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Date: 1868

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-027-004

Description: A view from near the entrance to Akaroa Harbour, with cliffs to the right, a steamer leaving the harbour on the left, and hills in the background. Acquired before 1941 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 133 x 216 mm

Date: 1886

Reference: A-159-038

Description: Looking south towards Quail Island, across houses and wharves Title inscribed in ink by artist on mount (157 x 218 mm), with date 2/25/86 (i.e. 25 Feb 1886) Other Titles - Lyttelton Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed in pencil (for initials compare A-159-037/43). Also title and date below work Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on paper 125 x 164 mm

Date: 1974 - 1895

By: Avon Fine Prints; Weekly graphic and New Zealand mail (Newspaper)

Reference: C-061-003

Description: Contents: Panorama of Lyttelton, port of Christchurch, New Zealand - Shipping and wharves at Lyttelton, the port of Christchurch. Reproduced from lithographs in the Hocken Library, Dunedin. Nos 3 and 4 of limited edition of 1000 sets. See D1/12 for 3rd item of this set. Extended Title - First published as chromolithographs in Christmas issue of Weekly Graphic, 1895 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithographs, 145 x 381 mm on sheets 298 x 496 mm

Date: 1949

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to ferries and ferry services in New Zealand, 1900-1969]

By: New Zealand. Government Tourist Bureau

Reference: Eph-A-FERRY-1949-01

Description: Tickets for Union Steam Ship Comapny sailings, in a Government Tourist Bureau cover. The sailing from Wellington to Lyttelton was for 9 May 1949 on the 'Hinemoa', and the return trip was on 28 May 1949 on the 'Rangatira'. Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on tickets 150 x 70 mm, stapled inside cover 72 x 130 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 2011.

Date: 1850

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: E-106-f-008-1

Description: A view from Mount Evans looking north across Lyttelton Harbour towards Godley Head and Pegasus Bay with the Southern Alps in the distance. Several ships are in the harbour and at sea Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, 18 May 1850 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving

Date: 24 March 1882

By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: PA1-o-494

Description: Contains seven mounted photographs, taken on 24th March 1882. Four of these are 1/2-004680 and 004681 and 1/2-004683 and 004684 which are halves of two very similar panoramas of Lyttelton harbour taken from the same point and showing the graving dock in the foreground. They both name the same ships moored in the harbour which are: Carnarvon Castle, Pet, Midlothian, Guy Mannering, Harbour Board's dredge and barge, Ione, Wigtonshire, Duchess of Argyle, Inch Murren, Cairnbulg, Seriol Wyn, Glenburn, Perthshire, Alexa, Brilliant, Lurline, Mataura, Duncraig, Enterpe, City of Perth, Lock Eck, Roman Empire, Loch Dee, British Yeoman, Glamis, Gareloch and Woollahra. Also included are two pictures of the graving dock and a view of reclaimed land at the edge of the harbour. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Album with folded green binding, tied with canvas ribbon, containing seven photographs. Provenance: From the library of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull. Given the original numbering of 3784-3790.

From: Cridland, Henry John 1821-1867 :Township of Lyttleton [Lyttelton], Cavendish Bay, Port Victoria / H.J.Cridland Sept[ember] 1850 [Recto] Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881. Chart of Banks' Peninsula ... 1849 [Verso]

By: Cridland, Henry John, 1821-1867

Reference: C-014-002-1

Description: View of Lyttelton from Governor's Bay, with an artist sketching by an arched rock and two women with small children on the left, a small row-boat in the middle ground, Lyttelton with about a dozen buildings (including J. R. Godley's house) and the Sumner Road clearly formed, H.M.S.Fly in the harbour with several other vessels, Mount Pleasant 1870 feet marked to the left and the vegetation on the surrounding hills indicated Other Titles - Lyttelton cf almost identical sketch by Cridland entitled Port Lyttelton, Cavendish Bay, Victoria Harbour held at A-195-016 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 282 x 561 mm Processing information: Removed from: Great Britain. Parliamentary Papers, 1850, cd [1136] facing p.67, housed in Reference Collection at q328.42 until 1989.

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Willis, Archibald Dudingston (Firm) :N. Z. Christmas cards. - Wanganui ; A.D. Willis [1886 or later].

By: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm)

Reference: E-068-041

Description: View looking out towards the harbour entrance, with ships in the harbour to the left, and the Timeball Station and a signalling flag on the hill beyond the wharves Text on image, upper left, reads: "A merry Christmas" A sample Christmas card Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 87 x 127 mm

Date: 1974 - 1895

By: Avon Fine Prints; Weekly graphic and New Zealand mail (Newspaper)

Reference: C-061-003-a

Description: Contents: Panorama of Lyttelton, port of Christchurch, New Zealand - Shipping and wharves at Lyttelton, the port of Christchurch. Reproduced from lithographs in the Hocken Library, Dunedin. Nos 3 and 4 of limited edition of 1000 sets. See D1/12 for 3rd item of this set. Extended Title - First published as chromolithographs in Christmas issue of Weekly Graphic, 1895 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithographs, 145 x 381 mm on sheets 298 x 496 mm

Date: [ca 1904-1950]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-092

Description: Photographs of New Zealand and overseas ships, and New Zealand ports, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1904-1950s. New Zealand related images include: Aerial photograph of Lyttelton Harbour; series of photographs of ports - Ahuriri (Napier), Timaru, Dunedin, Bluff, Gisborne, Wanganui and Waitara. Also: Wreck of iron barqe Antiope (14 Sep); wrecked barque Rewa near Kawau Island; MV Hornby Grange at Auckland prior to departure for Britain; scow Bee stranded at mouth of Puhoi River; schooner Fairburn stranded on Opotiki Bar; coastal steamer Awahou; wrecked NZSCo steamer Tongariro on Bull Rock, off Portland Island (Aug 1916). Series of photographs of the sailing ship Pamir; Orient Line steamers Orsova and Orcades; sailing ship Canterbury in Timaru Harbour, Apr 1904; barque Joseph Craig damaged in Rangitoto Channel tied up at King's Wharf, Auckland, 1912; 2 unidentified ships in NZ waters. Also a number of overseas passenger and cargo ships. Quantity: 47 album leaves with black & white photochemical prints and 2 album leaves with 5 black & white photographic prints. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and photochemical prints

Date: 1865

From: [Warre, Henry James] 1819-1898 :[Sketchbook]

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: E-294-073

Description: Coastal profile looking towards the Inland Kaikouras, with a ship in the water Extended Title - From: Warre, Henry. [Sketchbook] 1864-1865. p.71 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 97 x 176 mm

Date: 1884 - 1885

From: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm) :[Sample album of greeting cards, produced by A D Willis of Wanganui. ca 1885]

Reference: E-936-f-024-1

Description: Shows a view looking out towards the harbour entrance, with ships in the harbour to the left, and the Timeball Station and a signalling flag on the hill beyond the wharves. Several ships sail in the harbour. The message included top right reads 'A merry Christmas' Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 105 x 145 mm

Date: 1884 - 1885

From: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm) :[Sample album of greeting cards, produced by A D Willis of Wanganui. ca 1885]

Reference: E-936-f-026-2

Description: Shows a View of Lyttelton Heads from outside the heads, looking into the harbour, with a yacht leaving and a steamer entering the heads. Godley Lighthouse stands on the clifftops, on the right. The message included top right reads 'A merry Xmas' Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 72 x 105 mm

Date: [1865, 1900-1905]

By: Macey, William Henry, -1931; J H Bethune and Company Ltd

Reference: PA1-o-1231

Description: Album of views of Picton (including visit of Governor Ranfurly and New Year celebrations); Waimakariri, Broken River (including a workmens's camp) and Otarama from the Midland Railway; Cable Bay (including telegraph staff); Wakapuaka (including native bush); Nelson; Rai Falls; Wellington (showing decorations for the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York, 1901); Dunedin (including Larnach's Castle); Masterton (showing earthquake damage to Post Office); Manawatu Gorge Bridge; Wanganui; Taihape; Hamurana Springs; Rotorua; and meeting house at Te Ore Ore. One photograph is copy of an 1865 view of Picton, and the other photographs were taken ca 1900-1905. A number of the Picton images were taken by William Henry Macey. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1880s

Reference: 1/2-002836-F

Description: Two sailing ships in a dock for its opening with crowds lining the dock on either side. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1868

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Banks Peninsula, Skippers Pass, Mt Peel, Rakaia, and Central Otago, 1868 to 1879]

Reference: E-032-1-033

Description: View across water towards hills with a flag or signal station on top. Four ships in the water Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook, page size 91 x 123 mm

Date: 1974 - 1895

By: Avon Fine Prints; Weekly graphic and New Zealand mail (Newspaper)

Reference: C-061-002

Description: Contents: Panorama of Lyttelton, port of Christchurch, New Zealand - Shipping and wharves at Lyttelton, the port of Christchurch. Reproduced from lithographs in the Hocken Library, Dunedin. Nos 3 and 4 of limited edition of 1000 sets. See D1/12 for 3rd item of this set. Extended Title - First published as a chromolithograph in Christmas issue of Weekly Graphic, 1895 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithographs, 145 x 381 mm on sheets 298 x 496 mm

Date: 1859

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Martin G. Heywood (Firm); Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: B-051-007

Description: View of Lyttelton, possibly from Quail Island, looking at the township from the south east, with Holy Trinity Church, John Robert Godley's house, other houses, businesses and wharves, against a backdrop of the Port Hills. In the foreground, cabbage trees and flaxes. Three schooners are close to the foreground. Ellis, E.M & D.G Early prints of New Zealand 1642-1875 Christchurch: Avon Fine Prints, no. 549. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: 1 print pasted on card; tinted lithograph 248 x 388 mm, on sheet 342 x 498 mm, on card 370 x 525 mm Provenance: K.A. Webster collection, London (collection stamp on backing board).

Date: 1870 - 1878

From: Illustrated Australian news [1860s-1870s]

Reference: PUBL-0119-1878-13

Description: A busy dock scene at Lyttelton, with steam and sailing ships, wharf buildings, and families awaiting their luggage, collecting their luggage and greeting friends and relations. Some are still being helped off the ship onto the wharf. Extended Title - From Illustrated Australian News, 16 January 1878, p. 13 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, folio sized

Date: 1882

From: Tensfeld, John, fl 1869-1882: Panoramas of Lyttelton harbour

Reference: PA1-o-494-2

Description: Part 2 of a 2 part panorama of Lyttelton Harbour, taken in 1882 by an unidentified photographer. Same image in the Cox Album PA1-o-110, page 29 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).