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Date: 1890

By: Laishley, Richard, 1816-1897

Reference: Micro-MS-0150

Description: Largely an autobiography of Laishley, Congregational minister at Auckland, Melbourne and Thames, with journal of a voyage to England, 1883 via Australia and the Suez Canal, and return voyage to New Zealand in 1884 Relationship complexity - For related drawings and notes see Laishley, R Micro-Art-18 (Drawings and Prints Section) Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) 98 frames.

Date: [Early 1880s?]

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Taber, Isaiah West, 1830-1912

Reference: PA1-q-153

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken by various photographers, circa early 1880s. Images include several Maori groups, Maori kainga, meeting houses, carving; a large number of views of mud pools, geysers, hot springs, and in particular views of the Pink and White Terraces before the Tarawera eruption in 1886. Other views show areas of the South Island, including Dunedin City, Oamaru, Christchurch; and the North island including Auckland, Thames District (a number showing aspects of gold mining in the area). The last photograph, of the R.M.S.S. Zealandia was taken by Taber Photo, San Francisco. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with grey blue cover, black corners and spine edged with gold; 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Date: 1868

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096133-G

Description: View of Shortland, showing the New Caledonia Hotel, photographed in 1868 by Daniel Manders Beere. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 67 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: 1913-1917

From: Daniell, Frederick Charles, 1879-1953 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-3763-1/5/5

Description: F C Daniell was circuit steward Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1869

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

Reference: E-106-f-025-2

Description: Elevated view of the township of Shortland looking north. Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, v 55, Sept 25, 1869, p300 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, 160 x 240 mm

Date: 11 May-16 Jun 1847

By: Gisborne, William, 1825-1898

Reference: qMS-0844

Description: Gisborne and Petre went by sea to Coromandel and then by land, first up to Thames and travelling up the river, passing through pa, including Opita, then to Matamata, Tauranga, Rotorua, Lake Tarawera and Lake Rotomahana. They returned to Auckland by way of the Waikato River, passing through Maungatautari and Waipa. The journal includes interesting descriptions of Maori life and Gisborne meet the Revs Brown, Spencer, Chapman and Ashville [sic] and various prominent Maori. Variations in title - Binder's title: Gisborne journal The journal is loose in a cover with a typescript and index in an envelope at the back Quantity: 1 volume(s) (38 pages, 30 leaves)). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript (32 cm, blue linen)

Date: 1913-1924

From: Daniell, Frederick Charles, 1879-1953 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-3763-3/6/12

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1950-1977]

By: Isdale, Alistair Murray, 1911-2001

Reference: 74-087

Description: Comprises comprehensive drafts of histories of the Thames region, mostly taken from newspapers, and presented chronologically. Box 1 has Isdale's `History of Thames Borough' (pp 1-6209); box 2, `In extenso notes for history the `The River Thames'' (pp 1-8094); and box 3, further typescripts (pp 3152-7547, and pp 7548-8094). Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 box(es). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Carbon typescripts with holograph annotations Processing information: Not yet listed

Date: 11-12 Dec 1874

Reference: MS-Papers-2520

Description: Account of a meeting held at Thames on 11 and 12 Dec to discuss payment for the Ohinemuri goldfield. The meeting was attended by Sir Donald McLean, James MacKay, Edward Walter Puckey and chiefs and members of the Ngati Maru, Ngati Tamatera, Ngati Whanaunga and Ngati Paoa tribes. Source of title - Transcribed Authorship of the document is unknown Quantity: 1 folder(s) (28 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: No details about the provenance of the document are available other than that it was found under a pile of newspapers in a cupboard in a house at Te Anau in about 1975. How it came to be there could not be established at that time.

Date: 1850-1890

By: Harper, Arthur Paul, 1865-1955; Moberly, Patricia, active 1990s

Reference: PA1-f-207

Description: Album probably compiled by the mountaineer and explorer, A P Harper. Harper was also probably the photographer for many of the prints, especially those of mountains and mountaineering. There are Harper and Ackland family photographs which include interior and exterior views and views of the garden, of Ilam, the family mansion in Christchurch. The other main group of photographs relate to A P Harper's activities as a mountaineer and explorer in the Fox and Franz Joseph glacier regions. Some of the climbers active in the Southern Alps during the 1880s and 1890s are depicted. W S Green and his two Swiss guides, and at least one photograph taken by Green during his unsuccessful attempt to reach the summit of Mount Cook in 1882. Fitgerald, Zurbriggen, Mannering, and Dixon were all men that Harper was associated with as a mountaineer. As an explorer he was associated with Charles Douglas, and there are photographs of Douglas, Leonard Cockayne the botanist, and John Roberts of the Westland district survey. There are also many photographs of the mountains, glaciers, rivers, and gorges of the Southern Alps. Some of the English photographs at the beginning of the album may be associated with A P Harper's brother Charles who became an Anglican priest. He may have been the C C Harper who was at Keble College and Cuddesdon theological college, Oxford. There are two interiors of "C C Harper's room at Keble College", and a number of photographs of family groups taken in the grounds of the vicarage at Patea where Charles Harper was vicar from 1894 to 1900. The album ends with A P Harper and his house at Thames, and more British photographs, in particular several pages of Jersey taken about 1897 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1860-1884 (1894)

By: O'Halloran, George S, 1844?-

Reference: MS-Papers-1345

Description: O'Halloran arrived in Australia in 1860 from Ireland and held a variety of jobs in Melbourne and Victoria before coming to New Zealand in 1861. He worked at gold mining in Otago, hotel and store-keeping, driving and contracting in the Thames, Auckland, and central North Island. He spent nine years with the Mounted Militia, 1865-1874, in Taranaki, central North Island and East Coast and saw frequent action. O'Halloran returned in Australia in 1884. This autobiography was completed in 1894. Quantity: 2 folder(s) (132 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1845-1972

From: Church of England in New Zealand Auckland Diocese : Church registers

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-19-15

Description: Registers for Parish of Takapuna, 1954-1966; St Peter's Church, Takapuna, 1966-1972; St John's College Chapel, Tamaki West, 1845-1968; Te Kohanga and Mercer (Tuakau), 1886-1921; Thames, Hauraki, Waiheke,1886-1921; Waikato District, 1837-1904; Lower Waikato, 1908-1928 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: See inventory for fuller details.

Date: 1928

From: Angus, Robert K, fl 1964 :New Zealand photograph albums

Reference: PA1-q-010

Description: Album containing 1928 souvenir booklet celebrating New Zealand's first Commerce Train, which travelled through Auckland Province between 26th October 1928 and 4th November 1928. Souvenir number of the Commerce Train News, published by New Zealand Railways. Bound in with the book are photographs taken by an unidentified passenger on the trip. There are photographs in the booklet, which include several portraits of men on the trip, photographs of farmland, dairy factories, cement works, Arapuni Hydroelectric works showing the dam and the spillway, kauri forests, trains and cars, and group photographs of the personnel. Full lists of personnel are included in the book. Other - Photographs possibly taken by Robert Angus, manager of Cook & Son, Shortland St., Auckland, who was a member of the tour. Father of the donor Robert K Angus? Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 320 x 260 mm dark blue suede cover, spine embossed with decoration

Date: 1901

From: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937: Testimonial presented to Stephenson Percy Smith, Surveyor-General and Secretary for Crown Lands

Reference: D-007-002-15

Description: Mining machinery in the foreground with smoking chimneys and factory buildings, and the streets and houses of a township, with the sea beyond in the distance. The town shown is Thames with the Grahamstown goldfield and mine in the foreground. Compare E-068-017-2, Archibald Duddington Willis' sample Christmas card, 1886, title 'Grahamstown goldfield, Thames' for identification of the area Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 138 x 83 mm

Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-013

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by various photographers including the Burton Brothers, Tyree Brothers, James Ring, Josiah Martin, and Henry Thomas Lock. Includes images of flooding in Blenheim, and a wire cable tram across the Taramakau River (West Coast). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red cloth bound folio album, 415 x 300 mm

Date: 1840-1950

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949; Heron, George Charles, 1923-1972; Johnston, Owen, active 1940-1987; New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch; Palmer, Albert Noel, 1920-1972; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PA1-o-1036

Description: Contains photographs and photographic copies of paintings illustrating Te Rangihaeata's house on Mana Island, Waitahanui Pa at Lake Taupo, meeting houses at Waihi (Taupo), Wairoa, Te Wairoa (Rotorua), Otaki, Ohinemutu, Morrinsville, Waiomatatini, Pokai, Whakarewarewa, Tokaanu, Koroniti and Thames. Also shown are a gateway at Te Teko and the gateway to a church at Nuhaka. The artists and photographers represented are G F Angas, A P Godber, A N Palmer, William Hall Raine, George Heron, Owen Johnston, E Edwards, and the New Zealand Railways Publicity Department. A number of images were provided by the Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Graphic drawing book 23 x 31 cm

Date: [1937]

By: Nicholl, William Sharman Crawford, 1851?-1937

Reference: MS-1713-1714

Description: The first part describes gold prospecting at the Thames & Coromandel, in Fiji, & at the Klondyke; the second part the start of mining at Waihi Arrangement: MS-1713-1714 are boxed together Quantity: 2 volume(s) (94, 26 pages). Physical Description: Mss (26 cm; dark brown imitation leather folder) Provenance: The manuscript was received through Mr J P Wilson of the Waihi High School, who notes that the 2nd part was received in 1937. The writer died a few weeks later.

Date: [Circa 1919-1923]

By: Lints, William, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-320

Description: Album of photographs relating to William Lints' Reveille Company, presented to Beeban Annadale McKnight after her marriage to John McKnight. Beeban Annadale MacDonald performed with the company for five years before her marriage in 1923. Many of the photographs are of her at various sites on the tours around New Zealand. Others include one of Gladys Moncrieff and one of Mae Baird, both selling Reveille programmes in Christchurch. William Lints himself appears in a number of the photographs. Inscriptions: Album page - Reminiscences of Our Reveille, from the producer, to Mrs John McKnight. 1923. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with soft brown card cover; 14 x 19 cm

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Crombie, George, active 1900

Reference: PA4-0551

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Thames, showing `Queen of Beauty' mine, taken by Geo Crombie, ca 1900. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Thames showing `Queen of Beauty' Mine; Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Backing board recto - left of image - Photograph by Geo Crombie Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1882-1967

By: Hetherington, Jessie Isabel, 1882-1971

Reference: MS-Papers-0644

Description: Draft mss and annotated typescript of her autobiography `Numbering my days'. In this work she recounts her childhood in Thames district and Auckland, and Girton College, Cambridge; teaching in Australia; Wellington Teachers' Training College 1915-1923; work as an inspector of secondary schools 1927-1942; journeys to Europe including Coronation 1937. Includes an incomplete report to Director of Education on education in Australia, 1937. Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres.