Places

Date: 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: A-228-017

Description: Looking roughly south along the coastline from Moeraki with indications of other geographical features in the distance See also: E-281-018 Descriptive notes Other Titles - Matakana point in the middle distance. Vulcan's Foundry. Waimataitai river Inscriptions: Recto - top right - No 17. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash in two colours, 50 x 115 mm

Date: [ca 1900]

Reference: PA1-o-1242

Description: Album containing photographs of Port Chalmers, Riverton, Moeraki, and Lake Te Anau, taken ca 1900 by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Black leather album 19.2 x 25 cm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-281-q-018

Description: Looking south east from low hills near the coast to the bay south of Moeraki Beach Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and wash, 48 x 115 mm.

Date: [Between 1890s and 1900s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-297

Description: Album of South Island scenes (except for a few taken en route to Wellington showing The Brothers, Pencarrow Head, and one of a group having a picnic at Muritai). Probably mostly photographed by George William Barltrop. The first section shows the Nelson and Marlborough areas, and several photographs of ships at sea, one shipwreck (the Antiocco Accame in 1901), and one aground (the Elginshire, 1902). People who are identified are: the Reverend Bennett (Frederick Augustus Bennett (later Bishop), with his first wife Hana Te Unuhi Mere Bennett, and young daughter, Rawinia Bennett (circa 1900); Abe Wells, photographed as an older man outside his cob house at Richmond (circa 1890s); and Isla Reid, photographed as a young girl, probably in the Dunedin area. Three scenes in cemeteries have clearly identified headstones, and include those for the Reverend Samuel Poole, Frank Churchill Simmons; and a group memorial for Charlotte McDonald, Annie McQuaid and Lizzie Crinrod, stewardesses who were drowned in the wreck of the SS Wairarapa, Great Barrier Island, 29th October 1894. This was erected by the stewardesses of the Union Steam Ship Company. Inscriptions: Album page - Geo W Barltrop Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: [ca 1883-1924]

From: New Zealand and Australian Land Company Ltd : Records

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-15-93

Description: Maps of Western Australia, New South Wales, Queensland; plan of Hakateramea and Dalzell, Canterbury; plan of area south of the River Opihi, Canterbury; plan of the Moeraki Estate nr Hampden, Otago; plan of the Waianakarua Manoeuvre area, Otago, 1928; map of the Province of Otago, 1875-1876; map of the South Island, showing properties belonging to the NZ & Australian Land Co, 1879. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: [Between 1868 and 1898]

By: Long, W H (Mrs), active 1970; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Zangaki (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-146

Description: Album of photographs, most taken by the Burton Brothers in New Zealand, including a large number of Maori images, group portraits, identified men and women, pa, and storehouses. Scenes also taken by them in Tonga and Samoa. A number of images show scenes in England, including a group taken near Egremont in Cumbria, of ice on the Mersey River in 1895. There are a large number of copies of paintings of romantic scenes. Several photographs of the Suez Canal, and the Nile River, were taken by Greek photographers `Zangaki' Brothers Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with reddish brown cover, brown corners and spine with single raised cords; fleur de lys pattern stamped between cords; 33.5 x 27.0 cm

Date: [Circa 1860s-1870s]

Reference: PA1-o-399

Description: Photographs of the South Island taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1860s-1870s Some of the scenes have captions, many of which are taken in the Otira Gorge area, Christchurch, Akaroa, Ashburton and West Coast. The first photograph, inside the front cover, shows a man with a full beard, standing behind a penny-farthing bicycle. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with reddish brown cover, darker spine; 19 x 28 cm

Date: [1870s-1880s?]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-081

Description: Views of the South Island, chiefly in Southland and Otago, taken by unidentified photographers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, lacking spine and back cover, 30.0 x 23.5 cm

Date: 1851 - 1852

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-332

Description: View of Waikouaiti, Moeraki, Waitaki River, Mount Domett, Mount Pleasant, copies of Ngatimamoe paintings, surveying camps Inscriptions: Spine: title Sketchbook no. 1, Cover: S[outhern] Dist[rict] New Munster Diagrams. N[orth] Division. Otago to Waitaki. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Pencil & ink drawings in sketchbook, page size 232 x 182 mm

Date: 1851-1858, 1910 (2000)

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Mieville, Frederick Louis, 1830-1922

Reference: MS-Papers-6938

Description: Reminiscences written in 1910 of Mieville's life in New Zealand, mainly on Glenham Station in the Mataura Valley, Southland, and in Dunedin; transcribed and indexed by Marsha Donaldson. Includes shipboard accounts of the voyage to Port Chalmers on the 'Dominion' in 1851 with the Richardson family, a voyage home to England via Melbourne on the 'Thomas and Henry', and 'Royal Charter' in 1857, and the return voyage to Port Chalmers in 1858 on 'Agra'. He includes some of his wife's diary entries in his reminiscences. His first year in New Zealand was spent at Otepopo on the sheep station owned by Charles Suisted. He married Fanny Richardson in Dunedin in 1854. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (106, 7 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Accompanied by index to people and ships mentioned, and some places. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Marsha Donaldson, Upper Hutt (Nov 2000)

Date: 1848, 1862, 1898, 1927 - 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Anderson, G D, active 1934; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; Whites Aviation Ltd; De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Pickard, D, active 1940s-1950s; Johnson, W E, active 1927; Robertson, David Ogilvie, 1850?-1920

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-030

Description: Photographs of the West Coast of the South Island, Otago and Southland, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1927 to 1950. Includes a painting of the `Philip Laing' and `John Wickliffe' in Port Chalmers in 1848, painted by D O Robertson in 1898 and photographed by De Maus. Also includes a photograph of Gabriels Gully, Lawrence, in 1862, and later photographs of memorials to Gabriel Read. Photographers include W E Johnson, J D S Roberts, G D Anderson, D Pickard, Whites Aviation, D A De Maus and L A Inkster. Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1890s and 1900s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: PA1-o-168

Description: Album of photographs of the Otago region, and sketches of the area by William Mathews Hodgkins. Sketches include one ink sketch of a man ploughing behind two horses; The rest of the sketches are in pencil, many with colour notes. They include [Pond and hills]; Sketch for a wet day on a west coast. OAS [Otago Art Society] Exhib ... 1894, sold this to Watson Sherman? 44 pounds (?) Dec '94; [Ducks] about 40 feet; and [Ducks on a river]; The Spit, Waikouaiti taken on the route to Moeraki Nov 94; [Beach scene]; [Wharf, possibly at Moeraki?]; [Boats, possibly at Moeraki, or Dunedin?]; [Boats, possibly at Moeraki, or Dunedin?]; Irekehu [Ireketui?] track [near coast]; Puketihi [Puketiti?]. The bay is Matukiki; [Maori woman carrying a baby on her back]; [Turbaned man]; [Figure]; [Men working on a boat in a boatshed]; Miss Edwards House [house with small tower]; Outline of hills beyond the Clutha seen from Lovells Flat. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Loose-leaf album with string tie, dark maroon cover, label attached reads `Taieri, Maori [...?], Moeraki, Saddle Hill, Balclutha [...?]'. Album 15.0 x 28.5 cm

Date: [Between 1863 and 1888]

From: Bloch, Theodor Thorlacius, 1844-1935 :Photographs of New Zealand

By: Ballard, H Benjamin, active 1861-1888

Reference: PA1-q-033

Description: Views of New Zealand, chiefly of Nelson, including the Maitai River, Nelson Reservoir, Nelson Harbour and Port, Nelson Christ Church Cathedral, and Waimea Road (showing Nelson College at the head of the valley). Other images of New Zealand include the Moeraki Boulders, Mitre Peak, the Criterion Hotel in Wellington, and a view of Gisborne. Images of Australia include views of Black Hill and Mount Gambier (South Australia), and Ballarat and Stawell in Victoria. A series of views of the Copenhagen area in Denmark include castles and palaces, the Kongelige Theatre, Fredensborg slot (Frederiksborg, Denmark), and a museum in Copenhagen. Photographs taken by Theodor Bloch who was a professional photographer in Nelson circa 1863-1888, and then in Victoria, Australia until circa 1891. One image (page 24) "The lighthouse, Northumberland" (Australia), is signed H B Ballard (also an Australian professional photographer). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green covered album with ornamental embossing in gold and black, 285 x 250 mm

Date: Aug-Dec 1858

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0682B

Description: Letters from Maori to McLean about various topics; there are letters about land transactions with confirmation of details and payments, complaints about non-payment of rents by Pakeha settlers, letters with requests for various things, and a printed letter about the touring circuit for Bishop Selwyn Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available on microfilm. See MS-Copy-Micro-0535-102.

Date: 1860-1869

From: Photographs of the Richmond family, their relatives and friends

Reference: PAColl-7075-07

Description: Photographs of locations in the Otago Region of the South Island. These include the settlements of Moeraki and Waitehuna, Morison's Station in the Rough Ridge Ranges, Lake Wanaka, Hartley's Beach, Mount Benger, and the Manuherikia River Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1948

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-1/03

Description: "Record list. Otago tour" written on folder. Contents includes a comprehensive list of the interviews that Leo Fowler conducted during his tour of Otago in 1948. Topics include early settler history, including Maori, Pakeha and Chinese history. Some of the interviews were conducted in Maori, so will be a good resource for Kai Tahu language research [full transcripts are not present here but does include a summary of topics spoken about in the recordings]. Includes information about mahinga kai or food gathering practices, rock art, early farming history, sheep rustling and bushrangers. Language - References to Maori language recordings Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: n d

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Centennial Publications Branch : Historical Atlas material

Reference: MS-Papers-0230-021

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-281-q-009

Description: Looking south along the coastline towards Moeraki, past the mouth of the Kakanui River Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and wash, 69 x 200 mm.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-080

Description: Several images on one pagle. At the top of the page, two shacks and a cabbage tree, 'Smith's station' at the mouth of the Waianakarua, looking inland, with the river to the right. Left, below that, Taiaroa standing on the beach, staff in hand, appearing to be speaking, observed by several people lying down. The title refers to Rauparaha's conquest of the east coast and to the local paramount chief's defiance while Rauparaha is safely in the North Island on Kapiti. Below on the right, three drawings of the same man's head in a bonnet, and a right-angles, a coastal view looking north along the beach from Onekakara, Moeraki, with several canoes pulled up on shore to the left. At the bottom left of the page, a cryptic drawing possibly of a rocky outcrop, titled Penal Sett. Moeraki, possibly refering to the number of ex-convicts amongst the whalers at Moeraki Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Oct 28 Quantity: 5 drawing(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1867-1872

From: Mantell family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0083-199

Description: Contains correspondence (Matiaha Tiramorehu) about various issues including Maori political participation in central government and admission to the Upper House, the Governments complaints of the high price of Maori land for Native schooling and other purposes and the excessive costs imposed on Maori for their childrens attendence. Also includes letters by Tamihana Te Rauparaha about an ongoing dispute between Ngati Raukawa and Muaupoko and Ngati Apa incursions into the Horowhenua burning houses (21/4/1870) and challenging Ngati Raukawa occupation in the district. Tamihana requests the government to confiscate the arms that were formerly issued to these tribes during the wars. Also mentions a curse by Te Peeti (?) threatening to exhume the bones of Te Whatanui and throw them into lake Horowhenua. Also contains a copy of the petition by Hohepa Tamaihengia requesting the return of Whitireia. Contains good examples of 19th century Kai Tahu dialect by Matiaha Tiramorehu ! Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.