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Date: 1864 - 1965 - 1978

From: [Various artists] :Postcards of reproductions of original watercolours in the Hocken Library, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ. [1970s]

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-278-q-071

Description: Reproduction of Williams' original watercolour showing the Manukau Harbour and settlement at Onehunga, 1864. Woman on horseback in foreground (lower left), and several sailing ships in the harbour. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-lithograph, 95 x 152 mm

Date: ca 1880s

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/2-003202-G

Description: View of old Port Chalmers, looking across the harbour towards the township, with ships in the harbour, and the Methodist chapel and the Anglican church visible on the hill, centre background; the Presbyterian church at far right centre. Photographed by David Alexander De Maus. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Port Chalmers. 31. Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1881

From: Keesing, Henry A, 1826?-1896 :[Landscapes, caricatures and portraits] / H A Keesing. 1879-[1880s]

Reference: A-278-002

Description: View of the Waitemata Harbour at night with a full moon. The lighthouse at Orakei is on the right. Land and islands can be seen in the distance. In the left foreground is a partial view of a wharf with a mast head just visible beneath. In the centre foreground is a yacht and further away is a sailing ship showing its night light. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 150 x 214 mm

Date: 1922 - 1940

From: Brooks, Catherine, 1884-1980 :[Thirty (30) watercolours of Auckland, Onehunga and Rotorua. 1922-1940].

Reference: A-306-029

Description: Shows a view of the city and harbour of Auckland from Mt Eden, with Josiah Clifton Firth's house in the lower left, and Mt Eden Prison in the middle distance. North Head and Rangitoto Island are in the distance. The top of the Coromandel Peninsula can be seen in the right distance. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 228 x 354 mm.

Date: 1903

By: Vaniman, Melvin, 1866-1912

Reference: Eph-E-BUILDINGS-Auckland-1903-01

Description: Shows a panoramic view of Auckland with the wharves in the foreground, probably taken from above the end of a pier or bridge. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Protected 9.2.'03 / Melvin Vaniman / San Francisco Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 333 x 1004 mm.

Date: 1923 - 1925

By: Jones, C B, active 1963

Reference: MapColl-832aj/1925/Acc.10046

Description: Drawn on published map. Shows hydrographic corrections at Manukau Harbour, entrance to Auckland Harbour, Rodney Point, Ohena Island and Whangarei Harbour between 1923 and 1925. Base map: Capt. W Pudsey Dawson. 'New Zealand North Island - East and West Coasts. Sheet II. Maunganui Bluff to Manakau Harbour and Tutukaha Harbour to Mayor Island including Hauraki Gulf'. [Chart no.] 2543. (London: The Admiralty, 1919) Inscriptions: Recto - Port of London Chart Correction Bureau (1920 and 1921) Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, hand coloured annotations, scale indeterminable, 61 x 94cm.

Date: 1940

From: Abbott, Leonard A, 1923-2007 :Sketches of a voyage to New Zealand, May 1940 [Facsimile of the New Zealand section of a sketchbook]

Reference: E-819-010

Description: Shows a view with two tall pine trees in the foreground, looking out over a harbour to distant landforms. Other Titles - 8. Auckland. View from Ponsonby Park, 17 May 1940 Extended Title - From his 'Sketches of a voyage to New Zealand, May 1940', page [10] Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy 280 x 180 mm.

Date: 1920

From: Souvenir of H R H the Prince of Wales visit to New Zealand. Reception in Auckland, April 1920. Brett Litho., Auckland, N.Z.

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-ROYAL-1920-02-cover

Description: A decorative cover showing insets of the Prince of Wales and the British coat of arms, New Zealand clematis, coats of arms of New Zealand and Auckland, the English rose and Scottish thistle, and a view of Auckland Harbour. All is within a pale blue border of Maori motifs and Prince of Wales plumes. The ship HMS Renown is shown as bottom centre. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Her Excellency / Lady Liverpool, G.B.E. / With the compliments of J L S[...]. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, on cover 204 x 282 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Lady Liverpool.

Date: 1861

From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: E-340-q-021/022

Description: View over Auckland showing coastline, dwellings and trees Quantity: 2 drawing(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Pencil 175 x 520 mm.

Date: [ca 1870s-1880s]

From: Scott, Mrs :Original and mounted photographic prints

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-03

Description: Elevated view looking north towards Queen's Wharf and down over houses and buildings near and on the Auckland waterfront. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril ca 1870s-1880s from the Northern Club, Princes Street. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - Princess Wharf, Auck. Donated by Mrs Scott 1977 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 26.3 x 35.4 cm Provenance: Donated by Mrs Scott, 1977

Date: 1855

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-144-009

Description: A view from inside a verandah with creepers winding up supports and across the top, looking down towards a garden and road, and across the harbour towards North Head, with the outline of Rangitoto Island in the distance on the right. North Head's signal station is included The reference to 'Mrs Churton' suggests the drawing was done after the death of Rev J F Churton in 1853. Mrs Mary Churton was the artist's mother-in-law, mother of his wife Catherine Churton. The family lived in St George's Bay Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. Heaphy Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pen drawing 113 x 152 mm

Date: 1888

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Whangarei and Waiwera sketchbook. 1886-1888].

Reference: E-598-011

Description: Shows several sailboats around the dry dock, behind with is a clay cutting in the hill. There are two or more tall ships in the dock. The building beside the dock has a tall factory chimney. The date is 16 February 1888 when the Calliope Dock was opened (See article in the "New Zealand", 17 February 1888, page 4. See also PAColl-3059; 1/1-001147-G, showing the HMS Calliope and the HMS Diamond in the dock together - see file print in Turnbull Library Pictures. 11. Auckland. Devonport. Stanley Bay. 1888). Extended Title - from his Whangarei and Waiwera sketchbook, 1886-1888, page 11. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sketchbook page 145 x 223 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2002.

Date: 1931 - 1939

From: Wickham, Charles, 1853-1940s :Family album. Uncle Charlie's unfinished drawings. [1926-1941].

Reference: E-563-q-33

Description: Shows a view looking over the harbour from the Shelly Beach area towards the houses of Devonport and Mt Victoria on North Head. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) inserted into slits in page of album.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 190 x 234 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Mr Thomas H Hudson of England in 1997.

Date: 1827

By: Mudie, F, active 1827

Reference: MapColl-832.1aj/1827/Acc.16023

Description: Shows "Gulf of Shouraka" (Hauraki Gulf), Coromandel, Waiheke district, soundings, and some Maori and English placenames (sometimes mis-spelt). Shows Manukau and Waitemata harbours. River Thames refers to the Firth of Thames. Compiled largely from the work of Dumont D'Urville and crew of Astrolabe, 1827, during his exploration of New Zealand, and possibly others. Possibly taken from British Admiralty Chart of the same area published in 1836 - (from Brian Hooker). Drawn by Mudie for the Clint's Establishment, Sydney, ca. 1838 (see AT 13/13 8.7.91 (Hooker)). Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photograph, scale [ca.1:342,000], 45 x 33 cm.

Date: ca 1930 - 1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Sayers, Alan John, 1915-; Whites Aviation Ltd; Ely, Dunstan, active 1949; Smith, Robin Vaughan Francis, 1927-

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-019

Description: Photographs of Auckland City and Harbour taken circa 1930 to 1960 for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of suburbs, parks, the university, Queen Street, the Harbour Bridge and illuminated buildings during the coronation celebrations in 1953. Photographers include R V Francis Smith, Alan Sayers and Dunstan Ely. Also includes several aerial photographs by Whites Aviation Ltd. Quantity: 70 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1861

By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906

Reference: B-064-047

Description: Shows general view of Manukau Harbour with Onehunga in background, and buoys, markers and boats, with gulls in foreground. Other Titles - Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - HAS / 7/7/61.; Recto - bottom centre - Onehunga. Manukau Harbor. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 227 x 286 mm.

Date: 1877 - 1983

By: Sharpe, Alfred, 1836-1908; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-112-030

Description: The Domain in the foreground, buildings and the harbour in the background Same as C-112-030-a Original watercolour in the Library, measures 420 x 620 mm Publisher's title, not on original Edition of 3000 One of 4 prints issued as `the twenty-eight set of the `Turnbull Prints', with single information sheet ([4] p. ; 30 cm) but without portfolio. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 450 x 630 mm on sheet 450 x 630 mm

Date: 1873-1876

From: Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA1-f-174

Description: Photographs, mainly of Auckland, but including some good views of Tauranga and one of Oamaru, taken between 1873 and 1876 by Herbert Deveril of Wellington. Also includes major bridges in Canturbury and Otago, government buildings and one native school. Deveril came to New Zealand in 1873. These photographs were displayed at the Philadelphia Centenary Exhibition in 1876. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1861

From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: E-340-q-028

Description: Sketch of Auckland Harbour ca 1861 showing houses, trees and a sailing vessel at sea Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 175 x 285 mm

Date: 1882

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

Reference: E-328-f-069-1

Description: A view of Auckland from Mt Eden, showing the harbour, the hospital, North Shore and Rangitoto Island. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Auckland from Mt Eden 19/9/82 - Harbour - Hospital - North Shore - Rangitoto Is Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double image). Physical Description: Pencil 88 x 363 mm