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Date: 1864 - 1965 - 1978

From: [Various artists] :Postcards of reproductions of original watercolours in the Hocken Library, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ. [1970s]

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-278-q-071

Description: Reproduction of Williams' original watercolour showing the Manukau Harbour and settlement at Onehunga, 1864. Woman on horseback in foreground (lower left), and several sailing ships in the harbour. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-lithograph, 95 x 152 mm

Date: ca 1898-1905

By: Parker, Daniel, active 1890-1911; Main, William, 1934-2023

Reference: PAColl-7431

Description: Photographs of Kamo (Whangarei), Rodney County and Coromandel, taken, probably in the 1900s, by Daniel P Parker of Coromandel. Includes views of the construction on a timber dam (probably in Coromandel), Coromandel Public Hospital, Kennedy Bay (Coromandel), a stream crossing between Opitonui and Coromandel, bush camps in the Coromadel district and a traffic bridge in Rodney County. Daniel P Parker is recorded in the Wise's Post Office directories as an engineer in Coromandel from 1902 to 1930. Between 1906 and 1911 he is also recorded as a photographer. Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1973 - 1892

From: [Various artists] :Three panoramas. Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1973.

By: Schmidt, William Shaw Diedrich, 1870-1968

Reference: D-001-014

Description: In the left foreground, a drive with horse and carriage, fenced with formal young plantings. In the centre and right foreground, partially cleared native bush, including flax, treeferns and cabbage trees. Rangitoto Island and North Head on the far left, the harbour in the centre and the city with its volcanic cones in the the background Issued with descriptive text sheet. First published as a coloured chromolithograph in the Christmas issue of the Weekly graphic, 1892 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 262 x 748 mm on sheet 427 x 890 mm

Date: ca 1880s

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/2-003202-G

Description: View of old Port Chalmers, looking across the harbour towards the township, with ships in the harbour, and the Methodist chapel and the Anglican church visible on the hill, centre background; the Presbyterian church at far right centre. Photographed by David Alexander De Maus. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Port Chalmers. 31. Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1881

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: C-079-070-a

Description: Original held by Auckland City Art Gallery. One of 6 prints advertising Cowan's paper. Printed on Ambassador Gloss Art 130gsm Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Art reproduction ; photolithograph, coloured 298 x 457 mm

Date: 1881

From: Keesing, Henry A, 1826?-1896 :[Landscapes, caricatures and portraits] / H A Keesing. 1879-[1880s]

Reference: A-278-002

Description: View of the Waitemata Harbour at night with a full moon. The lighthouse at Orakei is on the right. Land and islands can be seen in the distance. In the left foreground is a partial view of a wharf with a mast head just visible beneath. In the centre foreground is a yacht and further away is a sailing ship showing its night light. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 150 x 214 mm

Date: 1843

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-016/017

Description: An extensive view from a high point over fenced and partially cleared land, with a house and shed, and a stream to the right, the Waitemata Harbour in the background. Possibly the Tamaki area Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink 137 x 310 mm Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's auction, London, 1966

Date: 1971 - 1862

By: Stack, Frederick Rice, -1873; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: B-076-029-c

Description: Title from accompanying text-sheet Reproduced by courtesy of the Auckland Public Libraries Other Titles - Views in the Province of Auckland, 1862 Extended Title - Published in Stack, F R. Views in the Province of Auckland, London, [1862 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 200 x 403 mm on sheets 360 x 530 mm

Date: 1894

Reference: Eph-B-DRAMA-1894

Description: Includes: Auckland University College Dramatic Club. "The rivals", by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Abbott's Opera House. 17 December 1894. Programme (silk). Observer Zinco [?] Print. Walter Bentley in "Money", by Bulwer Lytton. Theatre Royal (Invercargill?). 27 July 1894; and, "The silver king" (28 July); 30 July farewell and benefit for Mr Walter Bentley. Flier. [Printed by] Southland Times Co. Frank Thornton and Chas Arnold's New English Comedy Company in "Charley's Aunt", with Mr Frank Thornton as "Babs" (Lord Fancourt Babberly). Theatre Royal Christchurch. 9 June 1894. Programme ("The bulletin") Frank Thornton and Chas Arnold's New English Comedy Company in "The private secretary" (with Mr Frank Thornton as the Rev Robert Spalding). Theatre Royal Christchurch. 20-21 June 1894. Programme ("The bulletin"). Quantity: 4 programmes / fliers. Physical Description: Letterpress items, varying sizes up to quarto. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Elizabeth Boag in 1984.

Date: 1839 - 1841 - 1846 - 1848

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Page, George Hyde, 1823-1908; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-003-029-a/040-a

Description: Set of looseleaf offprints originally published as a set of 12 prints in "New Zealand calendar 1974". Contents: Goldmining at the Thames [i.e. Goldmining at Thames] / J.B.C. Hoyte. - Nelson Haven, 1841 / Charles Heaphy. - The Pink Terraces, 1874 [i.e. The White Terraces, 1888 (detail)] / C.D. Barraud. - St Mark's Church, Remuera [i.e. S. Mark's, Remuera & Mt Eden, 1859] / Rev. John Kinder. - The Barracks, Napier / C.D. Barraud. - Auckland, 1848 [i.e. Auckland, New Zealand, 1848] / Lt. Gen. G.H. Page. - The Aglionby or Matukituki Valley [i.e. In the Aglionby or Matukituki Valley, looking into the Otapawa, 20th Feb. [1846]] / Sir William Fox. - In Otira Gorge, 1864 [i.e. Otira Gorge, 1864?] / Sir William Fox. - Dunedin, Otago, 1861 [i.e. Part of the town and harbour of Dunedin, Otago, N.Z. [1861?]] / W.S. Hatton. - Kahu Kahu, Hokianga River [i.e. View of the Kahu-Kahu Hokianga River [December] 1839] / Charles Heaphy. - Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860 [i.e. Mount Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860] / Lt. Gen. C.E. Gold. - Bream Head, Whangarei / Charles Heaphy. Title from cover of calendar. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title and artist]; Recto - bottom left - Alexander Turnbull Library, / Wellington, N.Z.; Recto - bottom right - A.R. Shearer, Government Printer, / Wellington, N.Z., 1973. Quantity: 24 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 24 photolithographs, (2 sets of 12), variously sized from 157 x 238 mm, to 240 x 304 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright in the 1970s.

Date: 1863

From: Artist unknown :Watercolours of New Zealand during the Waikato War of 1863 and on the voyage back to England, 1864.

Reference: A-161-038

Description: Pohutukawa flowering in the foreground of a view probably taken from the garden of Judge William Martin, Judges Bay. The view takes in North Head and Rangitoto Island in the background. Purchased with A-161-032/041. All appear to be by the same hand. Inscriptions: Verso - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 177 x 272 mm

Date: 1884

From: Smith, Maurice Crompton, 1864-1953 :[Sketchbooks] 1883-1899, 1904-1943.

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: E-300-q-1-005

Description: Native forest on Great Barrier Island Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 138 x 225 mm

Date: 1987 - 1895 - 1905

From: [Pioneer shelter series] [picture] - Christchurch, N Z, Gateway Pictures, [1987?]

By: Gateway Pictures

Reference: B-123-032

Description: Shows a group of six children outside a wooden hut with wooden roof and chimney. There are two pigs in the foreground, and a cat at the far left. Pukapuka is in the Rodney District in the Auckland Region. Accompanied by an explanatory sheet. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, sepia, 310 x 450 mm

Date: 1865-1911

By: Northwood Brothers (Firm); Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6996

Description: A printed christmas message from the headmaster, Frederick Knapp, to the pupils of Central Girls' College, Nelson 1907; carts on Commerce Street, Kaitaia, one passing the Kaitaia Hotel ca 1890s; newspaper photograph of early Nelson settlers W H Cole and M P Hargreaves in 1924 taken by Tyree; two of bullock teams in Kaitaia; Devonport and Northcote ferry terminal in Auckland ca 1911; girls of Nelson College for Girls with L Sheat on the left of the second row with Muriel Bell next to her in 1914; Awanui looking towards the wharf ca 1914 by Northwood Bros; Marsland Hill Memorial to the men who died in the New Zealand Wars in New Plymouth designed and erected by W Parkinson & Co, Auckland; seated portrait of Thomas Thompson 1865; a group of gum diggers outside Tynan's gum store in Waihopo ca 1890s; a group of Maori adults and children on an outing by bullock team, one man holding a concertina ca 1890s; a group of twelve Austrian gum diggers some with shovels and one holding a cat ca 1890s; Elizabeth Levestam and her four sons ca 1900; three of the camp site set up by a surveying party in the Victoria Valley ca 1890; the school at Richmond with the children lined up in the yard ca 1900s; the Anglican church at Richmond 1910; Headingly, the home of Thomas Thompson with Mrs Thompson and her eldest son in front of it 1911; a carriage outside a house holding about 12 people; John Sheat ca 1880; Alfred Sheat ca 1880; and Victoria Street, Hamilton showing a number of shops and businesses and some advertising hoardings on the left 1908. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-007700 and 007708 Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original negative(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Albumen prints and silver gelatin prints

Date: 1844 - 1890

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Star Steam Printing Company; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927; Keesing, G S (Mr), active 1960s

Reference: D-001-009-a

Description: Extensive view of a plain with volcanic cones in the background, including Mount Hobson and Mount Eden, showing a feast given by Waikato Chiefs in 1844, attended by about 4000 Maori and many Pakeha. A 400 yard-long shed is in the background and Governor Fitzroy is shown visiting the scene with many other Pakeha on 11 May 1844. Features and incidents are numbered and described below the work. A haka is being performed on the right for Fitzroy, Sheppard (the colonial Treasurer) and William Swainson (the Attorney General). Tribal groups are named as Ngatihaua, Ngatikoroki, Ngatimahuta, Ngatiwhatua, Ngatikoura and Ngatiruru and the plain is covered with large numbers of people, the majority Maori. A lithograph presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890, which is derived from an earlier lithograph published by Samuel Augustus Tegg in 1845, which in turn is after an original watercolour of the event made in 1844 by J. J. Merrett in the Hocken Library. This copy lacks a printed inscription on the recto of copy D-001-009 "Presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890" Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph in two tints 220 x 840 mm on sheet 285 x 890 mm Provenance: Donation: G S Keesing

Date: 1860 - 1880

From: Artist unknown :Sir William Martin's, Taurarua [1880s?] [And - Mount Egmont from New Plymouth with a settler's homestead, fences and cleared land. 1880s?]

Reference: A-090-020-1

Description: View from below a substantial house with several wings, single-storied, through an established garden. Other Titles - Judges Bay, Auckland Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in (possibly) the artist's hand with "Taurarua [Auckland]" added in another hand. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper glued to tan sketchbook page 128 x 194 mm on sheet 192 x 273 mm

Date: 1885, [ca June 1946]

By: Shepherd, R (Mr), active 1983

Reference: PA-Group-00453

Description: Collection comprises: Photograph of Colonial Ammunition Company, Mount Eden, Auckland, taken 1885 by an unidentified photographer Aerial photograph of Mount Eden, Auckland, showing Henderson & Pollard Ltd and the Colonial Ammunition Company, taken ca June 1946 by Whites Aviation Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: 1/2-136066 is a copy negative created from print at PAColl-0268..

Date: 1853 - 1858

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-144-006

Description: A view of the north side of St Paul's Church, Parnell, a Gothic revival building. There is a large fenced grave in the left foreground Copy of an ink drawing in Auckland Museum The artist's father-in-law, Rev J F Churton, was the minister at St Paul's until his death in 1853 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of drawing 105 x 153 mm

Date: 1889 - 1890

From: [Music programmes and fliers for concerts in 1889].

By: W McCullough (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-1889-01

Description: Programme for concert. The performers included: Mr Payne (tenor), Miss Lizzie Payne (soprano, violin and piano), Miss Nellie Payne (soprano, violin, piano), Miss Maud Payne (contralto, violin, piano), Mr W J Payne (baritone and flute), Ralph Steele (baritone and piano). Dated around 1889-1890, from the company's first NZ tour of May 1889 to March 1890. The artists listed include Miss Nellie Payne and her father Mr Payne. Nellie died of consumption in June 1891 and Mr Payne died in 1892. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on folded programme.. Physical Description: Letterpress, on flier, 221 x 140 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Spratt, Henry Thomas, 1827-1908; Smith, Barry, active 1990s

Reference: E-572

Description: Includes sketches of scenes in Taranaki, Auckland, Tauranga, Rotorua, and Wairoa. Artist attributed by inscription inside front cover. Artist assumed to be Dr Henry Thomas Spratt, rather than his son Henry Howell Spratt. See Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Volume 1, Wellington, page 884. Boxed with two sketchbooks by Jock McEwen. There is no connection with this sketchbook and the Jock McEwen sketchbooks Inscriptions: Album page - [Inside front cover]: Dr Spratt / Greytown W. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Sketchbook of 10 leaves, interleaved with tissue, size 184 x 246 mm. Provenance: Donated by Barry Smith in 1999. Donor is descendant of William Mein Smith.