Places

Date: 1880 - 1900

From: Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :[New Zealand views]. Louis Glaser, Leipzig. [ca 1890s]

Reference: E-278-q-078

Description: View looking down onto Lyttleton from a hill. Ships can be seen docked at the wharves and in the harbour. In the foreground to the left are two carts, one filled with soil [?]. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, 90 x 137 mm

Date: 1868 - 1869

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Central Otago goldmining areas, 2 dated 1880]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-032-q-3-015

Description: View from the sea looking towards a large port on Banks Peninsula with eight vessels at anchor. The view appears to be of either Akaroa or Lyttelton The drawings numbers E-032-q-3-014-1 to E-032-q-3-019 were originally in the back pocket of the sketchbook numbered E-032-q-2 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 74 x 250 mm

Date: 1917

By: Fear, Robert, active 1988

Reference: MS-Papers-5784

Description: Cooper describes her early life in Greenwich, Kent and Camberwell, Surrey; the voyages of her father, Captain John Parsons, to New Zealand for the Canterbury Association with mention of John Godley, her voyage to Lyttelton in 1853 on the Minerva, life at Dampier Bay (now West Lyttelton) and in Christchurch as a governess, her marriage to Charles Edward Cooper in 1859 and her husband's job with the `Lyttelton Times'; later period living in Timaru and return to Christchurch in 1894; and at Sumner 1899. Many early Christchurch families are mentioned. Anne Elizabeth Parsons was the daughter of the first harbour master of Lyttelton Quantity: 1 folder(s) (17 leaves). Physical Description: Ms and typescript

Date: 1857

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-109-043-a

Description: View looking down from Mount Pleasant towards the township of Lyttelton, with streets, houses, churches, commercial buildings and wharves visible. Several ships moored in the stream, Quail Island can be seen to the right and the hills opposite (Diamond Harbour, Purau, Teddington). In the foreground are cabbage trees to the left and rocky outcrops to the right After Edmund Norman's lithograph: Lyttelton, Port Victoria, 1855, reference number B-051-006, which in its turn is based on an ink drawing in the Library's collection, Lyttelton Port Victoria, reference number B-009-008. A second very similar drawing with the same title is held at B-009-009 Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia. Opposite p.226 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted, 89 x 153 mm

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-386

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: A-048-033

Description: View of Lyttelton from across the harbour towards its south end, near Governor's Bay Attribution on grounds of style and internal evidence of the collection (A-048/027-051, B-064/021, C-064-003). Title and date from pencil inscription on verso Other Titles - From gully beyond Dampier's bay.... Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 177 x 252 mm

Date: 1865

From: Stiller, John 1945- : Documentation of historic pipe organs in New Zealand

Reference: 82-112-16

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1937

By: Thompson, Sydney Lough, 1877-1973; New Zealand. School Publications Branch

Reference: A-320-027

Description: A reproduction of Sydney Thompson's oil painting, showing a general view of the wharves, waterside buildings and anchored ships at Lyttelton. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 280 x 400 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane auction, Wellington, 13 May 2004, lot 333. From the estate of Owen R Lee.

Date: [ca 1908]

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6408

Description: Postcards of St Mark's Church, Remuera; the Waikato River at Hamilton; HM fleet in Lyttelton harbour; two of the Pavilion baths and grounds in Rotorua; the view from the grounds from the tower of bath house, Rotorua; an evening view of the Marine Parade gardens, Napier; the anglican church at Onehunga; a commemorative postcard of the dash to the south pole by Shackleton in 1908; Ferry Bridge over the Waiau River at Hanmer taken by Muir & Moodie; three views of boating at Hamurana Springs; Lakelet in the park, Queenstown; main street in Cust; Auckland Exhibition Grounds; Somerville Memorial Church at Remuera; Myers Park and Kindergarten; St David's Presbyterian Church; beach at Sumner, Christchurch; sanatorium and band rotunda, Te Aroha. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Prints also housed at PA5-0109 and PA5-0085. Quantity: 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 8 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 14 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945; Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4534

Description: Postcard of Partington's Mill with Eady's Piano Van in front of it and the junction of Queen and Customs Street with Thames Hotel and trams taken by Frederick Radcliffe; statue of Logan Campbell in Cornwall Park; Lake Tarawera taken by Blencowe; Lyttelton harbour taken by Muir & Moodie; and Evans Bay, photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: One print at PAColl-6181-10.

Date: [1880s-1890s?]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-o-111

Description: Scenic views, mostly of New Zealand, some of Australia, and a few taken in Scotland. Photographs mostly taken by Frank Arnold Coxhead; two of those taken in Scotland were by George Washington Wilson (G.W.W.). The album also contains a large number of coloured postcards, coloured reproductions of paintings, and coloured scraps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover, with black spine and corners, 27 x 38.5 cm

Date: 1992

From: [Calendars for the year 1992, of approximately A3 size. 1991].

By: Ross Butchery 1984 Ltd; Kingsgrove Calendars (Firm)

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1992-01

Description: Shows six pin-ups, photographic portraits of nude or scantily clad female models. Other Titles - Women Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (calendar). Physical Description: Photolithographs on sheets, 435 x 305 mm (metal bound at top) Provenance: Donated by Women Against Pornography, via the Wellington Independent Rape Crisis Centre, in 2004. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Related material from this accession is in Oral History OHColl-0753, and Manuscripts MS-Group-1307..

Date: ca 1870s

Reference: PAColl-4511

Description: Photographs of Queen Street, Auckland; sailing ships moored in Auckland harbour; Government House, Auckland; the Auckland Supreme Court; Lyttelton, with a church in the middle distance and commercial buildings in the foreground; Dunedin Hospital (built in 1864); view looking down Princes Street towards the Exchange Building (built as the Post Office but never used as such) with business premises on either side of the street and a sign for a dentist's on the right; the Exchange Building with a horse and cart to the left; and the town reservoir, Dunedin. Photographer unidentified but they have similar captions below the image. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-002193, 002206, 002207, 002215, 002367, 002368, 002370, 002379, and 002838 Quantity: 9 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1932

By: Bruce, Alfred Selwyn, 1866-1936

Reference: qMS-0287

Description: Original manuscript for work published in 1936, with same title. Concerns Christchurch, Sumner and Lyttelton, and covers early history, city geography, old identities, pioneer women, St Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Publication - The Early days of Canterbury; a miscellaneous collection of interesting facts dealing with the settlement's first thirty years of colonisation Canterbury historian Quantity: 1 volume(s) (201 pages). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (34 cm; maroon roan)

Date: [Circa 1880s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Lomer, Albert, active 1862-1900; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-262

Description: Album of Australian photographs of Brisbane and Tasmania, and views of a range of sites in New Zealand, taken by various photographers circa 1880s. Names and places identified in the album are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: 1857

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-109-043

Description: View looking down from Mount Pleasant towards the township of Lyttelton, with streets, houses, churches, commercial buildings and wharves visible. Several ships moored in the stream, Quail Island can be seen to the right and the hills opposite (Diamond Harbour, Purau, Teddington). In the foreground are cabbage trees to the left and rocky outcrops to the right After Edmund Norman's lithograph: Lyttelton, Port Victoria, 1855, reference number B-051-006, which in its turn is based on an ink drawing in the Library's collection, Lyttelton Port Victoria, reference number B-009-008. A second very similar drawing with the same title is held at B-009-009 Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia. Opposite p.226 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted, 89 x 153 mm

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

By: Walker, A (Mr), active 1968; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; C M (Photographer), active 1905; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Pratt, A A, active 1900s

Reference: PAColl-6639

Description: Postcards of ferries at wharves in Auckland, interior and exterior of St John's Cathedral in Napier, Waihi from Martha Hill, bowling green on the Domain at Te Aroha, Lyttelton at regatta time, Lyttelton harbour, Opera House, St Luke's Danish Church and All Saints Church and the Municipal Buildings, Palmerston North; the Triangle, Dunedin; Auckland Hospital, Grafton Road; Palmerston North Post Office; a view over Auckland from Mount Eden; the bridge over to the Cafe Continental; Hastings Street, Napier; Perry Street, Masterton with a hall on the right; tea kiosk in the park, Masterton; two carts on the road to Lansdowne, Masterton; the tramline to Onehunga, Auckland; Queen Street, Auckland; and Auckland harbour and wharves. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negative at 151877 Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 14 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Postcards

Date: 2009

By: Wunderbar (Lyttelton, Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-MUSIC-Popular-2009-01

Description: Poster shows text over a slightly indistinct photograph of a four-funnelled steamship moored at a wharf. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, 297 x 420 mm.

Date: 1919

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948

Reference: A-157-016

Description: A view looking south along the waterfront at Lyttelton, with the Port Hills behind and to the right. A small boat is passing through choppy water in the foreground and tall ships are moored at the wharves. The lighthouse is on the right Other Titles - Lighthouse, Lyttelton Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - Notes; Verso - Signature Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 241 x 343 mm

Date: [Circa 1870s-1880s]

From: Sarney, H F (Mr), fl 1959 :Photograph albums of New Zealand scenes

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-065

Description: Album of landscapes taken by various photographers including Wheeler & Sons and the Burton Brothers, circa 1870s and 1880s. All the views are of New Zealand except the last sequence (p 33-37) showing Rio de Janeiro. Of particular interest are views of a wool wagon drawn by oxen, crossing a ford; a series showing an unidentified curved viaduct under construction (p 28-32); and a number showing a farm run by J F L Jetter at Te Puke when the land was partially cleared, with cattle grazing in paddocks, and Mr Jetter standing by a horse in a paddock in front of his home. Many of the images show uncleared land, with a deep ravine filled with native bush and tree ferns, and a stream running through (p 24-27). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover with embossed diamond shape pattern, bordered with gold; 32 x 38 cm