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Whakapapa tables,correspondence, notes, schedule of rents and Royal Commission material
Date: 1881-1901
From: Mackay, Alexander, 1833-1909 : Maori land papers
Reference: MS-Papers-2089-1
Description: Contains detailed whakapapa tables of the Ngati Toa tribe, with cross links into Te Ati Awa, relating to the purchase of the top of the South Island by the Crown; a copy of the Royal Commission relating to Ngati Toa (published in the AJHR 1881); correspondence dated 1901 regarding McKay's retirement; notes and a schedule of Maori rents in Taranaki, Wellington, Nelson, Marlborough and Westland. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Scenic photographs of New Zealand complied by the Scenery Preservation Board
Date: [ca 1880-1910]
From: Scenery Preservation Board :Scenic photographs of New Zealand
By: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Scenery Preservation Board
Reference: PAColl-0444-1
Description: Photographs of the following: a set of seven photographs by Collis and annotated by F P Corkill, land agent, re landholding around the Waiwhakaiho River; scenic views such as waterfalls, lakes, and the Pink and White Terraces; bridges with annotations re height etc; sixteen numbered photographs mounted two to a card of scenic views in the Taranaki Region, Rotorua and the far north (including ones of Taumaha Gorge, Taranaki and Lake Ora - location unidentified); a set of seven photographs of the Waipu Caves including Lot's wife, the anvil and the sugar loaf in Morrison's Cave; a clipping of St Paul's Cupola and a photograph of Kauri Gully, Northcote with annotations on resolutions passed re the establishment of reservations; a panorama in two photographs of Flagstaff Hill, Dunedin with annotations re a potential reserve; and two of a tramping party of three men and five boys resting at a waterfall. Includes a recent hand-written list of the photographs. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted prints
Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926 :Maori village at Rotorua. [Postcard]. Waikato Art Museum...
Date: 1883 - 1970 - 1978
From: [Various artists] :Postcards of paintings and a carving in the Waikato Art Museum, London Street, Hamilton, New Zealand. [1970s]
By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926
Reference: E-278-q-057
Description: Reproduction of Charles Blomfield's painting `Maori village at Rotorua' (1883) depicting dwellings and hot springs (with steam rising from them). There is a large weeping willow on the right and a lake in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 124 x 184 mm
Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926 :Maori village at Rotorua. [Postcard]. Waikato Art Museum...
Date: 1883 - 1970 - 1978
From: [Various artists] :Postcards of paintings and a carving in the Waikato Art Museum, London Street, Hamilton, New Zealand. [1970s]
By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926
Reference: E-278-q-057-A
Description: Reproduction of Charles Blomfield's painting `Maori village at Rotorua' (1883) depicting dwellings and hot springs (with steam rising from them). There is a large weeping willow on the right and a lake in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 124 x 184 mm
Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :[New Zealand views]. Louis Glaser, Leipzig. [ca 1890s]
Date: 1880 - 1900
By: Glaser, Louis, active 1890s-1900s
Reference: E-278-q-072/079
Description: Eight New Zealand scenes from an accordion-fold view books. Undated but possibly 1880s-1890s. See individual records for fuller descriptions Quantity: 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photogravures, 88 x 138 mm
Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926 :Maori village at Rotorua. [Postcard]. Waikato Art Museum...
Date: 1883 - 1970 - 1978
From: [Various artists] :Postcards of paintings and a carving in the Waikato Art Museum, London Street, Hamilton, New Zealand. [1970s]
By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926
Reference: E-278-q-057-B
Description: Reproduction of Charles Blomfield's painting `Maori village at Rotorua' (1883) depicting dwellings and hot springs (with steam rising from them). There is a large weeping willow on the right and a lake in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 124 x 184 mm
Glaser, Louis, fl 1900s :North Shore - Auckland. [ca 1890s]
Date: 1880 - 1900
From: Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :[New Zealand views]. Louis Glaser, Leipzig. [ca 1890s]
Reference: E-278-q-073
Description: View from the Auckland Domain looking over a thickly treed area to the city and across the Waitemata Harbour to Devonport, North Head and Rangitoto Island Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, 90 x 137 mm
Maori notebook
Date: 1883-1924
By: Houston, John, 1891-1962
Reference: MS-Papers-5673
Description: Includes whakapapa from Taranaki and Waikato and also on Ruaputahanga; also contains waiata, karakia and tauparapara from Taranaki; also includes diary entries, court expenses and the names of people involved in voting for Runanga members; these accounts are handwritten by Tinirau Ariki and Marereira Wiremu; also contains an account of a meeting between Tuatahi and Titokowaru; also contains a story entitled 'Te Kainga o Uenuku Ko Ratamaru' Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 vol, ca 90 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (32 cm; ¼ red cloth, marbled boards)
Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :Christchurch from Cathedral. [ca 1890s]
Date: 1880 - 1900
From: Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :[New Zealand views]. Louis Glaser, Leipzig. [ca 1890s]
Reference: E-278-q-075
Description: Birdseye view of the city from the cathedral spire looking along Columbo Street towards the Cashmere hills. Horse-drawn carts are lined up in Cathedral Square below. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, 90 x 137 mm
Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :Christchurch from Cathedral. [ca 1890s]
Date: 1880 - 1900
From: Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :[New Zealand views]. Louis Glaser, Leipzig. [ca 1890s]
Reference: E-278-q-076
Description: Birdseye view of the city from the cathedral spire looking down at Cathedral Square to the Post Office building. Horse-drawn carts and carriages can be seen in the square below. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, 90 x 137 mm
Wallingford School : Log book
Date: 1887-1953
By: Wallingford School
Reference: qMS-2112
Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (442 pages). Physical Description: Ms (34 cm; ½ red morooco)
Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :Lyttelton Harbour. [ca 1890s]
Date: 1880 - 1900
From: Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :[New Zealand views]. Louis Glaser, Leipzig. [ca 1890s]
Reference: E-278-q-078
Description: View looking down onto Lyttleton from a hill. Ships can be seen docked at the wharves and in the harbour. In the foreground to the left are two carts, one filled with soil [?]. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, 90 x 137 mm
Maori Land Court - Assessor's book
Date: 1888-1904
From: Te Whaiti family : Collection
Reference: MSY-4815
Description: Records from the sitting of the Maori Land Court in Wairarapa, including ver batim evidence in Maori of questions and answers in the court and related whakapapa information; also contains some records of the Rongokako Maori Council between 1900-1904; also contains a draft letter from A H Kumeroa (?) to Iraia Te Whaiti about the wedding of Hiu Te Miha, and a list of people associated with the management of Te Puke Ki Hikurangi in 1904
Sedon, Joan, 1914- : This was my life
Date: 1990
By: Brown, Joan, 1914-2006
Reference: MS-Papers-10575
Description: Life story of Joan Sedon written to inform her descendants about her generation of the Sedon family of Wanganui Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (10 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter (completed in typescript)
H T Whatahoro Jury - Notebook with cosmological information
Date: 1889 - 1906
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B023
Description: Contains notes about the occupation of land near Greytown by the Ngati Muretu hapu, and a draft letter complaining about land sold by someone that does not own it; contains cosmological information, including whakapapa of various deities and a detailed account of the life of Maui Tikitiki; also contains notes about practices and traditions associated with childbirth and the instruction of children in martial and practical arts; there are also notes about practices within whare wananga and the conditions placed on students There is a narrative about Ngatoroirangi of the Te Arawa canoe, and a warning about incorrect whakapapa and the use of repetitive names to inflate a whakapapa; there is also a discussion of the relevance of traditional knowledge in contemporary society There is a narrative dictated by Te Wera Hauraki and Tarahau in 1837 about Ngati Awa, recited by Te Matorohanga to Te Whatahoro at a later date; the narrative describes the arrival of Ngati Awa at Whakatane and their conflicts with the resident tangata whenua, which includes a detailed physical description of these people; there is a narrative about the migration of Toi and Whatonga to New Zealand and their subsequent settlement There is a narrative of 19th century conflicts involving Waikato and Taranaki tribes and subsequent events, whakapapa (including some taken from the Journal of the Polynesian Society), karakia associated with various practices and activities (including notes about the performance of karakia by tohunga), and waiata (including notes from Sir George Grey's `Nga Moteatea' There is a narrative about the birth of Tuteremoana of the Ngai Tara tribe, with related waiata; a list of place-names and pa sites in the Wellington area and some notes about conflicts involving Wairarapa hapu; there are also notes about the proceedings of a whakapapa hui held at Papawai in 1906, including an address by H P Tunuiarangi Other - 5 loose pages are inserted in the beginning. One page is titled `Te Ngakiatotara', another 2 pages are titled `Kereitaone' and the other is a list of names from Ngati Awa Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph (32 cm; maroon boards)
West Coast Mining album
Date: [Circa 1880s to 1912]
By: Divis, Joseph, 1885-1967
Reference: PA1-o-531
Description: Very clear views of West Coast gold and coal mines (mainly in the Reefton subdivision), and mining towns, taken by unidentified photographers, except for one of "Wondrous Waiuta New Zealand" Jos. Divis Photo (p 27). Views on various roads include the Reefton to Blackspoint Road, Reefton to Westport Road, the Buller Gorge, the Maruia Road alongside the Inangahua River, Progress Road, and fording a river near Progress Mill. Images relating to mines include a winter picture of the old Wealth (of Nations) waterwheel covered in icicles; and gold batteries at various stages of development. Gold mines include the Progress Mine, Wealth of Nations Mine, Welcome Mine, the Mountain Battery at Boatman's Creek, the Blackwater Mine and the Globe Mine. Coal mines include views of Lanky's Creek Coal Mine, and the Lanky's Creek to Energetic coal tramway showing new bridges and coal miners. One photograph (p 9) shows several men "beach combing" for gold on the West Coast. There are a number of articles in The West Coast Times, Otago Witness and Otago Daily Times talking about the success or otherwise of seeking gold by this method in the 1860s to 1880s (see Papers Past paperspast.natlib.govt.nz, search under "beach combing" "west coast") Inscriptions: Album page - "To Messrs E & A Spencer with best wishes from D Turnbull, Reefton, N.Z., 13/10/1911, 2/6/1912" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark grey cover, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 19.0 x 27.5 cm
Photographs of people and events
Date: 1983-1985
From: Hames, Jenny :Negatives and photographs
Reference: PAColl-5811-1
Description: Greek Week in Wellington, reading recovery teachers and pupils, Sir Graham and Lady Latimer, piano teacher Judith Clark, Wellington City buses, Author Fiona Kidman, Kristelle Plimmer bringer of gorilla grams, the Heng family from Cambodia, Children's author Lynley Dodd, teacher and students at Kimi Ora school Wellington, Election night 1984 including Bob Jones, artist Janet Paul, editor Margaret Moony, Buskers on Wellington's streets. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).
Price, Thomas Edward, 1863-1928 : Group photograph of cricketers and their friends outs...
Date: [ca 1890-1910]
By: Price, Thomas Edward, 1863-1928
Reference: PA7-50-06
Description: Photograph of cricketers and their friends sitting in front of the pavilion in the Tauranga Domain. Tauranga Cricket Club played Opotiki Cricket Club, the match being won by Opotiki. Photograph taken by Thomas Edward Price in 1890-1910? Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 173 x 277 mm
Otamatea County and Kaipara matters - prior to 1911 (1/10 - 1/12)
Date: [ca 1970-1975]
From: Sutch, William Ball (Dr), 1907-1975 : Research notes on Joseph Gordon Coates
Reference: MS-Papers-7170-006
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
J H Bethune and Company Limited : Canterbury photographs
Date: ca 1880-1900
By: J H Bethune and Company Ltd; Burton, William Henry, 1823?-1898; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-3359
Description: Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope. Physical Description: Four photoprints approx 180 x 240mm and seven photoprints approx 160 x 200mm