Places

Date: 1875-[ca 1920]

By: Worsfold, Louisa Blanche Norwood, 1872-1947

Reference: qMS-2294

Description: Covering the period, 1875-1920, this work contains much biographical information as well as descriptions of the social life of the area Source of title - Title page Variations in title - Spine title: A history of Russell Quantity: 1 volume(s) (123 pages). Physical Description: Typed transcript (35 cm; yellow buckram)

Date: 1873-1910

By: Lee, Bertha, 1901-1996

Reference: MS-Papers-10474

Description: A history of St John's Presbyterian Church, Rotorua and people connected with it, including family trees of some early church members Quantity: 1 folder(s) (58 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1911

By: Laugesen, Christian Louis, 1841-1915

Reference: Micro-MS-0559

Description: Reminiscences, 1872-1911, of Danish sawmiller at Oxford, Canterbury; refers to conditions of agricultural labourers, to economic difficulties of settlers and to European migrants in the Oxford area. Describes travel through both islands from 1890 and later residence in Auckland. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (58 pages).

Date: 1873-1953

By: Wood, Henry Alfred, 1873-1956

Reference: MS-GROUP-1988

Description: Autobiography deals mainly with dairying and work on the land, especially drainage of Ngaere Swamp; history of the Rawhitiroa district and the New Plymouth settlement; section on waterfront strike (1913); appendix: Reminiscences written by Mrs Phillipa Wood (nee Inch) of her voyage to New Zealand on the `William Bryan'. She was a child at the time. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 2 volume(s) (112, 11 leaves ie 123 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) (25cm; orange cardboard)

Date: [1872, 1900s]

From: Cowan family: Collection

By: Cowan, Eileen Constance, 1892-1968

Reference: MS-Papers-11946-046

Description: Published by Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1872. Includes original paintings (and some pencil drawings) by Eileen Cowan, and loose material laid in to the volume including clippings, pressed posies with a fern leaf, and a photograph of Alfred Dommett. The paintings in the volume illustrate Dommett's narrative poem based in the Rotorua District. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Printed volume with original watercolour paintings Original paintings, and pencil drawings are featured throughout the volume.

Date: [1921-2005]

By: Henderson, James McLeod, 1925-2013

Reference: MS-Group-2234

Description: Correspondence, research and teaching notes relating mainly to the Ratana Movement but also to wider race relations issues. Includes an annotated draft of Henderson's 1956 thesis on Ratana. Henderson wrote 'Ratana: The origins and the story of the movement' (1963), and 'Ratana: The man, the church, the political movement' (1972) Quantity: 15 folder(s). 1 volume(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts (including photocopies), printed matter, photographs, drawings Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs Rosa Henderson, Wellington, 2013 (A2013-216); Sep 2013 (A2013-249) Transfers: Papers received in Manuscripts and transfers made from there - To Book Collections - Copies of serial Te Whetu Marama o te Kotahitanga - To Photographic Archive - Case of colour transparencies, photo album, folder of loose black & white photographs.

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

From: Blair, Mary Ramsay Ellen, 1875-1963 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0014-09/5

Description: Scrapbook of notes relating to family history, clippings, programmes and other material Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1873, 1884, 1941, 1954, 1969

By: Buddle family

Reference: MS-Papers-2013

Description: Family register of T Buddle; family trees of Crump, Shannon family; press cuttings on Buddles and other Wesleyan missionaries. Also account of fire, 1969, at Kainga Guest House, French Pass, by R Webber T Buddle, Wesleyan missionary and Maori linguist Quantity: 1 folder(s) (10 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts (photocopies) and printed matter

Date: 1876 - 1975

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-022

Description: Shows a Maori family beside a pitched tent and campfire in the foreground with the lake behind. Similar to watercolour at C-007-008, from a slightly different angle, and showing pakeha campers. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph 312 x 534 mm on sheet 521 x 636 mm

Date: 1874, 1934, 2002

By: Holmes family

Reference: MS-Papers-7431

Description: Comprises scrapbook compiled by Joseph Holmes and members of the Holmes family after the near wrecking of the `Strathnaver' on Barrett's Reef in Wellington Harbour and its rescue by the `Stormbird' 30 Aug 1874; includes photocopies of the original log kept by Lancelot Holmes, clippings from newspapers, copies of photographs, report of the salvage case against the `Strathnaver', and listings from the `Mercantile navy list and maritime directory' (1872). John Moffat has included contents and illustrations. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript, printed matter and illustrations (photocopied)

Date: [19--]

By: Petersen, George Conrad, 1900-1978

Reference: MS-Papers-11264

Description: Folder comprises an incomplete report of Captain Gilbert Mair and the Arawa Flying Column's search for Rongowhakaata leader Te Kooti and his followers in the Urewera Mountains. The narrative details the Arawa Flying Column's movements as they track Te Kooti to the Hauhaus' fortified camp at Waipaoa in 1871. Details are provided of the attack, and the near capture of Te Kooti by Captain Mair. Manuscript continues with details of the capture of Te Kooti's follower Wi Heretaunga and his execution by the Arawa soldier Sergeant Kepa Te Ahuru (who was also Heretaunga's nephew). Page 11 ends mid sentence. Document is annotated confidential on each page. This report appears to be a literary draft for Petersen and Anderson's publication `The Mair family' published by A H & A W Reed, Wellington, 1956. Gilbert Mair was a surveyor, interpreter and soldier. Captain of the Arawa Flying Column engaged in the campaign pursuing Te Kooti and the Hauhau in the 1870s. Peterson and J C Anderson co-wrote `The Mair family', published in 1956. Source of title - Provided by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s) (11 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: The auction catalogue indicated that G C Petersen was the typist of this manuscript.

Date: 1879-1889, [ca 1910s], 1928, 1930-1942, [ca 1950s-1970s]

From: Hannah family: Collection relating to the Hannah family and R. Hannah & Co. Ltd

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Batchelor's Candid Studio; Don & Beatrice Peat Studio; Redfern Studios Ltd; Russell Orr Ltd; Filmograph Company (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-10468-2

Description: Contains photographs of Hannah's shops throughout New Zealand, the R. Hannah & Co. Ltd factory in Leeds Street, and company staff. Photographs were taken between 1879 and the 1970s by the Filmograph Company Wellington, F. G. Barker, Russell Orr, Batchelor’s Candid Studio, Redfern Studios, K. E. Niven Studio, Don & Beatrice Peat Studio, Jerome Studios, and other unidentified photographers. Photographs relating to Hannah's shops show building exteriors and window displays throughout New Zealand between 1928 and circa 1980s: Ashburton, Napier (showing earthquake damage in 1931), Masterton, Wellington (Cuba Street and Lambton Quay), Greymouth, and Auckland (Queen Street, Otahuhu). Other prints depict staff, customers, and shoe displays inside shops in Blenheim, Tauranga, and at 230 Heretaunga Street, Hastings. Further photographs also relate specifically to Hannah’s shops in the Hawke’s Bay, likely during the 1940s and 1950s. Eight prints depict the exterior and interior of a shop identified as “Hastings Branch”. Twelve prints relating to the opening of Hannah's 48th branch on Emerson Street, Napier, show signs announcing an opening sale, customers waiting outside, and the shop filled with staff, customers, shoes, and price signs. Other prints depict similar sales in Greymouth and Whakatane. Nine prints depict the Leeds Street factory interior and successive stages of the mechanised shoe manufacturing process, circa 1908. Prints show the factory layout, women sewing, men using different machines to assemble shoes and attach soles or heels, people packing shoes for dispatch, supervisors in white lab coats, and stacked raw materials or half-finished shoes. One print depicts the view towards Wellington Harbour over houses and commercial buildings on Cuba, Marion and Leeds streets. Several buildings are labelled: R. Hannah & Co., Aspro, People’s Palace, and C & A Odlin Timber & Hardware Co. Ltd. A 1952 copy print is an oblique projection line drawing of the Leeds Street factory. Photographs of staff include portraits of Robert Hannah (circa 1880s), William Hannah (circa 1930), S. L. Blank (1964), R. J. McAsley (1971), and Finance Director N. East (circa 1960s). Group portraits include two prints depicting workers outside the entrance to the R. Hannah Co. Ltd Cuba Street factory and first Cuba Street shop in 1879. Six other group portraits depict possibly managers in the Wellington warehouse "Conference Room" (1966), and supervisors "on occassion of retirement party" (1975). Named staff include: D. C. Brown, D. R. Watt, W. Davis, A. Dowdle, W. Muller, R. McIntyre, F. Owers, A. D. Anton, H. C. Campion, R. Parkes, H. T. Hutton, A. W. Pike, D. G. Finlayson, D. L. Travers, A. Cornish, R. J. Laffan, F. Wigney, J. F. Crump, G. T. Hedges, H. J. Lichtwark, Ray Jones, Denny Dawe, Doug Askew, Hal Crooks, Doug Luke, Ian Walker, and Rex Gardiner. Remaining prints show a Hannah’s shoes display at the 1952 Wellington Winter Show, Robert Hannah and another man with a car (1928), and a horse-drawn float displaying Hannah’s Christmas advertising in a parade at the Basin Reserve (1928). Arrangement: Chronological. Quantity: 81 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: 83 photographic prints

Date: [199- ]

By: Winter, Gareth, active 1993-2013

Reference: MSDL-2050

Description: Electronic document is a transcription by Gareth Winter of Lars Anderson Schow's memoir. Schow was a Danish settler in Mauriceville. His diary describes his voyage from Hamburg and arrival in Wellington on the `Herschel' (Hertsjel), including a heavy storm and rioting of passengers (1875). The diary also discusses the journey to Wairarapa and daily activities and difficulties working on the roads in Masterton. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Processing information: Part of SBDD (shipboard diary digitisation) project

Date: 1937 (1982)

By: Wol, Bhikshu Ham, active 1982

Reference: MS-Papers-5841

Description: A history of Chinese goldmining and settlement at Round Hill, Wallace County, Southland as told in 1937 by Dr Y Wong and Mr J Glade to Mr Colin Aberdeen. The 28-page handwritten notebook was edited and a typescript done by B H Wol, 1982. Other - Photocopy of the notebook is at the Wallace County Museum, Riverton Quantity: 1 folder(s) (11 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript

Date: Between 1870 and 1913

Reference: Objects-0002

Description: Nail maker unidentified. A large iron nail, slightly bent, with a large head. According to the accompanying note, 'House was originally in the Te Arai Valley - removed to Manutuke; removed to site some yards away and partly rebuilt, 1951-52. Peg used to secure the poupou to structure of house. Mana-a-turanga, Manutuki, 1951-2'. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 object(s). Physical Description: Iron, 178 x 18 mm. Processing information: Description edited as part of Curios and Objects survey, 2022. Previous reference:Curios-001-002. Previous title: Maker unknown :Iron nail. 19th century.

Date: 28 Feb 2003

By: O'Brien, Rebecca, active 2004

Reference: MS-Papers-8069

Description: Research essay on Wellington's Alexandra Home buildings covering the period 1879 to 1974 in which she discusses society's attitude to and treatment of unmarried mothers. Chapters cover the home in the 19th century from 1879 to 1900; the need for the Alexandra Maternity Hospital, from 1900 to 1930; and the development and design of the new Alexandra home, from 1930 to 1974 Source of title - Transcribed Written by O'Brien for her Master of Public History Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1875-1978 [transcribed 2007]

By: New Zealand Society of Genealogists

Reference: MSDL-0247

Description: Electronic transcription of the original school admission registers - Infants (1882-1935), Boys (1875-1925), Girls (1875-1925), Main (1926-1978). Original registers (MSY-3238 to MSY-3274) are held by Alexander Turnbull Library with the exception of the Girls (1875-1882) and Boys (1877-1881) registers which are held by the Beaglehole Room, Victoria University Library. Source of title - Transcribed from item Arrangement: The spreadsheet arranged in surname alphabetical order. It is a merger of Boys, Girls, Infant and Main admission registers and comprises 14 fields - register, register number, former number, administration date, sort date (yyyy/mm/dd), name (surname, forename), parent, address, birth date, last school, last day, destination, and comment Quantity: 9 megabyte(s). 1 Electronic document(s). Processing information: BIFF is a spreadsheet file format developed by Microsoft. BIFF 8X is a native file format of Microsoft Excel XP. (".xls" (Binary Interchange File Format (BIFF) v. 8).