Places

Date: 1870

By: Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Reference: MapColl-832.41bj/1870/Acc.1191

Description: Relief map of the area from Wanganui to Ruapehu to Lake Taupo, the Kaimanawa ranges to the Rangitikei River. The route of the exploring company is marked from Major A. Marshall's to Lake Taupo including marked sites of their camps with dates. Mr. Birch's sheep track is marked. A note states that A to B is from sketch signed G.F.S. Note on catalogue card states: To accompany: Misc Mss. H8, Report on the practicability of constructing a road from Wanganui to Taupo, 1869. Misc MS H8 is written in pencil on top right of map. Note on bottom left states: Copy f7 Accompanied by a copy of a page from AJHR, 1870, A.-5, p.5. This page includes a report by George F. Swainson with proposals for a road. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colour wash on dressed linen. coloured, scale [1:253 440], 91 x 79.3 cm.

Date: 1800 - 1870

From: W B Chennells :Collection of maps

By: Masterton Public Library

Reference: MapColl-832.16a/[n.d.]/Acc.36912

Description: Manuscript map from Tauranga Harbour, showing Greerton, south along the Waimapu Stream, south to Otane Wainuku, showing road (or track) from Noawato to Te Puke, and from the harbour to Te Puke, from Tauranga through Greerton and south to Noawato and onwards towards Rotorua and a road or track that extends from Greerton and runs parallel to the Waimapu Stream. Also depicts a forest reserve, heavy rimu area, and suggested tramway route from the route in Whakamapama north to the stream. Pencil annotation of 'Kaiwai' is crossed out and replaced with 'Whakamapama'. Extended Title - number Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, part coloured, on dressed linen, scale indeterminable, 50 x 26 cm.

Date: 1870

By: Field, Henry Claylands, 1825-1912

Reference: MapColl-832.41gmbd/[ca.1870]/Acc.2781-2782

Description: Copy of a map of the proposed road from Murimotu to Wanganui following the Wangaehu, Mangawhero and Wanganui Rivers. Land blocks and settlements are named. Native tracks are marked, also the railway line at Wanganui. Believed to be surveyed by H.C. Field Quantity: 1 map(s) on 2 sheets. Physical Description: Photocopies, linen backed, scale [1:63 360], 122 x 36.7 cm., sheets 76.2 x 36.7 cm.

Date: 31 Dec 1869, 29 Jan 1870

Reference: MS-Papers-2782

Description: Copies of letters to Hon W Fox from H C Field and George F Swainson. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :Album. [1860s?]

Reference: E-297-004

Description: A moonlit scene with a horseman on a central road surrounded by trees and overlooking a moonlit lake in the background Poukawa Lake is in central Hawkes Bay. This is NOT Pukawa on the shores of Lake Taupo. Other Titles - Poukawa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 128 x 101 mm within ruled lines on album page 225 x 177 mm

Date: 1870 - 1879

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook. 1870s?]

Reference: E-030-q-2-007

Description: A bend in a river between high mountains, with a road indicated alongside the river in the foreground, a hut on the flat to the right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream paper, page size 137 x 223 mm

Date: 1870s

By: Cox, Horace A, active 1883

Reference: PA1-o-110

Description: New Zealand scenery photographed circa 1870s. Views include the Pink and White Terraces and Lake Rotomahana; a digger's hut in the Tararua Range; Mercury Bay; carriers changing horses in Oripi bush; a group of Maori holding a runanga at an unidentified meeting house; two views of the new road being created between Lake Coleridge and Hokitika. Inscriptions: Album page - Horace A Cox, from his old schoolfellow Harry [?], Lyttelton, New Zealand, 9 July 1883 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cover with gold outline, 22.5 x 31 cm Provenance: Presented to Horace A Cox on 9 July 1883.

Date: 1870

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-029-042

Description: An unfinished watercolour showing the Waimakariri River, beside a section of the road to Arthur's Pass and the West Coast. The Southern Alps are in the distance. A wagon and a house are sketched in at the right foreground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 254 x 355 mm

Date: 1870 - 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-029-014

Description: Unfinished sketch showing ferns along a roadside. Resembles in composition, and likely to be of a date similar to, the work located at B-084-001 (i.e. ca 1871). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 280 x 177 mm

Date: [ca 1870s-1890s]

From: Bridge family :Photograph albums

By: Anson Brothers (Firm); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Pulman (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-271

Description: Views of New Zealand, England, Australia and Canada, associated with family of Charles Joseph Bridge (d 1876), settler at Homebrook, near Lake Ellesmere; and his son, Charles Hastings Bridge. Includes pressed flowers and leaves, a coloured sketch of a rowing boat on a river lined with willow trees. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Henry Hugh Chapman 1881; Henry Walter Bridge 1886 Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [1870s-1880s]

By: F Bradley & Company; Walton, Grahame M, active 2009

Reference: PA1-o-1605

Description: Photograph album of Views and landscapes of New Zealand, Second Series, published by F Bradley & Company. Includes photographs - No. 1 Meeeting of the waters, Oripi; No. 2 Maori group; No. 3 Lake Hope, White Island; No. 4 Timaru; No. 5 The Bealey, Hokitika Coach Road; No. 6 Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula; No. 7 The River Avon; No. 8 Shag Rock, Sumner Road, looking towards Christchurch; No. 9 Princes Street, Dunedin; No. 10 Christchurch; No. 11 Bullock team and wool waggon, Cheviot; No. 12 Oamaru; No. 13 Cheviot Station, Nelson Province; No. 14 Normal School, Christchurch; No. 15 German Bay, Akaroa; No. 16 Port Lyttelton; No. 17 Kawau, Sir George Grey's residence; No. 18 Pink Terrace, Rotomahana; No. 19 Akaroa; No. 20 Rangatata Traffic Bridge; No. 21 Armagh St bridge & watering place, Christchurch; No. 22 River Bealey Crossing, Hokitika Coach Road; No. 23 Post Office, Christchurch; No. 24 View on the Heathcote; No. 25 Russell's Gold Battery, Tararua Creek, Thames Gold Fields; No. 26 Glacier Hotel & Cobb's Coach, West Coast Road; No. 27 Crossing the Teremakau; No. 28 Greymouth, West Coast; No. 29 Kaiapoi, Canterbury; No. 30 Chalky or Dark Inlet; No. 31 Waimakariri Gorge Bridge; No. 32 Nelson; No. 33 Christchurch; No. 34 Group of Maoris, Lake Taupo; No. 35 Alfred Falls, North Island; No. 36 Christchurch; No. 37 Governor's Bay; No. 38 Oamaru; No. 39 Timaru breakwater; No. 40 Dunedin; No. 41 Christchurch; No. 42 Christchurch hospital; No. 43 House of Representatives, Wellington; No. 44 Arthurs Pass; No. 45 The Cave Rock, Sumner; No. 46 Government buildings, Christchurch; No. 47 Otira Gorge; No. 48 The River Avon; No. 49 Group of Maoris, Bay of Islands; No. 50 Sheep mustering, South Canterbury; No. 51 The Christchurch Cathedral, C.E.; No. 52 Nelson Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints Transfers: Transfers - From Published Collections.

Date: 1870 - 1879

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook. 1870s?]

Reference: E-030-q-2-024

Description: A view of high peaks in the distance, possibly including Mount Aspiring, with a ravine, and a figure on a narrow road leading over a rocky pass to the right The area shown may be close to Glenorchy, Lake Wakatipu, from a nearby mountain track Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on grey-green paper, page size 137 x 223 mm

Date: [1868?]

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :Album. [1860s?]

Reference: E-297-007

Description: The Rimutaka Road, with both a ford and a low bridge over a stream, between low bush-clad hills, tall hills beyond Compare another watercolour version of this at A-029-064 with title Torohonga Creek, Rimutaka Road, Nov. 27th 1868, larger than the sketchbook version but probably a field sketch. The name Torohonga Creek is not currently used and the exact location of this scene is not known, although it may show Abbots Stream, South Wairarapa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour (sepia) and gouache 99 x 151 mm glued to album page 177 x 225 mm

Date: [187-?]

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA7-30-05

Description: Photograph of Wairarapa from Rimutaka Range, taken ca 1870s by James Bragge. The Rimutaka Hill Road runs through the centre of the image. Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Looking down upon the Wairarapa Plain from the Rimutaka; Mount verso - top centre - Bragge Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 21.8 x 29.2 cm, mounted on paper

Date: 1870 - 1879

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 :Maps from papers

Reference: MapColl-832.16gmbd/[ca.187-]/Acc.3324

Description: Hand drawn map of the area from Te Papa, Tauranga Harbour to Te Roto. Otanewaiuku mountain is drawn. Pa sites are named. Includes rivers, of which the Waimapu and Waioroa Rivers are named, and routes of two proposed roads, of which one is named Cameron Road, and another is already under construction. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and watercolour on paper, linen backed, coloured, 65 x 92.8 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 Papers - MS-Papers-0032. Processing information: Pencilled title of map has been copied and added to the top right corner, believed to be at a later date, possibly by curator.

Date: 1869-1870

By: Blackett, John, 1818-1893

Reference: MS-0219

Description: Detailed account, with accompanying sketches, of surveying, dredging and digging of areas around the Slate River at Collingwood, in order to build a bridge, and, in the vicinity of the Pearce and Graham Rivers, Motueka, for the purpose of making a road Blackett was Engineer-in-Chief for New Zealand from 1884-1889 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (67 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (9 cm; black linen slip case)

Date: 1868 - 1870

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-040

Description: Shows a partial view of the harbour, a rich turquoise, from a rutted dirt road in the foreground, through vegetation. Across the harbour, the hills of Wainui are in the background. A red-brown cow grazes beyond the road in the foreground Probably painted around the end of the 1860s. The artist is known to have been in the vicinity after the wreck of the ketch (probably the "Crest") in 1868 - his picture of Akaroa Heads is dated 1869. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 125 x 167 mm.

Date: [1870-1920]

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10x8-0776-G

Description: Horse drawn coach on Hawks Crag (formerly known as Hawkes Craig), Buller Gorge. Photograph taken by the Tyree Studio. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Hawkes Craig Buller River Tyree Photo Nelson 5103 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [187-?]

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

Reference: 1/1-000347-G

Description: Scene showing the first bridge at Bulls, over the Rangitikei River. Looks along a dirt road, showing two horse drawn carts, and the bridge behind. Photograph taken circa 1870s, by William James Harding. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top right - Bulls Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: ca 1870s

From: Tingay, Mrs : Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003772-G

Description: Day's Hotel, Sumner, Christchurch, photographed circa 1870s. Looks along a road alongside a beach, towards a two storied, wooden building by a rocky hillside. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative