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Date: 14 Nov 1881

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/4-005131-G

Description: Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878

Reference: A-286-005

Description: Head and shoulders profile portrait of Maori woman with baby in red cap asleep on her back Hingatu's husband, Iwikau, is shown in another portrait in this sequence, A-286-004. See: Minson, Marian. Art as evidence : the emigma of the Nelson Maori portraits. In: Turnbull Library Record, v. 23, no.1, May 1990, p.47-67, for further information. Baptism likely to have been at Wakapuaka or in Nelson, by the Rev. Charles Reay. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title cf almost identical portrait in Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass., :Coates, I. As they appeared...". Library has file print Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gum arabic 257 x 192 mm Provenance: Part of a house sale in Boston, purchased by New York dealer, then by Auckland dealer

Date: 1884

By: Ashton, Julian Rossi, 1851-1942; Illustrated New Zealand News (Newspaper); Fergusson and Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: C-068-008

Description: A family playing on a beach. Five children are making a sandcastle in the foreground, while their mother and a sixth child rest under a parasol to the right at the base of a hill. At the top of the hill, cannon are visible, along with a lighthouse, and a steamship and a yacht can be seen in the water in the background. The scene has been previously identified as the Waitemata Harbour; however Ashton was an Australian artist so the area depicted could be Australian, or it could be an imaginary scene, relating to either Australia or New Zealand. Extended Title - From The illustrated New Zealand news. Supplement. April 1884 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 310 x 455 mm

Date: 1850

From: Punch. (London)

Reference: PUBL-0043-1850-01

Description: Two contrasting scenes. On the left ("At home i.e England), a ragged young woman with a child behind her is shivering in a snowy street near a pub advertising gin, while a top-hatted man is reaching out an admonishing hand. On the right ('Abroad' i.e. somewhere in the colonies) is a family that has emigrated to one of the colonies, an interior scene with two well-fed children and the parents at a table, with hams and other food hanging above and the mother holding a laughing baby above her head, while the smiling father watches as he peels a potato. Hens and part of a garden can be glimpsed through an open door to the left Extended Title - From: Punch. London. Volume and page unknown, 1850 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, ca 150 x 200 mm

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.

Date: Apr 1878

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/4-005088-G

Description: Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: [between 1856-1889]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/4-008419-G

Description: Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1848

From: Punch. (London)

Reference: PUBL-0043-1848-15

Description: Two contrasting scenes. On the left ("Here". i.e England), a vagrant family of parents and four barefooted ragged children, standing outside a building, with smokestacks in the background. There is a notice on the door of the building heading 'caution all vagrants'. On the right ('There' i.e. somewhere in the colonies) is a family that has emigrated to one of the colonies, an interior scene with well-fed children and the parents at a groaning table, with hams and a animal carcass hanging above and the mother just serving a dish, while the father carves. A dog is seated at the table and a baby is in a cradle on the floor. There is a palm tree or tree fern visible through the window to the outside, and a dark-skinned native is being served a dish by the oldest daughter of the family. Extended Title - From: Punch. London. Vol. 15, 8 July 1848, p. 26 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, ca 150 x 200 mm