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Rawlins, E :[Ateamuri Bridge on the Waikato River. Schmidt litho. Auckland, Schmidt, 1883]

Date: 1883

By: Rawlins, E, active 1882; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925

Reference: A-104-082

Description: A view of the bridge at Atiamuri with Pohaturoa Rock See Ellis, E M Early prints of New Zealand. No. 974 Other Titles - Atiamuri Extended Title - Illustration from: Picturesque New Zealand by C O Montrose, illustrated by E Rawlins. Auckland, Oct. 1882-April 1883. p. 42 (qPer PIC) Inscriptions: Signed: E R Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Monotone lithograph, 170 x 240 mm

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Photograph of Atiamuri Bridge across the Waikato River

Date: [ca 1904]

From: Wells, Joan Mabel, fl 1986 :Photograph album of Japan and photograph of Atiamuri

Reference: PA9-100

Description: Photograph of Atiamuri Bridge across the Waikato River, taken ca 1904 by Thomas Pringle. Shows Pohaturoa Rock in the background. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - top left - Muriel Pringle 6/4/1904; Backing board recto - bottom right - Waikato River at Atiamuri, About 1902 Pohutaroa in Background by Thos Pringle. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 25.6 x 32.7 cm [visible image], in decoratively carved wooden frame 44.5 x 57 cm

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Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948 :Poihipitouai with store and other huts. 1882.

Date: 1882

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :Sketches by A. L. Haylock, 1882.

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948; Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898-1980

Reference: E-060-1-013

Description: Looking down on the bend of a broad river, with small houses on the near side, cliffs across the river Name untraced. Could be an error for Pohaturoa, on the Waikato, or could be on Mohaka River Other Titles - Pohaturoa Extended Title - from Sketches by A L Haylock, 1882. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 119 x 192 mm.

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Leatherby, (Mrs), fl 1973 :Postcards of New Zealand scenes

Date: [ca 1900s-1910s]

By: Leatherby, (Mrs), active 1973; William Beattie & Company; Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-7230

Description: Postcards of New Zealand scenes, taken ca 1900s-1910s. Includes: Auckland Hospital and Grafton Road; rowing boat on the Waikato River; Palmerston North Railway Station taken by Muir & Moodie; Trafalgar Street, Nelson looking towards the cathedral; view over Lake Rotorua with a Maori woman and child in the foreground and St Faith's Church next to the lake (published by W Beattie & Co); port of Onehunga; and High Street, Dunedin Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 postcards. Physical Description: Postcards

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The junction of the Waikato and Waipa rivers at Ngaruawahia

Date: [Between 1885 and 1900]

From: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916 :Maori portraits and artifacts

Reference: PAColl-1893-10

Description: The junction of the Waikato and Waipa rivers at Ngaruawahia, photographed in the 1880s by Josiah Martin of Auckland. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - J Martin, Auckland, NZ [blind stamp] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15.2 x 20.4 cm

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Angas, George French, 1822-1886 :Church Missionary Station on the Waikato River, New Ze...

Date: 1864

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: E-372-f-005-1

Description: Shows Rev B Y Ashwell's first mission station at Pepepe or Taupiri located beside the Waikato River. There are high, bush-clad hills behind the house which has a fenced garden. A canoe is close to the station on the river. A group of Maori are seated in the foreground Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 44, Jan 1864, p.104 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 175 x 240 mm

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[Smith, Maurice Crompton] 1864-1953 :Junction of Waikato and Waipa, Ngaruawahia. [ca 1881]

Date: 1880 - 1885

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: A-174-025

Description: Ngaruawahia on the left with the Waikato stretching into the distance towards hlls Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash sketch 110 x 190 mm

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Morrison, Mr :Postcards of Auckland and other areas

Date: [ca 1908]

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6408

Description: Postcards of St Mark's Church, Remuera; the Waikato River at Hamilton; HM fleet in Lyttelton harbour; two of the Pavilion baths and grounds in Rotorua; the view from the grounds from the tower of bath house, Rotorua; an evening view of the Marine Parade gardens, Napier; the anglican church at Onehunga; a commemorative postcard of the dash to the south pole by Shackleton in 1908; Ferry Bridge over the Waiau River at Hanmer taken by Muir & Moodie; three views of boating at Hamurana Springs; Lakelet in the park, Queenstown; main street in Cust; Auckland Exhibition Grounds; Somerville Memorial Church at Remuera; Myers Park and Kindergarten; St David's Presbyterian Church; beach at Sumner, Christchurch; sanatorium and band rotunda, Te Aroha. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Prints also housed at PA5-0109 and PA5-0085. Quantity: 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 8 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 14 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Coxhead album 2

Date: [1880s-1890s?]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-o-111

Description: Scenic views, mostly of New Zealand, some of Australia, and a few taken in Scotland. Photographs mostly taken by Frank Arnold Coxhead; two of those taken in Scotland were by George Washington Wilson (G.W.W.). The album also contains a large number of coloured postcards, coloured reproductions of paintings, and coloured scraps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover, with black spine and corners, 27 x 38.5 cm

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Newman, Frederick Hugh, 1900-1964 :[Plans for electric substations and memorial fountai...

Date: 1949 - 1953

By: Newman, Frederick Hugh, 1900-1964

Reference: Plans-2004-053-001/003

Description: Includes perspective drawings of the Whakamaru Power project, Islington substation, and for a memorial stone and fountain in Manners Street for the Methodist Church, 1939. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, sizes varying up to 520 x 765 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms Maria Newman, of Lower Hutt, in 2004. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1291.

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Wheeler and son album 1

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-532

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by E Wheeler & Son, circa 1870s to 1880s Most of the views are identified, either on the photograph itself, or in hand-written captions below; places shown are listed above. One image has caption "Flax cutting" on the photograph which shows a man standing be a group of cabbage trees, with a house? or possibly a mill with a water wheel in the background behind the trees, while the hand-written caption reads "Valley scene, Hokianga". Other Titles - New Zealand views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover (damaged), entitled "New Zealand Views" in gold lettering; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

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Railways album 5

Date: [Circa 1937]

Reference: PA1-f-054

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways between 1937 and 1938 by unidentified photographers. Photographs in the North Island include tours between Stratford and Ongarue; Ngaruawahia celebrations in 1938 (including views of King Koroki's house which was built in 1938); Rotorua and six lakes trip; and opening ceremonies for the Hutt Railway. In the South Island views include Caroline Bay with events at the soundshell; in Timaru, views of a two-storied clubhouse and men playing bowls, a person practising croquet, and several games of tennis on a series of tennis courts; areas in Queen Charlotte Sound, Portage, Pelorus and Kenepuru Sounds and Blenheim Aerodrome; Tasman and Franz Josef Glaciers; Milford Sound; Punakaiki; and Cromwell. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, dark green spine, entitled `Tours 5'; 40 x 60 cm

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[Holdsworth, Alice Mabel], 1878-1963 :Wairakei; flowers. [1936-1937]

Date: 1936 - 1937

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

Reference: E-252-q-024

Description: Two branches of clematis and branches of other flowers in various colours, some growing at Wairakei, some on the Waikato river and one from Wairunga Falls. Includes artist's description of flowers Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in album. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 310 x 230 mm in grey buckram album

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Salmon album 11

Date: [Between 1930 and 1941]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-207

Description: Album of photographs (mainly landscapes) taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1930 and 1941. The album is divided into sections (not in chronological order), many relating to camping holidays with an unidentified companion. Areas covered included a Christmas holiday trip in 1937 to the East Coast and thermal regions around Tikitere and Waimangu, the Morere nikau forest, Mount Maunganui beach, Hongi's track, the buried village at Te Wairoa, and Rotorua. A North Auckland trip in December 1938 included camping as far north as Paihia, Russell and Waitangi, the Waitangi Falls, the Waipoua Kauri Forest and Trounson's Kauri Park, also Auckland, the Kaingaroa Plains and Waiouru Valley. Areas of erosion were noted, and mangrove swamps. An Anniversary Day trip (22-23 January 1939) took Salmon to the Putangirua Pinnacles in the Wairarapa; and in September 1941 he went to the Hawke's Bay area. In 1945 he went on a North Island Expedition working on malaria control, with ?Bissett, and William John Phillipps. February 20-27 1939 was a trip across the Napier-Taupo Road, and included a number of images of the silt and desolation caused by a great flood in the Esk Valley in 1938. In 1936 Salmon went on a geological trip to the Rotorua area, and at Orakei Korako he was particularly interested in "sinter formations" (thermal deposits of silica, of which the Pink and White Terraces were examples). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

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Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898 :Whangamarino stockade... 2.40 p.m. Overlooks Waikat...

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Sketchbook of English and New Zealand scenes] 1860 - 1864

Reference: E-349-051

Description: Drawings of two guardian figures from a pa entrance at Rangiriri. Rough indications of flax bushes from Whangamarino Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, 100 x 320 mm

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Carroll album

Date: 1868

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-o-094

Description: Views of New Zealand chiefly taken by Daniel Mundy circa 1868, with some taken by Charles S Spencer. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Decorated tan coloured cover "Scraps", 25.5 x 33 cm Provenance: Alexander Turnbull Library donation slip on front page reads: "Scrapbook of old photos collected by Mr Mundy about 1868."

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View of Mercer

Date: ca 1890s

Reference: 1/2-004202-F

Description: An elevatedl view of the town and the river including a substantial two-storey house on the left next to the river. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

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Angas, George French 1822-1886 :Four watercolours of Maori life in 1844 by George Frenc...

Date: 1844 - 1973

By: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-039/042

Description: Reproductions of original watercolours in the Library's collections: Motupoi Pah with Tongariro; On the Waikato at Kapou, travelling party with their canoes halting to cook their midday meal; Nene [of] Hokianga; Women of the Nga Te Toa tribe, Porirua, Cooks Streights, August 1844. On folder: Karoo, a native of Anatam, New Hebrides [1850] "The Alexander Turnbull Library prints 1973". Reproduced from watercolours held by the Alexander Turnbull Library. Issued with descriptive text sheet; includes portrait of Angas and a preliminary pencil sketch Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Loose coloured photolithographs 323 x 232 mm; 330 x 221 mm; 333 x 242 mm; 333 x 242 mm on sheets 432 x 507 in col. illustrated folder.

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[Mitford, John Guise] 1822-1854 Attributed works :[Whangape Lake, River Waikato. ca 1845]

Date: 1840 - 1850

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: C-089-017

Description: A view of Whangape Lake from its shores Exhibited in 'Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art' Exhibition at Auckland City Art Gallery, 2 February - 22 April 1990. Title from K.S. Alexander Sketchbook, in Auckland Public Library. On mount: Lake close to Waikato. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 137 x 255 mm Provenance: Purchase: Mr Rich, Farnham Commons, Bucks., 1974.

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Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908 :Group on the banks of the Waikato River at Atiamuri

Date: [1880s]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA7-42-06

Description: A posed photograph taken at Atiamuri on the banks of the Waikato River. A group of men have alighted from a horse-drawn carriage. The horses are unharnessed and feeding from a wooden trough. Two groups of men are shaking hands while children and adults look on. A man and a woman are standing nearby. To their right is a wooden cottage with smoke coming from a chimney and another thatch-roofed building. Photograph taken by Frank Arnold Coxhead in 1880s. A similar image at PA7-41-26 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Ateamuri, Waikato; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - F.A.C. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14 x 19.3 cm on mount

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