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Date: 1891-1968 (1969)

By: Young, James Rarity (Archdeacon), 1891-1972

Reference: MS-Papers-1032

Description: Young writes of his childhood and of life in Palmerston North, student days at Canterbury University College, and of being an Anglican Priest at various parishes in Christchurch, Ross and South Westland (based at Harihari), and at Hawera, Wanganui and Pahiatua Also notes by Jim Henderson extracted from the `Open country' series of scripts (1974) Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (18 leaves & photograph). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (copy) Photograph of Archdeacon James Young and Claire Young, taken at Riwaka, Nelson, May 1968

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Halcombe, Edith Stanway (Swainson) 1844-1903 :Sketchbook [1890s?]

Reference: E-335-q-005/006

Description: View from the land looking north up the curve of the coastline Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 164 x 345 mm

Date: 1847

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-037-1

Description: Mount Egmont in the background viewed from its southern aspect. A small Maori kainga (Umuroa) is just visible on top of a nearby hill. Umuroa does not appear to be in current use in Taranaki as a place name Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title and date in ink. Also an inscription in pencil, partly legible as 'Puketo a hini. High wind, hot sun, Jan 23rd 10 a.m.' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 163 x 242 mm

Date: 1865

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[New Zealand sketches, 1864-1866]

Reference: B-045-058/059

Description: Shows riverbed boulders in foreground, cliffs and waterfall in background. Verso describes in diary form the events of 11-13 April: the finding of a damaged surfboat taken against express orders; a retreat commenced leaving 300 men in Redoubt - reached Tongahoe and camped. Next day marched to Patea - cold rainy weather - comment on ineffectiveness of steamer communication along coast. Dated by reference to B-045-055. Other Titles - Waingongoro Left recto has manuscript diary notes for 1-10 April 1865. Verso has diary notes for 11 to 13 April 1865. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, 138 x 300 mm.

Date: 1873

By: Thatcher, Frederick (Rev), 1814-1890

Reference: MS-Papers-8459

Description: Two letters from Frederick Thatcher written in 1873 when he was secretary to G A Selwyn, then Bishop of Lichfield, to an unnamed friend, who is considering emigration to New Zealand. Discusses New Zealand's prospects, possibility of further wars there, and best places for settlement, particularly Bay of Plenty and South Taranaki. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, typescript Provenance: Originally found in Auburn, California, where they were sold by an antique shop to the donor. Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, R Skinner, 2005

Date: 1866 - 1869

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-4/2/6-Acc.37786

Description: Identifies troop movements in South Taranaki. Includes Major Kepa's bush chase of Hauhaus from Whakamara to Taiporohoniu, 18, 19/3/69. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on greaseproof paper. Scale [ca. 1:63 360] 56 x 74.8 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1893

From: F W Niven & Co. :Views of Eltham and Stratford N Z [ca 1893]. F W Niven & Co. [lith] Ballarat, [Vic[toria, ca 1893]

Reference: D-002-003-20

Description: A detail of a large sheet of illustrated advertisements. This view, top centre right, shows the exterior of the premises of Ernest Lewis, 'practical watch and clock maker, jeweller and optician'. The view includes a clock or watch face made by E. Lewis, either in Eltham or Stratford Physical Description: Chromolithograph, ca 140 x 118 mm

Date: 1893

From: F W Niven & Co. :Views of Eltham and Stratford N Z [ca 1893]. F W Niven & Co. [lith] Ballarat, [Vic[toria, ca 1893]

Reference: D-002-003-22

Description: A detail of a large sheet of illustrated advertisements. This view, top right, shows the frontage of a single-storey general store Physical Description: Chromolithograph, ca 140 x 118 mm

Date: n d [ca 1893]

From: Stout family: Papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-11518-10

Description: Petition of Liberal Party voters of the Egmont Electoral District, centred on Hawera, asking Sir Robert Stout to stand for their seat. Not dated, but probably related to the attempt to have Stout as Member of Parliament in 1893 to replace Seddon as leader of the Liberals and thus Premier. In the event, Stout was elected for Inangahua. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1879 - 1882

By: Hobson, Henry, active 1879-1881

Reference: E-814

Description: Album of military portraits, group portraits, cartes de visite, and watercolours showing incidents and persons relating to the Parihaka incident and events of the same period. The watercolours have been made on the pages that mat the photographs, as well as on full pages of their own. The loose title page shows the monogram "A.C. Zealandia" topped with the initials HH (ie Henry Hobson, the artist). Watercolours show the camp at Pungarehu, the redoubt at Opunake, members of the Armed Constabulary Field Force, members of the Colonial Rifle Volunteers, Maoris "old & new style", the Armed Constabulary camp at Rahotu, Mount Egmont, Maori guard room and sentry box opposite Armed Constabulary lines at Pungarehu, members of the Taranaki Mounted Rifles on horseback, Hiroki with his guard, Tohu, Te Whiti, Maori going to Te Whiti's meeting at Parihaka, a view of Parihaka, Opunake Redoubt, Miss Dobie's tomb at Opunake (Mary Dobie, 1853?-1880). Some photographs have been removed. Those still in the album include views of Parihaka; a group portrait of the Government House guard on 5 June 1881 (includes H Hobson and three others); Troopers Coffey, Collett and Kelso in 1881 (on page with Maori waka); photograph inscribed on verso by William Rowett [White?]; group portrait of Jack Myles, Harry Forshaw and G C (Paddy) Mossop in July 1880; Trooper P Coffey in August 1881 (on page showing Maori guard room); C.G.S.S. "Hinemoa" (ship); Sergeant-Major Hollinsworth of Canada; group photograph of no 6 and 7 Company of the Armed Constabulary at Pungarehu Camp 5 November 1881; Parliament House Thorndon; a group photograph of No 6 Company at Pungarehu in 1881 with individuals named including Hobson; cartes de visite of F Campbell 1880 and R Sooker [?] 1879. Some of the watercolours appear to be based on work by George Sherriff. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Watercolours and photographs in hardbound photograph album, 280 x 215 mm. Transfers: Some photographs found loose in the album have been transferred to Photographic Archive PAColl-9065. One portrait found loose inside the front page was that of J Loder Sub-Lieutenant of the 82nd Regiment..

Date: 1880

By: Moore, Sophia Augusta, 1862?-1945; Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-181-017

Description: A girl with bare legs seated on a large log on a beach, a headland beyond to the south. Likely to be South Taranaki, where the artist spent her teenage years Inscriptions: Signed: S. A. Moore. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 175 x 251 mm

Date: 1878-1880

By: New Zealand. Army. Volunteer Corps. Hawera Light Horse Volunteers

Reference: MSY-6854

Description: Inserted into book are letters, receipts, notices and newspaper articles. Many of the mss items are addressed to Captain W F Lukis. Also inserted is copy of `Straith, Hector; A treatise on fortification and artillery - Plans [London, 1852] Other Titles - A treatise on fortification and artillery Relationship complexity - Loose material from this volume is located at qMS-1436 Quantity: 2 volume(s) (1 volume & loose sheets) (ca 200 pages). Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (33 cm; ½ brown morocco case)

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Halcombe, Edith Stanway (Swainson) 1844-1903 :Sketchbook [1890s?]

Reference: E-335-q-007

Description: Faint outline of steep hills with a figure looking at a view Image runs onto part of page 7 in the sketchbook Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 164 x 265 mm

Date: 1865

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[New Zealand sketches, 1864-1866]

Reference: B-045-028/029

Description: Shows group of Maori at left, preparing for a skirmish. Some sit on horseback, some stand with spears, one aims a rifle, and some sit in cloaks on the ground. Cabbage trees stand about. At right is the wooden framework (remains?) of a shelter?, and in the distance is a hill with conical top, although possibly not high or smooth-topped enough to be Mt Taranaki. Assigned heading only. May not be Mt Egmont. May be somewhere closer to Wanganui; see diary notes on page 32 (E-510-032), which describe skirmishes near Wanganui in late January, early February 1865. Diary notes on page 32: 24 January: Skirmishing began immediately and the natives returned from whares to bush which they held and inflicted on us a loss of [Poor?] Johnson, D.A.A.G. and 6 men killed and wounded. 25 Jany - working parties and ....driven in along whole point,and general skirmishing at 2 - natives attacked with... - several killed closer up to camp - 22 buried. Ordered guns out and joined them soon after - fired some 20 rounds - Rebels beaten back with 22 left dead - we had 13 killed and as many wounded - Wilson and grant 50 Regt badly wounded - firing over by 5 - nothing more occurred. -26th - Reconnoitred all morning - 1 gun ordered up the heights in rear. General gone in to wanganui - [Monty?] and Donnithorne arrive on visit - signs of establishing a post. 27 - nothing doing - 28 - another dead native - 2 redoubts for pickets completed. - 29 and 30 - nothing doing. 31. Out reconnoitring the Waitotara - 4 f... 1 [Feb] Finding some bodies and believe they have lost 70 killed and a few wounded - potato parties get good stock nearby - a false alarm at 11pm and again in the early morning. 3 Feb. Rainy morning - Redoubt building. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, 138 x 464 mm.

Date: 1847

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-045-2

Description: Mount Taranaki from the south seen across a plain, with a small kainga in the middle distance Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 114 x 182 mm

Date: 1888 - 1900

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

Reference: E-346-2-067

Description: Mount Taranaki viewed from the south, with the plain rising evenly on both sides towards its cone. Farmland in the foreground with a haystack behind a fence to the right. The title is not very legible. "Waireka" may be "Waiuku". Neither name has been found in the Taranaki region Other Titles - Waiuku Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1880

By: Moore, Sophia Augusta, 1862?-1945; Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-181-007

Description: Mount Taranaki seen across rolling countryside, with cleared fields and patches of native bush in the foreground. The view is probably from the artist's family farm Mokoia, South Taranaki [Taranaki landscape? ca 1880] on verso A-181-007-a Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 123 x 204 mm

Date: 1840 - 1931 - 1982

By: Baloghy, George, 1950-; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Perkins, Christopher Edward, 1891-1968

Reference: C-094-004

Description: A composite view of Mount Egmont (Taranaki) framed by tree ferns on both sides, with milk factory buildings and a road with parked cars in the foreground. Based on a combination of Charles Heaphy's watercolour Mount Egmont from the Southward [1840] in the Alexander Turnbull Library (C-025-008) and Christopher Perkins' oil Taranaki, 1931 in Auckland Art Gallery Lithograph based on Taranaki, an oil painting by Baloghy, in Auckland Art Gallery. See Art New Zealand, no. 22 p. 58 for further information. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Signed and numbered 1/45 in pencil. Embossed monogram, GB, below image Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured, 317 x 456 mm (image) 390 x 485 mm (plate-mark)

Date: 1847

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-041-3

Description: Four cabbage trees above a coastline with a faint line in the distance, possibly intended to show a view of distant Mount Taranaki from the south Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 138 x 161 mm

Date: [1868-1923]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-98

Description: Three handwritten letters from J M Roberts to Cowan dated 1922 and 1923. Also two typescripts titled 'Taranaki Campaigns' and 'The defeat at Te Ngutu, Colonel Roberts account' and 'Waikato and Taranaki: Notes from Colonel Roberts'. A pencil drawing of the plan of Te Ngutu o te Manu battlesite by Cowan. Arrangement: Was bundle 47 in original listing Quantity: 1 folder(s).