Places

Date: 1855-1866

By: Wainuiomata Board of Wardens

Reference: qMS-2089

Description: The schedule of owners of land in the Wainui-o-mata District include some of the earliest settlers in Wellington region; among the owners in 1854 were William Swainson, William Fitzherbert and Edward Jerningham Wakefield. The main task of the road board was to push on with the road down the valley to the sea at Orongorongo, and the progress made during the 11 years was not particularly speedy, one of the reasons being that the settlers were not satisfied with the provisions of the provincial Road Act which provided for local taxing for local improvements and vested the administration in local boards Accompanying material - Includes newspaper cutting from Dominion 1937 re the donation of the Minute Book Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms (37 cm; ½ brown velvet calf)

Date: 1842 - 1979

By: Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866; Fruit Distributors Ltd

Reference: C-077-026

Description: The central portion of a three-part panorama of Nelson Published ca 1845 in book entitled 'Adventure in New Zealand' by Smith Elder (London). Same as C-077-026-a, b, c, Extended Title - Reproduced from tinted lithograph in: Illustrations to `Adventure in New Zealand' by Edward Jerringham Wakefield, Esqre, London : Smith Elder, 1845 Also issued by Fruit Distributors as illustration on calendar for 1980. See C-086-1980-01. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 240 x 500 mm on sheet 400 x 610 mm

Date: 1841-ca1930

From: Zoe Martin-Carter: Photographs of Wellington and the Centennial Exhibition

By: Shore Bennett, Beverley Doris, 1928-; Martin-Carter, Zoe, 1870-1947

Reference: PA1-f-171

Description: views of Wellington and many of its principal buildings from settlement in 1840 to about the mid 1940s Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1950 - 1842 - 1959

By: Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866

Reference: B-046-016

Description: Subject: Numerous identified features, including jail, immigration barracks, survey offices, bank, various residences; also surveyor, settlers camping, housebuilding. Reproduced `through the courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library and the Dr F A Bett Collection'. Original: Tinted lithograph by Day & Hague in Wakefield, E . Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand (London : Smith, Elder, 1845) pl. 7, central portion. Same as B-046-016-a, b c Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, b&w, image 200 x 431 mm on sheet 246 x 457 mm

Date: 1843

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: B-051-004

Description: Shows and names Taupo Bay (i.e. Plimmerton) and the entrance from the sea. Thom's whaling station in the background, Maori pa at Plimmerton, man on horse and Maori burial ground, in foreground Detached from: Wakefield, E J ; Illustration to Adventure in N Z , 1845. Plate XII Other Titles - Paremata Extended Title - From: Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand" by Edward Jerningham Wakefield. (London, 1845). Plate 12. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph 237 x 370 mm

Date: 1853

By: Burnand, William Henry, active 1843-1850s

Reference: MapColl-832.4at/[ca.1853]/Acc.5977

Description: Copy of a topographic map of the Wellington region from Port Nicholson and Paliser Bay following the Ruamahanga River to the Manawatu River to the coast at Foxton. The Rimutaka and Tararua Ranges are named as are rivers, bays, heads, some settlements, tracks and roads. Some sections are marked and pa sites. Wakefield, Tiffin and Kettle have made descriptive notes about the terrain, views and navigable rivers on the map as well as at the bottom of it. Note on catalogue card states: Photocopy of col. MS map by W H Burnand inserted in his copy of New Zealand journal v. 4. p.218. 1843-44. Note on catalogue card states: Turnbull Library record no. 8 (N 1951) p. 9 gives title: Port Nicholson, Hutt, Wairarapa. Title suppled by cataloguer Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale not given, 44.7 x 19.6 cm.

Date: 1950 - 1842 - 1959

By: Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866

Reference: B-046-016-c

Description: Subject: Numerous identified features, including jail, immigration barracks, survey offices, bank, various residences; also surveyor, settlers camping, housebuilding. Reproduced `through the courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library and the Dr F A Bett Collection'. Original: Tinted lithograph by Day & Hague in Wakefield, E . Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand (London : Smith, Elder, 1845) pl. 7, central portion. Same as B-046-01 & a, b Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, b&w, image 200 x 431 mm on sheet 246 x 457 mm

Date: [ca 1986-2002]

From: Jones, Jenny Robin, 1947- : Research papers and transcripts

Reference: MS-Papers-11793-21

Description: Contains information regarding literary places of interest in New Zealand, including lists of shrines and plaques, locations of writers's houses, and photocopied newspaper clippings. Also contains correspondence regarding houses of Canterbury writers between Jones and Eric Beardsley, who initiated the Christchurch writers trail. The folder also contains a copy of the undated interim report, 'Survey of members on sites of national literary importance', by Lawrence Jones of the New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1842 - 1979

By: Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866; Fruit Distributors Ltd

Reference: C-077-026-a

Description: The central portion of a three-part panorama Published ca 1845 in book entitled 'Adventure in New Zealand' by Smith Elder (London). Same as C-077-026, b, c, Extended Title - Reproduced from tinted lithograph in: Illustrations to `Adventure in New Zealand' by Edward Jerringham Wakefield, Esqre, London : Smith Elder, 1845 Also issued by Fruit Distributors as illustration on calendar for 1980. See C-086-1980-01. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 240 x 500 mm on sheet 400 x 610 mm

Date: 1950 - 1842 - 1959

By: Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866

Reference: B-046-016-a

Description: Subject: Numerous identified features, including jail, immigration barracks, survey offices, bank, various residences; also surveyor, settlers camping, housebuilding. Reproduced `through the courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library and the Dr F A Bett Collection'. Original: Tinted lithograph by Day & Hague in Wakefield, E . Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand (London : Smith, Elder, 1845) pl. 7, central portion. Same as B-046-01 & b, c Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, b&w, image 200 x 431 mm on sheet 246 x 457 mm

Date: 1839 - 1845 - 1840

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Day & Haghe (Firm); Hay, Douglas, active 1991

Reference: C-026-005

Description: Shows a view from the water with a canoe in right foreground, and 2 sailing ships further away. In far left distance is the row of Sugar Loaves. Mt Taranaki (Egmont) is at centre-right background. Probably printed as pre-publication copy. Lacks letterpress of version published in E.J. Wakefield's "Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand..."(1845). Title from published volume: ATL has this at f919.31 WAK 1845. Lithograph based on drawings done in either 1839 ("Tory" expedition) or 1840 (surveying trip to Ngamotu, Taranaki). Extended Title - From: Wakefield, E. J. "Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand..." (1845) but without letterpress. Inscriptions: Unsigned, undated. No title. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, image 136 x 266 mm, on sheet 378 x 555 cm.

Date: 1842 - 1979

By: Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866; Fruit Distributors Ltd

Reference: C-077-026-c

Description: The central portion of a three-part panorama Published ca 1845 in book entitled 'Adventure in New Zealand' by Smith Elder (London). Same as C-077-026, a & b Extended Title - Reproduced from tinted lithograph in: Illustrations to `Adventure in New Zealand' by Edward Jerringham Wakefield, Esqre, London : Smith Elder, 1845 Also issued by Fruit Distributors as illustration on calendar for 1980. See C-086-1980-01 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 240 x 500 mm on sheet 400 x 610 mm

Date: 1842 - 1979

By: Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866; Fruit Distributors Ltd

Reference: C-077-026-b

Description: The central portion of a three-part panorama Published ca 1845 in book entitled 'Adventure in New Zealand' by Smith Elder (London). Same as C-077-026, a, c, Extended Title - Reproduced from tinted lithograph in: Illustrations to `Adventure in New Zealand' by Edward Jerringham Wakefield, Esqre, London : Smith Elder, 1845 Also issued by Fruit Distributors as illustration on calendar for 1980. See C-086-1980-01. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 240 x 500 mm on sheet 400 x 610 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866; New Zealand. Ministry of External Relations and Trade

Reference: C-029-011

Description: Shows and names important features: Jail, immigration barracks, survey office, church, hospital, courthouse, government offices, bank, and several private dwellings and other landmarks. Also shows surveyors at work, settlers camping, building a house and clearing the land. This copy is uncoloured and is the centre section only of a three-part panorama. Extended Title - From: Wakefield, E.J. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand, 1845. Plate VII. Centre section only. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - THE TOWN AND PART OF THE HARBOUR OF NELSON IN 1842, about a Year after its first foundation.; Recto - above image - Separation Point between Blind Bay and Massacre Bay / Auckland Point / Boulder Bank forming Nelson Haven; Recto - beneath image - Jail Company's Immigration Barracks / Survey Office and Temporary Church Company's Hospital Immigration Office / and Depot House of / Mr Tuckett / Chief Surveyor Court House and / Government Offices House of the late / Mr Thompson / Police Magistrate House of Mr McDonald / Banker, late Sheriff Bank Residence of the late W. C. Young Esqre / now that of the Revd. Reay; Recto - beneath image - Drawn by John Saxton Esqr / London Smith Elder & Co. Cornhill ATL has (mostly hand-coloured) lithographs to Wakefield's "Adventure in New Zealand", 1845 in Drawings and Prints, and at f919.31 WAK. Manuscripts and Archives records contain information about the people mentioned on this image. John Saxton arrived in Nelson in 1842. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph 245 x 453, on sheet 360 x 542 mm.

Date: 1840 - 1845

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: C-029-009

Description: Identifies Hutt River, Somes Island, Evans Bay and Wellington. Shows the huts of the first settlers at Petone, and the first four ships to bring settlers to Wellington, anchored between Somes Island and Petone Beach. A view from the western hills looking out towards the harbour entrance. The original drawing on which this lithograph is based is at A-146-001 Other Titles - Petone Extended Title - From: Wakefield, E. J. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. Plate 3. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white 315 x 452 mm on sheet 380 x 560 mm

Date: 1950 - 1842 - 1959

By: Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866

Reference: B-046-016-b

Description: Subject: Numerous identified features, including jail, immigration barracks, survey offices, bank, various residences; also surveyor, settlers camping, housebuilding. Reproduced `through the courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library and the Dr F A Bett Collection'. Original: Tinted lithograph by Day & Hague in Wakefield, E . Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand (London : Smith, Elder, 1845) pl. 7, central portion. Same as B-046-01 & a, c Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, b&w, image 200 x 431 mm on sheet 246 x 457 mm

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Smith, Elder & Company; Day & Haghe (Firm)

Reference: A-015-016

Description: Shows small storehouse on two stout poles about 10 feet high, with a notched pole used as a ladder between them. Beneath the house are bags of food, and a Maori pounds stick on a block. Another stands at bottom of ladder. In the background two figures sit by a cooking pot outside a whare, and a dog roams in front of them. At right is a fence with carved posts. The tallest post depicts a carved humanoid figure smoking a pipe. Cf original watercolour shelved at A-146-009. Extended Title - From: Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand by E. J. Wakefield. Plate 11 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, two-tone 261 x 178 mm

Date: 1841 - 1845

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: D-016-012

Description: Shows site of present Motueka and Lower Moutere townships. At left men drive cattle on horseback. In centre foreground, cattle stand on a small rise with a tree fern, a cabbage tree, and flax. In the middle distance are the mouths of the Motueka river, at left, and the Moutere river at right. In the right distance are D'Urville Island, Stephen's Island, French Pass, and Croisilles Harbour, and in the left distance are Astrolabe Road, and Adele Island. Engraver said to be Thomas Allom. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Astrolabe Road Adele Island Stephen's Island D'Urville's Island French Pass Croisilles Harbour; Recto - beneath image - Driving Cattle with the Stock-Whip Mouth of MOTUEKA River TI or Cabbage Tree Tree-Fern Mouth of MOUTERE River; Recto - bottom centre - THE LEVEL COUNTRY AT THE SOUTH END, LOOKING NORTH OF BLIND BAY / Drawn by Chas. Heaphy Esqr. / London Smith Elder & Co. Cornhill; Recto - bottom right - DAY & HAGHE LITHRS to THE QUEEN Heaphy's original ink drawing for this view 'View in the Nelson district, 1841' (C-025-004). The original drawing lacks the cows and the men chasing cattle and has a much more dominant group of three tree ferns and a cabbage tree than the lithograph. E.J. Wakefield's "Adventure in New Zealand" containing coloured lithograph of this scene as Plate VIII. at f919.31 WAK. Heaphy visited the Nelson area in 1841, and settled in the Motueka area in 1842. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 2-part panorama, each section with image 241 x 442 mm, on sheet stuck to board 363 x 992 mm.

Date: 1839 - 1845

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Smith, Elder & Company; Day & Haghe (Firm)

Reference: A-255-013

Description: Portrait of Hiko, seated on the prow of a canoe with a background of Wellington Harbour. Extended Title - From: Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand by E. J. Wakefield. Plate 5 a Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, two-tone 250 x 180 mm

Date: 1899

By: Wilson & Horton (Firm); Rigg, Theodore (Sir), 1888-1972

Reference: C-033-005-a

Description: Amongst the ships shown are the Glenbervie, Adelaide and Tory, with Maori paddling a waka with Col. Wakefield as passenger. Supplement to: Auckland Weekly News, Christmas number, 1899. See also neg. no. 2005 1/1, held in the A.T.L. Photograph Section. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithographs 16.2 x 21.9 inches