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Date: 1845 - 1975

By: Wallace, John, 1788-1880; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-048-b

Description: Sandy beach in the foreground with Maori and Pakeha standing singly and in groups, (including a man on the right identified as "Robinson"), a sea-chest, a small boat and stacks of wood, jetties at the water's edge, several Maori canoes and ships in harbour identified as the U. S. Brig "Falco", the "Catherine Johnson" and the brig "Bee" (in the far distance). Reproduced by the Library in 1975 as one of the "Colonial Wellington" prints, with title From Thorndon Beach. The original watercolour is titled View of Wellington Harbour from Thorndon Beach 12 July 1845 (B-079-007. IRN 177622) Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - J Wallace pinxt 12 6 1845 [or possibly 12/2 1845]. "Falco" U.S. Brig. Raft of ... and Whale Boat. Maori Girls. Catherine Johnston Cutter. Canoes leaving Te Aro pah. Robinson. Bee Brig. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) framed. Physical Description: Photolithograph 253 x 449 on sheet 431 x 570 mm

Date: 6 Jan 1912

By: New Zealand. Native Department

Reference: MS-Papers-8811

Description: Manuscript petition in Maori, signed by Hohepa Paama, Tawhiri Te Mutu, Rapaera Te Teira and 43 others living on Matakana Island, regarding who should work on the railway line from Waihi to Tauranga, and asking that preference be given to them in the construction of the line. With typed translation. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, typescript

Date: 1845 - 1975

From: [Brees, Samuel Charles] 1810-1865 :Colonial Wellington; three views by Barraud, Brees, Wallace. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board 1975

By: Wallace, John, 1788-1880; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-048-a

Description: Sandy beach in the foreground with Maori and Pakeha standing singly and in groups, (including a man on the right identified as "Robinson"), a sea-chest, a small boat and stacks of wood, jetties at the water's edge, several Maori canoes and ships in harbour identified as the U. S. Brig "Falco", the "Catherine Johnson" and the brig "Bee" (in the far distance). Reproduced by the Library in 1975 as one of the "Colonial Wellington" prints, with title From Thorndon Beach. The original watercolour is titled View of Wellington Harbour from Thorndon Beach 12 July 1845 (B-079-007. IRN 177622) Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - J Wallace pinxt 12 6 1845 [or possibly 12/2 1845]. "Falco" U.S. Brig. Raft of ... and Whale Boat. Maori Girls. Catherine Johnston Cutter. Canoes leaving Te Aro pah. Robinson. Bee Brig. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) framed. Physical Description: Photolithograph 253 x 449 on sheet 431 x 570 mm

Date: 20 Jan 1915

By: New Zealand. Public Works Department

Reference: MS-Papers-8810

Description: Manuscript petition in Maori, signed by Hemi Maka, R H Wineti, Enoka Ngaitai and fifteen others living at Otamarakau, regarding who should work on the railway line from Tauranga to Opotiki, and asking that preference be given to them in the construction of the line from Waitahanui River to Matata. With typed translation. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms and typescript

Date: 30 Jan-14 Feb 1917

By: New Zealand. Public Works Department

Reference: MS-Papers-8812

Description: Manuscript petition in Maori, from T H Tarakawa of Te Puke, requesting that a railway station be erected at Pukaingataru where the roads from Te Tumu and Maketu meet. With typed translation and rough sketch map. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, typescript

Date: 1845 - 1975

From: [Brees, Samuel Charles] 1810-1865 :Colonial Wellington; three views by Barraud, Brees, Wallace. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board 1975

By: Wallace, John, 1788-1880; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-048

Description: Sandy beach in the foreground with Maori and Pakeha standing singly and in groups, (including a man on the right identified as "Robinson"), a sea-chest, a small boat and stacks of wood, jetties at the water's edge, several Maori canoes and ships in harbour identified as the U. S. Brig "Falco", the "Catherine Johnson" and the brig "Bee" (in the far distance). Reproduced by the Library in 1975 as one of the "Colonial Wellington" prints, with title From Thorndon Beach. The original watercolour is titled View of Wellington Harbour from Thorndon Beach 12 July 1845 (B-079-007. IRN 177622) Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - J Wallace pinxt 12 6 1845 [or possibly 12/2 1845]. "Falco" U.S. Brig. Raft of ... and Whale Boat. Maori Girls. Catherine Johnston Cutter. Canoes leaving Te Aro pah. Robinson. Bee Brig. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) framed. Physical Description: Photolithograph 253 x 449 on sheet 431 x 570 mm

Date: [1898-ca 1968]

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004 : Photographs relating to Maori

Reference: PAColl-9977-11

Description: Most of the photographs are views taken at a Maori funeral. There are two men seated outside a raupo whare. View of a church in a bare winter landscape in England. Composite photograph (probably a copy print) entitled "The Season's Greetings from the Land of the Maori" 1898, by G T Edwards, Mercer. View across the waters of a bay through branches of a pohutukawa tree. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1 Oct 1970

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1970/4183-F

Description: Right Reverend Manu Bennett, Bishop of Aotearoa, at the Gear Meat Company, Petone, Lower Hutt, Wellington, with Maori butchers. Photographs taken 1 October 1970 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: [191-?]

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

Reference: 1/1-010634-G

Description: Interior view of a warehouse, Kaitaia. Workers include a Maori man seating in foreground. Products include door frames, olive oil, and Scott's Emulsion. Photograph taken 1910s by Northwood brothers of Kaitaia. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1961

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0096-F

Description: Maori men working in the Kaingaroa State Forest, photographed in 1961 by Ans Westra. Includes 9 images of men chopping logs; 3 images of a man driving a bull-dozer. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives were digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 24 September 1894

From: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916 :Maori portraits and artifacts

By: Pegler, Enos Silvanus Abijah, 1869-1938

Reference: PAColl-1893-04

Description: Guard of honour at tangi of Tawhiao. The guard are carrying rifles. Photograph taken 24 September 1894 by Enos Pegler. King Tawhiao died 26 August 1894 at Parawera. He was buried at Taupiri after a tangi in September. On 24 September the tangi was open to pakeha visitors. The photograph was taken that day with a "Facile" camera. Sources of information: DNZB, vol 2; Sharland's New Zealand Photographer, 8 Oct 1894; William Main, Auckland through a Victorian lens (Wellington: Millwood, 1977). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 9.6 x 14.3 cm

Date: 1845

By: Wallace, John, 1788-1880; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; Barraud, Edward Noel, 1857-1920

Reference: B-079-007

Description: Sandy beach in the foreground with Maori and Pakeha standing singly and in groups, (including a man on the right identified as "Robinson"), a sea-chest, a small boat and stacks of wood, jetties at the water's edge, several Maori canoes and ships in harbour identified as the U. S. Brig "Falco", the "Catherine Johnston" and the brig "Bee" (in the far distance). Reproduced by the Library in 1975 as one of the "Colonial Wellington" prints, with title From Thorndon Beach. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - J Wallace pinxt 12 6 1845 [or possibly 12/2 1845]. "Falco" U.S. Brig. Raft of ... and Whale Boat. Maori Girls. Catherine Johnston Cutter. Canoes leaving Te Aro pah. Robinson. Bee Brig.; Backing board recto - beneath image - [in the hand of A. H. Turnbull] Painted by G. Wallace July 12th 1845. "Falco" U.S. Brig. Maori girls. Catherine Johnston cutter. Wellington Harbour - 1845. Robinson. Canoes from Te Aro Pah.; Backing board recto - bottom centre - [in the hand of A. H. Turnbull]: View of Wellington Harbour from Thorndon Beach 12 July 1845 by J. Wallace, father of J. Howard Wallace. [In the hand of Noel Barraud]: A Turnbull with compliments from Noel Barraud - 16/12/12. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & pencil 253 x 422 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull, given to him by E. Noel Barraud, 16 December 1912.

Date: 24 September 1894

From: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916 :Maori portraits and artifacts

By: Pegler, Enos Silvanus Abijah, 1869-1938

Reference: PAColl-1893-05

Description: King Tawhiao's soldiers performing a haka at his tangi. Photograph taken 24 September 1894 by Enos Pegler. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - copyright NZ 94; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Tawhiao the Maori King's tangi. Maori forces of.... King Tawhiao died 26 August 1894 at Parawera. He was buried at Taupiri after a tangi in September. On 24 September the tangi was open to pakeha visitors. The photograph was taken that day with a "Facile" camera. Sources of information: DNZB, vol 2; Sharland's New Zealand Photographer, 8 Oct 1894; William Main, Auckland through a Victorian lens (Wellington: Millwood, 1977). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 14.5 x 19.8 cm

Date: 24 September 1894

From: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916 :Maori portraits and artifacts

By: Pegler, Enos Silvanus Abijah, 1869-1938

Reference: PAColl-1893-06

Description: Guard of honour at tangi of Tawhiao. The man in the foreground, probably the commander of the guard, carries a sword. The guard, lined up at right, have laid their rifles on the ground. A group of pakeha visitors to the tangi, including children, are at left. Photograph taken 24 September 1894 by Enos Pegler. King Tawhiao died 26 August 1894 at Parawera. He was buried at Taupiri after a tangi in September. On 24 September the tangi was open to pakeha visitors. The photograph was taken that day with a "Facile" camera. Sources of information: DNZB, vol 2; Sharland's New Zealand Photographer, 8 Oct 1894; William Main, Auckland through a Victorian lens (Wellington: Millwood, 1977). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 14.6 x 19.6 cm

Date: Apr 1949

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Christensen, Edward Percival, 1907-1982

Reference: 1/2-040796-F

Description: Maori timber workers taking a break for a smoke and a cup of tea, Whakarewarewa, April 1949. Photograph taken by E P Christensen. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 24 September 1894

From: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916 :Maori portraits and artifacts

By: Pegler, Enos Silvanus Abijah, 1869-1938

Reference: PAColl-1893-08

Description: Guard of honour at tangi of Tawhiao. The guard are carrying rifles. Photograph taken 24 September 1894 by Enos Pegler. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - King Tawhiao's tangi, the body guard King Tawhiao died 26 August 1894 at Parawera. He was buried at Taupiri after a tangi in September. On 24 September the tangi was open to pakeha visitors. The photograph was taken that day with a "Facile" camera. Sources of information: DNZB, vol 2; Sharland's New Zealand Photographer, 8 Oct 1894; William Main, Auckland through a Victorian lens (Wellington: Millwood, 1977). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 15.2 x 20 cm

Date: Aug 1949

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-040732-F

Description: Dr Manahi Nitama Paewai, working in his surgery, Kaikohe, Northland, August 1949. Shows him taking a patient's blood pressure. A nurse stands alongside. Photograph taken for the National Publicity Studios by Edward Percival Christensen. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 1866

By: Liardet, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn, 1799-1878

Reference: B-035-018

Description: Flax and toitoi in the foreground, a group of Pakeha and Maori to the right, the Tuamarina Hotel with verandah and a shed in the middle ground, the Picton-Blenheim road with horse-drawn carriage, telegraph poles alongside and the hill with a monument where the Wairau Affray occurred in 1843 Liardet painted two copies of this scene. The Library holds an almost identical watercolour at C-030-017 Liardet was passing through Tuamarina to investigate iron sand deposits in the Nelson area when he painted this view. Quantity: 1 photograph(s) black & white. Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour 240 x 350 mm Provenance: Cowan left the painting with the Rutherford family at Canvastown and when their possessions were dispersed, an aunt of the owner bought the picture, said to be an "oil and watercolour with Indian Ink" [i.e. probably watercolour with Indian ink, possibly with gum arabic]. Information from the donor of the photograph, Tuamarina, 11.7.1955

Date: 1866 - 1868

By: Liardet, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn, 1799-1878

Reference: C-030-017

Description: Flax and toitoi in the foreground, a group of Pakeha and Maori to the right, the Tuamarina Hotel with verandah and a shed in the middle ground, the Picton-Blenheim road with horse-drawn carriage, telegraph poles alongside and the hill with a monument where the Wairau Affray occurred in 1843 Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. The monument to the victims of the Wairau Affray was unveiled in March 1866. This watercolour may show part of the unveiling ceremony Liardet painted two copies of this scene. A photograph of a privately-owned oil and watercolour is held at B-035-018 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 305 x 480 mm

Date: 1845

From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :Book of New Zealand sketches. Purewa, 1845, 1860.

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: E-137-q-015

Description: A tent and a group of four men, three Pakeha, one Maori, seated on the ground, having a picnic in a clearing in bush, hills beyond them and water below them. One of the men, seated with his back resting on a tree-trunk, is either drawing or making notes; one, possibly William Cotton, with spectacles, seated on the left is handing out food from a plate; one is reclining on the ground, the fourth, a Maori student, is seated and is being passed food The four men are likely to be students and /or teachers at St John's theological College, Purewa, Auckland. The man wearing glasses and facing the viewer may be William Charles Cotton, while the man showing sketching may be a self-portrait. The location of Potato Bay is not known, but is likely to be in Auckland, possibly near Meadowbank, where Hutton and Cotton were teaching. T. B. Hutton arrived in New Zealand in 1843 and taught at St John's College at Waimate in the Bay of Islands until 1844 when he moved to Auckland. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 220 x 280 mm in sketchbook