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Date: 1862

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-084

Description: Shows glaciers and mountains in a double page spread. Other Titles - Neumann Range Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 150 x 390 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1866

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-139

Description: Cross sectional/panoramic view of the land formations between Coleridge Pass Hill (on the left) to River Selwyn (on the far left). Named features: Coleridge Pass Hill, Lake Lyndon, Big Ben Basin, sources of western Ko... branch, Big Ben, sources of River Selwyn. Includes compass bearings and text below the drawing. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink, 105 x 260 mm

Date: 1844 - 1846

From: [Selwyn, George Augustus], 1809-1878 :[Three watercolours. 1. Purewa Creek, Auckland Ch., Flying Fish and Marian, Okahu N. Village. 1840s; 2. Purewa [and first St John's College] ca 1845; 3. Putiki, Island of Waiheke. 1840s]

Reference: A-439-007

Description: Shows a view of the group of wooden buildings making up the first Auckland buildings of St John's College. Shows a two-storeyed building in the right foreground, with several figures sitting and standing in front of it, a row of four houses nearby and further houses at the far left, with fences linking the buildings over the cleared land. At the river is a stream, probably Purewa Creek and to the west, hilltops including Mt Wellington and a higher flat plateau in the distance (possibly Mount Hobson). See also a sketch of the same subject, from the same vantage point, by Thomas Biddulph Hutton, at Auckland Art Gallery, accession number 1939/17/1. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 148 x 222 mm.

Date: 1844 - 1846

From: [Selwyn, George Augustus], 1809-1878 :[Three watercolours. 1. Purewa Creek, Auckland Ch., Flying Fish and Marian, Okahu N. Village. 1840s; 2. Purewa [and first St John's College] ca 1845; 3. Putiki, Island of Waiheke. 1840s]

Reference: A-439-006

Description: Shows a view from inside a fence with a cart or plough on the near side of it, looking west northwest from the position of the Purewa Cemetery towards the Orakei Peninsula, the Orakei Basin and in the distance the hill of Parnell with a church (St Pauls' with the spire completed) on top of it. There are two small sailing ships (Selwyn's 'Flying Fish' and 'Marian' and a yacht off the Orakei point, and a group of huts ("Okahu N. Village") at the far right above the stream that flows into the Basin. St Paul's Church was built in 1843 but did not acquire the spire seen in this picture until a year or two later. Selwyn arrived in Auckland in 1843. Other Titles - Church; North Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 146 x 214 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1862

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-129

Description: Shows a distant view of the lake with the valley of the Wilberforce River in the foreground and mountains in the distance. Other Titles - South East Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - South East (in pencil) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 90 x 145 mm on sheet 122 x 170 mm

Date: 1860 - 1866

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-143

Description: Shows a cross sectional/panoramic view from Mt Torlesse (on left) to Race Course Hill (on right). Named features are: Mt Torlesse, branches of Little Kowai, Little Kowai, River Kowai, Corner Hill, River Hawkins, Abners Head, Hawkins coal mines, Race Course Hill. Compass bearings and additional text beneath section. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink, 110 x 510 mm

Date: 1926

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1686-1/2-G

Description: View of a railway viaduct over Patterson's Creek, Kowai Bush, Selwyn District. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1926. Information from Godber's index held in Photographic Archives (under 97. Patterson's Creek viaduct. Kowhai Bush. 1926) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1861 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-005

Description: Shows cattle grazing beside small stream, amongst grassy rolling country with hills in right background. Stuck on same page as E-501-f-004. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title]. Hurt farmed near the Selwyn River from about 1861. He was listed in the Rakaia electorate for 1872-73. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 146 x 226 mm.

Date: 1861 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-004

Description: Shows dog(?) and cattle in river at right, high rolling country with flax and cabbage trees, and the mountains near the Rakaia Gorge in the distance. Hurt farmed near the Selwyn River from about 1861. He was listed in the Rakaia electorate for 1872-73. Other Titles - Rakaia Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 139 x 214 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1866

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-140

Description: Shows cross sectional/panoramic view of mountain ranges from Summit of Mt Palmer (far left) to Mt Torlesse (far right). Named features: Summit of Mt Palmer, River Rakaia, Woolshed Hill, River Wilberforce, Peak Hill, Lake Coleridge Island, Carriage Road Hill, Round Hill, River Ryton, Sugar Loaf, Craigie (Craigieburn) Range, Castle Hill, River Porter, Mt Torlesse.. Cross bearings and additional text under drawing. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink, 145 x 800 mm

Date: ca 1910-1920

Reference: PAColl-7584

Description: The interior of Rangiatea Church, Otaki showing the kowhaiwhai and the organ; the exterior of Kemp House in Kerikeri; view of Kerikeri showing the Stone Store and Kemp House next to the bridge and the church on the hill; the Stone Stone at Kerikeri, in which Bishop Selwyn's library was housed at the mission station, with a cart being loaded outside; a woman standing next to the railings round the memorial to Rev Henry Williams in Paihia; woman standing next to the Treaty Monument outside the Treaty House at Waitangi (prior to renovations); the church in Russell "where Captain Hobson read his proclamations when he landed in 1840"; the stream in the Bay of Islands where Captain Cook got water for his vessels; two houses on the shore at Russell with some boats in the water; exterior of the rear of the Mission Church at Paihia; the front of the Mission Church with the Williams Memorial in the foreground; interior of the Mission Church showing the pews and with two women standing next to the organ; the oak pulpit of the Mission Church used by Rev Williams; houses on the waterfront at Paihia; the interior of Rangiatea Church looking towards the altar; two views of the Jubilee pole of the Maori Christian mission at Otaki with the monument to Te Rauparaha nearby; and the overgrown graveyard at Otaki with the grave of Te Rauparaha and his wife on the right. Photographer unidentified. Captions on the reverse of the prints are in the same hand-writing Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-007918, 007929, 007937, and 154517 Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 b&w original negative(s).