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Autobiography
Date: 1966-1980
From: Andrews, Reginald Percy, 1899-1987 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6153-2
Description: Describes early life in Napier, employment, involvement with Labour Party, local politics in Wanganui where he was mayor, 1962-1974 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Brett Printing & Publishing Company Ltd :The Wanganui River, New Zealand. [ca 1910?]
Date: 1905 - 1915
By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd
Reference: Eph-B-TOURISM-Wanganui-1910-01
Description: Shows a complete overview of the river, with photographic illustrations (by photographer Denton) all around, including views of: Taumarunui, Te Rerenga-o-ko-Inaki, Otuiti Falls, Ohura Falls, Kirikiriroa, a Maori village, early morning on the river, a narrow gorge, a quiet reach, The Ladder scene, Tarepokiore, Paparoa rapids and waterfall, Parinui, The Caves, Ngaporo Rapids, Pipiriki Landing, a bend above Atene, Mangaio Creek, Hiruharama, Moutoa Island, Parikino Reach. Cove Wanganui, Upper Ohura Falls, River steamer wharves Wanganui. Dated by reference to other products of the Brett Printing Company. Cartographic has a copy at MapColl-832.41 atu [190?] Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on folded sheet, 960 x 270 mm, in blue folder cover 140 x 300 mm.
Harrison album
Date: 1905-1913
By: Harrison, Charles Fancourt, -1964; Denton, Frank James, 1869-1963
Reference: PA1-o-217
Description: Includes photographs of Wanganui Collegiate School, with group portraits of sports teams, cadets, prefects, and one photograph of five school-masters. In most cases people are identified by surname and initials. Not all names have been listed in the name headings. Scenes of the school include exterior views of the old school, foundations of new buildings, an image of plans for the new chapel, and interior views of the chapel. From Wanganui Collegiate School, C F Harrison went to Caius College, Oxford; during that time he joined King Edward's Horse, Cambridge Detachment (King's Oversea Dominions Regiment), the album showing group portraits of members of the regiment. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with greenish-grey cloth cover, tan leather spine; 25.5 x 32.0 cm
Atkins & Mitchell, architects :Whanganui College school block. 1/2" scale details of as...
Date: 1931
From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].
By: Atkins & Mitchell (Firm)
Reference: Plans-2002-058-032-002
Description: Shows details and elevation showing roof braces. Other Titles - Wanganui Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on tracing paper, 580 x 760 mm.
Clift album 2
Date: [Circa 1900s to 1910s]
From: Clift, Charles William :Photographs relating to Clift family
Reference: PA1-o-103
Description: Clift family photographs, including views of Wellington, the Clift family home at 143 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn; four unidentified Wellington College Boy Scouts; views of the Wellington Botanic Gardens; and a number of views of the Wanganui Region. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album in brown card cover tied with cord, and embossed with pattern of flowers in a vase, 19 x 18.5 cm
Wanganui from Durie Hill. A D Willis, Wanganui.
Date: Between 1910-1913
By: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm)
Reference: PA5-0310
Description: A view of Wanganui, showing the bridge, taken from Durie Hill and published by A D Willis, Wanganui, NZ. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 87 x 135 mm
Taylor, Basil Kirke (Rev), 1831-1876 : Diaries
Date: 1861-1867, 1876
By: Taylor, Basil Kirke (Rev), 1831-1876
Reference: Micro-MS-0841
Description: Journeys around the Wanganui district ministering to Maori; records of baptisms, marriages and burials; military engagement at Moturoa 15 May 1864; meeting near Taumarunui between Wanganui, Waikato and Taupo Maori Feb 1876; observations on Maori customs, flora and fauna and nature of country traversed; Maori vocabulary; sketches Source of title - Supplied title Rev Basil Taylor was the son of Rev Richard Taylor Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 170 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm
[Taylor, Richard], 1805-1873 :Mission house, Wanganui N.Z. [1848?]
Date: 1848
By: Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967
Reference: A-247-029
Description: Shows Taylor's two-storeyed mission house seen across a field. See Richard Taylor Sketchbook, E-296-q-055-3 for a similar view Other Titles - New Zealand Inscriptions: In K. A. Webster's hand: "by Rev. Richd Taylor" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 177 x 110 mm Provenance: Purchased: Geo. Legges Esq.
Schaef, A W :The business side of the Avenue, Wanganui
Date: ca 1890
By: Schaef, Arthur Waldemar, 1867-1940
Reference: PA4-0963
Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Business side of the Avenue, Wanganui, taken by A W Schaef ca 1890 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Business side of Avenue, Wanganui; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Recto - left of image - Photograph by A W Schaef Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print
[Papers regarding the organ at the Wanganui Museum]
Date: 1965
From: Castle family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6885-3
Description: Letters and other papers relating to the organ at the Wanganui Museum, which in 1829 was sent as a gift from the Rev E G Marsh to his nephews, Rev Henry Williams and the Rev William Williams, at the Maori Mission of Paihia. It was the first organ to arrive in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, typescript Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs.
[Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :[Wanganui, 1847?]
Date: 1846 - 1847
From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :[Sketchbook]
Reference: E-346-1-070
Description: View looking east along the Whanganui River from the opposite bank, with Putiki in the foreground, military tents on the town side, churches including Christ Church, houses, Rutland Stockade not yet complete and a fenced area around what was later York Stockade on the left. Jetties can also be seen. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm
Harding, William James 1826-1899 :W. J. Harding. [Wellington], Alexander Turnbull Libra...
Date: 1870 - 1984 - 1880
By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988
Reference: C-106-013-a/018-a
Description: Contains 6 images: Wanganui family and possessions, 1870s; Unidentified man, Wanganui, 1870s; Mrs Morgan and child, Wanganui, 1870s; Staff and premises of the Wanganui Evening Herald, 1868; Mr and Mrs Thomas Roots and their twelve children in front of their home at Springvale, 1870s; Mother and child, Wanganui, 1870s. Title from illustrated container, also bearing descriptive notes. Container has not been assigned its own location number and is therefore not recorded separately. However, the individual photolithographs have separate entries. Other Titles - Imagers of a new land. Other Titles - Portraits by W. J. Harding. Inscriptions: (On verso of container/ envelope): Portraits by W.J. Harding,/ chosen by Brian Brake and John Sullivan / and published with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited.; Recto - beneath image - (On each photograph): Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 6 photolithographs, 259 x 213 mm, and 213 x 259 mm, on sheets 415 x 350 mm, in container 510 x 390 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit regulations, 1986.
[Barraud, Charles Decimus], 1822-1897 :Wanganui about 1860.
Date: 1855 - 1865
By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926
Reference: B-084-009
Description: Shows a distant view of the town from the far bank of the Whanganui River. York and Rutland Stockades can be seen on the hills at the left, with the spire of Christ Church beyond the houses below. Shakespeare Bluff is across the river to the right. The peak of Mt Ruapehu rises in the distance Title appears to have been added at a later date. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in pencil in the hand of C D Barraud Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 355 mm
Photographer unknown: Views of Wanganui River and Auckland Harbour
Date: [ca 1910s]
Reference: PAColl-6888
Description: Two images of a man cutting his son's hair sitting on a waka next to the Whanganui River; two of a waka being rowed on the river and one of the crew holding their hoe; a cow being lifted by a winch into a boat; yachts and row boats in Auckland harbour for the Auckland Regatta; two of Auckland harbour ferries; a steamer at a pier on the Whanganui River; three children playing on a shore line near Auckland with a pier in the background; a group of men, women and children round a camp fire with a makeshift tent in the background; and a row of houses with the wreckage left from a fire in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044216 to 044228 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives
Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners :Wanganui Collegiate School [Plans. Music block, big s...
Date: 1960
From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].
By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)
Reference: Plans-2002-058-032-048/053
Description: Includes plans for laboratory benches, music block, drying room details. Quantity: 6 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to 550 x 750 mm.
Schaef, A W :A scene at the Wanganui Racecourse Grounds
Date: ca 1890
From: Campbell, Eve, fl 1976 :Stereographs
By: Schaef, Arthur Waldemar, 1867-1940
Reference: PA4-0707
Description: Stereoscopic photograph of women and children standing by the lake in the Wanganui Racecourse Grounds, taken by A W Schaef ca 1890 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - In Wanganui Racecourse Grounds; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Recto - left of image - Photograph by A W Schaef Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by Mrs E Campbell, July 1976
New Zealand places
Date: [ca 1933-1959]
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
By: Watherston, R A, active 1956
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-202
Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1933-1959. Various photograph of Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu - Soldiers memorial; camping grounds; Queenstown School; Queenstown Post Office; main street; Scott Memorial in Queenstown Park; town centre, 1933; several elevated views; Queenstown Gardens; Kawarau Dam, 1949; aqua-skiing on the lake; Earnslaw; loading wool at Greenstone Bay, 1950. Franz Josef Glacier; mountaineers cutting steps on the glacier; Arrow Basin; Kaniere gold dredge at Kumara, 1959; St Mary's Church, New Plymouth; Mrs W Reid of Runanga surf casting at Crows Bay, West Coast; hay making near Waikari, North Canterbury; Honeymoon Bay in Tasman Bay. Sheep mustering on high country run of A W Gard, Mt Bell Station (near Kurow); photo of musterers (all named on back) and property owned by Gard. Photographs sent to New Free Lance with accompanying letter by R S Watherston of Springhills, 1956 Also Balclutha; Milton; Woodbank Church; Russell, car ferry at Paihia; Mr Barker's stud at Wanaka; bridge over Molyneux River; Roman Catholic Church at Tokaanu; Wanganui river boat; rock formations at Palliser Bay; yachts of man-made lake Lake Whakamarino, 1947; Cascade Saddle; Mount Egmont lighthouse; Pukekura Park; tree growing amongst rocks on Dunstan Range; Taihape Plunket Rooms; elevated view of Nelson; haymaking near Dagarville; Marion Camp, Homer Tunnel; Northland express passing down main street of Kawakawa, 1947; Centennial Memorial, Wanganui; A & P Show, Taranaki; Dobson; Victoria Park, Waimate; main street of Levin, 1930; Midhurst Co-operative Dairy Factory; St Bathans, 1947. Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
School note book and fatigue record
Date: [1902]
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: MSX-4507
Description: Comprises record of fatigue duties, misdemeanours and publishments; list of books (?read) Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Harper, James, 1841-1884: Papers
Date: 1876-1884, 1955
By: Harper, James, 1841-1884
Reference: MS-Papers-0627
Description: Notebook containing part of journal of voyage on board the Arethusa to New Zealand 1879, and workers' records, probably for the Wanganui dredging project 1880-1883, of which Harper was foreman. Miscellaneous papers, including testimonials, birth certificate, letter to Colin Harper, 1955 Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 folder(s) (11 items). Physical Description: Holograph, ms, printed matter
Mason Struthers & Company Ltd (Avenue, Wanganui) :Mason Struthers gazette. June number,...
Date: 1939
Reference: Eph-D-RETAIL-1939-01
Description: One side advertises and illustrates golf clubs, badminton rackets, footballs, golf bags and balls, putting equipment, torches, light bulbs, Hotdogge heaters, wire strainers (for fences), rabbit traps, lanterns, paint, clocks, knives and sharpeners, a life-size ceramic spaniel dog, Quikboil stove, aluminium steamers, kitchen grinding mill, the Imp soot destroyer. The other side illustrates and advertises woodworking tools, saws, shotgun, brooms, saucepans, knives, pesticides (squilltox, borers, ants, flies, fleas, silverfish, cabbage moth, white butterfly, moths), Phoenix improved oven glass. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on pink paper.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on two sides of poster, 445 x 580 mm.