Places

Date: 1864

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: E-372-f-005-1

Description: Shows Rev B Y Ashwell's first mission station at Pepepe or Taupiri located beside the Waikato River. There are high, bush-clad hills behind the house which has a fenced garden. A canoe is close to the station on the river. A group of Maori are seated in the foreground Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 44, Jan 1864, p.104 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 175 x 240 mm

Date: 1827 - 1991

From: Various artists: [New Zealand seen by the French; postcards]. Wellington, National Library of New Zealand, 1991.

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-

Reference: E-279-q-157-A

Description: Reproduction of a watercolour by Louis-Auguste de Sainson. A view from a hill to the south of Paihia, looking north along the beach line, with the houses and gardens of the Church Missionary Society station, home of the Rev. Henry Williams and his family. Two European men and a small boy are standing on the hill in the foreground beside a tree. The artist visited the site in March 1827. A pencil drawing by Sainson of this view, dated 12 March 1827, is in the Archives Nationales, Paris, (Marine JJ 102 A f 14); and the original watercolour is in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. There are also later engraved versions of the same view, one in Dumont d'Urville's 'Voyage pittoresque autour du monde', Paris, 1835, Vol 2, p. 356 and one in Domeny de Rienzi's 'Oceanie' Vol 2, Paris 1836, plate 174. Each of these later versions shows signficant changes in the detail. Other Titles - Etablissement des missionaires (Nouvelle Zelande) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, on card 105 x 150 mm

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: 1827 - 1991

From: Various artists: [New Zealand seen by the French; postcards]. Wellington, National Library of New Zealand, 1991.

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-

Reference: E-279-q-157

Description: Reproduction of a watercolour by Louis-Auguste de Sainson. A view from a hill to the south of Paihia, looking north along the beach line, with the houses and gardens of the Church Missionary Society station, home of the Rev. Henry Williams and his family. Two European men and a small boy are standing on the hill in the foreground beside a tree. The artist visited the site in March 1827. A pencil drawing by Sainson of this view, dated 12 March 1827, is in the Archives Nationales, Paris, (Marine JJ 102 A f 14); and the original watercolour is in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. There are also later engraved versions of the same view, one in Dumont d'Urville's 'Voyage pittoresque autour du monde', Paris, 1835, Vol 2, p. 356 and one in Domeny de Rienzi's 'Oceanie' Vol 2, Paris 1836, plate 174. Each of these later versions shows signficant changes in the detail. Other Titles - Etablissement des missionaires (Nouvelle Zelande) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, on card 105 x 150 mm

Date: 1839 - 1843

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

By: Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873

Reference: E-380-063

Description: A front view of the Mission House and garden, Waimate, Bay of Islands, the residence of Rev Richard Taylor from 1839-1843, drawn by him in his daughter's sketchbook. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Church Mission House - Waimate, Bay of Islands - My residence from 1839-1843 R T Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 165 x 230 (page size)

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: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-010

Description: View from a hill near the water's edge, looking down towards pohutukawa, with a small group of Maori dwellings at the water's edge, alongside a small stream. Across the Manukau harbour can be seen the Huia area. The settlement at Titipai was about one mile west of the kainga of Awhitu, which in turn was about two miles west of James Hamlin's Church Missionary Station at Orua, at Manukau Entrance, the southern end of Manukau Heads Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Other Titles - Manakau Harbour Christmas Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink, with Xmas 1843 in pencil upper right sky area. The paper (cream wove) has a blind embossed stamp, lower right, marked 'Extra fine Bristol' inside an oval leaf-pattern. Sketched on Ashworth's trip to the Waikato December 1843 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and sepia wash 183 x 227 mm Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's auction, 1966

Date: 1950 - 1850 - 1959 - 1852

From: Alexander, John Hood, 1916-1975 :[Twenty drawings, including of historic houses, churches, Mangapohatu, Waimate North, the first Bank of New Zealand in Auckland, and Auckland Public Library 1880. 1950s-1960s]

Reference: B-192-014

Description: Shows the interior of the home of James Kemp, of the Church Missionary Society. Includes a desk with folding leaves, a rocking chair and an organ. There are ornaments on the mantelpiece and a picture on the wall Other Titles - Mission House Extended Title - In: Alexander, John H: Historic Bay of Islands (Wellington [N.Z.] : A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1960) p.11 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on page 170 x 250 mm

Date: 1880 - 1900

Reference: PA3-0367

Description: A card showing images from Opotiki in memory of Carl Sylvius Volker. Comprises: `Rev Volkner's house', `Rev Volkner's church', Memorial gravestone of Rev Volkner, `The Gallows Tree', 'Stern-post of war canoe', Baler, 'Head-gear of war canoe', and photograph of Opotiki Inscriptions: Recto - Memories of a martyr Carl Sylvius Volkner born in Kassel, Germany, trained as a missionary and was one of several missionaries sent to New Zealand by the North German Missionary Society. He arrived in New Zealand August 1849 and initially worked in Taranaki with fellow German Protestant missionaries before offering his services to the Church Missionary Society (1852). He took charge of the CMS mision station at Opotiki (August 1861). Despite hostilities and ignoring warnings he remained at Opotiki until 1865, when he was taken prisoner , charged with being a spy and was taken to a willow tree and hanged. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1835 - 1836

By: Williams, Samuel, 1788-1853

Reference: PUBL-0031-1836-81

Description: View across a plain, with a flat-topped hill in the background and the Church of England mission station buildings in the middle ground. Two whare, a pataka, and a group of Maori with a dog are in the foreground After a drawing by Samuel Williams 'South-west view of the Waimate' engraved to illustrate William Yate's 'An account of New Zealand' (London, Seeley & Burnside, 1835), opp. p. 192 Other Titles - Williams, Samuel, 1788-1853. South-west view of the Waimate, 1835 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 100 x 150 mm

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: 1827 - 1833

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Arago, Jacques Etienne Victor, 1790-1854

Reference: B-052-019

Description: A view from a hill to the south of Paihia, looking north along the beach line, with the houses and gardens of the Church Missionary Society station, home of the Rev. Henry Williams and his family. Two European men and a small boy are standing on the hill in the foreground beside a tree. The artist visited the site in March 1827. A pencil drawing by Sainson of this view, dated 12 March 1827, is in the Archives Nationales, Paris, (Marine JJ 102 A f 14); and a watercolour, more closely like the lithograph, is in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. There are also later engraved versions of the same view, one in Dumont d'Urville's 'Voyage pittoresque autour du monde', Paris, 1835, Vol 2, p. 356 and one in Domeny de Rienzi's 'Oceanie' Vol 2, Paris 1836, plate 174. Each of these later versions shows signficant changes in the detail. Other Titles - Missionary establishment [at Paihia] New Zealand. Extended Title - From Dumont d'Urville, J. S. C. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe. Atlas historique. Plate 56. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 231 x 345 mm on sheet 350 x 470 mm

Date: 8 May 1903

From: Duncan, Russell James, 1855-1946 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-141-89

Description: Site of John King's house at Te Puna, Bay of Islands, photographed 3 May 1903 by Russell James Duncan. Inscriptions: Mount recto - above image - #89 Bay of Islands; Mount recto - beneath image - Te Puna. Where missionaries landed. Dec 1814. Site of Mr John King's house where handkerchief is laid.; Mount verso - bottom right - Taken by Russell Duncan, 8 May 1903 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned gelatin silver print 14.1 x 20.4 cm, mounted on album page

Date: 1814 - 1913

From: Marsden, J. B. :Life and work of Samuel Marsden. Christchurch, Whitcombe & Tombs, 1913

Reference: PUBL-0158-76

Description: A historical reconstruction of Marsden holding his hand out to a group of Maori, with four other men behind him, one still seated in a rowboat in the water. The picture is loosely based on an engraving after Samuel Williams 'Landing of the Rev. S. Marsden ...' published in Annals of the diocese of New Zealand (1847) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 86 x 136 mm

Date: 1832

Reference: PUBL-0031-1832-66

Description: A view from across a bay, looking towards the steep promontory which held the pa at Rangihoua. The mission station is on the flat land at the water's edge to the right. A sailing ship is in the water Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 130 x 210 mm

Date: 1844

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: A-196-027

Description: Shows a mission station on the Waikato River, a cottage with a thatched roof, the residence of Mr Benjamin Ashwell. Two groups of Maori are seated outside the picket fence and gate. A small structure, possibly a bell-house is to the right of the house The original for a lithograph illustrating G F Angas' Savage life and scenes (London, 1847) vol 2, facing page 37. A similar watercolour is held by the National Library of Australia Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 370 x 546 mm Provenance: Provenance; Capt. A W F Fuller

Date: 1851 - 1884 - 1852

From: Church Missionary Gleaner for 1884.

Reference: PUBL-0006-1884-110

Description: Interior of a Gothic Revival-style church, with pillars and wall panels carved in Maori style, lancet windows along the sides and at the east end. A minister is in the pulpit on the right and rows of Maori are seated on benches running the length of the church Originally published in the Church Missionary Intelligencer, Vol 3, p. 26, 1852. See also B-051-017, Artist unknown. Native Christian Church at Turanga, New Zealand Physical Description: Wood engraving 130 x 190 mm

Date: 1867

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

Reference: 1/2-096131-G

Description: The Hauraki Mission Station, Thames, photographed in 1867 by Daniel Manders Beere. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - top left - 65 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: 1863

Reference: A-090-015

Description: Shows the tents of Te Papa military camp to the right and the buildings of Tauranga in the distance on the right. The church-like building with a spire on the right was the Church Missionary Society's Mission Institute, taken over as a commissariat by the troops. A low cliff drops to the water and there are several small boats in the harbour. The view is from the west side of Tauranga Harbour. The Mission Institute was erected in 1860 as a training school to teach Maori agricultural skills. After being used as a commissariat during the war, it was used as a hospital. Other Titles - Gate Pa Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil. Also 'Artist unknown' in a different hand in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour with scraping out, on prepared paper, 142 x 225 mm (image) on sheet 187 x 269 mm Provenance: Unknown.

Date: 1835 - 1836

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: PUBL-0031-1836-1

Description: Shows Henry Wiliams, John Morgan, Alfred Nesbit Brown and Dr William Fairburn, struggling through a flax or raupo edged swamp, assisted by Maori. According to the associated text, 'The scene took place in a journey of hte missionaries to Matamata ... The European to the left is intended for the Rev. Henry Williams; the one on the right for Mr Morgan, who, having slipped into a hole, is being helped out by the native; the two in teh centre for the Rev. A. N. Brown and Dr Fairburn. The image is based on a sketch by Henry Williams now in Auckland Museum. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 100 x 155 mm