Places

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

Reference: PAColl-6952

Description: 13 miscellaneous images: a house with a verandah and deck chairs; two of battleships, one moored at Overseas Terminal; the marina at Oriental Bay with the boathouses and Mount Victoria in the background; a view over Island Bay; a field of hay stacks; a large railway junction with various rolling stock and chimneys in the background; a view over Days Bay including the pier; men and women rock climbing; two motor buses outside a large house, possibly a hotel, with people milling around; the door to the Observatory Tower at the University of Canterbury; HMS Hood moored at an unidentified location; and people cooking outdoors under an awning. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-058211 to 058223 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1893

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks] 1890-1893

Reference: E-315-q-6-018

Description: A slab hut on the right amongst bush, half overgrown, with a new larger house next-door Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 151 x 251 mm.

Date: 1868

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

Reference: E-033-4-020/021

Description: View from behind German Bay, Akaroa Harbour, with mature native trees to the left, a seated cow, cleared land and housing with fences in the centre and the harbour to the right. The name German Bay was changed to Takamatua Bay during World War I Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper, 118 x 398 mm

Date: 1855 - 1863

From: [Duppa, George 1817-1888] :[Sketchbook ca 1852-1860]

Reference: E-080-q-3-011

Description: A series of quick sketches. A two-storied house with another at right-angles (or the same house seen from a different angle) is the most finished. It may show the artist's house at Amuri. There are fifteen drawings of men's faces, including one of a moustached man with upper body including, possibly in a military uniform. There are several cows drawn from several angles and one horse's head. There is also a small drawing of two stick-figure men lining up to fight one another with seated figures behind them. The drawing is undated but the details are likely to have been observed at Duppa's Amuri run in the 1860s. The inside back cover of the sketchbook includes the name and English address of Duppa's nephew, Bryan, who visited Amuri in 1863 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 185 x 270 mm

Date: 1868

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

Reference: E-033-4-037

Description: View from the promontory north of the town, looking along the waterfront at the houses of the town, with a tall hill behind Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on dark green wove paper, 118 x 199 mm

Date: 1897 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-055

Description: A coastal scene with a beach viewed through flax bushes and cabbage trees. A house on the right, hills in the distance. The album seems to have been labelled some time after some watercolours were painted. This view does not appear to show Masterton. It is located in the album amidst view of Peel Forest, and may show the Timaru area Other Titles - [Coastal scene, South Canterbury?] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Masterton Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

Date: [ca 1900]

Reference: PAColl-0329

Description: Photographs of Mount Cook and an intersection in Te Aro, Wellington, looking west and showing the Union Bank of Australia on the right. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives for the image of Te Aro housed at 1/2-003925 and 023113 and 1/1-017880 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints mounted on thin card

Date: 1980 - 1989

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

Reference: Plans-2007-030-0318/0327

Description: Includes floor plans and plans of details of architraves, skirting, jambs, trim, cornices, etc. The buildings included are: 0318-0319: Blackheath Place 0320: The Cuddy, Waimate 0321-0327: Ranginui Quantity: 10 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings, sizes varying

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-007

Description: A house with garden, alongside either the Ashburton River or a road. The blue colouring suggests the river. The Southern Alps in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1950-1959

From: Unwin, Diana Mary, 1923-2014 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-2470

Description: Photographs of Haast Road Bailey Bridge in the 1950s and of Meres family house in Glandarey Road, Christchurch Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1970 - 1898 - 1985

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

Reference: Plans-2007-030-0583/0585

Description: Includes ground floor plan, south elevation, isometric sections through external walls, showing window, ridge, eaves and plinth details. These measured drawings were made for inclusion in the book "Restoring with style" (1985), page 30. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, sizes varying around 840 x 610 mm.

Date: 1896 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-057

Description: Shows a house and possibly a small chapel amidst tall trees, beneath Mount Peel Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Mount Peel Canterbury Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

Date: 1894

From: [Moreton, Samuel Horatio], 1845?-1921 :Tasmania and New Zealand sketch book, 1883-1896

Reference: E-175-f-043

Description: A view looking along the coastline and settlement at Governor's Bay, with the Port Hills behind to the right. A large house is in the middle distance, with two further buildings in the background. One fenced paddock is initialled C R. A wharf is visible at the foot of the cliff below Governors Bay Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 132 x 213 mm

Date: 1925

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1052

Description: Album recording a motoring and camping holiday through the South Island of New Zealand. This took in the New Zealand South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and included the West Coast, Otago, and Canterbury. The central part of the album has images of Khandallah, Wellington, and the family home in that suburb. Family photographs include Doug on his Norton Motorcycle, and Jack and Neville similarly posed on a Douglas Motorcycle. Rene and Frank stand at the net holding tennis rackets, and mother has several images with young Joyce. The last part of the album recordes something of a holiday to Auckland where the family camped at Brown's Bay and took a trip to Kawau Island. A group shot on Mt Messanger on the way back and some views of Pukekura Park New Plymouth complete the album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1886

Reference: A-159-038

Description: Looking south towards Quail Island, across houses and wharves Title inscribed in ink by artist on mount (157 x 218 mm), with date 2/25/86 (i.e. 25 Feb 1886) Other Titles - Lyttelton Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed in pencil (for initials compare A-159-037/43). Also title and date below work Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on paper 125 x 164 mm

Date: 1894

From: [Moreton, Samuel Horatio], 1845?-1921 :Tasmania and New Zealand sketch book, 1883-1896

Reference: E-175-f-045

Description: View looking east across Governor's Bay with several houses surrounded by large cleared paddocks, the Port Hills behind Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 132 x 213 mm

Date: 1949 - 1840 - 1850

Reference: A-163-016

Description: A French colonial house and garden in a state of disrepair. It has a shingled roof, a dormer window, a brick chimney to the left and two openings at the front, possibly both of them doors (one is obscured by a bush) Not in Anderson, J C. Old Christchurch. 1949 but possibly drawn by the same artist and intended for inclusion in the book Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink and wash, 103 x 135 mm Provenance: Bought from Smiths Bookshop, Wellington, 1963

Date: 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketches

Reference: E-346-3-006

Description: A road lined with tall trees, with a house part-way along it, a mountain at the end of the road. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sketchbook page, 163 x 224 mm

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975 :[Scenes in the Heathcote-Avon estuary district] [1950s?]

Reference: A-227-266

Description: Shows an area of residential housing at Redcliffs facing the Estuary with a grassy hill in the background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 290 mm

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Port Levy, Governors Bay and French Farm] [1960s?]

Reference: A-227-293

Description: Shows an old wooden house with two dormer windows in its second storey. One of the lower windows may be boarded up. It has a lawn and flower bushes, with trees and hills in the background. The house shown is thought to be possibly the oldest building on Banks Peninsula. It is owned by members of the Brocherie family, descendants of the French settlers to Akaroa in 1840. It was not part of the school, although both the school house and the house shown here were both owned by the Brocherie family. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 285 mm