Places

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925; Harnett & Company; Taranaki Museum

Reference: A-104-024-b

Description: View from close to the mouth of the river, looking inland. Shows boats on the river, including (possibly) the Cobden ferry, and a horse-drawn cart on the road to the right, leading along the south side of the riverbank towards the houses and shops of the town Title from inscription on verso of 24a. See Ellis, E M. Early prints of N.Z. 1642-1875. Christchurch, 1977. p. 192-193. Other Titles - Lithographed by John Diedrich Schmidt from a sketch by William Marshall Cooper Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 210 x 300 mm Provenance: Deacessioned from the collections of Taranaki Museum, 1994.

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925

Reference: A-104-024

Description: Shows boats on river, including (possibly) Cobden ferry, and horse-drawn cart Title from inscription on verso of 24a. See Ellis, E M. Early prints of N.Z. 1642-1875. Christchurch, 1977. p. 192-193. Other Titles - Lithographed by John Diedrich Schmidt from a sketch by William Marshall Cooper Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 210 x 300 mm

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925; Harnett & Company

Reference: A-104-024-c

Description: Shows boats on river, including (possibly) Cobden ferry, and horse-drawn cart Title from inscription on verso of 24a. See Ellis, E M. Early prints of N.Z. 1642-1875. Christchurch, 1977. p. 192-193. Other Titles - Lithographed by John Diedrich Schmidt from a sketch by William Marshall Cooper Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 210 x 300 mm Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in July 2001.

Date: 1865-1911

By: Northwood Brothers (Firm); Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6996

Description: A printed christmas message from the headmaster, Frederick Knapp, to the pupils of Central Girls' College, Nelson 1907; carts on Commerce Street, Kaitaia, one passing the Kaitaia Hotel ca 1890s; newspaper photograph of early Nelson settlers W H Cole and M P Hargreaves in 1924 taken by Tyree; two of bullock teams in Kaitaia; Devonport and Northcote ferry terminal in Auckland ca 1911; girls of Nelson College for Girls with L Sheat on the left of the second row with Muriel Bell next to her in 1914; Awanui looking towards the wharf ca 1914 by Northwood Bros; Marsland Hill Memorial to the men who died in the New Zealand Wars in New Plymouth designed and erected by W Parkinson & Co, Auckland; seated portrait of Thomas Thompson 1865; a group of gum diggers outside Tynan's gum store in Waihopo ca 1890s; a group of Maori adults and children on an outing by bullock team, one man holding a concertina ca 1890s; a group of twelve Austrian gum diggers some with shovels and one holding a cat ca 1890s; Elizabeth Levestam and her four sons ca 1900; three of the camp site set up by a surveying party in the Victoria Valley ca 1890; the school at Richmond with the children lined up in the yard ca 1900s; the Anglican church at Richmond 1910; Headingly, the home of Thomas Thompson with Mrs Thompson and her eldest son in front of it 1911; a carriage outside a house holding about 12 people; John Sheat ca 1880; Alfred Sheat ca 1880; and Victoria Street, Hamilton showing a number of shops and businesses and some advertising hoardings on the left 1908. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-007700 and 007708 Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original negative(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Albumen prints and silver gelatin prints

Date: 1844 - 1890

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Star Steam Printing Company; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927; Keesing, G S (Mr), active 1960s

Reference: D-001-009-a

Description: Extensive view of a plain with volcanic cones in the background, including Mount Hobson and Mount Eden, showing a feast given by Waikato Chiefs in 1844, attended by about 4000 Maori and many Pakeha. A 400 yard-long shed is in the background and Governor Fitzroy is shown visiting the scene with many other Pakeha on 11 May 1844. Features and incidents are numbered and described below the work. A haka is being performed on the right for Fitzroy, Sheppard (the colonial Treasurer) and William Swainson (the Attorney General). Tribal groups are named as Ngatihaua, Ngatikoroki, Ngatimahuta, Ngatiwhatua, Ngatikoura and Ngatiruru and the plain is covered with large numbers of people, the majority Maori. A lithograph presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890, which is derived from an earlier lithograph published by Samuel Augustus Tegg in 1845, which in turn is after an original watercolour of the event made in 1844 by J. J. Merrett in the Hocken Library. This copy lacks a printed inscription on the recto of copy D-001-009 "Presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890" Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph in two tints 220 x 840 mm on sheet 285 x 890 mm Provenance: Donation: G S Keesing

Date: 1971

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-032-a

Description: Contents: View of a part of the town of Wellington, New Zealand--Part of Lambton Harbour, Port Nicholson, New Zealand--View of Nelson Haven, in Tasman's Gulf, New Zealand. Title from text sheet Lithographed in 1842 from watercolours, 1841 No. 4 of edition of 2000 Same : 2nd and 3rd copies (and 4th of C-061-033). Nos. 13 and 14 (C-061-031-033-a-b) and 5 (C-061-033-c) Same. 3 extra copies, annotated, in folder accompanying 026-001-a. Same, 1 extra copy, annotated. Supplementary material C-026-002-c Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs col., ca 355 x 520 mm + text sheet. on sheets 540 x 660 mm

Date: 1907

Reference: PAColl-0369

Description: Mounted photograph of three small homesteads with out-houses near what may be the Pohangina River and carts loaded with wood on the road next to them taken from a short distance. The mount is captioned Komako, 1907 but the photographer is unidentified. 1/2-056602 Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-056602 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted photographic print

Date: 1844 - 1890 - 1969

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Star Steam Printing Company; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927; Heritage Fine Prints; Wilson & Horton (Firm)

Reference: D-001-023

Description: Extensive view of a plain with volcanic cones in the background, including Mount Hobson and Mount Eden, showing a feast given by Waikato Chiefs in 1844, attended by about 4000 Maori and many Pakeha. A 400 yard-long shed is in the background and Governor Fitzroy is shown visiting the scene with many other Pakeha. Features and incidents are numbered and described below the work. A haka is being performed on the right for Fitzroy, Sheppard (the colonial Treasurer) and William Swainson (the Attorney General). Tribal groups are named as Ngatihaua, Ngatikoroki, Ngatimahuta, Ngatiwhatua, Ngatikoura and Ngatiruru and the plain is covered with large numbers of people, the majority Maori. A 1969 photomechanical reproduction, taken from a lithograph presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890, which is derived from an earlier lithograph published by Samuel Augustus Tegg in 1845, which in turn is after an original watercolour of the event made in 1844 by J. J. Merrett in the Hocken Library. Print no 142 of an edition of 1000 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of tinted lithograph in two colours 205 x 794 mm (image) on sheet 293 x 876 mm

Date: 18 January 1899

By: Burgess, William Frederick, 1856-1920

Reference: A-089-010

Description: A woman in a horse and cart in the foreground, a flat plain bisected by an eroded river valley, with a small house on a river flat area. Stockyards in the distance at the base of hills. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - signature; Verso - title and date Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone watercolour 9 x 13.5 inches

Date: Circa 1900 to 1905

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-295

Description: Album of photographs, probably taken by George William Barltrop, chiefly taken on a tour around the South Island. The first images relate to an area around Wellington, including Waiwhetu and Wainuiomata, including scenes of the Wainuiomata Reservoir. Two photographs taken in a park show three women wearing hats, full-length outfits, and carrying umbrellas, the "McNabs". One photograph shows a group of men and women, members of a camera club. The tour aound the South Island travels from Sheffield, down to the Otira Gorge, up to Lake Brunner and Inangahua, past Murchison, through Longford. In Wellington Harbour the steamship Ophir is sailing out, with people standing on the wharf in the foreground. Also in Wellington, is a large group portrait of men associated with the Missions to Seamen, gathered together on Labour Day 1901. Five photographs are taken around Otaki, one a pastoral scene, and two of three young Maori people (a young woman and a young girl in two scenes, with a second young girl in the third scene); a water mill; and a group of four people having a picnic in a field (two women (one obscured) and a young boy on the left, and a man with a bandaged hand on the right). The last few scenes are again of the South Island, at Temuka, Otago Harbour, Dunedin (including the Octagon), and a tram belonging to the Roslyn Tramway Company with a group of men on the front cab, and three standing in front. Inscriptions: Album page - G W Barltrop Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green album, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: ca1900-1956

By: Bailey, Colin Lennie, 1906-1997; Bailey, Sue, active 1998

Reference: PAColl-6025

Description: Views of Westport, Denniston, Blackball, Ngakawau, Millerton, Inangahua Junction, Seddonville, Dunedin, Gore, Milford Sound, Greymouth and Taupo Quantity: 10 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 12 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. Provenance: The late Professor C L Bailey, from the VUW Department of Education, collected photographs and other items relating to New Zealand history from members of the public.

Date: circa 1890-1910

From: Shaw, G W :Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna

By: Wilson, Alex R, active 1900s; Shaw, Helen M G, active 1976

Reference: PA1-q-269

Description: Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna. William M Wilson was born in Glasgow in 1868, coming to New Zealand when 8 years of age. He was apprenticed to John Fitchett, coach builder in Wellington, then with other firms including Rouse & Hurrell. He was employed by Wilfred Woolf in Eketahuna in 1894, and subsequently bought his business, and entered the firm of Kibblewhite and Wilson. See Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Wellington Provincial District, Eketahuna. Includes dwellings; carriages; group outings and portraits; 1 of the Club Hotel of F D Pelling; 3 of the Ryan family at Tawa Flat; 1 of a house at Island Bay, 1 of a thatched whare at Plimmerton, a Ghuznee St boarding house; 2 relating to the Burnett family; 2 scenes in Manakau; 1 of D A Greenlees store; 2 of Rarotanga; 2 relating to the business of Lyon & Blair, steam printers and lithographers; 1 of a group outside a house in Eastbourne; 3 relating to the Manson family; 1 of a military camp in New Zealand in preparation for the South African War. Also includes a pocket on the inside back cover containing newspaper clippings, and a photocopy of a letter written by the donor Mrs Helen M G Shaw, which gives some information about the album. Inscriptions: Album page - Alex R Wilson, Central Terrace, Kelburne, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover; 28.5 x 20.5 cm

Date: [1870s]

From: Christie, Hettie Florence (Miss), fl 1973 : Photograph albums

By: Allen, Joseph Weaver, 1821-1886; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-053

Description: Album of pressed ferns, and photographs of Dunedin buildings, taken in the 1870s by J W Allen. Includes one postcard "Maori land. The Maori portraits are originals taken from life" taken by the Burton Brothers. Other Titles - New Zealand ferns Inscriptions: Album page - G.S. Christie, Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, 3rd June 1968 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album in dark green cover entitled "New Zealand ferns", 37 x 29 cm

Date: 1880s

From: Main, William :Two photograph albums

Reference: PA1-q-638

Description: Views of farmland, homesteads, mountains, forest, and people associated with Merrivale, Blackmount, and other stations in Southland. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1870 - 1879

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook. 1870s?]

Reference: E-030-q-2-005

Description: A view along the main street of Nokomai township, looking towards mountains. In the right foreground, the United States Hotel is identified, with a small dray outside. Futher down the street are shops and houses. Other views of the Mataura by Hodgkins are dated 1871 and possibly 1875 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream paper, page size 137 x 223 mm

Date: 1880 - 1891

By: May, Powell, active 1880s

Reference: B-064-010

Description: View from a low hill, looking east along a valley towards the sea. Cabbage trees, flax and toitoi in the foreground, a barn and other buildings with a track, a bullock-team hauling a cart with other cattle. In the middle distance, a row of young poplar trees along a fence, a cottage, the homestead and other buildings in the distance near the sea. Shows Whangaehu station, ca 60 km South east of Waipukurau, owned by A.H.Price 1880-1891. Other Titles - Whangaehu Station Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Powell May from an oil. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour with Chinese white 250 x 343 mm Provenance: Purchase: Frances Edwards Ltd, London, November 1966, for #55.

Date: ca 1907

By: William Beattie & Company

Reference: PAColl-6542

Description: 7 negatives from prints of Karangahake lent by Mrs Donaldson. Two of the images are by W. Beattie & Co Auckland. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015110 to 015116 Quantity: 7 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: [1900s]

By: Brookes, L V, active 1962

Reference: PA1-o-070

Description: Album of photographs relating to the Cable Bay Station, including group portraits of the post & telegraph staff, staff quarters, the telegraph instrument room, and aspects of daily life. Inserted in the front of the album is an undated newspaper cutting with news of the wedding of Miss Dorcas Vivian Ingram to Vincent Brookes of the Post & Telegraph Office, Wanganui. The wedding was held at St Matthew's Church, Masterton. The photographs in this album were probably taken by Vincent Brookes. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Maroon cloth album "Photographs", 24 x 19 cm Provenance: Donated by L V Brookes, Lower Hutt, 1962

Date: [ca 1860s-1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6886

Description: 22 images: 18 are copy negatives of images in books of Old Wellington in the 1860s many of which are captioned; two are of people milling around in front of the Cathedral in Christchurch; one is of the ship Marama ca 1920s; and one is probably an original negative of two older children and a baby in a garden. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044160 to 044181 Quantity: 22 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate copy negatives

Date: [1872]

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: PA9-022

Description: Photographic copy of a watercolour of Westoe by William Fox, made ca 1970s by an unidentified photographer for the Alexander Turnbull Library Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler print 23.7 x 39 cm [visible image], in frame 41.6 x 56.7 cm