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Speer, William Henry d 1867 :[Speer album] 1860-1867
- Date
- 1860 - 1867
- By
- Speer, William Henry, -1867
- Reference
- E-395
- Description
Miscellaneous material relating to Captain Speer's visit to New Zealand, 1860s, including original material by a range of artists, some unsigned; Maori portraits, Fijian material, ship portraits, 1 work by William Mein Smith, New Zealand landscapes, cartoons
Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) 18 photographs, 5 ink, 2 pencil & watercolour, 2 engravings, 1 pencil, 5 lithographs, holograph, newsclippings, poetry, human hair, fabric & other ephemera.
Physical Description: Full leather binding with gold tooling, "Album" on spine, gold-edged pages, coloured pages, page size 96 x 85 mm
Provenance: Purchase: Quilter's bookshop, Wellington, 1989
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Negs 1/2-C-09588 to 09596. See shelf-list for titles and details of copied images
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 sketchbook(s) 18 photographs, 5 ink, 2 pencil & watercolour, 2 engravings, 1 pencil, 5 lithographs, holograph, newsclippings, poetry, human hair, fabric & other ephemera, Works of art, Marines (Visual works), Portraits, Landscapes (Representations), Caricatures, Full leather binding with gold tooling, "Album" on spine, gold-edged pages, coloured pages, page size 96 x 85 mm
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James, Absolom :[Letter from Winton about short supplies of brandy, coffee and vinegar ...
Date: 1863
From: Speer, William Henry d 1867 :[Speer album] 1860-1867
By: James, Absolom, active 1860s
Reference: E-395-013
Description: A letter written by James Absolom. A note below by William Speer, explains that James was a ticket-of-leave convict who set himself 'up as a store-keeper for a short time in Southland, he bolted from place to place letting in many - he was an accomplished swindler'. . Quantity: 1 holograph. Physical Description: Ink text, glued to pages
Photographer unknown :Shanghai Mary Sept 1863. The 'celestial Polly' Invercargill N. Z....
Date: 1863 - 1865
From: Speer, William Henry d 1867 :[Speer album] 1860-1867
Reference: E-395-006
Description: Top of page: a lock of hair held with pink chiffon ribbon, belonging to the 'celestial Polly' of Invercargill; centre of page: a photographic portrait, its top trimmed to an oval shape of a Chinese woman, 'Shanghai Mary'. Bottom of page: a lock of hair, again tied with pink chiffon belonging to 'Mrs 'Sydney Bill' the convict bride'. Between Mrs Sydney Bill's hair and the photograph is pasted a newsclipping "band of hope" Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 photograph(s). 2 curio(s). Physical Description: Albumen print glued to album page, 29 x 27 mm; two locks of brown hair
Speer, William Henry, d. 1867 :From 'Eddystone House' looking towards 'The Fort' Galle,...
Date: 1864 - 1865
From: Speer, William Henry d 1867 :[Speer album] 1860-1867
Reference: E-395-026
Description: View along a beach lined with coconut palms and view of buildings at the water's edge with a wharf. Quantity: 2 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen prints glued to album page
Sydney morning herald :Presentation of the Victoria Cross. Monday September 26, 1864
Date: 1864
From: Speer, William Henry d 1867 :[Speer album] 1860-1867
By: Sydney morning herald (Newspaper)
Reference: E-395-003
Description: An account of the presentation in Sydney of the Victoria Cross to Samuel Mitchell, an able seaman of H. M. S. Curacao, for bravery at Gate Pa, Tauranga, April 1864. Spread across to the right-hand page, from which a photograph or drawing has been clipped above the newspaper article Quantity: 1 newsclipping. Physical Description: Newsclipping
Artist unknown :Wakatip Lake, Otago New Zealand. J. S. Clerke. [Unknown young man] ca 1864
Date: 1862 - 1865
From: Speer, William Henry d 1867 :[Speer album] 1860-1867
Reference: E-395-009
Description: A naive wood engraving of Lake Wakatipu, a loose albumen print of a young man in oval surround and a small head and shoulders albumen print captioned 'J. S. Clerke', likely to be the artist's fellow passenger aboard the Bombay, John Clerk Other Titles - Wakatipu Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 2 photograph(s). 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Albumen prints and hand-coloured wood engraving glued to album page, sizes vary
Wete, Here :Maori songs collected at Ruapuke New Zealand, August 4th 1863. Henry West.
Date: 1863
From: Speer, William Henry d 1867 :[Speer album] 1860-1867
By: Wete, Here, active 1863
Reference: E-395-010/012
Description: Maori love songs from Ruapuke Island (Foveaux Strait, Southland) transcribed by te Here Wete (Henry West) with translations in ink written by William Speer. One is about a woman's hair, the other about a steamer floating by Quantity: 1 holograph. Physical Description: Pencil and ink texts, glued to pages
[Two Australian newsclippings. ca 1865]
Date: 1865
From: Speer, William Henry d 1867 :[Speer album] 1860-1867
Reference: E-395-007
Description: A clipping about the delivery of a ?Tasmanian devil and another about the death of Mr George Lecky of George Street, Sydney Quantity: 2 newsclippings. Physical Description: Newsclippings glued to album page
Speer, William Henry, d. 1867 :Duels. Oct 27, 1862. Chas M. Cole, second of Captain Cra...
Date: 1862
From: Speer, William Henry d 1867 :[Speer album] 1860-1867
Reference: E-395-018
Description: The signature of Charles M. Cole, second in a duel at Dunedin in October 1863 to Captain Crawford of the 40th Regiment. Around the signature, is a philosophical discusssion about the ethics of duels and war, signed 'Billy', (probably William Speer). Quantity: 1 holograph. Physical Description: Ink, glued to inscribed album page 228 x 177 mm
The evening star :A British officer shot by a United States soldier, St Louis, June 25....
Date: 1867
From: Speer, William Henry d 1867 :[Speer album] 1860-1867
Reference: E-395-042
Description: An account of the death of Captain W. D. Speer, as a passenger, shot by a sentinel on returning to his room late at night as a passenger aboard the steamer Octaroon on her way to Fort Benton, southern United States of America. The sentinel, who had not challenged Speer and was not supposed to interfere with passengers on the ship, was arrested. Speer's middle name was Henry, so the initial D appears to be an error Clipping is loose between pages 40 and 41 Quantity: 1 newsclipping. Physical Description: Newsclipping glued to album page
[Newsclippings, an invitation and an Indian theatre ticket] 1863-1865
Date: 1863 - 1865
From: Speer, William Henry d 1867 :[Speer album] 1860-1867
Reference: E-395-008
Description: An advertisement for a free billiards room in Dunedin, July 12 1863. A poem purporting to come from Darlinghurst Gaol, Sydney, 30 August 1864 about the confort of being a prisoner compared with the lot of the poor on the streets. An invitation to supper and a ball on 17 July 1863 from Mr & Mrs Salek of Tay Street, Invercargill to 'Mr Spier & ladies'. A ticket for a box seat for Sangleekur Bhomasoor Hindu Drama, possibly in Sri Lanka, 1865 Quantity: 2 newsclippings. 2 letterpress. Physical Description: Newsclippings, printed items, sizes vary