Places

Date: ca 1880

Reference: PAColl-7406

Description: Photographs of Auckland including: looking across the harbour to Devonport; the Rakaia in Caliope dock; the Scotch church; looking down College Hill; Victoria Street looking across Queen Street to Albert Park showing businesses in the area such as Sharland & Co and R White boot shop; Mount Eden; the Supreme Court; the flagpole and cannons at the top of Albert Park looking out over the harbour; two views of Karangahape Road showing shops, carriages and carts; the first St Matthew's Church; St Paul's Church on Symonds Street; the public hospital showing the tennis court in front and the screens on the balconies; houses on Franklin Road, Ponsonby; the Railway Station with advertising for the New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd and Arthur Cleave & Co; Ponsonby Road with a church on the left and J Clarke, undertakers, on the right; Ponsonby Road with a bakers and butchers on the right; the Synagogue on Princes Street; looking north along Queen Street with the DSC building on the right; a ship in dry-dock at the wharves; Hobson Street with St Matthew's Church on the right; and four views of the wharves including one showing the ferry. Photographs of Lyttelton: two elevated views to the harbour one with a church in the centre and the other with an artist painting the view at an easel; the railway lines at the wharves; and three men next to coal carts being loaded with coal from a ship at the wharves. Described on the reverse of the file prints as "copy negatives taken from faded prints". Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004172 to 004200 Quantity: 30 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1865 - 1970 - 1979

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; New Zealand. Ministry of Defence

Reference: E-279-q-068

Description: View looking east along the Auckland waterfront, towards Official Bay, with Parnell Rise and St Paul's Church prominent against the skyline. Other buildings also shown, with a flagstaff (possibly flying at Government House), garrison buildings, and an industrial building at the water's edge next to a long jetty (Wynyard Pier). Several ships in the harbour to the right Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 80 x 125 mm

Date: 1886

By: Schell, Frederic B, -1905; Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co. Ltd.

Reference: A-109-007-a

Description: View from the wharves in Thorndon, looking towards the harbour and Queen's Wharf, with shipping. The Post Office (with tower) can be seen at the water's edge, along with other buildings, including those on the hills of Kelburn. Tear in image, lower left Extended Title - Published in: Picturesque Atlas of Australasia 1886. v. 3. op. p.607 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 180 x 266 mm (image)

Date: 1858 - 1958

By: New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women. Auckland Branch

Reference: E-279-q-111

Description: Reproduction of a painting by an unidentified artist showing the eastern side of Commercial Bay when the town was about twenty years old. Shortland Street with its long row of shops and houses can be seen climbing the hill, while at the top stands the first St Paul's Church in the centre of Emily Place. The town's first stone warehouse, Grahame's Bond is in the foreground. The gabled house on the left was probably the first harbour-master's residence. Produced by the Auckland Branch of the Federation of University Women in aid of the Fellowship Fund, 1958 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) memento card. Physical Description: Coloured photo-lithograph 105 x 155 mm

Date: 1886

By: Schell, Frederic B, -1905; Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co. Ltd.

Reference: A-109-007

Description: View from the wharves in Thorndon, looking towards the harbour and Queen's Wharf, with shipping. The Post Office (with tower) can be seen at the water's edge, along with other buildings, including those on the hills of Kelburn. Extended Title - Published in: Picturesque Atlas of Australasia 1886. v. 3. op. p.607 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 180 x 266 mm (image)

Date: 1860

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: A-183-003

Description: View looking west towards Official Bay and Parnell Rise, with Wynyard Pier extending into the harbour and St Paul's Church prominent against the skyline. An industrial building with a large chimney can be seen at the water's edge near the pier Compare a very similar view by Hoyte 'Official Bay' (A-182-002) Other Titles - Wynyard Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink & wash, 173 x 241 mm

Date: 1860

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: A-183-002

Description: View looking west along the Auckland waterfront, towards Official Bay, with Parnell Rise and St Paul's Church prominent against the skyline. Other buildings also shown, with a flagstaff (possibly flying at Government House) and an industrial building at the water's edge next to a long jetty (Wynyard Pier). Several ships in the harbour to the right Compare a very similar view in this sequence titled 'Wyniard Pier, Auckland with St Paul's Church' (A-183-002) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Signed; Verso - "Church in which Sir Edward Stafford (3 times Prime Minister of New Zealand) & Mary Bartley were married on Dec 5, 1859" (Encyclopaedia of New Zealand p. 305 and Scholefield's Dictionary of New Zealand Biography p.321 gives accounts of the marriage taking place in England. Marriage certificate shows they were actually married at St Barnabas, Auckland, Dec 5th 1859) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink & wash 157 x 236 mm

Date: 1893

From: F W Niven & Co. :View of Wellington N Z from hydraulic tower railway wharf, 1893. F W Niven & Co. [lith] Ballarat, [Victoria, ca 1893]

Reference: D-002-006-centre

Description: Central panel shows a panoramic view of Wellington wharves and waterfront, the buildings on the waterfront, and ships berthed there. The Wellington Wool and Grain Stores have a sign identifying them. Mt Victoria is in the background. Extended Title - Central panel from large poster of the same name Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured lithograph, 220 x 688 mm.

Date: 1889

From: Wakefield, Edward 1845-1924 :New Zealand illustrated. The story of New Zealand and descriptions of its cities and towns by Edward Wakefield; also (by various writers) the natural wonders of New Zealand (past and present). Wanganui. A. D. Willis, 1889.

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PUBL-0019-08

Description: An extensive view of Lyttelton Harbour looking north towards the Sumner Road, and taking in a steam train in the left foreground, the wharves, shipping and wharf buildings and houses on the hills. Gladstone Pier is shown with many small ships moored at it. Based on a photograph by E. Wheeler & Sons, lithographed by W. Potts and published by A. D. Willis Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 166 x 374 mm

Date: 1848

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

Reference: E-296-q-159

Description: View from the south bank of the Whanganui River, with a Maori family beside a toitoi in the foreground and Shakespeare Cliff visible futher along the bank. Across the river is a clear view of the town, with Rutland stockade on the hilltop to the right, York Stockade on its hill to the left and Christ Church in the valley between the two, along with houses and streets. Christ Church appears to be on the wrong side of the adjacent road (possibly just a failure of perspective). The large central building at the water's edge is the Taylor & Watt store house and private wharf. The large building at the water's edge on the far left is the Commercial Hotel. The two jetties have a brig moored at them. Possibly the original for an illustration in a book (but not for Taylor's 'The past and present of New Zealand') Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title. Also a pencil inscription in the sky area 'Frontispiece' Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink & wash, 179 x 263 mm