Places

Date: 1877

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-016-5

Description: Shows a wrecked wooden two-masted ship in calm water. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Top of page, above all images] The Bluff Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 60 x 107 mm

Date: 1873

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1871-1873]

Reference: E-016-1-050

Description: A small thatched cottage, a chimney at the left end, close to the shore. A rowboat is pulled up in the foreground. Barrels and a small fence to the left, two small huts to the right, a signal mast on Lookout Point, the hill behind. The picture is enclosed in an arched outline. Rain is indicated in the sky. The same cottage appears in a larger view of Bluff (dated May 1873) on the following page of the sketchbook. The roof in the larger drawing is noted as made of raupo Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 78 x 148 mm (page size)

Date: 1870 - 1879

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

Reference: A-182-008

Description: Shows waves breaking on rocks in the foreground and at the right. The location is correctly Stirling Point. Other Titles - Stirling Point Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 260 x 295 mm.

Date: 1877

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-016-6

Description: Shows a lighthouse on a small headland. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Top of page, above all images] The Bluff; Recto - bottom right - Segur Point lighthouse. (24th Dec) 1877; Recto - bottom left - K Holmes Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink & wash 78 x 144 mm.

Date: 1893

By: Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; F W Niven & Company

Reference: Eph-E-BUILDINGS-Invercargill-1893-01

Description: Advertorial poster showing a lithograph of a view of Invercargill, with a river going through the centre, and horses and carriages in the streets. Around the borders are inset pictures of some of the town's man buildings, including: Fleming & Gilkison (millers & grain merchants), Southland Times, Sloan Brothers City Boot Palace, Vicenzo Almao (hatter), St Paul's Presbyterian Church, D McFarlane (bakery and McFarlane's Coffee Palace), R W Jones Machinery and Cycling Exchange, H Carswell & Co (auctioneers), C H Macalister (chemist), Wesney brothers gift shop, Frank A Steans (importer of fishing tackle), J Manson & Co (importers of furniture and ironmongers), David Strang coffee and spice merchant, John H Kissell (saddler & harness maker), Turner & Colbran (tailors and clothiers), C J Deschler's Hotel, Alex Ferguson (watchmaker and jeweller), the Hospital, St Mary's Roman Catholic Church. There is also an inset view of Bluff harbour and town, about 15 miles from Invercargill. Lower centre has a panel listing the ships in the Union Line, and their tonnage and captains: Ruahine, Kaikoura, Rimutaka, Tongariro, Aorangi and Ruapehu. At top left is an advertisement for the agent, Wellesley A Parker of the Palace Hotel Melbourne. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 640 x 1015 mm.

Date: 1888

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] Ravensbourne, 1888

Reference: E-016-3-044

Description: A frontal portrait of a bearded man with a peg leg, his hands in his pockets. His hat may be a Scots bonnet Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 89 x 156 mm (page size)

Date: 1873

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1871-1873]

Reference: E-016-1-052

Description: Looking north-west along the waterfront, with small houses, a wharf, several sailing ships and wharf buildings, hills in the background One house has an annotation on the roof 'raupo'. It is likely to be 'Mother McGregor's hut', the thatched roof cottage at drawn by Hodgkins on the previous page Other Titles - Westward Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, 78 x 221 mm (image size)

Date: 1888

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] Ravensbourne, 1888

Reference: E-016-3-052/053

Description: View from land looking at a small paddle-steamer tugboat steaming into harbour. Other ships are at a wharf in the background The same tugboat is shown in stormy conditions crossing to Stewart Island two pages earlier in the sketchbook (E-016-3-050) Other Titles - evening Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, 89 x 156 mm (page size)

Date: 1877

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-016-4

Description: Shows a two-masted ship wrecked at a tilt in calm water, with some boards missing from its side. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Top of page, above all images] The Bluff; Recto - bottom centre - The Carl Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 60 x 107 mm

Date: 1877

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-016-8

Description: View of Bluff Harbour with two sailing ships at anchor in the distance to the left, and wharf buildings visible Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Top of page, above all images] The Bluff; Recto - bottom left - K Holmes; also bottom right, Jan 7 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 64 x 116 mm

Date: ca 1900

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 18

Reference: PAColl-7581-69

Description: Exterior view of the Bluff Railway Station. Shows a two storied gabled building with horse drawn carriages, and power pylons, outside. George Eastlake, general carrier, advertises his business on one of the carriages. Photograph taken circa 1900 by an unidentified photographer. Other Titles - The Railway Station, Bluff. The most Southern Railway Station in the world. Inscriptions: On postcard, bottom left: The Railway Station, Bluff. The most Southern Railway Station in the world. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photo-mechanical print 8.8.x 14 cm (postcard) Processing information: Formerly filed in Turnbull Library Pictres at: 85. Southland Co. Bluff. Railway Station

Date: 1874

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-016-9

Description: Shows four tall-masted ships at anchor by a jetty in calm water. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Top of page, above all images] The Bluff; Recto - bottom right - Feb 17th Bluff Harbour 1874 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 78 x 150 mm

Date: 1868

Reference: 1/2-118850-F

Description: Men aboard the Norwegian whaling boat Star, at Bluff, circa 1900. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1895

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-182-007

Description: View across the harbour looking towards the S. S. Wakattipu and other moored ships with Bluff Hill to the left Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 115 x 245 mm

Date: 1849

By: Evans, Frederick John Owen (Sir), 1815-1885

Reference: D-040-001

Description: Shows a scene of the plains near Bluff, probably the Awarua Plains, in which two men can be seen carrying out surveying work. A stream or creek, probably the Mataura River, runs through the scene to the foreground. The sky and clouds are a prominent feature of the work. A tent is pitched on the bank of the stream, and a number of harakeke flax plants feature in the foreground. Comparison of this work with the style of watercolours attributed to Frederick Joseph Owen Evans in the Alexander Turnbull Library, and those known to be by Evans held in the National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) and the Hydrographer of the Navy (Taunton) strongly suggest an attribution to Evans. It seems reasonable to speculate that the 'R B' referred to as the surveyor working in the painting could refer to either R Bradshaw or R Burnett, both listed as surveyors on the Acheron between 1849 and 1851 (See: Otago to Mataura River [cartographic material] / surveyed by J.L. Stokes, G.H. Richards ... [et al.], H.M.S. Acheron, 1849-51 ; engraved by J. & C. Walker (MapColl 834.52aj 1849-51 43016)) Inscriptions: Verso - top right - Bluff, N Zealand. HMS Acheron, 1849- Plains near -- showing R B's surveying work with tent etc [in faint pencil, visible through backing] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, on two sheets, 334 x 755 mm

Date: 1881

From: Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925 :New Zealand flowers in colour. Vol 4

By: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925

Reference: A-062-008

Description: A white celmisia (mountain daisy) with long petals, grouped with a branch of red-berriedmingimingi (cyathodes juniperina). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title underlined in ink; also repeated in pencil; the same lower left Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 197 x 144 mm (sight)