Places

Date: 1846 - 1847

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

Reference: E-346-1-070

Description: View looking east along the Whanganui River from the opposite bank, with Putiki in the foreground, military tents on the town side, churches including Christ Church, houses, Rutland Stockade not yet complete and a fenced area around what was later York Stockade on the left. Jetties can also be seen. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm

Date: 1880s

From: Three albums of New Zealand views

Reference: PA1-o-983

Description: Views of New Zealand, comprising Mt Egmont from New Plymouth Domain, Napier, bullock team hauling wool at Cheviot, Wellington, Manawatu Gorge bridge, Manawatu Gorge, Rimutaka railway, Mount Alexander, Otira Gorge, Lyttelton breakwater, Armagh Street bridge in Christchurch, and Christchurch Cathedral. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1926

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :[Sketchbooks]

Reference: E-292-q-4-013

Description: Sketch of a figure with a shepherd's crook [Christ ?] holding a lamb in his arms. There is another lamb by his side looking upwards. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 140 x 233 mm

Date: 1950s-1986

Reference: PAColl-5492

Description: St Martins Anglican church, Mangaweka, nativity players, planned giving dinner, and the vicarage. These photographs are part of a larger collection in Manuscripts comprising the schedule for services in the Parochial District of Mangaweka (nd); `Parochial District of Mangaweka; a few highlights of its history, 1910-1953'; `Parish life', the magazine of the parochial district including jubilee issue (Aug, Sep 1960); brochure describing the parochial district (nd); `Parish news', the final issue of the `Parish news' before the close of the Mangaweka Paraochial District (1969); letter from Sue Fox, Taupo re these records; and photographs Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1930-1943]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-198

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1930s-1940s Churches at Hawera, Palmerston North, Opotiki, Te Aroha, Waipukurau, Nelson, Queenstown and Pararaka. Whangarei - Central Park/Mair Park, Mt Darby golf links, children playing in a dinghy at Matapouri, tennis courts. Russell - View of foreshore, and view from the hill with Achilles in port. Tauranga - Causeway between The Mount and Tauranga, pier at The Mount, Mission House. Palmerston North - Boys' High School and baths, View of North side of The Square. Napier - Harbour under construction, view from the hill looking south, The Esplanade showing gardens, children's play area and Sound Shell, National Tobacco Company, T & G Building, Government buildings in Shakespeare Street, Civic Square. Hastings - Poplar Avenue, Cornwall Park, W L C McLean's house Swarthmore at Havelock North with vineyard. Gisborne - Gladstone Road, aerial view of town, river view. Cambridge - Bowling green, BNZ building, clock tower & National Hotel (with caravans parked outside the hotel), etc New Plymouth - Aerial view of 72nd Annual A & P Show; Moturoa; ships in port. Invercargill - The Little Playhouse, Government buildings, Southland Museum, 1943. Also - Children from Kerikeri School leaving for a swim; Arawa Street, Matamata; Lake Drive, Hamilton; view of Lyell township; Burke's Pool, Opihi; Denniston township; Caroline Bay, Timaru; main Street, Winton; shipping at Bluff; Oban township, Stewart Island; view of Picton harbour from Hotel Terminus; Alexander Street, Te Awamutu; Arawa Street, Matamata; Wairoa from Te Uhi Hill; Art Gallery, Wanganui; view of wanganui from Aramono.. Quantity: 76 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1903

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

Reference: E-346-3-042

Description: View across the Kauarapaora Stream to a small Maori settlement, Raorikia, with a church, several houses and waka pulled up above the waterline and at the water's edge. The work is dated from the view on the previous page, Raurakia, Jany 1 1903. Raorikia is 16 km north of Wanganui, on the Whanganui River Other Titles - Raorikia, Raurakia Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sketchbook page, 163 x 224 mm

Date: 1950

Reference: PAColl-5382

Description: Group photograph of the Bulls Anglican Sunday School. Five women teachers sit near the front, and the Vicar can be seen at the back of the group. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1850 - 1860

Reference: 1/1-007263

Description: View from the south bank of the Whanganui River, looking towards the town. Christ Church and the Rutland and York Stockades can be seen, as well as houses Physical Description: Photograph of oil on canvas

Date: 1847 - 1849

From: [Park, Robert] 1812-1870. Attributed works. :[Wanganui district sketchbook. 1847?]

Reference: E-078-q-004

Description: Unfinished sketch of Rutland Stockade, with Christ Church in the valley beyond and the outlines of several houses, looking west in Wanganui. Also two parachute-like objects. The drawing was originally catalogued dated as 1847 but it may be later, since it seems likely that Rutland Stockade was not built until 1849. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 177 x 253 mm (irregular)

Date: 1860s-1900s

Reference: PAColl-6239

Description: Photographs relating to the family of Rev Basil Kirk Taylor. These are part of a larger collection which includes correspondence to and from members of the Taylor family, mainly Rev Basil Kirke Taylor and his wife Edith. There is a typeset letter from Rev Richard Taylor to his daughter Laura, 1847. Diaries and notebooks, mainly kept by Rev Basil Kirke Taylor, although the earliest ones were kept by Rev Richard Taylor and his wife Caroline. The diaries of Basil Taylor record his time in England before ordination, and later when he joined his father at the Wanganui Mission, and up until his premature death in 1876. The privately printed reminiscences of Richard Basil Taylor, the grandson of Rev Basil Taylor, entitled `Family recollections'. These memoirs give details of his missionary forebears, as well as describing his diplomatic career and own family. Includes many photographs and family trees Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1851 - 1859

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

Reference: E-346-1-058/059

Description: A view from east Wanganui (Aramoho area) looking west along the river towards the town and Durie Hill. Rutland Stockade and Christ Church can be seen, as well as a number of houses. There is a two-storied house on flat land on the opposite side of the river. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on 2 sketchbook pages, 129 x 260 mm

Date: 1988

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

Reference: A-397-128/135

Description: Includes exterior perspective drawings, site and floor plans. Original file numbering was 004.01.04.030 Quantity: 8 plan(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink drawings on tracing paper and photocopies, 297 x 420 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

Reference: PA5-0136

Description: Shows the Anglican Church, Hunterville taken between 1910 and 1913. Verso contains message from C H Grant Cowan? Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph 88 x 135 mm

Date: 1852

From: Wynyard, Robert Henry 1802-1864 :[Drawings of New Zealand scenes] / R.H.W. - 1852.

Reference: A-081-030

Description: View from Durie Hill, south of the Whanganui River, looking towards Wanganui township. Wharves, houses, Christ Church and the Rutland and York stockades can be seen. The river's course to the east can also be seen. The drawing appears to have been cropped on the left side and may have been part of a wider panorama Inscriptions: Recto - top left - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 200 x 247 mm

Date: 1875

From: Gully, John, 1819-1888 :New Zealand scenery chomolithographed after original water-color drawings by John Gully with descriptive letterpress by Dr Julius von Haast. Dunedin, Henry Wise & Company ; London Marcus Ward & Co., 1877

Reference: PUBL-0010-12

Description: A fenced whare with canoes in the water below it in the right foreground, European houses and a church on both sides of the river in the middle distance and five people swimming in the river. Flax, toetoe and other low plants in the foreground and bush-clad hills in the distance Possibly shows Pipiriki. In the accompanying notes to this print Gully states: On the right of the picture, overlooking an old Indian corn garden a large native house, surrounded by palisades is visible ... further up ... the native church, with a few houses and the burial ground ... On the opposite side the remains of a small native settlement ... The two kinds of canoe used by the natives are seen on the river - the regular river canoe with a sharp prow, and the large and more ornamental one, the pitau, commonly used for coasting purposes in both islands Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 304 x 376 mm

Date: ca 1890s

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :Medley family photograph album

Reference: 1/2-031074-F

Description: Exterior of St Paul's Memorial Church, Putiki, Wanganui, photographed circa 1890s. Shows a wooden building, with a shingle roof and a belfry. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: beneath original photograph: St Paul's Putiki Mission Church Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

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.

Reference: PUBL-0019-04

Description: An extensive view of the city of Wanganui from the south bank of the River, with houses and gardens in the foreground, a bridge and the civic buildings houses and churches. Mount Taranaki can be seen in the distance to the left and Ruapehu to the right. Cows in a paddock on the left and several boats in the river Probably based on a photograph Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 167 x 370 mm

Date: ca 1910

From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-006394-G

Description: Exterior view of St John's Anglican church, Feilding (architect: Frederick de Jersey Clere), circa 1910. Photograph possibly taken by Frederick George Radcliffe. Inscriptions: Church of England Feilding Tourist Series 2175 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1847 - 1848

From: [Park, Robert] 1812-1870. Attributed works. :[Wanganui district sketchbook. 1847?]

Reference: E-078-q-003

Description: An extensive view from the hill on the opposite bank to Whanganui township, showing York and Rutland stockades, Christ Church, streets and houses, with the river in the foreground shown wending its way to its mouth on the left. The drawing was originally catalogued dated as 1847 but it may be later, since it seems likely that Rutland Stockade was not built until 1849. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 177 x 253 mm (irregular)

Date: [1880s]

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

Reference: 1/1-000582-G

Description: Christ Church, Wanganui, in the 1880s. Shows early graves and the sunday school. Photograph taken by William James Harding. (or taken in circa 1920s by Frank James Harding?) This was the 2nd Christ Church. It was later moved to Gonville and renamed St Peter's. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).