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Date: 1875 - 1890 - 1885 - 1891

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to John White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, 1890

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: A-274-055

Description: A reproduction of a photograph, showing Te Hauhau, a Maori chief or priest, seated at the entrance of a carved and painted wharenui. He is clad in formal Maori clothing with huia feathers in his hair and is holding a taiaha, point down, in front of him. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - in blue pencil: 10-6-89. Also in pencil above image, ringed: Printer Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, on sheet 291 x 230 mm

Date: 1980 - 1981

By: Pearson, Alan Robert, 1929-2019; Capper Contemporary New Zealand Art Prints

Reference: C-085-123

Description: Portrait of man and a pregnant woman Original oil in Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, measures 181 x 137 mm Same as C-085-123-a Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph (coloured) ; 580 x 430 mm on sheet 730 x 580 mm

Date: 1868 - 1889 - 1888 - 1891

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to John White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, 1890

By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: A-274-057

Description: Standing portrait of Horonuku Te Heuheu Tukino IV. He has two huia feathers in his hair, wears two kiwi feather cloaks and carries a patu in his right hand. A redrawing of a photograph taken at Tokaanu, Lake Taupo, by the Burton Brothers, between 1868 and 1888 A copy by John Hugh Boscawen of a photograph. The photograph shows Te Heuheu with a background of a wharenui. Earle was in New Zealand for six months, 1827-1828 and met 'Aranghie' or Rangi in the Bay of Islands Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, on sheet 225 x 148 mm

Date: 1903-1930s

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-63

Description: Includes material on Maori history, geography, science, health, language, placenames, prose, poetry, waiata, New Zealand flora and fauna, the transpacific migration of the Maori, personalities, `Problems of the Maori', `Should Maori have equal rights like Europeans?', religion, Maori artifactual preservation, land claims and Maori art Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter (some with holograph annotations)

Date: [ca 1880-1922]

By: Le Grice, Edward, 1881-1959; Lennard, Leslie Maurice Wyn, 1903-1988

Reference: PAColl-0398

Description: Photographs by Edward Le Grice of Piha and Huia showing the coastline, streams and the houses of early residents including Le Grice's boarding house. The collection also includes photographs of sawmills and bullock teams hauling kauri logs. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Copies of original prints Provenance: Donated by Maurice Lennard, Pukekohe, 1983

Date: 1937

By: Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd; Kibblewhite, Maree Christine, 1960-

Reference: Eph-C-BOWLING-1937-01

Description: Shows certificate text framed with grape vine decoration, and showing men playing lawn bowls at the bottom. Circular insets for Blenheim (huia), Marlborough (rising sun), Picton (fiord), Awatere (wheat sheaf) at four corners. Other Titles - Blehheim, Marlborough, Picton, Awatere. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph and ink, on certificate 316 x 251 mm. Provenance: Donated by Maree Moxon in 1999.

Date: 1886 - 1890

From: Lister, Joseph Jackson 1857-1927 :[Lister album] 1886-1890 [Watercolours by Joseph, and possibly Isabella and Gulielma Lister]

By: Williams, William, 1858-1949

Reference: E-394-f-023

Description: On the left, two carved wooden axes with stone blade. On the right, three waka huia, with huia feathers and an ?ostrich feather. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - titles in pencil Quantity: 2 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen prints, 189 x 153 mm

Date: 1875 - 1890 - 1885 - 1891

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to John White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, 1890

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: A-274-032

Description: A reproduction of a photograph, showing Te Hauhau, a Maori chief or priest, seated at the entrance of a carved and painted wharenui. He is clad in formal Maori clothing with huia feathers in his hair and is holding a taiaha, point down, in front of him. Image is reversed with printed photographers' number (3606) and title appearing back-to-front Inscriptions: Recto - centre left - in pencil 'Not clear, carving and the chief quite dim, can it be made so that it can shew all in the picture. J. White, 17 July '89'. Also lower right in pencil: 'Mr White. Reverse and name please'. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, on sheet 291 x 230 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives -.

Date: 1886 - 1890

From: Lister, Joseph Jackson 1857-1927 :[Lister album] 1886-1890 [Watercolours by Joseph, and possibly Isabella and Gulielma Lister]

By: Williams, William, 1858-1949

Reference: E-394-f-024

Description: The heads of two huia, both males, the upper one with a corkscrew curve to the lower beak The caption (probably by Dr John Lister) is incorrect. Both birds are male, with distinctive long curved beaks Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 139 x 139 mm

Date: [ca 1885-1945]

By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PAColl-0422

Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1844]

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

Reference: A-020-005

Description: On the left, a watercolour of the point of a taiaha (spear) with notes about war costume of Maori. There is also a drawing of a huia feather and a note about a momument at Ngauranga to the memory of Te Wharepouri. On the right, 'slave preparing food' at Ngauranga Pa, shows a crouching woman inside a hut, preparing small round objects, possibly potatoes, from a basket in front of her. The taiaha is the original sketch for a lithograph In: Angas, G F, The New Zealanders illustrated, (London, 1847), Plate 58, No 7, p 130, where it is described as E Hani. The slave woman is the original drawing for a view in the upper right corner of Plate 59, no. 2 ' Domestic sketches' Other Titles - Ngauranga Nga Hauranga. Huia. War costume Quantity: 1 drawing(s). 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil 182 x 100 mm; Watercolour 175 x 107 mm

Date: [ca 1930s-ca 1985]

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10010-011

Description: Aerial photographs taken by Leo White and Whites Aviation between the 1930s and circa 1985. Images show Auckland region, particularly Howick. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in sets according to location. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Finding Aids: Most of the Whites Aviation negatives have been digitised and images are searchable by Record title and by Whites Aviation reference number e.g. WA-12345..

Date: 1980 - 1981

By: Pearson, Alan Robert, 1929-2019; Capper Contemporary New Zealand Art Prints

Reference: C-085-123-a

Description: Portrait of man and a pregnant woman Original oil in Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, measures 181 x 137 mm Same as C-085-123 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph (coloured) ; 580 x 430 mm on sheet 730 x 580 mm

Date: 8 Oct 1902-3 May 1903

By: Woodridge, G Charles, active 1902-1903

Reference: MS-Group-0912

Description: Woodridge sailed to New Zealand in Oct 1902 and in his journal describes his voyage on the ss `Papanui' visiting the Spain, Tenerife, the Cape of Good Hope and Tasmania en route, his travels through New Zealand, his departure and voyage back to England on the `Rimutaka' via Cape Horn, Uruguay. He writes of his daily activities, the people he met, the various sights, social life and customs of the places visited and he has included in the volume stamps from the various ports they visited, photographs, pen drawings, dried plants, maps and a huia feather. His itinerary is summarised at the end of the book which also includes a brief address list of persons met and rough abstract of expenses. Woodridge visited Wellington, Napier, Rotorua, Auckland, Helensville, Dargaville, Kaihu, Mangawhare, Maropui, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Pipiriki, Palmerston North, Pohangina, Christchurch, Dunedin, Queenstown, Paradise, Skippers, Wanaka, Alexandra, Lawrence, Christchurch, Springfield, Otira, Reefton, Nelson and Picton A telegram and two greetings cards were also with the journal Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (111 pages). 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, photographs and printed matter Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Two photographs, one of Woodridge, the other of a family group with the name Mrs Forbes written on it. Throughout the text are inserted photographs, stamps and drawings

Date: 1875 - 1890 - 1885 - 1891

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to John White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, 1890

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: A-274-054

Description: A reproduction of a photograph, showing Te Hauhau, a Maori chief or priest, seated at the entrance of a carved and painted wharenui. He is clad in formal Maori clothing with huia feathers in his hair and is holding a taiaha, point down, in front of him. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - in red ink: Approved. John White. Also in pencil, top left: Approved. Rather dim photo. 31st Jny 88. Also below image in red ink: Whare puni (at Te Kuiti); Verso - in ink: Mr White. Put on the name. (followed by initials and the date) 31 7 88 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, on sheet 291 x 230 mm

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-010

Description: View from a hill near the water's edge, looking down towards pohutukawa, with a small group of Maori dwellings at the water's edge, alongside a small stream. Across the Manukau harbour can be seen the Huia area. The settlement at Titipai was about one mile west of the kainga of Awhitu, which in turn was about two miles west of James Hamlin's Church Missionary Station at Orua, at Manukau Entrance, the southern end of Manukau Heads Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Other Titles - Manakau Harbour Christmas Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink, with Xmas 1843 in pencil upper right sky area. The paper (cream wove) has a blind embossed stamp, lower right, marked 'Extra fine Bristol' inside an oval leaf-pattern. Sketched on Ashworth's trip to the Waikato December 1843 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and sepia wash 183 x 227 mm Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's auction, 1966

Date: 1901

From: Various artists :[Addresses presented to R. J. Seddon and Mrs Seddon. 1891-ca.1906]

By: Worsley, Charles Nathaniel, 1862-1923; McGowan, James, 1841-1912; Bock, William Rose, 1847-1932

Reference: D-005-008

Description: Illuminated text flanked at top and right by New Zealand scenes painted by C.N. Worsley: Wanganui River, Pink Terrace, Mount Egmont, Wakarewarewa [sic], Wellington Heads, Tongariro, Lake Taupo, Maori Whare, Queen Charlotte Sound, Buller Gorge, Lake Te Anau, Franz Joseph [sic] Glacier, Lake Wakatipu, Milford Sound. Also shown are kiwi, huia, tui and weka. Photograph shows that original was framed in carved wooden frame with Maori motifs. Other Titles - To his Royal Highness George Frederick Ernest Albert, Duke of Cornwall and York... Inscriptions: Recto - (At head of address): New Zealand June 11th 1901 / To His Royal Highness / George Frederick Ernest Albert; Recto - beneath image - (Signatures): R. J. Seddon (Premier);G. Hand (Colonial Secretary); J. Carroll (Native Minister); Wm. Hall Jones (Minister for Public Works); Jas McGowan (Minister of Mines); T. Y. Duncan (Minister 0f Lands); C. H. Mills (Commissioner of Customs).; Recto - bottom left - Wm. R. Bock delt.; Recto - bottom right - C. N. Worsley 1901 Dating: George V as the Duke of Cornwall visited with his wife in 1901. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph, black and white 470 x 300 mm, on board 562 x 455 mm, of original watercolour. Provenance: Probably arrived with Seddon papers, from Seddon family.

Date: [19--]

From: Hunter family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0049-158

Description: Includes articles on landslide dispute in Brooklyn; Wellington Harbour; communal riots at Poona; Huia feathers; article by Viscount Bledisloe; berthage available at Wellington wharves (map); etc Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 14 Jul 1957

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-44434-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 14 Jul 1957

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-44442-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 1/2 plate