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Date: 1880 - 1899

Reference: Curios-038-012

Description: Plain undecorated hand-operated medal press, with the plates for each side of the medal screwed into place. Downward pressure on the handle brings the two plates together above and below the material of the medal. The writing on the seal cannot be deciphered owing to its position. Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Iron press with wooden handle, base length 220 mm (total length including handle 270 mm) x 85 mm, height 185 mm.

Date: ca1880s

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-o-684

Description: Views of some of the principle buildings and streets of Dunedin Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1875

From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers

Reference: MSX-7950

Description: Newspaper cuttings, mainly consisting of the regular column `Passing notes', possibly contributed to by Chapman, from the Otago Daily Times. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 14 May 1891-4 Sep 1891

Reference: MS-Papers-6222

Description: Fanny's diary covers the period 14 May to 4 September 1891 where she describes her daily life on board the ship `Arawa'. It includes many descriptions of New Zealand and her encounters with the local people and places, in particular the Wellington, Dunedin and Christchurch regions. Includes also photocopied pictures of the ship`Arawa', pages from her original diary plus a picture of the Dod family camping at Birkdale, Lancashire in 1889. Source of title - Supplied Fanny Elizabeth Dod and her sister Eleanor FitzGerald left London and boarded the `Arawa' at Plymouth on 14 May 1891 and disembarked in Capetown, parts of Western Australia, Wellington, Dunedin, Lyttelton and then back to England on 4 September 1891. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms B Bolam, Whangaparaoa, 1998

Date: 14 May 1891-4 Sep 1891

By: FitzGerald, Eleanor, active 1891

Reference: MS-Papers-6212

Description: The diary covers FitzGerald's voyage on board the`Arawa' with details about ship life. She describes her tour of New Zealand, in particular the Wellington region, Dunedin and Christchurch. Source of title - Transcribed Eleanor FitzGerald and her sister Fanny Elizabeth Dod left London and boarded the`Arawa' at Plymouth on 14 May 1891 and disembarked in Capetown, parts of Western Australia, Wellington, Dunedin, Lyttelton and then back to England on 4 September 1891. Quantity: 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms B Bolam, Whangaparaoa, 1998

Date: 1883 - 1899

Reference: Curios-038-011

Description: Plain undecorated hand-operated medal press, with the plates for each side of the medal screwed into place. Downward pressure on the handle brings the two plates together above and below the material of the medal. The Lodge Valley True Blue, Dunedin was established in 1883, and was still going in the 1960s. Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Iron press with pointed handle, 240 x 76 mm, height 220 mm.

Date: 1888-1968 (1980)

By: Smith, Ellen, 1888-1981

Reference: MS-Papers-2397

Description: Reminiscences describe her childhood, life in Wellington and experiences as the wife of a parish minister Brought up in Napier, after leaving school worked in Wellington. Married Presbyterian minister and lived in parishes in Waipawa, Manaia, Dunedin and Auckland Quantity: 1 folder(s) (88 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1879 [nd]

By: Clarke, William, 1854?-1918

Reference: MS-Papers-11495

Description: Diary transcription is a very full account of Clarke's voyage aboard the `Invercargill' from Glasgow, Scotland to Port Chalmers, Otago, 27 Jun-1 Oct 1879. Clarke comments on shipboard life, changing weather patterns and the progress of the ship. Diary commences with Clarke narrating his departure from Derry City to Greenock and onto Glasgow. Describes his stay of seven days in Glasgow before the vessel sailed on 4 Jul. Arrival in Port Chalmers was on 27 Sep with disembarkation on 29 Sep. Clarke provides a detailed description of his surroundings in Port Chalmers and Dunedin, and comments on looking for work and the activities of some of his fellow passengers. Diary finishes 1 Oct 1879. Accompanying material - Folder also contains biographical note relating to William Clarke and a printout from the Otago Daily Times of the arrival of the `Invercargill' in Port Chambers on 27 Sep 1879. Source of title - Transcribed from item Clarke emigrated to New Zealand from Newtownstewart, Ireland in 1879. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (copy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr M Pirie, Wellington, Jun 2013

Date: 1885

From: Montgomery family: Papers

Reference: MSX-9527

Description: Published volume of poetry by E E Montgomery. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Transfers: See also letter relating to the work in MS-Papers-12152-3..

Date: 1867

By: Sutherland, George (Rev), active 1867-1868

Reference: MS-Papers-11013

Description: Three letters written by Sutherland to the Presbyterian Witness (Nova Scotia, Canada), 1867 in which he describes his journey from Nova Scotia to Dunedin in 1867 via Panama, Wellington and Lyttelton Quantity: 1 folder(s) (8 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Located and transcribed by Mrs Shirley Cormick, Nova Scotia (see correspondence with item)

Date: [1870s-1880s]

By: Norris, Joseph Foxley, active 1880s; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Wilson, George Washington, 1823-1893

Reference: PA1-q-094

Description: Photographic album created by Joseph Foxley Norris, with many images of places visited in Great Britain, including castles, cathedrals, stately homes, ports, landscapes, and bridges. Joseph Foxley Norris was a founding member of the Cyclists' Touring Club in England, and was a member of the Pickwick Bicycle Club in England with one image being a group portrait of members of the club. A number of the English scenes were photographed by G.W.W. (George Washington Wilson). Other regions visited include Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro. Views of New Zealand are mostly in the South Island, with a few of Wellington (including Government Buildings, Parliament Buildings and Government House). One photograph taken by James Bragge shows a group of unidentified Maori standing outside a meeting house in Masterton. South Island views include a bicycle "meet" in Christchurch, with a large crowd gathered, and a number of penny-farthing bicycles visible. A number of images show men riding penny-farthing bicycles and the dangers of so doing, with posed views of two men underneath their bicycles and one clutching a fence, taken in and around Christchurch. On page 108 is hand-printed award `Anniversary Sports, Christchurch,N.Z. 16th December 1880. The following ten views taken from the Cathedral Tower, Christchurch, are the 3rd prize in the One Mile Champion Bicycle Race won by J. Foxley Norris, Pioneer Bicycle Club'. Other views include a group of about four men touring along the West Coast Road, and notable buildings in Christchurch and Dunedin. One image shows the "cage" crossing the Teremakau River. A group portrait in Christchurch shows members of Harper & Co. (Solicitors) Inscriptions: Album page - J. Foxley Norris. 1880 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with a black cover, spine title `Photo's'; 29.0 x 24.5 cm

Date: 1801-1862 (1973)

By: Cumming, Gertrude Lilian Oclanis, 1903-1982

Reference: MS-Papers-1168

Description: Entered in the Otago Daily Times Historical Biography Competition, 1973, it details Jeffrey's early life, academic and teaching career at Cambridge University, work as minister serving various parishes in England. In 1851 Jeffreys and family joined his brother-in-law, W H Valpy, at Dunedin; continued as minister and did some teaching Quantity: 1 folder(s) (32 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1877 (transcribed, 2012)

By: Webster, John, active 1998-2012

Reference: MS-Papers-11290

Description: Transcription of Margaret Fidler's 1877 shipboard journal kept aboard the `City of Santiago' on its voyage from Liverpool to Melbourne. Further transcription of Fidler's subsequent voyage from Australia to Bluff aboard the `Arawata'. Also includes research endnotes provided by Webster which relate to Fidler's text. Margaret Fidler left Liverpool on 22 Feb 1877 on the ship `City of Santiago' which took her as far as Melbourne. During this part of the voyage she shared a cabin with a six year old girl who was travelling alone to meet her family in Australia. After a short stay in Melbourne Fidler travelled to Bluff on the `Arawata'. She was met by others of her family at Port Chalmers. Fidler provides a detailed account of daily activities aboard ship, the crew and passengers she interacts with, weather events, food and beverage taken with meals and the engaging personalies she witnesses. Also provides copies of the "nautical alphabet" and an In Memoriam composed by a Mr Wood for a deceased passenger. Source of title - Transcribed by Library Fidler travelled from Liverpool out to New Zealand to meet her family at Port Chalmers Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr J Webster, Auckland, June 2012

Date: 1851-1858, 1910 (2000)

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Mieville, Frederick Louis, 1830-1922

Reference: MSDL-1272

Description: Reminiscences written in 1910 of Mieville's life in New Zealand, mainly on Glenham Station in the Mataura Valley, Southland, and in Dunedin; transcribed and indexed by Marsha Donaldson. Includes shipboard accounts of the voyage to Port Chalmers on the 'Dominion' in 1851 with the Richardson family, a voyage home to England via Melbourne on the 'Thomas and Henry', and 'Royal Charter' in 1857, and the return voyage to Port Chalmers in 1858 on 'Agra'. He includes some of his wife's diary entries in his reminiscences. His first year in New Zealand was spent at Otepopo on the sheep station owned by Charles Suisted. He married Fanny Richardson in Dunedin in 1854. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Finding Aids: Accompanied by index to people and ships mentioned, and some places. Processing information: Part of SBDD (shipboard diary digitisation) project

Date: 1869-1955

By: Holmes, Duncan, active 1955-2007

Reference: MSDL-0252

Description: Memoirs of Holmes visiting his great Aunt Kate in Deep Cove, British Columbia in 1955 and later on in the 1960s. Details family history of the McNaughtan family who first emigrated to New Zealand from Scotland. Includes a transcript of Robert McNaughtan's shipboard account, (written at the age of 13) of their journey aboard the Oamaru in 1882, arriving at Port Chalmers 29 January 1883. Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 74 kilobyte(s). 1 Electronic document(s).

Date: 1887

By: Williams, Arthur Scott, active 1887

Reference: MSY-6107

Description: Mr Williams collected all the ephemera material from his voyage out on the Rimutaka including a plan of the ship and his ticket, menus, passenger lists etc., there are also bills from hotels and clubs in New Zealand and tickets for excursions. There are several letters from people he met in New Zealand. He visited Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington among other places. He went onto Australia and returned to England on the Tongariro in May 1887. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased, 2005

Date: 7 Feb-15 Jun 1849

By: Tylee, John Thomas, 1827-1884

Reference: MS-Papers-3646

Description: The diary lists the passengers and crew on board and describes the voyage Tylee was a cabin passenger with his wife aboard the ship `Mariner' which left Gravesend on 8 Feb 1849 and arrived at Port Chalmers on 6 Jun 1849, and then sailed to Wellington. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (31 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Photocopy of carbon copy of typescript