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Billmanson, Ivan Frederick, d 1872 : Papers
Date: 1850-1873
By: Billmanson, Ivan Frederick, -1872
Reference: Micro-MS-0103
Description: Billmanson's correspondence with his family from 1850 to 1872, largely in Swedish, as a seaman based in Liverpool 1850-1857, as farm labourer, teacher and goldminer in Australia until 1867, and as a goldminer on the West Coast 1867-1872; diary 1864-1869; includes a ledger (1864-1871); correspondence with Australasian goldminers; a commonplace book; estate papers; and photographs Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Negative microfilm only
Correspondence - Volumes 11 to 12 EGE to FOW
Date: 1883-1887
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2275
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Album of Sydney buildings and New Zealand colonial soldiers and towns
Date: ca1875-ca1885
From: Swainson, Jane :Photographs of military forces in Taranaki, Nelson, Hokitika, Parihaka and Rotorua.
By: Bayliss, Charles, 1850-1897; Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920
Reference: PA1-q-707
Description: Views of notable public buildings in Sydney dating from the late 1860s to the late 1870s. Nelson City during a public parade involving colonial soldiers. Soldiers in military encampments, parading, and firing Cannon. Views of Lake Rotorua, Parihaka at the time it was occupied by Government troops, Hokitika waterfront, floods in Greymouth, and a wedding in Nelson. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Russell, John 1832-1918? : Reminiscences
Date: 1832-1877, 1912
By: Russell, John, 1832-1918?
Reference: MS-1837
Description: Reminiscences apparently written by Russell at the age of 80 Source of title - Transcribed Russell came from Australia in 1854 in the Tory, returning there in 1855; he later settled in Canterbury where he owned and managed a number of sheep stations Quantity: 1 volume(s) (61 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27cm, yellow buckram)
Fry, James Arthur Barrett, b 1850 : Reminiscences of James Arthur Barrett Fry
Date: 1850-1876, 1918?
By: Fry, James Arthur Barrett, 1850-
Reference: Micro-MS-0856
Description: Cover James' birth, childhood in London, the voyage to New Zealand on the `African' in 1861, his work on the `Southern Cross' newspaper in Auckland, impressions of Dunedin and New Zealand in general, his employment as a shearer, station hand, miner, gardener and carter in NSW and Victoria 1865-1876. Includes sketch maps detailing his travels in Australia and an undated photograph of farm labourers. Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - Micro-MS-0860 includes his shipboard diary kept on the `African' James Fry was born in England. In 1861 the Fry family emigrated to New Zealand settling in Auckland, then Dunedin, where James' father became a storekeeper on the goldfields. In 1865 the family moved to Melbourne. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Physical Description: Mss and typescript Finding Aids: Detailed index at front.
Leitch, W A :Leitch album
Date: Before 1894
By: Leitch, W A, active 1894; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Tyree Brothers (Firm)
Reference: PA1-o-260
Description: Album of scenic views of Tasmania, Sydney and wider New South Wales, and of New Zealand, both North and South Islands. Views of lighthouses include Derwent Lighthouse (Tasmania), Macquarie Lighthouse (South Head, Sydney), and Farewell Spit Lighthouse (Tasman Region, New Zealand). The New Zealand photographs are nearly all taken by Josiah Martin, and include one that is a collage of scenes he photographed, and one of Maori weapons, with captions to say they were deposited [in Auckland Museum] by Captain Gilbert Mair. A photograph attached to the inside of the back cover is of the Farewell Spit Lighthouse, and was taken by the Tyree Brothers firm Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - W.A. Leitch. 1894 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled `Photographs' in gold lettering, with `Leitch' lettered in gold on spine; 21.5 x 28.5 cm Provenance: Purchase
Records
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2594
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Spence, William, 1868-1941 : Memories of different countries and callings
Date: [1939], 2003
By: Spence, William (Rev), 1868-1941
Reference: MS-Papers-7780
Description: Memoirs written by Spence about 1939 beginning with a description of his family and life on the Orkney Isles, going to school followed by his working life there; he writes of his decision to go to New Zealand and his arrival in 1888 on SS Ionic. He describes his decision to become a Presbyterian minister and the various stages this entailed before he was ordained in 1902. Following appointments in New Zealand he went to Australia where he remained. The Spence family did revisit New Zealand frequently and describe their holidays in many parts of the country including Rotorua, Auckland, Napier, Dunedin, Christchurch, Woodville and Wellington. The memoirs are accompanied by an abstract compiled by Spence's grand-niece, Heather Jones. Accompanying material - Abstract by Heather Jones Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms H Jones, Carterton, Jun 2003
Collections ACM - LD 1925-50
Date: 1841-1972
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2722
Description: Selected records from the manuscripts collections of Arundel Castle, the Barker family of East Lodge, Bakewell, Edward Carpenter, the Elmhurst Papers, the Fowler family of Wadsley Hall and Matthias Spencer & Sons; the Dr Albert Ballard, Sheffield Cooperative Party and Daniel Doncaster & Sons records, although listed, have not been copied Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Seaton, Mary, 1889-1967 :Seaton album
Date: [188-?]
By: Seaton, Mary, 1889-1967
Reference: PA1-o-460
Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand (pages 1-10), Australia, Egypt, Europe and Canada taken by unidentified photographers circa 1880s. The New Zealand scenes are mostly in the South Island, including the Bealey, Cheviot Hills Station, the flying fox across the Teremakau [i.e. Taramakau] River, the Canterbury Plains, Governor's Bay and Timaru. One view shows two men in a logging camp; two views of the North Island show Muemutu [i.e. Ohinemutu], and Russell's Gold Battery at Taruru Creek. Australian scenes include a group of New Caledonian Kanaka with their "humpies" (thatched dwellings) at Bundaberg in Queensland; and one of the Wombat Ranges "the haunt of the Kelly gang". Several photographs of Egypt include views of Port Said, the Suez Canal, camels, Egyptians, and early ruins. Canadian images include Port Levis taken from across the St Lawrence River, and views of the Niagara and Montmorency Falls both in summer and in winter. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured dark blue cover, black corners an spine, entitled "Scrapbook" on spine; 23.5 x 30.5 cm
Whitehead, Gillian, 1941- :[Posters collected by Dame Gillian Whitehead, featuring perf...
Date: 1978 - 2009 - 1984
Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-Whitehead
Description: Posters include: Contemporary Baroque Ensemble, with the Parnassus Trio and Sandra Mackay (oboe), Anthony Lamb (clarinet), John Fidler (piano), Simon Smith (trumpet). NZ House Haymarket London, 27 September [1978?] (Listing includes "Tirea" by Gillian Whitehead) Hotspur. Music Gillian Whitehead; ballad Fleur Adcock; banners Gretchen Albrecht. Performed by Gemini; Margaret Field soprano; Peter Wiegold director. New Zealand House London, 10 February 1981. Flederman, Australia's leading contemporary music ensemble. 1984 Opera House concerts. Recording Hall, Sydney Opera House 29 April, 22 July, 2 September, 8 December [1984] (Listing includes Gillian Whitehead's "Ahotu (O matenga) (1984) on Sunday 22 July) Central Otago Regional Orchestra & Regional Training Orchestra. "Central soundscapes"; classics & favourites, and featuring a new work by Dame Gillan Whitehead, inspired by the sounds of Central Otago while artist in residence with the Henderson Trust Alexandra. Guest conductor Aart Brusse. Cromwell Presbyterian Church 12 December; Alexandra Memorial Theatre 13 December 2009. Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Screenprints and offset prints, sizes varying up to 400 x 580 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dame Gillian Whitehead in 2014.
Photographs chiefly of scenery and tramping along the Milford Track
Date: December 1936
From: Salmon, Albert Armitage, 1899-1982: Photographs taken on a trip to New Zealand
Reference: PAColl-10262-1
Description: Mounted images with annotations from the first part of Albert Armitage Salmon's 1936-1937 trip to New Zealand. Images of South Island scenery and tramping, particularly along the Milford Track, comprise the bulk of the photographs, but prints also include some images of Salmon's departure from Sydney. Photographs taken by Salmon. - The images follow the route of Salmon and his companions' travels, and begin in Sydney Habour (Port Jackson) with images of the Habour Bridge, Luna Park illuminated at night, and the ship, 'Strathnaver', in the water. Also contains a photograph of Salmon's travel companions, Mary Hansen, Eric Keehn, Irene Booth, and Reg Booth aboard the deck of the 'S.S. Awatea' on their journey across the Tasman Sea. - The New Zealand images of the North Island begin in Auckland, and show a view of the Harbour and the University grounds with tulips in bloom. The images also include a view from inside a road tunnel in the King Country, rock formations above the Awakino River, the coastline and rock formations at New Plymouth, views of Mount Egmont (Taranaki), and tramping scenes in the fairy forest of Mount Egmont. The photographs also include views of Wanganui and the Wanganui River, the Wellington Harbour towards Miramar peninsula from the summit of Mount Victoria, and the hoisting of their car 'Marie', a Ford V8, onto the deck of the 'Rangitira' for the ferry ride from Wellington to Port Lyttelton, Christchurch. - The South Island photographs begin in Christchurch and include images of the War Memorial Bridge over the Avon River, and Hagley Park. The bulk of the images show scenery in Fiordland, including views of Lake Te Anau, the Eglinton Valley, the Hollyford River, Milford Sound, the swinging bridge and other scenes along the Milford Track, including images of snow, ice, waterfalls, glaciers, rivers, plant life, and mountain peaks. The box also contains a photograph of Mary Hansen wearing ankle boots with small heels as she crosses the Roaring Meg stream from Jervois Glacier. Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s) on mounts. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Photograph album
Date: [ca 1912-1930]
From: Morriss, Bernadette, fl 2014: Items relating to members of her family
Reference: PA1-q-1176
Description: Photograph album includes a range of photographs, including family and group portraits, images from World War One, travel photographs from the Riviera in Europe, and photographs of scenery and views mainly of the Gisborne area. Album also includes images of automobiles and scenery of Napier and Waikaremoana, and photographs taken at the Sydney Zoo and other sites in Australia. The album also contains a series of photographs of the shipwrecking of the Star of Canada on Kaiti Beach, Gisborne. Many photographs have some caption information. The S.S. Star of Canada wrecked on Kaiti Beach in Gisborne on 23 June 1912. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Khaki-coloured album, 30 x 25 cm, bound with red spine and gold trim
Milford Sound, Invercargill, Stewart Island
Date: 1968-1969
From: Woods, Keith, 1928-1997 :Photographs relating to dance in New Zealand
Reference: PA12-7133
Description: Milford Sound, 1969. White heron. Signpost at Bluff. Public monuments, Invercargill, 1969. Ice cave, Franz Josef Glacier. Halfmoon Bay and Oban, Stewart Island, 1969. Coastal locations, Sydney, Australia, 1968. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies.
[Cook, Hinehauone Coralie], 1904-1993 :[Sydney and New Zealand sketchbook. 1970s]. Coll...
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.
Records DD/MDL to DD/X/wea
Date: 1831-1953
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1950
Description: Includes the shipboard diary of an unidentified passenger on board the `Katherine Stewart Forbes', 1851-1852 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Mackay album
Date: [1930s]
By: MacKay, Horatio Murdoch, 1886-1968; Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966
Reference: PA1-o-305
Description: Album created with aviation pioneer Horatio Murdoch MacKay. Photographs include several in which MacKay was the first man to fly across the Tasman as a passenger, making the flight with Charles Kingsford Smith. One sequence shows Boeing biplane (purchased by New Zealand Airways Ltd in 1934), shipped from Vancouver and assembed in New Zealand, and the first landing at Green Island `Aerodrome'. A number of views of different aeroplanes, both monoplanes and biplanes follows. There are a large number of postcards of Launceston, Jenolan Caves, and Ballarat in Australia, and caves in the Waitomo area of New Zealand. Photographs of a group travelling on a South Island tour by White Star Taxis, a company which MacKay established, including views of the first hotel at Wanaka `The White Star Private Hotel'. One scene shows one of the taxis after an accident. Other scenes show a group skiing, a group at the summit of the Crown Range, and a large group on a motor launch. The last sequence is chiefly family photographs, including several houses, and two different wedding parties; several portraits, possibly of Horatio MacKay's wife Helen Emma (nee Griffiths). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue and brown patterned cover, entitled `Snapshots'; 26 x 33 cm
Buxton, Thomas Fowell (Sir), 1786-1845 : Papers
Date: 1828-1837
By: Buxton, Thomas Fowell (Sir), 1786-1845
Reference: 89-096
Description: Internal evidence indicates that these papers are part of the correspondence files of Sir Thomas Folwell Buxton. They include correspondence from Mr J Ross to Dr Philip, dated 1831 re expulsion of the Kaffirs from the Kat River District; documents relating to South African affairs, 1833-1836; papers relating to Tasmania, New Zealand, New South Wales and Tahiti. Source of title - Supplied The Aborigines Protection Society was founded in 1837 by Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (President) and Saxe Banister (Secretary). Quantity: 1 box(es) (hollinger box). 0.13 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Finding Aids: Detailed item-level list available in back file.
Brue, Adrian H., 1786-1832 :Carte de l'Australie, (partie sud-ouest de l'Oceanie) [map]...
Date: 1834 - 1826
From: McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978 :McIntosh Collections of antique maps
Reference: MapColl-800a/1834/Acc.34714
Description: McIntosh Collection, item 93 Referenced in Tooley either no. 260 or 261 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Engraving, coloured, scale [ca. 1:17 000 000], 35 x 50 cm
Correspondence MSS 44142 - 44225
Date: 1845-1885
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2231
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).