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Date: 1850-1909

By: Baines family

Reference: MS-Papers-1125

Description: Correspondence and diary of William Mortimer Baines who came to New Zealand in 1850 on the `Sir Edward Paget'. The papers deal with his interests in mining, timber and land. Includes letters from the Fooks, Dixon and Hunt families of Australia. Includes letters from Maryanne Verdon Baines (1859-1869), mostly to her husband after his departure for England. These are concerned to a large extent with her loneliness in Auckland and with plans for her voyage to England. In addition there are a number of letters written in 1869, by Maryanne and William's children, Fanny, Katherine and Rosa. Source of title - Supplied William Mortimer, came to New Zealand in 1850 on the `Sir Edward Paget'. In 1869 he returned to Britain, although he retained a financial interest in land in New Zealand. Quantity: 10 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (photocopies) Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1905-1911

From: Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert, 1862-1940 :Photographs of Tutira and district, Hawke's Bay

By: Guthrie-Smith, Henry Wallis, 1868-1932; Guthrie-Smith, Archibald Guthrie, 1874-1949

Reference: PA1-o-1642

Description: Includes a large section relating to Mangapapa Station, Mangatu, that seems to be particularly associated with Archibald and D Guthrie-Smith. Many of the photographs are taken by Archibald and Harry Guthrie Smith. Includes - Views of Mangapapa homestead in recently burnt over hill country. Horses and dray crossing ford at Campbell's Crossing on the Mangamaia Road. Whatatutu School. Whatatutu Hotel. Stockyards, Mangapapa Station, 1908. Horses crossing the Mangatu River. Sheep at Mangapapa Station, 1908. Mangatu Bridge. Horses packing posts for boundary fences, 1908. Forest cut through ready for burning, 1907. Bush camps. Horses packing sacks of grass seed for burnt over hill country, 1908. Flood at Mangapapa Station that washed away stock yards. Ox team pulling a mill engine out of the mud, 1910. Sawpit in timber mill opposite homestead, 1910. Archibald and D Guthrie Smith with their horses and sheep dogs, 1907. Horse "Roany" with Old Tom, 1907. Horses and men outside "Primrose & Leslie Bros. Saddlers" Whatatutu. Settlers whare, Mangatu. Maori group, Whatatutu. Farmhouse of Messrs Manders and Dods, 1907. Crop of turnips. Mrs Martin's house up the Mangatu River. W Barron's homestead, Mangahaumia, 1905. Hegarty's woolshed up the Mangahaumia River. Bush fellers at their camp. Men with horses fencing hill country. Bailed wool ready for loading, Aotearoa Station, Mangatu. "Bricky" driving cart drawn by four horses through river with the mail. Puha Railway Station. Maori children. William Herbert Guthrie-Smith's daughter, Barbara, August 1903, 1906, and 1910. Guthrie-Smith, his wife, daughter, and brothers Archibald and Harry, 1911. Children's birthday party, 1906. House and garden at Tutira Station. Views of Lake Tutira. Staff, work animals, and head shepherd's house, Tutira Station. Native pigeon and pukeko's nest, Tutira. Large Christmas group, Turira Station, 1906. Shearers and shed hands, Tutira Station, 1905. Freshly harvested and processed flax, Tutira Station. Mrs F Moore, manager, Mangapapa Station. Bert Russell with horse "Bluey." Sheep yards, Aotearoa Station, Mangatu. Bert Russell and station cook Tom Marchant with horses. First grass on burnt off land, and cattle yards, Mangapapa Station. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchase, 2010

Date: 1903-1948

By: Simpson, Audrey, active 1980s

Reference: PAColl-5597

Description: Most of the group photographs are in the form of staff cricket and rugby teams. There are also some formal group photos of staff and a page of personal snaps. Men predominate in the record, though in one case there is a group of women staff from the office and the accountant. In most of the photographs the people are named Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1985 - 1909

By: Walsh, Alfred Wilson, 1859-1916; Fourth Estate Productions

Reference: C-117-065-a

Description: Shows South Island scene of huts in a valley. There are two wooden huts in the right foreground, and a woman on a path in front of them, carries a pole and possibly a bucket. Further off is another group of huts, beneath a bushy slope. On image: Alfred W. Walsh, 1909. Reproduction of watercolour. Original held in National Art Gallery. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, 420 x 600 mm Provenance: Free print offer from the publishers of the New Zealand business who's who, 1985.

Date: 1872-1903

By: Robson, Charles Hepburn Orlando, 1855-1913

Reference: MS-Papers-6271

Description: Transcripts of diaries of Charles Robson and his daughter Amy Robson. Those of Charles Robson contain brief entries detailing his life on lighthouses around New Zealand from 1872 to 1903. Amy Robson then a 16 year old, recorded a trip on the Hinemoa around the Snares and southern part of of the South Island, arranged by the Government Light Service for her father and family upon his retirement. Transcripts made by Malcolm Robson. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 folder(s). 2 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1985 - 1909

By: Walsh, Alfred Wilson, 1859-1916; Fourth Estate Productions

Reference: C-117-065-b

Description: Shows South Island scene of huts in a valley. There are two wooden huts in the right foreground, and a woman on a path in front of them, carries a pole and possibly a bucket. Further off is another group of huts, beneath a bushy slope. On image: Alfred W. Walsh, 1909. Reproduction of watercolour. Original held in National Art Gallery. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, 420 x 600 mm Provenance: Free print offer from the publishers of the New Zealand business who's who, 1985.

Date: 1900s

By: Lander, Loretta Elma, 1941-2021

Reference: PAColl-5757

Description: Portrait of Edward Cutts, race-horse breeder and trainer of Chokebore Lodge, Riccarton, Christchurch; and a handcoloured portrait of his daughter, Alberta Cutts. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donor is descendant of Edward Cutts.

Date: [ca 1848-1900]

By: Williams family

Reference: 77-198

Description: Folders of letters from mainly the women members of the Williams family. The letters are mainly written by the women members of the family, and are of a personal and social nature, although with some commentary on current events such as the New Zealand wars, and mission news. Some partial diaries are also included. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 box(es). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Finding Aids: Rough preliminary inventory available.. Processing information: Fourteen folders have been sorted. The rest have yet to be arranged and described.

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-029

Description: Orari Homestead (South Canterbury), the home of the Tripp family, with its surrounding garden and a woman standing to the left in the foreground. Hills in the background. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 31 December 1900 - 16 December 1902

From: Jackson, Ann Fletcher, 1833-1903 :Journals and Poems

Reference: MSX-7768

Description: Although Ann Fletcher Jackson was in her sixties at the time of writing and had bad health, she continued to travel New Zealand and visit Quakers in remote locations. She was increasingly frail, and much of this journal is her reflections on her health, the death and funerals of close friends and family, and her ongoing mission as a Quaker. Ann Fletcher Jackson resides in Mount Roskill at the time of writing this journal. She names the family house there 'Eureka'. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [Circa 1890s-1900s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Skeen & Co.; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: Pa1-o-517

Description: Album of photographs taken by various photographers many of whom are unidentified. Photographs are seen on pages 1-31, with pages 32-50 unused. Colombo is shown in the first part of the album, and includes street scenes, the "Old Colombo Lighthouse", the Galle Face Hotel(?), views of outrigger fishing canoes, carts drawn by humped cattle, "padda" boats on a canal, and a group of young Sri Lankan women. The second part of the album contains views of New Zealand, chiefly in the thermal regions with views of Ohinemutu, Hamurana Springs, the Poutuhu Geyser, Waimangu Geyser, the "Fairy bath" at Okoroire and the "Okoroire Natural Bridge Rapids". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, darker red corners and spine; 24.0 x 31.5 cm

Date: 1985 - 1909

By: Walsh, Alfred Wilson, 1859-1916; Fourth Estate Productions

Reference: C-117-065

Description: Shows South Island scene of huts in a valley. There are two wooden huts in the right foreground, and a woman on a path in front of them, carries a pole and possibly a bucket. Further off is another group of huts, beneath a bushy slope. On image: Alfred W. Walsh, 1909. Reproduction of watercolour. Original held in National Art Gallery. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, 420 x 600 mm Provenance: Free print offer from the publishers of the New Zealand business who's who, 1985.

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-018

Description: The life history of William Crush Daldy briefly covering his early life in England, meeting his first wife Frances Harriet Pulham, the voyage to Tasmania and their continuation onto New Zealand. Their life in Auckland is covered in more detail including William's many business ventures. There are extracts from several diaries written by his sister-in-law Eleanor Sarah Combes and also from Daldy's memoirs. His marriage to Amey Smith nee Hamerton and her activities in the suffrage movement are also included Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: 1952

By: Hadfield, Amelia Caroline, 1869-1956

Reference: qMS-0893

Description: Comprises chronology of Kate Hadfield's life, foreword, and biography constructed from diaries, letters and family memories. Hadfield describes life with the Williams family, Kate Hadfield's move to Otaki and marriage to Octavius Hadfield and generally the life of a mission wife. Included are comments on the NZ wars, Tamihana Te Rauparaha and letters re Kate Hadfield's death. Copy of letter from Miss A C Hadfield bound in with item. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (19 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm, grey linen) Provenance: Catherine Hadfield was donor's mother

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-071

Description: This biographical outline traces the life of William George Cleaver, sergeant in 58th Regiment of Foot. The story tells of his marriage to Charlotte McDowell and sets out his later years as settler on the Coromandel Peninsula at Tairua and Whitianga Quantity: 1 folder(s). Includes photograph

Date: 2 Aug 1909

By: Anderson, (Miss), active 1906-1909

Reference: MS-Papers-5173

Description: Illuminated testimonial presented by the YWCA at Christchurch to Miss Anderson in recognition of her work for the organization during the past three years Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 leaf). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, vellum

Date: [ca 1894-1900]

By: Hanna, John Robert, 1850-1915

Reference: PAColl-10201

Description: Three black and white prints; no known link between prints. Taken by unknown photographers, probably between 1894 and 1900. Includes two class portraits of a girls school taken in a garden. One print captioned 'Lower Glenside School, October 1896', the other print embossed 'Hanna Photo', probably taken by John Robert Hanna of Auckland. Adult woman with lace cap features in both photographs. Also includes a wide view overlooking Taihape township surrounded by felled trees, bush and unsealed roads. Accompanying information - Lower Glenside School print was accompanied by a post-it-note 'Tawa mgt' (not retained). A girls day and boarding school called 'Lower Glenside School' operated from Upper Symonds Street, Auckland, circa 1890s. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s) (two prints mounted on card). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints Provenance: Purchased by Ms Hoy from a Mary Potter Hospice ship, Thorndon, Wellington, April 2014. Nothing further known.

Date: [ca 1906]

From: Brown, Denzil James (Rev), 1925- :Photographs

Reference: PA11-267-7

Description: Portrait of an unidentified young woman standing outside backed by laurel leaves and a wooden fence. Photographed by George Ibbetson in about 1906. Quantity: 1 b&w lantern slide(s).

Date: 1905-ca1930

By: Tobin, Helen, active 1997

Reference: PAColl-5626

Description: Postcard views showing Glenalvon (Admiralty House, Auckland), and rural family and social scenes. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1901

By: New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal

Reference: H-711-017

Description: Father and mother sit at their ease beside the fireside with their extensive family behind them. Extended Title - Mrs Smith (the modern Cornelia) - 'H'as H'i allus say, "These are our jewels. Where would we be without 'em?"' Mr Smith (the father of twelve) - 'Most like breakin' stones'. Mr O'Meara, M.H.R. (Member of the House of Representatives), pointed out to the premier last week the millions that have been spent on assisting immigration, and urged as a better means of increasing the population that the government should pay a bonus to the parents of large families. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy.