Places

Date: ca 1860s-1880s

By: Lennard, Leslie Maurice Wyn, 1903-1988

Reference: PAColl-6553

Description: 6 views of Auckland: looking along Mount Eden Road; looking towards Mount Eden from Epsom with two children in the foreground, one on a tricycle; looking down on Hobson Bay with large houses dotted along the shore; view from Mount Eden showing the domain and Parnell Road; looking down from Mount Eden towards One Tree Hill and Epsom; and Symonds Street showing the Old Grammar School and grounds. Photographs taken by John Kinder. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015135 to 015140 Quantity: 6 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives Provenance: Owned by Mr L M Lennard in 1959, who subsequently gave the originals to the Auckland City Art Gallery.

Date: 1883

From: Smith, Maurice Crompton, 1864-1953 :[Sketchbooks] 1883-1899, 1904-1943.

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: E-300-q-1-030

Description: View from Waitemata Harbour looking across water towards Hobson Bay, with indications of a few houses and surrounding trees and gardens Other Titles - Hobson Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 90 x 152 mm

Date: 1885 - 1886

By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)

Reference: D-001-006-b

Description: Birds eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed birds-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm

Date: 1885 - 1886

By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)

Reference: D-001-006-a

Description: Birds eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed birds-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm

Date: 1844, 1856-1881, nd

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0970

Description: Includes account from Montpelier Nursery, Hobson's Bay, Auckland, for fruit trees and vegetable plants, etc, 1859 Also specifications for house to be built at Maraekakaho in 1866, and additions in 1877 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1910s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-288

Description: Photographs probably taken by George William Barltrop, circa 1890s to 1910s. The first few are of New Plymouth, including the Sugar Loaves & breakwater, and New Plymouth Gardens (now Pukekura Park). The rest of the album contains views of the Auckland region, including Onehunga (one showing cattle being loaded onto a ship), Mangere, Albert Park, Mount Eden (with one scene of the interior of the Mount Eden crater), Hobson Bay, Parnell, St Stephen's Avenue, St Paul's Church (Symonds Street), and Auckland Harbour. Inscriptions: Album page - Geo W Barltrop Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, impressed title `Photographic views'; `McIntosh IV' lettered in gold on spine; 17.5 x 24.0 cm.

Date: 1885

Reference: Eph-A-ROWING-1885-01

Description: A list of the nine races to take place at the regatta for children, including pair-oared skiffs for various age groups of children. The prize for each event is shown; most are medals, but the prize for the Greasy Boom was a pig. The finale was tea and muffins. The committee included: Mrs T Morrin, Mrs Mitchelson, Mrs Tilly, Mrs J L Wilson and Mrs Carr. Starter was J Bennett, umpire was E Mitchelson and the judge was T E Tilly. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on flier, 205 x 127 mm. Transfers: Photographs purchased with this item are housed at PAColl-8579..

Date: [ca 1890s]

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/4-034292-G

Description: Photograph taken by Daniel Manders Beere. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and photographer's lists. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1885 - 1886

By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)

Reference: D-001-006

Description: Bird's-eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed bird's-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm

Date: 1848

By: Page, George Hyde, 1823-1908; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-081-004

Description: View of Auckland with harbour and ships in the foreground. St Paul's Cathedral dominates the skyline. The view is from Hobson Bay looking towards Parnell. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - G. Hyde Page; Recto - bottom left - Auckland N. Z. 1848 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 280 x 438 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull? Possibly part of the Bridge-Williams album?

Date: [ca 1890s]

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/4-034293-G

Description: Photograph taken by Daniel Manders Beere. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and photographer's lists. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: Hannam, John (Sir), active 1936; Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-111

Description: Photograph album of views of New Zealand and Australia, taken by various photographers. Three photographs taken by the Burton Brothers show the sunken pa at Ohinemutu (Burton Bros. 3880); two Maori rangatira, image entitled `Were Were & Kiriwere, Waipahihi, Lake Taupo' (Burton Bros. 3747); and Maori meeting at Whare-Komiti-Haerehuka, King Country (Burton Bros. 3624). Other - Photograph `Maori meeting at Whare-Komiti-Haerehuka, King Country' (Burton Bros. 3624) appears to have been taken at the same time as image at PA7-36-30 `Great chiefs at Whare-Komiti-Haerehuka, King Country (Burton Bros. 3622). Several of the chiefs who were named in the Great Chiefs image can be identified in the view in this album. Other - Photograph `Were Were & Kiriwere, Waipahihi, Lake Taupo' (Burton Bros. 3747) appears to have been taken at the same time as the image at PA1-o-088-13. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram covers; 28 x 38 cm Provenance: Donated by Sir John Hannam, London, 1936