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Vickers, Mary fl 1851-1856 : Reminiscences
Date: 1955
By: Vickers, Mary, active 1851-1856
Reference: qMS-2078
Description: Mary's reminiscences commence with departure from England on the "Simlah", 21 May 1851, with her parents and four sisters and brothers. The family settled in New Plymouth where Mary's father was a shipping agent. In 1856 they moved to a farm at Manukau, where Mary recalls, they experienced their `roughest days in New Zealand'. References to Bishops Selwyn and Patterson. Transcription was made in 1955. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (5 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (28 cm; grey pam case)
[Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :Auckland 1875
Date: 1875
By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926
Reference: A-029-067
Description: Shows view from the road to Mount Eden looking across Parnell to Rangitoto Island. Of the two spires, St Mary's Church, Parnell, is the one at left on the headland, and Bishopscourt, St Stephen's Avenue, is at the right. In the left foreground a man with wheelbarrow and dog, leans on his shovel and talks to skirted Maori carrying bundle of wood on his back. There is a lighthouse in the harbour at the right of the headland, and there is a steamship on the harbour. Several houses dot the land closer than the headland. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C.D.B. / 1875 Original for chromolithograph "Auckland harbour" in his "New Zealand: graphic and descriptive (London, 1877). Held at ATL Art Rm f919.31 BAR. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 254 x 355 mm.