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Arrowsmith, Arthur, fl 1900 :A few snap shot photos of NZ scenery between Picton and Ne...

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Arrowsmith, Arthur, active 1900; Hyslop, Sydney, active 1900

Reference: PA1-o-1370

Description: Photograph album compiled by Arthur Arrowsmith ca 1900 for Sydney Hislop. Contains views of scenery between Picton and Nelson, including Picton from the wharf, Brownlee's sawmill, Pelorus River and Pelorus Sound, the road and surrounding bush, men waiting for the mail on a stony beach, and an accommodation house halfway between Picton and Nelson. Source of title - Transcribed from item Inscriptions: Album page - centre - [inside front cover] For Dear Sydney Hyslop with Arthur Arrowsmith's wishes. A few Snap Shot Photos of N.Z Scenery between Picton & Nelson. 5th March 1900.; Album page - top centre - [inside front cover] J R Simonsen, Box 186 Blenheim; Album page - top right - [inside front cover] Bx 407 Hastings 28.6.45 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red cloth bound album 13.5 x 16.3 cm Provenance: The album was compiled by Arthur Arrowsmith for Sydney Hyslop. Appears to have belonged to J R Simonsen of Blenheim in 1945.

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Kinder, John 1819-1903 :Picton 1872 Capper Press [1972]

Date: 1872 - 1972

By: Kinder, John, 1819-1903

Reference: C-085-006-b

Description: A small house by the water's edge on the left, a couple close to the shore, a view of the buildings and wharves of Picton in the right background Reproduced from the original watercolour in the Auckland City Art Gallery Same as C-085-006 & a Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 348 x 533 mm on sheet 516 x 628 mm

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Fox, William, 1812-1893 :Bird's eye view of Waitoi, 1848. [Wellington] ; Alexander Turn...

Date: 1848 - 1983

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-112-029

Description: A reproduction of an original watercolour in the Library's collection Other Titles - Waitohi Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph ; image 351 x 549 mm on sheet 440 x 610 mm

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Chilton family :Photograph album of Marlborough images

Date: [ca 1900s]

Reference: PA1-o-1258

Description: Photograph album comprising views of Marlborough, chiefly Picton, taken ca 1900. Includes an image of the Edwin Fox. Possibly compiled by Charles Chilton and his family, and given to Dr William Redman. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - centre - to Dr & Mrs Redman with best Christmas wishes from Dr, Mrs & Frank Chilton. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Grey card covered album 15.6 x 20.3 cm containing 24 photographs Provenance: Album presented to Dr and Mrs Redman by Dr, Mrs and Frank Chilton. Possibly compiled by Dr Charles Chilton and family.

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Morice album 1

Date: [Between 1899 and 1902]

From: Morice, Charles George Frederick, 1868-1966 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-162

Description: Views of South African war, showing activities of New Zealand and Canadian troops; many photographs of Afrikaners (including a portrait of Paul Kruger) and Zulu people; photographs of Richard and Louisa Seddon in South Africa, and on board ship en route to coronation of Edward VII in 1901. The album also includes views of Maori officers who travelled to the coronation as part of the New Zealand Army contingent. There are signed photographs of J R Taylor, and H Rees (p 69) Inscriptions: Album page - Charles G. Morice (Ex libris, signature inside front cover) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, black leather corners and spine; 28.5 x 37.5

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Photographs taken by Charles William Clift

Date: ca1855-ca1940

From: Nisbet, Eleanor M, fl 1980s-1990s :Photographs taken by Charles William Clift

By: Clift, Charles William, 1896-1984

Reference: PAColl-4889-1

Description: Clift and Jones family photographs. New Zealand towns and landscapes, in particular Wellington and Brooklyn. A record of the British aircraft carrier Indefatigable when it visited Wellington in November 1945. New Zealand houses and a very good wedding breakfast laid out in a private interior of the 1890s. There is a photograph of the Clift house in Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, and of a Christmas gathering at a house in Patanga Crescent associated with the Holm family of the Holm shipping line. Brooklyn and Makara churches and the interior of the Anglican cathedral in Dunedin Quantity: 1 container(s) photographic prints.

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Corliss, Valerie Claire 1893-1946 : Journal

Date: 1854-1859 1912-1919

By: Corliss, Valerie Claire, 1893-1946

Reference: MSX-4173

Description: Corliss has not kept a daily diary but rather an occasional journal describing special occasions such as a family holiday to Picton, a train trip from Petone to Wellington, aspects of her teaching career, lists of stories she had written, her musical interests, and a voyage to England on the `Ayrshire' in 1914, where she studied music. Included with the volume is a copy of a letter from George H Valentine to his brother (from Lefevers Peninsula, Port Adelaide, 7 Sep 1859), and notes re the `Annie Wilson' which arrived at Wellington 22 March 1854. Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Source of title - Supplied by diarist Accompanying material - As well as the letter from Valentine to his brother (1859) there are items (photocopied) regarding the voyage of the `Annie Wilson' (1854) which appear to have been kept with the journal; accompanying the journal is a letter from the donor giving additional information about the Corliss family and himself, a direct descendant of Amos Burr of the `Tory'. Relationship complexity - Acc 81-252, Harland, William James: Music scrapbook; MS-Papers-5065-16: miscellaneous papers relating to Arthur Fieldhouse; and MSX-2851, Corliss, V C: Music book including lectures to teachers and recital lectures, 1926. Corliss intended to record only happenings that struck her `as being beautiful' Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr J H Staff, Papakura, 1995

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Fox, William 1812-1893 :Bird's eye view of Waitoi. [Picton, 1848. Cibachrome print, 1990]

Date: 1848 - 1989 - 1990

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

Reference: C-123-011

Description: Shows 2 figures in foreground looking down at inlet and small settlement, with one ship in the bay. Exhibited in 'Putting the Land on the Map (Exhibition)', touring exhibition, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, March 1989-November 1990. Produced for "Putting the land on the map" touring exhibition, March 1989-November 1990; by Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth. Other Titles - New Zealand Company drawing no. 268. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Cibachrome print, 385 x 507 mm.

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McIntosh album 13

Date: [Between 1890s and 1900s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-297

Description: Album of South Island scenes (except for a few taken en route to Wellington showing The Brothers, Pencarrow Head, and one of a group having a picnic at Muritai). Probably mostly photographed by George William Barltrop. The first section shows the Nelson and Marlborough areas, and several photographs of ships at sea, one shipwreck (the Antiocco Accame in 1901), and one aground (the Elginshire, 1902). People who are identified are: the Reverend Bennett (Frederick Augustus Bennett (later Bishop), with his first wife Hana Te Unuhi Mere Bennett, and young daughter, Rawinia Bennett (circa 1900); Abe Wells, photographed as an older man outside his cob house at Richmond (circa 1890s); and Isla Reid, photographed as a young girl, probably in the Dunedin area. Three scenes in cemeteries have clearly identified headstones, and include those for the Reverend Samuel Poole, Frank Churchill Simmons; and a group memorial for Charlotte McDonald, Annie McQuaid and Lizzie Crinrod, stewardesses who were drowned in the wreck of the SS Wairarapa, Great Barrier Island, 29th October 1894. This was erected by the stewardesses of the Union Steam Ship Company. Inscriptions: Album page - Geo W Barltrop Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

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Fox, William 1812-1893:Bird's eye view of Waitoi [Picton] 1848. [Card]. National Librar...

Date: 1848 - 1995

From: Various artists :[Set of 9 cards issued for Treasures in Trust exhibition]. National Library of New Zealand, 1995.

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; National Library of New Zealand

Reference: E-498-006-a

Description: View looking down on inlet of Picton, with Marlborough Sounds in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on card.. Physical Description: Colour photolithograph on card, 105 x 140 mm (folded). Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit, in 1995.

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Zimmerman, E :[Picton]

Date: ca 1900

By: Zimmerman, Elaine, active 1948-1975

Reference: PA6-363

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Four images forming one print, mounted on card

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Kinder, John 1819-1903 :Picton 1872 Capper Press [1972]

Date: 1872 - 1972

By: Kinder, John, 1819-1903

Reference: C-085-006-a

Description: A small house by the water on the left, a couple near the shore, the buildings and wharves of Picton in the background on the right Reproduced from the original watercolour in the Auckland City Art Gallery Same as C-085-006 & C-085-006-b Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 348 x 533 mm on sheet 516 x 628 mm

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Fell album 1

Date: [Between 1886 and 1900]

From: Creator unknown :Photographs relating to the Fell and Atkinson families

Reference: PA1-q-074

Description: Album of portraits, group portraits and landscapes, relating particularly to the Fell family and their family relationships with the Atkinson and Richmond families. Chiefly photographed in the Nelson, Marlborough, Tasman regions. Many of the photographs likely to have been taken by Charles Yates Fell. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown covers, lacking spine, 37.5 x 28.0 cm

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Nina Barrer - Application for membership and notes on the Greenshill family of Picton

Date: 1957

From: New Zealand Founders' Society : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-0227-02

Description: Mrs Barrer's application for membership to the Society which was unsuccessful accompanied by a history of J A R Greensill who arrived in NZ in 1857, and his descendants Relationship complexity - Further papers of Nina Barrer at MS-Papers-0182 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 pieces). Physical Description: Holograph and typescript

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Denton album 2

Date: [1895-1900?]

From: Denton, Frank J, 1869-1963 :Collection of negatives, prints and albums

Reference: PA1-o-131

Description: Album of photographs, mainly of the Wellington Region, Marlborough and Horowhenua Regions, interspersed with copies of photographs by unidentified photographers, unidentified lithographs and illustrations. A number of the photographic copies are portraits of Maori. The last images in the album, taken by unidentified photographers, relate to Darjeeling (Bengal, India). Inscriptions: Album page - Photographed by Frank J. Denton, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover with gold patterns on corners and spine, 25 x 32 cm

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Fox, William 1812-1893:Bird's eye view of Waitoi [Picton] 1848. [Card]. National Librar...

Date: 1848 - 1995

From: Various artists :[Set of 9 cards issued for Treasures in Trust exhibition]. National Library of New Zealand, 1995.

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; National Library of New Zealand

Reference: E-498-006

Description: View looking down on inlet of Picton, with Marlborough Sounds in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on card.. Physical Description: Colour photolithograph on card, 105 x 140 mm (folded). Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit, in 1995.

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Raithby, J W, fl 1964 : Deeds and miscellaneous papers relating to Wellington, Marlboro...

Date: 1861-1912

By: Raithby, J W, active 1964

Reference: MSI-Papers-5756

Description: Comprises certificate of title for land in the parish of Waitangi (1912); mortgages in Picton (1906); conveyance in Picton (1901); account for Miss McLaurie to McCallum, & Mills, solicitors, Blenheim (1913); land grant, Marlborough (1861); map, town of Newport (Opua), One Tree Point, Bay of Islands (1883) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr J W Raithby, Balderton, Newark, England, ca 1964

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Kinder, John 1819-1903 :Picton 1872 Capper Press [1972]

Date: 1872 - 1972

By: Kinder, John, 1819-1903

Reference: C-085-006

Description: A small house by the water on the left, a couple near the shore, a view of the buildings and wharves of Picton to the right in the background Reproduced from the original watercolour in the Auckland City Art Gallery Same as C-085-006a & b Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 348 x 533 mm on sheet 516 x 628 mm

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Holmes, Lancelot 1840-1891 :Photographs of the Holmes and Guard families, Wellington an...

Date: 1881 - 1923, 1950s

By: Holmes, Lancelot, 1840-1891; Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965; Brown, William Edmond, 1840?-1922; Cobb, Harriet Sophia, 1846-1929; Isaacs, David Morris, 1824?-1909; Daroux, James Henry, 1870-1943; Moffat, Ann Margaret, active 1990-2010

Reference: PAColl-1624

Description: Quantity: 24 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Provenance: According to the donor, this collection was compiled by Lancelot Holmes (1840 -1891). However, a number of the photographs post-date his death.

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Joan Boswall Kirkham - Four generations

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-055

Description: The story concerns Thomas Williams who married Lucy Anne Preston Boswall in Bristol in 1851. Lucy Anne's background is included. The essay recounts Thomas and Lucy's time in Australia before Thomas came to New Zealand, first as headmaster of Picton School, then as Picton's first mayor. It also details Tom Boswall Williams' marriage to Joanna Murray Thompson, her family background and their children, as well as his second marriage to Eleanor Agnes Delves and their children. Also Thomas Leonard Williams' marriage to Beatrice Berry, her family background and their children, as well as his second marriage to Annie Higgit, and their children Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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