Shipping - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Willis, Archibald Dudingston (Firm) :N. Z. Christmas cards. - Wanganui ; A.D. Willis [1886 or later].

Reference: E-068-034

Description: Looking north along the beachline towards the breakwater, with ships moored alongside. Port buildings to the left on shore Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chomolithograph 105 x 144 mm on album page ca 137 x 180 mm

Date: 1868

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-027-004

Description: A view from near the entrance to Akaroa Harbour, with cliffs to the right, a steamer leaving the harbour on the left, and hills in the background. Acquired before 1941 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 133 x 216 mm

Date: 1949

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm)

Reference: Plans-92-1022/1038

Description: Details with plans, elevations, etc. Quantity: 17 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink sizes vary

Date: 1886

Reference: A-159-038

Description: Looking south towards Quail Island, across houses and wharves Title inscribed in ink by artist on mount (157 x 218 mm), with date 2/25/86 (i.e. 25 Feb 1886) Other Titles - Lyttelton Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed in pencil (for initials compare A-159-037/43). Also title and date below work Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on paper 125 x 164 mm

Date: 1974 - 1895

By: Avon Fine Prints; Weekly graphic and New Zealand mail (Newspaper)

Reference: C-061-003

Description: Contents: Panorama of Lyttelton, port of Christchurch, New Zealand - Shipping and wharves at Lyttelton, the port of Christchurch. Reproduced from lithographs in the Hocken Library, Dunedin. Nos 3 and 4 of limited edition of 1000 sets. See D1/12 for 3rd item of this set. Extended Title - First published as chromolithographs in Christmas issue of Weekly Graphic, 1895 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithographs, 145 x 381 mm on sheets 298 x 496 mm

Date: 1850-1851

By: Canterbury Association

Reference: MS-0451

Description: Details of stores received on various Canterbury Association vessels. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 200 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (15 x 10 cm; full red roan, marbled end-papers, in slip case)

Date: 1949

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to ferries and ferry services in New Zealand, 1900-1969]

By: New Zealand. Government Tourist Bureau

Reference: Eph-A-FERRY-1949-01

Description: Tickets for Union Steam Ship Comapny sailings, in a Government Tourist Bureau cover. The sailing from Wellington to Lyttelton was for 9 May 1949 on the 'Hinemoa', and the return trip was on 28 May 1949 on the 'Rangatira'. Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on tickets 150 x 70 mm, stapled inside cover 72 x 130 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 2011.

Date: 1850

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: E-106-f-008-1

Description: A view from Mount Evans looking north across Lyttelton Harbour towards Godley Head and Pegasus Bay with the Southern Alps in the distance. Several ships are in the harbour and at sea Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, 18 May 1850 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving

Date: 24 March 1882

By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: PA1-o-494

Description: Contains seven mounted photographs, taken on 24th March 1882. Four of these are 1/2-004680 and 004681 and 1/2-004683 and 004684 which are halves of two very similar panoramas of Lyttelton harbour taken from the same point and showing the graving dock in the foreground. They both name the same ships moored in the harbour which are: Carnarvon Castle, Pet, Midlothian, Guy Mannering, Harbour Board's dredge and barge, Ione, Wigtonshire, Duchess of Argyle, Inch Murren, Cairnbulg, Seriol Wyn, Glenburn, Perthshire, Alexa, Brilliant, Lurline, Mataura, Duncraig, Enterpe, City of Perth, Lock Eck, Roman Empire, Loch Dee, British Yeoman, Glamis, Gareloch and Woollahra. Also included are two pictures of the graving dock and a view of reclaimed land at the edge of the harbour. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Album with folded green binding, tied with canvas ribbon, containing seven photographs. Provenance: From the library of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull. Given the original numbering of 3784-3790.

Date: 2016 - 2020

By: Lyttelton Engineering Limited (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-Lyttelton-2017/2020

Description: Includes: 2017: Lyttelton Engineering Ltd. Calendar 2017; the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. 2018: Lyttelton Engineering Ltd. 2018; down to the Antarctic 2019: Lyttelton Engineering Ltd. 2019; The saga of the 'Black Funnel Line' [the Canterbury Steam Shipping Company] 2020: Lyttelton Engineering Ltd. 2020; The saga of the Lyttelton-Wellington ferry service Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on spiral-bound calendar pages 493 x 340 mm.

Date: 5 Aug 1881-26 Apr 1882

Reference: Micro-MS-0733

Description: Log kept by James S Roper, Mate. The ship, with James H Horsburgh, Master, traded between Hobart, New Zealand, Adelaide and Newcastle. At Lyttelton on 18 Aug 1881, sailed to Newcastle via Auckland and Kaipara. At Oamaru 25 Jan to 1 Feb 1882. Sailed via Kaipara to Melbourne. Wrecked near Flinders Island. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 100 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

From: Cridland, Henry John 1821-1867 :Township of Lyttleton [Lyttelton], Cavendish Bay, Port Victoria / H.J.Cridland Sept[ember] 1850 [Recto] Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881. Chart of Banks' Peninsula ... 1849 [Verso]

By: Cridland, Henry John, 1821-1867

Reference: C-014-002-1

Description: View of Lyttelton from Governor's Bay, with an artist sketching by an arched rock and two women with small children on the left, a small row-boat in the middle ground, Lyttelton with about a dozen buildings (including J. R. Godley's house) and the Sumner Road clearly formed, H.M.S.Fly in the harbour with several other vessels, Mount Pleasant 1870 feet marked to the left and the vegetation on the surrounding hills indicated Other Titles - Lyttelton cf almost identical sketch by Cridland entitled Port Lyttelton, Cavendish Bay, Victoria Harbour held at A-195-016 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 282 x 561 mm Processing information: Removed from: Great Britain. Parliamentary Papers, 1850, cd [1136] facing p.67, housed in Reference Collection at q328.42 until 1989.

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Willis, Archibald Dudingston (Firm) :N. Z. Christmas cards. - Wanganui ; A.D. Willis [1886 or later].

By: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm)

Reference: E-068-041

Description: View looking out towards the harbour entrance, with ships in the harbour to the left, and the Timeball Station and a signalling flag on the hill beyond the wharves Text on image, upper left, reads: "A merry Christmas" A sample Christmas card Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 87 x 127 mm

Date: 1878 - 1883

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948; Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898-1980

Reference: E-060-2

Description: Timaru views dated 1878 and 1879 and ships Elizabeth, Goahead, Star of the South, Annie Bow, Ben Venue (wrecked 1883), Chile, George Noble all at Timaru. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and watercolour, page size 118 x 176 mm Finding Aids: Shelf-list with sketchbook.

Date: 1974 - 1895

By: Avon Fine Prints; Weekly graphic and New Zealand mail (Newspaper)

Reference: C-061-003-a

Description: Contents: Panorama of Lyttelton, port of Christchurch, New Zealand - Shipping and wharves at Lyttelton, the port of Christchurch. Reproduced from lithographs in the Hocken Library, Dunedin. Nos 3 and 4 of limited edition of 1000 sets. See D1/12 for 3rd item of this set. Extended Title - First published as chromolithographs in Christmas issue of Weekly Graphic, 1895 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithographs, 145 x 381 mm on sheets 298 x 496 mm

Date: Jan 1851-Feb 1853

By: Canterbury Association

Reference: qMS-0375-0377

Description: See item records Source of title - Cover titles Quantity: 3 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph (31 cm; green vellum, marbled end-papers and edges, in ½ green calf hinged-lid boxes)

Date: 1865

From: [Warre, Henry James] 1819-1898 :[Sketchbook]

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: E-294-073

Description: Coastal profile looking towards the Inland Kaikouras, with a ship in the water Extended Title - From: Warre, Henry. [Sketchbook] 1864-1865. p.71 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 97 x 176 mm

Date: 1884 - 1885

From: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm) :[Sample album of greeting cards, produced by A D Willis of Wanganui. ca 1885]

Reference: E-936-f-024-1

Description: Shows a view looking out towards the harbour entrance, with ships in the harbour to the left, and the Timeball Station and a signalling flag on the hill beyond the wharves. Several ships sail in the harbour. The message included top right reads 'A merry Christmas' Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 105 x 145 mm

Date: 1884 - 1885

From: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm) :[Sample album of greeting cards, produced by A D Willis of Wanganui. ca 1885]

Reference: E-936-f-026-2

Description: Shows a View of Lyttelton Heads from outside the heads, looking into the harbour, with a yacht leaving and a steamer entering the heads. Godley Lighthouse stands on the clifftops, on the right. The message included top right reads 'A merry Xmas' Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 72 x 105 mm

Date: 1884 - 1885

From: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm) :[Sample album of greeting cards, produced by A D Willis of Wanganui. ca 1885]

Reference: E-936-f-024-4

Description: Shows a scene looking north along the beachline towards the breakwater, with ships moored alongside. Port buildings can be seen to the left on shore. A seagull flies overhead, bearing a sign hanging from its beak that reads 'A joyous Christmas' Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 105 x 145 mm