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Date: [Circa 1880s]

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903; Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA1-f-076

Description: Album of photographs taken by various photographers circa 1880s, including the Burton brothers, George Valentine, and W T L Travers. Photographs of Tenerife, Cape Town (and probably the views of Hobart) were taken from the ship "Doric" in 1885, possibly by Alexander Turnbull on one of his return trips from Europe. Other Titles - New Zealand, Tasmania [and] Ships Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled in gold lettering on spine "New Zealand, Tasmania, Ships, A H Turnbull"; 31.5 x 43.0 cm

Date: 1855

By: Martin, Albin, 1812?-1888

Reference: A-160-018

Description: View across farmland with the peak of Mount Wellington in the background On back: "by Albin Martin". Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas-backed paper 970 x 195 mm Provenance: Purchase: Mrs Marjorie Forde, London 1972.

Date: 1844 - 1862

From: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809-1877 :[Panorama of St John's college, Tamaki, Auckland, founded by Bishop G A Selwyn in Nov. 1844. Drawn by Mrs Abraham, wife of the bishop, and lithographed by Miss Cotton. Auckland ; St John's College? 1862?]

Reference: A-220-008-a-3

Description: The 5th and 6th sections (of 8) showing the site of St John's College, Meadowbank, looking towards Manukau Harbour on the right, with a road in the foreground. A carriage drawn by a team of bullocks is on the left, then the barn and several haystacks, Mt Wellington in the centre background, the stables as an outbuilding to the tall half-timbered weaver's house on the right, and farmland beyond that. Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 170 x 493 mm on sheet 210 x 1973 mm

Date: 1850 - 1860

By: Martin, Albin, 1812?-1888

Reference: A-160-019

Description: Shows a reclining cow on the left, hens, pigs, geese, a goat to the right, sheds, a barn and picket fence. A man, woman and child are in the yard to the right, the woman working a hoe. On back: by Albin Martin. Inscriptions: Verso - 'By Albin Martin' Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas-backed paper 110 x 223 mm

Date: 1844 - 1846

From: [Selwyn, George Augustus], 1809-1878 :[Three watercolours. 1. Purewa Creek, Auckland Ch., Flying Fish and Marian, Okahu N. Village. 1840s; 2. Purewa [and first St John's College] ca 1845; 3. Putiki, Island of Waiheke. 1840s]

Reference: A-439-007

Description: Shows a view of the group of wooden buildings making up the first Auckland buildings of St John's College. Shows a two-storeyed building in the right foreground, with several figures sitting and standing in front of it, a row of four houses nearby and further houses at the far left, with fences linking the buildings over the cleared land. At the river is a stream, probably Purewa Creek and to the west, hilltops including Mt Wellington and a higher flat plateau in the distance (possibly Mount Hobson). See also a sketch of the same subject, from the same vantage point, by Thomas Biddulph Hutton, at Auckland Art Gallery, accession number 1939/17/1. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 148 x 222 mm.