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Date: 1898-1901

From: Keys, Ben, 1878-1951 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0407-21

Description: Contains detailed accounts of various tramps undertaken by Keys and other people around the greater Wellington region; the accounts also include descriptions of the scenery, the places where the trampers slept and ate, and the things which they experienced and encountered Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1890s-1970s]

From: Rogers, Charles Marsden, 1892-1964 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9542

Description: Photographs of tramping trips, houses in Karori, factories, Crown Lynn pottery, taken by Charles Marsden Rogers. Includes postcards of NAC airplanes and old postcards and photographs of sports spectators, wedding party, picnics and boating. Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 item(s) of photographic ephemera.

Date: 1879-1960

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 : Papers

Reference: 75-241-149

Description: Correspondence relating to trips with the Tararua Tramping Club being led by Pascoe; issue of the `Tararua tramper' June 1959 and description of an ascent of Mt Ruapehu by George Beetham and J P Maxwell in 1879 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts and printed matter Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Album 7.

Date: 1887 - 1890

From: Hodgkins, Isabel Jane, 1867-1950 :[Sketchbook] Sissie Hogkins 1887

Reference: E-035-q-2-018

Description: A man with his right arm raised, standing on a high rock ledge amidst mountains and above a gorge Possibly the work of William Mathew Hodgkins, or copied from a drawing by him. There is a very similar view in his sketchbook E-035-q-1-047 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 178 x 254 mm

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-009/011

Description: Three engravings from watercolours by S. C. Brees, Principal Surveyor to the New Zealand Company in Wellington, 1842-1845. They show a shipwreck at the mouth of the Whangaehu River, south of Wanganui, with Mount Taranaki in the distance; a pig-hunt with dogs on the Wairarapa plain; Pencarrow Head looking west across the entrance to Wellington Harbour, with three men and a dog climbing the hill to the right Other Titles - Whangaehu, Wangaehu Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on sheet 365 x 261

Date: 1890-[ca 1980]

From: Pearce, Millicent Clare Susan, 1898-1996 :Photographs relating to the Pearce and Crabb families

Reference: PAColl-10056-1

Description: Mainly relates to members of the Pearce Family who lived on a farm called `Konini' at Waituna West in Manawatu District. Family members include - A E Pearce who broke in the farm in the 1880s. Eric Pearce, son of A E Pearce, who subsequently continued to farm `Konini.' Millicent Clare Susan (Sue) Pearce (nee Crabb) who married Eric Pearce in 1931. Eric Pearce's mother (name not known) photographed in the late 1920s. John, Lyndsey, and Richard Pearce, the children of Eric and Sue Pearce. The collection also includes friends and relatives and photographs taken at the 21st birthday parties of John and Richard Pearce. One group of photographs relates to the Massey College Tramping Club in the 1930s. Sue Pearce and her sister Marjorie Doris Crabb were both tramping club members and feature in the photographs. Quantity: 118 b&w original photographic print(s). 6 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948 : Albums and photographs

Reference: 1/2-060523-G

Description: Members of the Gifford party outside a hut (in the Milford Track area?), circa 1890, photographed by Algenon Gifford. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1865 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-066

Description: Shows two figures with packs and walking sticks, on road leading away between bush. Mountain slope is visible in the background. Stuck to leaf tipped into sketchbook. E-501-f-065 on verso. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (In ink): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Monotone watercolour, 265 x 185 mm.

Date: 1865 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-022

Description: Shows traveller walking with pack on road at right foreground, beside gentle rapids of the river. Bush-covered hills come down to river flat, and there are rosy-tinted mountains in the background. Another very similar picture is at E-501-f-070. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 142 x 230mm.

Date: 1852

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-011-3

Description: Shows figures descending ladders down a steep cliff face. One figure is standing in the river. Other Titles - November Other Titles - Mangawhero River Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, ink and watercolour, 79 x 47 mm.

Date: 1870 - 1880

Reference: A-029-030

Description: Shows a general long view of the lake, by moonlight. In the centre foreground two trampers are climbing a rocky slope. Either the original watercolour for a chromolithograph, or a copy of the chromolithograph, C D Barraud's "Tarawera Lake" in "New Zealand: graphic and descriptive. London, 1877, opp p 16. False signature "J. Kinder" added in pencil, lower left Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 260 x 360 mm Provenance: Purchase: Mr Norman Tillman, Upper Hutt, July 1979