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Date: 1863 (1956, 1976, 1981)

By: Woodhouse, Jonas Eastwood, 1842-1897; Woodhouse, F R (Mr), active 1956-1981

Reference: MS-Group-2357

Description: Original log book of an account of Jonas Eastwood Woodhouse of his journey from London, England to Southland, New Zealand on board the 'New Great Britain' in 1863. Also a typed transcript of the same. Woodhouse describes life on board the ship in detail, including the weather, food, entertainment, equator crossing celebrations, and deaths of other passengers. He also describes sailing past Solander and Steward [Stewart?] Islands and arriving in Southland where they were met by a pilot ship and assessed for quarantine. He gives his impressions of the bush, houses, gardens, animals, and pig hunting that he could see from the ship before they landed. Also includes a list of passengers on the ship, organised by county and country, and the words to 'Song of the New Great Britain' composed by Mr Robert Wotton - another passenger on the ship. Also includes letters addressed to Mr F R Woodhouse (a great grandson of Woodhouse and previous owner of the book) in relation to the log book (letters dated 1956, 1976, and 1981). Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 volume(s). 2 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, Typescripts Provenance: Previously owned by Mr F R Woodhouse, a great grandson of Jonas Eastwood Woodhouse. Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Modern First Edition Ltd, England, Jun 2014

Date: 1875-[ca 1930]

By: Mackay, Robert Percy, 1862-1948

Reference: MS-Group-0337

Description: Consists of 3 logs written by Mackay on the whaling ship Splendid for the years 1875-1877. The logs detail the voyages of the ship from Port Chalmers to various places around New Zealand, the Southern Ocean and into the Pacific. Also contains discharge papers dated Oct 1877; an annotated copy of `The Cruise of the Cachalot' by Frank T Bullen published in 1899 and an annotated proof of a galley for a newspaper article, ca 1930s, reporting on Mackay's life and his claim that Bullen's 1899 book was in fact based on the Splendid. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 4 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Quilters Bookshop, Wellington, 1994

Date: 1868-1869

By: Green, George, active 1860

Reference: qMS-0881

Description: Annotated copy of petition to Legislative Council covering land on Stewart Island that the South Island claimed to have been purchased between 1830 and 1840. Letters from Green to W B D Mantell and Andrew Buchanan; copies of letters to Green from Alfred Domett and Land Claims Commission. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (31 cm, ¼ red morocco, pink boards) Transfers: Transferred from qPAM, 22 April 1976.

Date: 6 Oct 1869-11 Jun 1875

By: Baker, John Holland, 1841-1930

Reference: qMS-0114

Description: Describes daily life as a surveyor in Southland, and, in more detail, his voyage on the Mikado to San Francisco, and his travel by land to New York and on to Liverpool aboard the Britannic. Includes `Notes from Isabel's journal', 23 May 1873-21 Sep 1875 (2 pages). Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (62 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (31cm, blue cloth)

Date: 1850-1885

By: Wohlers, Johann Friedrich Heinrich, 1811-1885

Reference: qMS-2280-2285

Description: Three registers of marriage, one of deaths, one of baptisms and one of the local European population Wohlers was the missionary on the island of Ruapuke in Foveaux Straits Quantity: 6 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograhs (photocopies) (various sizes, black buckram)

Date: 1852

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-107-2

Description: View across the tops of hills from north of Bluff towards Stewart Island and the high points of Ragged and Codfish Islands Other Titles - Hinetui. Omaui. Bluff. Rarotoka. Raggedy. Rugged. Codfish Id Inscriptions: Recto - above image - title and date in ink; also the names of various high points Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on 2 sheets of wove paper, each 28 x 259 mm

Date: 1844-1873

Reference: PAColl-3690

Description: Photographs of maps created between 1844-1873, chiefly depicting Otago, but also including maps of Fiordland, Stewart Island, Southland, and the West Coast. Date of photographs unknown. Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at G23161-23177-1/1; G23179-80-1/1; G23182-86-1/1; G23189-92-1/1; G23194-G23202-1/1; F23178-1/1; F23181-1/1; F23187-88-1/1; F23193-1/1. Prints in this collection have been made from the following identified negatives: G23162-1/1; G23190-92-1/1; G23195-1/1; G23197-1/1; G23201-1/1. The rest of the prints are made from unidentified negatives in this collection. They could be matched up with the negative register entries Quantity: 33 b&w copy negative(s). 29 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: 22 Dec 1858

From: Traill, Charles, 1825-1891 : Correspondence

Reference: MS-Papers-2191-2

Description: Letter from Day to Traill wwritten from Dunedin regarding goods ordered Other - Formerly Misc Mss 1139 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 item). Physical Description: Holographs and typed transcripts (photocopies)

Date: 1885-1889

By: Latham, George, active 1864-1883

Reference: MS-1136

Description: Includes some handwritten notes with sketches and drawings Quantity: 1 volume(s) (32 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (11 cm; black boards) Provenance: Extracted from T N Brodrick papers Includes sketches of Stewart Island (1889) and Orepuki (1885), as well as humorous drawings

Date: 1857

By: Thomson, John Turnbull, 1821-1884; Archives New Zealand; Starke, June, 1923-2006

Reference: MapColl-835a/1857/Acc.43174

Description: Copy of manuscript map which shows Foveaux Strait, Stewart Island and other islands in vicinity. Shows placenames and topographic features mainly along coastlines. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale of copy indeterminable, scale of original [1:253 440], size of copy 70 x 56.5 cm. Provenance: Donated by June Starke, Wellington, August 2003

Date: 1889 - 1920

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921

Reference: A-026-001/11

Description: Contents: 1. Stewart Island and Lake Manapouri; 2. Lake Heron - up Gorge; 3. Lake Manapouri; 4. Lake Heron district; 5. Canterbury sketches; 6. Rakaia district sketches; 7. Lake Manapouri district; 8. Lake Coleridge series; 9. Lake Te Anau series; 10. Routebourn [Routeburn]; 11. Rees Valley, Earnslaw. Supplied title; individual titles from labels on folios Quantity: 539 drawing(s) (11 folios). Physical Description: Pencil drawings, sheets 183 x 277 mm or smaller, folios 190 x 290 mm, green buckram

Date: 1888

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] Ravensbourne, 1888

Reference: E-016-3-038/039

Description: A panoramic view of rocks, cliff and rough sea Possibly close to Bluff or in Stewart Island. Surrounding views in the sketchbook include Bluff and the approach to Stewart Island Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, 89 x 156 mm (page size)

Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

From: Nairn, Douglas, fl 1973 :Photographs of New Zealand and Fiji

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA1-q-167

Description: Album of photographs taken between the 1860s and 1890s by various unidentified photographers, with one identified as being possibly by Daniel Louis Mundy, and one by James Bragge. Two early photographs, one of `Oakbourne Station', the home of John Davis Canning was taken circa 1860s, and one of `Orua Wharo' the home of John Johnston, and later his son Sydney Johnston, was taken circa 1870s, before the new house was built in 1879. Page 7 contains pressed ferns. Non-New Zealand photographs include several of Fiji, including Levuka, Taveuni, and an avenue of palms; one of the carving on Sir Joshua Reynold's bed at Tarrington; one of an Elizabethan glass cup; a carved overmantel; two views of Arundel House at Brighton, and one of Heston Church near Osterley Park. In the North Island, apart from the views of Oakbourne and Orua Wharo in the Hawke's Bay region, there are several views of the Pink and White Terraces, two showing the White Terraces both empty and full, Clay Island beneath the White Terraces; two views of the Manawatu Gorge and Seventy Mile Bush; and a view of Wellington City. South Island views include Milford Sound, Stewart Island, Braida Crags, the Wyndham River; a large group of people at celebrations surrounding the laying of the foundation stone for St John's Church in Invercargill; and two views of an exhibition of a Japanese village displaying such things as banners, lanterns and furniture, held in a hall in Invercargill. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown leather cover, gold decoration; 31.0 x 27.5 cm

Date: 1861-1889

By: Tatlock, (Mr), active 1975; Dougall, William, 1845-1924; Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-f-144

Description: Comprises a photograph album containing images taken William Dougall and Frank Coxhead between 1861 and 1889 showing views of Otago and Fiordland, and a voyage to Campbell, Auckland and Antipodes Islands. Dougall's account of the voyage on the 'Stella' was published in The Southland Times between 15 to 21 February 1888 under the column heading "Far South". Negatives and photographic prints taken by William Dougall are also held at Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand. Two copies of the 'Far South' pamphlet which accompanied the photograph album are held in the National Library of New Zealand catalogue at PAM 919.31 DOU 1888 and Pam 1888 DOU 1545 (Alexander Turnbull Library copy). Photographer William Dougall travelled as official photographer on the New Zealand government steamer CGS 'Stella' to the Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes and Bounty Islands in 1888. His account and photographs of the voyage were published as set of a bound photograph album and a pamphlet titled 'Far South: Stewart Island, The Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes and Bounty Islands: Notes' in 1888. Photographer Frank Arnold Coxhead was based in Dunedin circa 1864 to circa 1890s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1888

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] Ravensbourne, 1888

Reference: E-016-3-040

Description: A steamer in rough water with the hills of Stewart Island in the background The name Ararua has not been found for a steamship operating in the 1880s in Southland. The artist may have misheard 'Ararua' for the regional name 'Awarua' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 89 x 156 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Great Britain. Colonial Office :Maps and plans. Series 1. New Zealand. CO 700/New Zealand

By: National Archives (Great Britain)

Reference: MapColl-834a/1848/Acc.46960-1

Description: Copy of hand-drawn map of the South Island from Kaiapoi south to Stewart Island, drawn in 1848. Some topographic features and placenames, several Maori tracks inland and the southern boundary of the New Zealand Company's southern purchase. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) in 2 parts. Physical Description: Photographic print, black and white, scale [ca. 1: 1 045 440], 78 x 44 cm. Provenance: From Colonial Office papers, England. Colonial Office material now held by National Archives, Kew, United Kingdom.

Date: 1875

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; Field family

Reference: E-401

Description: Contains 109 sketches of Fiordland and the West Coast, from aboard S S Maori. Locations included are: Stewarts Island, Dog Island, Bluff, Horseshoe Bay, Preservation Inlet, Gulches Head, Northport, Dusky Sound, Cascade Cove, Acheron Passage, Breaksea Sound, Doubtful Sound, Thompson Sound, Nancy Sound, George Sound, Milford, Martin's Bay, Big Bay, Mt Aspiring, Jackson's Bay, Buller River, Westport, Cape Foulwind, Bucklands Peaks, Hokitika, Otira Gorge near Kelly's Creek, Mt Cook.. Most of the sketches are very simple and rough. Dating: dated 1875 in diary notes at back of volume, recording a trip taken from Port Chalmers between Saturday 13 March 1875 and the northern West Coast, 21 March 1875 Inscriptions: Entitled by artist on each page. Nearly all undated. Diary notes at back of volume dated March 1875, and include signature W Hodgkins, p. 108 Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 109 pencil sketches in sketchbook, 105 x 180 mm. Finding Aids: Inventory/shelflist available.. Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts and Archives' Field family papers..

Date: [1978-1986]

From: Starke, June, 1923-2006 : Research papers

Reference: 2003-253-20

Description: Photograph of painting, `Stordons Grange' near Ashley de la Touch; Stewart Island postcards; Stewart Island brochure (1978); and two publications entered in Other titles Other Titles - Sheila Natusch - Stewart Island; a souvenir Other Titles - R Catmore - Swan River; Perth to Fremantle Harbour Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1884]

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

Reference: PA7-39-11

Description: Shows two men near the water's edge at Island Bay. One man is standing up in a dinghy, the other is walking towards him. The tidal area in the foreground is strewn with driftwood. Photograph taken by Burton Brothers, ca 1880s and print sold by W R Robinson, Auckland From `New Zealand through the camera' series of photographs Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 2189 - Island Bay, Stewart Island. Burton Bros, Dunedin; Backing board verso - top left - W.R.Robinson, Stone's Buildings, Wellesley Street East Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.9 x 19.8 cm on mount 22.5 x 29 cm

Date: 1851

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-097-1

Description: Scene looking south from the Mataura Plain at the foot of the South Island towards distant Stewart Island and the surrounding coast Other Titles - Tauariki wooded. Pawakataka. Stewart Island, Mount Anglem Quantity: 3 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink, on three sheets of wove paper, 79 x 259 mm, 52 x 259 mm and 52 x 259 mm