Places

Date: 1860 - 1890

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Fergusson and Mitchell (Firm); Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-259-009

Description: A plain in the foreground, with several Maori dwellings amongst scattered cabbage trees. Rotoaira Lake in the middle distance and part of Tongariro Mount rising behind. The artist has drawn a plume of steam rising from the flank of the mountain Engraved by an unknown artist after a drawing by James Coutts Crawford. See Ellis, E.M. Early prints of N.Z. p. 193, no. 799 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Tongariro Rotoaira. [in ink, in Crawford's hand] Original sketch by Crawford done on 1862 trip held at E-051-045/046. cf A-259-008 Junction of Moawhanga with Rangitikei ...which appears to have been removed from the same unknown publication. Untitled proof of engraving for unidentified publication; titled version held in Richard Taylor's sketchbook E-296-012-3 (neg. 1/2-050424) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 78 x 149 mm on sheet 114 x 188 mm

Date: 1904

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: Eph-C-RAILWAYS-1904-01

Description: Arrangement of text, with small photograph of train engine at the top. Lists the train fares and train arrangements on the Auckland-Frankton line, the Te Awamutu line, the Cambridge branch, and the Thames branch. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 444 x 143 mm. Provenance: Previously part of the Ken Webster Collection.

Date: 1862

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

Reference: A-229-061

Description: Snow-topped Ruapehu with Tongariro beyond it to the right, in eruption Inscriptions: Verso - J. C. Crawford [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 183 x 225 mm

Date: 1866

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 :Maps from collection

By: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967; Chapman, George Thomson, 1824-1881

Reference: MapColl-832.14a/1866/Acc.10939

Description: This published map is mounted in segments on linen and features the area from Mangere down the west coast to the Mokau River and across from bottom of the Coromandel Peninsula down past the Tauranga Harbour to just above Lake Taupo. Also outlined in red is the south bank of the Waikato River to Mercer, northwards to Hunua, Clevedon across to the Firth of Thames and southwards to Orakau. Some settlements, including selected ones in the Manuaku Harbour area, some roads, rivers, lakes and the coastlines are shaded. Numerous pencilled notes claimed to have been written by Alfred Domett include details of the type of soil and vegetation. Inscriptions: Verso - top right - '*Grandfather's notes on condition of lands in New Zealand' and '*Alfred Domett's'; Verso - top right - Stamp - 'Webster 554 collection' Map drawn by Alfred Domett's grandfather. Either Nathaniel Domett's father or Elizabeth Curling's father. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Pencil annotations on lithograph, hand coloured, scale [1:253 440], 86.8 x 52.6 cm. Provenance: Purchased from the estate of K A Webster, London. Notes on reverse suggest map owned at some stage by Domett Family. Webster Collection no.554 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967: The Webster collection and papers - MS-Group-0002.

Date: 1846

By: Wallis, James (Rev), 1809-1895; Baxter, George, 1804-1867; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: B-088-014

Description: A church and mission station on the north side of the Waingaroa (Raglan) Harbour, Waikato. The mission station and church established by the Rev. James Wallis at Nihinihi is shown. There are Maori and Pakeha walking up the path to the church, others standing on the bank of the river and two canoes emptying their passengers, with three more drawing up. Based on an original ink and watercolour by Rev. James Wallis, 1809-1896, showing the Wesleyan settlement at Te Horea (on the north side of Raglan Harbour), ca 1836. Original held in Methodist Missionary Society, London. The Library holds a photograph of the original, negative 22548 1/2. cf. A-015-025, a chomolithograph by an unknown artist derived from this print, but altered in a number of details, most noticeably in the configuration of the canoes. Note that the Ellis number for the Baxter print (Ellis 168), while correctly describing the Baxter print, is illustrated on the opposite page with the later chromolithograph. (E. M. & D. G. Ellis. Early Prints of New Zealand (Christchurch, 1978), p. 64 & 65. Other Titles - Waingaro George Baxter Extended Title - From: Wesleyan Juvenile Offering; a miscellany. London, Vol. 3, 1846, frontispiece. Rev. James Wallis occupied two different mission stations on the shores of Raglan Harbour, the first, Te Horea near the northern mouth of the harbour, the later, from 1838-1862, at Nihinihi, somewhat inland and south of the harbour. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Baxter print 94 x 160 mm