Places

Date: 1885

From: Dillberg, Gustaf, 1858-1934 :[New Zealand sketchbook. 1879-1887]

Reference: E-085-015

Description: Two views on one page. The upper view shows a pond with a fence and several houses in the middle distance. 'Pines' inscribed on the trees behind the houses, and 'Mrs Jarvis, Richmond' in the sky are to the right. The lower view is of Gisborne from the sea, with port area, houses and hills behind visible. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 178 x 254 mm (page size).

Date: 1851

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

Reference: E-455-f-019-1

Description: A general view of Nelson with the Cathedral to the centre left, a fenced hill below it, and a large house on lower ground to the right Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 73 x 122 mm

Date: [1880s-1900s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-o-167

Description: Family photographs, chiefly taken by William Hughes Field. Many of the views are unidentified, as are many of the portraits and group portraits. Some family members are identified, and a few taken in Botany Bay, Sydney, show Richard John Seddon and James Carroll speaking at a function. One image is a reproduction of a cartoon by William Hodgkins entitled `Mark Twain at the City hall Dunedin, on original sin (The watermelon story) ... A sketch from the stalls by W M Hodgkins' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green covers, 24 x 31 cm

Date: 1865-1911

By: Northwood Brothers (Firm); Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6996

Description: A printed christmas message from the headmaster, Frederick Knapp, to the pupils of Central Girls' College, Nelson 1907; carts on Commerce Street, Kaitaia, one passing the Kaitaia Hotel ca 1890s; newspaper photograph of early Nelson settlers W H Cole and M P Hargreaves in 1924 taken by Tyree; two of bullock teams in Kaitaia; Devonport and Northcote ferry terminal in Auckland ca 1911; girls of Nelson College for Girls with L Sheat on the left of the second row with Muriel Bell next to her in 1914; Awanui looking towards the wharf ca 1914 by Northwood Bros; Marsland Hill Memorial to the men who died in the New Zealand Wars in New Plymouth designed and erected by W Parkinson & Co, Auckland; seated portrait of Thomas Thompson 1865; a group of gum diggers outside Tynan's gum store in Waihopo ca 1890s; a group of Maori adults and children on an outing by bullock team, one man holding a concertina ca 1890s; a group of twelve Austrian gum diggers some with shovels and one holding a cat ca 1890s; Elizabeth Levestam and her four sons ca 1900; three of the camp site set up by a surveying party in the Victoria Valley ca 1890; the school at Richmond with the children lined up in the yard ca 1900s; the Anglican church at Richmond 1910; Headingly, the home of Thomas Thompson with Mrs Thompson and her eldest son in front of it 1911; a carriage outside a house holding about 12 people; John Sheat ca 1880; Alfred Sheat ca 1880; and Victoria Street, Hamilton showing a number of shops and businesses and some advertising hoardings on the left 1908. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-007700 and 007708 Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original negative(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Albumen prints and silver gelatin prints

Date: 1851

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

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-019

Description: A general view of Nelson, a view near Nelson, the Tasman Range from Motueka, a view along the Boulder Bank, a coastal view near Motueka and a canoe prow from Ngauranga, Wellington Quantity: 6 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolours, sizes vary

Date: 1865

From: [Warre, Henry James] 1819-1898 :[Sketchbook]

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: E-294-121

Description: Looking north along the waterfront with the windmill in the foreground, and a few houses with trees on the flat land and lower slopes of the hillls Extended Title - From: Warre, Henry. [Sketchbook] 1864-1865. p.121 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 97 x 173 mm

Date: 1865

From: [Warre, Henry James] 1819-1898 :[Sketchbook]

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: E-294-122/123

Description: Looking south along the waterfront with the Boulder Bank and Arrow Rock to the right, the entrance to the harbour in the centre, wharves and ships to the left, below a steep hill. A large house is on the crest of the hill, probably the house of Major Mathew Richmond Other Titles - Harbour Extended Title - From: Warre, Henry. [Sketchbook] 1864-1865. p.122/123 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 97 x 224 mm

Date: 1865

From: [Warre, Henry James] 1819-1898 :[Sketchbook]

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: E-294-064/065

Description: View from the hills above Port Nelson, with the Port and Arrow Rock, the end of the Boulder Bank and Waimea to the right, the signal Station and house on the cliffs to the left, with another house visible on a lower promontory in the centre. The lower house may be that of Major Mathew Richmond Extended Title - From: Warre, Henry. [Sketchbook] 1864-1865. p.64 to 65 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 97 x 348 mm

Date: [ca 1929]

Reference: PAColl-6887

Description: 16 views of Wellington and Murchison including: Oriental Bay from the west and the east; a park on Oriental Bay looking towards the harbour with a family with a pram pic-nicking; two of J O Smith's gentleman's outfitters on the corner of Lambton Quay and Bowen Street, one with the Government Buildings in the background and one taken from them; the Carillon from Buckle Street; the Hikitia lifting a buoy in Wellington Harbour; Seatoun taken from the north; the steamer Cowan (location unknown); three men, one in a uniform, standing next to a car with Newman Bros Ltd on the windscreen; a display for visiting dignitaries in the form of a human Union Jack possibly in Athletic Park for the Duke of York's visit; the Public Library building on Mercer Street with the Technical College and the Town Hall in the background and Wakefield Street to the right; Willis Street looking south; and three showing the damage after the 1929 earthquake to H J Hodgson & Co General Merchants and Ross's Hotel in Murchison and Nelson Boys' College. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044200 to 044215 Quantity: 16 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1861 - 1862

From: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877 :Sketchbook. [1860-1864]

Reference: E-569-054

Description: Shows a view looking north-west down towards Nelson Harbour, with a windmill at the far right. There are houses on the hill slopes in the foreground. The artist visited Nelson for the General Synod in February 1862. Extended Title - from her Sketchbook ca 1980. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour sketch, on page, 126 x 173 mm.

Date: 1950 - 1842 - 1959

By: Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866

Reference: B-046-016

Description: Subject: Numerous identified features, including jail, immigration barracks, survey offices, bank, various residences; also surveyor, settlers camping, housebuilding. Reproduced `through the courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library and the Dr F A Bett Collection'. Original: Tinted lithograph by Day & Hague in Wakefield, E . Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand (London : Smith, Elder, 1845) pl. 7, central portion. Same as B-046-016-a, b c Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, b&w, image 200 x 431 mm on sheet 246 x 457 mm

Date: 1857

By: Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884; Stanford, Edward, active 1857-1865

Reference: A-256-014-a

Description: cf. watercolour by H Maplestone. [The parsonage residences of the Rev. C L Reay and the Rev. H F Butt (Deacon), Nelson] 1849. Extended Title - Illustration from: Hursthouse, C F. New Zealand, or, Zealandia, the Britain of the South. London, Stanford, 1857, p. 122. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured lithograph, 90 x 160 mm on sheet 110 x 180 mm

Date: [ca 1930-1943]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-198

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1930s-1940s Churches at Hawera, Palmerston North, Opotiki, Te Aroha, Waipukurau, Nelson, Queenstown and Pararaka. Whangarei - Central Park/Mair Park, Mt Darby golf links, children playing in a dinghy at Matapouri, tennis courts. Russell - View of foreshore, and view from the hill with Achilles in port. Tauranga - Causeway between The Mount and Tauranga, pier at The Mount, Mission House. Palmerston North - Boys' High School and baths, View of North side of The Square. Napier - Harbour under construction, view from the hill looking south, The Esplanade showing gardens, children's play area and Sound Shell, National Tobacco Company, T & G Building, Government buildings in Shakespeare Street, Civic Square. Hastings - Poplar Avenue, Cornwall Park, W L C McLean's house Swarthmore at Havelock North with vineyard. Gisborne - Gladstone Road, aerial view of town, river view. Cambridge - Bowling green, BNZ building, clock tower & National Hotel (with caravans parked outside the hotel), etc New Plymouth - Aerial view of 72nd Annual A & P Show; Moturoa; ships in port. Invercargill - The Little Playhouse, Government buildings, Southland Museum, 1943. Also - Children from Kerikeri School leaving for a swim; Arawa Street, Matamata; Lake Drive, Hamilton; view of Lyell township; Burke's Pool, Opihi; Denniston township; Caroline Bay, Timaru; main Street, Winton; shipping at Bluff; Oban township, Stewart Island; view of Picton harbour from Hotel Terminus; Alexander Street, Te Awamutu; Arawa Street, Matamata; Wairoa from Te Uhi Hill; Art Gallery, Wanganui; view of wanganui from Aramono.. Quantity: 76 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [1900s]

By: Brookes, L V, active 1962

Reference: PA1-o-070

Description: Album of photographs relating to the Cable Bay Station, including group portraits of the post & telegraph staff, staff quarters, the telegraph instrument room, and aspects of daily life. Inserted in the front of the album is an undated newspaper cutting with news of the wedding of Miss Dorcas Vivian Ingram to Vincent Brookes of the Post & Telegraph Office, Wanganui. The wedding was held at St Matthew's Church, Masterton. The photographs in this album were probably taken by Vincent Brookes. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Maroon cloth album "Photographs", 24 x 19 cm Provenance: Donated by L V Brookes, Lower Hutt, 1962

Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]

By: Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA7-26-01

Description: Elevated view of Nelson showing houses and foot bridges over the Maitai River Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Maitai River. Tyree photo 994 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1884 - 1888

From: Schell, Frederic B d 1905 :Nelson, 1888 [and] [Star Lithographic Works] Departure of an early emigrant ship for New Zealand. [Auckland, 1890]

By: Schell, Frederic B, -1905; Barnes, K R (Miss), active 1985

Reference: A-109-061

Description: View of the city looking along the waterfront from a valley to the south. Style appears to be similar to illustrations in Garran's "Picturesque Atlas of Australasia" (1886) and signature also similar to Frederic Schell's monogram on many of these illustrations. However this image does not appear in the Atlas, the date 1888 is pencilled below the work and it comes from an unknown publication, possibly a newspaper. On verso of A-109-060 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Monogram - probably FS, but could also be JC or CJ Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 153 x 188 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs K R Barnes, Wellington, 1985

Date: 1950 - 1842 - 1959

By: Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866

Reference: B-046-016-c

Description: Subject: Numerous identified features, including jail, immigration barracks, survey offices, bank, various residences; also surveyor, settlers camping, housebuilding. Reproduced `through the courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library and the Dr F A Bett Collection'. Original: Tinted lithograph by Day & Hague in Wakefield, E . Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand (London : Smith, Elder, 1845) pl. 7, central portion. Same as B-046-01 & a, b Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, b&w, image 200 x 431 mm on sheet 246 x 457 mm

Date: 1891

By: Fletcher, Frances Ann, 1846-1935

Reference: A-123-017/018

Description: Shows Nelson college and cathedral. On verso: watercolour showing hills across inlet Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone watercolour 250 x 300 mm

Date: 1968

From: Einhorn family :Photographs

Reference: PA12-7997

Description: Houses, Brightwater. Houses, Richmond. All Saints Church, Richmond. House "Broadgreen," Stoke. Photographed by Helmut Einhorn in 1968. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1860

By: Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861; Payne, A D (Mrs), active 1997

Reference: A-306-010

Description: Shows house in Nelson rented by Bishop Hobhouse 1859-63. Shows a shingled roof, a long verandah with creeper growing over it, neatly planted garden, circular flower bed. The house is seen from the north (see plan on verso of A-306-004), with the skylighted chapel at left, and the bedrooms belonging to Mr Philpott and Mr Tudor at the right. There is a hatted figure sitting in the window of Mr Philpott's room, and another figure on the verandah. This sketch is virtually identical to those at A-306-005 and A-306-006, but there is less detail. There are numbers added, and a key at the top left, specifying the chapel, roof of bedrooms, over small spare room and drawing room, and the outside bedrooms. According to Shirley Tunnicliffe, it is Mary Hobhouse's writing of the title and key at the top. According to a hand-drawn map deposited at the same time, and probably also drawn by Maria Nicholson, this house was in Grattan Street, in The Wood area of Nelson. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy, 145 x 257 mm. Provenance: Donated by Shirley Tunnicliffe in 1997.