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Margaret Aroha Skelton - The Clarkson family
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-082
Description: Title continues:`...pioneers of Port Nicholson and Port Cooper'. The essay covers verified facts about Clarkson's great-great-grandparents, their emigration to NZ, and the seafaring career of their son, Thomas. Some of the family arrived on the `Bolton' at Port Nicholson in 1840 and another group on the `Sir Edward Paget' at Port Cooper in 1856. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Includes photographs of Capt Thomas Nicolson Clarkson, 1890; Caroline Clarkson, 1898 Processing information: Name heading for Clarkson family removed following information from staff member, August 2023.
Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited :The world's finest overnight sea-cross...
Date: 1966
Reference: Eph-C-FERRY-1966-01
Description: Brochure advertising the Wellington - Lyttelton ferry service with the two vessels 'Wahine' and 'Maori'. Shows an illustration of the 'Wahine', a section through the decks of the ferry, photographs of a 2-berth (bunks) cabin, the general lounge, the cafeteria, and 2-bed cabin and a corner of the smokeroom. The verso shows a map of New Zealand with the ferry route marked, and maps of the wharf areas at Wellington and Lyttelton. Dated from an accompanying flier of the same provenance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 400 x 266 mm, folded to 200 x 89 mm. Provenance: Donated by the Megget family in 2007.
Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :Lyttelton Harbour. [ca 1890s]
Date: 1880 - 1900
From: Glaser, Louis, fl 1890s-1900s :[New Zealand views]. Louis Glaser, Leipzig. [ca 1890s]
Reference: E-278-q-078
Description: View looking down onto Lyttleton from a hill. Ships can be seen docked at the wharves and in the harbour. In the foreground to the left are two carts, one filled with soil [?]. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photogravure, 90 x 137 mm
Travels in New Zealand / transcribed by J A Bell
Date: 1886, 1993
From: McNab, John, b 1855 : Diary and travel account
Reference: MS-Papers-6235-3
Description: Title continues:`...off for a holiday, or, Glimpses of Maoriland'. McNab recounts his journey with technical details about the transport he took, various points of interest such as lengths of tunnels, Windy Wellington, and he includes poems; he names and describes each geyser at the Pink and White Terraces, particularly notes churches visited and people he met. Relationship complexity - Photocopy of original volume at MS-Papers-6190 and microfilm at Micro-MS-0930 In Feb 1886 McNab left his home in Timaru for a tour of the North Island travelling by train, steamer, and coach from Christchurch, Wellington to Napier, Tauranga, the Pink and White Terraces, Auckland, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Masterton, back to Wellington, Lyttelton, and home to Timaru Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript
[Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Akaroa or Lyttelton. 1868?]
Date: 1868 - 1869
From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Central Otago goldmining areas, 2 dated 1880]
By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898
Reference: E-032-q-3-015
Description: View from the sea looking towards a large port on Banks Peninsula with eight vessels at anchor. The view appears to be of either Akaroa or Lyttelton The drawings numbers E-032-q-3-014-1 to E-032-q-3-019 were originally in the back pocket of the sketchbook numbered E-032-q-2 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 74 x 250 mm
Hill-Trevor album 2 :Written and photographic record of the annexation of the Cook Isla...
Date: 30 Sept 1900 - 31 Oct 1900
From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly
By: Ross, Malcolm, 1862-1930; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953
Reference: PA1-f-143
Description: Arrangement: The album consists of Hill-Trevor's diary of the cruise, with the photographs interspersed with the text. This album documents the cruise of Lord Ranfurly, Governor of NZ, aboard HMS Mildura to the Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga and the Kermadec Islands, in October 1900, in the course of which he annexed the Cook Islands and Niue for the British Crown. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Fear, Robert, fl 1988 : Memoirs of Anne Elizabeth Cooper
Date: 1917
By: Fear, Robert, active 1988
Reference: MS-Papers-5784
Description: Cooper describes her early life in Greenwich, Kent and Camberwell, Surrey; the voyages of her father, Captain John Parsons, to New Zealand for the Canterbury Association with mention of John Godley, her voyage to Lyttelton in 1853 on the Minerva, life at Dampier Bay (now West Lyttelton) and in Christchurch as a governess, her marriage to Charles Edward Cooper in 1859 and her husband's job with the `Lyttelton Times'; later period living in Timaru and return to Christchurch in 1894; and at Sumner 1899. Many early Christchurch families are mentioned. Anne Elizabeth Parsons was the daughter of the first harbour master of Lyttelton Quantity: 1 folder(s) (17 leaves). Physical Description: Ms and typescript
[Norman, Edmund] 1820-1875 :Port Lyttelton, Canterbury. Vincent Brooks, Lith. [London, ...
Date: 1857
By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967
Reference: A-109-043-a
Description: View looking down from Mount Pleasant towards the township of Lyttelton, with streets, houses, churches, commercial buildings and wharves visible. Several ships moored in the stream, Quail Island can be seen to the right and the hills opposite (Diamond Harbour, Purau, Teddington). In the foreground are cabbage trees to the left and rocky outcrops to the right After Edmund Norman's lithograph: Lyttelton, Port Victoria, 1855, reference number B-051-006, which in its turn is based on an ink drawing in the Library's collection, Lyttelton Port Victoria, reference number B-009-008. A second very similar drawing with the same title is held at B-009-009 Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia. Opposite p.226 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted, 89 x 153 mm
New Zealand scenery album 2
Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]
By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PA1-o-386
Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm
[Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :From gulley beyond Dampier's Bay, Lyttelton, N.Z. N...
Date: 1853
By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866
Reference: A-048-033
Description: View of Lyttelton from across the harbour towards its south end, near Governor's Bay Attribution on grounds of style and internal evidence of the collection (A-048/027-051, B-064/021, C-064-003). Title and date from pencil inscription on verso Other Titles - From gully beyond Dampier's bay.... Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 177 x 252 mm
Royal tour 1901
Date: 1901
Reference: PA1-f-064
Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901. Scenes include the arrival of the royal visitors at various places, by ship, Royal carriages, and Royal train; ceremonies and rites welcoming them; views of triumphal arches erected for the tour, including Marble Arch (Queen Street, Auckland), the Auckland Harbour Board Arch, the Citizen's Arch (Wellesley Street), and the Government Arch (City of Wellington). Other ceremonies are associated with the presentation of war-medals; the laying of foundation stones (Victoria College for Maori Girls, Parnell, Auckland), the Wellington Town Hall, and the Queens Memorial Statue in Dunedin); and the march past and inspection of various guards, troops and veterans. One photograph shows Lord Ranfurly in Auckland, reading the proclamation extending the boundaries of the colony to include the Cook Islands (p 16). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "Visit of Duke of Cornwall and York (King George V.). 1901. Maoris - Auckland. Wellington. Christchurch". Hand-printed in ink on slip attached to front cover.
Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Lyttelton - Pipe organ built by Gray and Davison
Date: 1865
From: Stiller, John 1945- : Documentation of historic pipe organs in New Zealand
Reference: 82-112-16
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Thompson, Sydney Lough, 1877-1973 :Lyttelton from the Bridle Path, Sydney L. Thompson. ...
Date: 1937
By: Thompson, Sydney Lough, 1877-1973; New Zealand. School Publications Branch
Reference: A-320-027
Description: A reproduction of Sydney Thompson's oil painting, showing a general view of the wharves, waterside buildings and anchored ships at Lyttelton. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 280 x 400 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane auction, Wellington, 13 May 2004, lot 333. From the estate of Owen R Lee.
Morrison, Mr :Postcards of Auckland and other areas
Date: [ca 1908]
By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-6408
Description: Postcards of St Mark's Church, Remuera; the Waikato River at Hamilton; HM fleet in Lyttelton harbour; two of the Pavilion baths and grounds in Rotorua; the view from the grounds from the tower of bath house, Rotorua; an evening view of the Marine Parade gardens, Napier; the anglican church at Onehunga; a commemorative postcard of the dash to the south pole by Shackleton in 1908; Ferry Bridge over the Waiau River at Hanmer taken by Muir & Moodie; three views of boating at Hamurana Springs; Lakelet in the park, Queenstown; main street in Cust; Auckland Exhibition Grounds; Somerville Memorial Church at Remuera; Myers Park and Kindergarten; St David's Presbyterian Church; beach at Sumner, Christchurch; sanatorium and band rotunda, Te Aroha. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Prints also housed at PA5-0109 and PA5-0085. Quantity: 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 8 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 14 b&w original photographic print(s).
World War, 1939-1945. New Zealand. Parades, inspections, departure of troops from New Z...
Date: [1939-1945]
From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency
Reference: PAColl-4161-01-032
Description: Army parades and inspections, and departures of troops from New Zealand, photographed 1939-1945. Quantity: 9 container(s) (boxes).
Fletcher R A : Postcards of New Zealand
Date: [ca 1900-1910]
By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945; Muir & Moodie (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-4534
Description: Postcard of Partington's Mill with Eady's Piano Van in front of it and the junction of Queen and Customs Street with Thames Hotel and trams taken by Frederick Radcliffe; statue of Logan Campbell in Cornwall Park; Lake Tarawera taken by Blencowe; Lyttelton harbour taken by Muir & Moodie; and Evans Bay, photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: One print at PAColl-6181-10.
Coxhead album 2
Date: [1880s-1890s?]
By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908
Reference: PA1-o-111
Description: Scenic views, mostly of New Zealand, some of Australia, and a few taken in Scotland. Photographs mostly taken by Frank Arnold Coxhead; two of those taken in Scotland were by George Washington Wilson (G.W.W.). The album also contains a large number of coloured postcards, coloured reproductions of paintings, and coloured scraps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover, with black spine and corners, 27 x 38.5 cm
Ross Butchery 1984 Ltd :An appreciation from Ross Butchery 1984 Ltd. 30 London Street, ...
Date: 1992
From: [Calendars for the year 1992, of approximately A3 size. 1991].
By: Ross Butchery 1984 Ltd; Kingsgrove Calendars (Firm)
Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1992-01
Description: Shows six pin-ups, photographic portraits of nude or scantily clad female models. Other Titles - Women Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (calendar). Physical Description: Photolithographs on sheets, 435 x 305 mm (metal bound at top) Provenance: Donated by Women Against Pornography, via the Wellington Independent Rape Crisis Centre, in 2004. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Related material from this accession is in Oral History OHColl-0753, and Manuscripts MS-Group-1307..
Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs of early Auckland, Lyttelton, and Dunedin
Date: ca 1870s
Reference: PAColl-4511
Description: Photographs of Queen Street, Auckland; sailing ships moored in Auckland harbour; Government House, Auckland; the Auckland Supreme Court; Lyttelton, with a church in the middle distance and commercial buildings in the foreground; Dunedin Hospital (built in 1864); view looking down Princes Street towards the Exchange Building (built as the Post Office but never used as such) with business premises on either side of the street and a sign for a dentist's on the right; the Exchange Building with a horse and cart to the left; and the town reservoir, Dunedin. Photographer unidentified but they have similar captions below the image. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-002193, 002206, 002207, 002215, 002367, 002368, 002370, 002379, and 002838 Quantity: 9 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives
World War, 1939-1945. New Zealand. Departure of troops from New Zealand
Date: 1940
From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency
Reference: PAColl-4161-01-032-4
Description: Departure of First, Second and Third Echelon troops from Wellington and Lyttelton, January, May and August 1940 Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s).