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Album of Sydney buildings and New Zealand colonial soldiers and towns
Date: ca1875-ca1885
From: Swainson, Jane :Photographs of military forces in Taranaki, Nelson, Hokitika, Parihaka and Rotorua.
By: Bayliss, Charles, 1850-1897; Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920
Reference: PA1-q-707
Description: Views of notable public buildings in Sydney dating from the late 1860s to the late 1870s. Nelson City during a public parade involving colonial soldiers. Soldiers in military encampments, parading, and firing Cannon. Views of Lake Rotorua, Parihaka at the time it was occupied by Government troops, Hokitika waterfront, floods in Greymouth, and a wedding in Nelson. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Contents of an album and postcards of Auckland
Date: ca 1880- 1966
From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-8066-14
Description: Government troops at Parihaka in 1881. Gudgeon with a group of European men and women on the verandah of Queen Makea's house in Avarua, Rarotonga. King Koroki's funeral in May 1966. Edith Tuke and her Napier house in the 1890s. A man on hoseback at "Wairoro." Soldiers with a field gun. A memorial cross. Two children ca 1905. A sheet of 8 postcards relating to Auckland Other material includes short typed notes relating to Gudgeon; a letter to Beryl Gudgeon from the Auckland Museum dated 1936; an obituary for Mr C R Howden; information relating to Arthur Tuke's career dated 1876. Except for the Auckland postcards, the material in this collection was contained in an album entitled "Gudgeon 1965-1920." This album judging from the captions which were on each page, contained photographs relating to Gudgeon's life. By the time the album reached the Turnbull Library, these photographs had gone and it was filled with an assortment of items, none of which related to the captions on the plastic pages. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).
Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :Crossing the Patea 24. 2. 1865.
Date: 1865
From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[New Zealand sketches, 1864-1866]
Reference: B-045-046/047
Description: Shows close view of troops on the bank of the river preparing to cross: some loading dinghy at left, a group sitting smoking pipes centre left, a cannon and packhorses waiting to go. Further off are wagons, more soldiers, two sailing ships and several dinghies crossing the river towards the left bank in left distance. At right background rises the high ground of the right bank, and in central distance the camp on the cliff top. Verso contains pencilled diary notes for 14, 15, 16 March 1865: packed up tents and marched to Manutahi Pa but no sign of life there and they took peaceful possession, looting wharies and getting a few pigeon spears, mats and plenty of potatoes - went out and shot a pig and stabbed another - next day shot another pig with revolver. On 16 March, got up early and went to stock yards where a "most troublesome little black cow" was chosen - she ran and "butted everything including a poor gun horse who got in the way - however she was soon lashed up to a gun, and yielded good milk for breakfast". Inscriptions: Recto - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, 138 x 464 mm.
Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Camp at Patea [1865]
Date: 1864
From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]
By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898
Reference: E-047-q-050
Description: The camp at Patea with small canon and canon balls in the foreground, larger guns and gun carriages and tents in the background. Saddles and other horse tack are slung over the traces of the gun carriages and soldiers can be seen around the tents in the background. A raupo whare stands on the right Probably a copy of an original by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams Inscriptions: Verso - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream paper, 84 x 240 mm
[Arden, Francis Hamar], 1841-1899 :Bell Blockhouse, Taranaki. 1860.
Date: 1860 - 1922
From: Cowan, James :The New Zealand wars. Wellington, Government Printer, 1922.
By: Arden, Francis Hamar, 1841-1899; Webb, Steffano Francis Pavlovich, 1880-1967
Reference: PUBL-0054-1-161
Description: Shows the tower of the blockhouse on the left, and other buildings in the middle distance. There are several soldiers standing on guard in the foreground, and a cannon on wheels in the centre. The location of the original for this book illustration is not known. The photograph in Cowan's book was made by Steffano Webb. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of watercolour (book illustration)
Artist unknown :[Album of an officer. Goat grazing beside soldiers' tents, Taranaki May...
Date: 1865
From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867
Reference: A-277-026
Description: Mount Taranaki in the background of a scene in a military camp with a white goat (or possibly a bullock?) to the left, three tents and a mounted gun. In the foreground a man is carrying water. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour over pencil, 64 x 115 mm
[Gold, Charles Emilius] 1809-1871 :65th Camp Waitara N. Zealand Taranaki 1860
Date: 1860
By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871
Reference: B-103-011
Description: Mount Taranaki in the background, with the tents and flags of the 65th Regiment (commanded by the artist), several soldiers and a large gun on wheels in the foreground. 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: Backing board verso - bottom left - Camp Waitara Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 180 x 270 mm
Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :View looking up the Patea River. [South Taranaki, 1...
Date: 1864 - 1865
From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]
By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898
Reference: E-047-q-045
Description: View looking inland, with the south cliffs of the Patea River to the right, a small steamer moored at the base of the river. At the near (northern) bank a schooner is moored or beached, its anchor in the sand, while soldiers are gathered nearby on the riverbank, two with a gun carriage, and one on horseback. a plain and low hills can be seen beyond the river Closely based on a watercolour by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams ' Looking up the Patea [1865]' in the now dismantled Williams' sketchbook in the Hocken Library, p. 119. Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white on cream paper, 126 x 274 mm Processing information: Ship description updated in November 2024 from cutter to schooner following information from a reseacher.