Places

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: 1933

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-10091-G

Description: Photograph taken by Leo White Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1959 - 1960

From: Frieboe, Conrad, d 1989 :[Original drawings for "Explorers of New Zealand", by A H Reed, 1960. ca 1959-1960]

Reference: A-406-009

Description: Shows Bishop Selwyn walking across the Raukokore River in the rain, while his two Maori guides look on from the top right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on card, 381 x 240 mm.

Date: 28 Mar 1846

From: Selwyn family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-10105-15-07

Description: Letter to William Selwyn, written on HM Brig Victoria, off Cloudy Bay, Cooks Strait. Sailing for Waikanae Mission Station. Hadfield ill. Anxiety over effect on Maori of news of the fighting at Kororareka. War in the North Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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: Aug 1959

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-51279

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic negative

Date: Aug 1959

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-51278

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic negative

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: PA11-267-5

Description: Boy in a boat. He may be Sewyn Ibbetson or Child Scaife. Photographed by George Ibbetson in about 1910. Quantity: 1 b&w lantern slide(s).

Date: 1846, 1979

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7888-153

Description: Handwritten copy of a letter from Bishop Selwyn to Joshua Thorp at Thames, concerning the imcomplete state of St John's College and the possibility of enrolling Thorp's son there (1846). Also, a letter from J King Davis at St John's College, to W Hampton Thorp asking to borrow Thorp's diary of his school days at St John's College (1912). There is a covering letter from Jessie Thorp, who provided thre original copies (1979). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1982

From: Stones, Anthony, 1934-2016 :Sketchbook 1981-1982

Reference: E-181-q-051

Description: A scene in Parnell showing St Stephens, a Bishop Selwyn Church Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, page size 271 x 210 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: 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-439-008

Description: Shows a view from the water of a small stretch of beach on which three canoes are drawn up. A group of Maori inhabitants stand on the shore, and further inland is a group of houses and a higher building which may be a storehouse, with a separate house surrounded by a verandah on a slight rise at the far left. On the shore in the far right foreground is a tree with red blossoms, possibly a pohutukawa. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 147 x 213 mm.

Date: 1918

From: Various artists :[Curios, badges, medals and awards from the Porritt papers]

Reference: Curios-040-041

Description: Cap to be worn by students at Selwyn College, Dunedin. The retailer's label, J Ballantyne & Co., is stitched inside at the crown, and the name of the owner A E Porritt is written in ink on the label. Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Circular black fabric cap of eight panels, circumference 600 mm, with grey central tassel 150 mm long, and embroidered monogram

Date: 1911-1917, n d

From: Daniell, Frederick Charles, 1879-1953 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-3763-3/6/28

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1994

From: Bromhead, Peter (1933- ) :Cartoon entries for Qantas Media Awards, 1994. 19 May 1994 to 11 October 1994.

Reference: H-234-008

Description: Shows a bed without a mattress. A man wearing a top hat (The Govt.) is stretched out between the bedhead (New Zealand) and the foot of the bed (By-election). Refers to the Selwyn by-election. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service..

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-015

Description: The essay chronicles the activities of the Washbourne family from England in 1259 to New Zealand from 1850 to 1950. The families of some wives have been mentioned where their inclusion is relevant. Farming in the Canterbury region is the main focus of the family's activities although brief mention is made of two North Island farms. The diaries of J Maddison and Fanny Washbourne, quoted in the narrative, are still in existence and in the possession of Ronald Washbourne Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: 1994

From: Bromhead, Peter (1933- ) :Cartoon entries for Qantas Media Awards, 1994. 19 May 1994 to 11 October 1994.

Reference: H-234-006

Description: The first scene shows a head on a plate which is being held out by a hand (Govt.) as a `gift to the nation'. The next scene shows another head, with a hole in it, on a plate (By-election) held out by an arm (Ruth) and represents a `gift to the Govt'. Refers to Ruth Richardson's resignation which resulted in the Selwyn by-election. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service..

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-072

Description: An account of John Chambers, his wife Ellen and their children who left Ireland as assisted emigrants in 1874 and settled in the Ellesmere District, Canterbury. The story covers three generations of the Chambers family and describes farming life and the rural community Quantity: 1 folder(s). Includes photographs

Date: 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000882-F

Description: Men sharpening shearers' blades on a grindstone at Grasmere Station, near Cass, Canterbury Region, photographed by John Dobree Pascoe in 1944. Alan Rose stands on the right. Caption - written by John Pascoe: "In the back country, that is in the mountainous or inaccessible parts of New Zealand shearing is still done by hand with 'the blade', though most North Island or low country stations use machines. Blades are sharpened by grindstone, later a fine oilstone." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).