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Date: 1998

By: Hewitt, Helen Verity, active 1998

Reference: MSX-4762

Description: Family history based on the diaries written by Henry John Sealy between 1858 and 1878. Relationship complexity - A copy of John Sealy's dairy located at MS-Copy-Micro-0046 Sealy emigrated to New Zealand in 1858 with his younger brother Edward Percy (b.1839). He worked as a land surveyer in both the Hawkes Bay and Canterbury Regions. He retired and died in Sydney, Australia. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Helen Hewitt, Australia, 1998

Date: 1880 - 1900

From: Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :[New Zealand views]. Louis Glaser, Leipzig. [ca 1890s]

Reference: E-278-q-075

Description: Birdseye view of the city from the cathedral spire looking along Columbo Street towards the Cashmere hills. Horse-drawn carts are lined up in Cathedral Square below. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, 90 x 137 mm

Date: 1880 - 1900

From: Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :[New Zealand views]. Louis Glaser, Leipzig. [ca 1890s]

Reference: E-278-q-076

Description: Birdseye view of the city from the cathedral spire looking down at Cathedral Square to the Post Office building. Horse-drawn carts and carriages can be seen in the square below. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, 90 x 137 mm

Date: 1897

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-VICEREGAL-1897-02

Description: A programme of entertainment by a banjo band, with songs by Mrs E T Robinson, Mr J P Newman, the Liedertafel, Miss Alice Gray, Mr A Millar, Mrs B H Burns, Mr P Hockley, Miss Lilian Smith, Mr Russell Halley, Miss Hilda Meadows, Mr W Izard, Miss Davie, Mr Seager, Mr C Morris, Miss Annie Lake, Mr W A Day, Miss Alice Corrick. Accompanists were Miss Jennie West and Miss Constance Lingard. Front cover shows printing block vignettes of the British coat of arms, a lutist, and decorative panels. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, red and gilt, on pink sheet folded to 224 x 142 mm.

Date: 31 Dec 1875

By: Davis, W, active 1875

Reference: fMS-Papers-3482

Description: An address presented to W Davis on his resignation from the Survey Office, Christchurch Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1piece). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and mss (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Anonymous donation, Jun 1962

Date: 16 Nov 1895-5 Apr 1896

By: Davy, P, active 1895-1896

Reference: MS-Group-0708

Description: Comprises holograph diary kept by P Davy on the `Ruahine' and during his tour of New Zealand. After disembarking at Wellington where he visited relatives he toured to other parts of New Zealand. He describes a gathering of Maori following the settlement of fishing rights on Lake Wairarapa, a visit to a freezing works at Belfast, gold mining on the West Coast and Rotorua where he visited a pa, saw geysers and bathed in the hot pools. His journal ends on the return journey to England when staying at Sydney. Also includes transcript of part of the diary (16 Nov 1895-3 Jan 1896). Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Full transcript of diary at MS-Papers-4391 Davy and his Aunt Harriet boarded the `Ruahine' at Plymouth 16 Nov 1895 and disembarked 12 Jan 1896 at Wellington where they stayed with relatives. After travelling around New Zealand they left Auckland for Sydney, 18 Mar. The writer of the diary is presumed to be P Davy, a passenger on the `Ruahine'; he visited members of the Davy family while in Wellington. He was probably one of the Devonshire Davys, a nephew of George Boutflower Davy, an official of the Land Registration Court of NZ, and the son of Edward Davy (1806-1885), an experimental chemist who emigrated to Australia. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photograph of the `Gaul' with unidentifed tender vessel.

Date: 1849-1861 (1940)

By: Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 1796-1862

Reference: MS-2205

Description: Letters mainly concern the foundation and settlement of Canterbury Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (1, 180, xvii pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; ¼ dark green morocco) Finding Aids: Indexed.

Date: 1869-1936

By: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936

Reference: MS-Papers-0022

Description: The collection includes papers on the various Antarctic expeditions from 1903 to 1917, as well as extensive private correspondence with expedition leaders, and papers relating to Kinsey's activities as New Zealand agent for the expeditions. Also, letters to and from literary figures, both in New Zealand and overseas, and correspondence with prominent scientists, while his musical and book collection interests are evident in various scores and correspondence. As well as covering these interests, the papers give a picture of society life in Christchurch in the early years of the twentieth century. Source of title - Supplied title Other - 19 Photograph albums and other photographs from Sir Joseph Kinsey are held in the Photographic Archive Sir Joseph Kinsey, a businessman of wide interests, acted as the New Zealand agent for a number of expeditions to the Antarctic 1903-1914. Quantity: 99 folder(s). 1 volume(s). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available; index of correspondents at back..

Date: 1882

By: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903; Wilson, Rosamond Russell, 1910-1981

Reference: MapColl-834.4492gbbg/1882/Acc.39356

Description: Map of Hagley Park, Christchurch City, showing three proposed rides, around or near Hagley Park. Identifies Plough Inn, cricket grounds, Carlton Bridge, exotic nursery, some streets and area of ground called 'acclimatisation'. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil, part coloured, and ink on tracing paper, scale indeterminable, 34.6 x 39 cm. Provenance: William Rolleston collection, donated by Rosamund Rolleston, Sept 1971 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MSS papers 446, (Rolleston Family papers), folder 40. Collection series William Rolleston - Inward correspondence from New Zealand - From a letter to William Rolleston from Alexander Lean, September 1882..

Date: 1891

By: Mullon, Matthew John, active 1891

Reference: MS-Papers-10872

Description: The patent application is for a non-conducting cover for land, marine and stationary steam boilers and pipes Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 piece). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1917

By: Fear, Robert, active 1988

Reference: MS-Papers-5784

Description: Cooper describes her early life in Greenwich, Kent and Camberwell, Surrey; the voyages of her father, Captain John Parsons, to New Zealand for the Canterbury Association with mention of John Godley, her voyage to Lyttelton in 1853 on the Minerva, life at Dampier Bay (now West Lyttelton) and in Christchurch as a governess, her marriage to Charles Edward Cooper in 1859 and her husband's job with the `Lyttelton Times'; later period living in Timaru and return to Christchurch in 1894; and at Sumner 1899. Many early Christchurch families are mentioned. Anne Elizabeth Parsons was the daughter of the first harbour master of Lyttelton Quantity: 1 folder(s) (17 leaves). Physical Description: Ms and typescript

Date: 1834-1988

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2856

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-386

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm

Date: 1839-1932

From: Ward family : Papers

Reference: MSI-Papers-1869-09

Description: Cadastral plans of Wellington with Ward's hand written lists of the original owners of the Town Acre lots sold by the New Zealand Company, 1839-1840; plan of Wellington, 1841; map of electoral district of Nelson, 1902; Upcot (Tapuaenuku) Survey district; town of Bulls; C E Fook's map of Christchurch, 1862; and tracing of Bolton Street cemetery, 1932 Other Titles - Early Wellington Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1890-1905], 1959

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: 82-213-19

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1865

By: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: Eph-D-NEWSPAPER-Evening-Mail-1865-01

Description: Arrangement of text. Reproduces a double spread of the newspaper, showing the shipping intelligence, commercial news, latest telegrams, local news. Editorial starts with the words :"We have much gratification in laying before our readers this, our first issue printed with our own plant in our own printing office". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on silk, 540 x 690 mm. Provenance: Previously part of the Webster Collection, stamped and numbered 3418.

Date: [ca 1890s]

By: Sorrell, William Edward, active 1890s-1900s

Reference: PA7-59-20

Description: Photograph taken in the studio of W E Sorrell, Christchurch of a family group comprising the parents and their young daughter. The child is seated on a wicker chair. Her hair is dressed in short ringlets and she is wearing a light-coloured dress with a large sailor collar edged with lace and fastened at the front with a ribbon bow. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 28.4 x 36 cm

Date: 1882

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

By: Hunter, Norman Mitchell, 1859-

Reference: E-328-f-043-1

Description: View of part of Christchurch and the Port Hills in the distance, seen from Papanui Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - View from Papanui, Christchurch. Lyttelton Hills 31/10/82. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 57 x 240 mm

Date: 1880 - 1889

By: Anthony Sellars & Company

Reference: Eph-B-VARIETY-1880s

Description: Includes programmes for the following: 1880s?: Mr Harry Hooper and Hooper's Colossophone and Vaudeville Company with the re-appearance of Trixie Le Mar. Exchange Hall Wellington, 1880s or 1890s? Programme (The Lorgnette) 1880: Princess Theatre (Wanganui). Grand amateur entertainment under the auspices of the Young Men's Literary Association. Thursday, 26th February 1880. Programme, concluding with a farce entitled "Make your wills!". H I Jones, Machine printer, &c, Wanganui. 1882: Princess Theatre, 27 October 1882. Anniversary tea meeting and entertainment of the Loyal Wanganui Lodge, I.O.O.F., M.U. no 4738. Stage manager Bro W J Rainbow. H I Jones, Printer, Wanganui. Flier / programme Court Theatre Upokongaroa. Startling event, Friday Dec. 8 19982. Grand musical and dramatic entertainment ... "The loan of a lover"; "Handy Andy"; songs, duet and Double Irish jig!, the whole to conclude with a mirth-provoking farce, "The rose and thorn". Flier. 1883: Complimentary benefit to Mr and Mrs Polk, with Millis (ventriloquist and puppetteer), comedy "Lend me five shillings!", Moulton (calculator); to conclude with thethird act of "An Arabian night". Abbot's Opera House, Queen Street. Programme (L'Entr'Acte), with a programme on the back cover for a Grand Farewell Complimentary & Testimonial Concert tendered to Mr Gordon Gooch. Choral Hall, 29 November 1883, prior to Mr Gooch's departure for Melbourne on 6th December. 1884: Oriental bazaar under the patronage of Lady Jervois, at the Drill Shed Wellington, September 6th 1884. Bock & Cousins, lithographic and letterpress printers, Lambton Quay Wellington. Programme of opening ceremony. Programme with list of stallholders and assistants (in pieces). 1886?: The Jungfrau Kapelle Swiss Band, Mountain Singers and Tyrolese Jodellers [sic]. Opera House [Christmas 1886?]. Programme (The Royal Footlights) The Rickards-Raynor Company. Mr Harry Rickards, Miss Kate Leele, Mr Harry Phillips, Mr Edgar Austin, Miss Nellie Wilson, Miss Ada Juneen, Mr Henry Cremar, and Harry & Charles Raynor. Performance of "On guard", by Mr Harry Adams. Theatre Royal Wellington 1886. Programme (The Theatre) 1887?: Hugo's Buffalo Minstrels (under Mr Charles Hugo, with Will Hugo, Miss Priscilla Verne, Tom Mkinini, Pattie Bavin). Opera House ca 1887? Programme (The Bulletin) 1889: Beresford Street Congregational Church Mutual Improvement Society. Programme of entertainment. 10 October 1889. Programme. Mr Frank Lincoln. Promotional pamphlet with engraved portraits, ca 1889. St John's Literary Association. Musical, literary and dramatic entertainment With selections from "King Henry IV", and musical selections. Open meeting, 13 August 1889. Evening Press. Flier / programme. Theatre Royal Christchurch. Grand Costume concert, with selections from the popular comic operas "Favart", "Socerer", "Mikado", "Patience", and "Iolanthe". 19-20 July [1889]. In aid of the funds of the St John Ambulance Association. Anthony, Sellars & Co., Printers. (4 copies, two cream and two red) Quantity: 13 programmes. Physical Description: Printed programmes, under 300 mm.

Date: [Early 1880s?]

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Taber, Isaiah West, 1830-1912

Reference: PA1-q-153

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken by various photographers, circa early 1880s. Images include several Maori groups, Maori kainga, meeting houses, carving; a large number of views of mud pools, geysers, hot springs, and in particular views of the Pink and White Terraces before the Tarawera eruption in 1886. Other views show areas of the South Island, including Dunedin City, Oamaru, Christchurch; and the North island including Auckland, Thames District (a number showing aspects of gold mining in the area). The last photograph, of the R.M.S.S. Zealandia was taken by Taber Photo, San Francisco. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with grey blue cover, black corners and spine edged with gold; 30.5 x 25.5 cm