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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: 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: 1863

From: Artist unknown :Watercolours of New Zealand during the Waikato War of 1863 and on the voyage back to England, 1864.

Reference: A-161-038

Description: Pohutukawa flowering in the foreground of a view probably taken from the garden of Judge William Martin, Judges Bay. The view takes in North Head and Rangitoto Island in the background. Purchased with A-161-032/041. All appear to be by the same hand. Inscriptions: Verso - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 177 x 272 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: 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: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-069-1

Description: A view of Auckland from Mt Eden, showing the harbour, the hospital, North Shore and Rangitoto Island. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Auckland from Mt Eden 19/9/82 - Harbour - Hospital - North Shore - Rangitoto Is Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double image). Physical Description: Pencil 88 x 363 mm

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: 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: 1885 - 1886

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: E-964-q-024

Description: Shows sailing boats on a stretch of Auckland Harbour, with Devonport in the middle distance and the distinct shape of Rangitoto rising in the distance. There is a fenced roadway in the bottom left foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on wove paper, 180 x 150 mm (image)

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

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-2071-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down from Mount Eden over part of Auckland City and Auckland Harbour with Rangitoto Island centre distance. Auckland Grammar School with playing fields is in the centre of the image. Remuera housing amongst trees in the right foreground. New houses under construction in the centre right foreground on the right of a large two-storeyed brick and timber semi-detached house with a tiled roof. Quarry in the left foreground. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-2067 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Auckland N.Z. from Mt Eden. No. 3 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 117.0 cm

Date: 1910

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-095

Description: A view of Rangitoto Island from the hills in Auckland. The land appears largely undeveloped but a large building stands in the middle distance, probably Auckland Hospital Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on loose page of sketchbook, 127 x 173 mm

Date: 1910

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-096

Description: A view of Rangitoto Island from the North Shore suburb of Stanley Bay. Shows a number of houses, and toetoe in the foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on loose page of sketchbook, 127 x 173 mm

Date: 1910

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-094

Description: A view from suburban Auckland, probably Parnell, across the harbour to North Head, Devonport and Rangitoto in the distance. To the left is a distinctive tall, slim structure, probably belonging to St Andrew's Presbyterian church on the corner of Symonds Street and Alten Street. A variety of houses, picket fences and cabbage trees are in view in the foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on loose page of sketchbook, 127 x 173 mm

Date: 1884

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-110

Description: A view of Auckland Harbour from a private garden, possibly in Parnell. North Head and Devonport are in clear view, with Rangitoto beyond. A lone steamer can be seen on the water. In the foreground, beyond the private garden's fence, is dense bush with a few houses scattered amongst it Painted before Mary Wills was married, hence the signature of Wykes, her maiden name Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Auckland Harbour / M Wykes 1884 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 141 x 191 mm, adhered to card 235 x 305 mm

Date: 1910

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-109

Description: A view of Auckland Harbour from near the water's edge at Remuera. North Head and Devonport are on the left, Orakei is on the right and Rangitoto is in the distance. A small rowboat sits on the shore in the foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on loose page of sketchbook, 177 x 253 mm