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View of Mercer
Date: ca 1890s
Reference: 1/2-004202-F
Description: An elevatedl view of the town and the river including a substantial two-storey house on the left next to the river. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative
Illustrated London news :Views in New Zealand. The River Waikato from the hills near Na...
Date: 1863
From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]
By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)
Reference: E-106-f-043-2
Description: View of the river showing a heavily wooded area in the middle distance. Other Titles - The river Waikato from the hills near Mangatawhiri Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, 7 Nov 1863, p 69 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Engraver's initials Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 155 x 240 mm
Haynes, W (Mrs), fl 1955 :Photograph album of photographs taken by C Edwards
Date: [1895-1899]
By: Edwards, Charles Thomas, active 1890s
Reference: PA1-f-020
Description: Photograph album containing photographs of South Island scenes, taken ca 1897 by C T Edwards. Album includes views of Melbourne and Sydney; a large number in the Lyttelton and Christchurch areas; as well as photographs in the Waikato region. There are a number of photographs of postcards created by Edwards, using various scenes, most of which are included in this album. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Grey album with black spine and corners, entitled Photographs. C.T. Edwards, 32 x 45 cm
Stuart, Henry John Richard Villiers, 1837-1914 : New Zealand journal
Date: 1863-1866, 2000
By: Stuart, Henry John Richard Villiers, 1837-1914
Reference: MS-Group-0834
Description: Comprises journal kept by Stuart from 1863-1866 while he was travelling on the continent through Paris, Nice and Geneva, then his embarkation on the `Sea King' at Gravesend (Nov 1863) and coaling at St Vincent. He describes the entertainments on board, the weather, storms, death of a child born on board, arrival at Auckland (27 Jan 1864), meeting the 4th Company which had come from India, his journey to Otahuka and his first impressions. He writes of escorting carts and other military duties, painting views, problems of paying the men, Maori prisoners, in camp at Koheroa, of the engineers making a road, cutting firewood, seeing Tauranga, Te Puke, Wheranghi, fighting, arrival at Wairoa, orders received from Major Shuttleworth, visiting Te Papa, social activities in Auckland, Christmas (1864) and ends at Te Papa on 10 Jan 1865. Also includes abstract logs of the `Sea King' to New Zealand (13 Nov 1863-26 Jan 1864), `Wellesley', Melbourne to England (31 Mar-15 Jul 1866), `Prince Alfred', New Zealand to Sydney (2-7 Mar 1866), `Bengal', Calcutta to Southampton (23 Mar-1 May 1865); journal of voyage, `Wellesley' to Plymouth (16 Jun-15 Jul 1866); list of letters written (1863-1864); and chronological index to main part of the diary. Typed transcript of journal added to collection Electronic transcript is included in this collection. Source of title - Transcribed Other - Typed transcript completed in-house, May 2000 Quantity: 2 folder(s). 2 microfilm reel(s). 512 kilobyte(s) textual material. 0.07 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy and microfilm) and typescript
Letters - L Kirkpatrick Howat
Date: 1863-1864
From: John Martin, Solicitors of Edinburgh : New Zealand letters
Reference: MS-Papers-6509-05
Description: Letters from Koheroa Camp, where Lieutenant Howat was stationed, enquiring about remittances and a power of attorney (lacking). Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Contract for construction of the Auckland-Mercer railway
Date: 10 Aug 1872
By: Bowen, George Ferguson (Sir), 1821-1899
Reference: fMS-052
Description: Contract made between the Governor of New Zealand on behalf of HM the Queen and Brogden, Brogden and Brogden of Westminster; includes specification and articles of agreement Autographs of Bowen, Fox and Seward Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (17 pages). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms (40 cm, blue pamphlet case)
Unknown photographer :Photographs of Auckland and Coromandel
Date: 1880-1901
Reference: PAColl-8960
Description: Photographs of Auckland and Coromandel, taken between 1880 and 1901 by an unknown photographer. Includes views of Parsons & Fowler families (1890), St Heliers Bay (1890), Imperial Troops in the Auckland Domain, an arch erected for the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901, Onehunga Hotel in Princess Street, the Auckland Domain, Views of Northcote, Birkenhead, and Birkenhead Wharf (1880), tradesmen's processions in Domain, and the Mercer Regatta. This group of negatives have crenelated notches along their sides. This indicates that they were manufactured for a Frena Camera. This camera was the first type of film-pack camera. (see "Deja View 37," August 2003, edited and published by Bill Main, Wellington, New Zealand). Information that came with these negatives is filed at PAColl-8960, and is in the Photograph Archive collections sequence. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 57 b&w original negative(s).
Harper, Laura, 1833-1887 :Mercer. Nov 7 [1884]
Date: 1884
From: Harper, Laura 1833-1887 :Laura Harper's sketchbook. No. 10 1884
Reference: E-376-028
Description: A river scene showing trees on either side of the river and a house with a large hill in the background Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Nercer Nov 7 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 140 x 230 mm. (page size)
Puriri trees, island of Te Oro, opposite Mercer
Date: 1866
From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia
Reference: 1/2-096121-G
Description: Puriri trees and scrub on the island of Te Oro, opposite Mercer. Photograph taken in 1866 by Daniel Manders Beere. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - top right - 53 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches
Fraser, I T[allon?] B, fl 1860s :The Bluff Stockade, Waikato River 1 1/2 miles from Mau...
Date: 1864 - 1865
From: Fraser, I T[allon?] B :[Scrapbook. 1864-1910].
Reference: E-571-q-006
Description: View across the Waikato River of the Bluff Stockade at the top of a cleared hill, with low tree stumps. Bush on either side of the hill and a hut and another building at the water's edge. Extended Title - From his scrapbook, 1864-1910. Page [4]. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]. Also title and signature along the base of the image Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Pencil 176 x 255 mm, on page 290 x 235 mm.
Mercer
Date: 1866
From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia
Reference: 1/2-096119-G
Description: Looking over the Waikato River at the township of Mercer in 1866. Photograph taken by Daniel Manders Beere. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 51 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches
Welch, Joseph Sandell 1841-1918:Waikato River, from Mercer, from a sketch by Mr. J. C. ...
Date: 1870 - 1880
From: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918 :[South Island sketches, 1870-1888]
By: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913
Reference: A-120-023
Description: A small paddle-steamer in the foreground, the river, several houses on the opposite bank and high hills in the background In: Welch, J. S. [Album of Sketches] 1876 Copied by Joseph Sandell Welch from a watercolour by John Clarke Hoyte Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 170 x 355 mm
Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :The Bluff stockade from Koheroa. New Zealand 1863
Date: 1863
From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.
Reference: E-248-q-084
Description: The stockade seen in the distance across a hilly landscape with a road and the Waikato River Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 99 x 164 mm
Puriri trees, island of Te Oro, opposite Mercer
Date: 1866
From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia
Reference: 1/2-096120-G
Description: Puriri trees, and scrub, on the island of Te Oro, opposite Mercer. Photograph taken by Daniel Manders Beere in 1866. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - top left - 52 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches
Hamley, Joseph Osbertus 1820-1911 :The Bluff Stockade, Waikato [1864]
Date: 1864
From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]
By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898
Reference: E-047-q-004
Description: Looking across the river towards the stockade atop a hill, a flag flying inside its perimeter fence. There is a shed, possibly a boat shed at the water's edge and a small boat with a sail is being rowed across the river. A cleared hill with tree-stumps is on the left Copied by Hamley from the drawings of his superior officer, E. A. Williams. The original drawing on which this was based is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection in E. A. Williams' Album, p. 21, with the same title. The Library has a photograph of the E. A. Williams' sketch, negative 115988 1/2. Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 93 x 190 mm
Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881: Mere-Mere from Whangamarino Redoubt
Date: [1863]
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961
Reference: C-025-011
Description: A view from above Whangamarino Redoubt with three cannons in the foreground. The left one is firing out over river and plain. The river bends at the extreme right, or may join another. The gunboat (Pioneer) is in the river in the centre distance, near a fortification or pa with a flag flying. In a note on the back A W F Fuller quotes G W Rusden's History of NZ 1883, vol. II, page 167: "On the 29th October 1863, General Cameron with Commander Wiseman, reconnoitred Mere-Mere. Two 40 pound Armstrong guns had been previously landed at Whangamarino to command the landing place at Mere Mere. That stronghold was on a low ridge which approached the Waikato river. Traversed rifle-pits occupied the descent of the ridge to the river. Swamps almost encircled the ridge, & the Whangamarino & Maramarua rivers, or creeks, were available to the east for the possible retreat always aimed at by Maoris in their plans of fortification. The swamps were more water-laden than usual. The Maori flag floated in a pah where the ridge was 130 feet high. Every slope & projection from the ridge to the swamps was traversed with rifle-pits..." The mention of the flag appears to mean that the Maori pa is the one with the flag flying in the centre distance. Other Titles - Meremere Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Heaphy; Verso - centre - [Notes by A W F Fuller, 7 May 1941]. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, 490 x 760 mm
Research papers relating to New Zealand Wars and World War One
Date: [1836-1916]
From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11310-106
Description: Research papers relating to New Zealand Wars and World War One, also includes 'Te Araki's war song at Te Tumu' which relates to an inter-tribal battle between Te Arawa and Ngai Te Rangi [1836?]. Also includes 2 page sketch of Horokiwi [Battle Hill] and a typescript of a meeting between Hon. J. Allen (Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Defence) and representatives of Waikato tribes at Mercer in 1916, to encourage their involvement in World War One. Arrangement: Part of 34 from original listing Quantity: 1 folder(s).