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Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-082

Description: Title continues:`...pioneers of Port Nicholson and Port Cooper'. The essay covers verified facts about Clarkson's great-great-grandparents, their emigration to NZ, and the seafaring career of their son, Thomas. Some of the family arrived on the `Bolton' at Port Nicholson in 1840 and another group on the `Sir Edward Paget' at Port Cooper in 1856. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Includes photographs of Capt Thomas Nicolson Clarkson, 1890; Caroline Clarkson, 1898 Processing information: Name heading for Clarkson family removed following information from staff member, August 2023.

Date: 1880 - 1900

From: Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :[New Zealand views]. Louis Glaser, Leipzig. [ca 1890s]

Reference: E-278-q-078

Description: View looking down onto Lyttleton from a hill. Ships can be seen docked at the wharves and in the harbour. In the foreground to the left are two carts, one filled with soil [?]. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, 90 x 137 mm

Date: 1886, 1993

From: McNab, John, b 1855 : Diary and travel account

Reference: MS-Papers-6235-3

Description: Title continues:`...off for a holiday, or, Glimpses of Maoriland'. McNab recounts his journey with technical details about the transport he took, various points of interest such as lengths of tunnels, Windy Wellington, and he includes poems; he names and describes each geyser at the Pink and White Terraces, particularly notes churches visited and people he met. Relationship complexity - Photocopy of original volume at MS-Papers-6190 and microfilm at Micro-MS-0930 In Feb 1886 McNab left his home in Timaru for a tour of the North Island travelling by train, steamer, and coach from Christchurch, Wellington to Napier, Tauranga, the Pink and White Terraces, Auckland, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Masterton, back to Wellington, Lyttelton, and home to Timaru Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1868 - 1869

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Central Otago goldmining areas, 2 dated 1880]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-032-q-3-015

Description: View from the sea looking towards a large port on Banks Peninsula with eight vessels at anchor. The view appears to be of either Akaroa or Lyttelton The drawings numbers E-032-q-3-014-1 to E-032-q-3-019 were originally in the back pocket of the sketchbook numbered E-032-q-2 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 74 x 250 mm

Date: 1917

By: Fear, Robert, active 1988

Reference: MS-Papers-5784

Description: Cooper describes her early life in Greenwich, Kent and Camberwell, Surrey; the voyages of her father, Captain John Parsons, to New Zealand for the Canterbury Association with mention of John Godley, her voyage to Lyttelton in 1853 on the Minerva, life at Dampier Bay (now West Lyttelton) and in Christchurch as a governess, her marriage to Charles Edward Cooper in 1859 and her husband's job with the `Lyttelton Times'; later period living in Timaru and return to Christchurch in 1894; and at Sumner 1899. Many early Christchurch families are mentioned. Anne Elizabeth Parsons was the daughter of the first harbour master of Lyttelton Quantity: 1 folder(s) (17 leaves). Physical Description: Ms and typescript

Date: 1857

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-109-043-a

Description: View looking down from Mount Pleasant towards the township of Lyttelton, with streets, houses, churches, commercial buildings and wharves visible. Several ships moored in the stream, Quail Island can be seen to the right and the hills opposite (Diamond Harbour, Purau, Teddington). In the foreground are cabbage trees to the left and rocky outcrops to the right After Edmund Norman's lithograph: Lyttelton, Port Victoria, 1855, reference number B-051-006, which in its turn is based on an ink drawing in the Library's collection, Lyttelton Port Victoria, reference number B-009-008. A second very similar drawing with the same title is held at B-009-009 Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia. Opposite p.226 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted, 89 x 153 mm

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-386

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: A-048-033

Description: View of Lyttelton from across the harbour towards its south end, near Governor's Bay Attribution on grounds of style and internal evidence of the collection (A-048/027-051, B-064/021, C-064-003). Title and date from pencil inscription on verso Other Titles - From gully beyond Dampier's bay.... Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 177 x 252 mm

Date: 1865

From: Stiller, John 1945- : Documentation of historic pipe organs in New Zealand

Reference: 82-112-16

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1880s-1890s?]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-o-111

Description: Scenic views, mostly of New Zealand, some of Australia, and a few taken in Scotland. Photographs mostly taken by Frank Arnold Coxhead; two of those taken in Scotland were by George Washington Wilson (G.W.W.). The album also contains a large number of coloured postcards, coloured reproductions of paintings, and coloured scraps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover, with black spine and corners, 27 x 38.5 cm

Date: ca 1870s

Reference: PAColl-4511

Description: Photographs of Queen Street, Auckland; sailing ships moored in Auckland harbour; Government House, Auckland; the Auckland Supreme Court; Lyttelton, with a church in the middle distance and commercial buildings in the foreground; Dunedin Hospital (built in 1864); view looking down Princes Street towards the Exchange Building (built as the Post Office but never used as such) with business premises on either side of the street and a sign for a dentist's on the right; the Exchange Building with a horse and cart to the left; and the town reservoir, Dunedin. Photographer unidentified but they have similar captions below the image. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-002193, 002206, 002207, 002215, 002367, 002368, 002370, 002379, and 002838 Quantity: 9 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1932

By: Bruce, Alfred Selwyn, 1866-1936

Reference: qMS-0287

Description: Original manuscript for work published in 1936, with same title. Concerns Christchurch, Sumner and Lyttelton, and covers early history, city geography, old identities, pioneer women, St Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Publication - The Early days of Canterbury; a miscellaneous collection of interesting facts dealing with the settlement's first thirty years of colonisation Canterbury historian Quantity: 1 volume(s) (201 pages). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (34 cm; maroon roan)

Date: 9 Jul-26 Sep 1872

By: Coleman, Catherine Jane, 1842-1916

Reference: MS-Papers-5320

Description: The journal begins retrospectively a fortnight into the voyage. Coleman describes the passengers, conditions on the ship, the weather, activities on board and there are small illustrations, eg the Southern Cross and fish. She also describes her first visit ashore to Lyttelton. Accompanying material - Typed transcript arriving shortly, to be added to this collection. Incorporated 21 September 1995. Accompanying material - Donor has included biographical information about the Maile/Coleman families and additional information about the `St Leonards' Source of title - Title supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (40 pages, 19 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (In handmade booklet) Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms R C Belton, Waikanae and Ms J G Belton of Amberley, 1995 Coleman has made a few illustrations, mostly of fish

Date: 1889, ca1900, 1941

From: Lee, W C :Group outside hotel, 1889:Richard Seddon and party on board ship:Remains of torpedo boat in Lyttelton Harbour, 1941

By: Lee, W C, active 1990; Crawford, William Fitzgerald, 1844-1915

Reference: PAColl-1628-1

Description: Includes photo of hotel, probably in Gisborne district, taken by W F Crawford, and the remains of a torpedo boat, acquired during the "Russian scare" in Lyttelton Harbour Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Circa 1880s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Lomer, Albert, active 1862-1900; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-262

Description: Album of Australian photographs of Brisbane and Tasmania, and views of a range of sites in New Zealand, taken by various photographers circa 1880s. Names and places identified in the album are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: 1976 - 1870 - 1888

By: White, George W, active 1870s-1880s; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-030-a

Description: Shows the iron barque Halcione, off Lyttelton Heads. She is shown prior to 1888, when her rig was changed. No. 6 of a limited edition of 1 000 copies. Issued with text sheet. Extended Title - Avon Fine Prints, 1976. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithographs 376 x 575 mm, on sheet 545 x 708 mm

Date: 1851

By: Townsend, Mary, 1822-1869; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-039

Description: ATL has uncoloured copies of the lithograph on which this reproduction is based Extended Title - Published in: Four Illustrative views of the Canterbury settlement ... 1851 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 230 x 380 mm on sheet 430 x 556 mm

Date: 1857

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-109-043

Description: View looking down from Mount Pleasant towards the township of Lyttelton, with streets, houses, churches, commercial buildings and wharves visible. Several ships moored in the stream, Quail Island can be seen to the right and the hills opposite (Diamond Harbour, Purau, Teddington). In the foreground are cabbage trees to the left and rocky outcrops to the right After Edmund Norman's lithograph: Lyttelton, Port Victoria, 1855, reference number B-051-006, which in its turn is based on an ink drawing in the Library's collection, Lyttelton Port Victoria, reference number B-009-008. A second very similar drawing with the same title is held at B-009-009 Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia. Opposite p.226 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted, 89 x 153 mm

Date: 1860 - 1869

By: Mills, E, active 1860s

Reference: A-104-001-b

Description: Engraved notepaper heading, showing a view of Lyttelton Same as A-104-001 and 001-a Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on sheet 233 x 409 mm Provenance: Presented to the N.Z. Founders Society Dec 1964 to whom it had been given by A J C Woodord in 1938

Date: [Circa 1870s-1880s]

From: Sarney, H F (Mr), fl 1959 :Photograph albums of New Zealand scenes

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-065

Description: Album of landscapes taken by various photographers including Wheeler & Sons and the Burton Brothers, circa 1870s and 1880s. All the views are of New Zealand except the last sequence (p 33-37) showing Rio de Janeiro. Of particular interest are views of a wool wagon drawn by oxen, crossing a ford; a series showing an unidentified curved viaduct under construction (p 28-32); and a number showing a farm run by J F L Jetter at Te Puke when the land was partially cleared, with cattle grazing in paddocks, and Mr Jetter standing by a horse in a paddock in front of his home. Many of the images show uncleared land, with a deep ravine filled with native bush and tree ferns, and a stream running through (p 24-27). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover with embossed diamond shape pattern, bordered with gold; 32 x 38 cm