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Date: 1880 - 1885

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: A-174-025

Description: Ngaruawahia on the left with the Waikato stretching into the distance towards hlls Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash sketch 110 x 190 mm

Date: 1874-1880

By: Edwards, William James, 1857-1930

Reference: MS-0714

Description: Contains an account of voyage of the ship Waitangi to New Zealand 1874 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (252 numbered pages). Physical Description: Holograph (20 cm; ¼ black roan, marbled boards, marbled edges) Includes maps, sketches, tables

Date: [ca1880-1971]

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004 : Photographs relating to Maori

Reference: PAColl-9977-12

Description: Includes:-- The Maori Parliament House (Turangawaewae House) Ngaruawahia built 1912-1919. Portraits of tatooed Maori Women, all but one, unidentified. The ceremonial waka (ceremonial canoe) Ngatokimatawhaorua fully manned, off Paihia, Bay of Islands. Philip Munro and Toni Muru in large interior decorated with a Cliff Whiting mural. Photomechanical copy of an engraved portrait of King Tawhiao. Dame Te Atairangikaahu enthroned at her coronation, 23 May 1966. Photomechanical print of portraits of King Tawhiao's head wife and second wife. Entrance to Maori King's residence (Turongo House) Turangawaewae Marae. Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1869

Reference: MapColl-832.14bje/[1869?]/Acc.35,774

Description: Cadastral map of lands granted in a military settlement of Newcastle, now Ngaruawahia. Sections 416 to 431 are numbered, include acreages, and 'Reserved as rewards for loyal natives' is written across this block of land. Section 426 is shaded and includes the name Wi te [Whiora] (handwriting difficult to decipher). The Waipa River is named. Title supplied by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour paint on dressed linen, coloured, scale [ca. 1:1 900], 19.5 x 29.7 cm. Provenance: 29.10.79 written in pencil in bottom right corner.

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: 1864 - 1880

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford and Samuel Deighton. 1860-1880]

Reference: E-926-063

Description: Shows a Maori meeting house with carved tekoteko, raparapa and amo. There are two tents pitched at the extreme left and one at the far right. This is probably King Matutaera's whare (see photograph at 1/2-096095-G) Another version of this image is at E-125-059 Extended Title - From his "Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford" [1860-1880], page [63 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 145 x 235 mm

Date: 1864

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: E-372-f-012-1

Description: Shows the wooden building housing the tomb with a British soldier on guard outside Extended Title - From Illustrated London news, Vol 45, July 1864, page 4 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 95 x 80 mm

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district

Reference: 1/1-001565-G

Description: River scene at Ngaruawahia, showing the confluence of the Waipa River with the Waikato River. Two waka, and stacks of timber outside the railway goods shed are visible. Photograph taken by Herman John Schmidt circa 1890. The railway goods shed was removed in 1895 (Source J A T Terry, 'The Railway wharf at Ngaruawahia', Auckland Waikato Historical Journal, May 2003, pp. 1-8) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-009

Description: View from across the Waikato River towards the main buildings of the Maori king's residence. The long low building on the left is the 'General's quarters', the 'King's palace' is in the centre with dark red barge boards, the 'council chambers' are futher to the right and the closest building and the flagstaff is on the far right. There are two small canoes at the landing place, along with people and horses. There are also tents amongst the remaining buildings on the site Copied from a watercolour by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams 'Ngaruawahia from opposite bank of Waikato. 1864' in E. A. Williams' diary in the Hocken Library, p. 77 (The Turnbull holds a slide of this view) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 98 x 187 mm

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-010

Description: A few of the outer buildings of Ngaruawahia with tents and a fence to the left. Three men, two standing, one on horseback are in the left foreground. A paddle steamer is crossing the Waikato River, towing two small barges, on the right. Hills on the other side of the river. Copied from a watercolour by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams 'Ngaruawahia 1864' in E. A. Williams' notebook in the Hocken Library, p.41 (The Turnbull holds a slide of this view) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 121 x 205 mm

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Sketchbook of English and New Zealand scenes] 1860 - 1864

Reference: E-349-088

Description: Shows a horse swimming across a stream, a laden canoe being paddled across, another horse on the bank on the left and cabbage trees and other vegetation on both banks. Inscriptions: Album page - on opposite page - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 100 x 160 mm.

Date: 1864 - 1870

Reference: B-174-003

Description: Shows a view across a river, to the settlement of Ngaruawahia on the far side, with the Māori King's residence, tents and huts and a red flag flying. A Māori man in traditional cloak surveys the scene from the centre foreground holding a taiaha. There is a paddlesteamer in the river at the right. The presence of military tents probably means the scene dates from the Waikato wars 1860-1872. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 245 x 358 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: [188-?]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PICT-000160

Description: View of part of Ngaruawahia, taken by the Burton Brothers during the 1880s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district

Reference: 1/1-001563-G

Description: River scene at Ngaruawahia. Photograph taken by Herman John Schmidt circa 1890. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1860

By: Bates, Henry Stratton, 1836-1918; Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979

Reference: A-159-004

Description: View across the Waikato River towards the Maori King's residence and village. 'The house on the extreme left with the sentry box near it is the King's' (note on verso). A large flagpole and ten other houses are visible. A small canoe is in the foreground, with another in the middle distance and others moored at the distant bank. The King was Potatau te Wherowhero Accompanied by letter and newspaper article about the picture. "The house on the extreme left with the sentry box near it is the Kings", and other notes on back Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title; Verso - various inscriptions Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 127 x 170 mm Provenance: Found loose inside volume 2 of Rees' 1892 biography of Sir George Grey. The volume was once the property of the artist, Henry Stratton Bates.

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district

Reference: 1/1-001564-G

Description: River scene at Ngaruawahia. Photograph taken by Herman John Schmidt circa 1890. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1863 - 1864

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

Reference: E-248-q-074

Description: The front of a wharenui with four Maori seated outside around a cooking pot. The whare has carved bargeboards, and door and window surrounds, and tukutuku panels beneath the verandah roof. On the right is a flax bush, with bush in the background including tree ferns Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 105 x 169 mm

Date: 1860 - 1869

Reference: A-036-014

Description: Shows main residence, flagpole, and king's tomb, at Ngaruawahia; known as Newcastle, not Queenstown, in 1860s. Cf. TL. 3/1/1/, 2/11/80. Also shows the junction of the Waikato and Waipa Rivers Compare a very similar sepia wash sketch, also by an unknown artist, held by Auckland Public Library (Scrapbook relating to Grey (i) GNZ 995.03 G85) entitled Ngaruawahia 18th Nov 1861. Photocopy in Drawings & Prints file prints. Other Titles - Ngaruawahia known as Newcastle in 1860s Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 132 x 202 mm

Date: 1863-1864

From: Nicholl, Spencer Perceval Talbot, 1841-1908 :Photograph albums

By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Kinder, John, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-f-046

Description: Album compiled by Spencer Perceval Talbot Nicholl when he was serving with the 43rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry during the New Zealand wars. The photographs were chiefly taken by John Kinder and by Daniel Manders Beere, in the Auckland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty areas. Many of the views have no captions, but can be identified in comparison with images known to have been taken by these photographers. Views identified include Mr. Ashwell's church at Taupiri (Rev. Benjamin Yate Ashwell); thatched buildings; flagstaff at Ngaruawahia; the monument to the 43rd Regiment at Gate Pa near Tauranga; Potatau's tomb with a sentry guarding it; a carved stern-post of a waka; and a group of Maori men. Some, but not all, photos taken by Kinder. Inscriptions: Album page - `S.P.T. Nicholl (subsequently Lieut-Col), 43rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Album compiled probably about 1863/4' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mottled blue cover, brown leather spine with gold bands; 35 x 42 cm

Date: 1864

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096094-G

Description: Ngaruawahia, showing the British army camp during the New Zealand Wars, photographed in 1864 by Daniel Manders Beere. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 26 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches