Places

Date: 1881

From: Keesing, Henry A, 1826?-1896 :[Landscapes, caricatures and portraits] / H A Keesing. 1879-[1880s]

Reference: A-278-002

Description: View of the Waitemata Harbour at night with a full moon. The lighthouse at Orakei is on the right. Land and islands can be seen in the distance. In the left foreground is a partial view of a wharf with a mast head just visible beneath. In the centre foreground is a yacht and further away is a sailing ship showing its night light. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 150 x 214 mm

Date: 1922 - 1940

From: Brooks, Catherine, 1884-1980 :[Thirty (30) watercolours of Auckland, Onehunga and Rotorua. 1922-1940].

Reference: A-306-029

Description: Shows a view of the city and harbour of Auckland from Mt Eden, with Josiah Clifton Firth's house in the lower left, and Mt Eden Prison in the middle distance. North Head and Rangitoto Island are in the distance. The top of the Coromandel Peninsula can be seen in the right distance. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 228 x 354 mm.

Date: 1851 - 1859

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :[Sketchbook]

Reference: E-346-1-004

Description: The left side of a two-page panorama, with North Head and Rangitoto in the background, seen from a hill above Judges Bay. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm

Date: ca 1880

From: Richardson collection :Photographs of Auckland

Reference: 1/2-010453

Description: Print only Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: May 1918 - January 1919

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-o-1394

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on following voyages: Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England. Left Port Chalmers 2 May 1918, called at Wellington (3-9 May 1918), Balboa (28 May 1918), Panama Canal and Colon (29-30 May 1918), Norfolk VA (4-10 June 1918), New York (11-12 June 1918), arrived Liverpool 24 July 1918. Three Transatlantic crossings between Liverpool, Glasgow, and New York, August-November 1918. Liverpool, England, to Port Chalmers, with returned New Zealand soldiers. Left Liverpool 2 December 1918, called at Colon (18-19 December 1918), Panama Canal and Balboa (19 December 1918), Auckland (9 January 1919), Wellington (11-15 January 1919), arrived Port Chalmers 16 January 1919. Includes views of Panama Canal locks and gates, ferries at Norfolk VA, United States and British warships, soldiers playing two-up on the ship returning home, and ferries in Auckland Harbour. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green morrocco-bound album, 21 x 26 cm

Date: n d

From: Crawford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1001-031

Description: Pencil sketches of - France, Greece, Crete, Africa, Chatham Islands, Australia, Wellington Harbour, Samoa, Honolulu, San Francisco, California Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [ca 1901-1910]

From: Winkelmann, Henry, 1860-1931 :Sailing photographs

Reference: PA7-60-09

Description: Photograph of the yacht Iorangi built for Alexander H Turnbull sailing up Auckland Harbour. Taken by Henry Winkelmann when the yacht was opposite Mechanics Bay Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - One of Mr Turnbull's yachts the Iorangi off Mechanics Bay, Auckland Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin, 29 x 37.5 cm

Date: [ca 1910s]

Reference: PAColl-6888

Description: Two images of a man cutting his son's hair sitting on a waka next to the Whanganui River; two of a waka being rowed on the river and one of the crew holding their hoe; a cow being lifted by a winch into a boat; yachts and row boats in Auckland harbour for the Auckland Regatta; two of Auckland harbour ferries; a steamer at a pier on the Whanganui River; three children playing on a shore line near Auckland with a pier in the background; a group of men, women and children round a camp fire with a makeshift tent in the background; and a row of houses with the wreckage left from a fire in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044216 to 044228 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1862

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

Reference: E-106-f-011-1

Description: View showing three waka racing in Waitemata Harbour. At anchor are several British naval ships. The city of Auckland can be seen in the distance. MNZ 754 Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news. Vol 41, No 1168, Oct 11 1862, p 384 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 130 x 358 mm

Date: ca 1870s

Reference: PAColl-4511

Description: Photographs of Queen Street, Auckland; sailing ships moored in Auckland harbour; Government House, Auckland; the Auckland Supreme Court; Lyttelton, with a church in the middle distance and commercial buildings in the foreground; Dunedin Hospital (built in 1864); view looking down Princes Street towards the Exchange Building (built as the Post Office but never used as such) with business premises on either side of the street and a sign for a dentist's on the right; the Exchange Building with a horse and cart to the left; and the town reservoir, Dunedin. Photographer unidentified but they have similar captions below the image. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-002193, 002206, 002207, 002215, 002367, 002368, 002370, 002379, and 002838 Quantity: 9 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1863 - 1864

From: Artist unknown :Watercolours of New Zealand during the Waikato War of 1863 and on the voyage back to England, 1864.

Reference: A-161-040

Description: Shows tall trees and a flax bush in the foreground, with garden beds and lawns, a few houses on a hill to the left and sailing ships in the harbour in the background. A-161-032/041 and B-064-022 purchased together. All appear to be by the same hand. Inscriptions: Verso - [title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 231 X 175 mm

Date: 1888

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Whangarei and Waiwera sketchbook. 1886-1888].

Reference: E-598-011

Description: Shows several sailboats around the dry dock, behind with is a clay cutting in the hill. There are two or more tall ships in the dock. The building beside the dock has a tall factory chimney. The date is 16 February 1888 when the Calliope Dock was opened (See article in the "New Zealand", 17 February 1888, page 4. See also PAColl-3059; 1/1-001147-G, showing the HMS Calliope and the HMS Diamond in the dock together - see file print in Turnbull Library Pictures. 11. Auckland. Devonport. Stanley Bay. 1888). Extended Title - from his Whangarei and Waiwera sketchbook, 1886-1888, page 11. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sketchbook page 145 x 223 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2002.

Date: [ca 1909-1952]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-093

Description: Photographs of New Zealand and overseas ships, mostly made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1909-1950s. New Zealand related images include: Shell Oil Company coastal tankers Paua and Tanea; Union Steam Ship Co cargo vessel Karoon; ferry Arahua (includes original photographs); Orcades; barquentine Alexa ashore at Castlecliff, Wanganui, Dec 1910; damaged cargo vessels Broompak and Komata in Auckland Harbour after collision; wrecked hull of Pelotas ca 1911; Opihi being scuttled in Palliser Bay; steamer Indrabarah being repaired at Port Chalmers. Also: Grounded freighter Viggo Hansteen in Otago Harbour; remains of sailing ship City of Auckland at Otaki; iron barque Anglo-Norman at North Spit, Kaipara, 26 Sep 1914; NZ Shipping Company vessels Rangitane and Rangitoto; wreck of Wiltshire; In memorium postcard relating to S S Penguin (1909) with photo of the vessel and female members of the Toomer family who perished when the ship sunk; boat at landing place at Owens Mines No 1 (undated). Series of original black & white photos of the wreck of the steamer Progress that went ashore at Owhiro Bay, 1st May 1931, with loss of life. Includes photographs of overseas vessels (names not added to Name Field) Quantity: 31 album leaves with black & white photochemical prints and 6 album leaves with black & white photographic prints. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and photochemical prints

Date: 1979

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7891

Description: Transparencies of Auckland Harbour Bridge and Auckland Airport, taken 1979 by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: 2000

Reference: Eph-A-BOAT-2000-01

Description: Two pairs of red socks, adult size 4-6, showing the Team New Zealand logo in black on the side of the ankle. The label has a logo: Team New Zealand Authentic Team Product. The socks were made in Korea, amid some controversy. Buyers were asked, on the label to:"Sock it to 'em by wearing your Lucky Red Socks with pride, to support Team New Zealand, as we defend the America's Cup". Sponsors of the team each display their logos on the labels: Steinlager, TV One, Telecom, Lotto, Toyota. New Zealand hosted the America's Cup for the first time in the year 2000, defending the title (won in 1995), against the winner of the Louis Vuitton Cup, "Prada" of Italy. Quantity: 2 curio(s) pairs of socks. Physical Description: Two pairs of socks in cotton/nylon/spandex, with labels in cardboard. Provenance: Donated by Ms Jackie Jeffares in 2000.

Date: 1937

Reference: MapColl-832.12bje/[1937]/Acc.1828-30

Description: Three maps of Rangitoto survey district. The first (Accn 1828) shows cadastral information of blocks I, II, V, X11 in the Tiritiri survey district, namely Motutapu Island, with reference to O.L.C. 164, DP 12402, land lots, the Defence reserve, Hurakia (Rakino) Island, and Waiheke Island's Matiatia Bay. The second (Accn 1829) shows blocks X, XI, XIII of Rangitoto and Otahuhu survey districts, specifically the Tamaki River, Karaka Bay, Motukorea or Brown's Island, the base of Motutapu Island, and the Motuihi Island domain in the Waitemata Harbour. The third (Accn 1830) shows block IV, the Pt. Rangitoto island Domain and the recreation reserve, lot 28279 and four smaller recreation reserves. Map one is signed A.J.S. 12.7.37; map two L.P.L. 12.7.37. Other Titles - survey district Quantity: 3 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale indeterminable, various sizes

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-069-1

Description: A view of Auckland from Mt Eden, showing the harbour, the hospital, North Shore and Rangitoto Island. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Auckland from Mt Eden 19/9/82 - Harbour - Hospital - North Shore - Rangitoto Is Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double image). Physical Description: Pencil 88 x 363 mm

Date: 1959

Reference: Eph-POSTCARD-Auckland-1959-01

Description: Shows two Auckland views, one of the harbour bridge, and one of the carpark beside the Farmers department store, with figures for the number of cars parked in it in 1958 (one third of a million). Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard 107 x 143 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in April 2002.

Date: 1885

From: Dillberg, Gustaf, 1858-1934 :[New Zealand sketchbook. 1879-1887]

Reference: E-085-022

Description: Three views on one page. The upper view in pencil titled Auckland wharf shows ships, including a beached vessel marked 'Triumph'. The central view, a watercolour, titled Ti Tree Mr Warmoll's shows open landscape with scrub. The lowest view shows a distinctive rocky islet, probably Kareawa Island off Tauranga Harbour Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 178 x 254 mm (page size).

Date: 1860 - 1862

From: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877 :Sketchbook. [1860-1864]

Reference: E-569-029

Description: Shows the Waitemata Harbour, with two sailing ships at the right, and a headland with buildings (including the steeple of St Paul's Church) at the left Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil sketch, on page, 126 x 173 mm.