Places

Date: [ca 1860s-1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6886

Description: 22 images: 18 are copy negatives of images in books of Old Wellington in the 1860s many of which are captioned; two are of people milling around in front of the Cathedral in Christchurch; one is of the ship Marama ca 1920s; and one is probably an original negative of two older children and a baby in a garden. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044160 to 044181 Quantity: 22 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate copy negatives

Date: [ca 1870]-1951

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

Reference: PA1-q-945

Description: There are several subject groups in this album. 1. Family childhood and youth. The earliest family photograph dates from the 1870s and is a portrait of John Pascoe's paternal grandmother as a young woman. The photographs become prolific from about 1918 to 1930. During the 1920s many photographs are of Pascoe and his friends as boys, often with family members, taken during outdoor activities such as staying at baches at Rakaia huts, at picnics, swimming, boating, tramping, hunting and horse riding. Several show John Pascoe with a banjo, and there is a group photograph of Bloys Banjo Band taken about 1930. 2. The next group relate to Christs College, Christchurch. These consist of views of some of the buildings including the interior of the chapel. Many are groups of college sports teams and sudents dressed in striped blazers, the school orchestra, the school cadets, school friends and some teachers. Some of the photographs show study interiors and boys at work in them. 3. Photographs of John and Paul Pascoe as young men in their first suits; Paul Pascoe at architectural school; John and Dorothy Pascoe's wedding in 1940 and of their first house. Related to this group, though scattered throughout the album are photographs of John's father's law offices when John worked there, of Paul Pascoe in England in the mid 1930s, and later of his wife and children at the time that his second son was a baby. 4. John Pascoe as a harrier with the christchurch Harrier Club in the late 1920s. There are photographs of individual runners, group photographs of harrier teams, and many more of races about to start or underway. 5. John Pascoe as a civil servant during the late 1930s and during the war. Some of these are official photographs such as the group at the beginning of the album which relate to the publishing of "Making New Zealand" and the team producing it. As well there are a number of small images of Pascoe's collegues at the Department of Internal Affaires, some photographs of him in operation as a war time official photographer, and a group photograph of Joseph Heenan and his staff standing on the steps of Parliament house. Other photographs include Dorothy, the children, and activities with children in the early 1950s. There is also a photograph of the window of Whitcombe and Tombs bookshop in Wellington displaying Pascoe's book "Unclimbed New Zealand." Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1995

From: Ted Gilberd Literary Trust : Essay competitions

Reference: MS-Papers-5757-06

Description: History of the Ruddock and Pratt families in Ireland and London before arrival in New Zealand. Includes Sadie Ruddock's memories of her farming childhood at Southbridge and of her grandparents. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1852-1855

By: Rose, Louisa George, 1820-

Reference: MS-Papers-2314

Description: In these four letters to her sister, Constance Smith, Louisa described her new home, the shortage of servants, the prospects for bringing up and educating children successfully in the colony, and social life in Christchurch. Source of title - Supplied title Accompanying material - "Poaching song", "Traits of French character" (a poem), and brief notes on dates of birth of members of the Rose family (none apparently written by Louisa Rose) Louisa George Rose and her husband, Conway Lucas Rose, arrived in Canterbury on the "Midlothian" on 8 Oct 1851. They came to the colony with the intention of staying ten years but left after only three years. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 letters, 31 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1949 - 1851

Reference: A-163-019

Description: Two women and a child seated inside an A-frame structure with a canvas roof. The women are seated at a table and sewing. Beyond them is a piece of furniture, possibly a dresser, with a clock, ornaments and books on shelves. There is a wooden door opened at the front of the view Copied from Dr Barker's sketch `Studdingsail Hall, Christchurch, Jan 22/51' in Canterbury Museum. Drawn for reproduction in Andersen, J C Old Christchurch, 1949, plate 37, p. 61. Inscriptions include in pencil, below the work 'Plate 38, p. 62' Artist's initials, lower left, illegible, but may read L E W On same sheet as A-163-018 Studdingsail (or Studding Sail) Hall was Dr Barker's name for his first, temporary home in Christchurch, whose roof was made from a sail from the ship Charlotte Jane Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink wash, 187 x 152 mm Provenance: Purchase: Smith's bookshop, Christchurch, 1963

Date: 1850

By: Cridland, Henry John, 1821-1867

Reference: C-014-002

Description: View of Lyttelton from Governor's Bay, with an artist sketching by an arched rock and two women with small children on the left, a small row-boat in the middle ground, Lyttelton with about a dozen buildings and the Sumner Road clearly formed, H.M.S.Fly in the harbour with several other vessels, Mount Pleasant 1870 feet marked to the left and the vegetation on the surrounding hills indicated Map on verso: Chart of Banks Peninsula / C.Heaphy, 1849 (C-014-002-1) Drawn at the period when the first Pakeha settlers arrived at Lyttelton to colonise Canterbury Other Titles - Township of Lyttelton Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title, signature & date in ink; above image: height of mountain & details about vegetation (in pencil) Quantity: 2 watercolour(s) plus one hand-coloured lithograph. Physical Description: Monotone wash over pencil 282 x 561 mm on sheet 435 x 561 mm (irregular) Processing information: Removed from: Great Britain. Parliamentary Papers, 1850, cd [1136] facing p.67, housed in Reference Collection at q328.42 until 1989.

Date: 1862

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Hogg, Neville William (Dr), 1927-2007; Cornes, Don, active 1974-1995

Reference: B-121-020

Description: Shows Weld's third New Zealand home "Brackenfield" near Amberley with his wife and two oldest children in the foreground. A horse is beside Mrs Weld and the two children. The house and garden look newly established with clumps of cabbage trees and flaxes in flower and flower gardens closer to the house. There is a conservatory to the right of the house and another building, probably a barn, to the far right. To the left of the house is a small chapel. The Welds married in March 1859, so the two children, two-and-a half years later are likely to be the two oldest. Weld purchased the initial 304 acres of land for Brackenfield in July 1861. The 16-room kauri house, its timber shipped from Auckland, was demolished in 1964. Weld also laid out the park-like grounds and imported English deer and game birds. The chapel, one of the first Catholic churches in Canterbury, was moved from the Brackenfield entrance in the 1950s to the main road through Amberley Other Titles - Amberley Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Brackenfield N Z F.A.W. Nov 1862 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 248 x 358 mm Provenance: Purchased by Don Cornes in Melbourne from Julian Sterling, owner of Southern Cross Gallery, Exhibition Street, ca 1973. Brought to New Zealand. (Information from Don Cornes, personal communication 19 April 1995). Purchased at Dunbar Sloane's, Wellington, by Dr Neville Hogg for $1400 in 1977.

Date: 1850

By: Cridland, Henry John, 1821-1867; Burnand, William Henry, active 1843-1850s; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-195-016

Description: View from Governor's Bay looking back towards Lyttelton, with various features marked, including Mount Pleasant, H. M. S. Fly in the harbour, the Custom house, Major Hornby's Hotel [Major Hornbrook's hotel, the Mitre Inn] , the Emigration Barracks, a public cook house, the store and the temporary office of the Union Bank, John Robert Godley's house and garden, the Land Office, the Police Office and the Town Hall, Market Place, Jail and Hospital, the [Canterbury] Association Store House, the Esplanade, settlers' huts, the church, parsonage and school house. Several people including an artist are seated on rocks to the left, by an arched rock. The others are a woman with a baby and another woman with two small children. The reversing of the artist's initials and the naivety of the drawing may indicate that this is a contemporary copy by another hand of the original Cridland sketch located at C-014-002-1. It does, however, have more features indicated in writing than the C-014-002-1 version. Other Titles - Lyttelton. The boat labelled 'FLY' is not an accurate depiction of the HMS Fly. See A-292-070 or C-033-003 for more accurate depictions. September 2022 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title, signature [with initials reversed], date; Recto - top centre - [text describing the scene and its details]; Verso - [map of Christchurch] Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on blue laid paper 196 x 324 mm (irregularly cut) Provenance: Previously tipped into a volume of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull's copy of The New Zealand Journal housed on the open shelves in the Reference Collection at q328.42 until 1989. The volume had earlier belonged to W H Burnand. Transfers: Compare a very similar view with the same provenance located at C-014-002-1.