Places

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-10/2/3-Acc.

Description: Shows harbours, wharves etc in the Christchurch area. Identifies Avonside and Burwood golf links, Railway workshops and gardens, museum and hospital Hagley Park. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream paper. Scale indeterminable. 101.5 x 69 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1892

By: Schmidt, William Shaw Diedrich, 1870-1968; New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works; New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal

Reference: D-001-004

Description: In the left foreground a drive with horse and carriage, fenced with formal young plantings. In the centre and right foreground, partially cleared native bush, including flax, treeferns and cabbage trees. Rangitoto Island and North Head on the far left, the harbour in the centre and the city with its volcanic cones in the background. Other Titles - Supplement to the Christmas number of the New Zealand graphic, Dec 21 1892. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Supplement to the Christmas number of the New Zealand graphic, Dec 21, 1892. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 304 x 898 mm on sheet 455 x 1015 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-049-056/058

Description: Top image shows the first church on the site of St Mary's of the Angels, Boulcott Street with a procession of white-robed priests and possibly choirboys; middle image shows the first court building in Lower Mulgrave Street, looking out to seal, with a small European building with vegetable garden and picket fence at the bottom of the slope to the left; and the lower image shows the back of Francis Molesworth's house and stables in the Hutt Valley, with forest behind. In the foreground a group of workers are resting beside a log bridge from their work Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 367 x 275 mm.

Date: 1923

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

Reference: A-462-018

Description: Shows a view from a domestic garden, with border plants along a wooden fence. Beyond can be seen thick bush, with a view to the harbour between the trees, and the Kaweka Ranges in the distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 128 x 180 mm

Date: 1970 - 1979

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Thirteen sketchbooks of Corrie Cook (nee Cameron), covering sketches of Britain, Australia and New Zealand. 1920-1990s]

Reference: E-907

Description: Includes sketches of figures seated below and statue in Sydney, a two-storeyed house at Patea Taranaki, Sydney Harbour scenes, a suspension bridge over a wide Australian river, figure and tree studies, New Zealand, and Sydney scenes, a scene at Greenwich Sydney (26 December 1979), a corner of Jane Cook's back garden in Roselle Sydney December 1979; interior sketches of the home of the artist's step-daughter, Helen Cook, in Greytown. (All identification by Walter Cook, 18 April 2008). Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Spiralbound sketchbook with green and brown cover design, 210 x 150 mm.

Date: 1968-1972

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6450

Description: Photographs relating to York Bay and John Kendrick's house and garden. Views of York Bay and Wellington Harbour. John Kendrick's orchard and vegetable garden. Views of John Kendrick's house from the hill above. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: [ca 1910-1915]

By: Dean, A B (Mr), active 1978

Reference: PAColl-8544

Description: Postcards of New Zealand, Tonga and Fiji, many of which were sent to Mrs E F White and Donald White of Devonport, Tasmania. Includes views of Buller Gorge, Christchurch, Timaru, Milford Sound, Lake Wakatipu, Mitre Peak, Wellington, bullock team at Banks Peninsula, Wairoa Geyser, Mount Mackenzie, Otira Gorge, Whanganui River, and Suva. Also includes a postcard of the late Right Hon Richard J Seddon. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (postcards). 4 colour original photographic print(s). 7 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Postcards

Date: 1889 - 1891

By: Leslie, Walter Jefferson, 1855-1915

Reference: B-033-021

Description: View from above extensive area covered in exhibition buildings, with other Dunedin buildings in the foreground and Anderson's Bay and the sea in the background. The main entrance, gardens, concert hall, Eiffel Tower, Goverment House are indicated, as is the intended opening-date of November 26 1889, and the total dimensions of the area of 12 1/2 acres The print appears to have been issued with the exhibition catalogue's Official Guide to the Picture Galleries. For a copy of the catalogue with sketches of a number of the pictures exhibited see Art Room / P / 759.9931 / OFF Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white 376 x 503 mm Provenance: Purchase: K. A. Webster, London 1970

Date: [ca1870]-1935

From: Lyttleton, Edith Joan, 1873-1945 :Photographs of family, friends, and travels

Reference: PAColl-9129-1

Description: Edith Lyttleton's father and mother, Emily Lyttleton and Westcote McNab Lyttleton. Edith Lyttleton and her sister Emily in the 1890s. Edith's brothers Ray and Clyne. Grave of Westcote McNab Lyttleton. Unidentified carte de visite portraits. Family groups in the gardens of Rokeby homestead, 1890s. Group at Engleberg, Switzerland in 1911. Unidentified musical group. Unidentified railway track, probably on the Canterbury Plains. Franz Joseph Glacier Hotel, Westland, New Zealand. North American Indian, animals, and forest. Pet dogs. Edith Lyttleton in dog-drawn sledge, Yukon, Canada, 1920. Ships in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, ca 1870. Views of countryside, Halifax. Sailors, Halifax. Port and town, Australia. Australian military uniforms. Quantity: 71 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1890s, 1930 - 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Robson, Edward Thomas, 1875-1953; Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946; Bremford Studios; Weigel, William George, 1890-1980; Collins, L, active 1940

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-017

Description: Photographs of Canterbury region and Wellington city taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes views of towns, lakes, gardens and mountains, the Garden of Memories at Kaikoura, Lake Pukaki and Tekapo, New Years Day at Caroline Bay and the Dominion Museum in Wellington during the 1940 Exhibition. Photographers include E T Robson, Thelma Kent, William George Weigel and L Collins. Quantity: 38 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1904-ca 1970]

From: Stuart, Henrietta, fl 1950s :Postcard albums

Reference: PA1-q-1016

Description: Classic scenic postcards of New Zealand. The bulk of the views are combinations of rivers, sounds, native forest, Lakes, coasts, bays with or with out sail boats, public gardens, mountains (especially the Southern Alps), Harbours and ports. Less well represented are volcanoes, thermal regions, glaciers, and pastoral views. There are some views of cities and towns, but not many. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 16 February - 21 March 1958

From: Tomsett, Maurice William Henry :Colour slides of New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7762

Description: Phase 4 continued - 74. Distant view of Wellington from air; 75. Approaching Paraparaumu Airport. Phase 5; Wellington - 76. Wellington - looking across bay to Miramar and ocean; 77. Wellington - looking at new Rongotai Airport; 78. Lower Hutt, Southwood's fine, melted steel tube; 79. Port Nicholson, Somes Island, looking to Wellington from Gracefield; 80. Port Nicholson, Hutt River, reclamation work; 81. View up Hutt Valley; 82. View from Kelburn Park towards Government House and Hospital; 83. View from Kelburn Park across Lambton Harbour to Mt Victoria, Wellington's highest; 84. View from Kelburn Park across wharves to Petone, Lower Hutt; 85. Ohira Bay; 86. Siren's Rocks; 87. Tetrapods and beakwater in Lyall Bay, Rongotai airport; 88. From Mt Victoria across Evans Bay to Rongotai; 89. From Mt Victoria down to City proper; 90. Small craft in Lambton Harbour; 91. Near Evans Bay; 92. En route to Greytown (Wind); 93. En route to Greytown, eastern side of range. Phase 6 - Palmerston North; 94-96. Central Square gardens, All Saints church; 97. Tower and shell containing clock and chimes from P.O. damaged in earthquake of 1942. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1889 - 1891

By: Leslie, Walter Jefferson, 1855-1915; Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936

Reference: B-033-021-a

Description: View from above extensive area covered in exhibition buildings, with other Dunedin buildings in the foreground and Anderson's Bay and the sea in the background. The main entrance, gardens, concert hall, Eiffel Tower, Goverment House are indicated, as is the intended opening-date of November 26 1889, and the total dimensions of the area of 12 1/2 acres This copy was folded inside Sir Joseph Kinsey's copy of the exhibition catalogue's Official Guide to the Picture Galleries. The catalogue also contains small pencil sketches of a number of the pictures exhibited. See Art Room / P / 759.9931 / OFF Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white 376 x 503 mm

Date: August 1986

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6610

Description: Evening over Wellington Harbour. View of the Kapiti Coast from the Paekakariki Hill Road. View of Kapiti Island. Viewing rohododendrons at Cross Hills Garden, Kimbolton. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard mounts.

Date: 1870

From: Illustrated Australian news [1860s-1870s]

By: Illustrated Australian news (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0119-1870-013

Description: Looking south along the waterfront at Akaroa, from a hill to thenorth. A road, houses, gardens and a church can be seen. Possibly based on a photograph Extended Title - From Illustrated Australian News, No. 166, 26 December 1860, p. 13 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving

Date: 1868

By: Igglesden, Charles Moore, 1832-1920; Goodman Fielder Wattie (N.Z.)

Reference: C-119-022

Description: Shows in foreground a circular island of garden with a grass border, in the centre of a circular driveway. A gardener kneels to tend plants at the left, and a dog sits keeping him company. At the right is an herbaceous border, in front of the partly obscured Wellington Terrace. Across the Terrace is a wooden house with finials, brick chimney, shingled roof, and a "To Let" sign in the window. Beyond this in the right background is Wellington Harbour and the flat area of Lower Hutt. In the centre background behind the circular garden, is the shingle roof, finial, brick chimney, and H-shaped metal chimney-pot of a neighbouring house, possibly that owned in 1878/79 (see Wise's Post Office Directory) by Joseph Nancarrow. Beyond is a pier projecting out from Lambton Quay, with Midland Point beyond. In the left background is the Boys' Grammar School (with spire) on Clifton Terrace and further north St Mary's Church, Hill Street; on the crest of the hill on the top left now the area occupied by the suburb of Wadestown, is Captain William Barnard Rhodes' house, "The Grange". Sometimes entitled: "A Wellington resident's house and garden, Flagstaff Hill, above Boulcott Street, looking North towards the Hutt Valley" or "Wellington from Flagstaff Hill". Previously thought to be a view from Mr Hays' residence. Sharp's residence was on the upper side of the Terrace, probably just north of the present join with Salamanca Road. According to notes compiled by B. M. Igglesden, grandson (TL 3/1/1, 1 August 1985), the gardens of the property extended from Mount Street to Everton Terrace, and when the estate was later cut up, 25 homes were built on the land, including Sir Robert Stout's home. See also notes at TL 3/1/1, 8 May 1985, or the Evening Post of 29 September 1928, for notes about the Sharp household (and other houses on the Terrace). Other Titles - Wellington from Flagstaff Hill Other Titles - A Wellington resident's house and garden, Flagstaff Hill, above Boulcott Street, looking North towards the Hutt Valley. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Igglesden - Decr. 1868 Igglesden was the nephew of Captain Sharp, and was living in Wellington at this time, being commissioned a Lieutenant in No. 1 Company Wellington Militia on 2 December 1868. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 384 x 519 mm Provenance: Sold at Philips, London, September 1984. Bought by a Melbourne dealer for £2,100. Auctioned at McArthur's, 10 May 1985, and bought by the Goodman Group.

Date: 1877

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The illustrations by C. D. Barraud. Edited by W. T. L. Travers. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877

By: Blatchley, W D, active 1877-1898

Reference: PUBL-0016-28

Description: A road, fence and gate with a man standing by the gate, above a house surrounded by trees in the foreground. The beach of Governor's Bay with a jetty to the left, with Lyttelton and its houses and harbour in the middle distance. A steam ship can be seen at the entrance to the harbour in the distance and the harbourside road is clearly visible on the hills to the left. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 251 x 358 mm

Date: 1880

By: Stowe, Jane, 1838-1931

Reference: A-439-004

Description: Shows a view from the lower slopes of the Wadestown Hill looking towards the harbour. There is a garden in the foreground and a street of houses, possibly Hobson Street, leading away towards Wellington Harbour with sailboats, and the houses of Oriental Bay and Mt Victoria behind. There is a flagpole or aerial on the top of Mt Victoria (shown as a flagpole on most contemporaneous illustrations). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 179 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by members of the artist's family. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1858

By: Bates, Henry Stratton, 1836-1918

Reference: A-434-022

Description: Shows houses, gardens, a jetty (possibly that at Official Bay), and shipping with a view of the Waitemata Harbour, North Head and Rangitoto. Known to have been drawn by a member of the 65th Regiment. The initials HSB and the style suggest Henry Stratton Bates. Other Titles - New Zealand Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - H.S.B.; Mat recto - beneath image - [Title]; Verso - centre - Auckland Harbour Rangitoto & North Shore October 1858 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 127 x 170 mm.