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Royal tour 1901
Date: 1901
Reference: PA1-f-064
Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901. Scenes include the arrival of the royal visitors at various places, by ship, Royal carriages, and Royal train; ceremonies and rites welcoming them; views of triumphal arches erected for the tour, including Marble Arch (Queen Street, Auckland), the Auckland Harbour Board Arch, the Citizen's Arch (Wellesley Street), and the Government Arch (City of Wellington). Other ceremonies are associated with the presentation of war-medals; the laying of foundation stones (Victoria College for Maori Girls, Parnell, Auckland), the Wellington Town Hall, and the Queens Memorial Statue in Dunedin); and the march past and inspection of various guards, troops and veterans. One photograph shows Lord Ranfurly in Auckland, reading the proclamation extending the boundaries of the colony to include the Cook Islands (p 16). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "Visit of Duke of Cornwall and York (King George V.). 1901. Maoris - Auckland. Wellington. Christchurch". Hand-printed in ink on slip attached to front cover.
Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs of early Auckland, Lyttelton, and Dunedin
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
Government House, Auckland
Date: Aug 1850
From: Vigors, Philip Doyne (Lieutenant), 1825-1903 : Private journal of a four months cruise through some of the South Seas Islands and New Zealand in HMS Havannah
Reference: qMS-2081-016a
Description: Vigors' sketch ("No. 7") provides a view of Government House, Auckland, showing fences and surrounding outbuildings, with Mt Eden in the distance. Sketch has been fixed to an inserted page following p 16 in Vigors' journal of his voyage on HMS Havannah. Lieutenant Philip Doyne Vigors was an officer with the 11th Regiment of Foot. Quantity: 1 page. Physical Description: Ink and grey wash 130 x 178 mm
"Views in New Zealand" vol 2 - Photographs taken by Herbert Deveril
Date: 1873-1876
From: Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums
By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911
Reference: PA1-f-174
Description: Photographs, mainly of Auckland, but including some good views of Tauranga and one of Oamaru, taken between 1873 and 1876 by Herbert Deveril of Wellington. Also includes major bridges in Canturbury and Otago, government buildings and one native school. Deveril came to New Zealand in 1873. These photographs were displayed at the Philadelphia Centenary Exhibition in 1876. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
[Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland from G[overnment] House. [1861?]
Date: 1861
From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865
By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866
Reference: E-340-q-031/032
Description: View of Auckland seen from Government House ca 1861, showing the coastline, houses with picket fences and hills in the distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 175 x 520 mm (double-page spread)
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Auckland N. Z. 1846. Church. Barracks. Gov[ernmen]...
Date: 1846
From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Reference: A-292-040
Description: Right side of a panorama with A-292-039, showing St Paul's church, Britomart Barracks, Government House and the entrance to the Harbour. View from the Karangahape Road area of Auckland looking towards the town and harbour, across Parnell. An ink version of the full panorama is held in Manuscripts & Archives as an illustration to a letter dated 30 November 1846. Its title is Auckland from the head of the town valley. The left side of this panorama (A-292-039) shows Queen Street, the Queen Street Gaol, St Patrick's Cathedral under construction and Fort Britomart. Other Titles - Auckland from the head of the town valley, November 1846 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper 243 x 167 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].
Stevens, George Treacy, fl 1880s :Auckland. N. Z. 1885-1886. [Auckland, 1886?]
Date: 1885 - 1886
By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)
Reference: D-001-006-b
Description: Birds eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed birds-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm
Stevens, George Treacy, fl 1880s :Auckland. N. Z. 1885-1886. [Auckland, 1886?]
Date: 1885 - 1886
By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)
Reference: D-001-006-a
Description: Birds eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed birds-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm
View over Government House lawn and Auckland Harbour
Date: ca 1861
From: Urquhart album
By: Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898
Reference: PA1-q-250-39
Description: Photograph of a painting (possibly by John Kinder or Henry James Warre) depicting the view over the Government House lawn, and Auckland Harbour. Rangitoto is in the background. Date, and location, of original, unknown. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Man of war Rangitoto Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.6 x 19.9 cm, with trimmed upper corners, mounted on album page 27.1 x 21.7 cm
Government House Auckland : Notes on its history
Date: [1957]
Reference: qMS-0864
Description: Brief description of the various Government Houses built in Auckland, their occupants and visitors, a clipping from the `Auckland Star' (1957) re its use as a museum and notes on the `quaint' carvings of Auckland's Supreme Court building done by a young German, Teutenberg Probably taken from the `NZ Herald' (T G Kissling) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) (34 cm, blue pam case)
His Majesty's Veterans. Luncheon given by His Excellency the Earl of Ranfurly on Empire...
Date: 1903
By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)
Reference: Eph-A-VICEREGAL-1903-01
Description: Programme for veterans, probably of the South African War, included selections by the Band of the Countess of Ranfurly's OWn Regiment, musical items by Mrs Parkes, Mr Horace Stebbing, Mr A A Partridge, Mr F W Lloyd, Messrs C Leslie and J Smithson, Messrs V Dossetor and H Stebbing, Very Rev Dr Egan. The back cover shows a picture of the Veteran's Home in Auckland. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on folded card, 203 x 126 mm. Provenance: Purchased at New Zealand Book Auctions, 22 February 2009
Various artists :1. Wellington 1841. 2. [Old Government House, Auckland. 1880s]
Date: 1841 - 1880 - 1890
From: Various artists :[Album of watercolours, cards and published pictures, including scenes in New Zealand and European countries, belonging to Cherie Templer (nee Connell)]. 1830-1890
Reference: E-943-q-007
Description: Shows the Hutt Road (as a cart track) at the bottom of the steep bush-clad Western Hills on the right. There is a Maori canoe near the road, and three figures on the road, as well as one man in the foreground, possibly fishing. The suggestion of a settlement can be seen at the water's edge in the distance. The albumen print is of the old Government House in Auckland, partly obscured by bush. Two Norfolk pines can be seen at the front of the building, and large villas with verandahs can be seen behind it Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 112 x 182 mm and albumen print, 100 x 186 mm, pasted to page of album 265 x 220 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs E. J. Templer, UK (formerly of Tasmania), September 2012
Nicholls :Government House, Auckland. Nicholls [sc] [London; Hodder and Stoughton, 1878]
Date: 1878
Reference: A-019-007
Description: Probably a proof as engraving lacks binder's directors Extended Title - Published in: Buller, J, Forty years in New Zealand. London 1878 op p.151 where in the preface the author acknowledges `For the use of many of the engravings, I am indebted to ... Sir Julius Vogel..' Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 85 x 153 mm
Illustrated London news :Government House, Auckland, New Zealand. [London, 1864]
Date: 1864
From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]
By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)
Reference: E-372-f-024
Description: View of Government House and garden, Auckland. In the foreground are two men and a young girl, and a gardener carrying a scythe over his shoulder On same page is a portrait of Edward William Watkin Esq, M.P. for Stockport (from photograph by Messrs J & C Watkins) Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 45, July 1864, p.93. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 165 x 240 on page 375 x 255 mm
Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898 :From Government House, Auckland, New Zealand, March 22 1...
Date: 1861 - 1990
From: Various artists :Encounter with Eden ; cards / Wellington, National Library of New Zealand, 1990
Reference: E-279-q-127
Description: Reproduction of a pencil and watercolour painting by Warre, produced for `Encounter with Eden', an exhibition of paintings and drawings from the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia. One of a set of six greeting cards produced by the National Library of New Zealand featuring works of art from the exhibition. View from Government House looking towards the Waitemata Harbour, North Head and Rangitoto. The group on the lawn is likely to be Mrs Gore Brown and family, perhaps witha nursemaid. Artist H J Warre must have drawn this scene on arrival in New zealand while he was the recipient of hospitality from the Governor, fellow-soldier Colenl Gore Browne. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 85 x 133 mm on folded card
[Lady Ranfurly and Captain Dudley Alexander, and, the exterior of Government House, Auc...
Date: [between 1897 and 1903]
From: Ranfurly family: Collection
Reference: PA1-f-195-84
Description: Portrait of the Countess of Ranfurly and Captain Dudley Alexander, and, the exterior of Government House in Auckland, both taken by Herman John Schmidt between 1897 and 1903. The upper photograph (PA1-f-195-84-1) shows the Countess Ranfurly and Captain Dudley Alexander in the garden of Government House, Auckland. The lower photograph (PA1-f-195-84-2) shows the exterior of Government House in Auckland. Information for the upper photograph is from PA1-f-194-35, (the same image) Information for the lower photograph is from PA1-f-194-22, (the same image) Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Two photographic prints mounted on album page, 416 x 286 mm (page size)
Hill-Trevor album 1
Date: 1897-1904
From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly
By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Pulman (Firm); Shepherd, Cromwell, active 1903-1934
Reference: PA1-f-142
Description: Charles Hill-Trevor's personal album of the time he spent as personal secretary to Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. It records the New Zealand contingents sent to the South African war and public events, personalities and patriotic entertainments associated with that enterprise. Visits to Government houses in Australia record other governors, officials and official residences. On one occasion in Melbourne a New Zealand versus Australia polo match was played. Hill-Trevor shows an interest in Māori, wildlife conservation (including the bird sanctuary on Resolution Island), and the sports of fishing, polo and horsemanship. There are photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their principal servants as well as the Governor engaged in official functions such as opening the Kaiapoi council offices and laying the foundation stone of the Veterans Home, Mt Roskill, Auckland in 1903. Also photographs relating to the play 'The Geisha'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965 :Government House and gardens, Auckland
Date: 8 Dec 1861
Reference: PA7-53-35
Description: Government House and gardens, Auckland, Dec 1861. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Mount verso - top left - Auckland, Government House. 8.12.61 Identical image at PA1-q-250-02. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15.3 x 20.5 cm, mounted on card
Creator unknown :Photograph of Government House, Auckland
Date: [188-]
Reference: PAColl-8794
Description: Photograph of Government House, Auckland, taken ca late 1880s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 21.5 x 36.1 cm
Government House, Auckland
Date: [ca 1860s-1870s]
From: Gilberd, Edward Browse, 1904-1991 :Photographs of Auckland
Reference: 1/2-105456-F
Description: Government House, Auckland, taken ca 1860-1870s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative