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Date: Between 1861-1865

From: Urquhart album

By: Temple, William, 1833-1919

Reference: PA1-q-250-54

Description: The camp of the 65th Regiment near Drury, Auckland. The officers mess tent is on the extreme left. Photograph taken by William Temple, circa 1861. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Camp of 65th Regt near Drury NZ; Album page - beneath image - Officers mess Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 12.9 x 20.2 cm, with trimmed corners, on album page 27.1 x 21.7 cm

Date: Between 1860-1865

From: Urquhart album

Reference: PA1-q-250-57-2

Description: Camp of Imperial forces, at Otahuhu, showing the tents of the 70th, 14th, 40th and 12th regiments. Photograph taken between 1860-1865 by an unknown photographer. Another print of this image is at PA1-q-250-28 Inscriptions: Album page - bottom centre - Camp at Otahuhu near Auckland Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.7 x 18.6 cm, mounted on album page 27.1 x 21.7 cm

Date: 1861 - 1863

By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906

Reference: B-064-025/026

Description: Recto shows group of circular tents with soldiers beside most of them. More permanent buildings include the Commisariat store house, and the Government Pier building. Verso shows bushy island with native huts and canoes. Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil mounted on paper 304 x 392 mm. Provenance: Purchased at auction at Sotheby's, London, in 1988.

Date: ca 1860s

From: Urquhart album

Reference: PA1-q-250-22

Description: Camp for Imperial forces at Otahuhu, Auckland, circa 1860s. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Part of the Camp. Otahuhu. New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15 x 18.6 cm, mounted on album page 27.1 x 21.7 cm

Date: [Circa 1860s]

From: Marvin, W G (Captain) :Marvin family photographs

By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Marvin, William, 1834-1915

Reference: PA1-q-320

Description: Album of photographs taken during the 1860s by various photographers. All the images are related to Colonel William Marvin (1834-1915) who came to New Zealand circa 1858 and was possibly attached to the 70th Regiment of Foot during the New Zealand wars. There are many photographs relating to military activity, including military working parties at Fort Britomart; military and naval camps at Maungatawhiri Creek, Queen's Redoubt, Drury, Ngaruawahia and Albert Barracks; a monument to the 43rd Regiment at Gate Pa near Tauranga; Potatau's tomb with a sentry guarding it; and the Auckland cemetery. Many of the images are of Auckland, including `Hale's Boarding House, where I first slept in N.Z.'; `The Masonic Hotel where I was made a mason in 1861'; `My last batchelor home near Constitution Hill green, next door to the Dacres'; `St. Mary's where I was married 4th August 1862'; a long sequence showing Queen Street from different angles in 1866'; and various homes that he knew, including Heaphy's house in St George's Bay, Dillon Bell's House in Parnell, and `Little Sutton' in St. George's Bay. Other images of interest include a mining camp at Coromandel; the tree on which Volkner was hanged, with a seated group of Maori beside a whare; a Maori church that is completely thatched, in the Waikato; and two views of the sailing ship Ida Ziegler [i.e. Zeigler] `In which we returned from N.Z. round Cape Horn, 29th Jany to 1st May 1867'. Photographs in England are all related to Tipner Barracks near Portsmouth, and Malpas Cemetery, Newport Monmouthshire. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with albumen prints. Label attached to cover `Pictures of N.Z. (N. Island) & Tipner with captions by Col. Marvin'. Textured black cover; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1871 - 1968

By: Fletcher, R S, active 1936; Frissell, Edward, active 1860s-1870s; Auckland Public Library

Reference: MapColl-832.1291gmbd/1871(1968)/Acc.36837

Description: Survey plan showing R. S. Fletcher's plan of Fort Britomart using the survey notes of G. Frissell in relation to the present street system. Shows Fort Britomart as at 1871 including the military barracks and guns and emplacements, Offical and Commercial Bays, St. Paul's Church, Customhouse and Jermyn Streets and Emily Place as at 1871. The streets as at 1968 are overlayed onto the 1871 map, including Shortland, Princes, and Customs, as well as Anzac Ave. Compiled by R.S. Fletcher M.Sc. - Railways Department, Auckland, Oct 1968. Note on map indicates that any error of position does not exceed about a yard. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale [ca. 1:600], 69 x 49 cm.

Date: ca 1860s

From: Urquhart album

Reference: PA1-q-250-23-2

Description: Mess tents at a camp for the 12th and 40th Regiments of the Imperial forces, Otahuhu, Auckland, circa 1860s. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - 12th and 40th mess tents. Otahuhu. N Z Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 10.9 x 14.5 cm, with rounded corners, mounted on album page 27.1 x 21.7 cm Processing information: Record was updated on 15 August 2022 to allow the attached digital surrogate to be purchasable.

Date: 1864

From: Marvin, W G (Captain) :Marvin family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-320-27-2

Description: View of Queen's Redoubt and grouped tents of a military camp at Pokeno, south of Auckland, seen across lush pastureland. In the foreground is a thick patch of bracken fern and scrub. In the distance, beyond the camp and redoubt, can be seen bush covered hills. Photographed by Daniel Manders Beere in 1864 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 17.4 x 10.5 cm, on album page 28.7 x 22.8 cm

Date: 1871 - 1936

By: Fletcher, R S, active 1936

Reference: MapColl-832.1291/1871/Acc.6954

Description: Survey plan of the Auckland Albert Barracks, showing the boundaries of the barracks extending out to what later became Wellesley St, Kitchener St, Symonds St, Princes St and Alfred St. The barracks are enclosed by a stone wall (annotated note indicates part of the wall still in existence). Within the barracks is the armoury, a school, sergeant's quarters, military prison, Major Tisdall's house, the 'Dead House', large garden, the magazine, store and drill shed. Shows the Military Road, next to Government grounds, on what became Princes St. The 'Northern Club' is indicated on the corner of Waterloo Rd. Indicates building materials. Compiled by R.S. Fletcher, M.Sc. for the Lands Department, Auckland, 1936. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale [ca. 1:2 000], 90 x 70 cm.

Date: 1863

By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906

Reference: B-061-020

Description: Shows H.M.S. Harrier at a wharf on the Manukau Harbour, military personnel and tents, a Union Jack on a flagpole, and the opposite bank of the river in the distance. Signed: H.A.S. Title from accompanying caption. Other Titles - Harrier Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 245 mm

Date: 1963

From: Marvin, W G (Captain) :Marvin family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-320-27-1

Description: View of the grouped tents of a military camp at Drury, Auckland, seen across lush pastureland. In the foreground is a thick patch of bracken fern, and in the distance, beyond the camp, a group of trees. Photographed by Daniel Manders Beere in 1863. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 16.3 x 10.3 cm, on album page 28.7 x 22,8 cm

Date: 1860

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: A-183-005

Description: An extensive view of military tents on a plain, with a volcanic hill to the left Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Signed: J. C. Hoyte Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink & wash with gum Arabic, 142 x 232 mm

Date: 1863

By: Martin, Albin, 1812?-1888

Reference: A-160-002

Description: An extensive view over a plain, with military tents and other structures in the distance near a clump of trees. Inscriptions: Recto - title in ink on label below work Drury, a military base in 1863-1864, is in the Auckland Region, but close to the Waikato Region, and acted as a base camp for the war in Waikato. The camp was known as General Cameron camp Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 190 x 120 mm

Date: [186-]

From: Haines, Bernard Gilpin, b 1842 :Photographs compiled while on active service with the 18th Royal Irish Regiment during the New Zealand Wars

Reference: PA1-f-027-56-2

Description: View of a military camp at Drury, south of Auckland, showing houses and tents, and a creek in the foreground. Photograph taken in the 1860s by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Camp Drury 22 Miles from Auckland Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 22 x 13.4 cm, mounted on album page 37.8 x 26.6 cm

Date: Between 1860-1865

From: Urquhart album

Reference: PA1-q-250-28

Description: Camp of Imperial forces, at Otahuhu, showing the tents of the 70th, 14th, 40th and 12th regiments. Photographed between 1860-1865. Photographer unidentified. Another print of this image is at PA1-q-250-57-2 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Military camp, Otahuhu; Album page - beneath image - Camp at Otahuhu. N.Z.; beneath image - [From left to right across bottom of image] 70th Regt., 14th Regt., 40th Regt., 12th Regt. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.7 x 18.6 cm, mounted on album page 27.1 x 21.7 cm Processing information: Record was updated on 15 August 2022 to allow the attached digital surrogate to be purchasable.

Date: Between 1861-1865

From: Urquhart album

By: Temple, William, 1833-1919

Reference: PA1-q-250-45

Description: The camp of the 65th Regiment near Drury, Auckland. The officers mess tent is at the extreme left background. A group of soldiers from the regiment are breaking stones for road construction in the left foreground, with the sergeant in charge standing in the centre foreground, alongside a shed used for shelter in hot weather. Photograph taken by William Temple, circa 1861-1865. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Camp of 65th Regt. near Drury. N.Z.; bottom left - Mess tent; bottom left - 65th men stone breaking; bottom centre - Sergt in charge; bottom right - Shed for hot weather; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - W.Temple R A Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15.8 x 21.1 cm, with trimmed corners, mounted on album page 27.1 x 21.7 cm Processing information: Record was updated on 15 August 2022 to allow the attached digital surrogate to be purchasable.

Date: 1863 - 1865

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-110

Description: Photograph taken from across the river to the camp at Otahuhu with the mess marquee, the photograph owner's tent, and the tents of the 14th, 40th and 70th Regiments indicated. Soldiers can be seen standing in front of two wooden shelters in the middle ground. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Sepia photograph 142 x 189 mm tipped into album

Date: 1863

From: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906 :First encampment at Drury. 17 July 1863. Naval encampment of landing party from HMS Harrier... 1863; and (on verso) Nukulau Island, Fiji Islands. 1861..

By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906

Reference: B-064-025

Description: Shows group of circular tents with soldiers beside most of them. More permanent buildings include the Commisariat store house, and the Government Pier building. Drury was an advanced base for military operations from 1863-64. Supplies and munitions were shipped by cutters from Onehunga across the Manukau Harbour up the Drury Inlet. The 17th of July 1863 was the day of two actions of the Waikato War, one with General Cameron at Koheroa Ranges, the second the ambush at Martin's Farm, near Drury. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - First Encampment at Drury - 17 July 1863 / Naval Brigade Encampment ; Govt Pier at Drury; Military Store Tents, Commissariat / Store House; Recto - beneath image - Naval encampment of landing Party from "HMS Harrier" at Drury. New Zealand / on 17 July 1863 - Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 188 x 317 mm, mounted on paper 304 x 392 mm.

Date: 1863 - 1864

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-104

Description: A circular view of a military camp with a church in the background, a flag in the right foreground and several soldiers walking about. There is a defensive earth wall around the church and heavily bushed hills beyond it. Other Titles - New Zealand The Church of St Bride's at Mauku was one of Auckland's "Selwyn churches" (built by Bishop Selwyn) built in 1859 and named for London's St Bride's in Fleet Street. The church was fortified and loopholed for rifles during 1863 to 1864. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 196 mm (diameter)

Date: 1863 - 1922

By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962; Norbury, G W, active 1863

Reference: A-389-017

Description: Shows a view, after a sketch by G. Norbury in 1863, of a fortified St Bride's Church, Mauku, surrounded by a tent encampment. The camp was the right wing of the Movable Column, generally known as the Flying Column, commanded by Colonel Marmaduke Nixon, and consisting of Imperial troops and Militia. In this scene they are engaged in patrol duty. A farmer passes through the encampment leading four oxen pulling a cart. The Flying Column flag flies to the right of the church, bearing the initials 'F' and 'C'. A number of soldiers stand guard The Church of St Bride's at Mauku was one of Auckland's 'Selwyn churches' (built by Bishop Selwyn) built in 1859 and named for London's St Bride's in Fleet Street. The church was fortified and loopholed for rifles during 1863 to 1864. Extended Title - Reproduced in: Cowan, James. The New Zealand wars: a history of the Maori campaigns and the pioneering period. Vol.1: 1845-1864. Chapter 32. The Titi Hill fight, 1863 (Wellington: R E Owen, 1955) Inscriptions: Verso - top right - Photographed [stamp in capital letters]; Verso - top centre - Whole page [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white, 180 x 250 mm on sheet 225 x 317 mm Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts.