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Date: 1814 - 1964

By: Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall, 1901-1971; British and Foreign Bible Society; Moody, B S (Mrs), active 1970s

Reference: C-077-025

Description: Marsden, his eyes closed, a Bible in his left hand, standing slightly left of centre in a makeshift pulpit draped with black cloth, preaching to a congregation of Maori and Pakeha men, women and children at Rangihoua, Bay of Islands. At least two of the congregation are also holding Bibles. Maori dwellings and canoes beyond on the beach, with European rowboats also pulled up on the beach. The original painting from which the reproductions were taken - a watercolour according to information supplied at the time of the donation, but the reproduction looks more like an oil, and oils were the artist's normal medium - was sent to America, presumably to the Bible Society in New York. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Leonard C. Mitchell Commissioned by the Bible Society to mark the 150th anniversary of the occasion depicted and said to be one of only two reproductions made from the original watercolour, the other held by the Bible Society in Wellington. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 390 x 481 mm (sight) Provenance: Mrs Moody was the widow of a former Secretary of the Bible Society in New Zealand.

Date: [1890s]

Reference: PA1-q-222

Description: Photographs relating to Herbert Spackman and his family and relatives, chiefly taken by him. Places include views of Wellington and bays, Eketahuna and the Wanganui district. Very few of the people shown are fully identified but are likely to be Harry Spackman’s: mother (Eliza Spackman, nee Hawkings), father (Henry Spackman), brother, mother-in-law (Mrs Coxall, mother of Harry’s first wife Amy), and father-in-law (Mr Parnell, father of Fanny Parnell, Harry's second wife). Several houses are shown, including: ‘Rangiuru’, located at 63 Hutt Road, Petone, Wellington; House of Eketahuna farmer David S Lowe; House of David S Lowe’s brother Henry (‘Harry’) Goold Spackman in Wanganui, both interior and exterior, ‘Ben Venuto’ situated at 59 Rintoul Street and house of Henry (‘Harry’) Goold Spackman in Wellington, both interior and exterior views. Herbert Spackman's nephew Roy Spackman (Clement Roy) attended Wanganui Collegiate School, and there are several views of the chapel (interior and exterior) and the music room. There is one group portrait of Wanganui Collegiate School boys (p 41). Source of descriptive information - Information sourced from various places including the internet, and a family member. Two articles on Henry and Herbert Spackman both before they left England, and in New Zealand can be found at www.bris.ac.uk/music/CHOMBEC/chombec-news-1.pdf and www.bris.ac.uk/music/CHOMBEC/chombec-news-4.pdf Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark red cover, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 29 x 24 cm

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: [186-? to 187-?]

By: Grace, John Te Herekiekie (Sir), 1905-1985; Grace, Dorothy Merle (Lady), 1922-2000

Reference: PA1-q-630

Description: Photograph album inscribed `To Lawrence E T Grace from J E Grace 16 April 1881', containing carte de visite portraits of Thomas Samuel Grace, his wife Agnes and their ten surviving children. There are also photographs of prominent Maori men from the North Island. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Transfers: MS-Group-0218.

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: [Circa 1880s to 1900s]

From: McArthurs Auction :Photographs of early drawings and paintings of Taranaki, and photographs of Hawke's Bay, Greymouth and others

Reference: PA1-o-405

Description: Photographs of the New Plymouth district, including coastal scenes, Mount Egmont, the New Plymouth wharves. Views of Parihaka include group portraits of Maori, and several of Pakeha people amongst the Maori. One shows a large party of Europeans (men and women) about which a slip is inserted into an envelope at the beginning of the album. The note lists a number of them, and states "This party of Europeans at Parihaka may have been when Major Parris was invited to visit Te Whiti one New Year - & to bring a party of friends" (signed R Allan). Names include F. Cornwall, H. Stoeker, [?] Ward, Miss Cornwall, Mrs D.K. Morrison, W.C. Weston, Mrs Sladden, Miss McKellar, Mrs Robertson, Mrs L.D. Webster, and Miss A. Hursthouse. The slip also notes "11 of the Europeans appear to have white feathers in their hats". An envelope inserted in the album identifies two young women with bicycles as Flo Avery (later Mrs Sydney Cottier), and Adele Avery (later Mrs Lou Webster), two of John Avery's daughters, who had the first bicycles in New Plymouth Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with pinkish beige cover, entitled `Photographs'; 16.5 x 22.5 cm

Date: Between 1895 and 1900

From: McArthurs Auction :Photographs of early drawings and paintings of Taranaki, and photographs of Hawke's Bay, Greymouth and others

Reference: PA1-o-405-13

Description: Group of Pakeha men and women (some thought to be relatives of surveyor Lewis Coster Sladden) photographed in front of a whare at Parihaka with Maori children in the late 1890s, by an unknown photographer. Source of descriptive information - Sladden family named by a library client, she has a copy of this image Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 10.8 x 15.3 cm, mounted on album page 15.1 x 20.3 cm

Date: [ca 1860]

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Trafford, Benjamin William Rawson, 1824?-1891

Reference: D-040-003

Description: Shows a scene on the Whanganui River. Shakespeare Cliff is prominent on the right, and Mount Ruapehu is visible in the distance. The Wanganui settlement is nestled into the hills in the middle ground, and the Rutland and York stockades are visible on the hill above the town. In the foreground is a group of Māori, comprising six adults or young adults, and one child, who would appear to be Pākehā. They are grouped as half standing, half being seated. There is much evidence of European clothing being worn by almost all the figures, with a woman on the right in full European dress complete with hat. The child in the group stands close to her and is possibly her own child, though his complexion is pale. The Māori man on the left has full facial tā moko, and holds the reins of a horse, which stands grazing. The horse would appear to belong to the woman in European dress, as it carries a side-saddle. The other man in the scene is dressed wearing a blanket and bare feet, and holds a kete, staff and eeling pot. Beyond the group can be seen the pallisades of Putiki Pā, beside which graze a half a dozen cattle. A number of vessels can be seen on the river, including a schooner and a double-sailed waka. The artist of this work is uncertain, after close comparison against works by other artists including John Alexander Gilfillan, Richard Aldworth Oliver, and Charles Decimus Barraud was undertaken. Benjamin Rawson Trafford has also been suggested as the artist, but no other work in watercolours by him is known for stylistic comparison. He was in Wanganui between ca 1847 and 1863 and had a Māori wife and child, possibly the subjects of this watercolour. He may also have been the earliest owner of the work and was the step-ancestor of the English vendor Other Titles - Whanganui. Benjamin William Rawson Trafford Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, pencil and Chinese white on paper, 482 x 713 mm Provenance: Prior to auction, in a private collection, England by descent from a step-ancestor, Benjamin Rawson Trafford, an early settler in Whanganui, to Lady Rosalind Bodington Processing information: Description updated 26 September 2023 following information provided by a staff member, as part of reparative description work.

Date: 1860 - 1869

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-154-1

Description: A Maori woman seated, with a man either side and two men standing behind, photographed in a photographer's studio. All five are in European clothing. Other Titles - Stewart Island Quantity: 1 photograph(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Photograph (albumen print), 91 x 61 mm

Date: 1860 - 1869

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-154-2

Description: A Maori family group (two men, two women, a baby in arms, a child and two others of indeterminate age and sex) outside a small wooden cottage with thatched roof, a wooden chimney to the left. Most are wearing European clothing although the two seated figures on the left may be wearing cloaks. Other Titles - Stewart Island Quantity: 1 photograph(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Photograph (albumen print), 69 x 91 mm