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Date: 1937

From: Holdsworth, Alice Mabel 1878-1963 :[New Zealand plants and scenery] / A M Holdsworth 1937-1938

Reference: E-251-f-1-021

Description: A stem of kohe kohe with bluish-green leaves, and small white flowers opening to show red seeds inside. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour in album, page size, 255 x 361 mm

Date: 1932

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Loose prints, drawings and paintings; and two albums of prints and drawings. 1924-1991]

Reference: A-424-006

Description: Shows a head and shoulders portrait of a young girl with thick plaits. Photographed in E-918-q, 104/119. She is described also at 97/120, as probably at Te Ore Ore. Other Titles - Second June 1932 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 365 x 280 mm.

Date: 1834 - 1932

By: Woore, Thomas, 1804-1878; Busby, Augusta Dora Merewether, 1890-1962

Reference: A-048-008

Description: Copy watercolour by A.D.M. Busby Shows Mount Taranaki in the background with two flat-topped hills, with the Waimate Pa in the middle distance on the shore, the sea in the foreground and two of the ship's boats from H. M. S. Alligator. Indicates position of cannon, and a rock where Mrs Guard was seated on the shore. Notes on front and back Signed Other Titles - Waimate Pa, Taranaki Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 7 x 15 inches

Date: 1900 - 1930

By: Lysaght, Emily Muriel, 1875-1971; Watt, Muriel Mary, 1917-2005

Reference: A-367-013

Description: Shows the view from Bluff Hill looking down south along the waterfront, with a garden in the foreground and buildings on the land at the right. Attributed to Emily Lysaght because of her depiction of Napier in B-156-020. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 127 x 180 mm.

Date: 1935 - 1945

By: Hansen, Albert, 1876-1957

Reference: B-116-019

Description: Looking across a railway track towards a hill dotted with houses. A factory with a smoking chimney is on the left, across the track. There are rail trucks on a more distant track, and men working alongside the railway line. The factory has been identified as the 'Dehy' factory, probably set up by the Americans during World War II, to dehydrate vegetables. It burned down after the war. Believed on acquisition to the Library to show Pukehou, central Hawkes Bay and to date to ca 1900. However a letter dated 27 March 2013 from the artist's grandson clarified its location as Pukekohe Hill, Franklin District, where the artist lived, and the factory as one established by the Americans in World War II. Other Titles - Pukekohe Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - A. Hansen; Backing board recto - Pukehoe Hill. On backing board of frame, now discarded Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 268 x 383 mm. Provenance: Previously unsold at Cordy's auction, Auckland, 21 August 2006

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: B-155-019

Description: Shows a group of three men seated on a plank reading the news bulletin during a break in their recovery work. In the right foreground two hot billies are slung on a stick. In the left background is a wrecked car, and further off the background scene is of devastated buildings. Title from accompanying slip of paper. Other Titles - Don McNab One of a series of paintings made by MacNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 280 x 438 mm (sight) Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1934

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Loose prints, drawings and paintings; and two albums of prints and drawings. 1924-1991]

Reference: E-914-q-026

Description: Shows a rural landscape with a fence and shearing shed. There is a small group of sheep in the right foreground and hills in the background. There are two trees in the centre foreground. Photographed in E-918-q, 309/142. Details given in Rod Cook's notebook at E-918-q Extended Title - From her [Album of prints. 1929-1938] page [26 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood block 170 x 255 mm, on tissue 240 x 272 mm.

Date: 1910 - 1930

By: Stowe, Jane, 1838-1931; Watt, Muriel Mary, 1917-2005

Reference: A-367-003

Description: Shows a view of the harbour, with several steamships anchored therein, and one with a long red funnel tied to a wharf in the middle foreground. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - top left - For dear Averil / with much love / and best wishes for Xmas / & the New Year / From Grannie. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 175 x 133 mm Processing information: Deframed by the Library

Date: 1859 - 1935 - 1936

From: [Balchin, Ernest Rout?], fl 1936 (copyist) :[Two watercolours. 1. Early military encampment at Scinde Island Napier; 2. East end of Lake Rotoiti, Matawhaura Mountain and Tapuwae-haruru Village. ca 1936]

Reference: A-423-012

Description: The watercolour of the military camp at Scinde Island is copied from an artwork by Lieutenant H S Bates of the 65th Regiment in 1859, and shows "the gully running down to the shore of the inner harbour at a place called 'Onepoto' meaning a short sandy beach" (according to accompanying notes written in the 1930s, probably by the copyist) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on card, 80 x 135 mm (sight)

Date: 1939 - 1947

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1876-1949 :[Drawings of Maori rafter patterns or kowhaiwhai] [1939?]-1947

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: E-302-q-1-025/028

Description: Shows four panels, in assorted colours. There is no explanatory text by Godber to accompany this page. Quantity: 4 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 75 x 295 mm (each) in sketchbook

Date: 1937

From: [Holdsworth, Alice Mabel] 1878-1963 :[Plants and scenery from a New Zealand trip] 1936-1937

Reference: E-252-q-017

Description: A branch of clianthus puniceus or Kaka Beak showing deep pink flowers with a background of green leaves. Other Titles - Ngutu Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in album. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 310 x 230 mm in grey buckram album

Date: 1939 - 1947

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1876-1949 :[Drawings of Maori rafter patterns or kowhaiwhai] [1939?]-1947

Reference: E-302-q-2-059/061

Description: Title of each panel is written above it. According to a slip of paper inside sketchbook 6, design no 61 is of a poupou. Quantity: 3 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 75 x 305 mm (each) in sketchbook

Date: 1932

By: Bartleet, Ellen Wintrup, 1896-

Reference: A-238-007

Description: View out from the shore at Titahi Bay (or Plimmerton?) to Mana Island Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 110 x 320 mm

Date: 1932 - 1849

By: Marshall, John Willoughby, 1851-1940; Hadfield, Henry Samuel, 1853-1910; Hadfield, Amelia Caroline, 1869-1956

Reference: A-123-011

Description: Shows a one-storey cottage with three windows and a door along the front. There is a path leading to the door, and flower beds on either side of the door. The house was Hadfield's first home, built 1849, and located 100 yards north of Rangiatea Church, under the hill. Copy of an earlier sketch 'Rev. Octavius Hadfield's cottage at Otaki, 1849', drawn for F.C. Hadfield by H.S. Hadfield from his father's description, not directly. (A reproduction in Mulgan, A.E. The city of the Strait. Wellington, 1939, attributes the earlier version to Anne Hadfield, but calls it a copy) The earlier sketch is privately owned and was also reproduced in Lethbridge, Chris. The wounded lion: Octavius Hadfield, 1814-1904 (Christchurch, 1993), p. 154, attributed to Anne Hadfield, daughter of Octavius Hadfield. There may be three versions of this drawing: one drawn by H S Hadfield, one by Anne Marshall nee Hadfield, and the one belonging to the Library by J W Marshalls Other Titles - Hadfield's Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 137 x 225 mm

Date: 1939 - 1947

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1876-1949 :[Drawings of Maori rafter patterns or kowhaiwhai] [1939?]-1947

Reference: E-302-q-2-062/064

Description: Title of each panel is written above it. According to a slip of paper inside sketchbook 6, design no 63 is of a poupou. Quantity: 3 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 75 x 305 mm (each) in sketchbook

Date: 1939 - 1947

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1876-1949 :[Drawings of Maori rafter patterns or kowhaiwhai] [1939?]-1947

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: E-302-q-2-032/034

Description: Title of each panel is written above it. Quantity: 3 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, sizes varying from 49 x 290 mm to 59 x 295 mm, in sketchbook

Date: 1939 - 1947

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1876-1949 :[Drawings of Maori rafter patterns or kowhaiwhai] [1939?]-1947

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: E-302-q-1-019/021

Description: 19 is a form of No 22 (q.v) The white represents the pattern. No 20 is a modification of No 18 (25W) from the "Tama-te-Kapua" house at Ohinemutu. 21. is termed "Pitau-a-Manaia" from the maihi (facing boards on the gable of a house) of Te Poho-o-Rawiri" a house erected at Kaiti, Gisborne, about 1849. "The maihi is now in the Dominion Museum". Quantity: 3 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 75 x 295 mm (each) in sketchbook

Date: 1933

By: Watson, C, active 1885

Reference: C-053-009

Description: Drawing shows John Guard (1831-1918) as a baby, being snatched from the arms of a Maori man by a European soldier, while a second soldier points a pistol at the Maori man. Three further soldiers are on top of a hill to the right, firing at a party of Maori moving along a coastal path. The Marlborough Sounds are in the background and a ship is standing out to sea. This drawing is based on the original oil painting by C Watson, now held at Te Papa Tongarewa. Extended Title - Copy from a painting by C Watson, painted in 1895. This painting was in the possession of the Guard family in 1933, and is reproduced in: MacDonald, C A. Pages from the past. Blenheim [1933] f. p.56. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 13.4 x 27.2 in Provenance: The Notleys were descendants of Captain Jacky Guard's daughter Susan (ie the sister of the baby shown here).

Date: 1938 - 1939

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-90-1216

Description: Elevations on all sides, sections, typical section through window and eaves, plan view (for a two-bedroom house), kitchen and dining room details. Appears to have been the version preferred by the client. See also Plans-91-1217 for a proposed Art deco house, evidently rejected by the client in favour of this bungalow-style house Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on waxed linen paper, 530 x 740 mm.

Date: 1834 - 1932

By: Woore, Thomas, 1804-1878; Busby, Augusta Dora Merewether, 1890-1962

Reference: B-064-005

Description: A copy watercolour of a picture by Thomas Woore. Shows Waimate Pa on top of a steep hill, with a path leading up to it. The sea is on the left. Shows the area where bombardment occurred during the rescue of John Guard, Kapuni Stream, Taranaki. Notes on front and back Signed Other Titles - Waimate Pa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 240 x 430 mm