Places

Date: 1847

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

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

Reference: C-103-025-7

Description: An obelisk-shaped rock formation at the South Taranaki coastline One of 9 small drawings on this sheet Other Titles - New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink, 80 x 110 mm

Date: ca 1910

From: Zachariah (Zak), Joseph 1863-1965 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-0043-2-02

Description: New Plymouth railway station on the beach-front, circa 1910. Shows a pedestrian overbridge in the foreground, a road on the right, and New Plymouth township in the distance. Photograph taken by Joseph Zachariah. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.1 x 20 cm

Date: [1950s]

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-091564-F

Description: View of the port and Paritutu with the railway in the foreground from the Europa oil tanks photographed by Robert E Wells probably in the late 1950s. Caption - Port from Europa tank - for S Price [from photographer's negative register] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [ca 1880s - 1890s]

From: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920 :Negatives of Taranaki

Reference: 1/1-012105-G

Description: A fife and drum band outside the house of W Te Whiti in Parihaka. Photograph taken by William Andrews Collis, circa 1880s to 1890s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Fife and drum band - Parihaka Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1860

By: Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913; Gilbert, Raymond Channing, 1915-1993

Reference: A-263-021

Description: A small house with front verandah on top of a hill in the middle distance. Mount Egmont can be seen in the background. The land in front is cleared with bush in the foreground. May show Touet's [Touett's] house looking east from Allen's Hill, on Hurford Road, Omata; Mt Egmont in background. Compare very similar (preliminary?] sketch at A-263-022 Identification and attribution from donor Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on grey paper, 236 x 259 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell family :Maps

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

Reference: MapColl-832.2gbbd/[ca.1848]/Acc.343

Description: Manuscript map with cadastral information showing land offered for sale by Aperahawa, Raharuha and party, north of Devon Road between the Waiongana and the Mangaoraka Streams, Waitara, New Plymouth. Shows the boundary continuing along Pakohenui River and Pukeowaka, two areas of land 'left to Whaitere', the Port Nicholson boundary, Ngahuinga settlement, Mahoetahi Pa, Manukau, Morere, Bele Block, Hua Block, te Putaatutonga and the beach. Pencil annotation on map 'Mantell'. Title added in pencil Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 40 x 25 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Mantell family Papers MS-Group-0305.

Date: 1847 - 1828

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

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

Reference: C-103-025-3

Description: Looking north along the Taranaki coast towards two holes in the seaside rocks One of 9 small drawings on this sheet Other Titles - New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink, 80 x 110 mm

Date: [ca 1919]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 8

Reference: PAColl-6075-49

Description: Haymaking at Morison's, Ngaere, Taranaki, circa 1919. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: ca 1880s

From: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920 :Negatives of Taranaki

Reference: 1/1-006109-G

Description: View of the first bowling green in New Plymouth, from Marsland Hill looking north. The green was situated on Upper Brougham St. Photgraph taken by William Andrews Collis. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: [ca 1910]

By: Old, Janet Haldane, 1928-2003

Reference: 1/2-137280-F

Description: Freezing workers at Waitara freezing works, photographed circa 1910 by an unidentified photographer. A man in the foreground is skinning a carcass. Leonard William Old is in the centre, with a striped shirt. On his left is Jack Zeier. 2nd left is Mr Bailey. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1864 - 1865

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898; Shuttleworth, Charles Ughtred, -1883; Hales, Philip, active 1997

Reference: B-139-006

Description: Shows a view upstream towards Mount Taranaki shown in haze in the distance. In the foreground a footbridge crosses the stream, and there is a sawmill driven by a waterwheel, at the left end of the bridge. One man crosses the bridge, and several men work around the sawmill, amongst sawn timber. The terrain on the right bank has tree ferns growing on it. Ron Lambert of Taranaki Museum, believes this is the Alpha Mill, which started as a flour mill in 1844, and converted to a timber mill in the 1860s, and then to a bone/saw mill in about 1871. The position of its wheel at right angles to the stream was confirmed by excavation in 1986, although this picture does not show this position clearly. (See AT 13/14/1, 14.5.1997). Other Titles - In New Zealand Inscriptions: Backing board recto - top centre - In New Zealand / Sketch by Col. Williams, R.H.A. / Given to Col. C. V. Shuttleworth 1872. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 339 x 242 mm. Provenance: Note on now discarded backing (photograph accompanying the work), records that the picture was given to Col. C U Shuttleworth in 1872. According to Brian Groshinsky who attended the Christie's auction, the work was sold there by Philip Hales, a descendant of Shuttleworth. There is also a note on the discarded backing that a possible future home for the painting might be Marlborough House, London SW1 (a Commonwealth Centre) - note dated 1960.

Reference: PAColl-5411

Description: View over New Plymouth. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - 2880 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1929

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-2-146

Description: Photograph of car and bridge in the Tangarakau Gorge, between Whangamomona and Ohura, taken 1929 by Robert E Wells. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Taranaki 1929 - Tangarakau Gorge. Scene near grave of early surveyor. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 11.1 x 15.5 cm

Date: 1865

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[New Zealand sketches, 1864-1866]

Reference: B-045-034

Description: Very similar to version at A-210-002. Also similar to work in Hocken sketchbook page 67: "23 Jany. The Mowhanau Stream; close to Alexander's Farm. 1865". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 138 x 232 mm.

Date: [ca 1860]

Reference: 1/2-011751-F

Description: Raupo house near New Plymouth, ca 1860. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Note on back of file print reads "see also 1/2-111063 which is the same image, but cropped" "The kennel on the right suggests that a large dog shares this home. Equipment for doing the laundry can be seen by the hedge on the right. Raupo, a marsh reed, was a traditional building material of the Maori. The raupo was tied in bundles and lashed to a wooden framework with flax. The roof was then thatched. These homes were cheap and quick to build, and relatively weathertight. They were, however, highly inflammable and were eventually forbidden in towns. The imported doors and windows would later be transferred to a more permanent home." (Information taken from caption used in "Darling, I'm home!" display). Exhibited in 'Darling, I'm Home!' exhibition at the National Library of New Zealand, 1 June - 5 July 1999. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1860

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888; Day & Son (Firm)

Reference: B-051-015

Description: Shows a number of block-houses grouped round the settlement. Mt Egmont is in the distance and the sea in the foreground. The perspective of the foreground is a bird's-eye view. It includes the houses, St Mary's church, and other buildings of New Plymouth After a watercolour by John Gully in Archives New Zealand. See Ellis, E. M. & D. G. Early prints of NZ (Christchurch, 1972), item no. 630 The majority of these forts were never built Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph in tints, 221 x 340 mm on sheet 320 x 400 mm

Date: ca 1880s

From: Creator of collection unknown :Contact prints from 10x12 negatives of scenes in the Wairarapa, Manawatu-Wanganui and Taranaki regions

Reference: PAColl-3722-2-58

Description: Streets in New Plymouth. Looks along the rooftops of houses and other buildings. Shows the beach on the left. Photograph by William Andrews Collis circa 1880s. Photographer's inscription on neg reads: "N P From Convent" Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - N P From Convent Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 25.6 x 30.6 cm

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 2nd series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-453-f-012-3

Description: Six men building a small wooden hut (or whare) in a bush clearing. Two men are placing planks on the hut, one is chopping down a tree, one is trimmed a felled tree trunk, amother is carrying a tree-fern trunk towards the hut, and the last is lifting another trunk. A nikau is on the left of the hut and the stumps of trees are on the slope to the right with dense bush in the background Other Titles - Whare Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen 100 x 150 mm

Date: [193-?]

From: Wall, John Reginald, 1870?-1944 :Photographs

Reference: 1/1-013054-G

Description: Overlooking houses, New Plymouth, circa 1930s. Shows the sea in the background, and trees in the foreground. Photograph taken by John Reginald Wall. 11047 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: October 1919

From: McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district

Reference: 1/1-009943-G

Description: Minister of Internal Affairs John Bird Hine speaking to a local crowd at the ceremony to lay the foundation stone for the new Stratford Technical High School. Behind him are prominent people of Taranaki on a platform strung with international flags; including Robert Masters, Chairman of the Education Board, Mr Florance Antony Tyrer, Headmaster of Stratford District High School and Superintendent of the Stratford Technical High School. Photograph taken by James McAllister in October 1919. Source of descriptive information - Event identified by Library client The Stratford Technical High School building was first erected in 1903 in wood and iron. (see The Cyclopedia of New Zealand (Taranaki, Hawke's Bay & Wellington Provincial District). In 1919, a foundation stone as laid for a new building (see Taranaki Daily News 28 October 1919 pg 3). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative