Places

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Sketchbook of English and New Zealand scenes] 1860 - 1864

Reference: E-349-095/096

Description: Shows prisoners' hulk (the Marion), Mt Eden & Fort Britomart. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Auckland from the Falcon & Prisoners hulk. Mt Eden Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 100 x 160 mm

Date: Jun 1955

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: M-0011-F

Description: Original caption in album PA1-q-318 reads: "Volunteers from the Auckland area fall in outside the Special Air Service [Sidi Rezegh] barracks [Waiouru] on their first day in camp. By the weekend these men will have been completely kitted out with both winter and summer gear, inoculated ready for overseas service [Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960] and be in full stride with their New Zealand traning programme." Photograph taken in June 1955, by an unidentified New Zealand Army photographer. Identified from original print of this negative in album PA1-q-315, M 11 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 120 film negative

Date: 1843 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: B-031-005

Description: Shows the windmill, looking south towards Mount Cook (with the barracks on top in the distance), Brooklyn hills and Te Aro from the foot of Mount Victoria where Oriental Bay Road begins. There is a sandy beach in the left foreground, with a man sifting sand or shells, probably for construction. The man is being watched by three children. Bullock carts are visible at the foot of the windmill and there are several other buildings close to it. There are two hens in the yard close to a house in the right foreground, and a square wooden construction in the right foreground, possibly a small lime-kiln. The windmill, or flourmill, was built in March 1843 at the foot of Marjoribanks Street and Kent Terrace junction, the present site of the Embassy Theatre. It was the only open-structured mill in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 181 x 370 mm

Date: 1864 - 1867

By: Outhwaite, Anne Jane Louisa, 1842-1925; Sewell, John Augustus George Frederick, 1826-

Reference: A-389-004

Description: Shows a view looking towards St Barnabas Church and Parnell Rise at the right, and across to North head and Rangitoto Island in the distance. In the left foreground, a soldier on horseback is stopped beside two women standing on the verandah of a house. Some buildings in the vicinity at left may be part of the Albert Barracks. M T after the original artist's name stands for Military Train, an Army Regiment managing baggage transport Other Titles - January; Esquire; Military Train; John George Augustus Sewell Inscriptions: Verso - top left - Isa del. Jan 22nd 1867 [underlined]. After a sketch by J Sewell Esqur. M. T. 1864' [in ink, in the hand of Louisa Outhwaite] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 167 x 244 mm.

Date: 1883

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

Reference: 1/1-025720-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

Date: 1913

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

Reference: 1/1-019684-G

Description: Sleeping quarters for some of the Mounted Special Police, at the Mount Cook Barracks, Wellington, during the 1913 waterfront strike. Shows men lying on straw, on the floor of a large hall. Leslie Adkin is sitting up, facing the camera, in the centre of the picture. Photograph taken by S C Smith. Other - Note on back of file print reads "...similar photo published in Auckland Weekly News 13/11/13..." Other - Note on back of file print, signed by Library client, reads: "Leslie Adkin sitting up facing camera centre of picture. See his diary, held by Museum." Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass dry plate negative

Date: 1852

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

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-034-1

Description: Two small Maori figures standing on a road, probably Tory Street or nearby, with the harbour in the background, flax on either side of the road. On the right can be seen a windmill (probably Simmonds' and Hoggard's flourmill) and the lower slopes of Mount Victoria Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 105 x 135 mm

Date: 1852

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

Reference: C-010-020

Description: View from the end of the wharf at the foot of Queen Street, looking towards the waterfront buildings and up Queen Street, with Partington's windmill on the skyline. A line of barrels along the wharf and two containers of goods, a man wheeling a wheelbarrow, another wheeling a barrow, two soldiers, other groups of citizens, Maori canoes and a rowboat drawn up at the water's edge on the left and groups of Maori sitting. The Wesleyan (Methodist) Chapel is on the left, above the first row of buildings. A version in oils of this view is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. An uncoloured lithograph is also held (by the Turnbull Library) at C-010-005. The Library also holds watercolour copies of this view by W. S. Hatton, copied from an Illustrated London News wood engraving from this print, at B-078-012 and B-078-017 and the Mitchell, too, has a watercolour copy by Hatton, an English artist who confined his work to copies of views in the Illustrated London News. 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, 274 x 324 mm on sheet 370 x 540 mm

Date: ca 1918

From: Tyndall, Arthur (Sir), 1891-1979 :Photographs relating to road and building construction

Reference: 1/2-104282-F

Description: Rows of barracks at Featherston Military Camp, taken ca 1918 by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1877

By: Saxton, Henry Waring, 1848-1919; Sisarich, Warren, active 1980s-1990s

Reference: A-253-036

Description: Shows a profile of Somes Island seen from the region of Seacliff. Shows a large complex of two-storied buildings (newly-built immigration barracks) on the top centre of island, a surveying trig on highest point, and a few small buildings on shoreline. In the left distance, Pencarrow Head lighthouse is visible. The Immigration Barracks are shown in a photograph of Somes Island ca 1878 in the J. E. Fitzgerald Album in the Photographic Archive. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - H.W.S. 1877; Recto - beneath image - (on backing paper): So named in memory of Joseph Somes, M.P. Dartmouth, Governor of New Zealand Shipping Co.; Verso - top centre - late) Revd C.W. Saxton D.D. / The Elms / Shrewsbury The artist was the brother-in-law of Joseph Somes, after whom the island was named. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 120 x 198 mm.

Date: 1866

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: A-236-021

Description: View of Official Bay showing Britomart Barracks, Wynard Pier, Old Admiralty House (at left) built 1864 (see plate 99 in Platts, U. The lively capital, and photo, p. 40 of Barr, J. The Ports of Auckland); may show prison hulk Marion. Other Titles - January Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on tinted paper 130 x 374 mm

Date: 1913

From: West Coast Historical and Mechanical Society : Photographs

Reference: 1/2-096909-F

Description: A group of Massey's Special Constables, on horseback, armed with batons, at the Mount Cook Barracks during the Waterfront Strike of 1913. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1858

From: Ruck, Charlotte Steward, 1840?-1916 :[Scrapbooks, ca 1860 to ca 1899]

Reference: E-309-q-1-016

Description: Barrack buildings to the right, with the troops lined up outside. A separate group of officers, including one on horseback in the centre and towards the left Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Sepia photograph, 114 x 219 mm on album page 256 x 205 mm

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: ca 1860s

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-193-023-1

Description: Barracks in Napier, Hawke's Bay, with soldiers standing in front of thatched buildings. Photographed ca 1860s by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Barracks Napier Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 9.9 x 13.5 cm, mounted on album page

Date: 1871 - 1936

By: Fletcher, R S, active 1936

Reference: MapColl-832.1291/1871/Acc.6954

Description: Survey plan of the Auckland Albert Barracks, showing the boundaries of the barracks extending out to what later became Wellesley St, Kitchener St, Symonds St, Princes St and Alfred St. The barracks are enclosed by a stone wall (annotated note indicates part of the wall still in existence). Within the barracks is the armoury, a school, sergeant's quarters, military prison, Major Tisdall's house, the 'Dead House', large garden, the magazine, store and drill shed. Shows the Military Road, next to Government grounds, on what became Princes St. The 'Northern Club' is indicated on the corner of Waterloo Rd. Indicates building materials. Compiled by R.S. Fletcher, M.Sc. for the Lands Department, Auckland, 1936. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale [ca. 1:2 000], 90 x 70 cm.

Date: 1860

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

By: Bent, Thomas, 1833?-1887; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-288-035

Description: A view from the water, Judges Bay, Auckland, looking past a schooner and up the cliffs at the water's edge to the church (St Stephen's Chapel), the house of Judge William Martin and other houses. Fort Britomart is on the cliff-top to the right Identity of the artist with initials T. B. shown to be Thomas Bent from comparison with an identical view in a private collection and with the Pacific watercolours held by the Library. A fellow-officer of Gold's, in whose sketchbook this drawing was adhered. The two men fought together in Taranaki. There is a pencil drawing on the verso that may be the work of Gold or of Bent. It shows a train crossing a railway bridge by a bay ringed with hills, with churches and houses sketched in on the left. It is not an identifiable New Zealand scene. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - T. B. Nov 28 1860 [in brushpoint]; Recto - bottom right - Taurarua. Judges Bay. Auckland [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 176 x 251 mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)

Date: ca 1875

Reference: PAColl-3385

Description: Scene at Onepoto, showing the redoubt on the shore of Lake Waikaremoana, circa 1875. Photographer unidentified. From Wises New Zealand Guide a Gazetteer of New Zealand, 1987, page 297: "...an Armed Constabulary redoubt built in 1870 for the troops engaged in tracking down the Maori leader Te Kooti." Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 18.4 x 24.3 cm, on mount

Date: 1852

By: Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878

Reference: A-050-022

Description: A view looking from Hobson Street down over the town of Auckland and out to the harbour towards Rangitoto. Two men in a horse and cart are in the foreground. Original of: No. 1. Auckland, New Zealand / P J Hogan - London : Standidge, 1852. (C-010/002/14) and Mitchell Library oil: Auckland from Hobson St South Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - P. J. Hogan; Recto - beneath image - title in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, b&w 110 x 170 mm on sheet 150 x 210 mm

Date: 1864

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898; Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: B-035-021

Description: Shows Mechanics Bay with St Paul's Church and Britomart Barracks, ships around Wynyard Pier and a Maori canoe on the mudflats in the foreground. Original mount (now discarded) included inscription on lower right: Colonel Williams, R.A., possibly inscribed by H.J.Warre Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 122 x 247 mm Transfers: Purchased with B-035-016 and B-035-017.