Places

Date: 1862

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-229-053

Description: Shows a large Maori carving of a man. Te Umu Kohukohu ('Steam oven') was a chief of Ngaiterangi Reproduced as a wood engraving in Crawford's Recollections of travel in New Zealand (London, Trubner, 1880) p. 135. Other Titles - Paurini's, Tokaanu, Te Umu Kohukohu, Ngati Kahungunu Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 130 x 177 mm

Date: 1846

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: A-229-023

Description: The entrance from Evans Bay, Wellington Harbour, to the tunnel built by J. C. Crawford to drain Burnham Water, a lake in the centre of Miramar Peninsula. The entrance to the tunnel is cut into a cliff and supporting beams are built around the opening. A small hut stands to the right of the tunnel and a path winds over the hill-top to the right. Rocks, flax bushes and a small cabbage tree are distinguishable in the foreground. Hataitai or Whataitai was the earlier name for Miramar Peninsula This drawing is the preliminary sketch for the watercolour with the same title at A-229-044 Other Titles - Miramar Peninsula Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 134 x 195 mm

Date: 1849

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898; Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: A-229-036

Description: View from hills looking down into a broad valley with bush and pasture across the Ruamahanga River to the Rimutaka hills and the area where Featherston is now located. Based on a pencil drawing by Francis Dillon Bell, dated 1849. The drawing is located amongst Crawford's drawings at A-229-028. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on paper 165 x 255 mm

Date: 1862

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-229-055

Description: A wooden homestead with verandah and attached and separate outbuildings, with bush beyond, a fence in front and a drive leading to the property. The low hills in the distance are cleared Captain Edward Daniell's pastoral run in Rangitikei was on land now partly occupied by the township of Bulls. He took up the land in 1849. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and Pencil on sheet 130 x 177 mm

Date: 1862 - 1880

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :Recollections of travel in New Zealand. London, Trubner, 1880.

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: PUBL-0085-024

Description: A view from the north front of J. C. Crawford's house "Miramar" on the Miramar Peninsula (originally the [W]Hataitai Peninsula) showing the house with a woman and child on the front verandah and a second house to its right, looking to the south west, towards Lyall Bay, with part of Rongotai and Kilbirnie to the left and the Houghton Bay hills in the background. Cabbage trees and flax in the left foreground. The house has a fence around its garden. The house was built in 1840. Extended Title - From Crawford, J. C. Recollections of travel in New Zealand. London, Trubner, 1880, p. 24. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 92 x 158 mm

Date: 1880

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :Recollections of travel in New Zealand. London, Trubner, 1880.

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Paterson, S, active 1880s

Reference: PUBL-0085-053

Description: A view up or down the Manawatu River, close to modern Foxton, with the ferryman's cottage on the higher left bank, a jetty curving down to the river, a crane at the end of the jetty and the flat pontoon-style ferry in the water. Two canoes being poled across the river and several people swimming. A third canoe is drawn up beside the river, at the foot of the bank. Extended Title - From Crawford, J. C. Recollections of travel in New Zealand. London, Trubner, 1880, p.53 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 82 x 93 mm (curved top edges)

Date: 1861 - 1880

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :Recollections of travel in New Zealand. London, Trubner, 1880.

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Paterson, active 1880

Reference: PUBL-0085-103

Description: Shows whare and Pataka, with some European-style houses on both sides of teh Whanganui River with high hills in the background. There are two cabbage trees in on the left, with a group of people seated below them, and a small canoe on the river. A standing man is conversing with a seated woman in the left foreground Based on a drawing in Crawford's sketchbook 'Pipiriki - Whanganui R. 25 December 1861' (Reference number E-041-031) Extended Title - From Crawford, J. C. Recollections of travel in New Zealand. London, Trubner, 1880, p. 103. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 80 x 83 mm

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-003

Description: View across a small lake (Burnham Water) on Miramar (originally Hataitai) Peninsula towards J C Crawford's "Glendavar" homestead nestled amongst the hills of Mount Crawford. Glendavar was J C Crawford's cattle farm at the north end of the lake, Burnham Water. The lake was drained by Crawford in 1858 to provide further land. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 254 mm Provenance: Crawford family, Fife, Scotland.

Date: 1846 - 1847

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: A-229-043

Description: View from Kaiwharawhara, looking across Thorndon Flat towards Te Aro and Mt Victoria. The Hotel at Kaiwharawhara is in the foreground and Hoggard & Simmonds windmill at the foot of Marjoribanks Street on Mt Victoria is clearly shown in the background. Kaiwharawhara stream is bridged and there is a Maori canoe pulling in to the stream mouth. The Mount Cook Barracks, shown as a single large building on top of Mt Cook are also depicted in the background. Simmonds & Hoggards Flourmill was built in 1843. Crawford returned to Wellington in 1846. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and wash on paper 176 x 260 mm

Date: 1840 - 1845

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: A-229-022

Description: View from half-way along Miramar Peninsula, looking south from behind the artist's house, across Burnham Lake and out to Cook's Strait. Trees in the foreground and fencing behind the house. Hataitai or Whataitai was the earlier name for Miramar Peninsula. The area shown is now the modern Wellington suburb Miramar and the lake in the centre is now flat land, after the artist drained it into Evans Bay. Other Titles - Miramar Peninsula Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 134 x 195 mm

Date: 1848

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-009

Description: View from behind the home of J. C. Crawford 'Glendavar', showing fenced paddocks, the house, the lake Burnham Water (later drained by Crawford), the Seatoun hills on the left, Maupuia hills on the right and Cook Strait in the distance Glendavar was J C Crawford's cattle farm at the North end of Burnham water, Miramar Other Titles - Cook Straits in distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 254 mm

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-008

Description: Kaiwharawhara stream and bridge in foreground; across the stream is a raupo hut and John Lodge's two-storeyed public house (also known as the Rainbow Hotel or Kaiwharawhara Hotel). The raupo whare is either one built for road-makers, or the immigration barracks built by Te Kaeaea (Taringa Kuri) to house Scottish colonists put ashore at Kaiwharawhara in December 1840. The area is shown before the 1855 earthquake, which raised the flat land in this part, and made the stream more shallow. The road up the hill on the near side of the stream is the Porirua Bridle Path, 6 feet wide. On the far side of the stream is the original Porirua coach road. (Information from Kapi-Mana news, Vol 23 no. 14, 10 March 1981, p. 22, by William Secker). Original deposited by on indefinite loan by Brigadier H N Crawford, August 1968. (See TL 2/56). Bequeathed to the Library in 1993 See also Onslow Historian, Vol 6 no 3, 1976, p. 9. Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 177 x 261 mm

Date: 1855 - 1865

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: MapColl-832.45gbbd/[ca.1860]/Acc.36640

Description: Cadastral map with topographical information of the Masterton, Carterton and South Wairarapa districts from the eastern coast at Castlepoint westwards to the Tararua and Rimutaka Ranges and southwards to Palliser Bay. Coloured areas of the map refer to the reference key; namely Native reserves, Native lands, land under negotiation and Crown land. Over 50 streams have Maori names. Settlements such as Featherston, Greytown, Carterton are indicated. Several settler names are associated with land ownership, including Riddiford, Baxton's, Cameron's, Moores, Guthries, Telfords, Luxfords, Vallance's, Russell, Donalds, Gillies, Bidwill. The names Manaia and Herangi are also indicated. Most coastal land is Crown land while Maori land is concentrated around the Maungaraki and the Pukehinau Ranges. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on tracing paper, 52.6 x 41 cm.

Date: 1846

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: A-229-015

Description: A river to the left, cleared land with a simple wooden dwelling with chimney at the left end, a door and three windows in the foreground, trees and hills beyond. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on paper 177 x 260 mm

Date: 1861

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of a trip up the Wanganui River, December 13, 1861-Jan 8, 1862]

By: Tuke, John Batty (Sir), 1835-1913; Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: E-041-060

Description: A view from the opposite bank of the Whanganui River, looking towards the settlement of Pipiriki with around 20 houses near the water and on the lower slopes of the hill, bush cleared back to the higher slopes. There is a cabbage tree prominent on the flat land near the river bank Quantity: 1 drawing(s) In his sketchbook of a trip up the Wanganui R[iver]. 1861-62.. Physical Description: Pencil & ink, 130 x 177 mm