Places

Date: 1842

From: Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington (sketched in the middle of the year 1842). Plate IV.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: B-110-057

Description: Central third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows groups of figures on foreshore including man on horseback, man examining ships through spyglass, two small groups of Maori watching, two men smoking long pipes, 14 sailing ships including one rounding Point Halswell, Somes Island with flag flying at its southern end, two Maori craft including one with sails. View extends from Warepori's Village in Pitone at left, to Mount Victoria at right. Features named are: Warepori's village Pitone, Valley of the Hutt, Tararua Mountains, Somes's Island, Pt Halswell (the entrance from the sea), Pt Jerningham, Mr Duppa's house (Oriental Bay), Mount Victoria. There are colour transparencies available (photographed from better copies of this work, in volume of Wakefield's book). The copy negatives listed here are also from this book rather than from this copy at B-110-056/058. Extended Title - From Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1845. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Title]; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - beneath image - From a sketch taken by Captain Mein Smith R.A. / London, Smith, Elder & Co. Cornhill. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 502 mm.

Date: 1902

By: Goldie, Charles Frederick, 1870-1947; Wellington Savage Club Inc

Reference: B-123-080

Description: Shows an elderly Maori woman with chin moko, smoking a pipe and wearing a yellow scarf. She wears a greenstone earring. The image is cropped at the bottom immediately below the attachment of the gathered yoke of the garment she wears. Title and date taken from reproduction in Roger Blackley's "Goldie" (1997), page 53. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. F. Goldie / Auckland Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph stuck to board, 365 x 480 mm. Provenance: Donated by the Wellington Savage Club in 1997. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A97-074..

Date: 1872

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Dunedin, Australia, and Central Otago] 1872 [and] 1878

Reference: E-032-2-018

Description: An interior scene with two men playing cards (possibly two-handed bridge). Both have drinking glasses on the table and there are a jug and a lamp on the table. A door is in the background wall, and a birdcage (or wicker lampshade) hangs from the ceiling. The man on the left is smoking a pipe. The men appear to be glaring at one another. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, on sketchbook page, page size 113 x 140 mm

Date: 1928

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :[Sketchbooks]

Reference: E-292-q-4-064

Description: Two studies of men. Side profile showing head and shoulders of a man with a moustache, smoking a pipe and seated in an armchair. Side profile showing head and shoulders of a man with a moustache and beard, and wearing a collar, tie and jacket. On verso of a loose sheet of writing paper, embossed at top lefthand corner "The Gables, Private Hotel, Russell, NZ", inserted at back of sketchbook Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 200 x 260 mm

Date: 1926

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :[Sketchbooks]

Reference: E-292-q-4-007

Description: Three sketches on the page. Back view of a man wearing a hat and smoking a pipe, at Moutoa Gardens, Wanganui. Side profile of head and shoulders of a Maori with chin moko and pendant earring. Stained glass window at Wanganui Collegiate. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Titles Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 140 x 233 mm

Date: 1842

From: Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington (sketched in the middle of the year 1842). Plate IV.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: B-110-058

Description: Right-hand third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows Maori group sitting near flagpole at left, smoking long pipes, other Maori figures and three thatched buildings on the foreshore. On centre foreshore is Messrs Ridgways and Co's wharf and stores. At right is Willis Street with the Southern Cross Hotel and further back the Ship Hotel. On the other side of the bay are the Customhouse Office, Post Office, Waitt's Wharf and stores, John Wade's store, the Exchange, and Rhodes's Wharf and store. Willis and Co's store is in the left background near Te Aro Pa. In the distance are Mount Albert and Mount Cook. There are colour transparencies available (photographed from better copies of this work, in volume of Wakefield's book). Extended Title - From Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1845. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Te Aro Flat; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - bottom right - Day & Haghe, Lithrs to the Queen Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 453 mm.

Date: 1920 - 1930

Reference: Eph-B-TOBACCO-1920s-01

Description: Lists prices for cigarettes, cut tobacco, plug tobacco, cigars, matches, razor blades, Durham Duplex, Auto strops, and sundries. Includes advertisements for "Bobit" neck strips, "Three Castles" Virginia cigarettes, Koken's Barbers' chairs, City de Luxe London-made pipes, Le Mur Permanent Waving machine, Moore's Electric Hair-Cutting machines, Puma Razors, Victor Hugo" cigars, "Darwin" safety razor blades, G B D pipes; Thorens petrol lighters, Dodhy's tennis rackets, Silver Fern tobaccos (Dominion Tobacco Co Ltd). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 24 pages, 272 x 144 mm.

Date: 1916

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1916-01

Description: Sales catalogue for the company which merged in 1918 with the Farmers' Union Trading Company, to become the Farmers' Trading Company. Inside front cover shows a calendar for the last part of 1915, and January-September 1916. There is a foreword by company founder Robert Laidlaw, photographs of the Auckland sales staff, photographs of the showrooms of each department and portraits of the staff who ran them; photographs of office staff at work and the shop equipment (entrance stairs, elevator, employees dining room, currant cleaner and raisin stemmer, the packing department), and an illustration of the warehouse on the corner of Hobson and Wyndham Streets. There follows an advertisement for the company's book of plans and specifications for houses, and an account of the way the war was affecting prices and supplies of goods (See pages 18-21). Information about ordering, paying and freighting follow. The illustrated catalogue of goods is arranged in the following sections: grocery, patent medicines, ironmongery, tools and household ironmongery, stoves (Dover, Orb, Zealandia, Champion), sheep shearing machine, roofing iron, tinware, enamelware, cutlery, aluminium, brushware, handbags, pipes, wallpaper (with 2 colour sample pages), stationery, books, cameras, rifles and pistols (guns), tennis rackets, bicycles, telephones, gramophones, violins, electroplated goods, jewellery, watches, clocks, windmills, pumps, buggies and wagons, engines, ploughs, crockery (2 colour plates), lamps, saddlery and harnesses, luggage, boots and shoes, clothing, hats, drapery, haberdashery, lace, rugs, sewing machines, furniture, linoleums (2 colour plates), toys (including Meccano). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 500 pages, each 277 x 220 mm, blue paper covers, bound in brown suede with gilt lettering Provenance: Purchased at Webbs Auction, 19 November 2008, lot 33

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Bartlett, Robert Henry, 1842-1911; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: PA1-q-231

Description: Photographs of New Zealand, many taken by Robert Henry Bartlett. Several of these were taken in Nelson, one showing Fairfield House, and one interior view of a room (on page 50) with the pencilled caption "Fell - Nelson". Possibly in what is now named Warwick House which was built by Alfred Fell in 1854. However pages 19 to 31 contain photographs taken by Josiah Martin in the Rotomahana hot springs area including the village of Te Wairoa, and the Pink and White Terraces before the 1886 Tarawera eruption. The album contains 53 pages of which 32 to 49 are empty. Pages 51 to 53 show scenes relating to Florence (Italy), one of the city, and two showing art works (one a relief carving in the Campanile di Giotto, "La logica"). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, leather corners and spine; 33.5 x 30.0 cm

Date: 1850

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: E-144-054

Description: Two Maori men and a woman sitting in front of a carved doorway of a house. A futher person is visible inside the house. The three people outside are wrapped in blankets. One holds a rifle, one a pipe. Other Titles - Herekiekie. Tokaanu Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Cuth Clarke del. 1850 (Ismir). Bottom left: title in the hand of the artist; bottom centre: further title in another hand, naming the house Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of conte & wash drawing on tinted paper 378 x 269 mm

Date: [ca 1895-1915]

Reference: PAColl-6904

Description: A large collection of miscellaneous original and copy negatives mostly of Christchurch and the surrounding area. Some are studio portraits of family groups. The rest of the collection includes: a street scene in front of the old railway station; a cycling race; men rowing and canoeing; children playing in a swing park; a brass band playing on board a steamer; various beach scenes including donkey rides; train pulling into Kaiapoi station; a small bach; two girls next to a waterfall; trams and a cyclist going past the Jubliee Clock Tower; the front facade of St Paul's Presbyterian Church; three views of the old Public Hospital next to Hagley Park; the Chamber of Commerce building on the corner of Oxford Terrace and Worcester Street; a copy negative of a carte de visite of a couple kissing; a monument incorporating a tiki on a tall pole and other maori carvings (location unknown); a man at the doorway of his shed with an array of gardening implements; two men pulling a covering back from a hangi pit; the cathedral with a number of trams in front; a tram advertising Ballantynes; a kitchen interior showing a range with kettles on top and a cupboard and dresser with crockery; six Maori on horseback possibly in a procession; a porter bringing a cart of luggage up to a train; five men giving friends piggy backs on the beach; sheep being driven past stock yards; the Avon River; a crowd outside the Avon Rowing Club; Wilson the maltman's horse and cart crossing a bridge; and two images of a harvest festival in a hall with a painted back drop and sheaves of corn arranged in front of it. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-045133 to 045196 and 045802 to 045816 Quantity: 76 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives Processing information: These were originally part of a sequence of unidentified negatives. They were assumed to form a collection due to the similarity in date and location. At the time of entry 1/4-045190 was missing.

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-041-2

Description: View by the coast at Ahuriri (modern Napier), with a small European cottage with a chimney and neat picket fence in front, close to the sea, a vessel near the shore in the water, and a long hill in the background. A European man is leaning against the picket fence, another man (Maori in European clothing) is seated in the foreground and two other Maori are seated closer to the house. One is smoking a pipe Other Titles - Ahuriri Napier Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash, 154 x 240 mm

Date: 1865

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[New Zealand sketches, 1864-1866]

Reference: B-045-046/047

Description: Shows close view of troops on the bank of the river preparing to cross: some loading dinghy at left, a group sitting smoking pipes centre left, a cannon and packhorses waiting to go. Further off are wagons, more soldiers, two sailing ships and several dinghies crossing the river towards the left bank in left distance. At right background rises the high ground of the right bank, and in central distance the camp on the cliff top. Verso contains pencilled diary notes for 14, 15, 16 March 1865: packed up tents and marched to Manutahi Pa but no sign of life there and they took peaceful possession, looting wharies and getting a few pigeon spears, mats and plenty of potatoes - went out and shot a pig and stabbed another - next day shot another pig with revolver. On 16 March, got up early and went to stock yards where a "most troublesome little black cow" was chosen - she ran and "butted everything including a poor gun horse who got in the way - however she was soon lashed up to a gun, and yielded good milk for breakfast". Inscriptions: Recto - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, 138 x 464 mm.

Date: [ca 1940s]

Reference: PAColl-6960

Description: An assorted collection including a number of images of scouts camping, being taught to light fires etc. Also included are a number of family groups taken in a garden, a trig point on a hilltop, battleships moored in a harbour, electric train in Wellington Railway Station etc. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059018 to 059111 Quantity: 94 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1905 - 1910

From: [Ephemera, advertising and sales catalogues for sporting equipment and sports gear. 1900-1949]

By: H E Partridge Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-SPORTS-GEAR-1906-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue for sporting goods: cricket bats and balls, cricket stumps, batting and wicket-keepers' gloves, cocoanut matting pitches, cricket nets, cricket boots; tennis racquets and racquet covers, tennis balls, nets and poles, tennis shoes; lawn markers and sprinklers for sports grounds, steel quoits, croquet balls, hoops and mallets; lawn bowls; running shoes; "Olympic" embrocation for athletes; silk elastic hosiery, suspenders, swimming costumes, water wings, water polo balls, wool sweaters, air rifles; hand tally registers (for counting). Inside back cover advertises "Kia-ora" briar pipes. Date estimated from an illustration of a cricket bat signed by the Australian Cricket XI for 1905. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 60 pages, each 213 x 137 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dick Scott, in 2007.

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: 1917

By: Farmers' Union Trading Company; John Sands Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-Farmers-1917-01

Description: Sales catalogue for the Famers' Union Trading Company. The first few pages shows portraits of the Farmers' Union presidents and leaders, including the Auckland Provincial Executive. There are also notices from the New Zealand Dairy Association, and exterior and interior photographs of the Farmers' Union buildings at various sites around Auckland, Contains illustrations of merchandise for sale include shoes and boots, china and glassware, electroplated goods, cutlery and jewellery, grocery and foostuffs, stationery, pipes, drapery, hats, coats, Petone rugs (colour plate), women's clothing, lace, boy's clothes, haberdashery, timber supplies, mantelpieces, pianos, sewing machines, beds, chairs, wardrobes and dressing tables, perambulators, tools, domestic hardware, rubber goods, guns, cars, farm machinery, bicycles, motorcycles, carpets, linoleums, curtains, linens, men's clothing, saddlery, horse collars and harnesses, horse coats, stirrups. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Soft-bound book of 344 pages, each 310 x 245 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Webbs Auction, 19 November 2008, lot 31.

Date: 1943 - 1947

By: Spencer-Bower, Catherine Olivia Orme, 1905-1982

Reference: A-246-017

Description: Shows Dr George McCall Smith, reading and smoking a pipe, with cups and jugs on a table in the right foreground. Exhibited in 'ART Notes: 20th century artists' papers and sketches from the Turnbull Library' exhibition curated by Jill Trevelyan, in the Turnbull Room, National Library Gallery, 27 November 1999 - 6 February 2000. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 270 x 210 mm.

Date: 1872

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington, George Hildebrand, 1850-1905

Reference: A-446-038

Description: Shows a view of three men on the deck of the Crusader, which sailed from London in October 1872 and arrived in Lyttelton in January 1873. Two of the men are painted in mostly grey-black hues, but the man in the foreground has on a brown double-breasted jacket and fawn trousers, and a black hat. He sports a thick black beard and smokes a pipe. It might be assumed that this is a picture of George Hildebrand Alington on his passage to New Zealand. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Onboard the Crusader 1872; Verso - bottom left - This side not very clean Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, pencil and pen on paper, 180 x 127 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.

Date: 1918

By: Bowring, Walter Armiger, 1874-1931; Wanganui Club

Reference: A-350-095

Description: A caricature of Edwin Martell Silk, a Wanganui accountant and early member of the Wanganui Club. He is standing beside a billiard table with a cue, smoking a pipe. According to the discarded backing board, the Silks were an early Wanganui accountancy firm. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - top centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, on sheet 287 x 222 mm (sight) Provenance: Previously owned by the Wanganui Club.