Places

Date: 1888

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

Reference: E-016-3-054

Description: Looking across water past a single-masted sailing ship towards land Other Titles - A small sailing ship at sea, with hills in the background, ships moored in a harbour Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 89 x 156 mm (page size)

Date: 1852

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

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

Reference: C-103-107-2

Description: View across the tops of hills from north of Bluff towards Stewart Island and the high points of Ragged and Codfish Islands Other Titles - Hinetui. Omaui. Bluff. Rarotoka. Raggedy. Rugged. Codfish Id Inscriptions: Recto - above image - title and date in ink; also the names of various high points Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on 2 sheets of wove paper, each 28 x 259 mm

Date: 1888

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

Reference: E-016-3-036

Description: A small sailing ship in a harbour with a large lighthouse, probably Bluff. Rain approaches from the left Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 89 x 156 mm (page size)

Date: 1883

From: Nairn, Betsey Wright, -1906 :Sketchbook

Reference: E-443-q-025

Description: Top image shows a scene at Wellington Harbour and lower image shows a boat tossing in rough seas at Bluff Harbour. Quantity: 2 drawing(s) on one page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, 200 x 160 mm.

Date: 1877

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-016-1

Description: Shows a small cottage facing the sea Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Top of page, above all images] The Bluff; Recto - bottom left - K H; Recto - bottom right - Jan Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 62 x 118 mm

Date: 1876

By: Stone, Octavius C, active 1876

Reference: MS-Papers-0776

Description: Extracts from the diary describing Stone's NZ visit. In 1874-1876 Stone travelled around the world. The pages copied record his visit to NZ. He landed at Bluff and travelled north to Auckland; by land to Christchurch then to Wellington, and then, via Napier and Taupo, to Auckland. Brief descriptions are given of each place visited. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (38 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1886

From: A H K [artist's initials] fl 1880s :[Sketchbook. ca 1886]

Reference: E-419-012

Description: Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 176 x 250 mm

Date: 1877

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-016-2

Description: Shows a small cottage facing the beach with the sea in the background, a sailing boat in the water and a small boat on the beach. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Top of page, above all images] The Bluff; Recto - bottom left - K H; Recto - bottom right - Feb 7 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 63 x 115 mm

Date: 1870s-1902

From: Mueller family :Photographs

By: Browne, Charles Pelham, -1916; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4363-1

Description: Photographs of group including Richard Seddon taken by C P Browne; the US transit of Venus observatory at Queenstown; Granny's hut at Bluff Harbour; bridge over the Shotover River at Arthur's Point; a group including Gerhard Mueller; gold miners next to a river at Orepuki; and a group of Land Commisioners taken in 1902 and including Thomas Humphries, Gerhard Mueller, Mackenzie, Major Richardson, D Barron, G J Roberts, F W Bronte, T S Weston, Marchant, Dr Giles, H McCardell, Col N Y A Wales (taken by Wrigglesworth & Binns); a man using surveying equipment; group including Jakob Luper Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen prints

Date: 1851 - 1852

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

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

Reference: E-281-q-044-2

Description: A rough shed and paling fence in the foreground, with a rooster and a tin drum, the eastern shore of Bluff Harbour in the background. The page is trimmed with rounded top corners and part of the title missing on the right Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper, 92 x l70 mm

Date: 1882

From: Walsh, Philip 1843-1914 :[Waitara sketchbook]

By: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: E-357-107/108

Description: View from above Bluff Harbour, with the wharves to the left, the harbour entrance and low hills ahead, the roof of a house below the viewer in the centre foreground Bluff was part of Otago Province in the 1880s Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double image). Physical Description: Pencil 180 x 360 mm

Date: [1890s?]

By: Finch, Olive, 1883-1984; Cowdell, Joseph Tuffley, -1907; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hawley & Company; Iles, Arthur James, 1870-1943; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Verrall, John Miles, 1849-1921; Wilson, George Washington, 1823-1893

Reference: PA1-o-172

Description: Photograph album containing views of the South Island, including Christchurch, Diamond Lake, Otira Gorge, Bluff, Skippers Gorge, Waiau River and Hanmer. North Island views include views of Mount Tarawera after the eruption in June 1886, and views of the Pink and White Terraces before they were destroyed in the eruption. Other views show Napier, showing the first ship to berth at the new breakwater, SS Flora, on 22nd October 1895; Marine Parade in Napier; street views in Gisborne and Whangarei; Parihaka; and the Rotorua, Wairakei area with the Huka Falls, Aratiatia Rapids, and the Waimangu Geyser. Photographs taken circa 1890s, by some unidentified photographers, but many by named photographers, including Arthur James Iles (Thames), E Wheeler & Son (Christchurch), Hawley & Co (Napier). All named photographers are listed in the name sequence. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, with ornate gold decoration on spine, 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1888

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

Reference: E-016-3-048

Description: A broadside view of a small sailing boat at a jetty; another larger vessel beyond it, moored in the stream Another view of the same ship is on the opposite page of the sketchbook (E-016-3-047) named as the pilot boat at Bluff Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 89 x 156 mm (page size)

Date: 1883

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-065-2

Description: A view of Bluff Harbour showing SS Wairarapa in port Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Bluff Harbour. SS Wairarapa. 12/1/83 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 87 x 245 mm

Date: 1876 - 1878

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Five sketchbooks with views of Dunedin and district and manuscript notes]

Reference: E-017-3-026/027

Description: A lagoon near Bluff surrounded by low bush-clad hills, partially overlaid by a design for a nameplate for the artist's legal firm, Howorth and Hodgkins, founded in 1878. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on 2 pages of sketchbook, 64 x 216 mm (page size)

Date: 1866

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Five sketchbooks with views of Dunedin and district and manuscript notes]

Reference: E-017-4-004

Description: View in Foveaux Strait from Bluff, with the lighthouse and Bluff Hill, two vessels, the location of Bird Island noted to the left, and Mount Anglem 'snow on top' (on Stewart Island) indicated in the background. Notes on the following page indicate Mount Anglem 2200 feet, 15 miles [distant]; Dog Island 12 miles, Bird Island 9 miles'. Inscriptions: Title on reverse of page Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 64 x 111 mm (page size)

Date: 1875

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1875, 1880]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-015-027

Description: A quick sketch of the Ann Gambles, aground on rocks at Bluff The ship was driven onto rocks at Bluff on May 15 1875 and completely broken up on 23 November 1875 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 132 x 206 mm

Date: 1874-1879

From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0075-059

Description: Contains letters from Maori to various newspapers on a range of topics, including religion, land tenure, politics (local and national) and the payment of subscriptions (nb most of the letters were subsequently published) also includes a letter to Te Wananga newspaper from Rihimona Te Rango notifying the death of his daughter Waina, with discussion about the circumstances of her illness, the role of tohunga etc. Arrangement: Previously from 2/1 Official Papers series Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece level inventory available.

Date: 1840 - 1843

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

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/11/25-28-Acc.38157-60

Description: Identifies mission stations in the lower South Island Quantity: 4 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Ink drawings on cream paper, one on black paper. Scale indeterminable. 45.5 x 71 cm. and 45,5 x 61.8 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1888

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

Reference: E-016-3-046

Description: A small sailing ship with a headland to the left, dark clouds above Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 89 x 156 mm (page size)