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Date: 1873-1928

By: Baker, Josephine Harriette Anne, 1858-1913

Reference: MS-Papers-0167

Description: Mainly diaries and inward correspondence from her husband, relations and friends including Flora Acland, 1879-1885; Fanny Bagot, 1875-1876; her grandmother, F. A. Dicken, 1879; sister Ada Dicken, 1876-1899, Beatrice `Bebe' Knight, 1899, and Eleanor Inman, 1873-1899; Emma Packe, n.d.; her aunt Augusta Parker, 1875-1889; and Amelia Soder, 1885; referring to domestic events. Includes reminiscences of her childhood in England written between 1891 and 1905. Also essays, recipe books, poetry, sketches and other writings, as well as some personal material associated with her husband who had a private school for boys at French Farm, Akaroa Includes shipboard diary kept by T S Baker on board the Dallam Tower, 11 May-26 Jul 1873, and a fragment of the original passenger list. The ship left London in May 1873. The ship encountered a cyclone in July 1873 which dismasted the ship. Some passengers were transshipped to the `Cape Clear' for Sydney and others stayed on the `Dallam Tower' to Melbourne where they transshipped to the SS Albion for the final voyage to New Zealand Josephine `Dodo' Dicken emigrated from England in 1873 with her father Thomas and sisters and brothers. The Family settled on a property at French Farm, Banks Peninsula. She married Thomas Southey Baker in Christchurch, 17 December 1878. They had four daughters. Quantity: 86 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, Mss Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [1890s-1900s?]

From: Teale, Edmund Oswald (Sir), 1874-1971 : Birell album

By: Charles H Kerry & Company; Shearsby, A J, active 1913-1928; Star Photo Company; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA1-q-029

Description: Postcards, chiefly of Australia, including Tasmania, Adelaide, Queensland, New South Wales, with several showing various tin mines in Tasmania. There is a section of New Zealand postcards in the middle of the album, many taken by an Australian photographic company "Charles H Kerry & Co", labelled "Series 53. Hot Lakes District, New Zealand". These images are tinted, and include views of the Huka Falls, the Pink and White Terraces, Waiotapu, Ohinemutu, Whakarewarewa, Lakes Waikaremoana and Taupo, and the Aratiatia Rapids. The NZ images also include views of the Mount Cook region of the South Island, including Franz Josef Glacier, Hooker Glacier, Mounts Darwin, Sefton and Cook, and Lakes Te Anau and Wakatipu. Many of the postcards show the photographers' names, and include R C Harvey, A J Shearsby, the Star Photo Co., de Tourret, and the New Zealand Tourist Department. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown "Postcard album" with red, green and blue decoration, 285 x 240 mm

Date: 1887-1891

Reference: PA1-q-610

Description: There are three main themes in this album. 1. The Royal Navy, Australian Squadron, based at Sydney. Pictures of naval cadets and war ships, some of which are in dry dock. The creator of the album, or a relative, seems to have been associated with HMS Orlando. Many photos of this ship appear in the album. The Orlando served as the flagship of the Australian Squadron from July 1888 to December 1897. The Sydney Morning Herald reported on 11th Feb 1889 that HMS Orlando and Dart were docked in Calliope Dock, Auckland, because Sydney facilities could not undertake the work. There are a number of Photographs of HMS Orlando in dock at Auckland in this album. Thus the photos of officers and naval cadets may also have associations with the Orlando. There are also 3 photos of a gun accident which occurred on the HMS Cordelia of the Australian Squadron. This happened on the 26 June 1891 while the Cordelia was on a cruize from Fiji to Noumea. During Gun Practice a gun burst killing 6 ratings and wounding 13 others. The photos show the broken gun casing littering the deck. 2. Of the New Zealand section much of it concentrates on the town of Lawrence. Many of the captions and photographs relate to the Anglican parsonage at Lawrence. This suggests the possibility of the album belonging to the Vicar or a member of his family. If this were the case, and given the period of the late 1880s-early 1890s, it may be associated with the Rev George Pice Beaumont vicar and archdeacon from 1872 to 1900. On the other hand the name of Beaumont does not appear anywhere in the album. 3. Samoan civil wars of the late 1880s and the hurricane of 1889 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [1890s?]

By: Finch, Olive, 1883-1984; Cowdell, Joseph Tuffley, -1907; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hawley & Company; Iles, Arthur James, 1870-1943; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Verrall, John Miles, 1849-1921; Wilson, George Washington, 1823-1893

Reference: PA1-o-172

Description: Photograph album containing views of the South Island, including Christchurch, Diamond Lake, Otira Gorge, Bluff, Skippers Gorge, Waiau River and Hanmer. North Island views include views of Mount Tarawera after the eruption in June 1886, and views of the Pink and White Terraces before they were destroyed in the eruption. Other views show Napier, showing the first ship to berth at the new breakwater, SS Flora, on 22nd October 1895; Marine Parade in Napier; street views in Gisborne and Whangarei; Parihaka; and the Rotorua, Wairakei area with the Huka Falls, Aratiatia Rapids, and the Waimangu Geyser. Photographs taken circa 1890s, by some unidentified photographers, but many by named photographers, including Arthur James Iles (Thames), E Wheeler & Son (Christchurch), Hawley & Co (Napier). All named photographers are listed in the name sequence. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, with ornate gold decoration on spine, 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1 Jun 1893-1 Sep 1894

By: Herries, Robert Stansfield, active 1893-1925

Reference: MSX-4174

Description: The diary covers from 1 Jun 1893 to 1 Sep 1894 and includes a voyage Herries made on the `Kaikoura' to New Zealand to visit his brother, William, of Te Aroha. Herries made almost daily entries and during his working week he noted when he was in chambers, who he dealt with, and especially recorded social occasions He left for NZ on 20 July 1893, reaching Hobart 1 Sep and NZ 6 Sep, and returned to England on 20 Jan 1894 on the `Mararoa' to Sydney and the `Ville de la Ciotat' to Marseilles, arriving there 2 Mar and returning overland to England. Herries noted the steamers' daily run, the various ports visited and activities on board ship While in NZ Herries visited Wellington, Christchurch, Auckland, New Plymouth, Rotorua, Wairakei, Tarawera, Napier, Nelson, Reefton, Kumara and spent time working on his brother's farm in Te Aroha and visiting neighbours and other parts of the district Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (258 pages). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1862-1866, 1999

From: Parkinson family : Letters from J C Parkinson / transcribed by Finbar McCormick

Reference: MS-Papers-6673

Description: Comprises transcriptions by F McCormick of letters written by Parkinson to his family in Ireland between 1862 and 1866 while a sailor in Australasian waters. His letters were written from Melbourne, Lyttelton, Invercargill, Hobartown, Rockhampton, Newcastle, Manukau, Auckland and Ningpo and Saigon on the Cochin China coast. He writes of life on board ship, other people on board, food, the ports they visited and the countryside nearby, his revived observance of God, wages and conditions, the Maori and other matters. He sailed on the `Prairie', the `Bella May', the `Dispatch', the `Dart' and possibly others. Parkinson was a merchant sailor from Ireland who made several trips to Australasia before settling in Tasmania Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1914-1915

By: Maunsell, Henry Beresford, 1890?-1958

Reference: PA1-o-336

Description: Photograph album relating to Henry Beresford Maunsell's service during World War I, with the NZ Army 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles Regiment in Egypt. Many of the military personnel are identified, a few with later dates added noting when some of the men photographed in the album were killed in action. The first part of the album shows soldiers leaving on board HMNZ troopship 'Orari' 14 October 1914, the trip through Hobart, Colombo, Aden, Port Said until disembarkation in Alexandria December 1914. Many scenes show the shipboard stabling for horses used by Mounted Rifle troops; others show various ships they passed on the way. The latter part shows various military scenes in Egypt, including The New Zealand Corps camp near Cairo; swimming horses crossing the Nile; Red Cross Vauxhall ambulance; groups of soldiers riding camels; horse lines; and a line of horses at drinking troughs. There are a few images of soldiers at tourist sites, and some of Egyptians. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Maunsell album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover; 25.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: 1860-1880s

From: Saxby, Stephen Hector, 1907- :Photograph albums

By: Monro, David (Sir), 1813-1877; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903; Beattie, John Watt, 1859-1930

Reference: PA1-q-214

Description: Album of views in New Zealand and Australia, comprising photographs of Nelson, mostly taken by Sir David Monro ca 1860-1865, showing his family and properties, "Bearcroft", and "Newstead"; views of Lake Guyon and district taken ca 1865 by W T L Travers, and scenes in Tasmania taken by John Watt Beattie of Hobart, ca 1880s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with tan cloth cover, dark green leather spine; 35 x 26 cm

Date: ca 1910

From: Watt, M M :Two photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-604

Description: Photographic account of travels through parts of New Zealand and Australia Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 16 November 1887 - 1 April 1889

From: Jackson, Ann Fletcher, 1833-1903 :Journals and Poems

Reference: MSX-7763

Description: Ann Fletcher Jackson writes in this journal about her visits to other Quaker families in remote parts of New Zealand and in Australia. She often travels alone, but also with her husband Thomas Jackson. She travels by ship, train and horse. The journal also contains information about the Jackson family farm at Otonga, and the lives of her sons and daughters. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [1850-1916]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-20

Description: Handwritten research notes about whaling and whaleboats. Arrangement: Papers in this folder were folded into a notebook and were a part of 51 in the preliminary list. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 9 Feb - 3 Jul 1894

By: Brown, H J (Mr), active 1894

Reference: MSX-9260

Description: Travel journal of Mr H J Brown. Details a five month, 9 Feb - 3 Jul 1894, journey to New Zealand and Australia. 9 Feb - 24 Mar : Describes the voyage on the ship 'Oroya' from London to Sydney. Includes details about activities aboard the ship, day excursions at port cities - Gibralter [sic] with a Portguese guide called Joseph Buzaglo; Naples and Pompeii ruins with Mr Cook & Son (Tour guides); Port Said; Colombo at the Oriental Hotel and vehicle tour with Mr Cohen; Albany, West Australia; Melbourne; and final port Sydney. 25 Mar - 3 Apr: Describes time in Sydney staying at the 'Australia Hotel', and travels at to the Blue Mountains and Kaloomba [sic]. 4 - 8 Apr : Describes the voyage on the ship 'Mararoa' from Sydney to Australia, and the unpleasant conditions on board. 9 - 19 Apr : Describes travel through the North Island from Auckland to Wellington on buggy and rail. Includes detailed description of visit to Whakarewarewa and hot pools area of Rotorua with tour guides Mr Cook & Son, staying at the 'Geyser Hotel', observations of Maori, cruise on Lake Rotorua to Mokoia Island, the story of Hinemoa and Tutauakie [sic], temple to the 'God of the Sweet Potato', Hamurana Stream, use of Maori language, Okere and Tutea Falls, Tikitere, Waiatapu Valley, Mount Tarawera eruption, Wairakie [sic], Huka Falls, Lake Taupo, Tarawera, the strains of buggy travel, Napier, train to Wellington, stay at the 'Occidential Hotel', pre European Maori times, and land ownership. 19 - 21 Apr : Describes voyage on the ship 'Penguin', from Wellington to Port Chalmers, via Lyttelton. Includes observation of Lyttelton. 21 - 26 Apr : Describes time in Dunedin, a visit to Rosslyn Woollen Mills, business trip to Woodlands and associates P Briscoe and Tom Price. 26 Apr - 1 May : Describes voyage on the ship 'Talune' from Port Chalmers to Hobart, Tasmania, via the Bluff. Includes retrospective general observations of New Zealand and Maori. 1 - 5 May : Describes Hobart, trip to Brown's River and train to Launceston. 7 - 8 May : Describes the voyage on the ship 'Patenna' from Launceston to Melbourne. 9 - 12 May : Describes time in Melbourne and the economy. 12 May - 3 July : Describes the return home voyage on the ship 'Ormuz' from Melbourne. Includes day excursions at port cities Adelaide, Colombo, Port Said, Naples, and Gibraltor; mentions 'Bluejackets' naval officers onboard, the frustration of the ship being quarantined in Colombo due to scarlet fever, the recreation onboard, and final entry mentions passing the ship 'Orient' outward bound. End pages of journal include a tally distances (miles) travelled, list of people they met, books read, and 'Son Macauley's Riddle' in Arabic. Source of title - Supplied by Library Other - Frontpiece stamp 'Hatchett & Kingsnorth, Stationers, 428 Strand' Quantity: 1 volume(s) 136 pages. 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, Newspaper clippings p 62 sketch of a buggy; p 77 map of North Island and rail and coach routes taken; p 124 map of canal from Port Said to Suez.

Date: [ca 1902]

By: Pettifer, Walter, active 1902

Reference: PAColl-7744

Description: Photographs, many of which are panoramas, of New Zealand cities, rivers and lakes. Includes photographs of Sydney and Tasmania, and a photograph of Brooklyn Bridge, New York. Taken ca 1902, possibly by Walter Pettifer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Purchased from Judith Grant, London, September 2002. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1135 : Pettifer, Walter, fl 1902 : Diary and scrapbook..

Date: 1857-1889

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2010

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: [Circa 1890s]

By: Beattie, John Watt, 1859-1930; Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937; Roberts, Elizabeth, 1856-1918; Stoner, W

Reference: PA1-o-482

Description: Album of photographs relating to mountains and mountaineering in the Southern Alps. A photograph of George John Roberts, Charles Edward Douglas, and Leonard Cockayne (p 1), was probably taken by George Roberts' wife, who took one of the group at the same time but in different positions (See image at PAColl-5926-13) C H Stonor is seen with "Dr Teichmann" [i.e. Ebenezer Teichelmann] (p 40). Two photographs at the end of the album are of Tasmania, one showing a bush scene with a small waterfall; and one taken by John Watt Beattie of Hobart from the bay. All the inscriptions in the album are hand-written with decorative lettering and patterning. Inscriptions: Album page - W. Stoner, Llanvair, Coronation Rd, South Ascot. Rev. Celsus Kelly Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cover, black spine; 24.0 cm x 31.5 cm

Date: 1903

Reference: PA1-f-319

Description: Record of a trip by sea from England to New Zealand, and includes travels in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) on the return journey. Begins with photographs of the ship SS Austral, passengers on deck, and a view of a lighthouse at the end of a breakwater taken probably as the ship left Plymouth Harbour. There are views from the ship of Cape St Vincent, Gibraltar, and approaching Marseilles. A section of photographs (which may include places in Marseilles) are of Italy. There are views of Rome and Pompei. A section of photographs taken while the ship passed through the Suez Canal includes women passengers on deck as well as the canal and adjacent countryside. Views of ships and sail boats in the Red Sea and passengers playing deck games. On reaching Australia the ship stopped at Freemantle, and there is an Adelaide street scene. But most of the Australian photographs are of Melbourne and Hobart. The ship's first port of call in New Zealand was Port Chalmers, and a group of photographs include Dunedin, its rural surroundings seen from the sea, Invercargill Post Office, and Bluff. The ship then sailed north to Lyttelton, and there are four pages of photographs of Christchurch and Banks Peninsular. In particular there is a visit to Port Levy which as well as landscape views includes groups of Maori visited by three men on horseback. One page of five photographs shows men handling sacks of freshly harvested cocksfoot grass seed in a recently cleared pastoral landscape covered with the remains of burnt trees. The next group of six photographs show two teenaged boys on a camping trip. There are images of their tent, of cooking with billies, eating a meal laid out on a tree stump, and the boys playing at the edge of a stream. Three photographs show an impressive house and garden belonging to a Mr Joslin. The following eleven pages of photographs record a journey through parts of the North Island. This begins with a trip up the Whanganui River to Pipiriki, and then continuing by coach from Pipiriki to Taupo. Photographs include views of the coach on the road, of the road passing through native forest, and the journey across the Volcanic Plateau where the passengers stopped for a tea break. There are a few photographs of Taupo and the lake. These include one of the meeting house Tikiotetamamutu at the Spa Hotel. There are 16 photographs taken at one or more unidentified thermal areas, and others of the Hooker Falls and Aratiatia Rapids. There are two photographs of a house with a large gothic styled "fortified" tower at one end. The New Zealand photographs are followed by a return to Australia on the way to Ceylon (Sri Lanka). There is one view of a Melbourne street, and eight of Sydney Harbour. The final eight pages are of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) beginning with views of the street life of Colombo. This is followed by a trip to Kandy, a visit to a bungalow in the country, a game of golf, and views of a tea plantation and tea pickers. The Sri Lankan section, and the album, ends with 13 photographs of the South African prisoner of war camp at Diyatalawa in the southern part of the central Highlands of the country. This housed 5,000 of the 26,000 Boer prisoners of war that the British shipped offshore during the South African War (1899-1902). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchased from Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 2010.

Date: [Circa 1870s]

By: Arnoux, Hippolyte, active 1860s-1880s

Reference: PA1-f-047

Description: Photographs taken in the 1870s, covering a wide range of places, photographers mostly unidentified, and most images with no captions. The first group were taken in an around the Mediterranean, including Gibraltar, but particularly focussing on the Suez Canal. The sequence includes a copy of a montage produced by Hippolyte Arnoux, showing a map of the route of the canal, surrounded by photographs of canal designer Ferdinand de Lesseps and various sites along the route. Other images in this sequence were probably taken by Arnoux who was working in Egypt during this period. The next group of images travel via India (?), to Australia. Views of Melbourne include Government House, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Houses of Parliament, the Scots' Church (in Collins Street), the Post Office, the Town Hall, and the Public Library. Following these is a panorama of Sydney, and views of Tasmania. The New Zealand scenes start with a panorama of Auckland, the Mount Eden residence of G.B. (?, pencilled name undeciphered), and the Auckland Domain). Images further south include Ohinemutu; the Pink and White Terraces; Napier; the Manawatu Gorge; Wellington (with the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel visible in the foreground); Nelson; the wreck of the ship Otago, at Chasland's Mistake; and a number of views in the Dunedin area. The last sequence shows parts of Canada, including the Rockies, Montreal and the Niagara Falls. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark brown leather cover, with decorations stamped in gold; 28 x 40 cm

Date: [Circa 1880s-1890s]

By: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942; Bayliss, Charles, 1850-1897

Reference: PA1-f-012

Description: Album of fine sepia views taken by various photographers. They show views of Australia, including Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney (panorama taken by Charles Bayliss), Hobart. Views of New Zealand, including Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, Dunedin, Port Chalmers & Lyttelton; Auckland; Ohinemutu, including a Maori meeting house, head and shoulder portraits of Maori, showing moko, and views of Lake Rotomahana with the Pink and White Terraces. Two views of Honolulu life show Princess Ruth and her house. One view of San Francisco, one of the Sandwich Islands. There are several views of a railway line winding through the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas, in the Rocky Mountains, taken by W H Jackson in 1880. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album 470 x 360 mm, lacking covers, in phase box Provenance: Creator and provenance information not known

Date: 11 Jun 1876-26 Oct 1877

By: Rivers, W E T, active 1876-1877

Reference: MSY-5720

Description: Rivers recorded hour, minute and second, courses, fathoms, wind, barometer and thermometer readings; he included remarks, bearing and distance; includes inserts and hand drawn maps. Notes on the River family included with volume. The `Sapphire' sailed from Fiji to Samoa, Wallis Island, Sandwich Island, New Hebrides, Sydney, Farm Cove, Melbourne, Hobson's Bay, Auckland, Wellington, Chatham Islands, Campbell Island, Dunedin, Tauranga (some of these ports were visited more than once), and back to Fiji and Australia Source of title - Transcribed Accompanying material - Brief notes on the Rivers family Rivers was captain of HMS `Sapphire' Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Neales, Nottingham, England, May 2003

Date: 8 Oct 1902-3 May 1903

By: Woodridge, G Charles, active 1902-1903

Reference: MS-Group-0912

Description: Woodridge sailed to New Zealand in Oct 1902 and in his journal describes his voyage on the ss `Papanui' visiting the Spain, Tenerife, the Cape of Good Hope and Tasmania en route, his travels through New Zealand, his departure and voyage back to England on the `Rimutaka' via Cape Horn, Uruguay. He writes of his daily activities, the people he met, the various sights, social life and customs of the places visited and he has included in the volume stamps from the various ports they visited, photographs, pen drawings, dried plants, maps and a huia feather. His itinerary is summarised at the end of the book which also includes a brief address list of persons met and rough abstract of expenses. Woodridge visited Wellington, Napier, Rotorua, Auckland, Helensville, Dargaville, Kaihu, Mangawhare, Maropui, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Pipiriki, Palmerston North, Pohangina, Christchurch, Dunedin, Queenstown, Paradise, Skippers, Wanaka, Alexandra, Lawrence, Christchurch, Springfield, Otira, Reefton, Nelson and Picton A telegram and two greetings cards were also with the journal Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (111 pages). 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, photographs and printed matter Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Two photographs, one of Woodridge, the other of a family group with the name Mrs Forbes written on it. Throughout the text are inserted photographs, stamps and drawings