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George, Grey Thorne 1880- : Letter from Sir George Grey, Kawau Island?
Date: 24 November 1884
By: George, Godfrey Thorne, 1879-1958
Reference: MS-Papers-4047
Description: Letter from Sir George Grey to his nephew, Grey Thorne George, on his fourth birthday. Describes Sir George's garden, presumably on Kawau Island. Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Holograph transcript written by Godfrey Thorne George Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 items). Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr D D Hamilton, Auckland, 1986
Views of Auckland, Kawau Island, the Tarawera eruption, and a waka race
Date: Between 1880 and 1900
From: Harris, Esme Enid, 1913-1993 :Photographs
By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916
Reference: PA11-042
Description: Scenic views in the northern half of the North Island, mostly by Josiah Martin, showing Sir George Grey's house on Kawau Island, yacht and waka raced at the auckland Anniversary Regatta, and the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Tarawera. Quantity: 6 b&w original transparency/ies lantern slides.
Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Mansion House, Kawau Island. 1886-1888].
Date: 1886 - 1888
From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Whangarei and Waiwera sketchbook. 1886-1888].
Reference: E-598-018
Description: Shows a pencil sketch of the Mansion House before the verandah was built around it. Extended Title - from his Whangarei and Waiwera sketchbook, 1886-1888, page 18. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page 145 x 223 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2002.
Cox album
Date: 1870s
By: Cox, Horace A, active 1883
Reference: PA1-o-110
Description: New Zealand scenery photographed circa 1870s. Views include the Pink and White Terraces and Lake Rotomahana; a digger's hut in the Tararua Range; Mercury Bay; carriers changing horses in Oripi bush; a group of Maori holding a runanga at an unidentified meeting house; two views of the new road being created between Lake Coleridge and Hokitika. Inscriptions: Album page - Horace A Cox, from his old schoolfellow Harry [?], Lyttelton, New Zealand, 9 July 1883 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cover with gold outline, 22.5 x 31 cm Provenance: Presented to Horace A Cox on 9 July 1883.
Tonks album
Date: 1880-1889
By: F Bradley & Company; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911
Reference: PA1-o-497
Description: Album of photographs compiled ca 1880s, from print published by F Bradley & Co, of Christchurch. Comprises views of Shag Rock, Timaru, Christchurch, Bealey, Greymouth, Oamaru, Rangitata River bridge, Dunedin, Taupo, Waimakariri River bridge, Governor's Bay, Kaiapoi, Arthur's Pass, Kawau Island, Cheviot, Akaroa Harbour, Alfred Falls, the Pink Terrace, White Island, Otira Gorge, Pigeon Bay, gold mining at Thames, Nelson, Heathcote River, the cable car across the Taramakau River, Sumner, and Tamatekapua meeting house at Ohinemutu. Also included are carte de visite portraits of Maori. Among the photographers whose work is shown are Herbert Deveril and Daniel Louis Mundy. Each photograph has a printed inscription attached on the back of the page. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 25 x 32 cm
Hoare, E A, fl 1887-1888 :Little Barrier Island / Kawau / Maharangi Rock. Waiwera Bay f...
Date: 1888
From: Hoare, E A, fl 1887-1888 :Drawings, watercolour sketches, photographs and notes of E A Hoare, Artiste, on board 'S S Tongariro'. December 1887 to March 1888
Reference: E-955-f-012-2
Description: Shows a view from Waiwera Bay looking towards Mahurangi Harbour. Mahurangi Rock (or Island) is on the right in the foreground. In the middle distance is Kawau Island, with Little Barrier Island behind it in the distance Other Titles - Mahurangi Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - E A H [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, 100 x 227 mm, on sketchbook page 255 x 370 mm
Views of New Zealand, its cities and scenery
Date: 1884
From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 :Photographs
By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-4768-1
Description: Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints
Lawlor, Pat :Photographs of Maori, scenic views and natural history
Date: [ca 1880s-1966]
By: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979; Burke, Walter Ernest Messervy, 1866-1954; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972
Reference: PAColl-4454
Description: Mounted photographs of a moa skeleton compared with a human one; a view from Cains Terrace, Timaru showing the Post Office and old St Mary's Church; a group of Maori in traditional clothes outside the carved meeting house at Ohinemutu, Rotorua; view of Parihaka pa with Te Whiti's house on the left and Mount Taranaki in the background; Sir George Grey's house at Kawau Island with a jetty; two stuffed kiwi and a kiwi egg; a woman sitting outside a Maori whare with a pig; a man standing outside the Vulcan Hotel, St Bathans with advertisements for Gaytime ice-cream and Speights beer 1966; and a loose print of a young woman sitting at the pihanga of a meeting house with a carved pare. Photographers include Walter Burke. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-029165, 071676, 071677, 071678, and 071696. Two of the images are described as the same as 1/2-031035 and 1/2-015845 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 7 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.
Walton, Grahame M, fl 2009 :Photograph album of views and landscapes of New Zealand
Date: [1870s-1880s]
By: F Bradley & Company; Walton, Grahame M, active 2009
Reference: PA1-o-1605
Description: Photograph album of Views and landscapes of New Zealand, Second Series, published by F Bradley & Company. Includes photographs - No. 1 Meeeting of the waters, Oripi; No. 2 Maori group; No. 3 Lake Hope, White Island; No. 4 Timaru; No. 5 The Bealey, Hokitika Coach Road; No. 6 Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula; No. 7 The River Avon; No. 8 Shag Rock, Sumner Road, looking towards Christchurch; No. 9 Princes Street, Dunedin; No. 10 Christchurch; No. 11 Bullock team and wool waggon, Cheviot; No. 12 Oamaru; No. 13 Cheviot Station, Nelson Province; No. 14 Normal School, Christchurch; No. 15 German Bay, Akaroa; No. 16 Port Lyttelton; No. 17 Kawau, Sir George Grey's residence; No. 18 Pink Terrace, Rotomahana; No. 19 Akaroa; No. 20 Rangatata Traffic Bridge; No. 21 Armagh St bridge & watering place, Christchurch; No. 22 River Bealey Crossing, Hokitika Coach Road; No. 23 Post Office, Christchurch; No. 24 View on the Heathcote; No. 25 Russell's Gold Battery, Tararua Creek, Thames Gold Fields; No. 26 Glacier Hotel & Cobb's Coach, West Coast Road; No. 27 Crossing the Teremakau; No. 28 Greymouth, West Coast; No. 29 Kaiapoi, Canterbury; No. 30 Chalky or Dark Inlet; No. 31 Waimakariri Gorge Bridge; No. 32 Nelson; No. 33 Christchurch; No. 34 Group of Maoris, Lake Taupo; No. 35 Alfred Falls, North Island; No. 36 Christchurch; No. 37 Governor's Bay; No. 38 Oamaru; No. 39 Timaru breakwater; No. 40 Dunedin; No. 41 Christchurch; No. 42 Christchurch hospital; No. 43 House of Representatives, Wellington; No. 44 Arthurs Pass; No. 45 The Cave Rock, Sumner; No. 46 Government buildings, Christchurch; No. 47 Otira Gorge; No. 48 The River Avon; No. 49 Group of Maoris, Bay of Islands; No. 50 Sheep mustering, South Canterbury; No. 51 The Christchurch Cathedral, C.E.; No. 52 Nelson Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints Transfers: Transfers - From Published Collections.
Bloch album 3
Date: 1867 - 1888
From: Bloch, Theodor Thorlacius, 1844-1935 :Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: PA1-q-035
Description: Chiefly photographs of Nelson and surroundings; also includes images of Wellington, Port Chalmers and Mitre Peak. Photographs taken by Theodor Bloch, circa 1867 to 1888 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green covered album with ornamental decoration in black and gold, containing albumen prints of varying sizes; 285 x 250 mm
Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :Island of Kauwau taken from Matakana [28 January 186...
Date: 1864 - 1880
From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford and Samuel Deighton. 1860-1880]
Reference: E-926-064/065
Description: Shows a panoramic view of the shore at Matakana with two rowboats pulled up on the shore in the right foreground. There is a small hill, and part of a fence and house at the far right. At the left is a long low headland, and there are islands across the water in the central distance. Another version of this image is at E-125-021/022 Other Titles - Kawau Extended Title - From his "Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford" [1860-1880], pages [64-65 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 145 x 470 mm
Arthur Halcombe outward correspondence to Cousin Elizabeth
Date: 29 Jan-31 Dec 1885
From: Halcombe family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11397-09
Description: Contains letters from Arthur Halcombe to his cousin Elizabeth. Correspondence mainly concerns family and life in New Zealand. Includes description of visit to Sir George Grey on Kawau Island. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss
Wheeler and son album 2
Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]
By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)
Reference: PA1-o-533
Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm
Maori artifacts, Kawau Island
Date: [1880s]
From: Rundle, Henry J, fl 1882-1885 :Photograph album of views taken on cruises in Melanesia, Micronesia, Western Polynesia and New Guinea aboard HMS Espiegle
Reference: PA1-q-073-24
Description: Maori artifacts, including canoe prows and paddles, cloaks, and other items. Image taken on Kawau Island, circa 1880s, by an unidentified photographer. Other Titles - Maori Curios, Kawau Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - New Zealand; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Maori Curios, Kawau Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 18.1 x 22.8 cm, mounted on album page 30.8 x 24.5 cm
Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914 :Kawaw. Nov 9 [18]87
Date: 1887
From: [Walsh, Philip] 1843-1914 :[Middle East and New Zealand sketchbook] 1883-1892.
Reference: E-369-090
Description: View on the coast looking down towards the building on the shoreline for the Kawau Copper Mine. A preliminary sketch. Other Titles - Kawau Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 110 x 180 mm, in album
Martin album
Date: [1880s]
By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908
Reference: PA1-o-334
Description: According to the inscription inside the front cover (by an unidentified person), the date is firmly established as 1884, however the album has a number of photographs of the Tarawera area, both before and after the volcanic eruption in 1886. These include views of the White Terraces, one of which has a group of Maori cooking food in the hot pools; a carved house at Te Wairoa, showing interior and exterior before the eruption, and the exterior afterwards; a group of Maori at Te Ariki (one of the places most devastated in the eruption with the loss of many lives. This image has the inscription `Natives of te Ariki first to be killed by eruption'); views of Mount Tarawera covered in mud and ash; and the Old Mill, destroyed in the eruption. Many of the images have the signature initials J.M. (Josiah Martin), and a few have the initials F.A.C (Frank Arnold Coxhead) who may have taken them, but which may just have been printed by him. The last few views are in Tasmania, including Burnie - Emu Bay, and the Guide Falls, near Burnie. Inscriptions: Album page - `Ex libris Brent Gration-Maxfield. 1967'; Album page - `New Zealand. 1884. An early series of 46 4to sepia photographs of New Zealand views. The date, 1884, is firmly established by the letter opposite [attached to album page. Unsigned and undated], which refers to both the album and G.A. Sala's visit in 1884 (see the D.N.B.) to New Zealand to gather information for his book "The land of the golden fleece" which was published in 1885' Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover, leather corners and spine; 25.5 x 22.5 cm
[Kinder, John] 1819-1903 :[The coppermine, Kawau. 188-?]
Date: 1880 - 1889
By: Kinder, John, 1819-1903
Reference: A-252-004
Description: Shows a distant view of the mine chimney seen from a hill above the mine with the sea in the background See also A-252-003 for a companion view of the same structure taken from the other side and from a closer perspective Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash 247 x 170 mm
[Kinder, John] 1819-1903 :[The coppermine, Kawau. 188-?]
Date: 1880 - 1889
By: Kinder, John, 1819-1903
Reference: A-252-003
Description: Shows near view of mine chimney seen from flat land alongside, with the sea in the background Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash 247 x 170 mm
Sandys, Edward Roper Stapleton, b. 1845 :Kawau Island. [1888]
Date: 1888
By: Sandys, Edwin Robert Stapylton, 1845-1924
Reference: B-075-019
Description: An uninhabited rocky beach with a pohutukawa growing over it on the left. Low bush-clad hills in the background on the far side of a bay Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Charcoal on paper, 280 x 471 mm
Sandys, Edward Roper Stapleton, b. 1845 :Kawau Island [ca. 1888]
Date: 1888
By: Sandys, Edwin Robert Stapylton, 1845-1924
Reference: C-075-006
Description: View across a bay to bush-clad hills. One hill has a cleared paddock, part-way up Inscriptions: bottom left - Signed: E Sandys Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Charcoal sketch, 460 x 610 mm on sheet 496 x 650 mm Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane Auction. 3.9.71