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Date: [Circa 1860s]

From: Marvin, W G (Captain) :Marvin family photographs

By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Marvin, William, 1834-1915

Reference: PA1-q-320

Description: Album of photographs taken during the 1860s by various photographers. All the images are related to Colonel William Marvin (1834-1915) who came to New Zealand circa 1858 and was possibly attached to the 70th Regiment of Foot during the New Zealand wars. There are many photographs relating to military activity, including military working parties at Fort Britomart; military and naval camps at Maungatawhiri Creek, Queen's Redoubt, Drury, Ngaruawahia and Albert Barracks; a monument to the 43rd Regiment at Gate Pa near Tauranga; Potatau's tomb with a sentry guarding it; and the Auckland cemetery. Many of the images are of Auckland, including `Hale's Boarding House, where I first slept in N.Z.'; `The Masonic Hotel where I was made a mason in 1861'; `My last batchelor home near Constitution Hill green, next door to the Dacres'; `St. Mary's where I was married 4th August 1862'; a long sequence showing Queen Street from different angles in 1866'; and various homes that he knew, including Heaphy's house in St George's Bay, Dillon Bell's House in Parnell, and `Little Sutton' in St. George's Bay. Other images of interest include a mining camp at Coromandel; the tree on which Volkner was hanged, with a seated group of Maori beside a whare; a Maori church that is completely thatched, in the Waikato; and two views of the sailing ship Ida Ziegler [i.e. Zeigler] `In which we returned from N.Z. round Cape Horn, 29th Jany to 1st May 1867'. Photographs in England are all related to Tipner Barracks near Portsmouth, and Malpas Cemetery, Newport Monmouthshire. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with albumen prints. Label attached to cover `Pictures of N.Z. (N. Island) & Tipner with captions by Col. Marvin'. Textured black cover; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-030

Description: View along the shoreline looking east, towards Parnell, with the military buildings the skyline above the cliff. Sail boats in the harbour, and a wharf in the right foreground with a yacht, crewed by several men. Other men and a woman with two children are on the wharf. This watercolour is copied from one by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams: either 'Fort Britomart, Auckland, 3 August 1864' in the Hocken Library, p. 35 in the now dismantled Williams' sketchbook, with minor changes in some details, especially the lettering on the sail of the yacht; or the Turnbull's watercolour 'Fort Britomart from Queen Street Wharf August 64' (E-510-010/011), which varies the figures on the wharf and does not include lettering on the yacht's sail. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on buff paper, 181 x 245 mm.

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-029

Description: View along the shoreline looking west, with St Paul's against the skyline, and the military buildings to the right above the cliff. Sail boats in the harbour, a steamship moored on the far left and a Maori canoe in the foreground, with a man carrying a load (possibly fish) on his shoulder. This watercolour is copied from one by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams: 'Auckland, New Zealand, 3 August 1864' (Reference number B-032-021). The colour of St Paul's in Williams' original is cream, as opposed to Hamley's terracotta; also Hamley has changed the disposition of a few foreground figures Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on buff paper, 125 x 245 mm.

Date: 1863-1864

From: Nicholl, Spencer Perceval Talbot, 1841-1908 :Photograph albums

By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Kinder, John, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-f-046

Description: Album compiled by Spencer Perceval Talbot Nicholl when he was serving with the 43rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry during the New Zealand wars. The photographs were chiefly taken by John Kinder and by Daniel Manders Beere, in the Auckland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty areas. Many of the views have no captions, but can be identified in comparison with images known to have been taken by these photographers. Views identified include Mr. Ashwell's church at Taupiri (Rev. Benjamin Yate Ashwell); thatched buildings; flagstaff at Ngaruawahia; the monument to the 43rd Regiment at Gate Pa near Tauranga; Potatau's tomb with a sentry guarding it; a carved stern-post of a waka; and a group of Maori men. Some, but not all, photos taken by Kinder. Inscriptions: Album page - `S.P.T. Nicholl (subsequently Lieut-Col), 43rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Album compiled probably about 1863/4' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mottled blue cover, brown leather spine with gold bands; 35 x 42 cm