Places

Date: 1863

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: E-106-f-043-2

Description: View of the river showing a heavily wooded area in the middle distance. Other Titles - The river Waikato from the hills near Mangatawhiri Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, 7 Nov 1863, p 69 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Engraver's initials Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 155 x 240 mm

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Gordon, William Francis Robert, 1846-1936

Reference: PAColl-6751

Description: The Waikato River at Mercer, showing the turret from SS Pioneer, which served during the Waikato War of 1863 (left foreground), and the old Point Russell Hotel (extreme right). Photograph taken ca 1900 by William Francis Robert Gordon. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print Provenance: Purchased from Brewster's Rare Books, October 2001.

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001037-G

Description: View looking down from a vantage point to the south east. In the middle distance is the main street with a hotel, and an ironmonger's shop next door. Across the road is the Mercer railway station and the Main Trunk Line heading north. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Mercer. NZ.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 2524D William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918 :[South Island sketches, 1870-1888]

By: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: A-120-023

Description: A small paddle-steamer in the foreground, the river, several houses on the opposite bank and high hills in the background In: Welch, J. S. [Album of Sketches] 1876 Copied by Joseph Sandell Welch from a watercolour by John Clarke Hoyte Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 170 x 355 mm

Date: 1863

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-084

Description: The stockade seen in the distance across a hilly landscape with a road and the Waikato River Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 99 x 164 mm

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001040-G

Description: View of the paddle steamer Freetrader on the Waikato River in the vicinity of Mercer. Logs are floating in the river in the foreground. Photograph taken by William a Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - P.S. Freetrader. Mercer. 2902D William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-004

Description: Looking across the river towards the stockade atop a hill, a flag flying inside its perimeter fence. There is a shed, possibly a boat shed at the water's edge and a small boat with a sail is being rowed across the river. A cleared hill with tree-stumps is on the left Copied by Hamley from the drawings of his superior officer, E. A. Williams. The original drawing on which this was based is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection in E. A. Williams' Album, p. 21, with the same title. The Library has a photograph of the E. A. Williams' sketch, negative 115988 1/2. Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 93 x 190 mm

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001041-G

Description: View looking across a swamp to the railway station in the middle distance and the Waikato River and hills beyond. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Mercer Railway Station. NZ. 2863D [?] William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [1863]

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: C-025-011

Description: A view from above Whangamarino Redoubt with three cannons in the foreground. The left one is firing out over river and plain. The river bends at the extreme right, or may join another. The gunboat (Pioneer) is in the river in the centre distance, near a fortification or pa with a flag flying. In a note on the back A W F Fuller quotes G W Rusden's History of NZ 1883, vol. II, page 167: "On the 29th October 1863, General Cameron with Commander Wiseman, reconnoitred Mere-Mere. Two 40 pound Armstrong guns had been previously landed at Whangamarino to command the landing place at Mere Mere. That stronghold was on a low ridge which approached the Waikato river. Traversed rifle-pits occupied the descent of the ridge to the river. Swamps almost encircled the ridge, & the Whangamarino & Maramarua rivers, or creeks, were available to the east for the possible retreat always aimed at by Maoris in their plans of fortification. The swamps were more water-laden than usual. The Maori flag floated in a pah where the ridge was 130 feet high. Every slope & projection from the ridge to the swamps was traversed with rifle-pits..." The mention of the flag appears to mean that the Maori pa is the one with the flag flying in the centre distance. Other Titles - Meremere Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Heaphy; Verso - centre - [Notes by A W F Fuller, 7 May 1941]. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, 490 x 760 mm

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001036-G

Description: View looking over the township towards the Waikato River in the middle distance. The timber mill is near the riverbank on the right, and an ironmonger's shop, hotels and other commercial buildings can be seen in the main street. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Mercer. NZ.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 2526D William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001035-G

Description: View looking over the township to the Waikato River in the middle distance. On the hill to the left is a church. The timber mill is near the riverbank on the right. An ironmonger's shop can be seen in the main street next door to a large hotel. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Mercer. NZ. 2525D. William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001841-G

Description: View of the dairy factory on the banks of the Waikato River. A horse and buggy are in the centre foreground. In the foreground to the left, on the other side of the road from the factory, are wooden cottages. Boats are tied up on the river bank across from the factory. A farm house is in the far distance. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Waikato Corporation Dairy Co. Mercer. 2862D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches