Places

Date: 1870 - 1898

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook

By: Walrond, R A, active 1890s

Reference: E-208-q-061-1

Description: Newspaper cutting of a photograph showing Mount Eden in the distance with a lake (Western Springs?) in the foreground surrounded by cabbage trees, etc. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 145 x 180 mm

Date: [ca 1870s-1880s]

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-11

Description: View from Mount Eden looking south over Epsom towards Mount Hobson and beyond. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril in 1870s-1880s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 23.5 x 35 cm

Date: [Circa 1870s]

By: Arnoux, Hippolyte, active 1860s-1880s

Reference: PA1-f-047

Description: Photographs taken in the 1870s, covering a wide range of places, photographers mostly unidentified, and most images with no captions. The first group were taken in an around the Mediterranean, including Gibraltar, but particularly focussing on the Suez Canal. The sequence includes a copy of a montage produced by Hippolyte Arnoux, showing a map of the route of the canal, surrounded by photographs of canal designer Ferdinand de Lesseps and various sites along the route. Other images in this sequence were probably taken by Arnoux who was working in Egypt during this period. The next group of images travel via India (?), to Australia. Views of Melbourne include Government House, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Houses of Parliament, the Scots' Church (in Collins Street), the Post Office, the Town Hall, and the Public Library. Following these is a panorama of Sydney, and views of Tasmania. The New Zealand scenes start with a panorama of Auckland, the Mount Eden residence of G.B. (?, pencilled name undeciphered), and the Auckland Domain). Images further south include Ohinemutu; the Pink and White Terraces; Napier; the Manawatu Gorge; Wellington (with the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel visible in the foreground); Nelson; the wreck of the ship Otago, at Chasland's Mistake; and a number of views in the Dunedin area. The last sequence shows parts of Canada, including the Rockies, Montreal and the Niagara Falls. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark brown leather cover, with decorations stamped in gold; 28 x 40 cm

Date: 1870 - 1879

From: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850?-1936? :[Sketchbook; English and New Zealand scenes, with Tristan da Cunha, 1870s]

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: E-044-q-1-028

Description: Three views of Auckland on one page, one above the other. The top view, titled Mt Eden, Auckland looks across water to houses along the shoreline, with Mount Eden on the skyline. The central view is of the shoreline with wharves. The lowest view is also across water, with houses on the hills, (possibly Parnell) and two of Auckland's volcanic cones in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour in album, page size 228 x 296 mm

Date: 1870 - 1890

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Australasian views [New Zealand scenes] [ca 1880]

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908

Reference: E-052-q-015

Description: Shows Mount Eden. The Cabbage Tree Swamp was on the site of present-day Eden Park. Image published as a greetings card by the Library in the 1970s The view may be of Mount Albert (Auckland), rather than Mount Eden. The image features in Scott, Dick. Old Mount Albert (1963) as showing Mount Albert Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white on paper 137 x 183 mm mounted into sketchbook Provenance: Previously part of Alexander Turnbull's collection. The inside of the cover bears his bookplate and the luxurious binding is of the type he arranged.

Date: 1870 - 1879

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935; Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965; Forbes, Josephine Knyvett, 1917-2005

Reference: E-044-q-1

Description: Views of Yorkshire, Tristan da Cunha, Banks Peninsula, Governor's Bay, Lyttelton, Wellington, Patea, Hawera, Mt Egmont, Mt Eden, Auckland Harbour, New Plymouth, Queen Street (Auckland), Rotorua and Lake Rotoiti, Tauranga and Mt Maunganui, Ohinemutu, the White Terraces, Taupo, Napier and Mokoia Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 50 pages, ¼ leather, blue buckram boards, page size 225 x 290 mm