Places

Date: 1966-1980

From: Andrews, Reginald Percy, 1899-1987 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6153-2

Description: Describes early life in Napier, employment, involvement with Labour Party, local politics in Wanganui where he was mayor, 1962-1974 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca 1890

By: Schaef, Arthur Waldemar, 1867-1940

Reference: PA4-0963

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Business side of the Avenue, Wanganui, taken by A W Schaef ca 1890 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Business side of Avenue, Wanganui; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Recto - left of image - Photograph by A W Schaef Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 189-

Reference: PAColl-2084

Description: Maori woman with pipe; Maori family outside their house; Maori canoe. Buildings, streets, parks, gardens, river and coastal scenes - locations include Wanganui, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Napier, Rimutaka Hill Road and Masterton Quantity: 64 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1890

From: Campbell, Eve, fl 1976 :Stereographs

By: Schaef, Arthur Waldemar, 1867-1940

Reference: PA4-0707

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of women and children standing by the lake in the Wanganui Racecourse Grounds, taken by A W Schaef ca 1890 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - In Wanganui Racecourse Grounds; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Recto - left of image - Photograph by A W Schaef Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by Mrs E Campbell, July 1976

Date: ca 1878-1902

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

By: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920

Reference: PAColl-3722-3

Description: Arrangement: In order by copy negative number - 1/2-11800-F to 1/2-11861-F (some missing) Quantity: 59 b&w original photographic print(s) in one box. Provenance: Contact prints made ca 1970s from plates no longer in existence

Date: ca 1885

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899

Reference: PAColl-3501

Description: Studio portraits and street scenes Arrangement: Negative numbers G174782-85-1/2, G26822-25-1/1 Quantity: 7 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1890 - 1909

Reference: MapColl-os832.4199gbbd/[1890-1909?]/Acc.45916

Description: Shows area of land bounded by London, Ingestre streets and Victoria Avenue, Wanganui. Gives sections and section numbers (in most cases) in this area. Has an area marked as 'proposed new grounds for boy's college' with acreage. Next to this, is a block with a note: 'about 44 acres let on short grazing leases'. Another block has 'about 61 acreas let on grazing leases expiring 1909' written on it. One section near Victoria Avenue and Plymouth St is marked 'Mr Watson's house' and an adjacent section has 'garden' written on it. The Wanganui Aramoho railway is indicated. Other streets shown are Hatrick, Purnell, Wilson, Nixon, St Hill, Glasgow, Liverpool and Dublin. There is some pencil annotation on the map one of which is 'Mr W E Atkinson's school'. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, outline colour, scale [1:1 584], 73.5 x 83cm. Provenance: Donated by Rob Mitchell, Wellington, September 2002 Transfers: From Drawings & Prints Collection - relates to Plans-2002-058-Drawer-008.

Date: 1870-1890

From: Saxby, Stephen Hector, 1907- :Photograph albums

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Ring, James, 1856-1939; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-q-213

Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand and Pacific scenes, compiled ca 1870s-1880s. Includes views of Nelson. Bridge over the Waiau River near Hanmer. Hutt Valley (showing junction of Belmont Road), Manaia (showing Dr Hector, and oysters in foreground). James Hector's house `Ratanui,'near Petone, his family, and views from the house. Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu (showing flooding, acclimatisation ponds, and the road between Queenstown and Martin's Bay). Greymouth. Castle Hill. White Island. Mount Ruapehu. Otira Gorge. Arthur River. Milford Sound (with steamship Rotorua). Christchurch. Auckland (including a series of interior views of Kilbryde, the home of Sir John Logan Campbell). Cable car over Taramakau River. Hawks Crag. Brunnerton. Arnold river. Arthur's Pass. Buller River. Denniston (showing coal mines and incline). Mount Cook. Wellington (including views of the Botanic Garden). Lake Mapourika. Sutherland Falls. Tahiti. Wanganui. The Wainuiomata Reservoir. Napier. Photographers represented include W T L Travers (scenes on Waiau river), Hart, Campbell & Co (Queenstown and Wakatipu), James Ring (Greymouth, Castle Hill, and Buller), H T Lock (Hawks Crag and Denniston), Wheeler & Son (Christchurch), Connolly & Co (Wellington Botanic Garden) and Burton Brothers (Sutherland Falls). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded maroon cover, entitled "New Zealand ferns"; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: [Between 1890 and 1899]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/1-000138-G

Description: The old council chambers, Wanganui, probably photographed by Alfred Martin. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1897

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-019

Description: Shows a pathway between native trees trees in Gordon Park, Upokongaro, Wanganui East. Cabbage trees and toetoe feature Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Gordon Park Wanganui Jny 1897 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

Date: 1890

From: [Star Lithographic Works] :Wanganui [and] Queen Street wharf, Auckland. [Auckland, Star Lithographic Works, 1890]

By: Star Lithographic Works

Reference: A-109-056

Description: View of Wanganui from across the river, with the main bridge diagonally across the picture plane Extended Title - From: The New Zealand Jubilee and Exhibition Chronicle, 1890 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 91 x 143 mm

Date: 1898 - 1875 - 1905 - 1877

By: Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909

Reference: A-255-008

Description: Head and shoulders frontal portrait of Major Kemp in uniform. He is shown with a full beard, and the New Zealand War Medal suspended from his jacket. Appears to be based on a studio photograph of Te Rangihiwinui, in about 1876, the year he received the New Zealand War Medal. See PA2-2562. Dittmer arrived in New Zealand in 1898, the year of Te Rangihiwinui's death. He returned to Germany in 1905 Title from back of work Inscriptions: Recto - title in ink, in a flowing hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink & Chinese white 225 x 171 mm Provenance: Purchase: Sotheby's auction London: 28 Nov 1975

Date: 1896

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B059

Description: This notebook contains notes about the proceedings of a political meeting held in 1896 to discuss Maori-Government relations; it also contains whakapapa, lists of names and interests in certain blocks, boundaries of various land blocks in the King Country and Whanganui areas, and a copy of a letter to the Premier about the Ohotu Block; also contains some waiata and Maori vocabulary with shorthand Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Black boards, 20 cm Grey phase box Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: [ca 1893-1895]

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-037

Description: Includes correspondence and notes to S P Smith; lists of Maori informants; copies of questions sent to various informants; notes on incidents involving Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Toa and Te Ati Awa, including their migrations to Wellington, and on place names in the greater Wellington area; rough indexes to notes; waiata and haka; whakapapa of Ngati Raukawa, Mahu and Taewa and Ngati Ira and Whanganui notes from his 1895 field trip. Includes a long letter from Kerehoma Tuwhawhakia of Kaiwhaiki to 1895 with waiata by Naapea Nganawheuru. Contains waiata from the Ngati Toa-Raukawa tribes from the middle and late 19th century periods including the haka of Upokoiti, the patere of Manomano and the story of Kaihamu, great grandfather of Toa Rangatira. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed listing available in inventory.

Date: 1892 - 1893

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.

Reference: E-373-013

Description: Looking along the Whanganui River on its south bank towards a bridge and houses on both sides of the river. A paddle-steamer is in the river and two people are walking along the road at the base of a cliff to the left. The area in the left background is likely to be Putiki, where the artist grew up Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook 130 x 180 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..

Date: [ca 1895]

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-026

Description: Begins with a contents list and comprises notes in English and Maori on many aspects of iwi history and battles in the Whanganui, Taranaki and Waikato areas, whakapapa and newspaper clippings about West Coast Maori history. Some notes copied from other sources eg John White manuscripts. Other Titles - West coast notes Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 volume, 43 pages).

Date: [1988]

By: Sommerville, Geoffrey, active 1970-1990

Reference: MS-Papers-10512

Description: Comprises article by Sommerville, based on research done by him, Alan Field and Don Wilkie over several years into the history of H C Field and Field's Track which ran between Kakatahi and Karioi. Includes biographical information, notes on mining and surveying in the region, and the progress and ultimate fate of the track. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (10 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: [1890?]

By: Weston, Charles, 1865-

Reference: MS-Papers-3647

Description: An account of a two-week journey on horseback from Otaki to Auckland in 1889. Included are accounts of Foxton, Wanganui, Ruapehu and Taupo. The account stops at Taupo. Some description of local Maori is included. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (16 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1897

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B048

Description: Contains notes about land tenure and ownership in the Wanganui district, including details of block boundaries, lists of owners and shares per owner, lists of hapu members and related whakapapa, extracts of verbatim evidence, and copies of petitions and a letter to Sir James Carroll Physical Description: Marbled paper covers, 33 cm., vol numbered 39 Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 1822-1891

From: Stewart, Frances E V, fl 2005 : Histories of the Ranby, Withersgill, Burr and McKay families

Reference: MS-Papers-5229-2

Description: History of the Wintersgill family, and in particular of William Wintersgill; includes account the Burr family who lived near the Wintersgills at Foxton Quantity: 1 folder(s).