Places

Date: 1860 - 1867

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, between 1860 and 1868]

Reference: E-033-4-026

Description: Looking into Milford Sound with Mitre Peak to the left Page is loose in sketchbook and appears to have been removed from another sketchbook. Verso has monetary calculations in pencil. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream laid paper, 76 x 156 mm

Date: [ca 1895-1932]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

By: Manning, Charles Henry, 1848-1895; Taylor, T E, active 1899

Reference: PAColl-8788-2

Description: Photographs taken and collected by Louis John Daroux, between 1890s-1930s. This set includes Wellington street scenes and city views, circa 1900s; photographs taken at Trentham Military Camp circa 1914; New Zealand scenic and harbour views; miscellaneous photographs including three taken or collected in Australia, Germany, and the Pacific Islands; and portraits. Wellington scenes include: the unveiling ceremony for statue of John Ballance in Parliament grounds, April 1897; group portrait of armed militia outside Alexandra Barracks, Mount Cook; Queen Victoria statue in Post Office Square; men laying cable for electric trams in Courtenay Place ca 1905; interior of tram sheds; funeral procession for Mr Andrews, (who died of exposure while deer stalking near Martinborough) in Rugby Street 1904; intersection of Willis and Manners streets; a two-part panorama of Lambton Harbour and city buildings circa 1906; an elevated view of Lambton area; a view from Tinakori Hill across houses in Thorndon towards Wellington Harbour; two buildings on Customhouse Quay; ship HMS Powerful in Wellington Harbour in February 1906, showing the ship's company on the forward bow; schooner Rongo after capsizing in 1906. Photographs taken at Trentham Military Camp, circa 1914, include group portraits of Petone Naval Artillery Volunteers (who have joined the 8th Contingent), Petone Military Brass Band and unidentified soldiers. One scene shows men waiting in a queue to be interviewed for cooking jobs. There is also a view of hospital buildings and a broad elevated view of the camp. Other New Zealand scenic views include: the Rangitikei River at Mangaweka, showing mudstone (papa rock) cliffs; ships docked in front of Hawke's Bay Farmer Association Co-operative Ltd building at Port Ahuriri, Napier; a woman and child on a promenade planted with pine trees [Marine Parade, Napier?]; breakwater and railyards at Castlecliff, Whanganui; an elevated view of Upper Hutt township; a broad view of Akaroa township in 1895; a coastal scene showing a radar station and ship near rocks (location unidentified); a fire at a building (location unidentified); views of a public garden (location unidentified); ship 'Doto' at [Nelson?] wharves; a mounted image of a town [Queenstown?] during heavy snowfall; an unidentified man sitting by lakefront with paddle steamer on lake, probably Queenstown; two views of Fiordland. Miscellaneous buildings include: Anderson's Private Hotel (location unidentified), R Smyth, General Blacksmith (location unidentified); Robertson Brothers Woolworks, Nelson; exterior view of a municipal building (location unidentified) housing a public library and business premises (legible signage identifies Barleyman Land Agents, Madame de Launay, and solicitors R Spence). Miscellaneous images include: a table piled with floral tributes, probably in a church; a dining room strung with garlands; a church interior in the Pacific Islands; a postcard depicting Lombard's Bridge, Hamburg, Germany, and one of 'The Dog on the Tucker Box' pioneer's monument at Gundagai, New South Wales ca 1932. Also men wearing ceremonial regalia, possibly Masonic aprons, queuing in an unidentified street; three small girls outside Islay Cottage (location unidentified); a postcard of two small naked girls in a river, published by A G Steglitz in 1904; a crowd outside the assembly rooms at Mangaweka in 1905 awaiting the government land ballot. Portraits include groups of men from various professional and recreational organisations, depicting members of [Masterton?] fire brigade; stewards and officials from Masterton racing club [1903?]; forgery workers, blacksmiths and moulders from government workshops at Petone, and employees of New Zealand Railways. Portraits of women include a group of maternity nurses holding infants; an unidentified Maori woman wearing a cloak, sitting outdoors; three women, possibly sisters; and an unidentified woman feeding young deer. Portraits of children include one of a school group from New Plymouth convent school and one of school cadets [Foxton?]. Quantity: 98 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1863 - 1864

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Five sketchbooks with views of Dunedin and district and manuscript notes]

Reference: E-017-2-033/034

Description: An extensive landscape looking down into a harbour. Flat land at the harbour's edge includes a jetty and indications of houses. A word, possibly 'Akaroa' is written above the flat area Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on 2 pages of sketchbook, 68 x 224 mm (page size)

Date: 1868

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, between 1860 and 1868]

Reference: E-033-4-025

Description: View looking south along the east shoreline of Akaroa Harbour with a jetty protruding into the harbour Page is loose in sketchbook Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on buff wove paper, 118 x 199 mm

Date: 1848

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

Reference: E-333-004

Description: Two drawings on one page. The upper view is a defensive fort with a surrounding fence, a house to the left, looking south along the foreshore at Akaroa. The lower drawing is a view from the jetty looking back towards two houses on the shore with Mount Berard (Flag Peak) in the background Other Titles - Blockhouse, Blockhaus Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, on buff-coloured sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm

Date: 1848

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

Reference: E-333-003

Description: Looking north along the foreshore at Akaroa, with a promontory in the foreground a bay beyond, various buildings along the foreshore and the church on a rise near the shore. The building on the far left on the foreshore is the house of [?] John Daly Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title and date [in ink] From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on buff-coloured on sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm

Date: 1848

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

Reference: E-333-004-1

Description: A defensive fort with a surrounding fence, a house to the left, looking south along the foreshore past a wharf at Akaroa. Located at the southern end of Akaroa township in 'English Town'. One of three blockhouses built by the French Navy after the Wairau Affray and hostilities between Maori and Pakeha in Northland and Wellington. The Akaroa blockhouses were never used. From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Other Titles - Blockhouse, Blockhaus Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title and date [in ink] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 106 x 135, on buff-coloured sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm

Date: 1848

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

Reference: E-333-004-2

Description: The wharf and perhaps Green's house with a flagpole and another house to its right, Mount Berard (Flag Peak) rising to the south behind the town Mount Berard was later renamed Flag Peak Other Titles - Akaroa Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title and date [in ink] From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & pencil, 126 x 135, on buff-coloured sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm