Places

Date: 1863

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :Wairarapa and Wellington sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-171-048

Description: Shows a dead rata tree in the foreground, looking down into Cook Strait with Mana Island in the background The reference to Belmont Line is probably to an early surveying line Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and wash, 130 x 215 mm

Date: 1880 - 1881

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :[Sketchbook] Drawing Book, 13. 12. 1880.

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948

Reference: E-060-3-013

Description: View from the sea near the Marlborough Sounds, looking towards two small rocks in the distance, one with a lighthouse on top On the same page as 'Mount Egmont from the sea' (E-060-3-014) Other Titles - Cook Strait Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, page size 65 x 119 mm

Date: 1862 - 1870

Reference: A-048-009

Description: Two coastal profiles on one sheet, inscribed in ink, identifying Godley Head, and Mount Pleasant (named 1862) part of Lyttelton Harbour. The other shows part of the north of the South Island, viewed from Cook Strait and shows Mount Franklin, Tasman District Other Titles - New Zealand. North part of Middle [the South] Island from the east of Cook Strait [translation]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 172 x 245 mm Provenance: Purchase: Nigel Tully, Terra Australis, New South Wales, 2065, 11 March 1985. Work includes an owner's stamp, lower right: Ex libris Marques de Pidal. E 3, T [blank], N[umer]o 20

Date: 1839

By: Chaffers, Edward Main, 1806-1845; Bett, Francis Arnot Blackader, 1873-1957

Reference: MapColl-830gbba/1839/Acc.131

Description: Depicts the lower half of North Island from approximately Hamilton to Gisborne, referred to as Province of North Durham, also the top half of South Island from approximately Greymouth across to Kaikoura, referred to as Province of South Durham. The map is annotated 'The dotted line denotes the boundaries of the provinces' and this line is marked diagonally between Pt. Tebouka kore in the Wellington Region and a point north of Tui Bay in the Taranaki Region. Some bays are named as are points including Kidnappers Pt., and capes including Foulwind, Farewell, Palliser and Egmont. Also named are Queen Charlotte Sound, Cook's Strait, Hawke Bay and the islands D'Urville, Kapiti, Mana and Sugarloaf. Mount Egmont, Ruapehu and Tonga Volcano are marked. Original photograph of this map is larger than this copy. Information found in original card index record. Explanation on reverse as follows: Photograph of Chaffer's map of New Zealand Company's purchases, 1839. Received from Dr. Bett about March 27, 1945. Original attached to some land claims in the Lands Office in Nelson. Signature of E.M. Chaffers, 1839 is written at bottom right corner on original. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photograph, black and white, 15 x 22.4 cm.

Date: 1833

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Villain, de, active 1833; Adam, Jean Victor, 1801-1867

Reference: B-052a-001

Description: Two groups of Maori in their clothing, one from Cape Palliser, one from Cook Strait From: Dumont d'Urville. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe, 1826-1827-1828-1829. Paris: 1833. Atlas volume 1, plate 41. Another copy held at C-036-026 Other Titles - New Zealand. Costume of the natives of Cape Palliser. Costume of the natives of Cook Strait Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 7 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches

Date: 1895

By: Seaton & O'Donahoo (Firm); Buck, William Seldon, 1846-1919

Reference: MapColl-832.47983gbbd/[ca.1895]/Acc.22964

Description: Cadastral map of the Whitireia Peninsula from Pikiriri peak. Ruratane, Titai [i.e. Titahi] Bay, Mt. Cooper. Rakatane, Koangaaumu and Kohako creeks are named, as is Rocky Bay, all of which are on the Cook Strait coastline. Blocks are named as Koangaaumu, Tom's Grant, Kahutea No. 1 and 2, Onepotu Claim, and include acreages. An old stake fence is marked and a lagoon. The Porirua Harbour is marked. Pencilled details are mainly surveying information Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and watercolour on dressed linen, coloured, scale [1:7 920], 72.6 x 62.5 cm.

Date: [Circa 1880s]

From: Blundell, John Barraud, 1904-1975 : Photograph albums

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-043

Description: Album chiefly containing views of the North Island of New Zealand, many taken by professional photographers Wrigglesworth and Binns. Images include one of a cricket match between an English team and the Wellington team, March 23-24 1888, at the Basin Reserve, showing spectators in the foreground, the players on the field, and buildings on the hill behind. There are a number of views of the Whanganui River, including a cave, a canoe with 5 men poling through rapids, a view of the river from Hiruharama, and a waterfall. At the end of the album there are images of Port Said, Malabar, and two newspaper photographs, one of Mrs J Milbourne (nee Maud Beatty, a member of the Pollard Opera Company), and William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, governor of New South Wales 1899-1900. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cover 245 x 315 mm

Date: 1831-1851

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-3052

Description: Includes logs of the Acheron and Havannah 1848-1851, letter books for the Beagle 1841-1843 and for the Acheron 1848-1851, which contain detailed descriptions and comments on the New Zealand settlements. For the Beagle, the papers include: Captain's orders, memorandum on methods of surveying, remarks on Bass Strait and Van Dieman's Land and other observations of the Australian coast, a game book, sketch album, and general notebook of observations. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 1880 - 1889

From: Hodgkins family including William Mathew Hodgkins :[Sketchbook and scrapbook, 1880s]

Reference: E-038-q-2-028

Description: A distant view from Cook Strait looking towards the Harbour entrance at Wellington and Cape Terawhiti Other Titles - Terawhiti Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on grey sketchbook page, 145 x 231 mm

Date: 1828 - 1851

Reference: PAColl-3685

Description: Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.

Date: 1869

By: Richmond, James Crowe, 1822-1898; Atkinson, Dorothy Alison, 1892-1986

Reference: A-245-013

Description: Shows Mount Tapuaenuku, the highest of the Kaikoura Mountains. On back of A-245-012 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Tapuaenuku / highest of the Kaikoura Mts.; Recto - bottom right - Cook's Strait from beach near Karori, Wellington. Aug. 1869. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 120 x 260 mm

Date: 1833

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Villain, de, active 1833

Reference: C-036-026-a

Description: Shows in left picture, two feather-cloaked figures in the foreground, with another group of four in the background. The right hand scene shows a group of four male figures, one of whom carries a child on his back.l Their clothing varies from cloaks to short skirt. From: Dumont d'Urville. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe, 1826-1827-1828-1829. Paris: 1833. Atlas volume 1, plate 41. This copy bears no plate number. Other Titles - New Zealand. Clothing of the native inhabitants of Cape Palliser; clothing of the native inhabitants of the Cook Strait area. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (hand-col.), 200 x 380 mm on sheet 288 x 440 mm.

Date: 1896

From: McArthur & Company Ltd: Smoke and water damaged manuscripts and printed items

Reference: 84-251-2/06

Description: Account of cruise of the yacht Ngaira from Wellington to Picton and the Marlborough Sounds. Writer was a member of the crew, but otherwise is unidentified. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Probably from George Conrad Petersen collection

Date: 1848 or 1849

From: [Turnbull, Henry Hume] d 1858 :[New Zealand and Pacific sketchbook, 1848 to 1856]

By: Turnbull, Henry Hume, -1858

Reference: E-454-q-007

Description: A high viewpoint, looking down across bush towards Lambton Quay and Te Aro Flat at the edge of Wellington Harbour. Cook Strait in the background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on sketchbook page 180 x 259 mm

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :Album. [1860s?]

Reference: E-297-011

Description: The rock formations at the entrance to Tory Channel, Queen Charlotte Sound, from inside the channel, looking north. A steam-ship is on the horizon. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D.B. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour with scratching out 83 x 143 mm glued to album page 177 x 225 mm

Date: 1850 - 1859

By: Duppa, George, 1817-1888

Reference: D-022-009

Description: A long coastal profile panorama starting at the left with low cliffs, a boat harbour, hills rising gradually to the "Lookers-on (Kai-kora)", then descending to the sea with a short lower range in right foreground. A few cabbage trees can be seen on shore at the northernmost section on the right. Includes coastline from Baring Head (Wellington) to the Marlborough coastline Other Titles - Kaikoura Baring Head Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 68 x 1014 mm. Transfers: Formerly among loose pages at back of sketchbook at E-075. - Transferred from MS sequence in 1984. Acc. no. 96,091..

Date: 1842

Reference: MapColl-830gbbd/1842/Acc.133

Description: Depicts the lower half of North Island from approximately the Marokapa River across to Tolaga Bay southwards, and the top half of South Island from Bluff Pt. across to Gore Bay northwards. The area from the Mokau river to Pt. Tehakakare is shaded within a dotted line indicating the New Zealand Company's lands. Some coastal areas within this boundary are marked off as 1st., 4th, 5th., 6th. and a key to these areas is as follows: 1st. Deed - Port Nicholson purchase. 2nd. Deed - Fanpero and his tribes title to all their lands within the bounds coloured yellow. 3rd. Deed - the same as regards the Ngatiawa tribe. 4th. deed - Wanganui. 5th. Deed - Taranaki. 6th. Deed - Ditto [i.e Taranaki]. The 2nd. and 3rd. areas are not marked off on the map. Some bays, points and capes are named including Foulwind, Farewell, Palliser, Castle, and Egmont. Also named are Queen Charlotte Sound, Cook Strait, Hawke Bay and the islands D'Urville, Kapiti, Mana and Sugarloaf. Many rivers are marked, some un-named. Note on map states 'The lands claimed are coloured yellow'. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, linen backed, black and white, scale[1:2 500 000], 41 x 32.7 cm.

Date: 1846

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

Reference: MapColl-CHA-4/3/4-Acc.37793

Description: Identifies where Te Rauparaha captured 23/7/46; Winui Hill (1846); McKillop's engagement (17/7/46), Boulcott's farm (16/65/46) etc Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on grey waxed linen. Scale [ca 1:253 440] 54.6 x 60.5 cm Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1816-1856

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2322

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1856

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: B-103-001

Description: A view from the South Wellington coast, possibly around the Owhiro Bay or Red Rocks area, showing Mount Tapuaenuku in the Kaikoura Range in the distance, over Cook Strait. The view could also be from Island Bay. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Other Titles - Kaikoura Kaikouras near Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Kikoras 1856 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 155 x 195 mm