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Date: 1849 - 1855

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Taranaki Museum; New Plymouth Public Library

Reference: A-284-031/035

Description: Show Taranaki scenes: Interior of George Curtis' house, Omata; Exterior of George Curtis' house, Omata; Alpha flourmill, Huatoki Valley and Victoria Road from Marsland Hill, New Plymouth; Henui (Weekstown) from the coastal dunes; Unidentified New Plymouth outskirts (possibly now Tukapa St / Westown). Attribution based on style. George Curtis arrived in New Plymouth in 1849 on the 'Pekin'. "As soon as a raupo house could be erected by the Maoris at Omata, George Curtis and his family went to live on his farm". (NZ Biogs, 1967, vol. 1, p. 53). Supplied titles. Inscriptions: Unsigned and undated.; Recto - beneath image - [Titles as supplied by donor]. Quantity: 5 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies, black and white, varying sizes. Provenance: Original drawings in New Plymouth Public Library tipped into a book, until 1992, then transferred to Taranaki Museum.

Date: 1850

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-043-1

Description: Shows Mount Egmont in the distance with houses, a seated cow in a paddock and a man standing to the right. There is also a low flat structure on legs in the centre. 'Hua' may be an abbreviation for Huatoki Stream. Other Titles - Huatoki Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 145 x 229 mm

Date: 1842 - 1857

By: Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913

Reference: A-256-040-a

Description: Sheep and a cow on fenced pasture in the foreground, a cottage surrounded by bush and cultivated garden in the centre, hills and Mount Taranaki in the background. In the style of New Plymouth artist George Channing Gilbert and possibly from an original drawing by him. Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Opposite p. 209. Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted 90 x 154 mm

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-068-2

Description: A broad view of New Plymouth in 1882 showing the Barracks, Mt Egmont and landing place for surf boats Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - New Plymouth Taranaki - Barracks - Mt Egmont - Landing place for surf boats. 16/9/82. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 64 x 155 mm

Date: 1880s

From: Three albums of New Zealand views

Reference: PA1-o-983

Description: Views of New Zealand, comprising Mt Egmont from New Plymouth Domain, Napier, bullock team hauling wool at Cheviot, Wellington, Manawatu Gorge bridge, Manawatu Gorge, Rimutaka railway, Mount Alexander, Otira Gorge, Lyttelton breakwater, Armagh Street bridge in Christchurch, and Christchurch Cathedral. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1870s - 1880s

From: Crawford family :Photographs of James Coutts Crawford and family

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920

Reference: PA1-q-059

Description: Album of views of New Zealand and Europe. The New Zealand views were mostly taken by James Bragge, during the 1870s and 1880s, and were chiefly of the Wellington Region. One loose photograph inserted in the album shows the laying of the foundation stone at Scots College, Wellington, by Mr. Aitken, in April 1918. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, 37.5 x 29.2 mm

Date: ca 1860-1927

By: Heine, Lynette Sibyl, active 1987-1996; Beauchamp, J, active 1890s; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Mirrielees (Firm); Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers); Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: PAColl-0722

Description: Mounted photograph and three loose prints of Wellington College both before and after 1909 when the tower was removed; the junction of Adelaide Road and Riddiford Street in Newtown; three postcards from the Evening Post "Old Wellington" series showing Cuba Street ca 1870 looking both north and south, the Supreme Court on Lambton Quay, and the waterfront ca 1860; the new mountain house at Mount Egmont ca 1927; Mount Sefton and the Footstool from the Hooker River, Southern Alps; Ocean Beach, Mount Maunganui viewed from the Mount; Takapau encampment 1914 showing rows of tents in the distance; two cars on a ferry over the Buller River; and Cromwell ca 1900 showing the old bridge over the Clutha River. Quantity: 10 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Willis, Archibald Dudingston (Firm) :N. Z. Christmas cards. - Wanganui ; A.D. Willis [1886 or later].

Reference: E-068-004

Description: View looking across the lake in the Pukekura Gardens towards Mount Taranaki and its foothills. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 105 x 144 mm on album page ca 137 x 180 mm

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Halcombe, Edith Stanway (Swainson) 1844-1903 :Sketchbook [1890s?]

Reference: E-335-q-016/017

Description: The artist's home, a single-storey house amongst bush, with Mount Taranaki in the background There are faint outlines of hills at right-angles sketched in at the left end of p. 12 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 164 x 456 mm

Date: [Circa 1880s]

By: Phillips-Turner, Roland Glyndwr, 1902-1988; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: PA1-f-077

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken circa 1880s by various photographers including James Bragge and Josiah Martin. Photographs of the Manawatu Gorge were taken by James Bragge, some of which show the horse and carriage in which Bragge carried his equipment. There is one photograph of English explorer and adventurer Captain Speedy who spent many years in Abyssinia and other parts of Africa, and who came to New Zealand in 1864, where he fought with the Waikato Militia before returning overseas. He is shown wearing Abyssinian costume (p 15). Some photographs relate to the Haultain family, with a view of St John's College, of which Thomas Minet Haultain was a governor, anda view of Colonel Haultain and his family at their home in St Stephen's Avenue, Parnell, Auckland Inscriptions: Album page - "Frances Aplin Haultain, 14, August 1886"; Album page - "To I & E Phillips Turner, Easter 1905" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, brown leather corners and spine; 31 x 42 cm

Date: 1865

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[New Zealand sketches, 1864-1866]

Reference: B-045-056/057

Description: Shows men on horseback ranging of hillside at left foreground, a stand of bush in right foreground, overlooking a plain, with Mount Taranaki in centre distance. Title found on page [55] of diary. Previously given the title ["Military on horses. Taranaki. Mt Egmont in background. 1864-1866]. See similar view, painted 15 March 1865, at E-510-052/053. Other Titles - Military on horses. Taranaki. Mount Egmont. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - [Title]; Verso - bottom right - Major Brooke R.E.; Capt Betty R.A., Lt Campbell R.A.; Sergt Phillips, R.A. and self According to Williams' diary notes for 14 March (page 45), the army moved to Pa Manutahi on that day, and on 17 March on page [50], "in the afternoon rode out with Betty, Brooke, Campbell and Sergt Phillips to a point a mile in advance of the outposts and got a sketch looking towards Mt Egmont". Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 138 x 464 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888; Day & Son (Firm); Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-040-b

Description: Subject: View from sea towards Mt Egmont, shows Marsland Hill garrison, and proposed blockhouses. Reproduction of tinted lithograph published in: British Command Paper 2798, 1861 (Ellis 580; loose copy at B-051/15) ; from watercolour by John Gully, now held by National Archives. Edition 642/750 Same as C-040 & a Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, col., image 280 x 430 mm on sheet 440 x 560 mm + 1 text-sheet (210 mm)

Date: 1847

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-062

Description: Part of a fence in the left foreground with a view across fern, bush and cleared and cultivated land towards Mount Taranaki and its foothills. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - title & date in ink. Also, where appropriate, pencil notes indicating fern, cultivated, wood and 2000 to indicate the height of one hill in feet. The no. 51 is on the top right of the page, and 'Obs [i.e. observations?] seen at Kaiehihi' [?] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 163 x 145 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

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-049-012/014

Description: Three engravings from watercolours by S. C. Brees, Principal Surveyor to the New Zealand Company in Wellington, 1842-1845. They show a pa in the foreground close to Porirua Harbour, with a view of the harbour and hills, a European man with swag, walking stick and dog in the foreground; New Plymouth looking south along the coastline with Mount Taranaki and the Sugar Loaf rocks in the background, cows in the foreground and the houses of the town in the middle distance; two buildings of Joseph Thom's whaling station, with washing hanging up, barrels in the foreground. Other Titles - Porirua. Taranaki Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on sheet 365 x 261

Date: 1890 - 1900

From: Franklyn, F :[Drawings of New Zealand scenes] / F Franklyn [ca 1900?]

Reference: A-141-021

Description: The snowy peak of Mount Egmont seen from the sea close to shore, with houses, fences and church spires visible, probably part of New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 130 x 240 mm

Date: 1847

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: A-229-039

Description: A view across rolling countryside towards a central house and several other peripheral houses with a background of bush. Two conical tents and a fenced area are in the right foreground and a dead tree trunk is in the centre foreground. Part of the side of Mt Taranaki rises up to the right of the view. Title from verso Other Titles - New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on card 177 x 261 mm Provenance: Crawford family, Wormit, Fife, Scotland

Date: 1847 - 1860

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-038

Description: Shows Pukaka pa on Marsland hill, Mt Egmont, St Mary's Church and Huatoki stream (identified and dated by M. Alington, 26/5/81). Title from verso Crawford visited Taranaki in 1847, but may have visited later as well Other Titles - New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on card 176 x 260 mm

Date: 1880

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-226-021

Description: Looking south along the coastline, with smow-clad Mount Taranaki in the background, the sea cliffs in the foreground. The view is framed by a tall tree on the right. A fence runs along the foreground Inscriptions: Recto - bears a printed label: Prepared millboard. Windsor and Newton Limited ... Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on millboard 252 x 355 mm

Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-013

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by various photographers including the Burton Brothers, Tyree Brothers, James Ring, Josiah Martin, and Henry Thomas Lock. Includes images of flooding in Blenheim, and a wire cable tram across the Taramakau River (West Coast). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red cloth bound folio album, 415 x 300 mm

Date: 1865 - 1885

From: William Brown & Co. :[Letterheads illustrative of Taranaki] / Wm Brown & Co. sc. - [1870s?] (London ; Wm Brown & Co.).

By: William Brown & Company; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-256-044

Description: The Waiwhakaiho Bridge (also known as Henui Bridge) in the middle distance with Mount Taranaki in the background. Based on an original by Edward Arthur Williams The Williams original watercolour is in the Library's collection at E-342 Other Titles - Waiwhakaiho Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 88 x 124 mm