Places

Date: 1861 - 1865

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: B-183-027

Description: Shows Commercial Bay with Wynyard Wharf in the foreground, North Head and Rangitoto in the distance, viewed from Courthouse Hill (now Constitution Hill). A tent-style building sits on the slope of the hill in the foreground to the left (probably Queen St.), with three figures standing in front of it. A number of vessels, including a sailing ship, sailing boats and rowboats or waka, can be seen in the bay. In the foreground on the right can be seen a Norfolk pine amongst other trees and bush, and the smoking brick chimney and part of the roof of a house. The word harbour in the work's title is mis-spelled as habour The library also holds a very similar work by Warre entitled Auckland harbor [1864?] (B-035-017), featuring North Head, Rangitoto Island, ships in the bay and a Norfolk pine, though with less built environment in the foreground. Other Titles - Auckland Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Auckland Habour, New Zealand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 227 x 316 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase the work was put up for auction at the International Art Centre, Auckland, July 2011 (lot 47, passed in); prior to that, privately owned

Date: 10 Aug 1914

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000184-G

Description: View of soldiers of the 2nd Contingent, Auckland Territorials entering Queen Street Railway Station on their departure for the Front. Crowds of people have gathered to watch. R & W Hellaby's butchery shop can be seen on the left and the Chief Post Office is on the right of the entrance way. Above the shops on the lefthand side a building is under construction. Taken by William A Price on 10 August 1914. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 2nd. Contingent of Auckland Territorials leaving for the Front. 10th Aug. 1914. Protd. P.P.Co. 11.8.14. No 1251A Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1905 - 1912

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to interior decoration, room design, household decorative items, tableware, in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-DECOR-1910-01-005

Description: Shows a general view of the department in the retail store, with rolls of linoleum standing up flanking a walkway between them. Extended Title - From Tonson Garlick Co. "Complete modern home furnishers" [Catalogue ca 1910]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (on page of sales catalogue). Physical Description: Photolithograph on page 234 x 317 mm.

By: Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-109-044

Description: View looking across Commercial Bay, lower Queen Street, the wharves and the city towards St Matthew's and St Patrick's churches, from the Britomart Barracks. After P. J. Hogan's lithograph: No 3 Auckland, Auckland New Zealand, from Britomart Barrack. Commercial Bay, part of lower Queen Street, with new wharf, Albert Hill, Wyndham Street, West Queen Street, with St Matthews Church and St Patrick (R. C.) church. 1852. See copies at C-010-004, C-010-004-a, C-010-018 & C-010-019. Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia. Opposite p. 195. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted, 89 x 155 mm

Date: 1 Aug 1910

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001655-G

Description: Construction site of the the new General Post Office, Queen Street, Auckland, photographed by William Archer Price during the laying of the foundation stone, 1 August, 1910. Buildings in Customs Street can be seen behind the mobile crane on the right. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Laying foundation stone. New G.P.O. Auckland. 1.8.10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1905 - 1912

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to interior decoration, room design, household decorative items, tableware, in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-DECOR-1910-01-086

Description: Shows two of the models available, with shelves, mirrors, Art nouveau inlays, and an Art nouveau floral design in the centre of the page. Extended Title - From Tonson Garlick Co. "Complete modern home furnishers" [Catalogue ca 1910]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (om page of sales catalogue). Physical Description: Offset on page 234 x 317 mm.

Date: 1919

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000217-G

Description: Auckland Town Hall showing Peace celebration illuiminations, part of Peace Festival celebrations to mark the end of World War One and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919. Photograph taken July 1919 by William A Price from the Queen Street and Wellesley Street intersection. Source of descriptive information - date identified by Library client Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Peace Celebrations. Auckland. Town Hall. Queen Street. No 3835A Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001561-G

Description: View looking down Queen Street with the Post Office tower on the lefthand side. A horse and carriage are parked on the road outside a hotel on the far left. The Bank of New Zealand is on the opposite side of the road from the hotel in the foreground. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Queen St. Masterton. 497 William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001551-G

Description: Post and Telegraph Office in Queen Street, Thames. Photographed circa 1900 by William Archer Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Post Office Thames. 1399D. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1905 - 1912

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to interior decoration, room design, household decorative items, tableware, in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-DECOR-1910-01-186

Description: Shows some of the tent models available from E LeRoy, tent and cover maker, 48 Queen Street, Auckland. Also shows a hammock and window awning. Extended Title - From Tonson Garlick Co. "Complete modern home furnishers" [Catalogue ca 1910]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (om page of sales catalogue). Physical Description: Offset on page 234 x 317 mm.

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000542-G

Description: Taken at the time of the replacement of the old Queen Street Wharf with a new ferro concrete wharf. View looking directly up Queen Street with Endeans Building (built 1905) on the left and the Gladstone building (built 1883), with Gladstone Coffee Palace, on the right. On the far right is the head office of the Auckland Harbour Board; all in Quay Street. On the left new concrete piles are being driven into the harbour bed. In the foreground workmen are replacing wooden blocks on the old wharf. Taken by William A Price ca 1910 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Queen St Wharf.Auckland. 864 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 9 February 1903

By: Vaniman, Melvin, 1866-1912

Reference: PA9-051

Description: Panoramic photograph of Auckland city, including waterfront, taken Sunday, 9 Februrary, 1903 by Melvin Vaniman. Looks over city buildings and streets, and the edge of Waitamata Harbour, from opposite Queens Wharf and Queen Street (running vertically up centre). Quay Street runs along the water's edge. A range of shipping vessels, including a paddle steamer, are berthed at wharves. Signs advertise the following businesses (from left to right): D Goldie, timber merchant; Roller flour mills and stores; John Burns & Co, iron merchants; New Zealand Herald; Wingate & Co; Spargo Gladstone Coffee Palace; and Westfield chemical works. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Photographer, date and location, from inscriptions on print. Platinum print recognised by Library photographic conservator. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Auckland. Sunday. Feb 9. 1903; Recto - bottom right - Protected 9 2 03 Melvin Vaniman San Francisco; bottom centre - [On frame] Auckland 1903 Another copy of the panoramic photograph available at PA6-542. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Platinum photoprint 37.3 x 117.3 cm [visible image], with mat, in wooden frame 65.5 x 144.5 cm

Date: 1905 - 1912

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to interior decoration, room design, household decorative items, tableware, in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-DECOR-1910-01-011

Description: Shows a general view of the furnishing drapery department in the retail store, with cushions, sofas, haberdashery, lace curtains. Extended Title - From Tonson Garlick Co. "Complete modern home furnishers" [Catalogue ca 1910]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (om page of sales catalogue). Physical Description: Photolithograph on page 234 x 317 mm.

Date: 1863 - 1865

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: B-035-017

Description: View of Rangitoto and North Head from a bushy foreshore with a jetty in the foreground. Commercial Bay is at the foot of a slightly-indicated road on the left (Queen Street) leading down to a wharf. The jetty shown is Wynyard Pier, built in 1851. One of the trees in the foreground is a Norfolk pine. The library now also holds a similar view by Warre, entitled Auckland Habour [1861-1865] (B-183-027), which has more built environment in the foreground. Other Titles - Auckland Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink written as Auckland harbor Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, watercolour, and crayon on photo-sensitive paper 155 x 240 mm

Date: 1863

By: Eastwood, James, 1846-1937; Donne, Thomas Edward, 1860-1945

Reference: A-050-014

Description: A view from Grey Street, Auckland across a low bridge past a small house towards a large cruciform building and other houses. The large building (the Primitive Methodist Church) has Gothic lancet windows at one end. Attributed to Eastwood by Anne Kirker; see TL 3/1/1, 19.12.75 The building shown is not the Auckland Town Hall (opened in 1911), despite the artist's title. It is the Primitive Methodist Church, opened 16 March 1851, on the corner of Airedale Street and Queen Street. The view is probably taken from Grey Street and looks towards Queen and Airdale Streets across the site of the future Town Hall. The title may have been added years later, perhaps around the time the Town Hall was being planned for this site. Dating: the work has a suggested date of 1863, conforming with dates inscribed on other examples of this artist's work in the Library's collection. The church building is shown in its earliest form, before later alterations. The name Alexandra Street was also an early one. Alexandra Street had its name changed to Edwardes Street, then to Airedale Street, the latter between 1926 and 1935 Other Titles - Primitive Methodist Church, Airedale Street, Auckland Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone watercolour 113 x 177 mm Provenance: Previously from the collection of T E Donne

Date: 1885 - 1886

By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)

Reference: D-001-006

Description: Bird's-eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed bird's-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm

Date: 1905 - 1912

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to interior decoration, room design, household decorative items, tableware, in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-DECOR-1910-01-178

Description: Lists the furnishings provided for an eight-roomed house, including items for drawing room, dining room, breakfast room, two bedrooms, servant's bedroom, hall, kitchen. Other Titles - Eight-roomed Extended Title - From Tonson Garlick Co. "Complete modern home furnishers" [Catalogue ca 1910]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (om page of sales catalogue). Physical Description: Letterpress on page 234 x 317 mm.

Date: 1931

From: Insurance Council of New Zealand :Photographs of people associated with Insurance Companies and Underwriters' Associations, and various related insurance activities

Reference: PA1-f-145-57

Description: Two blocks from the town plan of Hastings bounded by Railway Road, Queen, King and Heretaunga streets. The ground plans of all the buildings in the blocks are depicted with comments relating to the eathquake damage they have sustained. This plan is from an album of plans and photographs relating to buildings damaged in the Hawke's Bay earthquake. The album was compiled by the Council of Fire and Accident Underwriters Associations of New Zealand. The photographic and other information was gathered from the 3rd to the 10th of February 1931. Quantity: 1 Two blocks of the Hastings town plan.

Date: ca 1940

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: MNZ-2178-1/2-F

Description: View of Queen Street Auckland taken about 1940 by an unknown photographer for the Weekly News Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000165-G

Description: View of Auckland Town Hall taken from the bottom of Greys Avenue. Cars can be seen parked outside the Town Hall in Greys Avenue. Photograph taken by William A Price. Another view of the Town Hall taken on the same day is available at 1/2-000166-G Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Town Hall. Auckland. 107E William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches