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Date: 1834 - 1932

By: Woore, Thomas, 1804-1878; Busby, Augusta Dora Merewether, 1890-1962

Reference: A-048-008

Description: Copy watercolour by A.D.M. Busby Shows Mount Taranaki in the background with two flat-topped hills, with the Waimate Pa in the middle distance on the shore, the sea in the foreground and two of the ship's boats from H. M. S. Alligator. Indicates position of cannon, and a rock where Mrs Guard was seated on the shore. Notes on front and back Signed Other Titles - Waimate Pa, Taranaki Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 7 x 15 inches

Date: ca 1940

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-047771-G

Description: View towards Mount Ruapehu. In the foreground soldiers train at firing field guns. Photographed by Sydney Charles Smith in about 1940 Waiouru Military Camp opened 1938/1939 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negtative

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-050

Description: The camp at Patea with small canon and canon balls in the foreground, larger guns and gun carriages and tents in the background. Saddles and other horse tack are slung over the traces of the gun carriages and soldiers can be seen around the tents in the background. A raupo whare stands on the right Probably a copy of an original by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams Inscriptions: Verso - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream paper, 84 x 240 mm

Date: 16 April 1937

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/4-048821-G

Description: A unit of the New Zealand artillery at work with large guns at Fort Dorset, Seatoun, Wellington. Photograph taken in April 1937. This photograph appeared in the Evening Post on 17/4/1937, with the caption: "Looking across the gun emplacements when a unit of the New Zealand artillery was at work with the big guns" Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - 16/4/1937 991 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-006

Description: Looking down from above at the military camp on the left, the river and low hills beyond. A road lies to the right of the camp, with a figure on horseback and a man walking. Soldiers, tents, gun carriages and supplies can be seen in the camp. Copied from a watercolour by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams 'Meremere, N.Z. [1864]', on p. 18 of the Hocken Library's E. A. Williams' sketchbook (now separately mounted) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 136 x 202 mm

Date: [ca 1914-1918]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001188-G

Description: View of six soldiers loading a field gun during artillery practice at a training camp. Photograph taken in New Zealand by William A Price during World War One, 1914-1918. Former identifier taken from label on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1885

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: 1/2-105939-F

Description: "Pop-emoff", the 7inch RML gun at St Clair, Dunedin. This photograph was probably taken in early 1885 during the emplacement of the gun. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1855 - 1865

Reference: 1/1-017989-G

Description: Photograph of a watercolour with a view from inside the fort looking out to the Waitemata Harbour. Three soldiers standing in the foreground, several piles of cannonballs to the right, a Union Jack flying centre, the fort's walls with gaps for cannon and part of a wooden building visible on the far left. Several ships in the harbour. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour

Date: [ca 1880s]

Reference: 1/2-018635-G

Description: Overlooking Devonport, circa 1880s. A cannon is in the foreground. Photographer unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1860s

From: Peter Moore Album 1

Reference: PA1-o-347-67

Description: Scene at Fort Britomart, Auckland, 1860s. Shows soldiers from the Imperial forces, and cannon balls. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 11.2 x 20.4 cm, mounted on album page 23.5 x 18.2 cm

Date: 12 Jan 1943

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000127-F

Description: Gun firing from the fortification at Godley Head, on the northern side of the entrance to Lyttelton Harbour, Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, 12 January 1943. Photograph taken by John Pascoe. Source of descriptive information - Order Tracking System caption, as file print not located. Caption - Caption with Pascoe file at 6/1/30 in Photographic Archive reads: " Fire! A heavy long range gun booms from its camouflaged position somewhere in New Zealand" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1845

By: Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: A-079-003

Description: Redcoats and Maori in the foreground amongst low scrub, including flax and toetoe. A cleared hill (right) and bush-clad hill in the background.To the left in the middle distance can be seen the palisades of Kapotai Pa, alongside a stream at Waikare Inlet (Bay of Islands) surrounded by soldiers with smoke and flames visible. To the right is a small European house, with a fenced garden, with soldiers in formation in front of it, ordnance, and further soldiers moving up the hill behind it, with puffs of gunfire smoke coming from the hill. Other Titles - Kapotai Pa Inscriptions: No inscriptions on work. Title taken from mat, now discarded. Other mats (from box A-079) which have been retained show a title in ink in the hand of Cyprian Bridge. The mat must also have included the artist's signature, since the catalogue card (from the 1960s?) states that the work is signed and includes square brackets around the date, but not around the title. There is no signature on the work itself Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 176 x 225 mm

Date: 1860 - 1922

From: Cowan, James :The New Zealand wars. Wellington, Government Printer, 1922.

By: Arden, Francis Hamar, 1841-1899; Webb, Steffano Francis Pavlovich, 1880-1967

Reference: PUBL-0054-1-161

Description: Shows the tower of the blockhouse on the left, and other buildings in the middle distance. There are several soldiers standing on guard in the foreground, and a cannon on wheels in the centre. The location of the original for this book illustration is not known. The photograph in Cowan's book was made by Steffano Webb. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of watercolour (book illustration)

Date: 1884

By: Ashton, Julian Rossi, 1851-1942; Illustrated New Zealand News (Newspaper); Fergusson and Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: C-068-008

Description: A family playing on a beach. Five children are making a sandcastle in the foreground, while their mother and a sixth child rest under a parasol to the right at the base of a hill. At the top of the hill, cannon are visible, along with a lighthouse, and a steamship and a yacht can be seen in the water in the background. The scene has been previously identified as the Waitemata Harbour; however Ashton was an Australian artist so the area depicted could be Australian, or it could be an imaginary scene, relating to either Australia or New Zealand. Extended Title - From The illustrated New Zealand news. Supplement. April 1884 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 310 x 455 mm

Date: Circa 1909

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1411-1/2-F

Description: A quick firing 12 pounder gun mounted on a special truck, for the Westport Artillery Volunteers. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber, probably at the Petone Railway Workshops, circa 1909. Godber's son William is standing by the carriage. This image is a film copy negative taken from the original print in Godber Album Vol 110, p 54 (PA1-q-101). Inscriptions: Album page - 12 pounder. Q.F. Gun, mounted on special truck for Westport Artillery Volunteers. An original print is in Godber Album Vol 110, p 54 (PA1-q-103) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 16.25 x 11.75 cm

Date: 1865

From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867

Reference: A-277-026

Description: Mount Taranaki in the background of a scene in a military camp with a white goat (or possibly a bullock?) to the left, three tents and a mounted gun. In the foreground a man is carrying water. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour over pencil, 64 x 115 mm

Date: [192-?]

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-008955-F

Description: Shows an unidentified woman standing beside a Kinman cannon (made in 1808) on display at the Britomart Reserve, Akaroa. A plaque on the cannon says 'Ordance gun from the HMS Britomart which arrived at Akaroa 10 August 1840'. Wooden colonial period building and bare tree visible in background. Photograph taken by the Steffano Webb Photographic Studio, Christchurch. Source of additional descriptive information - Location provided by Library client. Information on cannon provided by the Akaroa Civic Trust (see website www.akaroacivictrust.co.nz 7 September 2012) Cannon placed on Britomart Reserve in 1908 and described as being from the HMS Britomart, a British naval vessel which came to Akaroa in 1840 to demonstrate British sovereignity over the South Island. The 1808 Kinman cannon had been sent out by the British Admiralty for display at the 1906-1907 International Exhbition held in Christchurch. The cannon had ben requested by Akaroa Mayor Etienne Le Lievre. After the closure of the Exhibition, the cannon was sent to Akaroa. It is the same type of cannon that would have been on the HMS Britomart, but is not from the Britomart itself. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic negative

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-104

Description: View on the foreshore, with a soldier and cannon in the foreground, houses and the blockhouse prominent to the left Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm.

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-030

Description: View along the shoreline looking east, towards Parnell, with the military buildings the skyline above the cliff. Sail boats in the harbour, and a wharf in the right foreground with a yacht, crewed by several men. Other men and a woman with two children are on the wharf. This watercolour is copied from one by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams: either 'Fort Britomart, Auckland, 3 August 1864' in the Hocken Library, p. 35 in the now dismantled Williams' sketchbook, with minor changes in some details, especially the lettering on the sail of the yacht; or the Turnbull's watercolour 'Fort Britomart from Queen Street Wharf August 64' (E-510-010/011), which varies the figures on the wharf and does not include lettering on the yacht's sail. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on buff paper, 181 x 245 mm.

Date: Jan 1943

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: 1/4-000125-F

Description: New Zealand Army officer working the rangefinder for the coastal guns at the battery observation post, Godley Head Fortress near Lyttelton. Taken by John Dobree Pascoe in January 1943. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 6 cm