Places

Date: 1860s

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: Micro-Art-004

Description: 1. Sketchbook of a journey up the Rangitikei River 1862 (51 drawings); 2.Sketchbook of a journey to Havelock and the Pelorus Sound and Central Otago, 1864 (75 drawings); 3. A journey up the Manawatu River, 1862 (94 drawings); 4.Journey up the Wanganui River, 1861 & 1862 and other journeys (71 drawings - ); 5. A journey from Upper Hutt to Waikanae, Jan 1863. 6. A journey to the Waikato, Feb. 1864; 7 & 8. A journey to the Wairarapa, 1863. Physical Description: Negative microfilm (486 frames)

Date: [ca 1965]-1968

From: Thorn, Benji, fl 2005 :Colour slides taken on holidays in the South Island

Reference: PA12-3431

Description: Views of Christchurch from the Cathedral tower, and an image of the Bridge of Rememberence. A trip through Central Otago and a tramp on the Heaphy track. Photographed by an unknown photographer between 1965 and 1968 Heaphy Track slides are views of the coastal section of the track between Kohaihai High Bluff and Heaphy Hut. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 1863

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Nairn, Charles James, 1823-1894

Reference: E-106-f-041-1

Description: Shows three prospectors looking down from a rocky ledge high above the Molyneux (Clutha) River. The settlement of Teviot can be seen in the distance. Wood engraving after the style of C J Nairn. Includes accompanying text. Other Titles - Sketches from the New Zealand gold fields Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Vol 43, Nov 1863, p 504 (after Nairn) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 150 x 240 mm

Date: [ca 1910s]

By: Shaw, Geoffrey C, active 1992

Reference: PAColl-2605

Description: Postcards of New Zealand scenes Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). 7 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Postcards

Date: 1960 - 1969

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to history, jubilees, centennials, anniversary celebrations in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-HISTORY-1960s

Description: Pamphlets and booklets include: 1960: Centenary of preaching of first sermon in Oamaru in February 1860. Historical pageant and dedication of plaque. 28 February 1960. Order of service. Kaukapakapa Centennial, 1860-1960. Come to Kaukapakapa for the centenary, February 26th, 27th, 28th. Programme Kaukapakapa Centennial, 1860-1960. Souvenir programme, including Grand centennial concert, 26 February 1960. "The cow and two coppers" illustrated on front cover. Kaukapakapa Centennial 1860-1960. Order of service for service of thanksgiving and remembrance at the Kaukapakapa Centennial Stone. 28 February 1960. Westland Centennial 1860-1960. Programme of principal events 1 January - December 31 1960. Westland Centennial 1860-1960. Programme of principal events February - December 31 1960. Westland Centennial 1860-1960. Programme of principal events August - December 31 1960. 1961: First Four Ships. 111th anniversary of the arrival. Pegasus Press invitation showing illustrations of the first four ships to arrive at Lyttelton (December 1850) 1962: "New views on New Zealand history"; a seminar for history teachers, Victoria University of Wellington, 5-6 May 1962. Pamphlet / enrolment form North Otago Centennial. October 7 1962 - November 24 1962. Programme of principal events. White Stone country. North Otago Centennial Cavalcade of Progress procession, 22 December 1962. Programme 1963: The Battle of Rangiriri centenary 1863-1963. Souvenir programme Waikaia Centennial celebrations, 1863-1963. 25-27 January 1963. Programme 1964: Centennial programme. Discovery of Arthur's Pass 1864-1964. Excursion to Arthur's Pass, Easter Saturday, 28 march 1964. 1965: Bombay Centennial celebrations, 1865-1965. March 19th - 21st 1965. Official programme. The Mayors of Petone and Wellington together with the Early Settlers & Historical Association of Wellington. Commemoration service on Petone Foreshore at the Ionian Cross, 24 January 1965. 1966: 75th Jubilee, City of Lower Hutt. Souvenir programme (2 copies) 1967: Aspects of imperialism; ninth Seminar for History Teachers, 6-7 May 1967. Programme / enrolment form. Quantity: 16 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints in pamphlets and booklets, sizes varying under 25 cm.

Date: 1941-1958

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980; Weigel, William George, 1890-1980; Smith, Robin Vaughan Francis, 1927-

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-177

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, ca 1941-1958 Main street of Arrowtown, church and cottage; homestead on road between Kingston & Queenstown with Remarkables behind; road construction on the Kingston-Lake Wakatipu Road; road into Arrowtown; Crown Range road (showing Jaguar XK150 Fixed Head Coupe); rural scene in Maungawera Valley between Lake Wanaka & Hawera, 1941; Kingston Railway Station and train; opendeck bus in Routeburn Valley; Cecil Peak from shores of Lake Wakatipu. Scottish bard at one end of Signal Hill memorial, Dunedin Lake Hayes; Mount Aspiring from North-East; Clutha River; Skippers Bridge; Thames Street, Oamaru looking south; aerial view of Dunedin looking south from railway station; sunken iris garden at Dunedin Botanical Gardens, 1958; mist over over Dunedin as seen from Southern Motorway. Photographers include: W H Raine, W G Weigel, J D S Roberts & R V Francis Smith Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [1930s-1940s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Green & Hahn (Firm); Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946; Nash, Percival Frederick, -1952; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980; Weigel, William George, 1890-1980

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-190

Description: Photographs taken for publication in New Free Lance, ca 1930s-1940s (many undated). Names of identified photographers and places added to Name and Place fields; also one undated photograph by H Neville Ross, Masterton. Includes scenes on sheep stations throughout New Zealand showing mustering, shearing, stock yards, musterers, Merino rams, etc. Photographs of H M Campbell's station, Te Aute, Hawke's Bay; sheep on reclaimed land Ahuriri Lagoon, Hawke's Bay; sheep mustered on land beside the Wellington motorway, ca 1940s; Hautu detention farm, Tokaanu; girl with her pet lamb, Makarora, Lake Wanaka (photographer Thelma Kent). Quantity: 39 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1998

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-539-022/043

Description: Political cartoons. Comment on the growing gap between the rich and poor in New Zealand. Soldiers explain why it is humane to cut people's throats once they've been driven from their homes. Jenny Shipley reacts negatively to Jim Bolger's book. Jenny Shipley does a unicycle act on the high/slack wire. She can't look down for fear of falling, and she can't look up for fear of the coalition government she carries on her shoulders. Jack Elder and Tuku Morgan line-up behind Tau Henare in a new political allegiance. The American Republicans are exposed in their determination to impeach President Clinton over sex allegations no matteer what public opinion is. Jenny Shipley announces under National's new housing policy people in sub-standard housing will be assisted to buy their properties rather than rent them. Tim Shadbolt has been re-elected Mayor of Invercargill. Russia backs the bloody regime of Slobodan Milosivic against the Albanians. Jenny Shipley receives a negative reaction from the Dairy Board members over comments they should dig their own graves and make their wills. Jenny Shipley's intention of ending the Producer Board's statutory monopolies is thinnly veiled to avoid farmer backlash prior to the election. The Labour Party surges in the polls although their visibility is low. A paralell is drawn between roading reforms proposals and the manner Warriors' boss comments on players like Matthew Ridge. Commment on telephone electronic cueing messages. Canadian newspapers report that Wellington has the best views in the world. A Wellintonian watches as storms blow uprooted trees, boats, cars and other debris past his window. General Pinochet in jail being interrogated over his part in crimes of terrorism committed against Chilean critics of his Military Junta. Two contenders for the Auckland Blues Rugby coaching job are given a lesson in sportsmanship. Otago win the NPC (National Provincial Championships). Palestinian and Israeli leaders are booed by their supporters for their efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. The Met. office build an ark as an indication of the weather to come. Tuariki Delamere considers his political future. Tau Henare sums up the essence of his new Mauri Pacific Party. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1847 - 1852

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-114-1

Description: A bend in a swiftly-flowing river, with islets of vegetation, the water extending to distant banks. In the background is a range of hills or mountains, possibly the Southern Alps Probably one of the east coast South Island rivers Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink, 91 x 211 mm (irregular)

Date: 1852 - 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

Reference: C-103-098/099

Description: A sheet of card, representing two facing pages from a dismounted album. Contains 6 drawings, three on each page. Part of W B D Mantell's Scrapbook (C-103) Quantity: 6 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, and ink and watercolour, sizes vary, on sheet, 545 x 833 mm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Manuel, William J, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1880-F

Description: Panoramic view looking towards two single-storeyed houses made of stone or possibly concrete blocks with a road in front, steep stony hill behind. The house on the left has a lawn in front, two women working in the garden on the left of the house, and there are flower beds, a creeper and a large flowering bush by the house. Row of poplars behind this house. Five men are standing by a gate to the right of the house in front of macrocarpa trees between the two houses. A man is standing by a car parked outside the house on the right, and another man is seated on a pallet of labelled fruit boxes drawn by a draught horse. There is wrought iron decoration along the top of the verandah on the house on the right. The owner of the property, William J. Manuel, is listed as a fruit grower at Coal Flat Creek in Wise's Post Office Directory (1925). Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - W.J. Manuel, Box 82, Otago. 3 sepia Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 93.8 cm

Date: [ca 1872]-1888

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-1878

Description: Photograph album produced in 1888, titled 'Some representative sheep farms. Canterbury and neighbourhood.' Photographs taken by E Wheeler and son, of Christchurch, New Zealand. Album is dedicated to Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Governor of New Zealand. - Images feature farms and homesteads, with the photographer's inscription on the print identifying the farm and the owner (name and place spellings are transcribed from the item). These comprise: Mount Peel (Hon J B Acland), Waikanini (W Barker Esq), Otekaike (Hon R Campbell), Peel Forest (G J Dennistoun & Co), The Warren Woodbury (F W Donkin), Mount Palm (T Chapman), Mount Fyffe Kaikoura (A S Collins), Waimate (J Douglas), Homebush (J Deans), Longbeach (J Grigg), Grassmere, Westerfield (C Hawdon), Hororata (Sir J Hall), Horsley Down (Mallock & J D Lance), Underwood (A Hawdon), Fernside (S Heywood), St Helen's (W A Low), Windsor Park Otago (E Menlove), Lyndon (Macfarlane Bros), The Warren E Oxford (Langton), Waitakahi (A McLean), Glenmark (G H Moore); Achray (Macfarlane), Mt Somers (A E Peach[e?]), Raukapuka Geraldine (W Postlethwaite), Cheviot (Hon W Robinson), Orari Gorge (C G Tripp Esq), Mount Messing (R Rutherford), Montrose (Rutherford), Waireka (R Wade), Swyncombe Kaikoura (W D Wood), and Highfield (Wharton & Co). - Gardens and surrounding scenic landmarks (such as rivers and mountain ranges) are often visible as part of building portraiture. Buildings and structures other than main homesteads include woolsheds, manager's houses, a meat freezing factory (Belfast), the Port Robinson slipway, stock yards, worker's whares, ferret houses, and Glenmark Station's extensive lakes and water features. Images are almost exclusively of the exterior of buildings with only the interiors of woolsheds seen. Many images include the families that lived in the houses and often their dogs. Farm workers are seen in some images. Farm animals pictured include sheep, horses, mules, farm dogs, and oxen. Activities such as shearing with a Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine, wool sorting, wool scouring, wool transportation (horse drawn carts and ox wagons), sheep dipping, and sheep drafting are shown. Other activities include rowing in a boat, lawn mowing, and lawn tennis. Other - Album has covers that appear to have been created by the General Assembly Library. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Dedicated by Permission to His Excellency Sir W F D Jervois, G.C.M.G., C.B. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green and black album embossed with gold typeface, 24.4 x 32 cm Provenance: Donated by Parliamentary Library, Wellington, 2014 Transfers: From Book Collections - NZ&P: as part of a large ongoing donation of mainly published material..

Date: 1975

From: Scales, Sid, 1916-2003 :[One folder of political cartoons featuring Robert Muldoon and the Muldoon era. Published in the Otago Daily Times. 1972 - 1975]

Reference: A-319-017

Description: Comments on damming the Clutha River, including showing Bill Rowling making paper boats out of the environment recommendation papers, and sailing them down the Roxburgh(?) dam Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Sid Scales Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper, 280 x 380 mm Provenance: Donated by Sid Scales in 1998

Date: 1847 - 1844

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: C-170-002

Description: Shows 14 views of Maori domestic life, including tools, clothing and household receptacles. Accompanying page of text (C-170-002-1) lists the numbered items as follows: 1. Mode of fishing with nets on Lake Taupo: the fish, which are still small, are caught in a seine with very fine meshes, and a pole about 20 feet long, with tufts of grass fastened at the end, to drive the fish into the net. 2. A fishing weir, or eel pah, on the river Mokau. 3. Wooden fish-hook. 4. Fish-hook generally in use, made of wood, with a layer of pawa [i.e. paua], or pearl shell (Haliotis), and the hook formed of human bone. A feather of the kivi kivi (Apteryx Australis) is fastened at the extremity. The lines are of flax and, as these hooks dangle astern of the canoes, the glittering appearance of the pawa attracts the fish. 5. Kupenga, or eel trap, formed of twigs, from Mokau. 6. Ko, a wooden spade, for rooting up ferns, and preparing the ground for plantations. 7. A pestle for beating flax, formed of volcanic trap. 8. Wooden flute, one of the orifices of which is tattooed to resemble the lips of a woman. 9. Bark bucket, and calabashes for holding water: the orifices of these latter are also tattooed in a similar manner. 10. Ornamented flax basket for household purposes. 11. E kumeti, ancient wooden bowl for kumeras, from the deserted pah of Otawhao, near Waipa, eight feet in circumference. 12. and 13. Flax sandals from Otago, in the Southern Island. 14. Portrait of an aged slave woman, at Pouketouto, in the interior, beyond Mokau Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Other Titles - and Extended Title - From: Angas, George French. The New Zealanders illustrated (London; Thomas M'Lean No. 26 Haymarket, 1847). Plate 57 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) (14 images on one page). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 455 x 310 mm, on sheet 545 x 365 mm Provenance: Purchase: Cordy's antique and art auction, Auckland, 21 May 2013; lot 665

Date: [ca 1929-1950s]

By: Gibbons, Marco Raymond, 1931-; Gibbons, Margaret Jean, active 1957-2013; Richards, Robert Samuel, active 1951

Reference: PAColl-10119

Description: Photographs of construction sites taken between about 1929 and the 1950s particularly hydroelectric schemes. Workers on these sites included Raymond Tasman Gibbons and/or his son Marco (Kiwi) Gibbons who were employed as carpenters by Williamson Constructions. Comprises: Two large prints of an unidentified site in Otago during the depression taken for the New Zealand Herald. Truck on an unidentified building site, about 1930s Workforce group portrait taken at Lake Pukaki, Mackenzie district, circa 1948, by Green and Hahn Photography Ltd of Christchurch. Lake Pukaki spillway site about 1948, photograph by R S Richards. Building site in New Plymouth in about 1954, possibly the post office. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s) (including two prints attached with tape). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1885

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1879-1888]

Reference: E-035-q-1-044

Description: Tall native forest with a path, in Otago, Fiordland or Mackenzie District The drawings on the preceding pages are of the Mackenzie District; those on the following pages are of Otago and Fiordland Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream paper in sketchbook, page size 151 x 240 mm

Date: 1950-2000

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-113

Description: Photographs related to towns and cities, in the alphabetical range NAT to S. Taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 1851 - 1852

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-332

Description: View of Waikouaiti, Moeraki, Waitaki River, Mount Domett, Mount Pleasant, copies of Ngatimamoe paintings, surveying camps Inscriptions: Spine: title Sketchbook no. 1, Cover: S[outhern] Dist[rict] New Munster Diagrams. N[orth] Division. Otago to Waitaki. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Pencil & ink drawings in sketchbook, page size 232 x 182 mm

Date: 1883 - 1891

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921

Reference: E-179-f

Description: Views of Fiordland, Milford Sound area especially Other Titles - Southland, Fiordland Quantity: 114 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, sheets 170 x 327 mm Provenance: Purchased from the artist's widow, Mrs A R Moreton, Christchurch, 1926 (See IA 93/3, Mss Coll)

Date: [Circa 1870s]

By: Arnoux, Hippolyte, active 1860s-1880s

Reference: PA1-f-047

Description: Photographs taken in the 1870s, covering a wide range of places, photographers mostly unidentified, and most images with no captions. The first group were taken in an around the Mediterranean, including Gibraltar, but particularly focussing on the Suez Canal. The sequence includes a copy of a montage produced by Hippolyte Arnoux, showing a map of the route of the canal, surrounded by photographs of canal designer Ferdinand de Lesseps and various sites along the route. Other images in this sequence were probably taken by Arnoux who was working in Egypt during this period. The next group of images travel via India (?), to Australia. Views of Melbourne include Government House, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Houses of Parliament, the Scots' Church (in Collins Street), the Post Office, the Town Hall, and the Public Library. Following these is a panorama of Sydney, and views of Tasmania. The New Zealand scenes start with a panorama of Auckland, the Mount Eden residence of G.B. (?, pencilled name undeciphered), and the Auckland Domain). Images further south include Ohinemutu; the Pink and White Terraces; Napier; the Manawatu Gorge; Wellington (with the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel visible in the foreground); Nelson; the wreck of the ship Otago, at Chasland's Mistake; and a number of views in the Dunedin area. The last sequence shows parts of Canada, including the Rockies, Montreal and the Niagara Falls. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark brown leather cover, with decorations stamped in gold; 28 x 40 cm