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Adkin album 06

Date: Between June 1957 and February 1958

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-006

Description: "Illustrating geological observations, Vol 6". Black & white images of geological aspects of areas in the southern North Island. Includes a Royal Society, Geological Section excursion to Wanganui and South Taranaki, 1-3 June 1957; geological data revealed by coastal abrasion at Paekakariki, 15 October 1957; Makara Beach and adjacent coast, and the Opau Fault, 1 February 1958; excursion to the Western Lake Road, Wairarapa to the North-West corner of Palliser Bay & to Onoke, 1 March 1958.

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[Heaphy, Charles] 1820-1881 :View of the rocks laying off Point Jackson - North entranc...

Date: 1839 - 1844

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: C-025-021

Description: Seven strips of coastal profile forming a more or less continous record of the appearance of the west coast of New Zealand from Taranaki south to Queen Charlotte Sound. Part of the view is taken from Entry (i.e. Kapiti) Island The work seems most likely to have been done in 1839 when Heaphy travelled up the west coast aboard the Tory. Exhibited: "Drawn from Nature: Europeans record New Zealand 1770 - 1860". National Library Gallery 31 March - 28 May 1989; Treasures in Trust, Auckland Art Gallery, 11 November 1996 to 9 February 1997. A related series of coastal profiles, also by Heaphy, is held at the office of the Hydrographer of the Navy, Taunton, Somerset, England. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 385 x 499 mm Provenance: Commissioned by the New Zealand Company. Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull from Francis Edwards in London in 1916 with other New Zealand Company material.

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Old Whanganui/ T. W. Downes

Date: 1915, 1938-1940

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11946-033

Description: Published by W. A. Parkinson, in 1915. Also clippings, a card, and two photographic prints. Prints are of Putiki Pa, and a landscape scene. The card is from T. W. Downes' family, after his death. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed volume with loose papers and photographs

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