Places

Date: [Between 1900 and 1920]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001884-G

Description: View looking down on a beach from clifftop at Cape Foulwind, looking north. Shows the cliffs and coastline, with a number of people on the beach, and several are walking on a pathway leading down the hill-side. Photograph taken by William Price, between 1900 and 1920. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Cape Foulwind 2211.B. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1881

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Aitken, Robert Walter, 1828-1910

Reference: C-003-007

Description: Shows a view looking down from a rocky outcrop (partially seen in the extreme left foreground), on to the field of a farm with horses, cattle, a farmhouse, outbuildings, and at far right a haystack. A row of trees runs along one of the boundaries of the property, parallel to the river in the background. On the far side of the river are limestone cliffs and hills. The locality is more commonly known as Clifden, and Cyclopedia of New Zealand, volume 4, Otago and Southland, decribes it as having been a large sheep station. Other Titles - Clifden Notes on backing board recto: Painting of Clifdene Station on the Waiau River, Southland. Formerly owned by R W Aitken. Painted by a French artist. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 394 x 620 mm. Provenance: "This work originally belonged to a descendant of the Aitken family who owned Clifdene when Aubrey painted this work" (Auction catalogue, International Art Centre, 16 September 2008) Processing information: Deframed by the Library

Date: [between 1879 and 1929]

From: Browning, H :Photographs by James Ring

Reference: 1/2-050025-F

Description: Cape Foulwind showing the cliffs and rock formations. Two standing figures are silhouetted on a rock in the middleground. Photograph taken by James Ring, between 1879 and 1929. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Brown Terrace, Cape Foulwind, NZ. 809; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Ring Photo Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: Circa 1927

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0977-a-1/2-G

Description: View of the tunnel under the cliffs near Waitati, on the South Island Main Trunk Line. The photographer, Albert Percy Godber, is standing on a ledge beside the tunnel. Photographed circa 1917. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1865

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

Reference: B-045-034

Description: Very similar to version at A-210-002. Also similar to work in Hocken sketchbook page 67: "23 Jany. The Mowhanau Stream; close to Alexander's Farm. 1865". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 138 x 232 mm.

Date: [ca 1868]

From: Holder, Miss: Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-f-030-29

Description: Limestone cliffs containing Maori burial caves, Waiomio, Northland, New Zealand. Photograph taken circa 1860s by Daniel Louis Mundy. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - Burial caves of the Tribes at Waio- Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 21 x 25.5 cm on album page 29.5 x 38.7 cm

From: West Coast Historical and Mechanical Society : Photographs

Reference: 1/2-096841-F

Description: The cliffs at Cape Foulwind with people standing on the beach. Inscriptions: beneath image - Cape Foulwind (Printed on original) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1865

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

Reference: B-045-035

Description: Shows paddlesteamer at mouth of river, with cliffs and open sea in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 138 x 232 mm.

Date: 1972

From: Wellington Archaeological Society: Negatives of Kapiti Island taken by Philip Lionel Barton

By: Barton, Phillip Lionel, 1925-2010

Reference: 1/4-020528-F

Description: View of Kapiti Island looking south from just below the trig point Tuteremoana (sometimes called Kapiti 1980). The grassy area in the centre of the picture forms the upper basin of the Taepiro Stream. Photograph taken in 1972 by Philip Lionel Barton. Source of descriptive information - Back of file print Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1866

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902; Laing, Elizabeth, [1862?]-1950

Reference: A-102-007

Description: A road below a cliff and above the river on the left, with Ray's Accommodation house in the middle distance, a steep cliff on the far side of the river and hills beyond Other Titles - Accommodation house ...on the Taramakau Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 127 x 177 mm

Date: 1839

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: A-146-004

Description: Shows a canoe with sails on the water, and a pa (likely to be Haera Hau Pa) perched on a cliff promontory overlooking the river. There are canoes drawn up on the narrow beach under the cliff and low scrub and a path rising up the cliff face. The view is from the right bank looking southeast across the river mouth and inland, with the pa on the cliff above the left bank Heaphy visited Patea Pa (and Waimate Pa), Taranaki, in 1839 on a journey with Robert Park. A sketchbook recording the trip is in Auckland Museum Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Chas Heaphy / Portfolio D; Recto - top centre - (In red ink): No 18 Watercolour similar to this sketch is at the Hocken, Library Reference Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 Williams, E.A. (Edward Arthur), ca. 1824-1898 Patea, 1839, 95/89. https://hakena.otago.ac.nz/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/COLLECTIONS/WEB_COLL_DET_REP/SISN 444?sessionsearch accessed 28 November 2022. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 228 x 305 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company collection. Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, London, 1915. Processing information: Pa site identified as Haera Hau Pa, following researcher information in November 2022. Hocken Library has watercolour of this sketch identified as Haera Hau Pa. See also "Ealry Māori", 'Patea Historical Society', https://www.pateahistoricalsociety.org.nz/early-maori.html, accessed 28 November 2022 - for a description of the Pa.

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001882-G

Description: View looking along the beach at Cape Foulwind. Shows a large number of people on the beach, a group swimming, a number of women with parasols, and a pillar of rock standing out in the sea at the far end of the beach. Photograph taken circa 1910 by William Price. Source of descriptive information - Historical notes from Library client, 2007 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Cape Foulwind 1993.B. The pillar of rock was known as The Giant's tooth. It was damaged in the 1929 Murchison earthquake and blasted down for safety reasons soon after. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1928 - 1932

From: [Ephemera relating to tourism and the Lake Waikaremoana area as a tourist destination. 1900-1999]

By: New Zealand. Tourism Department; Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall, 1901-1971; Hutcheson Bowman & Johnson Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Waikaremoana-ca1930-02

Description: Shows a view of lake from old hotel site, showing cliffs of Panekiri Range in left distance. In the foreground, a man is seated at left, and a woman stands leaning against a cabbage-tree trunk. Both are wearing bathing costumes. The illustration is signed L C Mitchell at lower right. The pamphlet is identical to that at Eph-A-TOURISM-Waikaremoana-ca1930-01, except that amongst the list of branch offices for the NZ Government Tourist Department, the Wellington branch is not listed. May be slightly earlier that the pamphlet at Eph-A-TOURISM-Waikaremoana-ca1930-01. Extended Title - Hutcheson, Bowman & Johnson Ltd, Printers, Wellington. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on brochure cover.. Physical Description: Photolithograph 240 x 105 mm, on cover of brochure.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-040/041

Description: Probably Banks Peninsula, near Long Bay. Includes part of Peraki, and 'Horseshoe Bay' and a hilltop named as Satan's Fissure. Part of the drawing continues across to the second page; part is upside-down Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Sept 22; Recto - Peraki. Satan's Fissure Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (Letter writing and sketches). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-094

Description: Apparently a view of Horohoro cliffs seen from road to Te Wairoa through a gap in the hills - also Haparangi hill visible (Source of information: Professor Ron Keam). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 153 x 238 mm

Date: 1870 - 1900

From: Douglas, Charles Edward 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast Sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. named]

By: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916

Reference: E-057-025

Description: Shows a view of a coastal cliff, with offshore rocks. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 72 x 169 mm.

Date: 1857

Reference: A-306-001

Description: Watercolour of White Island shows view of headland in middle distance, with house and outbuilding at right and cabbage trees and cattle further left. In the distance is a small island. The Forbury homestead was built by William Henry Valpy in the early 1850s. Forbury was the old name for St Clair, and was named after Valpy's birthplace near Reading,Berkshire. Valpy's widow lived in the house with her brother the Reverend Charles Jeffreys and his family from 1852 until they moved to other Valpy properties in and around Oamaru in the 1860s. Inscriptions: Verso - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 160 x 241 mm.

Date: 1879

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Smith, Dennison Urban, -1892

Reference: C-126-010

Description: Shows the settlement at Bravo Island in Paterson Inlet, with the farm of Dennison Urban ("Yankee") Smith at extreme left, and the house of the Portuguese whaler Manuel Gomez in the centre with three figures in the doorway. There is cleared land in foreground, cows at pasture, a boatshed (to the left of Smith's beached boat - the "Bravo"), a cowshed at the extreme right, a sandspit at the extreme right beside the inlet in the right background. Two clay cliffs on the far bank are reflected in the water. The details listed are taken from John Hall-Jones "Stewart Island explored" 1994 - ATL has at NZ&P 993.1 HAL 1994. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Painting made by Aubrey in return for hospitality of the Smith family. For more information about "Yankee" Smith, see AT 3/1/2, 1 July 1976. Other Titles - River settlement Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. Aubrey 1879 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 340 x 515 mm. Provenance: Previously sold at auction by Dennison Smith, a direct descendant of Yankee Smith, at Devereux and Culley's auction rooms, Mt Eden, in 1983. Prior to that, the work had been in the family of Yankee Smith on Stewart Island. The painting had been given to Yankee Smith by the artist in return for hospitality

Date: 1900

From: Babbage, Herbert Ivan, 1875-1916 :[Album of watercolours]

By: Babbage, Herbert Ivan, 1875-1916

Reference: E-285-q-026

Description: A coastal scene at Hawera probably from the foot of the zig-zag path leading down to the beach and looking south along the cliffs Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 230 x 295 mm Provenance: Donation: Mr R. R. Babbage (see TL3/1/1, 18 May 1971).

From: Bibby, Edward Stuart, 1896-1991: Collection

Reference: 1/4-066649-F

Description: Kairakau cliffs, Central Hawke's Bay District. Date unknown. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Family member. Arrangement: Delivered to the Library in an envelope labelled "Kairakau negs". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative