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Date: 1872

By: Murray-Oliver, Anthony Audrey St. Clair Murray, 1915-1986

Reference: PAColl-3171

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.

Date: 1873-1876

From: Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA1-f-174

Description: Photographs, mainly of Auckland, but including some good views of Tauranga and one of Oamaru, taken between 1873 and 1876 by Herbert Deveril of Wellington. Also includes major bridges in Canturbury and Otago, government buildings and one native school. Deveril came to New Zealand in 1873. These photographs were displayed at the Philadelphia Centenary Exhibition in 1876. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: Between 1873 and 1880

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-45-13

Description: Photograph of Mechanics Bay looking seaward probably taken in the 1870s by Herbert Deveril of Wellington. Another print of this image is at PA7-45-12. It is unclear from which print the copy negative is taken. Inscriptions: Mount verso - centre - Akld Mech. bay Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 260 x 341 mm

Date: 1851-1852

By: Wynyard, Robert Henry (Sir), 1802-1864

Reference: MS-Papers-6436

Description: Two letters in Maori to Wynyard with contemporary translations into English and annotated by Wynyard (1) from Te Taniwha (Hooknose) requesting an audience with him; and (2) from Wiremu Maihi requesting part of a Maori hostelry at Mechanics Bay for use as a shop Language - Both letters are in Maori with contemporary translations Source of title - Supplied Wynyard was lieutenant-governor of New Ulster Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Finan, Oct 1998

Date: 1851

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: E-455-f-084-6

Description: An account of a disturbance in Auckland after a Maori policeman had locked up a chief. The Ngatipaoa were involved with a haka on the beach at Mechanics Bay, and threats of retaliation. HMS Fly and its crew were also involved The article is on the page of a page from the Illustrated London news on the previous page of the album. Pearse has cut a rectangle out of the album page to allow the article to be read Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, newspaper column, 160 x 84 mm

Date: 1843 - 1844

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: E-216-f-033

Description: Looking east across the harbour and beaches of the North Shore towards the city showing the buildings of the town centred on Point Britomart with Mount Eden in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monochrome watercolour, 246 x 356 mm

Date: 1852-1940

By: Carrad, Dallas G, active 1993; Dell, (Mr?), active 1925?; G.S. Paul & Company; Mahan & Company

Reference: PAColl-3162

Description: Quantity: 3 album(s) Album(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s) and. 1 photocopy/ies.

Date: 1852

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-145-003

Description: Looking west along the coastline, with shipbuilding in the foreground, a wharf and St Paul's in Parnell beyond Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photo print of pen sketch 105 x 152 mm

Date: Between 1873 and 1880

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-45-12

Description: Photograph of Mechanics Bay looking seaward probably taken in the 1870s by Herbert Deveril of Wellington. Another print of this image is at PA7-45-13. It is unclear from which print the copy negative is taken. Inscriptions: Mount verso - centre - Auckland - St Stephen's Chapel? Mechanics Bay? Sugar Works, Chelsea? Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 260 x 350 mm on mount of same size

Date: ca 1860s

By: Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Rocke, James Harwood, active 1864-1870

Reference: PA1-o-346

Description: Chiefly photographs of Ireland and New Zealand (particularly Auckland). Appears to have been compiled by an Irish officer with the Imperial forces during the 1860s. Among the New Zealand views are photographs taken by John Kinder and Lieutenant-Colonel J H Rocke, 18th Royal Irish Regiment Photographs of people are not identified in the album, but have been identified by comparison with other photographs, and include Judge William Martin and his wife, and Governor Gore Browne and his family. Photographs by J H Rocke are apparently those of countryside around Auckland Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cloth bound album; 24.0 x 19.5 cm

Date: 1850 - 1859

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-145-002

Description: View of early Auckland with a bridge close to the waterfront Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pen sketch

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: Various artists :Official Bay; From a point; Freeman's Bay, Auckland. [ca 1845. Five keys to early buildings and features from drawings by Edward Ashworth and other artists].

Reference: A-197-046

Description: A view of St Georges Bay and Mechanics Bay from the water. From left to right, labelled features include: Blackett [house], Now Clevland Road, St George's Bay Road, Rev Churton, Maori Boys' School, St Barnabas, Parnell Rise, Selwyn Terrace, Alpha Road, Domain, Swan Inn, Stanley Street, Maori Hostelry, Maori Wesleyan Chapel. There are two Maori canoes in the foreground. Likely to have been made as a key to a painting. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white, on sheet 190 x 332 mm.

Date: [Between 1880s and 1890s]

From: Bothamley family: Papers and photographs

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911; Lindt, John William, 1845-1926; Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936

Reference: PA1-o-431

Description: Photographs taken during the 1880s and 1890s, chiefly by Henry Charles Clarke Wright, with others probably taken by Herbert Deveril. All show scenes in New Zealand except one, prabably taken by J W Lindt, of an Australian aboriginal man and woman standing over a kangaroo which they have caught. They have boomerangs and a spear. Photographs of the town of Tarawera and the White Terraces were taken before the eruption in 1886. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, coloured picture of two cats playing with a ball of wool inset, and bordered by gold and black decoration, entitled `Children's scrap book'; 25.0 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1850

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: A-050-007

Description: Shows view from above Mechanics Bay, looking across to North Head with Rangitoto in the background. A clearing with native bush in the foreground, with a seated and a standing Maori man with a taiaha, a European on horseback, and a bullock-drawn cart. The roofs of several houses are visible below the clearing and at a higher point on the right. Dating: Clarke arrived in New Zealand in 1849. Supplied title Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: C Clarke del Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing ; pencil 249 x 348 mm

Date: 1864-1868

By: Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873

Reference: MS-2135

Description: A copy of the published item 'The past and present of New Zealand with its prospects for the future. With numerous illustrations'. The book has pencil annotations commenting on and marking parts of the text, it is not clear whose hand the annotations are in. Also inserted into the book are: a manuscript map, sketches, a watercolour, cartes-de-visite sized cards, and albumen photographs. Photographs have been glued into the book or sewn into inserted pages. They are mainly undated. Four images show army officers: Lieutenant Colville, Lieutenant Henry Bally, Major Lloyd, and Captain Close. Other photographs show: two images of Mechanics Bay in Auckland (one with waka), Auckland Harbour, "the Public Park Auckland", a horse and rider about to cross a bridge over a river somewhere near Auckland, and New Plymouth (1866). Also undated photographic portraits of Taranaki leader Te Ua Haumene and Ngati Haua leader Wiremu Te Waharoa. The image of Te Ua Haumene is similar to the one that has been digitised and is available to view at reference number PA2-2533. The image of Wiremu Te Waharoa is similar (but a wider view) than the one that has been digitised and is available to view at reference number 1/2-057295 A pencil sketch, dated 1864 and measuring 245 x 225 mm, shows Auckland Harbour with Rangitoto Island in the background. The Wynyard Pier, houses, trees, people, the ship 'H.M.S Curacoa', the prison hulk 'Marion', and other small vessels are visible. Text on the reverse of the sketch describes the transport of Maori prisoners, captured after the battle of Rangiriri, and their confinement on and escape from Kawau Island. Other sketches measuring 75 x 130 mm are sewn onto pages which have then been added into the book. They show [Maitataua?] redoubt (1866), Waitara river mouth (1865), 'Adam Clarke's village' near Opunake, Taranaki (1865), a view of a mountain [Mount Taranaki?] from Burtons Hill with a forest clearing and church in the foreground (1866), the redoubt at Te Arei (n.d), and [Popoko?] temporary camp of [Capt Corlets?] and of Bush Rangers] (1866). There is also a watercolour of Opunake Redoubt (1865) Attached inside the back cover is a manuscript map showing land between the Mimi River and the settlement of Pukearuhe in Taranaki (1866). A full description and digital copy of this map is available at library reference number MapColl-832.2gbbd/1866/Acc.54588 Variations in title - Cover title: New Zealand, past, present and future Other Titles - New Zealand, past, present and future Quantity: 1 volume(s) (viii, 331 pages). Physical Description: Printed matter (22 cm, purple linen)

Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]

By: Pegler, Enos Silvanus Abijah, 1869-1938

Reference: PAColl-9374

Description: Photographs on various topics, taken by Enos Silvanus Pegler of Onehunga. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: Description enhanced 13 March 2023.

Date: 1860s

By: Bates, Henry Stratton, 1836-1918; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Davis, I M, active 2000

Reference: PA-Group-00590

Description: Views of Auckland in 1863, mostly by John Kinder. The prints were mounted by Henry Stratton Bates in a copy of "Poenamo" by John Logan Campbell. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-181896 to 181909. Transparencies to be housed in PA12 sequence when housing arrives Quantity: 14 colour original transparency/ies copied from original prints returned to owner. Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2000. Reference number changed from PAColl-6292 to PA-Group-00590 in 2010.

Date: 1895

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

Reference: 1/4-034279-G

Description: Photograph taken by Daniel Manders Beere. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and photographer's lists. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[New Zealand sketches, 1864-1866]

Reference: B-045-008/009

Description: Shows boats and a pier (probably Wynyard Pier) in Offical Bay and Mechanics Bay beyond, with the hill of Parnell in the background. The land all around the bays is dotted with houses, and there appear to be 3 churches in Parnell. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, 138 x 464 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1869

By: Johnston, John Tremenhere, active 1850s-1860s

Reference: B-079-027

Description: View across Auckland and harbour from cemetery, looking down on Grafton Gully and Mechanics Bay. St Barnabas Church in centre middle ground, and possibly Parnell Orphanage at far right foreground (Cf. view by J O Hamley E-047-q-023) Supplied title Attribution based on style and information from donor Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 315 x 480 mm