Places

Date: ca 1879

By: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936

Reference: PAColl-1418

Description: Photograph of whare at the northern end of Karaka Bay, taken ca 1879 by Henry Wright. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - bottom right - 97; Mount verso - top centre - Taken in 1877 by late Henry Wright from North end of Karaka Bay (next Scorching Bay.) All whares burnt by order of Health Depnt in 1891 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1900

By: Gibbons, Ian, active 1981

Reference: PAColl-6928

Description: Postcards of Karaka Bay, Wellington, taken ca 1900s by an unidentified photographer. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-056913-F and 1/2-056914-F Quantity: 2 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1862

From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: E-340-q-057/058

Description: A scene, possible near Governor's Bay, showing houses, fenced land and trees. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double-page spread). Physical Description: Pencil, 175 x 520 mm

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-25

Description: View of Te Whakaru and Hanson Bay, Chatham Island. In the middle distance right, is Alexander Shand's house and a patch of native forest. In the foreground is clear pasture and some sheep grazing near a group of trees. (Information from George Hough and Bill Carter). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

Date: 1897

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-091

Description: A view of Browns Island, probably from Karaka Bay, St Heliers. The shore is quite rocky. There are two men visible in the foreground, one sitting on a rock, the other pulling in his little rowboat. A larger boat with sails heads for the shore. On the right, a house and a boatshed can be seen amongst the bush Other Titles - Browns Island Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Distance to be softened [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on loose page of sketchbook, 183 x 263 mm

Date: [ca 1895-1910]

By: Brusewitz, Henry Elis Leopold, 1855-1922

Reference: PA7-57-16

Description: Photograph of a group of people at Cable Bay. They are standing and sitting near the water's edge. In the immediate foreground is a rowboat. In the background are a number of buildings. Photograph taken ca 1900-1910 by H Brusewitz, Nelson Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 1006. Cable Bay. HBz Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 28.5 x 36.7 cm on mount

Date: 1884

From: Smith, Maurice Crompton, 1864-1953 :[Sketchbooks] 1883-1899, 1904-1943.

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: E-300-q-1-031

Description: A scene at Judge's Bay, Auckland showing a house and a church. `Kilbryde' on hill to right was John Logan Campbell's house, completed 1881 (was demolished after World War I). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 90 x 152 mm

Date: [ca 1870s-1890s]

From: Bridge family :Photograph albums

By: Anson Brothers (Firm); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Pulman (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-271

Description: Views of New Zealand, England, Australia and Canada, associated with family of Charles Joseph Bridge (d 1876), settler at Homebrook, near Lake Ellesmere; and his son, Charles Hastings Bridge. Includes pressed flowers and leaves, a coloured sketch of a rowing boat on a river lined with willow trees. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Henry Hugh Chapman 1881; Henry Walter Bridge 1886 Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1885

From: [Walsh, Philip] 1843-1914 :[Middle East and New Zealand sketchbook] 1883-1892.

Reference: E-369-063

Description: Shows a house by the water in a bay beneath hills at Port Fitzroy in Great Barrier Island Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 105 x 184 mm

Date: 1844 - 1846

From: [Selwyn, George Augustus], 1809-1878 :[Three watercolours. 1. Purewa Creek, Auckland Ch., Flying Fish and Marian, Okahu N. Village. 1840s; 2. Purewa [and first St John's College] ca 1845; 3. Putiki, Island of Waiheke. 1840s]

Reference: A-439-008

Description: Shows a view from the water of a small stretch of beach on which three canoes are drawn up. A group of Maori inhabitants stand on the shore, and further inland is a group of houses and a higher building which may be a storehouse, with a separate house surrounded by a verandah on a slight rise at the far left. On the shore in the far right foreground is a tree with red blossoms, possibly a pohutukawa. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 147 x 213 mm.

Date: 1888

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: A-274-071

Description: Scene shows a figure in a canoe passing by a bushy headland. In the distance at the left is a group of buildings with a hill behind them. Cable Bay was the site of the first telegraphic cable between New Zealand and Australia, opened 1876. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on thick card, 157 x 300 mm

Date: [ca 1880-1922]

From: Lennard, Maurice, fl 1983 :Photographs of Piha and Huia taken by Edward Le Grice

Reference: PAColl-0398-10

Description: View of Lion Rock and the house of Sarah Theresa Gibbons (Salley Gibbons), Piha. Photographed by Edward Le Grice sometime between 1888 and 1922. Sarah Gibbons (1882-1970) was the daughter of Robert Pearce Gibbons who worked as bush boss at Piha Mill. The house is no longer there. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 21.5 x 16.4 cm

Date: [ca 1870]

From: Mundy album 3

Reference: PA1-f-041-25

Description: James Busby's house, Waitangi, Bay of Islands, Northland, New Zealand. Inscriptions: Album page - verso - 137 Victoria. Bay of Islands - Residence of Mr James Busby - where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1842. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1844 - 1921

By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962; Barnicoat, John Wallis, 1814-1905; Cowan, James, 1870-1943

Reference: A-173-015

Description: View at Taupo Point, just south of Separation Point, Golden Bay, showing Taupo Pa with palisades and buildings and a bush-clad knoll beyond, the sea and several inshore islands. Depending upon the extent of Messenger's knowledge, the boat anchored off the beach is probably a Deal boat, and the mizzen was a "standing lug". The foresail was a "dipping lug" (see note below, and letter from Pat W Win, AT 13/14/1, 24 December 1999) A copy of John Wallis Barnicoat's eye-witness drawing "Taupo, Massacre Bay, March 1844", negative 11570 1/2. The original drawing is in a private collection but the Library has a photograph. Probably drawn for James Cowan's The New Zealand Wars, but not used. Two Deal boats and six Deal boat men were brought to New Zealand by the Nelson Preliminary Expedition which entered Nelson Haven in November 1841. One of the boat men was James Smith Cross who became Nelson's second harbourmaster. (See letter from Pat W Win, AT 13/14/1, 24 December 1999). Other Titles - Taupo Pa, Golden Bay Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 114 x 256 mm

Date: [ca 1900s]

From: Waihi Arts Centre & Museum: Photographs of Waihi

Reference: 1/2-171777-G

Description: View of Waihi Beach, western Bay of Plenty, showing cottages along the shoreline and people walking on the sand. Photograph taken circa 1900s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: Spratt, Henry Thomas, b 1827 :[Sketchbook. 1860s?]

By: Spratt, Henry Thomas, 1827-1908

Reference: E-572-001

Description: Shows a view looking along the coast to the north, with three or four houses and possibly a church in the right middle distance. Artist attributed by inscription inside front cover. Artist assumed to be Dr Henry Thomas Spratt, rather than his son Henry Howell Spratt. See Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Volume 1, Wellington, page 884. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, on sketchbook page 186 x 247 mm. Provenance: Donated by Barry Smith in 1999. Donor is descendant of William Mein Smith.

Date: [ca 1922]

From: Lennard, Maurice, fl 1983 :Photographs of Piha and Huia taken by Edward Le Grice

Reference: PAColl-0398-11

Description: View of Edward Le Grice's boarding house, Piha. Photographed by Edward Le Grice in about 1922. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 21.5 x 16.4 cm

Date: 1860 - 1891 - 1869

By: Fletcher, Frances Ann, 1846-1935

Reference: B-160-020

Description: Shows a view looking down over houses to the tidal flats around Nelson Harbour. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 180 x 248 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Michael Beca in 2003.

Date: 1860

From: Artist unknown :[Seven drawings featuring various colonial subjects. ca 1860]

Reference: A-457-008-3

Description: Shows a view of St Stephen's Chapel, Parnell, from Judges Bay. Below and to the right of the chapel is Sir William Martin's residence; behind it is probably Attorney-General Swainson's house. Other houses and smaller buildings can be seen towards the water's edge Judges Bay was named for Martin and Swainson, who both resided there On the verso is a pencil drawing of a house with two small outbuildings, unidentified; it is possibly by a different artist Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - St Stephen's Parnell 1860 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on laid, watermarked paper, 160 x 305 mm

Date: [1860s]

Reference: A-457-006

Description: Shows a view of Freemans Bay from the rise of Wellesley Street, possibly from the corner of Wellesley and Hobson Streets. A number of wooden houses can be seen, with a tall three-storeyed building nearer the water's edge, beside which is the house that James Stuart Freeman resided in. The coastline of Devonport can be seen in the distance See also A-457-007-1/2, another Auckland street scene, probably by the same artist and of the same area, from a different perspective Other Titles - Freemans Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Wellesley Street looking to Freeman's Bay [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 107 x 229 mm