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Date: 21 Aug 1943

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000603-F

Description: Official launching ceremony for eight motor tow-boats built in Auckland for the United States armed forces. Shows a crowd on a wharf alongside two boats decorated with flags. Photograph taken by John Pascoe, 21 August, 1943. Caption - Caption in Pascoe file in Photographic Archive reads: "A launch gets this view of a launching, with the spectators and shipyards below a magnificent sky." Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - above image - 20,603 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1863 - 1865

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-012

Description: A picnic with a dozen people sitting on the ground. Part of the text below is missing but the main male character appears to be offering beer to a young woman. Others are also holding beer bottles and glasses The artist was a surgeon with the British forces during the Waikato-Tauranga war of the mid 1860s Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 231 x 212 mm (irregular)

Date: 1 Jan 1850-31 Dec 1851

By: Swainson, Henry Gabriel, 1830-1892; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: MS-2096

Description: Journal kept by Swainson on board HMS `Havannah' and HMS `Bramble' on voyages between England, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Contains detailed descriptions of social life in Sydney, Wellington, Hobart and Auckland, and of the Society Islands, the Isle of Pines, Fiji and Rio de Janeiro. Includes a photograph of Swainson and an engraving of Crick Church, Northamptonshire. A typed inventory of outline of events is included. Accompanying material - Photograph of Henry Gabriel Swainson; transcript of portion of journal, Oct-Nov 1850, when Swainson was at the Isle of Pines; outline of events noted in the journal, by Lynda Scarth; note by Dorothy Swainson re provenance of journal; engraving of Crick Church, Northamptonshire Source of title - Supplied title: title on front endpaper `Private journal/Commencing Jan 1st 1850/Ending December 31st 1851/Henry Swainson/Her Majesty's Ship "Havannah"/ Sydney 1850-' Quantity: 1 volume(s) (186 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (23 cm, ½ red calf, marbled boards in red buckram hinged lid box) Transfers: Two pencil sketches (1) Hutt River (1849) signed W & HS and (2) of HMS `Havannah' at Darling Point, Port Jackson, removed to Drawings and Prints. Enlarged copy of photograph of Swainson in PS 284152.. Processing information: Digitisation details - Inserts located at the end of the digital files

Date: 1858-1859, 2001

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Crump, John (Rev), 1828-1912

Reference: MSDL-1275

Description: Title continues:`...and his life in Auckland, and letter to his mother, Onehunga'. Crump describes his voyage to New Zealand on the `Kingston' with fellow missionaries Robert Vickers, William Rowse and James Moorhouse. He mentions shipboard events including the collision with an American whaler on 24 Dec 1858, fellow passengers, and his life in Auckland where he lived with the Buddle family at Onehunga. References to Rev Harding, Rev Thomas Buddle and family, Mr Turton, Mr Vercoe, and Three Kings Native Institution. Also includes a letter from Crump to his mother written from Onehunga, 24 Jun 1859. The Kingston arrived at Auckland on 28 Dec 1858 Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Processing information: Part of SBDD (shipboard diary digitisation) project

Date: 21 August 1943

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000597-F

Description: Official launching ceremony for eight motor tow-boats built in Auckland for the United States armed forces. Shows a group seated before a row of boats, all of which are decorated with flags. The 'Kaihau' is is in front. decorated with flags. Photograph taken by John Pascoe, 21 August, 1943. Original caption reads: "A sailors' psalm, sung by all present, is part of the traditional launching ceremony." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1845

From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :Book of New Zealand sketches. Purewa, 1845, 1860.

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: E-137-q-015

Description: A tent and a group of four men, three Pakeha, one Maori, seated on the ground, having a picnic in a clearing in bush, hills beyond them and water below them. One of the men, seated with his back resting on a tree-trunk, is either drawing or making notes; one, possibly William Cotton, with spectacles, seated on the left is handing out food from a plate; one is reclining on the ground, the fourth, a Maori student, is seated and is being passed food The four men are likely to be students and /or teachers at St John's theological College, Purewa, Auckland. The man wearing glasses and facing the viewer may be William Charles Cotton, while the man showing sketching may be a self-portrait. The location of Potato Bay is not known, but is likely to be in Auckland, possibly near Meadowbank, where Hutton and Cotton were teaching. T. B. Hutton arrived in New Zealand in 1843 and taught at St John's College at Waimate in the Bay of Islands until 1844 when he moved to Auckland. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 220 x 280 mm in sketchbook

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: Ruck, Charlotte Steward, 1840?-1916 :[Scrapbooks, ca 1860 to ca 1899]

Reference: E-309-q-4-031

Description: Engraving shows a crowd of dancers in the Choral Hall in Auckland. Extended Title - From Auckland Graphic [1860s Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of sketchbook. Physical Description: Wood engraving, 158 x 171 mm.

Date: 2003

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-2003-01

Description: Card promoting the 95FM Auckland radio station shows on the front a photograph of an interior with the personalites of the station posed as if at the aftermath of a wedding breakfast. Mikey Havoc is in the left foreground, Newsboy wears a turban and reaches across the food table. Bride and groom are slumped in chairs at the table. In the right foreground a man speaks into a microphone. A man plays guitar, two bridesmaids talk together, and a woman walks on the table in the background. The verso shows the weekly regular radio programmes for Breakfast with Hugh Sundae, Trailor with a cage with Mikey Havoc, The Wire, bFM Drive with Nick D, Camilla, Slave & Otis, Roger Perry, Jason Rockpig, Sicoff and Graeme, each on different days of the week. Quantity: 14 colour photo-mechanical print(s) in packet. Physical Description: Offset prints on both sides of flyer, 148 x 211 mm.