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Shaw, Allen Desmond, 1944-: Photographs
Date: 1890 - 1901
By: Shaw, Allen Desmond, 1944-; Child, Edward George, 1860-1949
Reference: PAColl-2171
Description: Photographs of: seven men leaning on shovels outside a hut and two men with shovels holding the reins of drays at the harbour side (both taken by Anglo New Zealand photo); the railway line and water tank at Rata with men, women and children in an open railway carriage on the right; D class locomotive with four men standing next to it; men cutting flax on a wooden jetty next to a river; men outside a hut with piles of flax bundles; the Delphic captioned as "the largest boat that trades to New Zealand" moored in Wellington (taken by E G Child); a large crowd outside the Parliament Buildings for the memorial service on the death of Queen Victoria; and a group of men and one woman outside a corrugated iron hut. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.
Portraits of men, a church, and view of Wellington
Date: [ca1868-ca1879]
From: Bothamley, Arthur Thomas, 1846-1938 :Negatives
Reference: 1/2-231025-F
Description: St Mary's Cathedral Hill Street, Wellington. View of Thorndon from Brown's Wharf by W H W Davis in ca 1868. View of Mana Island. Portraits of men include Hart Udy, T W Kirk, S Percy Smith, R Cockburn, A de B Brandon, W G Haybittle, W L Hirst, and S Danks. By unknown photographers. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 16 x 11.7 cm
Taylor, Charles Henry, 1858-1928 : Diaries
Date: 1878-1880
By: Taylor, Charles Henry, 1858-1928
Reference: MS-Group-1671
Description: Comprise two diaries, covering Taylor's voyage to New Zealand and his life in Wellington, the Manawatu region, and finally Auckland. The diaries are detailed and provide a lively account of life on an immigrant ship and in the North Island while looking for work. Interspersed with reflections on life and quotations from poems, as well as some sketches of people, ships, housing and scenery. Source of title - Supplied by Library Other - The donor is happy for researchers to contact him, for possible further information. His address is 16/166 Mill Point Road, South Perth, WA 6151, Australia. Charles Henry Taylor, lived on the Isle of Man as a child, was a joiner by trade. In 1878 he took advantage of the Vogel government's immigration scheme to emigrate to New Zealand on the `Hudson'. Travelled through Wellington, the Manawatu, where he was an eyewitness to the great bush fires of the period, and to Auckland, looking, often unsuccessfully, for work. Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Professor John A Howard, grandson of C H Taylor