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Date: 1841-1854, 1935-1936 - [1Ca 1950s]

By: Webb, George Hannam, 1929-2007

Reference: MS-Group-1490

Description: Papers relating to Samuel Stephens, a surveyor for the New Zealand Company in Nelson. Includes journals and diaries kept by him, letters to his family back in England which describe his life in New Zealand, research material collected about Stephens' life including copies of his death notice, survey maps and pages from the `Nelson Examiner', transcripts of diaries and journals, and photographs of his grave. The journals have details of his voyage to New Zealand from England on the `Whitby' in 1841, of his daily life as a settler in Nelson, on the weather, agriculture and horticulture. He includes sketches of plants and listings of the plants and weather conditions. Quantity: 9 volume(s). 8 folder(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts and Archives March 2006; material transferred to the Published Collection, Ephemera Collection and the Cartographic Collection..

Date: 1841-1844, 1844-1852, 1852-1854, 1935-1936

By: Stephens, Samuel, 1803-1855

Reference: MS-2053-2055

Description: Journals kept by Stephens which include a biographical sketch by his nephew, J Edmund Clark (ppi-ii of v1, 1935), a note to an extract of 1842 (v3, 1936), and a letter to him from Robert Pattie (1935) re the excerpts (pp846-850, v3), letters from Stephens and Sarah Stephens to his mother and sisters, Anne and Ellen and extracts from his journals. Stephens describes his daily life as a surveyor and settler, events in New Zealand, people he met and other aspects of his working and private life. Each volume has a list of contents and v3 has an index. The pages are numbered chronologically through the three volumes. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (850 leaves, 35 leaves)

Date: 1977 - 1871

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908

Reference: C-079-049-a

Description: A panoramic view across undulating volcanic hills towards Manukau Harbour. A man in a Scots bonnet stands in the right foreground. A goat stands in the left foreground. A church and a few scattered houses can be seen in the middle distance Reproduced from pen and wash drawings in Backhouse sketchbook, 1870-1871, for the centenary of Onehunga. Limited edition of 250 copies The sketchbook, on loan to the Onehunga Public Library, was donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1989 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 249 x 707 mm

Date: 1841 - 1843

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: E-106-f-047-3

Description: View from Clay Point hill above the junction of modern Willis St and Lambton Quay. The beach in the foreground is lower Willis Street, while upper Willis Street passes up the rise on the far right. The beach in the background is modern Mercer and Wakefield Streets. Cows, goats, two Maori canoes, a couple on horseback and Bethune & Hunter's Stores are in the foreground, with a jetty and sailing ships in the harbour. Further jetties and public and private buildings are in the background on Te Aro Flat. The most prominent building along the waterfront, with a Grecian-style frontage, is the Exchange Building. Mounts Cook, Albert and Victoria are indicated in the skyline above their relevant peaks. From water-colour by Charles Heaphy; engraver unknown. For a key to the identity of individual buildings, see negative 15576 1/2. T. M. Hocken's 'Key plan of Heaphy's View of a part of the town of Wellington ... 1885'. The original for this key is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection. A watercolour was the original for the lithograph of the same title, published in London in 1842. There were also later prints from the same stone produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See reference number C-026-002 for copies of the lithograph. Reproduced by the Library in 1963 as one of the Queen's Prints, along with its companion view `Thorndon Flat and part of the city of Wellington, 1841' and Heaphy's `View of Nelson Haven', also dating from 1841. Very similar image at copy negative 1/2-005440 Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Vol 2 II, p 206 [1843 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 95 x 155 mm

Date: 1842 - 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Hutchison, Alan James Hanna, 1905-2000

Reference: A-259-041

Description: Shows views in the Wellington area. Other Titles - Petone Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: [ca 1885-1945]

By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PAColl-0422

Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca1900-ca1914

From: MacKay, B.R.S.A. (Estate) :Family photographs

Reference: PA1-o-780

Description: Mainly record an Edwardian New Zealand family living in the country, or in a small country town. There are views of the sea shore, ships going by, paddling and sitting on the sand. There are pictures of father driving the gig, in the back yard with the children and feeding the goat. The chilren are dressed up as adults, or are playing with their mother. There are the houses they lived in and photos of pastureland and cows. Other photos are of more conventional scenic views. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-026/028

Description: Three Wellington area views. The top view looks down the Hutt river, showing dense bush on both sides. The clearings on the distant hills are Maori gardens. The middle view looks along the Hutt Road from Petone towards Wellington in the distance; the lower view looks up Tinakore Road (then called Karori Road) past the junction with Hawkestone Street. Brees' house is on the left and a large kahikitea tree is alongside the road. Also shown are the houses of Mr 'Joah' Wakefield and the former residence of Mr de Bathe Brandon. Other Titles - Petone Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1862

By: Stack, Frederick Rice, -1873; Day & Son (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-060-015-a

Description: The crater of Mount Eden in the foreground, with grazing cows, goats and sheep and the city and harbour spread out in the background. Partington's Windmill can be seen on the left and various church spires. North Head and Rangitoto Island are in the distance Proof before lettering, which is inscribed in pencil. Otherwise the same as C-060-015 Extended Title - Plate from: Stack, F R. Views in the province of Auckland (London, 1862). Plate 2. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-col., image, 200 x 408 mm on sheet 380 x 570 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull. Ordered from F. Edwards, London, 11 November 1892, for 20/- the set of six

Date: 1886 - 1887

From: Hands, Alfred Watson, 1849-1927 :[Scenes in New Zealand] 1865, 1881, 1887

By: Hands, Alfred Watson (Rev), 1849-1927

Reference: A-254-012

Description: A nanny goat seated on a lawn, seen from above and behind. Three juvenile cabbage trees are growing to the right, and base of the trunk of a tree, possibly a pine, is visible to the left Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 94 x 125 mm Provenance: Donation; Mrs M S G MacLeod, Tunbridge Wells, 12 August 1977

Date: 1977 - 1871

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908

Reference: C-079-049

Description: A panoramic view across undulating volcanic hills towards Manukau Harbour. A man in a Scots bonnet stands in the right foreground. A goat stands in the left foreground. A church and a few scattered houses can be seen in the middle distance Reproduced from pen and wash drawings in Backhouse sketchbook, 1870-1871, for the centenary of Onehunga. Limited edition of 250 copies The sketchbook, on loan to the Onehunga Public Library, was donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1989 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 249 x 707 mm

Date: 1948 - 1851

By: Fulton, Catherine Henrietta Elliot, 1829-1919; Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd

Reference: A-165-008

Description: Looking past flat land towards Otago harbour. Two goats, left foreground, flax bushes and a cabbage tree, a track with two men walking towards the water and several houses closer to the shore Described in an accompanying booklet: `Otago celebrates...'. Published to celebrate the centennial of settlement of Dunedin Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 331 x 415 mm

Date: 1842 - 1843

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-216-f-015

Description: Shows a view looking across bracken, to the back of the first Government House (built 1842, burnt 1848), with the Waitemata and North Head in the background. There is a sailing ship in the right distance, and a waka with two triangular sails on the harbour. Two Maori sit in the bracken, and their is a goat grazing in the left foreground. In the right centre background is a raised storehouse (?), and there is a clump of flax in the right foreground. The hill above Devonport has a flagstaff. Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, on paper, 85 x 153 mm. Provenance: Part of Mrs Hobson's album. The album was passed by Eliza Hobson to her daughter, Eliza, Lady Rendel.

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-025-009

Description: View from Clay Point hill above the junction of modern Willis St and Lambton Quay. The beach in the foreground is lower Willis Street, while upper Willis Street passes up the rise on the far right. The beach in the background is modern Mercer and Wakefield Streets. Cows, goats, two Maori canoes, a couple on horseback and Bethune & Hunter's Stores are in the foreground, with a jetty and sailing ships in the harbour. Further jetties and public and private buildings are in the background on Te Aro Flat. The most prominent building along the waterfront, with a Grecian-style frontage, is the Exchange Building. Mounts Cook, Albert and Victoria are indicated in the skyline above their relevant peaks. For a key to the identity of individual buildings, see negative 15576 1/2. T. M. Hocken's 'Key plan of Heaphy's View of a part of the town of Wellington ... 1885'. The original for this key is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection. This watercolour was the original for the lithograph of the same title, published in London in 1842. There were also later prints from the same stone produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See reference number C-026-002 for copies of the lithograph. Reproduced by the Library in 1963 as one of the Queen's Prints, along with its companion view 'Thorndon Flat and part of the city of Wellington, 1841' and Heaphy's 'View of Nelson Haven', also dating from 1841. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil. This is not in Heaphy's hand. It has been taken from the title of the matching lithograph Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 442 x 620 mm on sheet 518 x 698 mm Provenance: Purchased in London in 1915 by Alexander Turnbull Library along with 114 other New Zealand Company drawings

Date: 1862

By: Stack, Frederick Rice, -1873; Day & Son (Firm); Thomas, Beatrice Rosemary, 1911-1996

Reference: C-060-015

Description: The crater of Mount Eden in the centre foreground with cows, goats and sheep grazing, and the city and harbour spread out in the distance. Partington's Windmill can be seen on the left, several church spires stand out and North Head and Rangitoto Island are in the background Same as C-060-015-a on sheet 380 x 570 mm Extended Title - Plate from: Stack, F R. Views in the province of Auckland (London, 1862). Plate 2. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-col., image, 200 x 408 mm on sheet 358 x 564 mm

Date: 1871

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Sketchbook [of New Zealand views. 1871-1876].

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908; Hamblett, Irene Beatrix, 1915-1995

Reference: E-400-f-002

Description: Shows panoramic view over rolling hills to the harbour, with figure of boy in extreme right foreground, and goat on rock in left foreground. Picture now in two pieces, as sketchbook has been conserved and separate leaves placed between acid-free paper. Left half on verso of E-400-f-001. Right half on verso of E-400-f-005. Other Titles - Harbour Other Titles - Mount Eden Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J.P.B. / 30.6.71 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Monochrome wash, 261 x 740 mm.

Date: 1865

From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867

Reference: A-277-026

Description: Mount Taranaki in the background of a scene in a military camp with a white goat (or possibly a bullock?) to the left, three tents and a mounted gun. In the foreground a man is carrying water. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour over pencil, 64 x 115 mm

Date: 1871

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Sketchbook [of New Zealand views. 1871-1876].

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908; Hamblett, Irene Beatrix, 1915-1995

Reference: E-400-f-008

Description: Shows several ships including the "City of Auckland", in Auckland Harbour, beside two wharves. Some dwellings are shown on the shore at left. In the field in the foreground a man watches the harbour, and two goats stand nearby. At the top of the page are decorations for two cornices. May have been painted from memory, from a previous sketch, or from a photo. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J.P.B. / 23.2.71; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and monochrome wash, 261 x 370 mm.

Date: 1853

By: King, Martha, 1803?-1897

Reference: A-100-009

Description: Two horses by a fence in the foreground, along with three goats to the right. The farmhouse and other buildings nestled in a cleared hollow, with bush behind the farm on low hills. Shaw was murdered by Wi Kingi's men in March 1860 (See Wells, B. The history of Taranaki. New Plymouth 1878 p. 194) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 235 x 293 mm