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Date: 1849 - 1855

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Taranaki Museum; New Plymouth Public Library

Reference: A-284-031/035

Description: Show Taranaki scenes: Interior of George Curtis' house, Omata; Exterior of George Curtis' house, Omata; Alpha flourmill, Huatoki Valley and Victoria Road from Marsland Hill, New Plymouth; Henui (Weekstown) from the coastal dunes; Unidentified New Plymouth outskirts (possibly now Tukapa St / Westown). Attribution based on style. George Curtis arrived in New Plymouth in 1849 on the 'Pekin'. "As soon as a raupo house could be erected by the Maoris at Omata, George Curtis and his family went to live on his farm". (NZ Biogs, 1967, vol. 1, p. 53). Supplied titles. Inscriptions: Unsigned and undated.; Recto - beneath image - [Titles as supplied by donor]. Quantity: 5 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies, black and white, varying sizes. Provenance: Original drawings in New Plymouth Public Library tipped into a book, until 1992, then transferred to Taranaki Museum.

Date: 1850

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

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

Reference: C-103-043-1

Description: Shows Mount Egmont in the distance with houses, a seated cow in a paddock and a man standing to the right. There is also a low flat structure on legs in the centre. 'Hua' may be an abbreviation for Huatoki Stream. Other Titles - Huatoki Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 145 x 229 mm

Date: 1842 - 1857

By: Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913

Reference: A-256-040-a

Description: Sheep and a cow on fenced pasture in the foreground, a cottage surrounded by bush and cultivated garden in the centre, hills and Mount Taranaki in the background. In the style of New Plymouth artist George Channing Gilbert and possibly from an original drawing by him. Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Opposite p. 209. Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted 90 x 154 mm

Date: 1882

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

Reference: E-328-f-068-2

Description: A broad view of New Plymouth in 1882 showing the Barracks, Mt Egmont and landing place for surf boats Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - New Plymouth Taranaki - Barracks - Mt Egmont - Landing place for surf boats. 16/9/82. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 64 x 155 mm

Date: 1920 - 1922

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: A-174-014

Description: One house half hidden by a hill in the foreground, other houses in the middle distance and Mt. Egmont in the background. Other Titles - New Plymouth Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 255 x 355 mm

Date: ca 1860-1927

By: Heine, Lynette Sibyl, active 1987-1996; Beauchamp, J, active 1890s; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Mirrielees (Firm); Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers); Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: PAColl-0722

Description: Mounted photograph and three loose prints of Wellington College both before and after 1909 when the tower was removed; the junction of Adelaide Road and Riddiford Street in Newtown; three postcards from the Evening Post "Old Wellington" series showing Cuba Street ca 1870 looking both north and south, the Supreme Court on Lambton Quay, and the waterfront ca 1860; the new mountain house at Mount Egmont ca 1927; Mount Sefton and the Footstool from the Hooker River, Southern Alps; Ocean Beach, Mount Maunganui viewed from the Mount; Takapau encampment 1914 showing rows of tents in the distance; two cars on a ferry over the Buller River; and Cromwell ca 1900 showing the old bridge over the Clutha River. Quantity: 10 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Halcombe, Edith Stanway (Swainson) 1844-1903 :Sketchbook [1890s?]

Reference: E-335-q-016/017

Description: The artist's home, a single-storey house amongst bush, with Mount Taranaki in the background There are faint outlines of hills at right-angles sketched in at the left end of p. 12 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 164 x 456 mm

Date: [Circa 1880s]

By: Phillips-Turner, Roland Glyndwr, 1902-1988; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: PA1-f-077

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken circa 1880s by various photographers including James Bragge and Josiah Martin. Photographs of the Manawatu Gorge were taken by James Bragge, some of which show the horse and carriage in which Bragge carried his equipment. There is one photograph of English explorer and adventurer Captain Speedy who spent many years in Abyssinia and other parts of Africa, and who came to New Zealand in 1864, where he fought with the Waikato Militia before returning overseas. He is shown wearing Abyssinian costume (p 15). Some photographs relate to the Haultain family, with a view of St John's College, of which Thomas Minet Haultain was a governor, anda view of Colonel Haultain and his family at their home in St Stephen's Avenue, Parnell, Auckland Inscriptions: Album page - "Frances Aplin Haultain, 14, August 1886"; Album page - "To I & E Phillips Turner, Easter 1905" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, brown leather corners and spine; 31 x 42 cm

Date: 1850-1890

By: Harper, Arthur Paul, 1865-1955; Moberly, Patricia, active 1990s

Reference: PA1-f-207

Description: Album probably compiled by the mountaineer and explorer, A P Harper. Harper was also probably the photographer for many of the prints, especially those of mountains and mountaineering. There are Harper and Ackland family photographs which include interior and exterior views and views of the garden, of Ilam, the family mansion in Christchurch. The other main group of photographs relate to A P Harper's activities as a mountaineer and explorer in the Fox and Franz Joseph glacier regions. Some of the climbers active in the Southern Alps during the 1880s and 1890s are depicted. W S Green and his two Swiss guides, and at least one photograph taken by Green during his unsuccessful attempt to reach the summit of Mount Cook in 1882. Fitgerald, Zurbriggen, Mannering, and Dixon were all men that Harper was associated with as a mountaineer. As an explorer he was associated with Charles Douglas, and there are photographs of Douglas, Leonard Cockayne the botanist, and John Roberts of the Westland district survey. There are also many photographs of the mountains, glaciers, rivers, and gorges of the Southern Alps. Some of the English photographs at the beginning of the album may be associated with A P Harper's brother Charles who became an Anglican priest. He may have been the C C Harper who was at Keble College and Cuddesdon theological college, Oxford. There are two interiors of "C C Harper's room at Keble College", and a number of photographs of family groups taken in the grounds of the vicarage at Patea where Charles Harper was vicar from 1894 to 1900. The album ends with A P Harper and his house at Thames, and more British photographs, in particular several pages of Jersey taken about 1897 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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: 1890 - 1900

From: Franklyn, F :[Drawings of New Zealand scenes] / F Franklyn [ca 1900?]

Reference: A-141-021

Description: The snowy peak of Mount Egmont seen from the sea close to shore, with houses, fences and church spires visible, probably part of New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 130 x 240 mm

Date: 1847

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: A-229-039

Description: A view across rolling countryside towards a central house and several other peripheral houses with a background of bush. Two conical tents and a fenced area are in the right foreground and a dead tree trunk is in the centre foreground. Part of the side of Mt Taranaki rises up to the right of the view. Title from verso Other Titles - New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on card 177 x 261 mm Provenance: Crawford family, Wormit, Fife, Scotland

Date: 1847 - 1860

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-038

Description: Shows Pukaka pa on Marsland hill, Mt Egmont, St Mary's Church and Huatoki stream (identified and dated by M. Alington, 26/5/81). Title from verso Crawford visited Taranaki in 1847, but may have visited later as well Other Titles - New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on card 176 x 260 mm

Date: [ca 1890s]

Reference: PAColl-7053

Description: Views mostly in and around New Plymouth but including clergymen gathered for Archdeacon Govett's jubilee in 1898, crowds in Pukekura Park for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubliee in 1897 and a Floral Fete in 1896, a homestead called Tokotahi near the Tiraumea River in Pahiatua County, the old mountain house on Mount Taranaki, and an area called Grant's Braes (now Waverley) in Dunedin. All the views are captioned. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-002136 to 002173 Quantity: 38 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film 1/2 plate copy negatives

Date: 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: B-103-014

Description: Shows houses, fences, horse and cart, Mt Egmont in background. There is washing hanging on a line in the foreground. Reproduced as an Alexander Turnbull Library print in 1976. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 180 x 270 mm

Date: [1920s]

From: Field, Arthur Nelson : Collection of albums and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-161

Description: Album of photographs (each one 4.5 x 6.5 cm), with views of the North Island. One shows a group of four cars on the Paekakariki Hill Road; others show camping sites, landscapes and the Duchess (yacht). A number of people are shown, but are not clearly identified. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown mock-crocodile cover, entitled "Photographs"; 13.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1847

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: A-229-042

Description: Bridge over small stream in the foreground, a fenced in house with a tall gable and an outbuilding, with several trees in its garden in the middle ground, Mt Taranaki in the background See Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia by J. C. Crawford, London, 1880, p. 86, where Crawford mentions visiting "the parsonage near the Waiwakaio" in the summer of 1847. The parsonage for St Mary's was at Te Henui, some two miles away from the church. It had half an acre of land with it. Its first occupant was William Bolland, who died on 29 May 1847, presumably shortly after Crawford's visit. Inscriptions: Verso - title See related final watercolour at A-229-001 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 177 x 261 mm Provenance: Crawford family, Wormit, Fife, Scotland, by descent from the artist.

Date: ca 1890s

From: Donne, Anne, fl 1975 :Photographs mainly of Richard John Seddon in New Zealand and the Pacific

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3329-01

Description: Photographs of: a group of people gathered to watch sports on the Queen's Birthday in Tonga including Seddon; a view of the coast at Cape Foulwind; a letter addressed to "Sire Sedone, Pirima, Neuseland" from Niue; a gathering of Tongans outside a marquee in Nuku'alofa for the Queen's birthday celebrations; Seddon and what are probably other parliamentarians standing on the steps of a building; a large totara; the Seddon family on a visit to the state schoolhouse in Levuka, Fiji; the Seddon family gathered round an ornately framed certificate noting Seddon's achievements; Huka Falls taken by the Burton Brothers; Seddon holding a taiaha seated in a group of seven working men; the recreation ground in New Plymouth looking towards Mount Taranaki; two portraits of Samoan girls; a cart travelling on the Cable Bay Road looking out over the bay taken by Tyree Studio; Lake Taupo from Motutere taken by Burton Brothers; and a group of men, possibly including Seddon, sitting and standing on the steps of a building. Other than the first six, these prints are all stuck to pages from what may have been an album. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1900

By: Franklyn, F, active 1890-93

Reference: A-141-010/031

Description: Drawings of scenic New Zealand, probably the work of a tourist. The date ca 1900 is suggested from the absence of views of the Pink and White Terraces. Other major tourist spots have been recorded, but not the Terraces, suggesting the artist visited after 1886 , when the Terraces were destroyed Supplied title. Quantity: 22 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 128 x 250 mm or smaller Processing information: Disbound from original sketchbook [[18] leaves ; 230 x 280 mm), inscribed: F Franklyn. See shelf list for individual titles

Date: [ca 1885-1945]

By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PAColl-0422

Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).