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Hawcridge, Robert H 1866-1920 :Dunedin, New Zealand. Panorama of city and harbour. Lith...
Date: 1894
By: New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works; Hawcridge, Robert, 1866-1920; New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal; Fagan, J A, active 1970s
Reference: D-001-029
Description: View from the Town Belt in the Mornington area looking down over the city, with South Dunedin to the right. Otago Boys' High is the large Victorian Gothic building to the left in the foreground and Queens Drive curves around the bush-clad hill to its left. In the distance on the left is Logan Lake, now reclaimed as Logan Park. The dominant church spire in the centre belongs to First Church. Houses, stores and industrial buildings are shown, along with shipping activity in the port. In the centre and right foreground are a park and a road, along which a couple is walking. Extended Title - Supplement to: New Zealand Graphic, Christmas Number, 1894. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 310 x 865 mm
[Creator unknown] :[The Hutt river valley about 1843] [copy of ms map]. ca.1843.
Date: 1843 - 1939
By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey. Wellington District Office; Hall, Lance, 1899-1985; War Memorial Library (Lower Hutt, N.Z.)
Reference: MapColl-832.4793gbbd/[ca.1843]/Acc.7915;7918;8370;8371;8372
Description: Cadastral map, with topographic features, of the Hutt River valley from an area north of the Stokes Valley bridge to the harbour. Includes the road which runs parallel to the river. High Street, Victoria Street, Railway Avenue, and Hutt Road are named. The settlements of Richmond, Aglionby and Britannia are named. Includes numbered sections with owners' names. Clifford, Molesworth, Taine, Park, Child, Alzdorf, Hanson, Stokes, Dr. Evans, Riddiford, Dr. Dorset, Swainson, Barton, Compton, Captain Daniell, Colonel Wakefield, Burcham, Bidwill. Several areas of native reserve are marked as are the sites of a pa, Hughes' House, Masons House, Boulcott's House, Molesworth Farm, Aglionby Arms, Queens Head Inn are marked. Title supplied by cataloguer Hand-written along bottom of sheet 5: Photostat of plan in Survey office, Wellington. L. Hall, 1939 Quantity: 1 map(s) on five sheets. Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, scale not given, 196.7 x 63 cm., sheets 64.1 x 45.2 cm. and smaller
[Artist unknown] :A temporary footbridge, Wallace's Point, Otira Gorge, Westland, 1876....
Date: 1876
By: New Zealand. Ministry of Works
Reference: E-278-q-123
Description: Reproduced on front of a card printed for for the Ministry of Works, New Zealand to celebrate their centennial (1871-1971). Shows a steep rocky path leading down to a bridge over a stream. A family with a packhorse and three other men with baggage are crossing the stream, while other laden horses and men walk up the rough path on the other side. Part of a large wooden structure can be seen to the left, possibly part of a support for a vehicle bridge Published on front cover of Illustrated New Zealand herald, No 105, 3 May 1876 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photo-lithograph, 203 x 152 mm on folded card
Wainui-o-mata Board of Wardens : Minute book
Date: 1855-1866
By: Wainuiomata Board of Wardens
Reference: qMS-2089
Description: The schedule of owners of land in the Wainui-o-mata District include some of the earliest settlers in Wellington region; among the owners in 1854 were William Swainson, William Fitzherbert and Edward Jerningham Wakefield. The main task of the road board was to push on with the road down the valley to the sea at Orongorongo, and the progress made during the 11 years was not particularly speedy, one of the reasons being that the settlers were not satisfied with the provisions of the provincial Road Act which provided for local taxing for local improvements and vested the administration in local boards Accompanying material - Includes newspaper cutting from Dominion 1937 re the donation of the Minute Book Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms (37 cm; ½ brown velvet calf)
Field, Henry Claylands, 1825-1912 :Map of country between Wanganui and Taupo [copy of m...
Date: 1869
By: Field, Henry Claylands, 1825-1912
Reference: MapColl-832.41bj/1869/Acc.1185
Description: Copy of a topographic map of the area in the Murimotu District from the Kaiiwi River and the Ohura River across to Lake Taupo, the Kaimanawa Ranges and the Rangitikei River. Cut road lines, proposed lines and native tracks are referred to in a reference key. Some tracks are routes proposed by Mr. Hogg and Mr. Booth, also an old war track described by natives is marked. Plantations, mountain peaks, rivers and streams are named. Relief features are described. Major Marshall's and Birch's Station are marked. Handwritten note on bottom right of map: The lake and mountains are from Hochstetter's map corrected by the Auckland Trig Survey: the Wanganui River from Brewer's survey, and the Upper Turakina and Rangitikei from Swainson's map corrected by Monro's survey. Map published in: Copy of the report by the late Mr. H.C. Field on the discovery of Field's track, Wanganui, 1869. Shelf reference qMS-0726, Field Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, linen backed, scale [1:506 880], 60.5 x 38.7 cm.
Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :Whangarei township from hill. 1888?
Date: 1888
From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Whangarei and Waiwera sketchbook. 1886-1888].
Reference: E-598-045
Description: Shows a general view of the plain on which the township is built. The foreground shows the road leading down to the town. Extended Title - from his Whangarei and Waiwera sketchbook, 1886-1888, page 45. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sketchbook page 145 x 223 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2002.
Personal, financial, official and miscellaneous papers
Date: [ca 1876-1898]
From: McLean family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1036
Description: Most of the folder relates to R D D Maclean and includes correspondence relating to business, farming, local affairs, membership, a sample of washed wool, a long series of letters to Maclean in Scotland from Alex Campbell, The Cottage, describing conditions, including pests and weather (1878), the purchase of a Clydesdale horse, Apollo, and other matters (identified persons entered under Name) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969
[Moreton, Samuel Horatio], 1845?-1921 :[Governor's Bay? Lyttelton Harbour] [1894 or 1895]
Date: 1894 - 1895
From: [Moreton, Samuel Horatio], 1845?-1921 :Tasmania and New Zealand sketch book, 1883-1896
Reference: E-175-f-052
Description: Looking down from a high point close to Lyttelton towards Governor's Bay and The Head of the Bay, with the Port Hills all round. A road, possibly the Sumner Road, is visible on a headland far below Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 132 x 213 mm
[Sewell, R.J., fl 1860-1894] : North Island, showing proposed road, location of militar...
Date: 1860 - 1872
By: Sewell, R J, active 1860-1894
Reference: MapColl-832gmbd/ca.1865/Acc.1746
Description: Ink and pencil annotations on partly hand coloured map (incomplete - only part blue colour and some red for proposed roads). The pencil annotations add crosses (population) and accidental orange brush stroke indicate draft copy. Map is hand coloured to a key that reads: 'Lines of road proposed to be made - red. Local position of Military settlements - red circles. Lines of road to be made at a future period - brown. The crosses (black) represent the distribution of the Native Population approximately each cross representing about 100 souls.' The military settlements are most dense in the Wanganui, South Taranaki, New Plymouth, Waipa, Waikato and South Waikato districts and north of the Manawatu River. No such settlements are identified around Wellington, Auckland, Napier or the East Coast north of Mahia. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, card backed, with ink and pencil annotations, hand coloured (incomplete), scale indeterminable, 38 x 27 cm
Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897 :Wellington Harbour - moonlight. 1864.
Date: 1864
By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926
Reference: C-007-010
Description: Shows two rather elegantly dressed figures on a stretch of road at the right foreground. The road skirts around a small bluff, and is separated from the water by a gently sloping rocky face. In the distance is the future site of Wellington City. On the water in the middle distance are a steamer and a sailboat. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 314 x 520 mm
[New Zealand. Dept. of Lands and Survey] :[Plan of roads requiring maintenance and cons...
Date: 1899
By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; New Zealand. General Assembly Library
Reference: MapColl-832.11gmbd/1899/Acc.32,219
Description: Based on a published cadastral map with parishes of the Bay of Islands, hand-drawings show constructed roads which require maintenance or widening to avoid undue delays in delivery of goods when sea conditions are rough. Routes are marked as A to C - Okaihau to Waimate; A to D - Okaihau to Kerkeri; A to E - Okaihau to Haruru Falls; A to F - Okaihau to Kawakawa. Okaihau, Russell and Kawakawa are underlined in red and Ohaeawai, Waimate, Black Bridge and Opua are handwritten in red ink. An accompanying letter requests that this work be considered, includes estimates, and gives information about the colour coding of the roads. No reference key is given. Title supplied by cataloguer. Map and accompanying letter from the Dept. of Lands and Survey to the Waste Lands Committee, House of Representatives, both have 'Special Collections' inscribed in pencil. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, coloured, [scale indeterminable], 45.6 x 76.8 cm. Provenance: Map has the General Assembly Library stamp on bottom right edge.
Brough, Jonathan, 1840-1927 : Diaries, reports, etc concerning surveying and road makin...
Date: 1882-1899
By: Brough, Jonathan, 1839-1927
Reference: qMS-0274
Description: Mainly daily accounts of government contract work on road-making, repairing and surveying. There are also notes on the geology and natural history of the area plus accounts of gold prospecting expeditions. Letters include several relating to contracts and one written to W L Buller on the flora and fauna of the Karamea River area Source of title - Supplied Brough was a contractor and naturalist, based in Nelson and the West Coast from 1866 Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photoprint) (35 cm, ¼ green calf, green buckram case)
Wellington Convalescent Home : Records
Date: 1893-1971
By: Wellington Convalescent Home
Reference: 80-025
Description: The records comprise minute books, 1893-1967, legal documents re titles, licences, bonds, contracts; Trustees correspondence, annual reports, from 1895; rules for the home; correspondence, reports etc on buildings, rights of way, roads and plans of buildings The Home was opened in 1893 in Wadestown Road and then moved to Bayview Terrace (Hay Street), Oriental Bay in 1894 where it operated until 1971 Quantity: 2 box(es). 0.66 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, and printed matter Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Architectural plans (see list in back file).
[Sewell, R.J., fl 1860-1894] : [North Island, showing proposed road, location of milita...
Date: 1860 - 1872
By: Sewell, R J, active 1860-1894
Reference: MapColl-832gmbd/[ca.1865]/Acc.1747
Description: Map is hand coloured and probably the manuscript to the later published editions. The key to the map (from later editions is) 'Lines of road proposed to be made - red. Local position of Military settlements - red circles. Lines of road to be made at a future period - brown. The crosses (black) represent the distribution of the Native Population approximately each cross representing about 100 souls.' However, this not written on this edition. The military settlements are most dense in the Wanganui, South Taranaki, New Plymouth, Waipa, Waikato and South Waikato districts and north of the Manawatu River. No such settlements are identified around Wellington, Auckland, Napier or the East Coast north of Mahia. Most populated areas are the East Cape, Whanganui River, Waikato district. Other Titles - Map of North Island of New Zealand, south of Kaipara harbour Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, card backed, hand coloured, scale indeterminable, 44 x 28.5 cm
Nelson Board of Works : First Annual Report
Date: 1858
By: Nelson City Board of Works
Reference: Micro-MS-0515
Description: Annual report describing state of streets Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (10 frames).
Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850?-1936? :Governors Bay, Lyttelton. 1874.
Date: 1874
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-1-018
Description: The left side of a two-page panorama (with E-044-q-1-019) looking out to the entrance of Lyttelton Harbour, with two houses and the road towards Lyttelton winding among hills. Lyttelton can be seen in the distance Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) and pencil. Physical Description: Watercolour in album, page size 228 x 296 mm
Jackson, Mason, 1819-1903 :Views in New Zealand. The Great South Road, near Shepherd's ...
Date: 1863
From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]
By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Jackson, Mason, 1819-1903
Reference: E-106-f-013-2
Description: A road carved out through dense bush, with infantry marching along it. There are large trunks from the cleared bush in the right foreground. Engraver M Jackson After an original watercolour by John Barr Clark Hoyte in the Auckland Art Gallery Other Titles - Hoyte, John Barr Clarke Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 43, November 7th 1863, p. 477 The incident took place at Ramarama, South Auckland Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 160 x 240 mm
Pinnager, T W, fl 1852 :Lower Hutt roads [copy of ms map]. Sheet No. 2, T. W. Pinnager,...
Date: 1852
By: Pinnager, T W, active 1852; Wellington Provincial Survey Office
Reference: MapColl-832.4794gmbd/1852/Acc.37636
Description: Surveying maps of roads in the Lower Hutt area, include some surveying annotations. Includes parts of two rivers, one of which is the Hutt River, both of which are un-named. Roads and sites of buildings are marked. The section of George Augustus Selwyn includes the site of a spired English church. A hedge, being the boundary line of Mr Hare, is marked. Signature underneath title: T.W. Pinnager, Sept. 1852 Notes on the original are: 41/11 Plan, Sept 1852. The stamp of Provincial Survey Office, Wellington is stamped on top right corner. Lower Hutt country sheet No. 2 is handwritten on top right corner C 17 is stamped above the title and 16 is stamped in the margin Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale [1:1 584], 41 x 46.7 cm. on sheet 45.5 x 54.7 cm.
Wilkin, James Clunie fl 1890s :Christchurch, December 1852 ; showing Worcester St Bridg...
Date: 1892 - 1852
By: Wilkin, James Clunie, 1843-1907; Barker, Alfred Charles (Dr), 1819-1873; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Lyttelton Times Company Ltd; Canterbury times (Christchurch, N.Z.)
Reference: B-055-013
Description: Two reproductions of earlier images of pioneer Canterbury. The upper view, after Alfred Charles Barker, shows the Avon River near the the Worcester St bridge, looking towards the Port Hills, with a cluster of houses in the middle distance across the river. The lower view, after William Fox, is of passengers by the Cressy landing, looking down into Lyttelton Harbour with the first four ships in port, immigration barracks and other houses, and passengers walking up the hill to cross the Bridle Track to Christchurch Supplement to: Canterbury times, 14 Jan., 1892. Other Titles - Alfred Charles Barker; William Fox Extended Title - Christchurch ; J.C. Wilkin for Lyttelton Times Co., 1892. From sketch by A.C. Barker after his own photo., c.f. A-032-021, A-163-017 and C-032-012; and from engraving by T. Allom after drawing by Fox, showing Sumner Road, immigration barracks, J.R. Godley's house, and the ships. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, monochrome, 463 x 321 mm
[Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :Near Lowry Bay, Wellington [1868]
Date: 1868
By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898
Reference: A-028-013
Description: Looking south possibly from Point Howard, with a road running round a point, between a cliff and a tall rock formation, the sea breaking on rocks to the right. Hills, possibly of Lowry Bay, visible through the gap in the rocks Acquired before 1941 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 159 x 240 mm