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[Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Bush road between Cambridge and Ohinemutu. [1880s o...
Date: 1888 - 1900
From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book
Reference: E-346-2-043
Description: A red clay road on a steep hillside through dense bush, including tree ferns. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.
Photographs of Wellington and Seaview
Date: [ca 1869-ca 1900], [ca 1950s]
From: Wainuiomata Historical Society: Photographs
By: Richardson, Wal, active 1950
Reference: PAColl-7664
Description: Collection comprises: Photograph of road works in Ghuznee Street, Wellington, ca 1950s, by Pacific Photos, Courtney Place, Wellington. 3 photographs of Seaview, taken from the top of the Wainuiomata Hill in 1950 by Wal Richardson. Album leaf with 5 photographs of Wellington, ca 1860s-1900s, including preparations for visit of Duke of Edinburgh to Wellington, wedding of Ted and Amy Yates, portrait of a woman, Te Aroha Bathhouse and fire damage in Lambton Quay. Duke of Edinburgh visited New Zealand in 1869. Cadman Bathhouse opened in 1898. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 album leaf with 5 b&w original photographic prints. Provenance: Donated by Wainuiomata Historical Society, October 2002, through Mrs Vicky Alexander. The photographs were given to the society by the late Mrs Claire Burdan, whose husband was descended from Richard & Mary Prouse, and from the Dixon family, of the Dixon aerated water business. The photographs appear to have come from these families.
Photographs of the Arapuni dam, the Catlins and other views
Date: [ca 1890-1927]
From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); France, J W, active 1890s
Reference: PAColl-0348
Description: Mounted photographs by the Burton Brothers of the junction of Eden and Tees Streets, Oamaru showing St Luke's Church, shops, tram lines and part of the Council Chambers; looking down on the wharves of Port Chalmers with the Presbyterian Church in the right foreground; and the Kakahi Falls, near Tawhata on the Whanganui River. Two smaller mounted photographs of a river in the Catlins District. Three pages from a photograph album holding five photographs of the building of the Arapuni Dam on the Waikato River including the buried forest exposed by the Waikato River diversion. Three loose prints by J W France of an early settlers' cottage made of ponga with a turf roof and with the family outside; a group of six workmen standing on the road they were building with long handled shovels and a boy and a dog in front of them; and the funeral procession of Sir John MacKenzie in 1901 led by a pipe band up the main road in Oamaru working. Finally a loose print of the bridge over the Waiho River. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-68928 to 1/2-068934. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.
Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897 :View from the road up the Tokatea Range, Coromande...
Date: 1874
By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897
Reference: A-029-069
Description: Shows a view looking west towards Auckland and the islands in the Hauraki Gulf, from the hills above Coromandel township, on the northern stretches of the Coromandel Range. Shows a figure on horseback on a steep road climbing up towards the left foreground. Shows the results of some bushclearing activity. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 355 mm
Illustrated London news :Views in New Zealand. The Devil's Nest, showing the road throu...
Date: 1863
From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]
Reference: E-106-f-032-1
Description: Looking down from above onto a road carved out through dense bush, with cavalry and infantry marching along it. Large trunks from the cleared bush in the foreground The Library holds another version of this view at A-134-011, from a source other than the Illustrated London news Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 43, November 7th 1863, p. 476 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 160 x 240 mm
Cox album
Date: 1870s
By: Cox, Horace A, active 1883
Reference: PA1-o-110
Description: New Zealand scenery photographed circa 1870s. Views include the Pink and White Terraces and Lake Rotomahana; a digger's hut in the Tararua Range; Mercury Bay; carriers changing horses in Oripi bush; a group of Maori holding a runanga at an unidentified meeting house; two views of the new road being created between Lake Coleridge and Hokitika. Inscriptions: Album page - Horace A Cox, from his old schoolfellow Harry [?], Lyttelton, New Zealand, 9 July 1883 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cover with gold outline, 22.5 x 31 cm Provenance: Presented to Horace A Cox on 9 July 1883.
Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897 :Roto Kakahi. 1874
Date: 1874
By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897
Reference: A-029-058
Description: Shows a view of the lake with Motutawa Island in the centre. There is a waka pulled up on the shore of the promontory at the right, and some dwellings and palisades or fencing, suggesting a pa site on the promontory. There is a road along the hillside in the right distance. Other Titles - Lake Rotokakahi Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 254 x 292 mm
Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :First glimpse of the Waikato. Queen's Redoubt under...
Date: 1864
From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]
By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898
Reference: E-047-q-002
Description: A view of the Waikato River in the distance, with a dirt road in the centre foreground. Three men sit or stand on the road, and beyond them in the middle distance is a group of tents on the flat. Copied by Hamley from the drawings of his superior officer, E. A. Williams. The original Williams watercolour of the same title is held at the Hocken Library - (slide at ATL). Williams' original watercolour was made in 1864. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 144 x 216 mm.
Photograph album, volume two
Date: [ca 1870s-1890s]
From: Bridge family :Photograph albums
By: Anson Brothers (Firm); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Pulman (Firm)
Reference: PA1-f-271
Description: Views of New Zealand, England, Australia and Canada, associated with family of Charles Joseph Bridge (d 1876), settler at Homebrook, near Lake Ellesmere; and his son, Charles Hastings Bridge. Includes pressed flowers and leaves, a coloured sketch of a rowing boat on a river lined with willow trees. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Henry Hugh Chapman 1881; Henry Walter Bridge 1886 Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s).
Walton, Grahame M, fl 2009 :Photograph album of views and landscapes of New Zealand
Date: [1870s-1880s]
By: F Bradley & Company; Walton, Grahame M, active 2009
Reference: PA1-o-1605
Description: Photograph album of Views and landscapes of New Zealand, Second Series, published by F Bradley & Company. Includes photographs - No. 1 Meeeting of the waters, Oripi; No. 2 Maori group; No. 3 Lake Hope, White Island; No. 4 Timaru; No. 5 The Bealey, Hokitika Coach Road; No. 6 Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula; No. 7 The River Avon; No. 8 Shag Rock, Sumner Road, looking towards Christchurch; No. 9 Princes Street, Dunedin; No. 10 Christchurch; No. 11 Bullock team and wool waggon, Cheviot; No. 12 Oamaru; No. 13 Cheviot Station, Nelson Province; No. 14 Normal School, Christchurch; No. 15 German Bay, Akaroa; No. 16 Port Lyttelton; No. 17 Kawau, Sir George Grey's residence; No. 18 Pink Terrace, Rotomahana; No. 19 Akaroa; No. 20 Rangatata Traffic Bridge; No. 21 Armagh St bridge & watering place, Christchurch; No. 22 River Bealey Crossing, Hokitika Coach Road; No. 23 Post Office, Christchurch; No. 24 View on the Heathcote; No. 25 Russell's Gold Battery, Tararua Creek, Thames Gold Fields; No. 26 Glacier Hotel & Cobb's Coach, West Coast Road; No. 27 Crossing the Teremakau; No. 28 Greymouth, West Coast; No. 29 Kaiapoi, Canterbury; No. 30 Chalky or Dark Inlet; No. 31 Waimakariri Gorge Bridge; No. 32 Nelson; No. 33 Christchurch; No. 34 Group of Maoris, Lake Taupo; No. 35 Alfred Falls, North Island; No. 36 Christchurch; No. 37 Governor's Bay; No. 38 Oamaru; No. 39 Timaru breakwater; No. 40 Dunedin; No. 41 Christchurch; No. 42 Christchurch hospital; No. 43 House of Representatives, Wellington; No. 44 Arthurs Pass; No. 45 The Cave Rock, Sumner; No. 46 Government buildings, Christchurch; No. 47 Otira Gorge; No. 48 The River Avon; No. 49 Group of Maoris, Bay of Islands; No. 50 Sheep mustering, South Canterbury; No. 51 The Christchurch Cathedral, C.E.; No. 52 Nelson Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints Transfers: Transfers - From Published Collections.
Unknown photographer :Album of photographs of the West Coast, South Island, and the The...
Date: 1899
Reference: PA1-o-858
Description: Views taken on coach trip through Buller Gorge; also views showing the crossing of the Mohaka River, Taupo, Aratiatia, Wairakei, Hamurana Springs and Tikitere. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Illustrated London news :Views in New Zealand. The Devil's Nest, showing the road throu...
Date: 1863
From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]
By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)
Reference: E-372-f-003-2
Description: Looking down from above onto a road carved out through dense bush, with cavalry and infantry marching along it. Large trunks from the cleared bush in the foreground The Library holds another version of this view at A-134-011, from a source other than the Illustrated London news Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 43, November 7th 1863, p. 476 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 160 x 240 mm
Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1896 :Tawhera Mountain near Opepe, Taupo. 1878.
Date: 1876
By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897
Reference: A-106-023
Description: Shows two Maori figures walking along a track in the foreground, bush and scrub in the middle distance, and a view of Mount Tauhara in the distance. The two figures are carrying bundles and a dog is following them. Glued to modern backing board. Accompanied with inscribed title (not in the hand of the artist, and probably copied from inscription on original backing or from verso of work) Other Titles - Tauhara Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed and dated. Also initials C D B faintly, lower left Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on canvas paper, 178 x 253 mm. Provenance: Previously sold at McArthur's Auction, Auckland in April 1985, lot 44.
Illustrated London news :Views in New Zealand. The Devil's Nest, showing the road throu...
Date: 1863
By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)
Reference: PUBL-0033-1863-476
Description: Looking down from above onto a road carved out through dense bush, with cavalry and infantry marching along it. Large trunks from the cleared bush in the foreground The Library holds another version of this view at A-134-011, from a source other than the Illustrated London news Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 160 x 240 mm
Construction of a road to Waikato, Pokeno Hill
Date: between 1861-1864
From: Urquhart album
By: Temple, William, 1833-1919
Reference: PA1-q-250-52
Description: Men of the 12th and 14th regiments (Imperial Army) digging a cutting down Pokeno Hill, on the military road to the Waikato, photographed between 1861 and 1864 by William Temple. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Road to Waikato - Cutting down Pokeno Hill - 12th and 14th men at work Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15.1 x 20.8 cm, mounted on album page, 27.1 x 21.7 cm Processing information: Record was updated on 15 August 2022 to allow the attached digital surrogate to be purchasable.
Camp of the 65th Regiment near Drury, Auckland
Date: Between 1861-1865
From: Urquhart album
By: Temple, William, 1833-1919
Reference: PA1-q-250-45
Description: The camp of the 65th Regiment near Drury, Auckland. The officers mess tent is at the extreme left background. A group of soldiers from the regiment are breaking stones for road construction in the left foreground, with the sergeant in charge standing in the centre foreground, alongside a shed used for shelter in hot weather. Photograph taken by William Temple, circa 1861-1865. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Camp of 65th Regt. near Drury. N.Z.; bottom left - Mess tent; bottom left - 65th men stone breaking; bottom centre - Sergt in charge; bottom right - Shed for hot weather; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - W.Temple R A Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15.8 x 21.1 cm, with trimmed corners, mounted on album page 27.1 x 21.7 cm Processing information: Record was updated on 15 August 2022 to allow the attached digital surrogate to be purchasable.
[Taylor, Richard], 1805-1873 :Te Tokoroa; the meeting place of three roads from Taupo, ...
Date: 1845
From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.
Reference: E-296-q-101-3
Description: Shows an outcrop of large rectangular rocks on a small hill. A sketch taken on an overland journey by Taylor with Donald McLean towards Mokau in late 1845 Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink drawing, 90 x 150 mm.
[Taylor, Richard], 1805-1873 :Road to Wairewarewa, Wairakei, Feb 4 / 53.
Date: 1853
From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.
Reference: E-296-q-157-3
Description: Sketch shows four men using poles to immerse bags of food into a boiling pool beside a road. Other Titles - February, 1853 Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 40 x 65 mm.