Places

Date: 1850-1909

By: Baines family

Reference: MS-Papers-1125

Description: Correspondence and diary of William Mortimer Baines who came to New Zealand in 1850 on the `Sir Edward Paget'. The papers deal with his interests in mining, timber and land. Includes letters from the Fooks, Dixon and Hunt families of Australia. Includes letters from Maryanne Verdon Baines (1859-1869), mostly to her husband after his departure for England. These are concerned to a large extent with her loneliness in Auckland and with plans for her voyage to England. In addition there are a number of letters written in 1869, by Maryanne and William's children, Fanny, Katherine and Rosa. Source of title - Supplied William Mortimer, came to New Zealand in 1850 on the `Sir Edward Paget'. In 1869 he returned to Britain, although he retained a financial interest in land in New Zealand. Quantity: 10 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (photocopies) Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1872-1903

By: Robson, Charles Hepburn Orlando, 1855-1913

Reference: MS-Papers-6271

Description: Transcripts of diaries of Charles Robson and his daughter Amy Robson. Those of Charles Robson contain brief entries detailing his life on lighthouses around New Zealand from 1872 to 1903. Amy Robson then a 16 year old, recorded a trip on the Hinemoa around the Snares and southern part of of the South Island, arranged by the Government Light Service for her father and family upon his retirement. Transcripts made by Malcolm Robson. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 folder(s). 2 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: [ca 1848-1900]

By: Williams family

Reference: 77-198

Description: Folders of letters from mainly the women members of the Williams family. The letters are mainly written by the women members of the family, and are of a personal and social nature, although with some commentary on current events such as the New Zealand wars, and mission news. Some partial diaries are also included. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 box(es). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Finding Aids: Rough preliminary inventory available.. Processing information: Fourteen folders have been sorted. The rest have yet to be arranged and described.

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-029

Description: Orari Homestead (South Canterbury), the home of the Tripp family, with its surrounding garden and a woman standing to the left in the foreground. Hills in the background. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: [Circa 1890s-1900s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Skeen & Co.; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: Pa1-o-517

Description: Album of photographs taken by various photographers many of whom are unidentified. Photographs are seen on pages 1-31, with pages 32-50 unused. Colombo is shown in the first part of the album, and includes street scenes, the "Old Colombo Lighthouse", the Galle Face Hotel(?), views of outrigger fishing canoes, carts drawn by humped cattle, "padda" boats on a canal, and a group of young Sri Lankan women. The second part of the album contains views of New Zealand, chiefly in the thermal regions with views of Ohinemutu, Hamurana Springs, the Poutuhu Geyser, Waimangu Geyser, the "Fairy bath" at Okoroire and the "Okoroire Natural Bridge Rapids". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, darker red corners and spine; 24.0 x 31.5 cm

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-018

Description: The life history of William Crush Daldy briefly covering his early life in England, meeting his first wife Frances Harriet Pulham, the voyage to Tasmania and their continuation onto New Zealand. Their life in Auckland is covered in more detail including William's many business ventures. There are extracts from several diaries written by his sister-in-law Eleanor Sarah Combes and also from Daldy's memoirs. His marriage to Amey Smith nee Hamerton and her activities in the suffrage movement are also included Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: 1952

By: Hadfield, Amelia Caroline, 1869-1956

Reference: qMS-0893

Description: Comprises chronology of Kate Hadfield's life, foreword, and biography constructed from diaries, letters and family memories. Hadfield describes life with the Williams family, Kate Hadfield's move to Otaki and marriage to Octavius Hadfield and generally the life of a mission wife. Included are comments on the NZ wars, Tamihana Te Rauparaha and letters re Kate Hadfield's death. Copy of letter from Miss A C Hadfield bound in with item. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (19 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm, grey linen) Provenance: Catherine Hadfield was donor's mother

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-071

Description: This biographical outline traces the life of William George Cleaver, sergeant in 58th Regiment of Foot. The story tells of his marriage to Charlotte McDowell and sets out his later years as settler on the Coromandel Peninsula at Tairua and Whitianga Quantity: 1 folder(s). Includes photograph

Date: [ca 1894-1900]

By: Hanna, John Robert, 1850-1915

Reference: PAColl-10201

Description: Three black and white prints; no known link between prints. Taken by unknown photographers, probably between 1894 and 1900. Includes two class portraits of a girls school taken in a garden. One print captioned 'Lower Glenside School, October 1896', the other print embossed 'Hanna Photo', probably taken by John Robert Hanna of Auckland. Adult woman with lace cap features in both photographs. Also includes a wide view overlooking Taihape township surrounded by felled trees, bush and unsealed roads. Accompanying information - Lower Glenside School print was accompanied by a post-it-note 'Tawa mgt' (not retained). A girls day and boarding school called 'Lower Glenside School' operated from Upper Symonds Street, Auckland, circa 1890s. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s) (two prints mounted on card). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints Provenance: Purchased by Ms Hoy from a Mary Potter Hospice ship, Thorndon, Wellington, April 2014. Nothing further known.

Date: 1840-1904

By: Stanton, William Moses, 1829-1905

Reference: Micro-MS-0792

Description: Transcript of William Stanton's chronology of events in Nelson and his reminiscences. Copy of reminiscences of Mrs E Caldwell of domestic life in Nelson ca 1850. Lists of deaths, fires, shipwrecks etc in Nelson during the period. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 150 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: [1985-1992]

From: Starke, June, 1923-2006 : Research papers

Reference: 2003-228-18

Description: Inward and outward correspondence with Jim Traue on a special women's studies issue of the `Turnbull Library record' to which Starke contributed an essay on Sarah Selwyn; draft of article; and summary of Rev Richard Taylor's work in the Wanganui by J Ross Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1889, [1892-1904], 1978

By: Goodman, Edith, active 1889-1904

Reference: MSX-7042

Description: Diary kept by Miss Edith Goodman on her voyage to New Zealand in Jun-Aug 1889 on the `Aorangi' from England and on the `Rimutaka' from Lyttelton in 1892, returning to England. She was accompanying Mr & Mrs Snowden and young family. For each voyage she has listed the passengers. The book has also been used as a scrapbook with manuscript and printed poems and and extracts. The volume was also used by Muriel Unsted in May 1978 when she flew out to New Zealand, leaving from Bangkok for Christchurch, travelling to Timaru, sightseeing around the region, and leaving for Adelaide from Christchurch. Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Photocopy of passenger list for Aorangi, Jun 1889 (NZ Shipping Company. MS-Papers-4293-35) Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr J S Gurr, Twickenham, England, Aug 2004 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photograph of Edith Goodman; part of PAColl-8103.

Date: Between 1895 and 1900

From: McArthurs Auction :Photographs of early drawings and paintings of Taranaki, and photographs of Hawke's Bay, Greymouth and others

Reference: PA1-o-405-13

Description: Group of Pakeha men and women (some thought to be relatives of surveyor Lewis Coster Sladden) photographed in front of a whare at Parihaka with Maori children in the late 1890s, by an unknown photographer. Source of descriptive information - Sladden family named by a library client, she has a copy of this image Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 10.8 x 15.3 cm, mounted on album page 15.1 x 20.3 cm

Date: 1890 - 1900

From: Franklyn, F :[Drawings of New Zealand scenes] / F Franklyn [ca 1900?]

By: Franklyn, F, active 1890-93

Reference: A-141-014

Description: Two women, with a young girl to their left, viewd against the skyline on a bush-clad rise Disbound from original sketchbook [[18] leaves ; 230 x 280 mm), inscribed: F Franklyn. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 48 x 80 mm

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Campbell, R E, (Mrs) :Photographs of the Reynolds family

Reference: 1/2-055973-F

Description: Emma Church, and her mother, outside the front door of Raith Cottage, Maori Hill, Dunedin, circa 1900. The cottage was the residence of Miss Church. Photograph taken by Frank May Reynolds. Inscriptions: On original album page - beneath image: Raith Cottage Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Birnie, J W: Photographs taken in Taupo including the Spa Hotel

Reference: 1/2-028370-F

Description: The grounds of the Spa Hotel in Taupo showing four women on a bridge over a stream. Photograph taken circa 1890. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca 1896

Reference: 1/4-021135

Description: Jane Maria Atkinson in profile seated at her desk writing, probably in her last house Fairfield in Nelson. Photographer unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1890 - 1904

By: Nairn, James McLachlan, 1859-1904

Reference: A-253-033

Description: Beach at Paraparaumu or Waikanae with Kapiti in the distance. Bathers in foreground Attribution to Nairn on stylistic grounds Inscriptions: Backing board verso - "(finished pictures) (for sale or for gifts)" [backing board removed. Inscription in an unknown hand] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on card 176 x 253 mm