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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

Date: 1893

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.

Reference: E-373-039

Description: Looking across the river towards a small settlement, possibly at Pipiriki, with two canoes drawn up at the water's edge, tree ferns, two buildings and taller trees with high hills behind Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, in sketchbook, 130 x 360 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..

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

Date: [1880s-1900s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-o-167

Description: Family photographs, chiefly taken by William Hughes Field. Many of the views are unidentified, as are many of the portraits and group portraits. Some family members are identified, and a few taken in Botany Bay, Sydney, show Richard John Seddon and James Carroll speaking at a function. One image is a reproduction of a cartoon by William Hodgkins entitled `Mark Twain at the City hall Dunedin, on original sin (The watermelon story) ... A sketch from the stalls by W M Hodgkins' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green covers, 24 x 31 cm

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

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

Date: 1851 - 1859

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :[Sketchbook]

Reference: E-346-1-011

Description: The right side of a 2-part panorama, showing the Whanganui River, at Atene, looking across to a house and hills on the opposite bank. The artist's father (Richard Taylor) was a missionary at Wanganui Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm

Date: [Circa 1900s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-301

Description: Photogprahs of New Zealand circa 1890s to 1900s, probably taken by George William Barltrop. The first sequence includes scenes around Auckland harbour, including Rangitoto Onehunga, with one view of passengers on board the ferry `SS Takapuna'. One photograph shows a group of young Maori standing on the bank of the Whanganui River (four young men under an umbrella). Wellington area views of Pahautanui (Pauatahanui), Horokiwi, Lyall Bay and the Wellington Heads. On page 873 (the album pages run from 856 to 895), there is a postcard with heads of George William Barltrop and his wife Emma Jane Barltrop, with a collage of images relating to the Missions to Seamen. Slipped beneath the postcard is the death notice for Emma Jane Barltrop (died 24 September 1954). There are views of the Rimutakas from the railway line; a flock of sheep being herded along a road in palmerston North; three people standing outside a wooden bungalow in Palmerston North; and there is a view of another house in Feilding. The river mouth at Oroua; the grounds of the Wanganui Race Course (with white swans on the lake; a woman feeding a peacock, and a woman under an umbrella, walking on rail tracks beside the sea at Castlecliff; followed by three views from a boat on the Whanganui River, one a view of Upokongaro, with the church spire just visible, and two of groups of Maori waiting on the riverbank. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover entitled `Photographic views'; 20.5 x 17.5 cm

Date: 1847 - 1849

From: [Park, Robert] 1812-1870. Attributed works. :[Wanganui district sketchbook. 1847?]

Reference: E-078-q-006

Description: Four separate drawings of houses, one of bush, one of Maori poling a canoe along a river, another of a group of Maori, plus calculations. One corner of the page has been cut out and there are dabs of watercolour at the edge, suggesting that the sketchbook once contained watercolours Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 177 x 253 mm (irregular)

Date: 1892 - 1893

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.

Reference: E-373-013

Description: Looking along the Whanganui River on its south bank towards a bridge and houses on both sides of the river. A paddle-steamer is in the river and two people are walking along the road at the base of a cliff to the left. The area in the left background is likely to be Putiki, where the artist grew up Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook 130 x 180 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..

Date: 1878

Reference: A-019-014

Description: Looking down onto the bridge, river and city from a hill beyond the south bank of the river Extended Title - Published in: Buller, J. Forty years in New Zealand. London: 1878, op p.36, where in the preface he acknowledges `For the use of many of the engravings I am indebted to.. Sir Julius Vogel...' Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 90 x 140 mm

Date: 1903

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketches

Reference: E-346-3-042

Description: View across the Kauarapaora Stream to a small Maori settlement, Raorikia, with a church, several houses and waka pulled up above the waterline and at the water's edge. The work is dated from the view on the previous page, Raurakia, Jany 1 1903. Raorikia is 16 km north of Wanganui, on the Whanganui River Other Titles - Raorikia, Raurakia Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sketchbook page, 163 x 224 mm

Date: 1841 - 1847

By: Gilfillan, John Alexander, 1793-1863; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-012

Description: Shows a Maori family in the foreground, a "crofter's cottage", ships and canoes on the river and the buildings of the town, including Christ Church, on the opposite side of the river Painted during Gilfillan's stay in New Zealand, 1841-1847. Reproduction of an original watercolour held by the Dixson Galleries of the State Library of New South Wales. No. 69 of a limited edition of 750 copies Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 325 x 493 cm on sheet 495 620 mm

Date: [ca 1883-1892]

By: Fell, Charles Yates, 1844-1918; Smith, F S, active 1880s

Reference: PA1-q-075

Description: Charles Yates Fell photograph album. Many of the photographs taken by C Y Fell. Album created as a memory for relative, Alice Blake (nee Richmond), including portraits and group portraits of family and friends; scenes of holidays around the Totaranui, Abel Tasman National Park area; and the homes of the Richmond family (Fairfield) and the Fell family (St John's) in Nelson. One image shows all the members of the New Zealand House of Representatives 3rd Parliament in 1851 (Most are named). Many of the images are of festive occasions with large family gatherings, including Xmas parties and costumes for a fancy-dress ball at Totaranui (January 1890). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Fell album 2 Inscriptions: Album page - "Alice Blake, from Charles Y. & Edith E. Fell, January 1892. In loving remembrance of old times, St. John's, Nelson, N.Z." Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown paper covers entitled "N.Z." in dark-brown water-coloured letters, 28.0 x 37.5 cm

Date: 1890 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-035

Description: View looking east along the Whanganui River from the opposite bank, with Putiki in the foreground, and a telegraph pole, several houses and gardens on the opposite bank and, in the background, Mt Ruapehu with dark ash rising from its summit and from several other points Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm

Date: 1850 - 1860

Reference: 1/1-007263

Description: View from the south bank of the Whanganui River, looking towards the town. Christ Church and the Rutland and York Stockades can be seen, as well as houses Physical Description: Photograph of oil on canvas

Date: [1890s]

Reference: PA1-q-222

Description: Photographs relating to Herbert Spackman and his family and relatives, chiefly taken by him. Places include views of Wellington and bays, Eketahuna and the Wanganui district. Very few of the people shown are fully identified but are likely to be Harry Spackman’s: mother (Eliza Spackman, nee Hawkings), father (Henry Spackman), brother, mother-in-law (Mrs Coxall, mother of Harry’s first wife Amy), and father-in-law (Mr Parnell, father of Fanny Parnell, Harry's second wife). Several houses are shown, including: ‘Rangiuru’, located at 63 Hutt Road, Petone, Wellington; House of Eketahuna farmer David S Lowe; House of David S Lowe’s brother Henry (‘Harry’) Goold Spackman in Wanganui, both interior and exterior, ‘Ben Venuto’ situated at 59 Rintoul Street and house of Henry (‘Harry’) Goold Spackman in Wellington, both interior and exterior views. Herbert Spackman's nephew Roy Spackman (Clement Roy) attended Wanganui Collegiate School, and there are several views of the chapel (interior and exterior) and the music room. There is one group portrait of Wanganui Collegiate School boys (p 41). Source of descriptive information - Information sourced from various places including the internet, and a family member. Two articles on Henry and Herbert Spackman both before they left England, and in New Zealand can be found at www.bris.ac.uk/music/CHOMBEC/chombec-news-1.pdf and www.bris.ac.uk/music/CHOMBEC/chombec-news-4.pdf Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark red cover, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 29 x 24 cm

By: Goldsmith, D, active 1900

Reference: G-291

Description: Shows a group of whare beside a river. Possibly an imaginary scene Identification: on acquisition, this view was believed to be possibly a scene in the Hutt Valley, because of its provenance (in the owneship of the Columban Fathers, Lower Hutt). However other work signed D Goldsmith is dated around the early 20th century, (including one oil framed using newspapers dated 1911) and there were no whare like this on the banks of the Hutt River in the early twentieth century. It may be an imaginary scene, or could show the upper reaches of the Whanganui River or the Rotorua area. Another oil offered to the Library by the same vendors showed Thompson Sound, indicating that the collection of works of art was not confined to the Hutt Valley Other Titles - Whare Inscriptions: Signed: D. Goldsmith Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 610 x 910 mm

Date: 1847 - 1848

From: [Park, Robert] 1812-1870. Attributed works. :[Wanganui district sketchbook. 1847?]

Reference: E-078-q-002

Description: Preliminary sketch of two linked houses (or one large single-storied house) with part of a fence in the foreground. The houses are on a riverbank with the river visible in the distance. They are probably at Wanganui and the view is looking west towards the river mouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 171 x 253 mm (irregular)

Date: 1861 - 1880

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford and Samuel Deighton. 1860-1880]

Reference: E-926-013

Description: Shows a general view of the Maori settlement at Pipiriki, with two cloaked Maori figures seated on the ground in the left foreground, one smoking a pipe. The various buildings (huts, food storage, fences) are shown, with the river flowing through in the middle background. An edge of the church roof is labelled at the extreme right. Another version of the image is held at E-041-031. A published version of the same image appears in Crawford's "Recollections of travel in New Zealand and Australia ...", London, Trubner, 1880, page 103 Extended Title - From his "Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford" [1860-1880], page [13 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash drawing, 145 x 235 mm