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Date: 1888

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Whangarei and Waiwera sketchbook. 1886-1888].

Reference: E-598-012

Description: Shows four sailboats with sails fully raised. The location is probably Auckland Harbour. Extended Title - from his Whangarei and Waiwera sketchbook, 1886-1888, page 12. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sketchbook page 145 x 223 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2002.

Date: 1943-1947

From: Hoddinott, Kenneth Lewis, fl 1935-1965 :Photographs of boating, motoring and motorcycling

Reference: PA1-o-1323

Description: Named sailboats belonging to the group of young men which included Kenneth Hoddinott. As well as portraits of the boats, other images show teams of sailbats competing in races at Parameta. Many of the crews are photographed close to, in the act of sailing the boats. Group holidays taken over the Christmas breaks for 1945/46, and 1946/47 are recorded. The first shows the group with a line up of five cars on a country roadside. The journey took them to Taranaki, Wairakei, and Wakarewarewa. Along the way one of the cars left the road and ended up down a bank, half hidden in bush. The second trip was to Northland via the East Coast. They visited the Karipiro hydro project and Lake Waikaremoana on the way. The sequence shows camps, tents, people taking meals in the open, a puctured car tyre being changed, and a trip on a mail launch. Other groups of photographs show people at a 21st birthday party, and two group portraits of a motorcycle club, and, later, the members in action on their machines. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1885 - 1886

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: E-964-q-024

Description: Shows sailing boats on a stretch of Auckland Harbour, with Devonport in the middle distance and the distinct shape of Rangitoto rising in the distance. There is a fenced roadway in the bottom left foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on wove paper, 180 x 150 mm (image)

Date: 1907

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-058

Description: On the recto, above, a pencil outline drawing of St George's Bay, with a small sailoat in the foreground at the water's edge. Parnell is on the right, and in the background is North Head and Rangitoto Island. Below, a night-time view of Wellington Harbour, with two three-masted yachts. On the verso, a pencil outline drawing of Herne Bay, with Watchman Island visible. A colour code has been written in for later inclusion. Below, two men on a river in kayak-like rowboats Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, pencil and ink on pages of sketchbook, 310 x 250 mm

Date: 1907 - 1910

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-105

Description: Watercolour sketches of the Hauraki Gulf with some of its islands, as well as watercolour studies of cabbage trees. Two pencil sketches of sailboats, one concentrating on the shapes of the sails, the other on a light sketch of Auckland Harbour, with Rangitoto in the distance Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Two watercolour sketches and two pencil sketches, both sides of folded sheet 285 x 220 mm (unfolded)

Date: 1888

From: Hoare, E A, fl 1887-1888 :Drawings, watercolour sketches, photographs and notes of E A Hoare, Artiste, on board 'S S Tongariro'. December 1887 to March 1888

Reference: E-955-f-032

Description: A sunset view of Wellington Harbour, with the eastern hills in the distance, Point Halswell in the middle distance and a small sailboat on the water. The harbour reflects the colour of the sky Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - E A H [artist's initials in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 155 x 250 mm, on sketchbook page 255 x 370 mm

Date: [ca1943-ca1945]

From: Hoddinott, Kenneth Lewis, fl 1935-1965 :Photographs of boating, motoring and motorcycling

Reference: PAColl-8826-1

Description: Men engaged in meal preparation beside a tent. Men on a beach, and on a wharf (probably Paremata). Group photographs of men and women. Boats on a train on the way to a regatta. Men and boats on the beach at Paremata, Easter 1943 (see album for location and date). Boats on Wellington harbour, and sailing at Paremata. Members of a motorcylce club, gathered with their motorcycles, at oriental Bay, Wellington. Quantity: 36 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1868 - 1870

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-030

Description: Shows view across the water to bare grass-covered hills on far side of harbour. There is a house on small headland at right, and a sailing boat at centre left. Stuck on same page as, and titled jointly with, E-501-f-031. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 130 x 169 mm.

Date: 1861 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-033

Description: Shows sailboat on narrow stretch of the harbour with bare slopes to the water, and wooded slopes in the distance. A tree occupies full length of the left foreground. Probably painted around the end of the 1860s. The artist is known to have been in the vicinity after the wreck of the ketch (probably the "Crest") in 1868 - his picture of Akaroa Heads is dated 1869. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - (On separate label): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 138 x 175 mm.

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Bothamley family: Papers and photographs

Reference: 1/2-034942-F

Description: View of Picton, looking towards the foreshore, circa 1900. Sailboats can be seen in the harbour. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1912

Reference: G-251

Description: Shows a broad view of the harbour and foreshore at Picton from the eastern side, with yachts, launches, and many canoes, several in a race at the right of the picture. One of the launches is packed with spectators. There is a steamship tied up at the wharf at the right, and many spectators standing on the wharf. There are buildings on the waterfront, and houses further back to the left, one a distinctive two-storeyed house with verandahs and balconies and a turret. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 255 x 455 mm.

Date: 1849

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

Reference: E-296-q-041-3

Description: Rough sketch showing two figures in a waka with two triangular sails on the water in the foreground. In the distance is a distinctive hill, probably Mount Maunganui. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 45 x 75 mm.