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[Mitford, John Guise] 1822-1854 :[The Hobson album]. Russell from Paihia. Wai Keri Rive...
Date: 1843 - 1844
From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]
By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854
Reference: E-216-f-031
Description: Looking down from a hill covered in scrub, with the beachline beyond the town visible to the right and Okiato peninsula opposite across the bay, with many other hills in the distance. The settlement of Okiato can be made out in the distance with Captain Hobson's house on the hilltop, and James Reddy Clendon's trading post (a two-storied building) at the beach Two places in the Bay of Islands were named Russell in the 1840s. This view is of Okiato, the original capital, not of Kororareka Other Titles - Waikare. Okiato Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monochrome watercolour, 217 x 313 mm
[Messenger, Arthur Herbert] 1877-1962 :Landing of New Zealand's first Governor, Captain...
Date: 1846 - 1928
By: Clayton, Matthew Thomas, 1831-1922; Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962; New Zealand Railways
Reference: A-109-018
Description: Shows three sailing ships in the background, with two Maori waka going to meet them from the foreground beach where a group of Maori stand at the left. Plate from: Commerce train news, 1928. Reproduction of watercolour (see photo file print, with title: Governor Hobson's landing...) also printed in: Travel in New Zealand ... / by James Cowan. Auckland, 1926. vol 1, p. 63. Messenger's watercolour is a copy of original oil by M T Clayton, 1921, in Waitangi Treaty House, (see Photo file print, with title: [Landing of New Zealand's first Governor...]) Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, b&w ; image 86 x 200 mm on sheet 140 x 230 mm