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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: ca 1880

Reference: PAColl-7406

Description: Photographs of Auckland including: looking across the harbour to Devonport; the Rakaia in Caliope dock; the Scotch church; looking down College Hill; Victoria Street looking across Queen Street to Albert Park showing businesses in the area such as Sharland & Co and R White boot shop; Mount Eden; the Supreme Court; the flagpole and cannons at the top of Albert Park looking out over the harbour; two views of Karangahape Road showing shops, carriages and carts; the first St Matthew's Church; St Paul's Church on Symonds Street; the public hospital showing the tennis court in front and the screens on the balconies; houses on Franklin Road, Ponsonby; the Railway Station with advertising for the New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd and Arthur Cleave & Co; Ponsonby Road with a church on the left and J Clarke, undertakers, on the right; Ponsonby Road with a bakers and butchers on the right; the Synagogue on Princes Street; looking north along Queen Street with the DSC building on the right; a ship in dry-dock at the wharves; Hobson Street with St Matthew's Church on the right; and four views of the wharves including one showing the ferry. Photographs of Lyttelton: two elevated views to the harbour one with a church in the centre and the other with an artist painting the view at an easel; the railway lines at the wharves; and three men next to coal carts being loaded with coal from a ship at the wharves. Described on the reverse of the file prints as "copy negatives taken from faded prints". Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004172 to 004200 Quantity: 30 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: ca 1860s

From: Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs of early Auckland, Lyttelton, and Dunedin

Reference: 1/2-002193

Description: View of the side facade of the Supreme Court building in Auckland. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [Circa 1920s]

Reference: PA1-o-441

Description: Album of photographs taken circa 1920, by an unidentified photographer. None of the images have inscriptions; only a few places have been identified. Identifiable buildings and locations have been listed above. Many of the scenes are of a two-storey English cottage in the Arts & Crafts style, showing exterior and interior views. There is one of a viewing tower with windows and gables, possibly in the garden of the same house. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, entited "Photo-graphs"; 22.0 x 17.5 cm

Date: 1907-1908

By: Phillips, Jillian, 1950-

Reference: PA1-q-1069

Description: Photograph album of Wellington and trips around the North Island. Includes views of the opening of Victoria Bowling Club, bowling matches and other bowling clubs in the North Island, the contruction of the Grafton Bridge, Rotorua geysers, Te Wairoa buried village, and Dominion Day celebrations at Newtown Park, Wellington, Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 310 x 260 mm Provenance: Photograph album was compiled by Jill Phillips' great-grandfather.

Date: 1954

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

Reference: Plans-2006-058-194

Description: Shows a view of the stone Supreme Court Building in Auckland, including the square tower, and partly obscured by trees in the left foreground. Original file numbering was: 004.06.02.011 Quantity: 1 plan(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing, 280 x 390 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: 1954

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

Reference: Plans-2006-058-195

Description: Shows a view of the interior of the Supreme Court Building in Auckland, including the Judge's bench and audience seats. Original file numbering was: 004.06.02.011 Quantity: 1 plan(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing, 390 x 285 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: 1954

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

Reference: Plans-2006-058-196

Description: Shows a view from a higher level of the Supreme Court Building in Auckland. Original file numbering was: 004.06.02.011 Quantity: 1 plan(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing, 390 x 580 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: ca 1867-1880s

By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882

Reference: PAColl-7478

Description: Waterloo Quadrant, Auckland with the Supreme Court on the left; Eden Crescent, Auckland with the Supreme Court in the distance; elevaated view of Grahamstown looking towards the wharves with the Moanataiari Hotel in the foreground; a view of Shortland; view of Nelson looking across the harbour to the Post Office on the waterfront and the cathedral beyond; and the waterfront at Hokitika showing a bonded store on the left and a boat and a coil of rope in the foreground. Photographer was Tensfeld. The prints have the same format and two are duplicates of prints in the Tensfeld album PA1-o-493 but the provenance is otherwise unknown. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004560 to 004563 and 004777 (copy negatives from original prints) Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1870-1880

By: Best, Walter, 1848-1929; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Monkton, Charles Henry, 1840-1890; Harding, R E (Mrs), active 1949

Reference: PA1-q-028

Description: Photograph album compiled by Walter Best, comprising views of Wellington, Auckland, Picton, Nelson, Naseby, Manawatu Gorge, Mahurangi, Te Ore Ore Pa, Masterton, Hutt River, Lorne station on the Waikohu River, Napier, Lyttelton, West Coast, Reefton, Maitai Valley, Bulls, Wanganui, Waitotara, Waimate plains and Mitre Peak. Also includes a photograph of the Best family home, Fernbank, Tinakori Road. Photographers represented include James Bragge and Charles Henry Monkton. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/1-000763, 1/1-000783, 1/1-00260, 1/1-002712 to 1/1-002721; 1/2-004094, 1/2-004136, 1/2-004698, 1/2-004699, 1/2-014969, 1/2-015699, 1/2-018087, 1/2-020713, 1/2-020714, 1/2-020716; 1/4-009246, 1/4-010018, 1/4-010023, 1/4-10024, 1/4-010894, 1/4-014970 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Donated by Mrs R E Harding, Wellington, in May 1949

Date: [19--]

Reference: PAColl-D-0724

Description: Photograph of a large group of men, 21 of whom are wearing legal wigs, taken outside the Auckland Supreme Court. Sir Robert Stout is in the centre front row. Name of photographer and date are unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: 365 x 555 mm on card

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

From: Commons family :Assorted negatives, photographs and postcards relating to the Commons family

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PA5-0075

Description: Supreme Court, Auckland NZ, showing three men standing at the gate, published by Muir and Moodie, Dunedin from their copyright series of views. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 87 x 137 mm Provenance: Donated by Commons family 1976

Date: 1916

From: Murphy, Elizabeth, fl 1976 :Photographs relating to the trial of Rua Kenana

Reference: PA1-o-357-11

Description: Mr T England, District Constable Andy Grant and District Constable William Cobeldick standing outside the Supreme Court, Auckland, during the trial of Rua Kenana Hepetipa in 1916. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Mssrs T England, Dist Constable Grant & Cobbledick Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1904

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-002838-G

Description: Parnell, Auckland, from the Supreme Court, in 1904. The road right of centre is Parnell Rise. The view includes Parnell School (top of Parnell Rise, to left), a timber mill (far left), Sargent & Littleproud coach builders, the Southern Cross iron works (behind coach builders), Hoiland Brothers and Gillett engineers. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1916

By: Suckling, Walter, active 1860s-1880s; Wilkinson, Percy Russell, -1954; Ruscoe, I H (Mr), active 1973

Reference: PA1-o-358

Description: Photographs taken during the trial of Rua Kenana in 1916 at the Supreme Court in Auckland. Includes portraits of people associated with Rua and the trial, and most of the photographs were taken outside the Supreme Court. Photographer unidentified, except for a two-part panorama of Maungapohatu Pa, probably taken by Percy R Wilkinson, a surveyor sent in by the police to gather evidence for them A label at the back of the album advertises Walter Suckling (as the publisher?) It is understood that a number of similar photograph albums of the trial were created. Rua Kenana was accused of using seditious language, counselling others to murder or disable the police, and resisting arrest. He received the sentence of one year's hard labour followed by 18 months' imprisonment. Inscriptions: Album page - Frontispiece - To my old friend - - Hare Hongi. Commemorating the longest trial ever held in this country - with very best wishes. Percy R Wilkinson. Kai huri whenua. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Small fawn cloth-covered album, with stamped label `V.P.K. snaps'; 8 x 11 cm

Date: 1916

From: Murphy, Elizabeth, fl 1976 :Photographs relating to the trial of Rua Kenana

Reference: PA1-o-357-13

Description: Policemen associated with the arrest of Rua Kenana Hepetipa, standing outside the Supreme Court in Auckland during his trial in 1916. Shows Denis Cummings, John O'Hara, Tim Cummings, James Blakely and Michael Fahy. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Sergt Cummings Sergt O'Hara Consts Cummings, Blakeley & Fahey Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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

Reference: 1/2-047749-G

Description: Auckland Supreme Court. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [1930s?]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/2-154575-F

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

Date: 1868, 1871 etc

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-041

Description: Photographs of the North Island of New Zealand taken by Daniel Mundy during the 1860s to 1871. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in this album at p. 51) The Thames goldfields are shown in a number of images, including some with captions Shortland and Grahamstown (now part of Thames); the Moanataira [i.e. Moanatairi] wire tramway, with the Rainbow Hotel nearby; Hunt's claim (known as the Shotover Mine); the Missouri Battery; the Bank of New Zealand building at Grahamstown; and miners' huts. The timber industry is shown with kauri logs being transported by bullock teams and awaiting transport by water. Photographs associated with Maori include military outposts at Terewera (i.e. Tarawera) and Ormond; "Kawiti's Runanga, or court houses, now `tapu', Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 21); "limestone caves at Waiomeo [sic], Bay of Islands; the burial place of the Mangakahia tribe. Strictly tapu" (p. 22); "Group at Waimeo feast, Bay of Islands" (p. 20); "Native feast - or bone-scraping at the burial of the remains of several chiefs at Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 46); "Waipawa Valley, Poverty Bay, scene of the massacre by Te Kooti" (p. 47); "Here the moa feet impressions were found, Poverty Bay, Sept. 1871, D.L.M." (p. 51). There are two-image panoramas of the Thames goldfields and Napier. In this album they are not on following pages, but are separated. (Thames goldfields, Mundy numbers 121 & 120, here seen on pages 9 and 15); Napier (Mundy numbers 164 & 165, here seen on pages 50 and 52). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover, geometric pattern, gold decoration, entitled `New Zealand' in gold; 30.5 x 42.5 cm

Date: 1916

By: Suckling, Walter, active 1860s-1880s; Wilkinson, Percy Russell, -1954; Murphy, Elizabeth, active 1976

Reference: PA1-o-357

Description: Photographs taken during the trial of Rua Kenana in 1916 at the Supreme Court in Auckland. Includes portraits of people associated with Rua and the trial. Most of the images were taken outside the Supreme Court. Photographer unidentified. A label at the back of the album advertises Walter Suckling (as the publisher?). One view is a two-part panorama of Maungapohatu, probably taken by surveyor Percy R. Wilkinson It is understood that a number of similar photograph albums of the trial were created. Rua was accused of using seditious language, counselling others to murder or disable the police, and resisting arrest. He received the sentence of one year's hard labour followed by 18 months' imprisonment. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Similar album at PA1-o-358 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Small fawn cloth-covered album, with stamped label `V.P.K. snaps'; 8 x 11 cm