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Date: 1864

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898; Hogg, Neville William (Dr), 1927-2007; Lawford, John E, active 1980-1991

Reference: C-126-005

Description: Shows harbour scene form Commercial Bay looking towards the North Shore and Rangitoto Island. The prison hulk Marion is to the right of a sailing ship on the harbour and there are houses in the foreground, with the house on the left marked as belonging to Mr Jones, probably Mr Humphrey Jones Attribution on stylistic grounds. Sails on ships were painted in by John Lawford, Auckland art dealer, before he sold the painting to Dr Hogg. He based his work on the sailing ship in Charles Heaphy's watercolour "Bream Head", owned by the Library.. Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - Auckland harbour Commercial Bay (Beach Rd) 1864; Recto - bottom left - Auckland harbour Oct 64; Recto - bottom centre - Mr Jones' house; Recto - bottom centre - Hulk with Maori prisoners taken at Rangiriri Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 239 x 485 mm (sight) Provenance: Purchased by Neville Hogg from John Lawford, Auckland art dealer, 1980s?

Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]

From: Berthold, Martin Grant, 1951- :Negatives of coastal shipping

Reference: 1/4-024994-F

Description: The ship `Tawanui', circa 1960s-1980s, photographed by Martin Berthold. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 21 Aug 1943

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

Reference: 1/4-000603-F

Description: Official launching ceremony for eight motor tow-boats built in Auckland for the United States armed forces. Shows a crowd on a wharf alongside two boats decorated with flags. Photograph taken by John Pascoe, 21 August, 1943. Caption - Caption in Pascoe file in Photographic Archive reads: "A launch gets this view of a launching, with the spectators and shipyards below a magnificent sky." Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - above image - 20,603 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1862

By: Stack, Frederick Rice, -1873; Day & Son (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-060-014

Description: View from the North Shore, looking back towards Auckland city, with four Maori canoes racing (one with a sail), several yachts and sailing ships H. M. S. Miranda and H. M. S. Fawn. The houses of Parnell and other parts of Auckland, and the spire of St Paul's can be seen in the background Extended Title - Plate from: Stack, F R. Views in the province of Auckland (London, 1862). Plate 1. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-col., image, 203 x 405 mm on sheet 358 x 564 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull. Ordered from F. Edwards, London, 11 November 1892 for 20/- for the set of six. (See A H Turnbull's letters)

Date: 1970 - 1979

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 boxes of cartoons drawn for the "Dominion", 1970-1980s?].

By: Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: C-133-016

Description: The cartoon shows a man shivering and shaking with fright lying in his bed at home. He has obviously had a huge shock. He is saying to himself, It was awful!!! His wife is on the phone talking to a doctor describing the unusual behaviour of her husband. Refers to a dead rat being found in the hold of a ship, causing quarantine concerns. Extended Title - I've put him to bed. - He keeps mumbling something about a dead animal in a hole, doctor. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 640 x 500mm.

Date: 21 August 1943

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

Reference: 1/4-000597-F

Description: Official launching ceremony for eight motor tow-boats built in Auckland for the United States armed forces. Shows a group seated before a row of boats, all of which are decorated with flags. The 'Kaihau' is is in front. decorated with flags. Photograph taken by John Pascoe, 21 August, 1943. Original caption reads: "A sailors' psalm, sung by all present, is part of the traditional launching ceremony." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1863 - 1864

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-106

Description: A view from the harbour with ships in the foreground, showing the buildings of the city's central business district with Partington's windmill crowning the hilltop. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 286 x 235 mm

Date: January 1980

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Cranes-01

Description: Auckland Harbour Board floating crane `Hikinui' unloading componants of a large 110-tonne hydraulic truck mounted mobile crane commissioned by Carlton Cranes Ltd. Photographed by an unknown photographer in January 1980. Published in the Evening Post 21 January 1980. Crane was made by a Pennsyvania company in 1979. It is being unloaded from the container ship `Tamara'. It was built to the specifications of the Auckland company and cost $600,000. It has a maximum lift of 110 tonnes, a maximum radius of 54 metres, and a fully extended height of over 70 metres. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 25.4 x 20.2 cm

Date: 1843 - 1844

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: E-216-f-035

Description: A clay road curving between low hills, with flax bushes in the foreground. Six houses visible on the foreshore in the middle ground. Mount Victoria (with a flagpole or signalling pole) and North Head across the water and Rangitoto Island in the middle distance. Two ships in the harbour. The early road towards Epsom passed from Shortland Crescent, via Grafton Gully, the Government Domain and on towards Epsom Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in ink; also on verso, alternative title in ink: Rangitoto, Mount Victoria and North Head from the Epsom Road, Auckland. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 165 x 313 mm

Date: 1844

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: E-216-f-043

Description: Auckland City from Mechanics Bay (now Stanley Street). The houses on the cliff in the middle distance mark the southern end of Official Bay. A flag flies on Point Britomart and on the higher ground to the left are St Paul's, the Barracks and the business enterprises at the top of Shortland Crescent. Government House lies in the sheltered hollow on the left. The complete spire on St Paul's suggests the painting was done after March 1844, the date of completion of the spire. The foreground is framed with tall flowering flax on the right and cabbage trees and other trees on the left. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 161 x 244 mm

Date: 1939

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-55869-G

Description: Aerial photograph of the central business district of Auckland, and the wharves along Quay Street. Photograph taken 1939 by Leo White. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation Box red 08, Auckland City and wharves 1930s-1970s.

Date: 1843 - 1844

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896; Hobson, Eliza Ann, 1811?-1876

Reference: A-275-007

Description: Auckland City from the hills behind the city, with a flax bush to the right and three Maori viewing the scene from the fern on the left. A stream in the middle ground (now the site of Queen Street) leads down to the town with Government House shown in the fenced area in the centre right and St Paul's Church silhouetted against Mt Victoria across the harbour. The cluster of buildings closest to the viewer at the lowest point in the valley is the Queen Street gaol, excavated in 1987 (see TL13/14/1 8/3/91). Rangitoto is shown in the background and there are several ships in the harbour. The scene is shown at sunset. Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. A preliminary pencil drawing for this watercolour is held at A-208-018. The title of the watercolour is taken from the title of the pencil drawing, which shows St Paul's without its tower, although a tentative tower is lightly sketched in. The drawing would be likely to have been executed during 1843 and no later than January 1844, when Ashworth departed New Zealand for Hong Kong. The watercolour may have been completed while Ashworth was in New Zealand, with the putative tower added; or he may have worked from his pencil sketch at a slightly later date. Several of the sketches in the Hobson album were completed after Mrs Hobson left New Zealand in 1843. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 242 x 365 mm Provenance: The album was passed by Eliza Hobson to her daughter, Eliza, Lady Rendel. Transfers: Originally part of Mrs Hobson's album (E-216-f).. Processing information: One of several pages removed from the Hobson album for conservation reasons, 1990. This page was too large for the album and was becoming damaged around the edges. It was formerly located on p. 107 of the album.