Places

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000189-G

Description: St Stephens Avenue (near Parnell Road) with horse drawn carts. Bishop's Court can be seen on the lefthandside. "Auckland Farmers" is written on the cart in the immediate foreground, and the horse is drinking from a water trough at the side of the road. Photograph taken by William A Price, ca 1910. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - St Stephen's Ave Parnell Auckland No 3006 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1857 - 1950 - 1859 - 1959

From: Alexander, John Hood, 1916-1975 :[Twenty drawings, including of historic houses, churches, Mangapohatu, Waimate North, the first Bank of New Zealand in Auckland, and Auckland Public Library 1880. 1950s-1960s]

By: Thatcher, Frederick (Rev), 1814-1890

Reference: B-192-010

Description: Above, an interior view of the kitchen at the Melanesian Mission, in a ruinous state. Below, an exterior view of the old Deanery, situated in St Stephen's Avenue, Parnell According to a letter from Miss Mary Atkin in 1931, 'the dark space on the left of the Mission Chimney held a boiler for washing clothes etc. - that on the right held an oven for baking bread' (Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 4-341) Extended Title - In: Alexander, John H: Historic Auckland (Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, 1961) p.[18] and [24 Inscriptions: Recto - top right - No.A15; Recto - bottom right - No.A16 Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on page 385 x 260 mm

Date: 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-029-067

Description: Shows view from the road to Mount Eden looking across Parnell to Rangitoto Island. Of the two spires, St Mary's Church, Parnell, is the one at left on the headland, and Bishopscourt, St Stephen's Avenue, is at the right. In the left foreground a man with wheelbarrow and dog, leans on his shovel and talks to skirted Maori carrying bundle of wood on his back. There is a lighthouse in the harbour at the right of the headland, and there is a steamship on the harbour. Several houses dot the land closer than the headland. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C.D.B. / 1875 Original for chromolithograph "Auckland harbour" in his "New Zealand: graphic and descriptive (London, 1877). Held at ATL Art Rm f919.31 BAR. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 254 x 355 mm.