Places

Date: 1898

By: Mowat, Alexander Gard, 1888-1975

Reference: PA1-o-353

Description: Album of photographs of Picton, Wairau River, Opawa River, Spring Creek, Blenheim, Pelorus River, Kaiteriteri, Motueka and Collingwood, taken in 1898 by A J Litchfield. Inscriptions: Album page - top left - To Mr and Mrs J T Mowat, in slight acknowledgement of many kindnesses, by A J Litchfield, 1898. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cloth cover, entitled `Photographic views'; 17.5 x 24.5 cm

Date: 1878

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926; Barraud, Laura Cottam, 1859-1935

Reference: A-084-016

Description: Watercolour sketch showing a country road with a group of houses at right, and mountains behind. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 185 x 277 mm

Date: ca1855-ca1940

From: Nisbet, Eleanor M, fl 1980s-1990s :Photographs taken by Charles William Clift

By: Clift, Charles William, 1896-1984

Reference: PAColl-4889-1

Description: Clift and Jones family photographs. New Zealand towns and landscapes, in particular Wellington and Brooklyn. A record of the British aircraft carrier Indefatigable when it visited Wellington in November 1945. New Zealand houses and a very good wedding breakfast laid out in a private interior of the 1890s. There is a photograph of the Clift house in Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, and of a Christmas gathering at a house in Patanga Crescent associated with the Holm family of the Holm shipping line. Brooklyn and Makara churches and the interior of the Anglican cathedral in Dunedin Quantity: 1 container(s) photographic prints.

Date: 1864-1920

By: Sinclair, William, 1855-1922

Reference: MS-Papers-0003

Description: Papers of a practice centred largely in Blenheim and Wellington Quantity: 27 folder(s) (217 pieces). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1868

By: Hale, Allen Matthew, 1890-1973

Reference: PAColl-4566

Description: Photograph of Ewart's Club Hotel in Blenheim with a number of men and women outside it. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Copy negative at 1/2-002273 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-013

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by various photographers including the Burton Brothers, Tyree Brothers, James Ring, Josiah Martin, and Henry Thomas Lock. Includes images of flooding in Blenheim, and a wire cable tram across the Taramakau River (West Coast). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red cloth bound folio album, 415 x 300 mm

Date: 1864-1868

By: Johnston, Alexander James, 1820-1888

Reference: MS-1086-1088

Description: Contain notes on civil and criminal cases heard at Picton, Blenheim, Hawke's Bay and Wanganui Source of title - Transcribed Johnston was for 17 years puisne judge of the Supreme Court, and published several works on legal subjects Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, 27 cm, ½ brown calf, maroon boards

Date: 1964

From: Luke, Lois, fl 1998 : Papers relating to Rita Beales

Reference: MSX-4988

Description: History of St Mary's Parish, Blenheim, Marlborough, by Rev Father P P Cahill, with some marking of text Quantity: 1 volume(s). Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photograph of Beales, probably with Pat and George of Hokitika (1982); and photo of Dr Peter Keller (1967) - To Book Collections - Patricia Baines, `A Linen legacy; Rita Beales 1889-1987' (1989).

Date: 1866

From: Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918 :Illustrations of New Zealand 1865?-1867

Reference: E-370-003-1

Description: The artist, tutor to the Tetley boys (probably the two older boys, Willy and Cadwallader, rather than the youngest, Frank), on horseback, rounding a corner on the Blenheim to Picton road and meeting Lewis's coach, drawn by two horses. The spot shown may be at Tuamarina since there is a swampy river in the foreground and a hill on the far side of the road. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 135 x 205 mm

Date: 1862-1890

By: Muller, Stephen Lunn, 1814-1891

Reference: MS-1693

Description: Includes newspaper cuttings pasted inside front and back covers Source of title - Transcribed Dr Muller was first Resident Magistrate in the Wairau District 1857-1879 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (70 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph ( 26 cm, ¼ faded red cloth, marbled boards)

Date: 1878-1902

By: Donald, Robert, 1890-1902

Reference: qMS-0618

Description: Contracts and specifications for buildings constructed by Donald in Masterton district; correspondence primarily concerned with farming activities Source of title - Supplied Donald was a sawmiller and builder; he also farmed at Bank Farm, Blenheim 1890-1895, and in Canterbury at Chertsey 1895-1898 and Woodside, Highbank, Rakaia 1898-1902 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (1015 pages). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, ms (36 cm; ½ brown calf, blue linen in blue hinged lid box)

Date: [ca 1890s-1940s]

From: Cornwall, James Caleb, 1879-1964: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10268

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenes taken between circa 1890s and circa 1940s, chiefly by James Caleb Cornwall. Many images have a brief explanatory captions. Contains images including a kapa haka group performing on a barge, a building decorated for Royal [Coronation 1937?] with cameo portraits of George VI and Queen Elizabeth, animals at a zoo (pelican and [thar?]), a thermal area, and a bush scene. Transportation is featured, with photographs showing trains (locomotives and carriages, including a Fairlie locomotive) and railway architecture (train tracks and Main Trunk Line viaduct) as well as car and horse and cart scenes. Places and buildings include Hastings Main Street, Blenheim Memorial (clock tower and fountain), Palmerston North (including birds on pond [Domain?], a church, shops, and the main square), Arthurs Pass and Porters Pass, a Coromandel homestead, house and garden of Cara [Sawings?], and [Otago Settlers?] Museum, Dunedin. Unidentified figures appear in some photographs. Quantity: 10 loose album pages, with 38 b&w original prints. Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints adhered to loose card album pages

Date: [ca 1895-1920]

By: Jones, B (Mrs), active 1962?; Cowdell, Joseph Tuffley, -1907

Reference: PAColl-3393

Description: Photograph of two men sorting kauri gum in a shed one sitting on a packing case with Poroli written on it. Photographer unidentified. Photograph of three bullock teams of fourteen to sixteen bullocks pulling loads of dressed timber with a man on top of each load near Whangarei; and the river near Whangarei Falls both taken by Cowdell. Postcards of two men on horseback with four work horses in a field of harvested oats near Blenheim; and a cart at the summit of Otira Gorge. Postcards of logs at the top of Wairua Falls and a view of Napier from the hill Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Provenance: Donated by Mrs B Jones, 1962

Date: [1890s]

From: Dunford, Graeme Wilmor, fl 1980 :Photographs

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-068

Description: Album of photographs taken by T W McKenzie or H R Morns. Some taken by Wrigglesworth & Binns. Album includes a photograph of retirement certificate presented to Stephenson Percy Smith. Views include a copy of a print by W&B of an early settler's home in the Manawatu; Kaiwarra [i.e. Kaiwharawhara] Creek; canoeing on the Otaki River; sailors on a path between nikau palms in Lower Hutt; a man wearing a formal suit with bow tie, and fuschia flowers in his buttonhole; a number of large houses (possibly in the Canterbury area); views of buildings in Blenheim, Christchurch and Dunedin, including the Thomas Burns memorial in front of the Town Hall in Dunedin; and the Waimate Anglican Church. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album of photographs, red cover entitled `Album', decorated with a gold tui, 30.5 x 26.5 cm

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: Beatson, William, 1807-1870 :[Architectural plans of buildings in England and Nelson. 1840-1870].

Reference: Plans-99-020-140

Description: Shows section, south elevation, front elevation, and ground plan, of a wooden building with portico porch, cloakroom, ante room, vestibule and main hall. The side windows feature decration on top (star, triangle, perpendicular lines). Other Titles - Independent Order of Odd Fellows Manchester Unity Blenheim Lodge was established in 1860. Beatson died in 1870. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil, on sheet 332 x 534 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Patrick Beatson, in 1999.

Date: 1868

From: Beatson, William, 1807-1870 :[Architectural plans of buildings in England and Nelson. 1840-1870].

Reference: Plans-99-020-143

Description: Shows front, side elevations, and a detail of the perforations through the decoration at the top. The inscription reads: "In memory of Mary Elizabeth Griffiths who departed this life November 6th 1868 aged 24 years. Behold we count them happy which endure. James V.11. Weep not for me dear Mother: I am blest / And must leave Heaven if I return to Thee; / For I am where the weary are at rest, / The wicked cease from troubling - Come to me." Mary Elizabeth Griffiths was the stepdaughter of the magistrate Stephen Muller, who may have commissioned this stone. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on sheet, 284 x 382 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Patrick Beatson, in 1999.

Date: [ca 1855-1950]

By: Clift, Charles William, 1896-1984; Nisbet, Eleanor M, active 1980s-1990s

Reference: PAColl-4889

Description: New Zealand towns and scenery, Wellington and Brooklyn in Particular during the 1920s and 1930s. Ships, pre schools, churches, holidays and Clift and Jones family portraits Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 248 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 2 album(s).

Date: 1860, ca 1880s, ca 1930-1956

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-016

Description: Miscellaneous photographs on general subjects made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. They include photographs of the Portobello Marine Research Station, the Chinese Notables Conference of 1947, The Avenue, Wanganui in 1860, Charleston ca 1880s, the war cemetery in El Alamein and Maori digging for Toheroa on Ninety Mile Beach in 1934. Quantity: 45 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1885

From: Swan family : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-3928-13

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Jan 1863-Jul 1864, Aug-Nov 1868

By: Griffiths, Mary Elizabeth, 1844-1868

Reference: MS-1682-1683

Description: The journal was probably kept during her mid-teens, with entries mostly concerned with family life and thee comings and goings of local people; Lizzie's last entry was for 2 Nov 1868. On 6 Nov her mother wrote `My poor darling died suddenly at 9 in the evening'. Lizzie has recorded information about her illness over the previous two months, but its precise nature is not mentioned Volume 1 inscribed `Lizzie from Edy, 1 Jany 1861'. Volume 2 deals with social life (much reference to sickness) in Blenheim `Lizzie' was the step-daughter of Stephen Lunn Muller and daughter of Mary Ann Muller (formerly Griffiths) of Blenheim Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs (23 cm; orange buckram hinged lid box)