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Date: 1951 - 1959

From: [Ephemera, timetables, tickets, and advertising relating to aviation, airline companies, flights, aeroplanes, aircraft, by New Zealanders or in New Zealand. 1950-1954]

Reference: Eph-A-AVIATION-1950s-01-inside

Description: Shows a map of Fiordland and Stewart Island with the landing areas marked. Lists the attractions of the area for tourists, hunter, and fishermen. Ewing & McPherson's history of New Zealand aviation, says that Amphibian Airlines was one of the small short-lived airlines that stared up in the 1950s. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on one side of pamphlet.. Physical Description: Offset lithograph on pamphlet, 215 x 333 (unfolded)

Date: Ca 1925

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0111-1/2-G

Description: View of bush on Stewart Island, with Albert Percy Godber and a woman (possibly his daughter Phyllis) standing in the centre. Photographed by A P Godber, ca 1925, when he visited there. Note with original print at Pa1-q-102 (Vol 109, p 234) reads: In the bush. Stewart Island. Original print in Pa1-q-102, Godber X (Godber album Vol 109, p 234) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1840

By: Williams, Edward Marsh, 1818-1909

Reference: A-083-005

Description: Shows the Herald, moored in a bay surrounded by rocks and bush in Stewart Island, during its voyage around the more heavily-inhabited parts of New Zealand to obtain signatures on the Treaty of Waitangi. Other Titles - Stewart Island Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title & initials E. M. W. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 110 x 185 mm

Date: 1879

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Smith, Dennison Urban, -1892

Reference: C-126-010

Description: Shows the settlement at Bravo Island in Paterson Inlet, with the farm of Dennison Urban ("Yankee") Smith at extreme left, and the house of the Portuguese whaler Manuel Gomez in the centre with three figures in the doorway. There is cleared land in foreground, cows at pasture, a boatshed (to the left of Smith's beached boat - the "Bravo"), a cowshed at the extreme right, a sandspit at the extreme right beside the inlet in the right background. Two clay cliffs on the far bank are reflected in the water. The details listed are taken from John Hall-Jones "Stewart Island explored" 1994 - ATL has at NZ&P 993.1 HAL 1994. 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. Painting made by Aubrey in return for hospitality of the Smith family. For more information about "Yankee" Smith, see AT 3/1/2, 1 July 1976. Other Titles - River settlement Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. Aubrey 1879 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 340 x 515 mm. Provenance: Previously sold at auction by Dennison Smith, a direct descendant of Yankee Smith, at Devereux and Culley's auction rooms, Mt Eden, in 1983. Prior to that, the work had been in the family of Yankee Smith on Stewart Island. The painting had been given to Yankee Smith by the artist in return for hospitality

Date: Ca 1925

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0113-1/2-G

Description: The SS Theresa Ward at a wharf on Stewart Island, partially obscured by a crowd of people. Photographed by A P Godber, ca 1925, when he visited there. Note with original print at Pa1-q-102 (Vol 109, p 234) reads: S.S. "Theresa Ward". Seeing the boat away. Stewart Island. Original print in Pa1-q-102, Godber X (Godber album Vol 109, p 234) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1948

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to ferries and ferry services in New Zealand, 1900-1969]

By: New Zealand. Marine Department; R H Waddell (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-FERRY-1948-01

Description: Timetable for the Bluff-Stewart Island ferry service on G M V "Wairua", from 6 December 1948 to Friday 7 January 1949, and over Easter from 11-22 April? 1949. Includes advertising for local businesses: Oban Butchery (W J Hamilton), fish shop (W B Bailey), general store (T Bragg & Co Ltd), bakery (A T Denny), Stewart Island Stores Ltd (manager A Cameron), carriers (R & M Bray), Ferndale Hotel, New Oban Hotel, Woodslea House, Denton's Motors, J Harrison transport service. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume, 4 pages, 145 x 113 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Otago Heritage Books in 2003.

Date: 1848

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

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

Reference: C-103-049

Description: The bottom half of the South Island, from just above Banks Peninsula to Stewart Island, showing the lakes of the Southern Alps and Fiordland, somewhat inaccurately. The overall shape of the East Coast around South Canterbury / North Otago is also inaccurately drawn, making the island too narrow. The details of the interior were not drawn from first-hand knowledge but probably from Maori informants There is a very similar map in the Cartographic Collection, also by Mantell and done in 1848. The main differences are in the dotted lines Mantell has drawn across the island, probably land-sale indicators. Both maps drawn while Mantell was Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil with some watercolour

Date: 1946

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: New Zealand Geographic Board; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Dick, Russell Gladstone, 1898-1966; E.V. Paul (Firm)

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-3/15/217/Acc.54903

Description: Map - County Boundary Series - showing county boundaries in Southland, Otago and Stewart Island regions. Includes Ruapuke Island, as part of Stewart Island County. Published by New Zealand Department of Lands and Survey, under authority of R G Dick, Surveyor-General, 1946. Printed by E V Paul, Government Printer, Wellington. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Printed map on paper, scale 4 miles to 1 inch, 57 x 71 cm

Date: 1887 - 1890

From: Hodgkins, Isabel Jane, 1867-1950 :[Sketchbook] Sissie Hogkins 1887

Reference: E-035-q-2-008/009

Description: A group of large rocks to the right, with a stunted tree growing amidst them, a gate and post and rail fence, distant hills, and grey clouds. Probably at or near Oban or Half Moon Bay Other Titles - Stewart Island Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - I J H [in pencil]; also title in pencil on album page to left of watercolour Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour across two sketchbook pages, 178 x 508 mm

Date: 1860 - 1869

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-158-3

Description: A Maori family posed in front of a wooden cottage with thatched roof. A wooden chimney is on the left. The group consists of 6 women and a man. The house may be at the kaika at The Neck, Stewart Island. There are four photographs of Stewart Island Maori in Taylor's sketchbook, all albumen prints appearing to date from the 1860s. He is not known to have visited Stewart Island himself, but did call in by ship at Bluff in 1871 on his way back from Australia (he also visited Port Chalmers on the same trip) and he may have acquired the photographs on that occasion. The four are numbers E-296-q-154-1 & -2 and E-296-q-158-1 & -3 Other Titles - Stewart Island Quantity: 1 photograph(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Photograph (albumen print), 65 x 105 mm