Places

Date: [186-], 1951, 1982, [200-]

From: Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8897-59

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, manuscripts, typescripts, printed matter

Date: 1841 - 1842

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; C Hullmandel (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: C-026-001-c

Description: View from the corner of Willis Street and Lambton Quay looking along the length of Lambton Quay. See also key to this view at C-026-001 First plate, 1st issue, hand-coloured Library holds original watercolour on which this print is based at C-025-010, title: Thorndon flat and part of the city of Wellington ... April 1841 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, two-tone, handcoloured, 366 x 524 mm

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-061

Description: Shows Ohiro Bay (or valley) with a flock of sheep attended by a shepherd and a large-single storied house nestled against trees, the home of Judge Halswell, unfinished according to the accompanying note by the artist. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 85 x 130 mm on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-032/034

Description: Shows views in the Wellington area. The top view looks across cleared land towards Porirua Harbour, with cows grazing; the central view looks north along Lambton Quay with Barrett's Hotel and other buildings on the left, a group of Maori seated and standing on the waterfront to the right; the bottom view is of a rocky archway on the coast between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki Other Titles - Porirua Other Titles - Paripari Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1857

By: Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913

Reference: A-256-040-a

Description: Sheep and a cow on fenced pasture in the foreground, a cottage surrounded by bush and cultivated garden in the centre, hills and Mount Taranaki in the background. In the style of New Plymouth artist George Channing Gilbert and possibly from an original drawing by him. Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Opposite p. 209. Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted 90 x 154 mm

Date: 1842

Reference: MapColl-834.1953gbbd/[1842?]/Acc.10469

Description: Quantity: 1 map(s) photocopy. Physical Description: 61 x 77 cm. No scale given

Date: 18 Dec 1842

By: Dowdeswell family

Reference: MSI-Papers-4267

Description: Letter, written from Parrurua [ie Porirua] Road, describes the voyage to New Zealand, their arrival in Wellington, setting up their accommodation house and life in Wellington. Bishop Selwyn's visit is also described in the letter. Accompanying material - Photocopy of letter (4 leaves), envelope with annotations in unknown hand, and photocopies of correspondence between Library and Mrs B Kay, great grand-daughter of Susannah Wall, Pukerua Bay Other - Published in part in Tawa Flat and the old Porirua Road / A H Carman (1970) Susannah Wall arrived in Wellington with her husband Anthony Wall, four sons and one daughter, on the Lord William Bentinck in May 1841. They set up the Halfway House for travellers on the Porirua Road Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 pp on 1 folded leaf). Physical Description: Holograph (encapsulated) Provenance: Original held by Percy Wall family of Hinerangi, Hatuma, Hawkes Bay, for many years

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. [Plate 20]. Pitone Pa, Wellington, 59; Tinakori Road Wellington, 60; Residence of His Honor Judge Halswell at Ohiro. Engraved by Henry Melville. Drawn by S C Brees. [London, 1847].

Reference: A-259-045-1

Description: Shows the Pitone or Petone pa on the waterfront at Petone, with a waka pulled up on the beach at the right. Several groups of Maori stand in the foreground. Other Titles - Petone Extended Title - From his "Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand", plate 20. [1847]. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on sheet 80 x 135 mm.

Date: 1842-1844

By: Williams, John Brown, 1810-1860

Reference: Micro-MS-0186

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (Positive, ca 153 pages).

Date: 1842 - 1857

By: Smith, Hannah Stephenson, 1813-1891; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-256-039-a

Description: Mount Taranaki on the left in the distance. Two cottages in a clearing backed by tall trees in the middle ground, with fenced in gardens. In the foreground a field with sheep and cattle and hay being hauled on a cart by oxen. The artist is very likely to be Hannah Stephenson Smith who drew views of a later family home in Taranaki, and was also the sister of the author of the book in which this view appeared as the frontispiece. Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, C. New Zealand or Zelandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Frontispiece. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 90 x 150 mm on sheet 120 x 180 mm

Date: 1842 - 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-259-044-a

Description: Top image shows the church on the site of St Mary's of the Angels, Boulcott Street; middle image shows the first court building in Lower Mulgrave Street; and the lower image shows Francis Molesworth's house, known as Newry, on the Hutt River Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Handcoloured engravings on sheet 367 x 275 mm.

Date: 1852-1867, 1911, 1970, 1995-1996

From: Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8897-65

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, manuscripts, typescripts, printed matter

Date: 1842 - 1850

By: Shortland, Edward, 1812?-1893

Reference: MapColl-832.11ee/ca.1842/Acc.28707

Description: Photocopy of a hand-drawn map of a major part of Great Barrier Island, drawn as far south as Pariwhero and Waikau. Settlements, including some described as native, have Maori names. Some rivers and streams are included but are unnamed. Some islands are named. Shortland, E. 1842-50. Gt. Barrier Is. and similar information is written in pencil on the reverse. Other Titles - Great Barrier Island Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, [scale indeterminable]. 29.5 x 19.2 cm.

Date: 1842 - 1979

By: Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866; Fruit Distributors Ltd

Reference: C-077-026

Description: The central portion of a three-part panorama of Nelson Published ca 1845 in book entitled 'Adventure in New Zealand' by Smith Elder (London). Same as C-077-026-a, b, c, Extended Title - Reproduced from tinted lithograph in: Illustrations to `Adventure in New Zealand' by Edward Jerringham Wakefield, Esqre, London : Smith Elder, 1845 Also issued by Fruit Distributors as illustration on calendar for 1980. See C-086-1980-01. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 240 x 500 mm on sheet 400 x 610 mm

Date: 1842 - 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870; Hutchison, Alan James Hanna, 1905-2000

Reference: A-259-042

Description: Shows views in the Wellington area. Other Titles - Porirua Paripari Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1842-1866, n d

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-207

Description: Comprises a whakapapa of Warea area people, April 1862, in Maori (10 pages); a 19-page text of 43 waiata, dated 4 Feb 1866 (by Ropata Ngarongomate?); a further transcription of 50 waiata in Maori hand, possibly from Taranaki area; a 7-page account in Maori of the stories of Kae and Maui; an account of the activities of Wiremu Kingi Matakatea; and a document titled 'Maori house' which lists names of the figures depicted in the pou of 'Te Hau ki Tūranga', a whare built by the Ngāti Kaipoho tribe "to the memory of Tamata Waaka Tuangere [Tamati Waaka Mangere], the elder brother of Raharuhi Rukupo who designed it". This whare was built in Turanga (Gisborne) in 1842-1843. In addition to the above Maori writing the folder contains a large empty envelope with a pasted on note in Smith's hand listing previous contents, some of which are now to be found in other folders; a Taranaki whakapapa with a note by Smith saying it was given to him by Mr Jackson, Native interpreter at New Plymouth, Jun 1910; a drawing of a sailing canoe and miscellaneous photographs and other documents. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescript

Date: 1842

By: Mathew, Felton, 1801-1847

Reference: A-220-002

Description: Coastal profiles of New Zealand coastlines Copied from pencil drawings Other Titles - North Island Inscriptions: Signed Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of survey drawings

Date: 6 Jan-7 Feb 1842

By: Wakefield, Arthur, 1799-1843

Reference: MS-Papers-3929

Description: A rough transcript made by C.B.M. of the No 3 diary of Arthur Wakefield. It lacks the entries for 1-5 January, and Wakefield's meteorological observations and records Quantity: 1 folder(s) (7 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript

Date: 1842

From: O'Shea, Phillip Patrick, 1947- : Papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-5059-15

Description: Three letters written on the same sheet of paper, from William Williams and his partner Hallamore, to business colleagues in Great Britain, describing their arrival in Auckland, business opportunities, and selling butter, cheese and shoes Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 leaf). Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Collected by Mona Gordon for her biography of J C Firth

Date: 1842 - 1907 - 1868

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/11/33-Acc.38166

Description: Map possibly intended to identify areas explored by Cotterill, Brunner, Mitchell and Dashwood, Weld, Lee & Jollie, Mackay and Travers (1842-1868) but only reference key completed. Base map of NZ - South Island, Nelson and Marlborough with parts of Canterbury. Lands and Survey [1907]. Quantity: 1 map(s) with ms annotations. Physical Description: Ink and colour drawings on cream paper. Scale [ca. 1: 506 880] 67.5 x 94 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.