Albert Barracks (Auckland, N.Z.)

Date: 1860 - 1890

From: Various artists :Official Bay; From a point; Freeman's Bay, Auckland. [ca 1845. Five keys to early buildings and features from drawings by Edward Ashworth and other artists].

Reference: A-197-048

Description: A view over Auckland to North Head, looking straight down Grafton Road. Labelled features from left to right include: Albert Barracks, A Sinclair, St Pauls, Government House, Grafton Road, Manse, Colonel Balnevis, Alten Road, Stanley Street, Swan Inn, Rope Walk, St Barnabas, Parnell Rise. Likely to have been made as a key to a painting. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white, on sheet 190 x 332 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in 2002.

Date: 1844, [ca 1972]

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7888-145

Description: Contains photocopy of deed of purchase for Rangitoto Island (original held in Auckland Public Library), photocopies of undated magazine articles on Rev A G Purchas, and of the Albert barracks. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Various artists :Official Bay; From a point; Freeman's Bay, Auckland. [ca 1845. Five keys to early buildings and features from drawings by Edward Ashworth and other artists].

Reference: A-197-047

Description: A view looking to the northwest over St Pauls Church to North Head and Rangitoto. Labelled features include: St Patricks, Albert Street, Queen Street, Wesleyan Chapel, Shortland Street, Victoria Quadr., St Pauls [Church], Dr Philson, Princes Street, Site of Art Gallery, Armoury, Abercrombie Street, Wakefield Street, Albert Barracks (now Albert Park), 1863 soldiers' barracks, 1878 Auckland Grammar School, now Police Station. The annotations would seem to indicate a date of the late 1880s, as the Art Gallery was built about then. Another copy on sale at Bethunes, 16 April 2004, lot 440 is dated 1886. Likely to have been made as a key to an earlier painting. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white, on sheet 190 x 332 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in 2002.

Date: 1865

Reference: MapColl-832.1291bje/1865/Acc.11199

Description: Cadastral published map of the city of Auckland with annotated electoral boundaries of Auckland City West 6024, Auckland City North 5479 and City East 5106. Published map shows land blocks and allotments for the entire city, Ponsonby Square, Catholic and Anglican churches, Catholic school, Native Hostelry, the Albert Barracks and adjoining military reserve, the Britomart Barracks, banks and public offices. Base map: 'Plan of the city of Auckland - copied from the Government Registration map'. (Auckland; Geo. T. Chapman, 1865), Booksellor and Stationer, Auckland. Insert of sub-division of section 20 in upper right corner. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, linen backed, scale [1:3 168], 51 x 58 cm.

Date: 1970-1999

Reference: Eph-C-BUILDINGS-NZ-1900s

Description: Includes items relating to specific buildings in miscellaneous locations in New Zealand: 1975: Hawkes Bay Planetarium and Aquarium Board. Sheet about the Aquarium Project [1975] 1979: Plan of Albert Barracks, compiled from the field notes of a survey by G Frissell, September 1871. Supplement to Auckland Regional Committee of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, vol. 8 no 1 (April 1979) 1993: Air Force Band. Grand concert for the Cathedral Completion Appeal. Conductor Squadron Leader Graham Hanify; organist Peter Averi. St Paul's Cathedral, 12 September [1993] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph and relief print on poster 510 x 380 mm.

Date: [Circa 1860s]

From: Marvin, W G (Captain) :Marvin family photographs

By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Marvin, William, 1834-1915

Reference: PA1-q-320

Description: Album of photographs taken during the 1860s by various photographers. All the images are related to Colonel William Marvin (1834-1915) who came to New Zealand circa 1858 and was possibly attached to the 70th Regiment of Foot during the New Zealand wars. There are many photographs relating to military activity, including military working parties at Fort Britomart; military and naval camps at Maungatawhiri Creek, Queen's Redoubt, Drury, Ngaruawahia and Albert Barracks; a monument to the 43rd Regiment at Gate Pa near Tauranga; Potatau's tomb with a sentry guarding it; and the Auckland cemetery. Many of the images are of Auckland, including `Hale's Boarding House, where I first slept in N.Z.'; `The Masonic Hotel where I was made a mason in 1861'; `My last batchelor home near Constitution Hill green, next door to the Dacres'; `St. Mary's where I was married 4th August 1862'; a long sequence showing Queen Street from different angles in 1866'; and various homes that he knew, including Heaphy's house in St George's Bay, Dillon Bell's House in Parnell, and `Little Sutton' in St. George's Bay. Other images of interest include a mining camp at Coromandel; the tree on which Volkner was hanged, with a seated group of Maori beside a whare; a Maori church that is completely thatched, in the Waikato; and two views of the sailing ship Ida Ziegler [i.e. Zeigler] `In which we returned from N.Z. round Cape Horn, 29th Jany to 1st May 1867'. Photographs in England are all related to Tipner Barracks near Portsmouth, and Malpas Cemetery, Newport Monmouthshire. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with albumen prints. Label attached to cover `Pictures of N.Z. (N. Island) & Tipner with captions by Col. Marvin'. Textured black cover; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1864 - 1867

By: Outhwaite, Anne Jane Louisa, 1842-1925; Sewell, John Augustus George Frederick, 1826-

Reference: A-389-004

Description: Shows a view looking towards St Barnabas Church and Parnell Rise at the right, and across to North head and Rangitoto Island in the distance. In the left foreground, a soldier on horseback is stopped beside two women standing on the verandah of a house. Some buildings in the vicinity at left may be part of the Albert Barracks. M T after the original artist's name stands for Military Train, an Army Regiment managing baggage transport Other Titles - January; Esquire; Military Train; John George Augustus Sewell Inscriptions: Verso - top left - Isa del. Jan 22nd 1867 [underlined]. After a sketch by J Sewell Esqur. M. T. 1864' [in ink, in the hand of Louisa Outhwaite] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 167 x 244 mm.

Date: 1871 - 1936

By: Fletcher, R S, active 1936

Reference: MapColl-832.1291/1871/Acc.6954

Description: Survey plan of the Auckland Albert Barracks, showing the boundaries of the barracks extending out to what later became Wellesley St, Kitchener St, Symonds St, Princes St and Alfred St. The barracks are enclosed by a stone wall (annotated note indicates part of the wall still in existence). Within the barracks is the armoury, a school, sergeant's quarters, military prison, Major Tisdall's house, the 'Dead House', large garden, the magazine, store and drill shed. Shows the Military Road, next to Government grounds, on what became Princes St. The 'Northern Club' is indicated on the corner of Waterloo Rd. Indicates building materials. Compiled by R.S. Fletcher, M.Sc. for the Lands Department, Auckland, 1936. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale [ca. 1:2 000], 90 x 70 cm.

Date: 1864

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

Reference: B-045-014/015

Description: Shows activity on the wharf: fixing of rigging, two soldiers talking to each other, a horse and cart, a woman with a parasol, and several other figures idling. Across the harbour are dwellings, and higher up St Paul's church, with the barracks on the top of the hill. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 138 x 464 mm.

Date: 1869

From: Haines, Bernard Gilpin, b 1842 :Photographs compiled while on active service with the 18th Royal Irish Regiment during the New Zealand Wars

Reference: PA1-f-027-19-1

Description: Cricket match in the grounds of the Albert Barracks, Auckland, 1869. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Albert Barracks Auckland New Zealand 1869 The Barracks occupied the position of the present Albert Park. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 11.6 x 21.3 cm, mounted on album page 37.8 x 26.6 cm

Date: 1860 - 1884

Reference: G-082

Description: A scene with with a waterfront road, a breakwater and jetty. Between Mechanics Bay in the foreground and Commercial Bay in the background where several ships are anchored, is a distinctive high mound, the end of the Britomart promontory. On top of the headland at the left is a church (St Pauls) with a red wooden spire. To its right is the Albert Barracks. Below this is Emily Place. Ships' masts in the background are those moored at Queen's Wharf St Paul's Church was demolished in 1884, so the picture shows a scene before that date. The breakwater in Mechanics Bay dates from the 1870s. The mound shown is the end of Britomart Point with a road cut through on its left. This cutting was made around 1875, part of the reclamation of land and cutting a road through Britomart Point. The remaining mound was demolished over the next few years. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 200 x 330 mm (sight) Provenance: On offer in 2002 at John Leech Gallery, Auckland, with a provenance of Private Collection, Auckland