Places

Date: 1852

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Ralph, Thomas Shearman (Dr), 1813-1891

Reference: A-215-017

Description: View from Te Aro Flat, probably from the bottom of Mount Victoria, looking towards Wellington. A small hut at the water's edge nearby, swampy ground and the Waitangi Stream in the foreground, fencing marking Te Aro Pa, European houses beyond, cliffs marking the beginning of Lambton Quay with houses running its length at the waterfront, the sloping line of The Terrace, with several houses running up the hill in the left background and ships moored in the harbour. One of two copies at A-215-017 and A-215-018. One copy is an untouched proof, the other has pencil pencil additions of mosque, basilica, buildings on hills and wharf Another copy in Pearse, J Album (ATL) p. 34. This copy is not able to be issued Inscriptions: Signed: E N : T S Ralph Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 194 x 294 mm on sheet 245 x 295 mm

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-044/046

Description: Shows views in the Hutt Valley, Wellington and Wairarapa. At the top, a view looking west along Palliser Bayl, with Hokorewa Pa visible on the flat land near the coast in the distance, at the mouth of the Ruamahanga River. In the centre a view from the hills above Brooklyn and Ohiro Valley, looking west towards the harbour entrance. A few sheep are grazing in the foreground. Mount Victoria, Evans Bay and Lyall Bay can be seen. At the bottom, the house of William Swainson, with other buildings around it and trees on both sides. Three cows grazing in the foreground. Other Titles - William Swainson Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-012/014

Description: Three engravings from watercolours by S. C. Brees, Principal Surveyor to the New Zealand Company in Wellington, 1842-1845. They show a pa in the foreground close to Porirua Harbour, with a view of the harbour and hills, a European man with swag, walking stick and dog in the foreground; New Plymouth looking south along the coastline with Mount Taranaki and the Sugar Loaf rocks in the background, cows in the foreground and the houses of the town in the middle distance; two buildings of Joseph Thom's whaling station, with washing hanging up, barrels in the foreground. Other Titles - Porirua. Taranaki Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on sheet 365 x 261

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: A-020-032

Description: An upper drawing showing a low wharenui, seen from the front. A lower drawing showing a passageway or entrance through palisades, with buildings and hills beyond. Both drawings are probably scenes at Rangihaeata's Taupo Pa, Plimmerton The drawing on the verso of this sheet (A-020-033-1) is of Taupo Pa, Plimmerton Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 333 x 231 mm

Date: 1842

From: Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington (sketched in the middle of the year 1842). Plate IV.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: B-110-057

Description: Central third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows groups of figures on foreshore including man on horseback, man examining ships through spyglass, two small groups of Maori watching, two men smoking long pipes, 14 sailing ships including one rounding Point Halswell, Somes Island with flag flying at its southern end, two Maori craft including one with sails. View extends from Warepori's Village in Pitone at left, to Mount Victoria at right. Features named are: Warepori's village Pitone, Valley of the Hutt, Tararua Mountains, Somes's Island, Pt Halswell (the entrance from the sea), Pt Jerningham, Mr Duppa's house (Oriental Bay), Mount Victoria. There are colour transparencies available (photographed from better copies of this work, in volume of Wakefield's book). The copy negatives listed here are also from this book rather than from this copy at B-110-056/058. Extended Title - From Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1845. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Title]; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - beneath image - From a sketch taken by Captain Mein Smith R.A. / London, Smith, Elder & Co. Cornhill. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 502 mm.

Date: [1844]

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

Reference: A-020-005

Description: On the left, a watercolour of the point of a taiaha (spear) with notes about war costume of Maori. There is also a drawing of a huia feather and a note about a momument at Ngauranga to the memory of Te Wharepouri. On the right, 'slave preparing food' at Ngauranga Pa, shows a crouching woman inside a hut, preparing small round objects, possibly potatoes, from a basket in front of her. The taiaha is the original sketch for a lithograph In: Angas, G F, The New Zealanders illustrated, (London, 1847), Plate 58, No 7, p 130, where it is described as E Hani. The slave woman is the original drawing for a view in the upper right corner of Plate 59, no. 2 ' Domestic sketches' Other Titles - Ngauranga Nga Hauranga. Huia. War costume Quantity: 1 drawing(s). 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil 182 x 100 mm; Watercolour 175 x 107 mm

Date: 1842

From: Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington (sketched in the middle of the year 1842). Plate IV.

By: Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: B-110-056

Description: Left one-third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows houses along foreshore of Lambton Quay and Thorndon. Shows Tinakore [sic] Range, Kai Wara Wara [sic], Nga Hauranga [sic], the Terrace, Willis & Co.'s store, Kumu Toto Point and Pa, Doctor Evan's house, Colonel Wakefield's house, Barrett's hotel, Medical hall, Company's Emigration Barracks, and Government flagstaff. Extended Title - From Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1845. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Thorndon Flat; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 457 mm.

Date: 1842

From: Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington (sketched in the middle of the year 1842). Plate IV.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: B-110-058

Description: Right-hand third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows Maori group sitting near flagpole at left, smoking long pipes, other Maori figures and three thatched buildings on the foreshore. On centre foreshore is Messrs Ridgways and Co's wharf and stores. At right is Willis Street with the Southern Cross Hotel and further back the Ship Hotel. On the other side of the bay are the Customhouse Office, Post Office, Waitt's Wharf and stores, John Wade's store, the Exchange, and Rhodes's Wharf and store. Willis and Co's store is in the left background near Te Aro Pa. In the distance are Mount Albert and Mount Cook. There are colour transparencies available (photographed from better copies of this work, in volume of Wakefield's book). Extended Title - From Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1845. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Te Aro Flat; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - bottom right - Day & Haghe, Lithrs to the Queen Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 453 mm.

Date: 1852

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Ralph, Thomas Shearman (Dr), 1813-1891

Reference: A-215-018

Description: View from Te Aro Flat, probably from the bottom of Mount Victoria, looking towards Wellington. A small hut at the water's edge nearby, swampy ground and the Waitangi Stream in the foreground, fencing marking Te Aro Pa, European houses beyond, cliffs marking the beginning of Lambton Quay with houses running its length at the waterfront, the sloping line of The Terrace, with several houses running up the hill in the left background and ships moored in the harbour. This copy has been heavily annotated with various people, soldiers (including a group in the act of firing), large buildings, including at least two with domes, buildings on the skyline, etc. An untouched proof copy of this lithograph is held at A-215-017 Another copy, an etching, in Pearse, J Album (ATL) p. 34 (E-455-f-034-2 hand-coloured). This copy is not issuable Inscriptions: Signed: E N : T S Ralph Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 194 x 294 mm on sheet 245 x 295 mm

Date: [1890s?, 1910s-1920s]

From: Edwards-Sextus, Patricia, active 1999-2019: Collection

By: Fisher family; Edwards-Sextus, Patricia Joyce, active 1999-2019

Reference: PAColl-9635

Description: Collection comprises papers relating to the Fisher family and the history of the Whanganui River. Includes photographs of Parinui and local Maori; Alf Overend with Sisters of Compassion at the baptism of his child Clair (1914/1915) at Jerusalem/Hiruharama Marae in 1914/1915; House and stockade; Pa, whare puni and church at Jerusalem; and grave of Emily A Fisher and Thomas William Fisher. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Mrs Edwards-Sextus, Dannevirke, 2009 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Fisher family: Papers (MS-Papers-9514).

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: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: A-020-032-2

Description: View from inside a seaside pa, looking out to sea. The landforms suggest the Ngati Toa pa "Taupo", Plimmerton, visited by the artist in 1844. In the foreground are canoes, palisades with carved figures, a grave or other small fenced enclosure to the right, fish drying racks, dwellings and further constructions up a steep hill on the right Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 238 x 330 mm

Date: ca 1960s

From: Chapman Taylor, Marion Hurst, 1893-1969 :Photographs of pa sites in New Plymouth, a carved housed at Karatia, Akatarawa, old houses and the Rimutakas

Reference: PAColl-0800-1

Description: Eleven prints: three of Waiomiti pa site in New Plymouth which is now partly covered by the Redixmixt Concrete Co; three of Rewarewa pa site near the Waiwakaiho River one of which shows R Allan standing next to an ancient cabbage tree; two of a Maori burial and pa site next to what is now Clemow Road, New Plymouth, one of which shows Mr Bishop, whose garden is adjacent to the site, next to a gravestone; Paritutu showing the chemical works which is now on the land next to it; the dismantling of Poutama carved house at Karatia (Galatea) on the Whanganui River in the summer of 1967/1968. The carvings were taken to Koroniti and the rest was to be moved to another site; the old house at Te Marua captioned that it was later remodelled by someone called Molloy and photographed by James Chapman-Taylor. Arrangement: Negatives housed at C22992 and C21897. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1842 - 1845

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-050/052

Description: Views of Wellington between 1842 and 1845. The top view shows Mount Victoria from the area of Courtenay Palace, with Simmonds' and Hoggard's windmill and two other buildings, a track in the foreground, and a cleared area and one house on the slopes of the hill. The central view shows a Maori man looking through a rock archway, with timber bracing at the top, the sea beyond. The view is close to Pukerua Bay. The lowest view shows a canoe in the foreground and the palidsades of Paremata Pa on the shores of the Paremata inlet, with a European house in the background Other Titles - Paremata, Porirua Other Titles - Paripari Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261

Date: 1850

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

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

Reference: C-103-011-1

Description: A view from Ngaio or Khandallah looking down towards Kaiwharawharal, with the hotel, the pa and houses visible. Thorndon and Pipitea Point can be seen in the backgroundl, with houses and the gully running parallel to Tinakori Road (now part of the motorway) visible. The faint outline of the hills behind the town can be seen on theleft-hand sheet. Mantell's title suggests that the hill from which he took the drawing may have been called Kohekohe (from the predominant tree in the area, perhaps). Two trees in the right foreground may be kohekohe On the reverse (C-103-011-3) is a pencil drawing titled [River and tree ferns] probably showing the Hutt River Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch on two sheets, 228 x 132 mm and 228 x 184 mm

Date: [ca 1860s-1880s]

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874; Rhodes, Joseph, 1826-1905

Reference: PA1-q-193

Description: Album owned by Joseph Rhodes containing photographs and sketches and ephemera dated between 1860s-1880s of New Zealand and overseas. Includes photographs of Hawkes Bay dated between 1860s-1870s. Many of the sketches were drawn by Alfred Chapman, one section containing an illustrated tale "The life and adventures of Thomas Pinniger" (p 34a-d). On p 34b Governor Eyre is pictured lower left at Government House, Wellington. There are two photographs of paintings by Charles Barraud (one of Te Aro Flat, City of Wellington (p 68), and one of Wellington Heads (p 104). Many of the photographs of the Hawke's Bay area show the houses on various sheep stations, including Clive Grange Station, and Spring Hill Station (Joseph Rhodes), Maraekakaho Station (Donald Mclean), Woburn Station (Thomas Purvis Russell), Mount Herbert Station (Henry Robert Russell), and Mangatarata Station (Donald Gollan). There is also one of George Fannin's house in Napier, one of the Reverend Hamlin's mission station at Wairoa, and one of The Grange (Wellington home of Joseph Rhodes's brother William Barnard Rhodes).Others in the area are related to military encampments, barracks, stockades, and mission stations. On page 31 there is a photograph of "The great peace meeting, 1863", and one entitled "Whaka & tribe". On page 53, the caption reads "Donald McLean Esq. Superintendent, Hawkes Bay, purchasing Wairoa from the natives, 18[55?]." There are many photographs, postcards and tourist scenes taken in Egypt, Ireland, Norway, Italy and Australia. The Australian scenes show views in Queensland, including Australian Aborigines fishing for dugong, the Railway Mortuary Chapel at the Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney (subsequenlty sold to a church group, dismantled and rebuilt in North Ainslie in Canberra) and views in the Maryborough area. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown leather embossed cover 29 x 23 cm, with 79 leaves

Date: 1929

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

By: Te Whaiti, H N, active 1929

Reference: MapColl-832.45gbbh/1929/Acc.27412

Description: Sketch map of the Papawai Pa Reserve, and surrounding streets showing the official electricity connection and two proposed main electricity routes from the main road to the Papawai Pa. Shows the Greytown - Te Parae main road; Waiohine River; road to A Jury's and Ruamahanga River; Mangarara Stream; by-way to Pa; and the road to Basil Burch's farm. Indicates the dwellings of White Rangi, D Rewi, Tipene, Tauria and Waitere, as well as a bakery and a Native (Maori) school. Lists the trustees of the Pa (including Niniwa-i-te-rangi, Nireaha Tamaki, H.J. Kingi, H. Manihora, Henare Parata, Raukura Mahupuku and government representative A Hamilton), and the present committee in charge of renovating the Pa, including H.N. te Whaiti of Greytown, Whana Himona of Pikio and W Tahana of Gladstone. Includes list of Pa trustees when transfer was effected and list of present committee in charge of renovating Pa. Map drawn on letter head paper of Hukarere School, Napier, 192?. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on letterhead note paper, scale indeterminable, 24 x 19.3 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Te Whaiti papers Group-0805. Processing information: Combined into ATL-Group-00753, September 2022.

Date: 1840 - 1845

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company; Wakefield, Edward Jerningham, 1820-1879

Reference: C-029-009-a

Description: Shows the huts of the first settlers at Petone, and the first four ships to bring settlers to Wellington, anchored between Somes Island and Petone Beach. A view from the western hills looking out towards the harbour entrance. Identifies Hutt River, Somes Island, Evans Bay and Wellington The original drawing on which this lithograph is based is at A-146-001 The ships shown are probably the first four immigrant ships to arrive in Wellington, the Aurora, the Oriental, the Duke of Roxburgh and the Bengal Merchant. The ships arrived between 22 January and 28 February 1840 Other Titles - Petone Extended Title - Published in 'Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand' by Edward Jerningham Wakefield (London, 1845) Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - Presented to the Hutt Mechanics' Institute, with E. Jerningham Wakefield's best wishes for the success of the Institution [on separate card, in E J Wakefield's hand, in ink] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 240 x 405 mm on sheet 355 x 510 mm Provenance: Originally a donation from E J Wakefield to Hutt Mechanics Institute, a predecessor to Lower Hutt Public Library

Date: 1847

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-015

Description: View through wind-shaped trees from the northwest side of Petone Flat, looking towards the eastern hills. On the right is the palisade of Te Puni's pa with the roof of one whare rising above the fence-line and a single high-roofed house on the plain further into the valley on the left. There is a lone male figure, carrying a long spear standing in the middle ground, between two trees. A very similar drawing reproduced in Louis Ward's "Early Wellington" (Plate 25) is titled "Te Puni's new pa (Te Tatau-o-te-po) behind the Pito-one Pa" and shows the pa as close to the beach Other Titles - Pa of Honiana Te Puni, Petone, Te Tatau o te Po Inscriptions: Backing board recto - beneath image - Title and date Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 117 x 183 mm

Date: 1840

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

Reference: A-146-001

Description: A hill with fern and low scrub in the foreground, with a view across the bush-covered Hutt Valley and Petone to the Wainuiomata Hills, with the Harbour, Somes Island and four immigrant ships, the harbour entrance and Miramar Peninsula. There are houses built by the first European settlers on the beach, possibly along with the buildings of Petone Pa, although the latter are indistinguishable from the settlers' houses. The Pa may be hidden from sight by a low rise to the right. Original drawing for a lithograph in E. J . Wakefield's "Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand" (London, 1845) Plate 3, with title "Port Nicholson from the hills above Pitone in 1840". The lithograph includes in its foreground a Maori woman gathering crops or food and three pigs. The ships shown are probably the first four immigrant ships to arrive in Wellington, the Aurora, the Oriental, the Duke of Roxburgh and the Bengal Merchant. The ships arrived between 22 January and 28 February 1840. Other Titles - Petone Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title, signature, and "Portfolio D" [the latter inscribed by staff of the New Zealand Company in London.; Recto - top centre - No. 55. New Zealand Company Mar 23 1842 [the latter a stamp indicating the date the drawing was received by the New Zealand Company in London]. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen drawing 233 x 369 mm Provenance: Drawn for the New Zealand Company and sent to London. Purchased by Alexander Turnbull with other New Zealand Company material in 1915.