Places

Date: Between 14 March and 12 April 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8788

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides includes a view of cows in trial harnesses at the Ruakura Agricultural Research Centre; the Anchor Butter factory at Te Awamutu (Te Awamutu Dairy Factory); the main street in Te Awamutu and the Riverina Hotel; the Waikato River from various angles; the Sand, Shingle, Metal works beside the Waikato River; two views of audience and participants at the Ngaruawahia Regatta; Queen Street in Auckland and views in the area including Auckland Harbour, Rangitoto, Devonport area, Panmure and Mount Wellington, and the crater on Mount Eden. Slides on this sheet are numbered 408-432 with gaps for those removed for lectures on New Zealand. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. 414, 420, 426-427) showing Main Street in Te Awamutu; looking down the Waikato River with the road bridge; Queen Street, Auckland and view of Rangitoto and Auckland Harbour. These were taken as part of a representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: [Circa 1860s]

From: Marvin, W G (Captain) :Marvin family photographs

By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Marvin, William, 1834-1915

Reference: PA1-q-320

Description: Album of photographs taken during the 1860s by various photographers. All the images are related to Colonel William Marvin (1834-1915) who came to New Zealand circa 1858 and was possibly attached to the 70th Regiment of Foot during the New Zealand wars. There are many photographs relating to military activity, including military working parties at Fort Britomart; military and naval camps at Maungatawhiri Creek, Queen's Redoubt, Drury, Ngaruawahia and Albert Barracks; a monument to the 43rd Regiment at Gate Pa near Tauranga; Potatau's tomb with a sentry guarding it; and the Auckland cemetery. Many of the images are of Auckland, including `Hale's Boarding House, where I first slept in N.Z.'; `The Masonic Hotel where I was made a mason in 1861'; `My last batchelor home near Constitution Hill green, next door to the Dacres'; `St. Mary's where I was married 4th August 1862'; a long sequence showing Queen Street from different angles in 1866'; and various homes that he knew, including Heaphy's house in St George's Bay, Dillon Bell's House in Parnell, and `Little Sutton' in St. George's Bay. Other images of interest include a mining camp at Coromandel; the tree on which Volkner was hanged, with a seated group of Maori beside a whare; a Maori church that is completely thatched, in the Waikato; and two views of the sailing ship Ida Ziegler [i.e. Zeigler] `In which we returned from N.Z. round Cape Horn, 29th Jany to 1st May 1867'. Photographs in England are all related to Tipner Barracks near Portsmouth, and Malpas Cemetery, Newport Monmouthshire. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with albumen prints. Label attached to cover `Pictures of N.Z. (N. Island) & Tipner with captions by Col. Marvin'. Textured black cover; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1863 - 1864

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-074

Description: The front of a wharenui with four Maori seated outside around a cooking pot. The whare has carved bargeboards, and door and window surrounds, and tukutuku panels beneath the verandah roof. On the right is a flax bush, with bush in the background including tree ferns Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 105 x 169 mm