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Stevens, George Treacy, fl 1880s :Auckland. N. Z. 1885-1886. [Auckland, 1886?]
Date: 1885 - 1886
By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)
Reference: D-001-006
Description: Bird's-eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed bird's-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm
Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :Albert Barracks from Queen Street Wharf. 10 Aug [1864].
Date: 1864
From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[New Zealand sketches, 1864-1866]
Reference: B-045-014/015
Description: Shows activity on the wharf: fixing of rigging, two soldiers talking to each other, a horse and cart, a woman with a parasol, and several other figures idling. Across the harbour are dwellings, and higher up St Paul's church, with the barracks on the top of the hill. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 138 x 464 mm.