Places

Date: 1861-1863

By: Jenkins, Robert (Capt), 1825-1894

Reference: qMS-1069

Description: Describes movements around Sydney, Auckland, Fiji (1861-1862), and participation in the Pukorokoro River blockade (1863). Important episode at Fiji, 27 Jul 1862, having recently arrived at Levuka, Captain Jenkins summoned the chiefs "to a formal meeting on board the Miranda for the purpose of conveying to them the decision of H.M. Ministers not to accept the sovereignty of the Fiji Islands, in terms drawn up by His Excellency Sir John Young". Includes text of declaration in English and Fijian. The Miranda stayed at Levuka most of Jul and Aug; entertained King Thankombau; description of Levuka. Wreck of the `Orpheus' described, Feb 1863. Mainly short log entries but 1863 in some detail; summaries for 1861, 1862 included. Includes two page typescript of a breakdown of the Miranda's movements and concurrent events of interest from March 1863 (loose in front of volume) Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (317 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (30 cm, black buckram)

Date: 1870

From: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918 :[South Island sketches, 1870-1888]

Reference: A-120-013

Description: Upper view: Jamestown and Gravel cove, Lake McKerrow, shows a single small house and a tent amidst thick bush at the edge of the lake. Hills in the background and a small steamer and a rowboat at the water's edge. Lower view: Steamer Charles Edwards snagged in Hollyford River, Feb, 1870, signed lower left, J. Welch, 1870, shows the half-sunk paddle steamer in the river, hills beyond. In: Welch, J. S. [Album of Sketches] 1876 Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolours with scratching out 140 x 226 mm and 139 x 226 mm glued to a single sheet.

Date: 1835-1893

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-077

Description: Includes a preface and translation in S P Smith's hand with a note: `A large part of this has been embodied in "Hist. and Trad. of Taranaki Coast"'. There is also a covering note signed by W H S (W H Skinner) on the provenance of the ms with a genealogy of Teira Whatakore attached. Also includes letter from T M Hocken to Smith, Dunedin 1 Jun 1893, forwarding books and precis of copies or extracts of Colonial Office material, Sep 1835, on the `Alligator' and J Guard affair. The manuscript gives a biographical account of Wiremu Kingi Matakatea, with whakapapa, with much information about his role in conflicts between Taranaki and other iwi, and between Taranaki and the Government in the first Taranaki campaign (1860) in the New Zealand wars; the document also discusses the shipwreck `Harriet' and the treatment received by the survivors; there are also translations of the material. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1850-1875

From: O'Shea, Phillip Patrick, 1947- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5059-12

Description: Papers of William Williams, a merchant and farmer resident in Auckland, whose daughter married J C Firth; includes a deed between Williams and Thomas Douglas for the lease of premises in Queen Street, Auckland, correspondence over Williams' business in Hawaii, and acquisition of Lavin and Dobbel's land at Mohaka Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Collected by Mona Gordon for her biography of J C Firth

Reference: PAColl-6338

Description: Postcards of King Street, Temuka; Invercargill Railway Station; the water tower and pumping station in Invercargill; Dee Street, Invercargill; Invercargill Hospital; the botanical gardens in Invercargill; Dunedin from Bell Hill, passengers on the Waikare just before the shipwreck; an elevated view of Clyde; the shelter on Stop Island built by the passengers of the Waikare after the shipwreck; Waratah and Mt Bischoff, Tasmania; Magnet Mine ore shed, Tasmania; fountain in Princes Square, Launceston, Tasmania; and a river near Latrobe, Tasmania. Photographer for some of the images was Muir & Moodie. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 1 b&w copy negative(s) of Dunedin from Bell Hill. 1 b&w original photographic print(s) postcard.

By: Munro, John Alexander, 1872-1947; Munro, Ian, active 1950

Reference: A-103-038

Description: A broadside view of a sailing ship Signed: J.A.M. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 6 x 9 inches

Date: 1877-1890

From: Phillips, Coleman, 1846-1925 : Papers

Reference: 79-027-07

Description: Papers on various topics including the starch factory at Greytown, dam building, treeplanting, Maori vocabulary, ploughing, harrowing, farm estimates, wool shipments and carpentry (1877-1879); letters (1879); invoices; `Spithead review' (1890); plans for work bench; advice on the use of jacks; Capt James Stevens' account of his shipwreck in 1875; article on England as a third rate power (1881) Also handbill `Replies to slanders from "Star" Office in paper called "Something further"' on a political debate about the merits of Buchanan and the demerits of Bunny Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Preliminary listing in Back file.

Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

By: Erskine & Whitmore (Firm); Coxhead & Le Sueur (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: PA1-o-151

Description: Views of New Zealand collected by Invercargill firm Erskine & Whitmore. Scenes taken by various photographers including Hart, Campbell & Co., and Coxhead & Le Sueur. Several views show Queenstown under floods in 1878; others of the Queenstown-Lakes Region, Waitati, Gore and Dunedin in the South Island. In the North Island, one shows a large picnic party travelling in three horse-drawn coaches, stopped at Ngauranga; many show a range of steam locomotives including J Class, K Class, F43, E22, H Class and A Class, in the Upper Hutt area, the Wairarapa, and on the Rimutaka line. Several at the end of the album show the effects of a major slip which blocked the mouth of the Summit Tunnel at the top of the Rimutaka Incline. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Erkine & Whitmore Inscriptions: Album page - `A choice collection of New Zealand views carefully selected from the best artists'. Erskine & Whitmore, Invercargill Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, 24.5 x 35.0 cm Provenance: Part of Alexander H Turnbull's collection

Date: [ca 1909-1952]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-093

Description: Photographs of New Zealand and overseas ships, mostly made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1909-1950s. New Zealand related images include: Shell Oil Company coastal tankers Paua and Tanea; Union Steam Ship Co cargo vessel Karoon; ferry Arahua (includes original photographs); Orcades; barquentine Alexa ashore at Castlecliff, Wanganui, Dec 1910; damaged cargo vessels Broompak and Komata in Auckland Harbour after collision; wrecked hull of Pelotas ca 1911; Opihi being scuttled in Palliser Bay; steamer Indrabarah being repaired at Port Chalmers. Also: Grounded freighter Viggo Hansteen in Otago Harbour; remains of sailing ship City of Auckland at Otaki; iron barque Anglo-Norman at North Spit, Kaipara, 26 Sep 1914; NZ Shipping Company vessels Rangitane and Rangitoto; wreck of Wiltshire; In memorium postcard relating to S S Penguin (1909) with photo of the vessel and female members of the Toomer family who perished when the ship sunk; boat at landing place at Owens Mines No 1 (undated). Series of original black & white photos of the wreck of the steamer Progress that went ashore at Owhiro Bay, 1st May 1931, with loss of life. Includes photographs of overseas vessels (names not added to Name Field) Quantity: 31 album leaves with black & white photochemical prints and 6 album leaves with black & white photographic prints. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and photochemical prints

Date: ca 1880s-1890s

From: Christie, Hettie Florence, 1902-1988 :Photographs and album of New Zealand scenes

By: Christie, Hettie Florence, 1902-1988; Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Pulman (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4290

Description: Photographs of: Maori children on the bank of the lake with the houses of Ohinemutu behind them (taken by F A Coxhead); the shipwreck of the SS Wairarapa on the cliffs of Great Barrier Island 28th October 1894 (taken by F Pulman); two of an unnamed shipwreck (taken by H T Lock so possibly near Westport); an open boat on George Sound with seven men and women on board, the women doing the rowing (taken by F A Coxhead); Parkvale Road in Karori with old wooden buildings on the right and four boys playing in the street; view looking west along Oriental Bay with a row of large houses on the left (one with a conservatory) and a heavily laden cart on the street (taken by Wrigglesworth & Binns); view looking south down Customhouse Quay and Willis Street from the tower of the Post Office showing the NZ Loan and Mercantile Agency Co Ltd and other commercial buildings; and a view of the front of Christchurch Cathedral with a tram and horses and carts near it (taken by F A Coxhead). Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-016632, 019743, 071699, 071721, 071722. 1/2-018865 is a copy negative from the same image as one in this collection. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1840

Reference: MapColl-832.15gmfw/1840/Acc.6850

Description: Diagrammatic map drawn on higher ground overlooking the scene where the HMS Buffalo navy ship was wrecked ('28th July 1840, at 10 am'). Map shows the site was wrecked, in a flat, sandy beach area, the thickly wooded hills behind it, the encampment of those who were in the wrecked ship, points on the beach where parts of the ship were washed ashore, and an area of flat marshy ground. Also depicted is the neighbouring pa site (maori village) of the Chief Teraroa, ('Teraroa's hippah'), the encampment of the part of the Buffalo's crew 'who were employed in the firest, preparing the cargo, Mercury River, part of Wiritianga's pa site, as well as Mr Brown's wharf-store and settlement ('Buffalo's store's were landed there'). Signature of creator on map but hard to distinguish. Appears to be ?T. Laslett. Shows several drawings of trees, buildings at Brown's settlement, navy tents. Other Titles - pa site Stamped in right hand bottom corner 'Hydrog[raphic] Office, 20 Au. 41'. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 32 x 45 cm.

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-035-3

Description: Shows the City of Cashmere ship aground Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - `City of Cashmere' ashore at Timaru Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 93 x 135 mm

Date: 1960-1979

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2916

Description: Views of Evans Bay, Wellington City, New Zealand, the Patent Slip, and ships, taken by Cyril Beavis in the 1960s. Also includes views of the Wahine wreck taken from Seatoun by Cyril Beavis circa 1969, and portraits of Cyril Beavis taken by an unidentified photographer between 1960 and 1979. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in May 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-09.

Date: 1891

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1891 and 1895-1896]

Reference: E-033-2-029

Description: The two-masted steam ship in the harbour in the foreground, with hills in the background Other notes include 'This is just between the Port and the Island' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on paper, 205 x 125 mm

Date: 1912

Reference: PAColl-9734

Description: Postcard showing the SS 'Star of Canada' wrecked at Gisborne, taken 1912 by an unidentified photographer Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) postcard. Physical Description: Postcard

Date: 4 Apr 1877

By: Ocean Mail (Ship)

Reference: fMS-Papers-7950

Description: Photocopy of inquiry into the shipwreck of the `Ocean Mail', Chatham Islands, in 1877 with return of casualties Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (photocopy)

Date: [Between 1890s and 1900s]

From: Hamerton, N & G (Misses), fl 1967 :Photograph albums of Wellington scenes

Reference: PA1-o-540

Description: Album of photographs of early Wellington, circa 1880s to 1890s. One view shows the wreck of the Oliver Lang at Kaiwharawhara. Other views of ships show the RMS Ruapehu on arrival in Wellington; the ship Pleione in port, and the Opawa on the patent slip at Evans Bay. Other views in the album include one of the tram track on the way to Oriental Bay; Te Aro (1883); Wellington from Bolton Street; Government House and Offices; a view from "Gaol Hill" (near the Te Aro Prison at the junction of The Terrace and Abel Smith Street); a tram run by the Wellington Tramway Company in front of Government Buildings; the corner of Featherston Street and Lambton Quay with the Union Bank of Australia and Johnny Martin's fountain; the tombstone of Mete Kingi Paetahi at Whanganui; the memorial to Te Wharepouri at Ngauranga; the Karori Reservoir; and a view of the mouth of the Hutt River from the eastern hills. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cloth cover, entitled "Sketched by the sun"; 17.5 x 21.5 cm

Date: 10 Feb 1938

By: Campbell, Lachlan Bain, 1882-1959

Reference: MS-Papers-1163

Description: In answer to a letter asking about information about the town of Foxton. The writer was secretary of the Marine Department and the letter deals mostly with various aspects of the harbour and harbour board Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (copy)

Date: [1900s-1960s]

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-31

Description: Collection comprises street scenes; shipping and shipwrecks at Greymouth and other places; railway bridges; visits of parliamentarians Richard Seddon and Michael Joseph Savage; croquet; schoolboy rugby; fancy dress; waterfall; floods; Lyell: and pancake rocks, Punakiaki. Photographs taken 1900s-1960s by James Ring and L A Inkster, Greymouth. Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: October 1917 - March 1918

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-q-993

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on voyage from Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England, with 32nd Reinforcements. Left Port Chalmers 15 November 1917, called at Wellington (16-21 November), Balboa and Panama Canal (12 December), Colon (12-13 December), Newport News (19-24 December), Halifax (27-28 December), arrived Liverpool 7 January 1918. Includes views of locks on Panama Canal, damage caused by Halifax Explosion of 6 December 1917, ships Mount Vernon, Imo (damaged in Halifax Explosion) and HMCS Niobe. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown cloth-bound album , 32 x 27 cm