Places

Date: 1834 - 1932

By: Woore, Thomas, 1804-1878; Busby, Augusta Dora Merewether, 1890-1962

Reference: A-048-008

Description: Copy watercolour by A.D.M. Busby Shows Mount Taranaki in the background with two flat-topped hills, with the Waimate Pa in the middle distance on the shore, the sea in the foreground and two of the ship's boats from H. M. S. Alligator. Indicates position of cannon, and a rock where Mrs Guard was seated on the shore. Notes on front and back Signed Other Titles - Waimate Pa, Taranaki Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 7 x 15 inches

Date: ca 1910

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/1-006781-F

Description: Grave of Rewi Manga Maniapoto at Kihikihi, circa 1910. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [1936]

By: Halse, Frederick James, 1863-1936

Reference: MapColl-830gmfw/1935/Acc.1439

Description: Map of North Island, South Island, Stewart Island of New Zealand with numerous named small islands. Rivers, settlements, cities and towns are named, as are coastal features such as bays, capes, points, heads, rocks, sounds, inlets. Principal lighthouses are marked. Lit lighthouses are also recorded. Points of shipwrecks are marked with the name and type of ship, the date of shipwreck and lives lost. Insets include lists of shipwrecks with references to places and points of shipwreck. Dates range from September 1795 - 2 March 1936. Date changed from [1935?] to [1936] based on the fact that the map includes a ship wreck from March 1936 and Halse died in 1936. 21 October 2016. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, linen backed, 90.9 x 66.1 cm.

Date: [ca 1880s-1920s]

From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district

Reference: 1/1-001797-G

Description: View looking north from the hill above Waiwera, showing the Waiwera Hotel by the shore, and Mahurangi Island, the islet in the Hauraki Gulf. Photograph taken circa 1880s-1920s, by Herman John Schmidt. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1859 - 1935 - 1936

From: [Balchin, Ernest Rout?], fl 1936 (copyist) :[Two watercolours. 1. Early military encampment at Scinde Island Napier; 2. East end of Lake Rotoiti, Matawhaura Mountain and Tapuwae-haruru Village. ca 1936]

Reference: A-423-012

Description: The watercolour of the military camp at Scinde Island is copied from an artwork by Lieutenant H S Bates of the 65th Regiment in 1859, and shows "the gully running down to the shore of the inner harbour at a place called 'Onepoto' meaning a short sandy beach" (according to accompanying notes written in the 1930s, probably by the copyist) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on card, 80 x 135 mm (sight)

Date: [1890s-1930s]

From: Head, Samuel Heath, 1868-1948 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-007230-G

Description: Photograph taken by Samuel Heath Head, Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative register. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1932 - 1849

By: Marshall, John Willoughby, 1851-1940; Hadfield, Henry Samuel, 1853-1910; Hadfield, Amelia Caroline, 1869-1956

Reference: A-123-011

Description: Shows a one-storey cottage with three windows and a door along the front. There is a path leading to the door, and flower beds on either side of the door. The house was Hadfield's first home, built 1849, and located 100 yards north of Rangiatea Church, under the hill. Copy of an earlier sketch 'Rev. Octavius Hadfield's cottage at Otaki, 1849', drawn for F.C. Hadfield by H.S. Hadfield from his father's description, not directly. (A reproduction in Mulgan, A.E. The city of the Strait. Wellington, 1939, attributes the earlier version to Anne Hadfield, but calls it a copy) The earlier sketch is privately owned and was also reproduced in Lethbridge, Chris. The wounded lion: Octavius Hadfield, 1814-1904 (Christchurch, 1993), p. 154, attributed to Anne Hadfield, daughter of Octavius Hadfield. There may be three versions of this drawing: one drawn by H S Hadfield, one by Anne Marshall nee Hadfield, and the one belonging to the Library by J W Marshalls Other Titles - Hadfield's Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 137 x 225 mm

Date: 1890-1939

From: Head, Samuel Heath, 1868-1948 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-007267-G

Description: Billboard advertising the firm Crockett & Jones, boot and shoemakers. The billboard reads " When we buy British made goods We support the Empire - We support New Zealand. Crockett & Jones Boots & Shoes are made in England - They are world famous". Photograph taken by Samuel Heath Head, probably in Christchurch between 1890-1939. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1834 - 1932

By: Woore, Thomas, 1804-1878; Busby, Augusta Dora Merewether, 1890-1962

Reference: B-064-005

Description: A copy watercolour of a picture by Thomas Woore. Shows Waimate Pa on top of a steep hill, with a path leading up to it. The sea is on the left. Shows the area where bombardment occurred during the rescue of John Guard, Kapuni Stream, Taranaki. Notes on front and back Signed Other Titles - Waimate Pa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 240 x 430 mm

Date: 1842 - 1939 - 1892

By: McLintock, Alexander Hare, 1903-1968

Reference: A-191-003

Description: A view looking down on Haulashore Island, where there are five small buildings. There are three sailing ships, two of them within the bay inshore of the island. This pencil sketch was published in Making New Zealand, Vol. 1, no. 6 p. 23. According to a note on the work's folder, it was copied from Lowther Broad's Jubilee history of Nelson... (1892), p. 17. The view in Broad is a reproduction of a William Fox watercolour 1848, which is in the Hocken Library (previously in Bett Collection). The original watercolour shows some of the buildings on Haulashore Island appearing to be more like tents, whereas McLintock has depicted them as rectangular buildings. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 129 x 203 mm

Date: 1840 - 1939

By: King, Marcus, 1891-1983; New Zealand free lance (Newspaper)

Reference: C-033-007

Description: Shows representatives of the Government and of Maori assembled at J Busby's residence, including Captain William Hobson, Rev Henry Williams, Captain Joseph Nias, James Busby and Tamati Waka Nene in the act of signing the Treaty Presentation plate, centenary no. of: New Zealand Free Lance Wellington, 16th October 1939 Library holds the oil painting on which this reproduction is based. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 280 x 440 mm

Date: 1858-1937

Reference: 1/2-018464-F

Description: Shows the Hon John Edward Jenkinson Christchurch Legislative Council 119892-1914 John Edward Jenkinson was born in Dunedin and educated at State schools. He served his time to boilermaking in a Dunedin foundry and shipbuilding yard. In 1882 he joined the first labour union - the Dunedin Boilermakers, by which he was elected President (1883) and deputed to form unions in other cities. He was one of the committee of three appointed to draw up rules for the Canterbury Trades Council and for the railway servants' union. He was called to the Legislative Council in 1892 (one of a number appointed to create a government majority) and was a member till 1914. On retiring (1914) he contested the Clutha seat in the House of Representatives. Was President for some years of the Early Settlers' Association. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1912]

From: Head, Samuel Heath, 1868-1948 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-007334-G

Description: Photograph taken by Samuel Heath Head, Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative register. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: [between 1896 and 1930]

From: McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district

Reference: 1/1-011924-G

Description: Trimble family home, Riversdale, Mountain Road, near Inglewood, Taranaki. Shows a two storied wooden house amongst bushes. Photograph taken between 1896-1930 by James McAllister. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1930 - 1820 - 1939

From: Goodwin, Arnold Frederick 1890-1978 :[Historical incidents in New Zealand in 1820. Edinburgh? ca 1930]

By: Goodwin, Arnold Frederick, 1890-1978; Varlow, R G (Mrs), active 1969

Reference: A-236-005

Description: A Maori man working the land with a digging stick (ko) in the foreground, a gourd covered in flax ropes at his side, while two European men in the background by a cabbage tree point out to two Maori men the plough they have brought to New Zealand. Church Missionary Society Missionaries were the first to introduce the plough. Picture supplied by courtesy John Walker & Sons, Ltd., Distillers, Kilmarnock. This copy matted and glued to strawboard backing; formerly displayed in a frame Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 211 x 157 mm

Date: [1890s-1930s]

From: Head, Samuel Heath, 1868-1948 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-007229-G

Description: Photograph taken by Samuel Heath Head, Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative register. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1871 - 1936

By: Fletcher, R S, active 1936

Reference: MapColl-832.1291/1871/Acc.6954

Description: Survey plan of the Auckland Albert Barracks, showing the boundaries of the barracks extending out to what later became Wellesley St, Kitchener St, Symonds St, Princes St and Alfred St. The barracks are enclosed by a stone wall (annotated note indicates part of the wall still in existence). Within the barracks is the armoury, a school, sergeant's quarters, military prison, Major Tisdall's house, the 'Dead House', large garden, the magazine, store and drill shed. Shows the Military Road, next to Government grounds, on what became Princes St. The 'Northern Club' is indicated on the corner of Waterloo Rd. Indicates building materials. Compiled by R.S. Fletcher, M.Sc. for the Lands Department, Auckland, 1936. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale [ca. 1:2 000], 90 x 70 cm.

Date: between 1890-1930

From: Head, Samuel Heath, 1868-1948 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-007473-G

Description: View of the Mangaweka Bridge, taken by Samuel Heath Head, possibly during the 1920s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [1890s-1930s]

From: Head, Samuel Heath, 1868-1948 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-007243-G

Description: Photograph taken by Samuel Heath Head, Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative register. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: [between 1896 and 1930]

From: McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district

Reference: 1/1-012281-G

Description: Shows a glimpse, through trees, of the Trimble family home in Taranaki. Looks past a garden gate, and along a path, towards a two storied wooden house. Photograph taken between 1896-1930 by James McAllister. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative