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Date: [Circa 1860s]

From: Marvin, W G (Captain) :Marvin family photographs

By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Marvin, William, 1834-1915

Reference: PA1-q-320

Description: Album of photographs taken during the 1860s by various photographers. All the images are related to Colonel William Marvin (1834-1915) who came to New Zealand circa 1858 and was possibly attached to the 70th Regiment of Foot during the New Zealand wars. There are many photographs relating to military activity, including military working parties at Fort Britomart; military and naval camps at Maungatawhiri Creek, Queen's Redoubt, Drury, Ngaruawahia and Albert Barracks; a monument to the 43rd Regiment at Gate Pa near Tauranga; Potatau's tomb with a sentry guarding it; and the Auckland cemetery. Many of the images are of Auckland, including `Hale's Boarding House, where I first slept in N.Z.'; `The Masonic Hotel where I was made a mason in 1861'; `My last batchelor home near Constitution Hill green, next door to the Dacres'; `St. Mary's where I was married 4th August 1862'; a long sequence showing Queen Street from different angles in 1866'; and various homes that he knew, including Heaphy's house in St George's Bay, Dillon Bell's House in Parnell, and `Little Sutton' in St. George's Bay. Other images of interest include a mining camp at Coromandel; the tree on which Volkner was hanged, with a seated group of Maori beside a whare; a Maori church that is completely thatched, in the Waikato; and two views of the sailing ship Ida Ziegler [i.e. Zeigler] `In which we returned from N.Z. round Cape Horn, 29th Jany to 1st May 1867'. Photographs in England are all related to Tipner Barracks near Portsmouth, and Malpas Cemetery, Newport Monmouthshire. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with albumen prints. Label attached to cover `Pictures of N.Z. (N. Island) & Tipner with captions by Col. Marvin'. Textured black cover; 30 x 24 cm

Date: ca 1860s-1870s

By: Webster, Hartley, -1906; Kinder, John, 1819-1903

Reference: PAColl-4246

Description: Small book of photographs of early Auckland and some Maori studies. Two of the photographers are John Kinder and Hartley Webster but there may be others unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at: 1/4-015157 to 015172 and 1/2-018462 to 018463 Processing information: It is believed that the album was dismantled after deposit. The two original prints mounted on one small page in this collection may be from the album. Knowledge of the other images comes from the reference to Bennett's deposit on the back of the file prints. The album has been taken apart and only two original prints are still locatable.

Date: 1855 - 1865

From: Ruck, Charlotte Steward, 1840?-1916 :[Scrapbooks, ca 1860 to ca 1899]

By: Kinder, John, 1819-1903

Reference: E-309-q-4-053

Description: View from Parnell with St Paul's School Room in the foreground, behind a small picket fence below a road. The Waitemata Harbour is in the background, with a ship visible and a headland to the right. The photographer is probably John Kinder The school room was in Eden Crescent, close to the first St Paul's Church and was opened by 1853. Kinder arrived in New Zealand in 1855 and the photograph may date from shortly after his arrival. Quantity: 1 photograph(s) on page of sketchbook. Physical Description: Sepia albumen print, 68 x 71 mm

Date: 1860s-1870s

From: Bennett, J R E (Mr): Photographs of early Auckland and Maori children

By: Kinder, John, 1819-1903

Reference: PA2-0961-1

Description: Shows St Mary's Church, Parnell taken early 1860s. Other side is PA2-0961 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1864

By: Kinder, John, 1819-1903

Reference: 1/2-076162-F

Description: Overlooking Parnell, Auckland, in 1864. Shows St Stephen's Chapel with North Head and Rangitoto in the distance. Photograph taken by John Kinder. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).