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Date: 6 January 1918

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-f-008-136

Description: View of the lower valley of the Arapeti Stream, the site of the storage dam for the Mangahao Hydro. Photographed by George Leslie Adkin 6 January 1918. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Fig 136. The basin-like lower valley of the Arapeti Stream - the site of one of the proposed storage reservoirs of the Mangahao Hydro-electric Scheme. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 10.5 x 15.2 cm, mounted on album page.

Date: 1889 - 1890

By: Moore, Sophia Augusta, 1862?-1945; Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-181-018

Description: A house of one-and-a-half storeys amongst trees with other farm buildings visible, the sea (or Te Whanga Lagoon) to the right Note on verso states that this is the cottage where F E Moore and S A Moore lived. Their farm was named Moreroa, and they occupied it between 1885 and 1891. The area is still named Moreroa. Inscriptions: Verso - Title plus additional note; Where F E Moore & S A Moore lived Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 121 x 179 mm

Date: 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: A-079-016

Description: A Maori man in a blanket keeping watch over Ohaeawai Pa from behind a dead tree on a hill, with three other Maori seated beside him. The pa is in the middle distance, surrounded by a palisade and there is part of a farm with cleared bush and a small shed and fences closer to the watching group. Other Titles - Ohaeawai Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 253 x 364 mm

Date: 1860

By: Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913; Gilbert, Raymond Channing, 1915-1993

Reference: A-263-021

Description: A small house with front verandah on top of a hill in the middle distance. Mount Egmont can be seen in the background. The land in front is cleared with bush in the foreground. May show Touet's [Touett's] house looking east from Allen's Hill, on Hurford Road, Omata; Mt Egmont in background. Compare very similar (preliminary?] sketch at A-263-022 Identification and attribution from donor Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on grey paper, 236 x 259 mm

Date: 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-079-018

Description: An extensive view at Waimate North, with a windmill, the mission station and the church on the horizon. Bracken in the foreground and a rutted dirt road running away into the distance. Fenced paddocks to the right and three small people walking away on the road to the left. Several dead trees in the foreground. Compare a very similar work by Cyprian Bridge at A-079-035 The work appears to have been part of a sketchbook at an earlier stage, with signs of having been bound on its left side. Probably removed by the Library from album E-320-f, which contained 16 sketches on acquisition by Alexander Turnbull in 1893. Identification: the reference to 'Poka Noi' is to a volcanic cone, Puke Nui, or Pukenui, now known as Te Ahuahu, just visible in the centre background Other Titles - Waimate North, Pukenui, Puke Nui, Tamati Waka Nene Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Coloured crayon over sepia ink and wash, 253 x 365 mm

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-043-1

Description: View looking north along the Hutt Road, with the harbour and Somes Island to the right. A canoe is drawing in close to the road and a Maori man is walking towards the viewer along the road. The road appears pitted and muddy. Other Titles - Braithwaite Ngauranga Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash, 159 x 258 mm

Date: 1853

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-066

Description: E-455-f-066-1 = 'Commencement of the Hutt Valley, N. Z. Part of the Wood Bridge to the left'. Shows tree stumps in the foreground, the first Hutt Bridge on the left and a row of houses and fences, with a bush-clad hill beyond. The view is in central Lower Hutt. E-455-f-066-2 = 'Hutt Valley continued. River Hutt and Roman Catholic Church' showing a scene close to the upper view in central Lower Hutt, with the bush-clad Western Hills behind and a clear view of the Roman Catholic Chapel (later St Peter and St Paul's Church) with its bell-tower and a large tree to the left. The river is in the foreground 1853 date suggested from the dated drawings on the previous page of the sketchbook Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: 2 watercolours, 170 x 250 mm each

Date: [ca September 1900]

By: Pegler, Enos Silvanus Abijah, 1869-1938

Reference: PA7-17-47

Description: Taihape, showing the evidence of recent land clearance, photographed in 1900 by Enos Silvanus Pegler. Shows the premises of Dillon Brothers, livery stables, and M J Woodward, fruiterer and confectioner. 1/2-057558 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Taihape; Pegler photo protected 18/9/00 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned silver gelatin print 148 x 197 mm mounted on board 167 x 211 mm

Date: [Between 1880 and 1890]

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

Reference: 1/2-096247-G

Description: Titirangi, showing native forest (foreground) in the process of being cleared, and houses in the background, photographed in the 1880s by Daniel Manders Beere. Dated from other photographs in sequence. Identified as Ngaruawahia from typescript of photographer's negative register held at TL 6/1/62. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 115 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1863

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: PUBL-0033-1863-477

Description: A road carved out through dense bush, with infantry marching along it. There are large trunks from the cleared bush in the right foreground The incident took place at Ramarama, South Auckland Other Titles - Hoyte, John Barr Clarke After an original watercolour by John Barr Clark Hoyte in the Auckland Art Gallery Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 160 x 240 mm

Date: 1878

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: G-468

Description: A river valley and clearing in native bush, with tree ferns in the foreground, the elevated rock formation of Castle Rock in the background. There are logs by the river and some cleared, some bush-clad hills, suggesting the beginnings of forest clearance The second Blomfield oil purchased from Cordy's as a pair to this oil, dated 1878, and showing a distinctive rock formation, was sold as being a Coromandel scene like this one. It has subsequently been reattributed as a Whangaroa Harbour landscapes with Taratara Rock in the background Other Titles - Coromandel scene showing distinctive rock formation, river and bush [former title] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signature and date Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil painting on canvas 431 x 683 mm

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 2nd series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-453-f-012-3

Description: Six men building a small wooden hut (or whare) in a bush clearing. Two men are placing planks on the hut, one is chopping down a tree, one is trimmed a felled tree trunk, amother is carrying a tree-fern trunk towards the hut, and the last is lifting another trunk. A nikau is on the left of the hut and the stumps of trees are on the slope to the right with dense bush in the background Other Titles - Whare Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen 100 x 150 mm

Date: 1846

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Swainson, Marion, active 1980s; Laings Road Methodist Church (Lower Hutt, N.Z.)

Reference: A-188-058

Description: Shows first Methodist Church built near the old Wesleyan cemetery on western bank of Hutt River (now Aglionby Street), opened on 5th November 1845. Title from ink inscription, in artist's hand, below image. Folder contains details: Painting comes from Mrs Marion Swainson, Reid's Line, Feilding. / Dunbar Slone [sic] is a relative of the Swainson's [sic]. ...(see custodial note). Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Wesleyan Chapel Aglionby. River Hutt. / in 1846. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, image 100 x 165 mm, on sheet 175 x 229 mm. Provenance: Donated to Laings Road Methodist Church by Mrs Marion Swainson, Reid's Line, Feilding.

Date: 1842 - 1845

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

By: Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866

Reference: PUBL-0011-06-3

Description: Shows and names important features: Eel pond, site of the meat market, brick kiln, and several private dwellings and other landmarks. Also shows a woman doing the washing in a tub and spreading it out to dry on the bracken John Saxton arrived in Nelson in 1842. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Malvern Hills Valley of the MAITAI Mountains towards / the Pelorus River; Recto - beneath image - The Eel pond / (site of the Meat Market) House of the Revd. C.W. Saxton. Brick Kiln Little Scotland; Recto - bottom right - DAY & HAGHE LITHRS to the QUEEN Manuscripts and Archives records contain information about the people mentioned on this image. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured 245 x 450 mm

Date: 1859

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886; Hutton, Maia Thomas, 1918-1989

Reference: C-003-001

Description: Nine-part panorama, forming a complete circle, of the view from the parsonage attached to St James' Anglican Church, Lower Hutt. The parsonage itself is shown, along with surrounding houses and farms, cleared land, bush and the encompassing hills. There are cows, horses and a man using a plough pulled by two horses Extended Title - South Eastern part of Valley, looking towards Wellington. The distant hills are those lying behind Wellington. Western boundary of hills. St James Parsonage Hutt. Tararua Range in distance, north west end of valley. Hills forming eastern boundary of the valley. Inscriptions: Verso - Most sections have notes in ink as transcribed under title and additional title above Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in 9 sections with linen hinges on verso. Physical Description: Watercolour over pencil in nine sections (mounted in 3 groups of 3) 125 x 159 mm (whole panorama); 125 x 530 mm (each strip)

Date: 1864 - 1866

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-002

Description: Shows two men in the centre foreground, one sitting against a fallen tree trunk, one crouched with hand to face. Behind them, at right a man raises an axe to cut a tree trunk, a fuel-gatherer carries a bundle of greenery and wood, and a man accompanies two pack-donkeys at left. Two men attend to a cooking-fire. In the background is a row of tents, shacks, a washing-line and a general store. In the right distance, masts of two sailing ships are visible in the port. Date assigned with reference to dated picture of Hokitika Beach by same artist. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 177 x 240 mm. (rectangular with rounded corners).

Date: 1862

By: Stack, Frederick Rice, -1873; Day & Son (Firm); Thomas, Beatrice Rosemary, 1911-1996

Reference: C-060-021

Description: In the left foreground, a bullock team is hauling an enormous log, possibly cut from one of the tree-stumps on either side of the nearby road. Three men and a woman are on horseback in the right foreground, along with a dog. There is partly cleared bush in the middle distance and the Hauraki Gulf and Coromandel Peninsula are in the background. The houses of part of Auckland are on the left in the distance and several of the islands of the Hauraki Gulf are visible, probably including Ponui and Pahiki Other Titles - Firth Extended Title - Plate from: Stack, F R. Views in the province of Auckland (London, 1862). Plate 4. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-col., image, 200 x 405 mm on sheet 358 x 564 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Beatrice Thomas, Roseneath, 1984

Date: 1888

By: Murray, J P, active 1880-1890s

Reference: G-561

Description: Shows a mining camp in the Pelorus Sound-Havelock area, with tents, men cooking over a fire, a cart etc., beside the Pelorus River. There are felled trees on the flat and on the surrounding hills. Two men are cooking over a fire in the foreground Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 310 x 430 mm

Date: 1880 - 1890

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-004-008

Description: The Rimutaka Incline railway curving through bush-clad hills, with the train visible, two small buildings further down the track, a telegraph pole to the right and plains (or Lake Wairarapa) in the distance. Possibly the approach to Cross Creek Dated as 1880s because of the presence of the telegraph pole Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash on buff paper, 248 x 352 mm

Date: 1855 - 1856

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 2nd series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-453-f-012-4

Description: Three men slashing with machetes at the undergrowth and vines in dense New Zealand bush, near New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen & ink, 100 x 150 mm