Places

Date: [Circa 1900s to 1910s]

From: Clift, Charles William :Photographs relating to Clift family

Reference: PA1-o-103

Description: Clift family photographs, including views of Wellington, the Clift family home at 143 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn; four unidentified Wellington College Boy Scouts; views of the Wellington Botanic Gardens; and a number of views of the Wanganui Region. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album in brown card cover tied with cord, and embossed with pattern of flowers in a vase, 19 x 18.5 cm

Date: 1848

By: Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-247-029

Description: Shows Taylor's two-storeyed mission house seen across a field. See Richard Taylor Sketchbook, E-296-q-055-3 for a similar view Other Titles - New Zealand Inscriptions: In K. A. Webster's hand: "by Rev. Richd Taylor" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 177 x 110 mm Provenance: Purchased: Geo. Legges Esq.

Date: 1902

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

Reference: E-346-3-032

Description: Part of the house, with verandah clad with climbing plants, and the garden of Edward Newman at Turakina. Large trees behind the house and a lawn in front with either a small formal garden bed, or a fountain in the left foreground. Other Titles - Edward Newman's at Turakina Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 163 x 224 mm

Date: 1893

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.

Reference: E-373-039

Description: Looking across the river towards a small settlement, possibly at Pipiriki, with two canoes drawn up at the water's edge, tree ferns, two buildings and taller trees with high hills behind Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, in sketchbook, 130 x 360 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..

Date: 1846 - 1847

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

Reference: E-346-1-070

Description: View looking east along the Whanganui River from the opposite bank, with Putiki in the foreground, military tents on the town side, churches including Christ Church, houses, Rutland Stockade not yet complete and a fenced area around what was later York Stockade on the left. Jetties can also be seen. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm

Date: 1863

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :Wairarapa and Wellington sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-171-050

Description: A view towards hills across a broad river. A small house or whare is visible on the opposite bank Other Titles - Gorge of Waiohine Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 130 x 215 mm

Date: 1870 - 1984 - 1880

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988

Reference: C-106-013-a/018-a

Description: Contains 6 images: Wanganui family and possessions, 1870s; Unidentified man, Wanganui, 1870s; Mrs Morgan and child, Wanganui, 1870s; Staff and premises of the Wanganui Evening Herald, 1868; Mr and Mrs Thomas Roots and their twelve children in front of their home at Springvale, 1870s; Mother and child, Wanganui, 1870s. Title from illustrated container, also bearing descriptive notes. Container has not been assigned its own location number and is therefore not recorded separately. However, the individual photolithographs have separate entries. Other Titles - Imagers of a new land. Other Titles - Portraits by W. J. Harding. Inscriptions: (On verso of container/ envelope): Portraits by W.J. Harding,/ chosen by Brian Brake and John Sullivan / and published with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited.; Recto - beneath image - (On each photograph): Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 6 photolithographs, 259 x 213 mm, and 213 x 259 mm, on sheets 415 x 350 mm, in container 510 x 390 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit regulations, 1986.

Date: 1910

By: Auckland weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: C-065-008

Description: Shows a new European settlement near Ohakune, amongst an extensive tract of felled timber, with trees and bush in the background. Mount Ruapehu is in the distance. Other Titles - The above photograph depicts a pioneering scene near Ohakune, on the route of the Main Trunk railway, and shows the birth of a new settlement in the heart of the bush. In the background towers the majestic snow-clad peak of Ruapehu ... Extended Title - Supplement to: The Weekly News. Special Christmas Number. 1910. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 462 x 662 mm

Date: 1855 - 1865

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: B-084-009

Description: Shows a distant view of the town from the far bank of the Whanganui River. York and Rutland Stockades can be seen on the hills at the left, with the spire of Christ Church beyond the houses below. Shakespeare Bluff is across the river to the right. The peak of Mt Ruapehu rises in the distance Title appears to have been added at a later date. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in pencil in the hand of C D Barraud Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 355 mm

Date: 1871

By: Allen, George Frederic, 1837-1929

Reference: Plans-80-1269

Description: Shows plan for library and dining room Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - This drawing to be returned to G F Allen Architect St Hill Street Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing

Date: [ca 1910s]

Reference: PAColl-6888

Description: Two images of a man cutting his son's hair sitting on a waka next to the Whanganui River; two of a waka being rowed on the river and one of the crew holding their hoe; a cow being lifted by a winch into a boat; yachts and row boats in Auckland harbour for the Auckland Regatta; two of Auckland harbour ferries; a steamer at a pier on the Whanganui River; three children playing on a shore line near Auckland with a pier in the background; a group of men, women and children round a camp fire with a makeshift tent in the background; and a row of houses with the wreckage left from a fire in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044216 to 044228 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1907

Reference: PAColl-0369

Description: Mounted photograph of three small homesteads with out-houses near what may be the Pohangina River and carts loaded with wood on the road next to them taken from a short distance. The mount is captioned Komako, 1907 but the photographer is unidentified. 1/2-056602 Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-056602 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted photographic print

Date: 1871

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903

Reference: A-226-001

Description: A view from a low hill across the town of Feilding, with a scatter of houses, several sterets, stands of trees and hills in the background Original pencil sketch for lithograph, A-226-002 from, The Feilding Settlement, Manchester block, Manawatu, New Zealand. By A W F Halcombe This sketch has previously been attributed to John Buchanan Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 228 x 279 mm

Date: 1851 - 1859

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

Reference: E-346-1-011

Description: The right side of a 2-part panorama, showing the Whanganui River, at Atene, looking across to a house and hills on the opposite bank. The artist's father (Richard Taylor) was a missionary at Wanganui Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm

Date: 1897

By: Clere, Fitzgerald and Richmond (Firm)

Reference: Plans-80-1661

Description: Shows details of chimneys Stamped: Clere Fitzgerald & Richmond. May 1897 Inscriptions: Recto - centre - John S Swan, 14.5.97 Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing on cream wove paper

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-532

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by E Wheeler & Son, circa 1870s to 1880s Most of the views are identified, either on the photograph itself, or in hand-written captions below; places shown are listed above. One image has caption "Flax cutting" on the photograph which shows a man standing be a group of cabbage trees, with a house? or possibly a mill with a water wheel in the background behind the trees, while the hand-written caption reads "Valley scene, Hokianga". Other Titles - New Zealand views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover (damaged), entitled "New Zealand Views" in gold lettering; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1874 - 1990 - 1999

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

Reference: Plans-2007-030-1231/1233

Description: Includes floor plans and a part elevation of the front elevation, including the arched entrance. Some figures of dimensions and measurements are shown. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying

Date: [Circa 1900s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-301

Description: Photogprahs of New Zealand circa 1890s to 1900s, probably taken by George William Barltrop. The first sequence includes scenes around Auckland harbour, including Rangitoto Onehunga, with one view of passengers on board the ferry `SS Takapuna'. One photograph shows a group of young Maori standing on the bank of the Whanganui River (four young men under an umbrella). Wellington area views of Pahautanui (Pauatahanui), Horokiwi, Lyall Bay and the Wellington Heads. On page 873 (the album pages run from 856 to 895), there is a postcard with heads of George William Barltrop and his wife Emma Jane Barltrop, with a collage of images relating to the Missions to Seamen. Slipped beneath the postcard is the death notice for Emma Jane Barltrop (died 24 September 1954). There are views of the Rimutakas from the railway line; a flock of sheep being herded along a road in palmerston North; three people standing outside a wooden bungalow in Palmerston North; and there is a view of another house in Feilding. The river mouth at Oroua; the grounds of the Wanganui Race Course (with white swans on the lake; a woman feeding a peacock, and a woman under an umbrella, walking on rail tracks beside the sea at Castlecliff; followed by three views from a boat on the Whanganui River, one a view of Upokongaro, with the church spire just visible, and two of groups of Maori waiting on the riverbank. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover entitled `Photographic views'; 20.5 x 17.5 cm

Date: 1847 - 1849

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: E-070-021

Description: Small European settlement, viewed from the opposite bank of the river, with bush, including a cabbage tree in the foreground. Brees' text in "Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand" suggests that the buildings shown are a survey station. First published in: Brees S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand (London, 1847) Plate 12, No 32. text p.21 See A-109-029 Other Titles - Karikari Extended Title - From: Brees, S C Guide and description of the panorama of New Zealand (London, 1849) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured 72 x 127 mm

Date: 1895

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook of Mary C. Medley nee Taylor...1895. No. 14.

Reference: E-379-012

Description: A rural scene in Feilding showing three houses, a shelterbelt in the background and hills in the distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 130 x 225 mm (page size)