Places

Date: 1864

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-041

Description: Shows Ohimemutu, the area from the church to the end of the pa, steam rising from the hot areas and with many people bathing in the lake. A building to the left bears a flagpole. Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Other Titles - Rotorua, Ohinemutu Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 154 x 340 mm Provenance: Wilkie Collection

Date: 1868

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PAColl-8216

Description: Photograph of the homestead at Grasmere Station, near Cass, Canterbury, photographed in 1868 (14th of June or August) by Daniel Louis Mundy. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - [barely visible] Mundy NZ No 27 14/[6 or 8 ?]/68; bottom left - Sheep station Canterbury 158 Relationship complexity - Another print of this image is in the Mundy II album PA1-f-040, page 45 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.9 x 21.5 cm

Date: 1892

By: Batley, Robert Anthony Leighton, 1923-2004

Reference: 1/2-017061-F

Description: View of bullocks pulling carts laden with large bales at Moawhango in Rangatikei. Taken by an unidentified photographer in 1892. Note on back of file print reads: View of the settlement which appears to be the same as in 17059 1/2 although there are more buildings. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1855

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895; Williams, William, 1800-1878

Reference: C-103-019-1

Description: Shows Archdeacon (later Bishop) William William's homestead surrounded by trees with a lawn in front. The photographer may be William Williams or Mantell; or possibly William Leonard Williams Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Salt print, 109 x 195 mm

Date: 1843 - 1844

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: E-216-f-041

Description: View from above Grafton Gully, covered in dense bush, with fenced hills and Governor Hobson's grave in the cemetery to the left. Government House is left of centre in the middle distance and three other houses overlooking Grafton Gully are somewhat closer on the right, one of them the home of William Connell, the first Postmaster-General and his wife Isabella. In the distance across the water, the flagstaff marks Mount Victoria, with Rangitoto beyond that. The flat island further off, left of centre is Tiritiri. Painted in early 1843, before the artist moved to an appointment at Russell. A fence has been raised around Governor Hobson's grave. The funeral had taken place in November 1842. Compare Mitford's very similar view at E-216-f-111 Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in ink; also on verso, alternative title in pencil: Entrance to the Harbour, Auckland Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 161 x 244 mm

Date: 1912

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-020031-G

Description: View of Newtown, Wellington, in 1912, overlooking the backyards of houses on Riddiford Street. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1878

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903

Reference: A-226-010

Description: The township of Halcombe (named after the artist's husband, A. W. F. Halcombe) with houses on a sloping hill above a road, bush cleared back in the background and the Tararua Range in the distance. Lithograph from: The Feilding Settlement, Manchester block, Manawatu, New Zealand. By A W F Halcombe Note on lithograph: Halcombe ESH 1878 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - ESH 1878. Halcombe. [inscribed in reverse. The artist has neglected to reverse them on the lithographic stone to allow them to print out correctly] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (two-tone) 116 x 203 mm

Date: [ca 1900]

Reference: 1/2-077464-F

Description: Overlooking the house of Alexander Richardson Watson in Devonport, Auckland, circa 1900. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Biographical information about A R Watson, and about the house in this photograph supplied by Doug Bolitho in August 2008. This house was built ca 1879 for Mr W L Rees, and bought by A R Watson in 1882. Watson did extensive work to the grounds, leveling, terracing and planting. Watson died in 1911 and his estate including this house was inherited by his son, Alexander Richardson Dickie Watson, who died in 1917, leaving no natural family. After the First world War the house was used as a convalescent home for wounded soldiers, and in 1934 was partly destroyed by fire. It was demolished in about 1936. (Information from Watson's great great nephew, Doug Bolitho, August 2008. Watson's obituary can be found in the New Zealand Herald for 30 October 1911.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001164-G

Description: The Women's Home (District Homes), Thames. A two storied wooden building surrounded by a formal garden. `The Women's Home' is written across the front and a large sign at the roof level reads `District Homes'. Paddocks can be seen beyond the trees at the back. The Men's Home is situated next door in the same grounds (to the right). Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Women's Home. Thames. 1407D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [1909]

Reference: 1/2-051319-F

Description: Looking east, towards Evans Bay, over streets and houses in Hataitai, Wellington. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1909. Source of descriptive information - Library client provided the date on the basis of a house built in 1909 seen in the photograph newly built, 2009. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Haitaitai [sic]. A1171. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1848 - 1849

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: A-143-013

Description: View from the south end of Paihia Beach, probably in the 1840s, looking north along the beach with a row of houses at the foot of the hill to the left. Several Maori with their canoes are on shore, and a food storage platform appears outside the fenced area surrounding the European houses. Includes William Williams' house, a two-storied residence, built of stone and mortar, with 3 dormer windows, burnt down 15 Feb. 1856 Catalogued by both Sotheby's and McArthur's as the work of Cuthbert Clarke. However on both stylistic and handwriting grounds (c.f. Merrett's work in A.T.L. and the British Library), the work appears to be by Merrett. In addition, the date 1848 predates Clarke's arrival in New Zealand by one year Other Titles - Paihia Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Pahia Beach, Bay of Islands [In pencil]; On mount, discarded by auctioneer before purchase by Library: Title and date. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour over pencil 163 x 229 mm Provenance: Previously sold at Sotheby's, London, 6 November 1985.

Date: [1930s]

From: Wellington City Council :Negatives of Wellington taken for the Wellington City Council, chiefly by Frank Giles Barker

Reference: 1/1-024301-G

Description: Looking east over the suburb of Kelburn, Wellington, in the 1930s. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: between 1895 and 1906

From: Rowe, Reginald Keith, 1906-: Negatives of Wellington, Otaki, Wanganui and other districts

Reference: 1/1-003757-G

Description: Oriental Bay, Wellington. Looks east from Oriental Terrace, over Oriental Parade, towards Point Jerningham. Photograph taken by Mr Rowe between 1895 and 1906. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1871

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Sketchbook [of New Zealand views. 1871-1876].

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908; Hamblett, Irene Beatrix, 1915-1995

Reference: E-400-f-006

Description: Shows two men on bank in foreground pointing out the small sailing boat arriving. At right distance is house on crest of hill. E-400-f-007 is on verso. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J.P.B. / 13.3.71; Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and monochrome wash, 261 x 370 mm.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Elder, Henry Richardson, 1859-1937

Reference: Pan-0700-F

Description: Panoramic view of homestead "Mapuna" in Havelock North, taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-0711-F Inscriptions: Marginal notes on tape - H. Elder Havelock N 3 [Written up other way] 22; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - "Mapuna" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 132.1 cm

Date: [1910s?]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001119-G

Description: Panoramic view of Runanga with Ward Street in the foreground. The state school is shown centre right (it was destroyed by fire ca 1934); the miners' hall is the large building to the centre left of the school. Photograph taken ca 1910s by William Archer Price. Source of descriptive information - Note on back of file print which reads (Info. D. Piner, 1993) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Runanga. [No.] 1434B Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: Apr 1981

From: Baillie, William Jeavons Hall, 1941-:Slides, photographs, and other material

Reference: 35mm-00884-F-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1926

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2187-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over Lyall Bay. Houses in the foreground with the bay in the centre of the image. Hills on right and left. Taken by Robert Percy Moore Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Lyall Bay 1926. No. 375[?] Wellington, N.Z.; Photographer's title on negative - Photo by R.P. Moore. 80 Manners St. Wellington. Phone 2202 Relationship complexity - See also 1/2-134188 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose nitrate negative 19.7 x 100.7 cm

Date: 1861

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-174-004

Description: Shows an identified house on the lower Terrace above Lambton Quay, being the house belonging to the Chief Postmaster in Wellington at the time, John Farr Hoggard (1815-1871). The house was built in 1856. There are other, single-story buildings along Lambton Quay, and rowboats pulled up to the water's edge. Two Maori are on foot to the left of the foreground. The boundary of Mr Hoggard's house is fenced. The surrounding bush and hill areas are untypically brown, for Wellington. In the foreground, riding along Lambton Quay, is a carriage pulled by two horses, carrying four people; the carriage is known to have belonged to William Barnard ('Barney') Rhodes, 1807-1878, and the carriage was distinctive for its yellow wheels. Rhodes was also known for his house 'The Grange', situated in Wadestown A copied example of this painting at G-644 by Edith Richardson, the sister-in-law of John Farr Hoggard. Another copy by John (Jack) Hoggard, son of John Farr Hoggard, is privately owned. The copy titled 'Lambton Quay 1854' is incorrect; it also suggests the location is the vicinity of R Hannah and Co's boot shop Other Titles - Lambton Quay, 1860 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C D Barraud / NZ 1861 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white on paper, 325 x 430 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase, 'inherited from the vendor a direct descendant of the Hoggard family. Private collection, Kapiti Coast' (catalogue)

Date: 1864

By: Huddleston, Francis Fortescue Croft, 1846-1922; Monro, Paul Alexander (Dr), 1928-2013

Reference: B-195-010

Description: A view of one of the Maori pa on the eastern banks of the Whanganui River, possibly Ranana Pa. The river winds its way through the middle of the scene, while the pa is visible on the right, or eastern bank; there are a number of whare, surrounded by pallisades. On the western bank, a number of Maori adults and children are fishing; there is a dog in the water and a canoe out in the middle of the river, as well as one drawn up on the western bank. The hills are green beyond, with poplar trees growing near the pa site Huddleston was resident in Nelson in 1864, and is known to have travelled up the Whanganui River Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - FFC Huddleston / 1864 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 350 x 500 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase, in the collection of Dr Paul Alexander Monro, Taupo