Earle's text explains: "After ascending this beautiful river [the Waihou River, Hokianga] about 40 miles, and at a distance of two miles from the river is this village. It is literally buried in a forest, and is a country residence of Patuoni [Patuone], the chief of the district; here he plants his potatoes, cumera [kumara], and maize, which arrive at a perfection never before witnessed. The mighty forest by which the village is surrounded consists chiefly of cowdie [kauri], the largest and most valuable of the New Zealand trees. We halted at this village on our way to the Bay of Island, and were kindly entertained by the chief" [1827] Other Titles - Kauri Extended Title - From Earle, Augustus. Sketches illustrative of the native inhabitants ... of New Zealand. London, 1838. Plate 8. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 240 x 374 mm

Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Martin, Albin, 1812?-1888

Reference: A-160-010

Description: A view across rolling farmland towards the summit of Rangitoto Island in the background. Two men are on the left and there is a flock of sheep in the middle distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 170 x 250 mm

Date: 1888 - 1897

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] W M Hodgkins, Melrose Dn. Notes. [ca 1893]

Reference: E-031-q-1-002

Description: A haycart and stooks in a paddock. A man stands on top of the hay piled on the cart The Tonner family were farming in the 1880s through to the early 1900s at Fairfield, near Mosgiel Other Titles - Tonner Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour in sketchbook, page size 152 x 212 mm

Date: 1888 - 1897

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] W M Hodgkins, Melrose Dn. Notes. [ca 1893]

Reference: E-031-q-1-001

Description: A herd of cows in a field The page is discoloured with brown off-printing from two album photographs formerly loose between this page and the front cover. Prints moved to the rear of the album The view is possibly at Fairfield, as with the following page (E-031-q-1-002) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook, page size 152 x 212 mm

Date: 1930 - 1820 - 1939

From: Goodwin, Arnold Frederick, 1890-1978 :[Historical incidents in New Zealand in 1820]. By courtesy John Walker & Sons, Ltd., Distillers, Kilmarnock [Edinburgh? 1930s]

Reference: A-236-005-a

Description: A Maori man working the land with a digging stick (ko) in the foreground, a gourd covered in flax ropes at his side, while two European men in the background by a cabbage tree point out to two Maori men the plough they have brought to New Zealand. Church Missionary Society Missionaries were the first to introduce the plough. Picture supplied by courtesy John Walker & Sons, Ltd., Distillers, Kilmarnock. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 211 x 157 mm Provenance: Donated by Mr B N Lindsay of Wellington, in 1984. Transfers: Transfer from MSS&A 84-145, Macdonald family papers, in 2003..

Date: ca 1890-1925

By: Levin Public Library

Reference: PAColl-0155

Description: Contains photograph of Queenstown, the Adkin house Levin, and the high tension electric cables carrying power from Mangahao Station. There is also a view of the Main Street of Levin in the late 19th century. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1880s-1890s], 1931-1957

From: Peacocke, Kathryn Margaret, fl 2012 :Photographs relating to William Ranstead and John Morris Ranstead

By: London Stereoscopic Photographic Company; Desgranges Portrait Studio

Reference: PAColl-10040

Description: Photographs relating to socialist, emigration organiser, and farmer, William Ranstead; and farmer, animal breeder, and agricultural scientist John Morris Ranstead. Comprises: A set of portraits relating to William Ranstead, taken circa 1880s-1890s, which depict people Ranstead may have corresponded with, including William Morris, Walter Crane, and George MacDonald. One half-tone print shows the founding members of Manchester's 'Clarion' newspaper, whom Ranstead probably knew. A set of photographs relating to John Ranstead, including one of cattle grazing in front of a homestead in 1931, a group portrait of Ranstead with members of the Dairy Research Institute in 1947, farmer Frank Hunt with his Suffolk sheep in 1950, and portraits of Ranstead circa 1957. Accompanying information - Two envlelopes are filed with this set of photographs. One is inscribed 'Lower mandible of calf - parrot beak. Impacted molars'. This note relates to John Morris Ranstead's study of genetic inheritance in cattle. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints, photo-mechanical print

Date: 1827 - 1838 - 1828

From: Earle, Augustus 1793-1838 :Sketches illustrative of the Native Inhabitants and Islands of New Zealand from original drawings by Augustus Earle Esq, Draughtsman of H. M. S. "Beagle". London, Lithographed and Published under the auspices of the New Zealand Association by Robert Martin & Co, 1838

Reference: PUBL-0015-08

Description: A European man, probably Earle himself, seated on the banks of a stream, gazing towards a Maori village backed by a kauri forest. A Maori man is pointing towards the village, another is carrying Earle's baggage and two more have crossed the stream towards the village. Earle's text explains: "After ascending this beautiful river [the Waihou River, Hokianga] about 40 miles, and at a distance of two miles from the river is this village. It is literally buried in a forest, and is a country residence of Patuoni [Patuone], the chief of the district; here he plants his potatoes, cumera [kumara], and maize, which arrive at a perfection never before witnessed. The mighty forest by which the village is surrounded consists chiefly of cowdie [kauri], the largest and most valuable of the New Zealand trees. We halted at this village on our way to the Bay of Island, and were kindly entertained by the chief" [1827] Other Titles - Kauri Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 240 x 374 mm

Date: [188-?]

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096282-G

Description: Jersey cattle and shed at James Booth's property, Gisborne. Photograph taken circa 1880s by Daniel Manders Beere. Cataloguer has linked the name 'Booth, James, 1830-1900' to this record. This may, or may not, be the James Booth who owned the property photographed. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Identification by Library client. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1930 - 1820 - 1939

From: Goodwin, Arnold Frederick 1890-1978 :[Historical incidents in New Zealand in 1820. Edinburgh? ca 1930]

By: Goodwin, Arnold Frederick, 1890-1978; Varlow, R G (Mrs), active 1969

Reference: A-236-005

Description: A Maori man working the land with a digging stick (ko) in the foreground, a gourd covered in flax ropes at his side, while two European men in the background by a cabbage tree point out to two Maori men the plough they have brought to New Zealand. Church Missionary Society Missionaries were the first to introduce the plough. Picture supplied by courtesy John Walker & Sons, Ltd., Distillers, Kilmarnock. This copy matted and glued to strawboard backing; formerly displayed in a frame Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 211 x 157 mm

Date: 1846

From: Papers relative to the Wesleyan Missions and to the state of heathen countries. Published quarterly, 1820-1870s?

Reference: PUBL-0139-105

Description: View of three buildings at Kawhia Harbour, including the home of the missionaries (the large building in the centre) and possibly the school or church in the distance. The foreground building appears to be a barn. The area is fenced with some gardens and agricultural activities being carried out. Part of the harbour with yachts can be seen to the left. Physical Description: Wood engraving, 90 x 135 mm

Date: 1870

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Scrymgeour, William John Tyndal, 1922?-; Grey, George (Sir), 1812-1898

Reference: D-022-007

Description: View from a low hill of an extensive river plain surrounded by hills, with Lake Coleridge and snow-clad mountains in the background and a river to the left. Sheep are grazing on the lower hills to the right and on the flat valley. In the far left foreground is a road, with a dray being pulled by horses towards the station. In the centre left, there are farm buildings with a dray and horses, and a haystack surrounded by fences. In the centre is the homestead, surrounded by trees, with an older building, possibly the original homestead on the lower slopes of the hills to the right of the homestead. Lake Coleridge Station was originally purchased by A.C.Barker and others in 1855. In 1860 it was jointly owned by George Arthur Emilius Ross and Charles John Harper. At the date of this painting, Harper was the sole owner. There is now a hydro station occupying part of the land shown in the picture. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D.Barraud. 1870 The Library holds an almost identical second copy of this work at C-033-005 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white 457 x 784 mm Provenance: Hung, with a view of Wellington from Kelburn, 1870 (D-022-006) in Government House, Wellington, during the governorship of Sir George Grey. Sold at auction in Wellington to the vendor's grandfather, also a Mr Scrymgeour (or Scrimgeour) in the 1880s or 1890s. Mr Scrymgeour migrated to Australia in the early 1900s to Goondawindi Station. The paintings passed to his son (died 1968) then to his grandson, William John Tyndal Scrymgeour, born ca 1922, of "Arran", Warwick, Queensland.

Date: 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: E-070-005

Description: According to Brees in his "Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand" p.34: "This view is taken on Section 28 of the Ohiro District, which is a very beautiful spot. If the house should ever be completed as the learned and tasteful owner intended, it will have a truly English appearance ... the section is moderately hilly and the soil good." Shows flock of sheep with shepherd in foreground, large house set back against bush-clad hills. The flatter ground in the foreground has been cleared for grazing. Ohiro was the early name for Brooklyn hill and the area beyond as far as the sea Extended Title - From: Brees, S C. Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand (London, 1847) plate 20, no 61 Photograph of original watercolour, privately owned, neg 35174 1/2, title: Judge Halswell's Ohiro. Image is substantially the same as the engraving. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured 85 x 135 mm