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Two sets of coasters of New Zealand landscapes

Date: 1984

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: Objects-0521

Description: Manufactured by Jason Products. Illustrations by artist John Barr Clark Hoyte, and printed on to coasters. Illustrations of: View of Auckland Harbour from Parnell, Milford Sound, Mitre Peak, Fiord on the Otira Gorge, Lake Rotorua, Lake Tarawera, Doubtful Sound. Date from manufacturer's catalogue. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 12 object(s) coasters. Physical Description: Photolithographs, coloured on board 95 x 115 mm in box 110 x 240 x 20 mm Processing information: Description edited as part of Objects survey, January 2024. Previous reference: Curios-027-007/7-a. Previous title: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913 :New Zealand landscapes / by J C Hoyte - [1984] (Auckand ; Jason Products).

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Two sets of placemats of New Zealand landscapes

Date: 1984

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: Objects-0520

Description: Manufacted by Jason Products. Illustrations by Artist John Barr Clark Hoyte. Two sets of placemats, featuring illustrations of: View of Auckland Harbour from Parnell, Milford Sound, Mitre Peak, Fiord on the Otira Gorge, Lake Rotorua, Lake Tarawera, Doubtful Sound. Includes two Jason Products product catalogues. Date from manufacturer's catalogue. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 12 object(s) placemats. Physical Description: Photolithographs, coloured on board 215 x 290 mm in box 230 x 300 x 30 mm Processing information: Description edited as part of Objects survey, January 2024. Previous reference: Curios-027-006/6-a. Previous title: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913 :New Zealand landscapes / by J C Hoyte - [1984] (Auckand ; Jason Products).

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Schmidt, William Shaw Diedrich, 1870-1969 :Auckland, New Zealand. Panoramic views of ci...

Date: 1973 - 1892

From: [Various artists] :Three panoramas. Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1973.

By: Schmidt, William Shaw Diedrich, 1870-1968

Reference: D-001-014

Description: In the left foreground, a drive with horse and carriage, fenced with formal young plantings. In the centre and right foreground, partially cleared native bush, including flax, treeferns and cabbage trees. Rangitoto Island and North Head on the far left, the harbour in the centre and the city with its volcanic cones in the the background Issued with descriptive text sheet. First published as a coloured chromolithograph in the Christmas issue of the Weekly graphic, 1892 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 262 x 748 mm on sheet 427 x 890 mm

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[Posters relating to New Zealand boating, yachting, yacht races, sailboats. 1990s].

Date: 1992 - 1999

By: Steinlager (Firm); Wellington (N.Z.). City Council; New Zealand Post Office

Reference: Eph-E-BOAT-1990s

Description: Includes posters: The America's Cup. In San Diego everyone wants to sink the favourite. Steinlager, premier sponsor New Zealand challenge America's Cup 1992. (2 copies) Bank of New Zealand America's Cup Supporters Club. New Zealand's challenge 1992 America's Cup San Diego. Challenger Elimination Series racing schedule [with illustration by Hanrahan] (2 copies) Bank of New Zealand America's Cup Supporters Club. The quest for the Cup; your guide to the races of the 1992 America's Cup challenge. Lambton Harbour. National Dragon Boat Festival. 25 & 26 February 1995. Admission $5. (2 copies) New Zealand Post. Congratulations! Team New Zealand. Victory 1995 stamp on sale now. Limited stocks available. Sunday Star Times yachting special. Steinlager Unconditional supporters. [1999-2000 America's Cup]. 1999. Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters.. Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying below 1020 mm. Provenance: Two items donated by Owen Spearpoint from the estate of Brian Edward Spearpoint, 2014.

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[Various artists] :Three panoramas. Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1973.

Date: 1973 - 1892 - 1894

By: Cockerell, E A, active 1890s; Hawcridge, Robert, 1866-1920; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: D-001-014/016

Description: Auckland, New Zealand, panoramic views of city and harbour from Birkenhead, by W.D.S. 1892; Wellington, New Zealand, panorama of city and harbour, by E.A. Cockerell. 1893; Dunedin, New Zealand, panorama of city and harbour, by R.H. Hawcridge. 1894. Issued with descriptive text sheet. First published as col. chromolithographs, reproduced from paintings, in Christmas issues of Weekly graphic, 1892-94, Auckland, New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing. Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Col. photolithographs 262 x 748 mm; 261 x 748 mm; 257 x 748 mm, on sheets 427 x 890 mm

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Barber, Ian :Photographs of the Great White Fleet's visit to Auckland; and lighthouses

Date: 1900-1915

By: Barber, Ian, active 1993

Reference: PAColl-3125

Description: Unidentified lighthouse, lighthouse keepers, and battleships of the Great White Fleet Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.

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Brooks, Catherine, 1884-1980 :Auckland Harbour, Mt Rangitoto. [1922-1940].

Date: 1922 - 1940

From: Brooks, Catherine, 1884-1980 :[Thirty (30) watercolours of Auckland, Onehunga and Rotorua. 1922-1940].

Reference: A-306-029

Description: Shows a view of the city and harbour of Auckland from Mt Eden, with Josiah Clifton Firth's house in the lower left, and Mt Eden Prison in the middle distance. North Head and Rangitoto Island are in the distance. The top of the Coromandel Peninsula can be seen in the right distance. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 228 x 354 mm.

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Stack, Frederick Rice :View of Auckland Harbour, New Zealand, from the Lake on the Nort...

Date: 1971 - 1862

By: Stack, Frederick Rice, -1873; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: B-076-029-c

Description: Title from accompanying text-sheet Reproduced by courtesy of the Auckland Public Libraries Other Titles - Views in the Province of Auckland, 1862 Extended Title - Published in Stack, F R. Views in the Province of Auckland, London, [1862 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 200 x 403 mm on sheets 360 x 530 mm

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AFCM album 2

Date: Between 1910s and 1930s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-f-002

Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.

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[Various artists] :Three panoramas. Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1973.

Date: 1973 - 1892 - 1894

By: Cockerell, E A, active 1890s; Hawcridge, Robert, 1866-1920; Avon Fine Prints; Schmidt, William Shaw Diedrich, 1870-1968

Reference: D-001-014-a/016-a

Description: Auckland, New Zealand, panoramic views of city and harbour from Birkenhead, by W.D.S. 1892; Wellington, New Zealand, panorama of city and harbour, by E.A. Cockerell. 1893; Dunedin, New Zealand, panorama of city and harbour, by R.H. Hawcridge. 1894. Issued with descriptive text sheet. First published as col. chromolithographs, reproduced from paintings, in Christmas issues of Weekly graphic, 1892-94, Auckland, New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing. Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Col. photolithographs 262 x 748 mm; 261 x 748 mm; 257 x 748 mm, on sheets 427 x 890 mm

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Merchant navy convoy 4

Date: May 1918 - January 1919

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-o-1394

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on following voyages: Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England. Left Port Chalmers 2 May 1918, called at Wellington (3-9 May 1918), Balboa (28 May 1918), Panama Canal and Colon (29-30 May 1918), Norfolk VA (4-10 June 1918), New York (11-12 June 1918), arrived Liverpool 24 July 1918. Three Transatlantic crossings between Liverpool, Glasgow, and New York, August-November 1918. Liverpool, England, to Port Chalmers, with returned New Zealand soldiers. Left Liverpool 2 December 1918, called at Colon (18-19 December 1918), Panama Canal and Balboa (19 December 1918), Auckland (9 January 1919), Wellington (11-15 January 1919), arrived Port Chalmers 16 January 1919. Includes views of Panama Canal locks and gates, ferries at Norfolk VA, United States and British warships, soldiers playing two-up on the ship returning home, and ferries in Auckland Harbour. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green morrocco-bound album, 21 x 26 cm

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Vaniman, Melvin R, 1867-1912, photographer :Auckland, Sunday, Feb[ruary] 9, 1903. [Pano...

Date: 1903

By: Vaniman, Melvin, 1866-1912

Reference: Eph-E-BUILDINGS-Auckland-1903-01

Description: Shows a panoramic view of Auckland with the wharves in the foreground, probably taken from above the end of a pier or bridge. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Protected 9.2.'03 / Melvin Vaniman / San Francisco Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 333 x 1004 mm.

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Green, Bertram :Negatives showing Taranaki and Auckland areas

Date: ca 1900

By: Green, Bertram, active 1900?; Shepherd, Michael, 1950-

Reference: PAColl-5205

Description: Includes photographs of Auckland and the Waitemata Harbour, and Egmont Village Arrangement: 1/2-51254-F to 1/2-51262-F Quantity: 9 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 1/2 plate glass

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Tourist Department album 2

Date: [circa 1905 to 1912]

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: PA1-o-498

Description: Photographs of a range of industries in New Zealand, possibly related to the Christchurch International Exhibition in 1906-1907. Industries include animal related products including wool, from fellmongery to transportation and finally weaving; meat works, including the slaughter house, the mutton cooling room, shipping fozen mutton, the beef cooling room; butter, at the Hautapu Butter Factory, showing butter in the factory, and delivering butter at Ngaruawahia Railway Station; the Waikato Bacon Factory, and pig carcases. Other industries include flax, with scenes showing a flax mill, carting flax to the mill, stripping, washing and drying flax, and also grading hemp and loading bales of it at Auckland wharves; kauri timber industry, from felling the trees, hauling logs by bullock, floating logs over the Wairoa Falls, sorting timber at the mill booms, timber mill on the Wairoa River, and a million feet of sawn timber at the mill. The latter part of the album shows scenes of gold dredging on the Buller Gorge, hydraulic gold-mining at Ross, Westland; coal mining at Brunner; kauri gum diggers and a warehouse storing kauri gum; and finally views of the Sugar Refinery in Auckland, and a warehouse filled with sacks of sugar. Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, leather corners and spine, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm

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The Iorangi off Mechanics Bay, Auckland

Date: [ca 1901-1910]

From: Winkelmann, Henry, 1860-1931 :Sailing photographs

Reference: PA7-60-09

Description: Photograph of the yacht Iorangi built for Alexander H Turnbull sailing up Auckland Harbour. Taken by Henry Winkelmann when the yacht was opposite Mechanics Bay Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - One of Mr Turnbull's yachts the Iorangi off Mechanics Bay, Auckland Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin, 29 x 37.5 cm

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Photographer unknown: Views of Wanganui River and Auckland Harbour

Date: [ca 1910s]

Reference: PAColl-6888

Description: Two images of a man cutting his son's hair sitting on a waka next to the Whanganui River; two of a waka being rowed on the river and one of the crew holding their hoe; a cow being lifted by a winch into a boat; yachts and row boats in Auckland harbour for the Auckland Regatta; two of Auckland harbour ferries; a steamer at a pier on the Whanganui River; three children playing on a shore line near Auckland with a pier in the background; a group of men, women and children round a camp fire with a makeshift tent in the background; and a row of houses with the wreckage left from a fire in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044216 to 044228 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

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Souvenir of H R H the Prince of Wales visit to New Zealand. Reception in Auckland, Apri...

Date: 1920

From: Souvenir of H R H the Prince of Wales visit to New Zealand. Reception in Auckland, April 1920. Brett Litho., Auckland, N.Z.

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-ROYAL-1920-02-cover

Description: A decorative cover showing insets of the Prince of Wales and the British coat of arms, New Zealand clematis, coats of arms of New Zealand and Auckland, the English rose and Scottish thistle, and a view of Auckland Harbour. All is within a pale blue border of Maori motifs and Prince of Wales plumes. The ship HMS Renown is shown as bottom centre. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Her Excellency / Lady Liverpool, G.B.E. / With the compliments of J L S[...]. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, on cover 204 x 282 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Lady Liverpool.

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Aerial view of Auckland Harbour showing Freemans Bay and the Westhaven Boat Harbour

Date: 1933

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970

Reference: PAColl-5469-028

Description: Aerial view looking west over Auckland Harbour in 1933, showing Freemans Bay and the Westhaven Boat Harbour. In the background are Herne Bay and St Mary's Bay, with the Shelly Beach Baths on the headland. Victoria Park and Customs Street West are on the left. Photograph taken by Tudor Washington Collins from the `Southern Cross'. Published in the New Zealand Freelance, 15/2/33 issue Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

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Ships and shipping

Date: [ca 1909-1952]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-093

Description: Photographs of New Zealand and overseas ships, mostly made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1909-1950s. New Zealand related images include: Shell Oil Company coastal tankers Paua and Tanea; Union Steam Ship Co cargo vessel Karoon; ferry Arahua (includes original photographs); Orcades; barquentine Alexa ashore at Castlecliff, Wanganui, Dec 1910; damaged cargo vessels Broompak and Komata in Auckland Harbour after collision; wrecked hull of Pelotas ca 1911; Opihi being scuttled in Palliser Bay; steamer Indrabarah being repaired at Port Chalmers. Also: Grounded freighter Viggo Hansteen in Otago Harbour; remains of sailing ship City of Auckland at Otaki; iron barque Anglo-Norman at North Spit, Kaipara, 26 Sep 1914; NZ Shipping Company vessels Rangitane and Rangitoto; wreck of Wiltshire; In memorium postcard relating to S S Penguin (1909) with photo of the vessel and female members of the Toomer family who perished when the ship sunk; boat at landing place at Owens Mines No 1 (undated). Series of original black & white photos of the wreck of the steamer Progress that went ashore at Owhiro Bay, 1st May 1931, with loss of life. Includes photographs of overseas vessels (names not added to Name Field) Quantity: 31 album leaves with black & white photochemical prints and 6 album leaves with black & white photographic prints. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and photochemical prints

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Photographs of Auckland

Date: ca 1930 - 1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Sayers, Alan John, 1915-; Whites Aviation Ltd; Ely, Dunstan, active 1949; Smith, Robin Vaughan Francis, 1927-

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-019

Description: Photographs of Auckland City and Harbour taken circa 1930 to 1960 for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of suburbs, parks, the university, Queen Street, the Harbour Bridge and illuminated buildings during the coronation celebrations in 1953. Photographers include R V Francis Smith, Alan Sayers and Dunstan Ely. Also includes several aerial photographs by Whites Aviation Ltd. Quantity: 70 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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