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Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Wanganui River. [1893]

Date: 1893

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.

Reference: E-373-039

Description: Looking across the river towards a small settlement, possibly at Pipiriki, with two canoes drawn up at the water's edge, tree ferns, two buildings and taller trees with high hills behind Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, in sketchbook, 130 x 360 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..

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Railways album 4

Date: [Between 1920s and 1930s]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: Pa1-f-053

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways, chiefly taken circa 1936, by unidentified photographers. The main sequences cover views in the Christchurch area, the Southern Alps and West Coast in the South Island; and Gisborne, East Cape, and Taranaki in the North Island. Many of the images were used in the New Zealand Railway Magazine which is available in full-text on the internet at http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-railways.html Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled Tours, Book 4; 39 x 59 cm

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Europe, India, NZ album

Date: [1870s to 1880s?]

From: Creator unknown :Grand tour photograph albums

Reference: PA1-f-130

Description: Travel photographs, prints mostly commercial albumen prints, including black and white copies of paintings. Most views from England (including the fortified manor house Hutton John) and Europe (particularly Switzerland); some images from the Suez Canal in 1870; Akola in India. A number show scenes in New Zealand, at Taumata, and the Whanganui and Mangawhero Rivers. Photographers are not identified. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown leather binding, 42 x 36 cm

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New Zealand album 2

Date: [Circa 1900s-1910s]

By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA1-o-365

Description: Album showing various aspects of New Zealand life in cities, on farms, and in industries such as gold and coal mining, the timber industry, dairy industry, and flax industry. Other images focus on New Zealand scenery ranging throughout the North Island and the South Island. Photographers are mostly unidentified, but groups who are named are A. Northwood, and the New Zealand Tourist Department. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Album identical in content to that at PA1-o-364. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon covers, entitled `New Zealand'; 24 x 30 cm

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New Zealand album 1

Date: [Circa 1900s-1910s]

By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA1-o-364

Description: Album showing various aspects of New Zealand life in cities, on farms, and in industries such as gold and coal mining, the timber industry, dairy industry, and flax industry. Other images focus on New Zealand scenery ranging throughout the North Island and the South Island. Photographers are mostly unidentified, but groups who are named are A. Northwood, and the New Zealand Tourist Department. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Album identical in content to that at PA1-o-365. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon covers, entitled `New Zealand'; 24 x 30 cm

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Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :Near Wanganui, taken from section no. 45 on the right ba...

Date: 1841

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-011-009

Description: A view from the south bank of the Whanganui River with the foreground details outlined in ink. There is a cabbage tree to the left, a tree fern to the right. Across the river is bush-clad undulating land with Mount Ruapehu in the distance. No houses are visible New Zealand company drawing, no. 6, Portfolio D. Information inscribed in ink lower left, probably before the New Zealand Company had had a stamp made. Probably 'Sketch near Wanganui' received by the New Zealand Company in London on 23 March 1842, listed by the Company as item number 48 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date [printed], signature. Also bottom left, in ink: No.6 Portfolio D Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and brown ink drawing 152 x 286 mm

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Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Wanganui from the opposite bank. 1848. Town stocka...

Date: 1848

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-067

Description: A view from across the Whanganui River of the township, with its fortifications, houses and Christ Church on the right, a flag and a flagstaff on the highest hill to the right. A tree fern is in the right foreground. The left-hand section of a panorama with A-292-068 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 261 x 360 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

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Looking through tree ferns at Pipiriki House, to the Whanganui River

Date: Date unknown

From: Iorns, Bennett, 1883-1977 :Photographs relating to Masterton and the Wairarapa

Reference: 1/2-100438-F

Description: Looking through tree ferns outside Pipiriki House, towards the Whanganui River. Photograph taken for the New Zealand Government Publicity Department, by an unidentified photographer. Date unknown. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Pipiriki Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

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