Places

Date: 1950

From: [Whitefriars Glass Works] :[Six designs for stained glass windows for New Zealand churches. 1940-60s].

By: James Powell & Sons (Firm)

Reference: C-129-026

Description: Shows Gothic-arched window in late Gothic style with ornate canopies and pinnacles, depicting two scenes: the raising of Jairus' daughter, and the sentence "Suffer little children to come unto me". Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - 9338/167 1950 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 520 x 185 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Sotheby's London auction 28.5.1997, lot 92.

Date: 1860's

From: Richardson collection :Photographs of Auckland

Reference: 1/2-010799-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1839 - 1841 - 1846 - 1848

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Page, George Hyde, 1823-1908; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-003-029-a/040-a

Description: Set of looseleaf offprints originally published as a set of 12 prints in "New Zealand calendar 1974". Contents: Goldmining at the Thames [i.e. Goldmining at Thames] / J.B.C. Hoyte. - Nelson Haven, 1841 / Charles Heaphy. - The Pink Terraces, 1874 [i.e. The White Terraces, 1888 (detail)] / C.D. Barraud. - St Mark's Church, Remuera [i.e. S. Mark's, Remuera & Mt Eden, 1859] / Rev. John Kinder. - The Barracks, Napier / C.D. Barraud. - Auckland, 1848 [i.e. Auckland, New Zealand, 1848] / Lt. Gen. G.H. Page. - The Aglionby or Matukituki Valley [i.e. In the Aglionby or Matukituki Valley, looking into the Otapawa, 20th Feb. [1846]] / Sir William Fox. - In Otira Gorge, 1864 [i.e. Otira Gorge, 1864?] / Sir William Fox. - Dunedin, Otago, 1861 [i.e. Part of the town and harbour of Dunedin, Otago, N.Z. [1861?]] / W.S. Hatton. - Kahu Kahu, Hokianga River [i.e. View of the Kahu-Kahu Hokianga River [December] 1839] / Charles Heaphy. - Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860 [i.e. Mount Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860] / Lt. Gen. C.E. Gold. - Bream Head, Whangarei / Charles Heaphy. Title from cover of calendar. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title and artist]; Recto - bottom left - Alexander Turnbull Library, / Wellington, N.Z.; Recto - bottom right - A.R. Shearer, Government Printer, / Wellington, N.Z., 1973. Quantity: 24 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 24 photolithographs, (2 sets of 12), variously sized from 157 x 238 mm, to 240 x 304 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright in the 1970s.

Date: 1844 - 1890

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Star Steam Printing Company; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927; Keesing, G S (Mr), active 1960s

Reference: D-001-009-a

Description: Extensive view of a plain with volcanic cones in the background, including Mount Hobson and Mount Eden, showing a feast given by Waikato Chiefs in 1844, attended by about 4000 Maori and many Pakeha. A 400 yard-long shed is in the background and Governor Fitzroy is shown visiting the scene with many other Pakeha on 11 May 1844. Features and incidents are numbered and described below the work. A haka is being performed on the right for Fitzroy, Sheppard (the colonial Treasurer) and William Swainson (the Attorney General). Tribal groups are named as Ngatihaua, Ngatikoroki, Ngatimahuta, Ngatiwhatua, Ngatikoura and Ngatiruru and the plain is covered with large numbers of people, the majority Maori. A lithograph presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890, which is derived from an earlier lithograph published by Samuel Augustus Tegg in 1845, which in turn is after an original watercolour of the event made in 1844 by J. J. Merrett in the Hocken Library. This copy lacks a printed inscription on the recto of copy D-001-009 "Presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890" Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph in two tints 220 x 840 mm on sheet 285 x 890 mm Provenance: Donation: G S Keesing

Date: 1900

From: [Ephemera concerning individual schools, with names beginning with R. 1900-2010]

By: Ladies College (Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-SCHOOLS-Remuera-1900-01

Description: School prospectus lists Mrs S A Moore-Jones as principal, Miss A F Moore-Jones as vice-principal, and refers to a staff of six English and foreign governesses and visiting professors. It includes photographs of the college buildings, and of pupils involved in tennis, music playing and art classes. There were classes in scripture, mathematics, English, French, German and Latin; geopgraphy, science, hygiene, drawing, painting, needlework, calisthenics and singing. A list of fees is given. Handle with care; covers and pages loose. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, 135 x 220 mm.

Date: 1844 - 1890 - 1969

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Star Steam Printing Company; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927; Heritage Fine Prints; Wilson & Horton (Firm)

Reference: D-001-023

Description: Extensive view of a plain with volcanic cones in the background, including Mount Hobson and Mount Eden, showing a feast given by Waikato Chiefs in 1844, attended by about 4000 Maori and many Pakeha. A 400 yard-long shed is in the background and Governor Fitzroy is shown visiting the scene with many other Pakeha. Features and incidents are numbered and described below the work. A haka is being performed on the right for Fitzroy, Sheppard (the colonial Treasurer) and William Swainson (the Attorney General). Tribal groups are named as Ngatihaua, Ngatikoroki, Ngatimahuta, Ngatiwhatua, Ngatikoura and Ngatiruru and the plain is covered with large numbers of people, the majority Maori. A 1969 photomechanical reproduction, taken from a lithograph presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890, which is derived from an earlier lithograph published by Samuel Augustus Tegg in 1845, which in turn is after an original watercolour of the event made in 1844 by J. J. Merrett in the Hocken Library. Print no 142 of an edition of 1000 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of tinted lithograph in two colours 205 x 794 mm (image) on sheet 293 x 876 mm

Date: [Circa 1870s-1880s]

From: Sarney, H F (Mr), fl 1959 :Photograph albums of New Zealand scenes

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-065

Description: Album of landscapes taken by various photographers including Wheeler & Sons and the Burton Brothers, circa 1870s and 1880s. All the views are of New Zealand except the last sequence (p 33-37) showing Rio de Janeiro. Of particular interest are views of a wool wagon drawn by oxen, crossing a ford; a series showing an unidentified curved viaduct under construction (p 28-32); and a number showing a farm run by J F L Jetter at Te Puke when the land was partially cleared, with cattle grazing in paddocks, and Mr Jetter standing by a horse in a paddock in front of his home. Many of the images show uncleared land, with a deep ravine filled with native bush and tree ferns, and a stream running through (p 24-27). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover with embossed diamond shape pattern, bordered with gold; 32 x 38 cm

Date: ca 1870's

From: Richardson collection :Photographs of Auckland

Reference: 1/2-010440

Description: Print only Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1870s-1880s]

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-11

Description: View from Mount Eden looking south over Epsom towards Mount Hobson and beyond. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril in 1870s-1880s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 23.5 x 35 cm

Date: 1976

Reference: Eph-C-MUSIC-Dorian-1976-01

Description: Shows a black and white photograph of the Dorian Choir singing, with their conductor. The background is yellow. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 497 x 370 mm.

By: Hotere, Ralph, 1931-2013; Loney, Alan Perress, 1940-

Reference: B-090-008

Description: Arrangement of text with three horizontal rows of dividing dots, a row of clouds, and a row of diamond shapes. Not in Marriage register 1969, 1975, 1980, 1986. Possibly 1997. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, on sheet 425 x 253 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Alan Loney in 1999.

Date: 4 Oct 1963

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-60768-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

From: Richardson collection :Photographs of Auckland

Reference: 1/2-010795

Description: File print not located. Print only Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1983-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a wide driveway from the left which divides to go left in front of a two-storeyed wooden convent building with verandahs upstairs and downstairs on the left. On the right the drive leads towards large buildings partly hidden by trees. A large lawn with established trees, palms, cabbage trees, shrubs and flower beds on the left. Two women are seated on a garden seat in the centre middle distance. Another woman is walking in front of a building in the left middle distance. Large Norfolk pine in the right foreground. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1987 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Convent Sacred Heart. [No.] 84A. Victoria Avenue. Remuera. Auckland, N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.4 x 131.1 cm

Date: [1970s-1990s]

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11703

Description: Transparencies of houses in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the name or brief description, and/or the location, of the house. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Many slides are not dated. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case labelled 'North Island Houses'. The arrangement was by location of house, approximately from North to South, from back to front then from left to right. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

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-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-462-097

Description: A view of what is probably Hobson Bay or Orakei Basin, at low tide, from Orakei Road in Remuera. Houses and trees are visible in the distance, as is a small sail boat on the water Other Titles - Orakei 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-462-109

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

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-462-101

Description: A view from Mt Hobson in Remuera across Auckland Harbour to Rangitoto, showing North Head on the left, houses and trees in the centre, and possibly Buckland's Beach and Howick on the right Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on loose page of sketchbook, 127 x 173 mm