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Date: 1870 - 1984 - 1880

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988

Reference: C-106-013-a/018-a

Description: Contains 6 images: Wanganui family and possessions, 1870s; Unidentified man, Wanganui, 1870s; Mrs Morgan and child, Wanganui, 1870s; Staff and premises of the Wanganui Evening Herald, 1868; Mr and Mrs Thomas Roots and their twelve children in front of their home at Springvale, 1870s; Mother and child, Wanganui, 1870s. Title from illustrated container, also bearing descriptive notes. Container has not been assigned its own location number and is therefore not recorded separately. However, the individual photolithographs have separate entries. Other Titles - Imagers of a new land. Other Titles - Portraits by W. J. Harding. Inscriptions: (On verso of container/ envelope): Portraits by W.J. Harding,/ chosen by Brian Brake and John Sullivan / and published with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited.; Recto - beneath image - (On each photograph): Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 6 photolithographs, 259 x 213 mm, and 213 x 259 mm, on sheets 415 x 350 mm, in container 510 x 390 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit regulations, 1986.

Date: 1876-1884, 1955

By: Harper, James, 1841-1884

Reference: MS-Papers-0627

Description: Notebook containing part of journal of voyage on board the Arethusa to New Zealand 1879, and workers' records, probably for the Wanganui dredging project 1880-1883, of which Harper was foreman. Miscellaneous papers, including testimonials, birth certificate, letter to Colin Harper, 1955 Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 folder(s) (11 items). Physical Description: Holograph, ms, printed matter

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-532

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by E Wheeler & Son, circa 1870s to 1880s Most of the views are identified, either on the photograph itself, or in hand-written captions below; places shown are listed above. One image has caption "Flax cutting" on the photograph which shows a man standing be a group of cabbage trees, with a house? or possibly a mill with a water wheel in the background behind the trees, while the hand-written caption reads "Valley scene, Hokianga". Other Titles - New Zealand views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover (damaged), entitled "New Zealand Views" in gold lettering; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1888 - 1957

By: Atkins, Alfred, 1850-1919

Reference: Plans-90-0401

Description: Shows front, back and end elevations and longitudinal section Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Replaced 1957; Recto - centre - A Atkins, architect to the Wanganui Education Board, June 1888; Recto - bottom right - This is the drawing referred to in the contract signed the 13th day of June 1888. signed Smith & Marsh Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and colour drawing on pink paper

Date: 1884-1889

By: Francois, Bridget Madge Isabel, 1902-1992

Reference: MS-Papers-10490

Description: Includes index to names and places mentioned provided by Marsha Donaldson. Original has been attributed to Hannah Seymour; diary transcribed and edited by B Ristori describes voyage on Zealandia, 1884, and life in Wanganui to 1889. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1884-1885 (1934)

From: Anderson family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-10737-3

Description: An account of a visit to New Zealand in 1884-1885 written by Georgina Gertrude Anderson. Anderson describes the experiences of herself and her mother, sailing on the `Doric', arriving in Wellington, going to Wanganui by land, the wedding of Anderson's sister at Wanganui and then travelling to the South Island via Palmerston North, Masterton and Wellington, sailing to Christchurch, back to Wanganui, the Pink and White Terraces, Cambridge, Rotorua, the Blue and Green Lakes, Taupo, Tarawera, and their voyage back to England on the `Rimukaka'. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1870 - 1984 - 1880

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988

Reference: C-106-013/018

Description: Contains 6 images: Wanganui family and possessions, 1870s; Unidentified man, Wanganui, 1870s; Mrs Morgan and child, Wanganui, 1870s; Staff and premises of the Wanganui Evening Herald, 1868; Mr and Mrs Thomas Roots and their twelve children in front of their home at Springvale, 1870s; Mother and child, Wanganui, 1870s. Title from illustrated container, also bearing descriptive notes. Container has not been assigned its own location number and is therefore not recorded separately. However, the individual photolithographs have separate entries. Other Titles - Imagers of a new land. Other Titles - Portraits by W. J. Harding. Inscriptions: (On verso of container/ envelope): Portraits by W.J. Harding,/ chosen by Brian Brake and John Sullivan / and published with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited.; Recto - beneath image - (On each photograph): Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 6 photolithographs, 259 x 213 mm, and 213 x 259 mm, on sheets 415 x 350 mm, in container 510 x 390 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit regulations, 1986.

Date: 1882-1887

From: Anderson family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-4412-1

Description: The letters are written during the period October 1882 to January 1887 by both William Forster and Helen Mills to their parents and family in England. The letters deal mainly with their life at Sudbury, although the earlier ones deal with William Forster's time in Wanganui looking for land. William Forster Mills emigrated to New Zealand in 1880. He married Helen Anderson, whom he met here. They set and farmed a block of land near Marton in Rangitikei, named Sudbury. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs

Date: 1884 - 1894

By: Wanganui County (N.Z.). County Council

Reference: MapColl-832.41gmbd/[1889]/Acc.36724

Description: Survey plan showing part of the eastern line of road, left bank of the Whanganui River, to be closed by the Wanganui County Council. Also shows a small portion of road previously closed, and the present number two line of road. The surrounding land owners and their property section numbers are shown (A.A. Sherriff, William Bamber). 'Traced and checked [by] A.B. 14/2/[18]96'. '98/42'. Sheet 1 is MapColl-832.41gmbd/[1889]/Acc.36724. The library does not hold sheet 2. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, scale [1:2 376], 76.4 x 56.4 cm.

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: Harding, William James 1826-1899 :W. J. Harding. [Wellington], Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited, 1984. (Imagers of a new land, series 3).

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988

Reference: C-106-013

Description: Shows man in pin-stripe waistcoat and trousers seated in centre, and standing wife holding small child in dress at right. At left is table on which are a sewing machine and a bird in a cage. On the wall behind are toetoe plumes arranged decoratively, and on floor is decorative patterned carpet or cloth.. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 259 x 213 mm, on sheet 415 x 350 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit regulations, 1986.

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-38-09-1

Description: View of Victoria Avenue looking west towards the Watt Fountain and the Post Office belltower. The building in the foreground to the left is a bank. Photograph taken by Burton Brothers, ca 1880s. Loose page from Wairakei album Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4047 - The Avenue - Wanganui. Burton Bros, Duned[in] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.8 x 19.7 cm on loose album page 23.8 x 29.5 cm

Date: 1880 - 1889

From: [Programmes and ephemera of octavo size for drama productions in New Zealand]

By: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-1880s

Description: Includes: Harry Power's Popular Company. "Our girls". Theatre Royal Wellington. [1882?] John L Hall's Byronic Comedy Company. "Our girls". Theatre Royal Wellington. [1882?] John L Hall's Byronic Comedy Company. "Our girls". Friday and Saturday "Our Dad". Theatre Royal Wellington. [1882?] Hall's Comedy Combination. "Our girls". Wednesday and Thursday Nov 1st and 2nd ; "Old soldiers!". Theatre Royal Wellington [Oct 1882?] Hall's Byronic Comedy Company. "Rip van Winkle". Theatre Royal Wellington. (28/7/1882?) Flyer / programme Hall's Comedy combination. "Old soldiers". Theatre Royal Wellington. [1-2/11/1882] Hall's Comedy Combination. "The Guv'nor". [Nov 1882]; and on Monday 6th November 1882, "The factory girl!". New & elaborate scenery by Mr Williams. Stage furniture from Farmer's Furniture Warehouse, Cuba-Street. Hall's Comedy Combination. Grand complimentary benefit to Mrs J L Hall. "Factory girls!", after which ... "Aladdin". Theatre Royal Wellington. [6/11/1882]. Flyer / programme. Hall's Comedy Combination. "Imprudence", Theatre Royal Wellington [21/10/1882]. Flyer /programme. Hawera Town Hall. Amateur entertainment Friday June 9, 1882. Proceeds to go to the funds of the Hawera Recreation & Improvement Club. Flyer / programme Hawera Town Hall. "Who is who? or, All in a fog"; and "Area Belle". 21 February 1882. (Flyer / programme) Louise Pomeroy as Countess Armande Chandoce, in "Led astray". Theatre Royal Wellington [1884]. Flyer / programme. Masonic Dramatic Club. Annual Masonic enteertainment in aid of the building fund Freemasons' Hall. "Our domestics", "Tweedleton's tail coat". Theatre Royal Auckland. 14 August 1884. Programme. Printer Cecil Gardner & Co, High Street Auckland (Colour) Millis & Hart's 4th popular entertainment, including "Put to the proof!", by F W Millis. Athenaeum Hall [1885] (With Fred W Millis, ventriloquist, Mrs E A Hart, Miss Louise Hart, Miss K Russell, Mr Seaton, Mr A Ward). Printed at the Evening Post Office. Programme / flier Mr Polk and Mrs Julia Polk. "The American". New scenery by Mr N Thornton (Engraved portraits of Mr and Mrs Polk). Programme. Princess Theatre Wanganui. Amateur dramatic entertainment in aid of the Wanganui School Ground Improvement Fund. "The chimney corner" by H T Craven. (with Henry Collier, J Gibbs, Mr S H Drew, Mr Culpan, Mr Greenwood, Mr Beckett, Mr Norman, Mr Russell, Mr Holland, Mrs Henry Russell, Miss Broad). Friday 30 June [1882?] Princess Theatre Wanganui. For the benefit of the funds of the Juvenile Temple, I.O.C.T. "Blue beard!" or, Feminine curiosity & the power of gold, performed by 60 members of the Juvenile Temple. With "The Rose and Thorn". [1880s?] Princess Theatre Wanganui. Complimentary benefit to Harry Power. "Loan of a lover"; grand musical interlude; and, "Lottery ticket". (With Madamoiselle Lolo de Glorian, and Miss Lena Wyatt) 11 September 1882. Flyer / programme Princess Theatre Wanganui. "Tom Cobb, or Fortune's toy", and "The Area Belle". Wednesday 6 September 1882. (Flyer / programme) (2 copies) Princess Theatre Wanganui. "Everybody's friend", and "Found in a four-wheeler". 1 November 1887. In colour, printed by MacCurdy. (Flyer / programme). Grattan Riggs in "Peep O'Day". Theatre Royal Wellington. Whit Monday 14 June [1886]. Programme/flier. (PR-03-0058) Mr George Rignold, assisted by Miss Kate Bishop, Mrs George Rignold. "In the ranks". Theatre Royal Wellington 1886. (Flyer / programme) Mr George Rignold, assisted by Miss Kate Bishop, Mrs George Rignold. "Faust". Theatre Royal Wellington. 31 July 1886. (Flyer / programme) The Thespian Club. "Only a halfpenny", "Meg's diversion". Theatre Royal Wellington. 17 February 1885. Flyer/programme. The Thespian Club. "Twenty minutes with a tiger", "Delicate ground". Theatre Royal Wellington. 26 November 1884. Flyer / programme. Town Hall Hawera. Amateur dramatic entertainment. "Meg's diversion", and "Should this meet the eye". 26 June 1882, in aid of the funds for the Hawera Drill Hall. (Flyer/programme) Wanganui Amateur Dramatic Club. Entertainment. "Perfection; or The Lady of Munster"; and "The Boots at The Swan". 15 February [1882]. (Programme) Wanganui Amateur Dramatic Club. "Cut off with a shilling", and "A rough diamond". Thursday 17 August 1882. Programme. Wanganui Amateur Dramatic Club. "Ticket of leave man". Scenery painted by Messrs Pownall & Clark. Wanganui, 15 September 1882. Programme. Wanganui Amateur Dramatic Club. "Pygmalion & Galatea!", "Urgent private affairs". Wanganui, 6 July 1883. Programme. Wanganui Amateur Dramatic Club. "Jocrisse, the juggler", and "The conspiracy". Firday 30th March 1883. A D Willis, printer. Programme. Wanganui Private Entertainment Club. "Time tries all". Princess's Theatre. Wednesday Sept 21, 1881. (Flyer / programme) Wanganui Private Entertainment Club. Princess's Theatre. "The Rendezvous" and "Good for Evil". Friday December 23, 1881. (Flyer / programme) Wanganui Private Entertainment Club. "Miller of Derwentwater". Princess Theatre Wanganui, 15 June 1882. (Flyer / programme) Wanganui Private Entertainment Club. "Sink or swim". Princess Theatre Wanganui. 28 July 1882. (Flyer / programme) Wellington Amateur Dramatic Club. Rules 1880. (2 cards) (Donor E Mason 1996). Wellington Amateur Dramatic Club. "Partners for life" Theatre Royal Wellington. 28 September 1882. (Flyer / programme) Wellington Amateur Dramatic Club. "The chimney corner", "Slasher and Crasher". Theatre Royal Wellington. 7 September 1883. Programme. Wellington Amateur Dramatic Club. "The Guv'nor". Theatre Royal Wellington 18 August 1886, and 21 September 1886. Two card advertisements (One orange, one yellow). Ye Yuletide Mummers. "Tom Cobb; or, Fortune's toy". Theatre Royal Wellington. 4 August 1887. Programme printed by Bock and Cousins. Quantity: 38 programmes and flyers.. Physical Description: Letterpress on flyers and programmes, sizes below 250 mm.

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-029-2

Description: A half-length profile view of a Maori man smoking a pipe in a train carriage. He wears a wide-brimmed European hat, a long piece of greenstone in his left ear, and has a long scarf knotted around his neck. He sports moko on his chin. There appear to be no other passengers in the carriage, and he seems to be unaware of being sketched Other Titles - Wanganui Other Titles - Whanganui Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and pencil on paper, 94 x 116 mm, on sketchbook page 255 x 370 mm

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: Harding, William James 1826-1899 :W. J. Harding. [Wellington], Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited, 1984. (Imagers of a new land, series 3).

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988

Reference: C-106-013-a

Description: Shows man in pin-stripe waistcoat and trousers seated in centre, and standing wife holding small child in dress at right. At left is table on which are a sewing machine and a bird in a cage. On the wall behind are toetoe plumes arranged decoratively, and on floor is decorative patterned carpet or cloth.. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 259 x 213 mm, on sheet 415 x 350 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit regulations, 1986.

Date: Oct 1882

From: New Theatre : Records

Reference: 77-244-6/24

Description: Broadsheet advertising the drama `Milky white' and the burlesque `Black eyed See-u-san', staged at the Princess Theatre, Wanganui on 19 Oct 1882 in aid of the Library Building Fund. Includes opinions of the Press. Printed by Wanganui Chronicle Print Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1986

From: Warnock, Thomas, 1850?-1939 : Shipboard diary and other papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-7232

Description: Warnocks 100 years; centennial supplement, May 1986 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1853-1861, 1881

By: Parish of Christ Church (Whanganui, N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Papers-1782

Description: Letters from Bishop Selwyn to O Hadfield, Colonel McCleverty, R Taylor, C H S Nicholls and others on Church of England affairs in Wanganui; unauthorised employment by Reverend Nicholls of soldiers clearing land at Industrial School; signatories to principles of Constitution for Church in New Zealand, 1853; letter from B W Mountford on cost of font for Christchurch Cathedral. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (14 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: ca 1875

By: Murray-Oliver, Anthony Audrey St. Clair Murray, 1915-1986

Reference: PAColl-3172

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.

Date: 1880 - 1920

From: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850?-1936? :[Sketchbook of Wellington and the Mokoia area. 1880-1920?]

Reference: E-634-019

Description: Sketch showing two sailing ships moored at a pier. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, on page 178 x 252 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Mary Watt, Wellington, through the family of the artist, in 2004.

Date: 1880 - 1920

From: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850?-1936? :[Sketchbook of Wellington and the Mokoia area. 1880-1920?]

Reference: E-634-017

Description: Sketches of Wanganui from the river, and a coastal profile at the heads. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour sketch, on page 178 x 252 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Mary Watt, Wellington, through the family of the artist, in 2004.