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Date: [1890-1965]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6717-075

Description: Typescripts and photocopies of articles, `Maungakiekie (One Tree Hill)' by M H Wynyard; `Maori geographical knowledge and mapping; a symposium' by P L Barton (Turnbull Library record, v13, n1, May 1980); `A Sketch of Maori church work on the East Coast in early times' by J G Baker; letter with notes on Buin stone implements (1965); manuscript of Eruera Te Uremutu from the Polynesian Society library Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript Typescript with ms annotations Photocopy of ms

Date: 1973 - 1892

From: [Various artists] :Three panoramas. Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1973.

By: Schmidt, William Shaw Diedrich, 1870-1968

Reference: D-001-014

Description: In the left foreground, a drive with horse and carriage, fenced with formal young plantings. In the centre and right foreground, partially cleared native bush, including flax, treeferns and cabbage trees. Rangitoto Island and North Head on the far left, the harbour in the centre and the city with its volcanic cones in the the background Issued with descriptive text sheet. First published as a coloured chromolithograph in the Christmas issue of the Weekly graphic, 1892 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 262 x 748 mm on sheet 427 x 890 mm

Date: 1922 - 1940

From: Brooks, Catherine, 1884-1980 :[Thirty (30) watercolours of Auckland, Onehunga and Rotorua. 1922-1940].

Reference: A-306-029

Description: Shows a view of the city and harbour of Auckland from Mt Eden, with Josiah Clifton Firth's house in the lower left, and Mt Eden Prison in the middle distance. North Head and Rangitoto Island are in the distance. The top of the Coromandel Peninsula can be seen in the right distance. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 228 x 354 mm.

Date: [1910s-1920s?]

Reference: PAColl-9667

Description: Photograph of a large fire at a building near the Bayswater wharves on the North Shore. In the background is Devonport, Stanley Point and Rangitoto Island. In the foreground are boats sitting in Shoal Bay. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: Eise, Ida Gertrude, 1891-1978

Reference: G-543

Description: View from a hill looking down on the sweep of the beach with houses lining the edge of the land. Rangitoto Island in the background Title from verso Inscriptions: Signed: I.G. Eise Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on hardboard 350 x 430 mm Provenance: The artist

Date: 1960 - 1969

From: Brown, Helen Campbell 1917-1986 :[Sketches]. 1937-1982.

By: Brown, Helen Campbell, 1917-1986; Jones, Lesley, active 1987

Reference: A-167-011

Description: Working sketch showing shallow water flowing across a mainland strand, and Rangitoto in the distance. Title given because of subject matter. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - (Pointer to water): Pale green blue (Beside sand): Shallow water/ thin yellowish [....]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Black felt tip pen and watercolour 272 x 374 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/ inventory available.. Provenance: Donation from the estate of the artist, 1987.

Date: 1937

Reference: MapColl-832.12bje/[1937]/Acc.1828-30

Description: Three maps of Rangitoto survey district. The first (Accn 1828) shows cadastral information of blocks I, II, V, X11 in the Tiritiri survey district, namely Motutapu Island, with reference to O.L.C. 164, DP 12402, land lots, the Defence reserve, Hurakia (Rakino) Island, and Waiheke Island's Matiatia Bay. The second (Accn 1829) shows blocks X, XI, XIII of Rangitoto and Otahuhu survey districts, specifically the Tamaki River, Karaka Bay, Motukorea or Brown's Island, the base of Motutapu Island, and the Motuihi Island domain in the Waitemata Harbour. The third (Accn 1830) shows block IV, the Pt. Rangitoto island Domain and the recreation reserve, lot 28279 and four smaller recreation reserves. Map one is signed A.J.S. 12.7.37; map two L.P.L. 12.7.37. Other Titles - survey district Quantity: 3 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale indeterminable, various sizes

Date: 1933-1937

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 :Photographs relating to family and scientific interests

Reference: PA1-o-1321

Description: Trip to Lake Waikaremoana and the Ureweras, March 1935. The sequence includes views of the lake, native forest, the meeting house at Te Whaiti, and huts associated with Elsdon Best. Visit to W H Guthrie Smith at Tutira, March 1937. This includes a photograph of Guthrie-Smith and another of the Tutira homestead with Guthrie-Smith and E G Turbot walking in the garden. Trip to Tokomaru Bay, February 1935. Photographs include Fishermen, Mount Hikurangi, Kiritahi Homestead, the Raukumaru Range, the Kopuapounamu River, the Maungakariki Stream, and other geological features. Photographs taken during a Geology II camp at Kawhia, Easter 1935. Shows student groups on a beach, Tainui Rock, and Albatross Point. A view of the coast and the old copper mine building, Kawau Island. Auckland University College Field Club's trip to to the Noises Islands, 1935. Depicts students collecting snail shells and grouped on a beach, and a view of a rocky islet from a cliff top. The locations depicted are Otata Island, Maria Island, and David Rocks. Auckland University Science Society picnic, and the Auckland Conchological Club's trip to Rangitoto Island, 1935. Auckland Univerity College Field Club's camp in the Huia Valley, May 1935. Views of Rangitoto Island and the Hauraki Gulf. This sequence includes photographs of Black-Backed and Red Billed gulls, their nests, eggs and chicks. Charles Fleming and a group of friends climbing on ice. Poor Knights Islands showing landscape, vegetation including Xeronema in flower, and a small penguin. Views of Waiheke Island which include Squadron Bay, a fossil bed at Oneroa, and Matiata. Gulls photographed on Motutapu Island, November 1933. A trip to Great Barrier Island. This sequence includes views of Port Fitzroy, a warship, Grave islet, Mount Camel, rocks and islets called "the Grey group," Wellington Head, Nelson Island and other islands at the entrance to Fitzroy Harbour, Whanagaparapara Harbour, Mount Hobson, Arid Island, Mohuki Island, and a gannet colony. Other photographs of bird life include shags perching in trees, gulls and pigeon and kaka in bush on Hen Island, a fantail and nest, shearwater and petrel burrows, and flocks of seabirds on a rocky coast. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1930 - 1939

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Auckland scenes] / Cranleigh Barton. - [1930s?]

Reference: A-227-044

Description: Trees, including a Norfolk pine, in the foreground the roofs of the city's buildings, Waitemata Harbour and North Head, with Rangitoto in the background Inscriptions: Recto - Signed: Cranleigh Barton Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 190 x 275 mm

Date: 1999

By: Auckland (N.Z. : Region). Regional Council; New Zealand. Department of Conservation; Barton, Phillip Lionel, 1925-2010

Reference: Eph-D-LOCAL-Auckland-1999-01/04

Description: Includes: Stonefields of South Auckland. Shows on one side a re-creation of everyday activities in a Maori pa - the view looks north over the Puhinui Stream and Matukutureia stonefields at Manurewa. South Auckland. Maungarei (Mt Wellington) can be seen in the background and Rangitoto Island in the distance. The verso includes photographs and text about the stonefields. Conserving Auckland's maritime heritage. Shows a reconstruction of a scene showing the arrival of the Tainui Canoe at Devonport. Shows settlements on Mount Victoria, North head, and Rangitoto in the distance. The verso shows Devonport's historic foreshore (including European landmarks) Our heritage - landscapes - One Tree Hill, Shows an aerial photograph of One Tree Hill (Maungakiekie) with emphasis on the geological shaping. Our heritage - landscapes - Mangere Mountain. Shows an aerial photograph of the extinct crater of mangere Mountain (Te Pane o Mataaho). Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters.. Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying around 420 x 610 mm. Transfers: Accompanied by eight postcards - "Our heritage - landscape" - housed at Eph-A-GEOLOGY-ca1998..

Date: 1844, [ca 1972]

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7888-145

Description: Contains photocopy of deed of purchase for Rangitoto Island (original held in Auckland Public Library), photocopies of undated magazine articles on Rev A G Purchas, and of the Albert barracks. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1911, 1913-1914

From: Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1550

Description: Photographs relating to Mr R V Kay. Includes photographs of a family vacation at Campbells Bay in Auckland, Nelson College Shooting Team (1911) and Takapau Divisional Camp in 1914. Inscriptions: Backing board verso - centre - Reg. V. Kay, 365 Tinakori Road, Wellington, 15/1/1915 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 135 x 180 mm

Date: 1869 - 1982

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: G-135

Description: Shows North Head and Rangitoto Is., with yachts and a man in a rowboat in the harbour. Taken from Judges Bay Reproduction of an original watercolour in the Alexander Turnbull Library (C-025-005) Believed to be a view from Hobson Bay until re-identified as Judges Bay in 2005. Compare Hoyte's view 'Mount Rangitoto from St George's Bay, Auckland, (reference number A-183-006) for a similar view, although the latter includes St Stephens' Chapel in Judge's Bay. Both views are taken from the area of the modern Parnell Rose Gardens Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - J. C. Hoyte, 1869 [in Chinese white] Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 320 x 456 mm, on sheet 420 x 610 mm (framed)

Date: 1895 - 1986 - 1924 - 1903

By: Worsley, Charles Nathaniel, 1862-1923; International Art Centre (Auckland)

Reference: D-019-026/026-a

Description: A view looking out to the harbour across the city Reproduction of watercolour 1924 date is an error. The artist died (in Italy) the previous year. The view could have been 1904, although the artist left New Zealand in 1903. No. 104 of an edition of 850. Quantity: 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Col. photolithographs 660 x 1010 mm ; Printed area measures: 240 x 750 mm Provenance: Acquired by legal deposit.

Date: 1893 - 1924

By: F A H (Artist), active 1893

Reference: E-520

Description: Contains watercolour sketches for calendar months: cyclamen for May, poppy and wheat for January, cornflower for February, primula for September, violet for ---;sketches of Auckland Harbour, North Head and Rangitoto from Mount Eden and the Domain; and sketches of small children in greeting-card style. Deposit slip notes that book is dated 1893-1924, but this later date not found during cataloguing in 1996. Inscriptions: Album page - (On fly-leaf): To dear Fan-fan from Mother and Father, With much love and a Merry Christmas, Opotiki 1893. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Fawn buckram-bound sketchbook, 21 leaves, 134 x 189 mm. Provenance: Anonymous deposit by mail in 1994.

Date: ca 1880s-1940s

By: Ely, Dunstan, active 1949

Reference: PAColl-4351

Description: Copy prints made by Dunstan Ely of Auckland ca 1880s, particularly views in the Albert Park area and including a view over open land to Rangitoto. Also included is a street scene of possibly Queen Street ca 1880s with Darby's US Dining Rooms, M Levy & Co, Hull Brothers, Shera Brothers and the New Zealand Insurance Company premises all visible; and a street scene of Wellesley Street ca 1940 with the State Advances Corporation building on the left and looking up towards the public library. Original photographer unidentified. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

By: Schmid, Max, 1945-

Reference: PA12-11384

Description: Views of and from One Tree Hill, Auckland.

Date: 1900-1910

From: Lightbourne, Ruth Elizabeth (Dr), 1949- : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10177-1

Description: Stereoscopic prints taken circa 1900 around New Zealand, by unidentified photographers. Includes images of a ferry coming into Auckland, an unidentified man photographed with Rangitoto Island in the background, various waterfalls and rivers, farmland, a thermal area [geyser?], mangroves, a monument with maori carving and a bust of Queen Victoria, an unidentified town, and a man on a kneeling horse. Quantity: 12 b&w stereoscopic cards. Physical Description: Stereoscopic cards

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-2067-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down from Mount Eden over part of Auckland City and Auckland Harbour with Rangitoto Island centre right distance. Auckland Grammar School with playing fields is in the centre middle distance. Many small boats in a bay left distance, with a larger ship just visible between the city and Devonport. Houses visible amongst trees in Remuera below on the slopes of Mt Eden. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-2071 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Auckland Harbour from Mt Eden. No. 3A; Marginal notes on negative - 3A 3A 3A [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 132.6 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-2069-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over an area of Auckland. Sheep grazing on a hill in the right foreground and on flat farmland below. Housing beyond with Auckland Harbour and Rangitoto Island visible in the left distance. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - "Auckland N.Z." from One Tree Hill. No. 2 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 105.2 cm