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Date: 1913

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-019682-G

Description: Scene at the Mount Cook Barracks, Wellington, during the 1913 waterfront strike, showing rows of horses for the Mounted Special Police. Photograph taken by S C Smith. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Relationship complexity - Forms an imperfect panorama with 1/1-019680. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass dry plate negative

Date: 1847

By: Mundy, Godfrey Charles, 1804-1860

Reference: A-447-004

Description: Shows a view of Auckland from the harbour. A sailing ship features prominently in the middle foreground, bearing a blue ensign flag. A jetty is seen on the right with a road leading up to Parnell. Other buildings featuring on the hillside are St Paul's church, and Fort Britomart barracks. Two other boats can be seen in the harbour: a steam boat and a small yacht. A buoy bobs in the water in the immediate foreground. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Auckland from the Harbour Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on card, ca 160 x 253 mm (sight) Provenance: Prior to purchase, framed and owned in Australia.

Date: 1847 - 1852

By: Mundy, Godfrey Charles, 1804-1860; Walton, W L, active 1834-1855; Hullmandel & Walton (Firm); Bentley, Richard, 1794-1871

Reference: A-447-005

Description: Shows a view of Auckland from the harbour, with a steam-ship in the foreground, and other boats in the distance. A number of buildings can be seen on land; the area shown is Parnell, with St Paul's church and the Britomart barracks visible. Appeared in volume 2, page 72 of Godfrey Charles Mundy's 'Our antipodes: or, Residence and rambles in the Australasian colonies' (London: Richard Bentley, 1852) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-painted, 125 x 195 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase, mounted and owned in Australia (Antique Print Room, 455 George St., Sydney)

Date: [early 1885]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025889-G

Description: Members of the Armed Constabulary Field Force during a drill with 64 pound RML (rifle muzzle loading) guns, Mount Cook Barracks, Wellington. Photograph taken by William Williams early 1885. Source of descriptive information - Date, "Field Force" and description of RML guns, from Library client. Inscriptions: from neg: 59 [this information is transcribed from back of file print]; from neg bag: Well Batt[ery?] 127 [this information is transcribed from back of file print]; from lantern slide: Wellington Barracks. A.C.'s at drill with 64 pounders [this information is transcribed from back of file print] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1860

From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-288-012

Description: View in New Plymouth, looking east towards Mount Taranaki, with St Mary's church below Marsland Hill and stockade in the centre, other buildings in the foreground, including another church [?], possibly the Wesleyan chapel, at the skyline on the left beside a cabbage tree, Huatoki Stream, two Maori families, a European on horseback at the stream's edge and two European women doing their washing in the stream. On the verso are streaks of blue paint, where the artist has tried out various colours Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in ink; Album page - beneath image - Taranaki N.Z. [images removed from album, but album is stored in the adjacant box] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 154 x 215 mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)

Date: 1852

By: Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878; Standidge & Company

Reference: C-010-014

Description: View from a high point of early Auckland, looking down over the town, with the spire of St Paul's Church in the distance and the barracks outlined against the sea towards the right, past North Head towards Rangitoto. The Library holds an ink and wash original for this view. A watercolour version is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. An uncoloured lithograph is also held at C-010-002 Article about Hogan's four views of Auckland in "New Zealander", 6 July 1853. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 315 x 457 mm on sheet 320 x 475 mm

Date: 1860 - 1884

Reference: G-082

Description: A scene with with a waterfront road, a breakwater and jetty. Between Mechanics Bay in the foreground and Commercial Bay in the background where several ships are anchored, is a distinctive high mound, the end of the Britomart promontory. On top of the headland at the left is a church (St Pauls) with a red wooden spire. To its right is the Albert Barracks. Below this is Emily Place. Ships' masts in the background are those moored at Queen's Wharf St Paul's Church was demolished in 1884, so the picture shows a scene before that date. The breakwater in Mechanics Bay dates from the 1870s. The mound shown is the end of Britomart Point with a road cut through on its left. This cutting was made around 1875, part of the reclamation of land and cutting a road through Britomart Point. The remaining mound was demolished over the next few years. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 200 x 330 mm (sight) Provenance: On offer in 2002 at John Leech Gallery, Auckland, with a provenance of Private Collection, Auckland

Date: [1885?]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025891-G

Description: Photograph taken by William Williams. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Photographer identified by curator John Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

By: Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-109-044

Description: View looking across Commercial Bay, lower Queen Street, the wharves and the city towards St Matthew's and St Patrick's churches, from the Britomart Barracks. After P. J. Hogan's lithograph: No 3 Auckland, Auckland New Zealand, from Britomart Barrack. Commercial Bay, part of lower Queen Street, with new wharf, Albert Hill, Wyndham Street, West Queen Street, with St Matthews Church and St Patrick (R. C.) church. 1852. See copies at C-010-004, C-010-004-a, C-010-018 & C-010-019. Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia. Opposite p. 195. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted, 89 x 155 mm

Date: 1915 - 1918

By: Mence and O'Halloran (Firm)

Reference: A-279-031

Description: Cartoon showing mixed assortment of new recruits, including a small boy, a minister of religion, a country bumpkin, etc, marching past barracks and watched by soldiers who are saying "Are we downhearted?". One of the recruits is answering "No, we are not" Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, black & white on postcard 92 x 136 mm

Date: 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-112282-F

Description: German prisoners of war on Somes Island. Taken during the First World War. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1913

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-048784-G

Description: Photograph of Special Police horses at Alexandra Barracks, Mount Cook, Wellington, during the 1913 Waterfront Strike, taken 1913 by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1955

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-6388-57

Description: Hotel Jolimont, Auckland, 1955. Photographer unidentified. Original caption attached to back of print reads: "The Hotel Jolimont, Auckland, has been purchased by the Government as part of its scheme to provide better barrack accommodation for single men of the New Zealand Police Force. The property is situated about 300 yards from the Auckland Central Police station and contains 27 bedrooms." Note on back of file print reads "Published/Unpublished (?) 12 Oct 1955, see page 3" Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.3 x 20.2 cm

Date: 1855

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-032-2

Description: Looking south along Lambton Quay and up The Terrace (the track up the hill) from its lower end. Various features are numbered: 1. Flagstaff 2 or 3 miles off (on top of Mount Albert); 2. the barracks (on top of Mount Cook) 3.Clay Point (corner of Lambton Quay and Willis Streets with Plimmer's Ark moored at its base); 4. Captain Sharp's house on the top of Wellington Terrace; 5. The Terrace; 6. Dr T. S. Ralph's house on The Terrace, [no numbers 7 or 8 on Pearse's list, but two empty sections in the foreground are marked 7 & 8]; 9. Noah's [Plimmer's] Ark, 10. Barrett's Hotel (towards the end of Lambton Quay at the foot of the cliff in the middle distance); [no number 11 but Pearse has duplicated number 12 on the flanks of Mount Victoria to the left]; 12. Spot on Wellington Terrace behind J. P.'s office on the Beach - a difficult and dangerous clamber or crawl when a quiet retired cut to the works taken; 13. Front of Deighton's house on The Terrace where J. P. first lodged (a point on the right of The Terrace, part-way up); 14. Where the Kumutoto Bridge has been built. The project emanated from J.P. - roadway continued from Terrace (a flat spot above the small gorge formed by the Kumutoto Stream, modern Woodward Street) Likely to have been drawn after January 1855 because the companion view on the same page, E-455-f-032-1, mentions 'the late Baron Alzdorf'. Alzdorf died in January 1855 during the Wellington earthquake. The drawing of Dr T S Ralph's house also indicates a date of 1855. Ralph was resident on The Terrace in 1855 according to electoral rolls, but had moved elsewhere by 1856. Pearse returned to England in 1856 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash drawing on blue paper, 207 x 320 mm

Date: January 1940

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: DA-07086-F

Description: Departing World War II soldiers of the 1st echelon, in their quarters on board ship in Auckland. Taken by an unidentified photographer for the Weekly News. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1849

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-071

Description: View from Hill Street area looking south past the garden of Government House (now the site of the Beehive) on the far left, (with what is probably Alfred Domett's garden in the foreground), and towards the original St Paul's Church (Museum Street), along Lambton Quay (the shoreline) and The Terrace (marked as Constitution Hill here), with Te Aro, including the Pa and Mount Cook, with the military barracks in the distance. Stables are also indicated written on the roof of a building beyond the fence of Government House and above Lambton Quay. "The Baron's" (the hotel of Baron von Alzdorf) is indicated too, along Lambton Quay. This drawing forms an inexact panorama with A-292-070. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil with ink inscriptions on paper, 231 x 331 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: [ca 1929]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-3276-1/2-G

Description: View of the Alexandra Barracks, Mount Cook, Wellington shortly before it was demolished in 1929. Photographed for the Evening Post newspaper. From box containing EP-3260 to 3277 Designed in the 1880s, and originally built as a central prision for the Wellington Province. It was intended to have five radiating wings like the one shown here, but the rest of the structure was never built. The building was never used as a prision, and in about 1906 it was handed over to the army and became the Alexandra Barracks Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1842

From: Terry, Charles, fl. 1840s :New Zealand, its advantages and prospects as a British colony. London, T & W Boone, 1842

By: Gauci, P, active 1842; Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: PUBL-0076-TP

Description: View along the waterfront at Auckland, with the buildings of Parnell on the hilltop to the left and ships moored outside the harbour on the right. Despite the title, the individual buildings are not clearly distinguishable Extended Title - From: Terry, Charles. New Zealand, its advantages and prospects as a British colony. London, T & W Boone, 1842. Opposite title page Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 215 x 130 mm

Date: 1858

From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-288-014

Description: Shows Paremata Barracks, a castle-like stone building, at the entrance to Porirua Harbour, viewed from Mana, with the barracks on the left, with flax and other bush in the foreground. A small boat is about to enter the barbour and another is already in Porirua Harbour. The perspective for the background hills is not very accurate Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 131 x 222 mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)

Date: between 1882 and 1931

From: McInnes, R :Negatives of the waterslide and the dam behind it at Days Bay, and Mount Cook prison

Reference: 1/2-066816-G

Description: Scene in Mount Cook, Wellington, taken between 1882 and 1931 from Tasman Street, showing Mount Cook Prison/Alexandra Barracks (top, to left). Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative