Land purchased by William Gibbs. Township was originally known as Gibbstown.
Collingwood
The Graphic (London) :New Zealand as a winter resort; favourite haunts in the Southern ...
Date: 1894
By: Graphic (London, England)
Reference: A-434-046
Description: Shows four images: A favourite bend of the River Pelorus, Marlborough (Photolithograph) On the river Pelorus, Marlborough; another view (Photolithograph) Ferntown waterfall near Collingwood (Engraving) Nelson, the garden city (Engraving) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs and wood engravings on page, 291 x 406 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, in 2010.
Litchfield, A J :Album of photographs of Marlborough and Nelson districts
Date: 1898
By: Mowat, Alexander Gard, 1888-1975
Reference: PA1-o-353
Description: Album of photographs of Picton, Wairau River, Opawa River, Spring Creek, Blenheim, Pelorus River, Kaiteriteri, Motueka and Collingwood, taken in 1898 by A J Litchfield. Inscriptions: Album page - top left - To Mr and Mrs J T Mowat, in slight acknowledgement of many kindnesses, by A J Litchfield, 1898. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cloth cover, entitled `Photographic views'; 17.5 x 24.5 cm
Shaw, G C: Photographs of tramping huts and other views
Date: 1947-1955
By: Shaw, Geoffrey Conrad, active 1947-1966
Reference: PAColl-6596
Description: 14 photographs of tramping huts and general views: Waerenga hut and Baines hut in the Orongorongo valley; Flora hut on Mt Arthur; ATC huts on Mt Ruapehu and Moumoukai valley; Ketetahi hut on Mt Tongariro; Black Horse Hotel in Nelson; Upper Takaka Hotel, Takaka; a view of Collingwood; two views of the Hutt Valley from the Wainuiomata Hill; band playing in the sound shell at Wellington Botanic Gardens; a street in Kawhia; a hotel in Upper Takaka; and a view of Wellington from Brooklyn. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-018137 to 018150 Quantity: 14 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives
Tyree Brothers (Firm) :Photograph of the Devils Boots, Collingwood
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
By: Tyree Brothers (Firm)
Reference: PA7-25-16
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Evans, I :Photographs of Rotorua and Nelson
Date: [ca 1920s]
By: Evans, I, active 1920s
Reference: PA1-o-1519
Description: Photographs taken on holiday in New Zealand by woman identified as I Evans. Comprises photographs of men, women and children from Tuhourangi and Arawa iwi, many in traditional costume; Model Village at Whakarewarewa; Ohinemutu Pa; Lake Rotorua; Guide Ruth, Ana Hato; Guide Rangi; Wairakei geysers; Rotomahana; buried forest; Arapuni; Hongi's Track; Lake Taupo; Wellington Harbour from Ngaio; tobacco growing at Riwaka; apple packing shed at Redwood's Valley, Nelson; Devils Boots, Collingwood; Government Buildings, Wellington; Wainui House, Nelson; houseboat, Whanganui River; self-portraity of photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 151 x 202 mm Provenance: Purchase, 2009
New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :New Zealand ...
From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas
Reference: MapColl-CHA-10/1/9-Acc.
Description: Shows roads, tracks, railways, towns and county boundaries etc Base map - New Zealand Lands and Survey Department Four-mile series. Letter attached from Lands and Survey relating to maps Quantity: 1 map(s) with annotations. Physical Description: Ink and colour drawing on cream paper. Scale [ca 1:253 440] 57 x 76 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Goulter, Enga Margaret (Mrs), 1908-1988 : Photographs of Collingwood
By: Goulter, Enga Margaret, 1908-1988
Reference: PAColl-4799
Description: Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-032612 to 032624 Quantity: 11 b&w copy negative(s).
Tyree Brothers (Firm) :Photograph of gold miners at the Glengyle claim, Collingwood
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
By: Tyree Brothers (Firm)
Reference: PA7-24-08
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975 :Collingwood [1930s?]
By: Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975
Reference: A-227-179
Description: View looking down a low hill towards the inlet, with houses, businesses, a jetty and a hotel at the water's edge Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 250 x 325 mm Provenance: Estate of the artist 1976
Tyree Brothers (Firm) :Photograph of workers at the Bonny Doon Sawmill hauling logs
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
By: Tyree Brothers (Firm)
Reference: PA7-25-18
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Tyree Brothers :Collingwood, c.1890. Frederick Tyree in foreground. [Wellington] Alexan...
Date: 1889 - 1982 - 1891
From: Tyree Brothers :Tyree. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, 1982. (Imagers of a new land, series 1).
By: Tyree, William, 1855-1924; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust
Reference: C-106-002-a
Description: Shows Frederick Tyree on hillside at left centre, with small township of Collingwood, and the bay water behind. Hills in the distance. One of the buildings at centre right has a sign with the name TYREE on it. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title in box]; Recto - centre right - COLLINGWOOD 1021 / TYREE NELSON. N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 254 x 345 mm, on sheet 400 x 450 mm.
Tyree Brothers :Collingwood, c.1890. Frederick Tyree in foreground. [Wellington] Alexan...
Date: 1889 - 1982 - 1891
From: Tyree Brothers :Tyree. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, 1982. (Imagers of a new land, series 1).
By: Tyree, William, 1855-1924; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust
Reference: C-106-002
Description: Shows Frederick Tyree on hillside at left centre, with small township of Collingwood, and the bay water behind. Hills in the distance. One of the buildings at centre right has a sign with the name TYREE on it. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title in box]; Recto - centre right - COLLINGWOOD 1021 / TYREE NELSON. N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 254 x 345 mm, on sheet 400 x 450 mm.
Bullock team hauling logs, Collingwood G.C.
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
Reference: 10x8-0593-G
Curtis, Elizabeth Jane, fl 1861-1863 : Letters
Date: 1861-1863
By: Curtis, Elizabeth Jane, active 1861-1863
Reference: MS-Papers-1971
Description: Comprises copies of three letters from Curtis in Collingwood to her sister, Mrs Younker, discussing daily life, family matters, etc, 30 Jan 1861, 27 Feb 1862, 31 Jul 1863. References to `Gersham' are to her husband, Gersham Curtis, also from Prince Edward Island. Source of title - Supplied E J Curtis was member of family which emigrated from Prince Edward Island to Collingwood ca 1860 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript (photocopies)
Prints taken from duplicate negatives
Date: ca 1880-1910
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
Reference: PAColl-3064-1
Description: Rocks Road, Nelson looking south; a waterfall falling down large boulders; a carriage and pair of horses passing Windy Point in Buller Gorge; Garraty's Point, Cape Foulwind; Matai Bank, Nelson showing willow trees; school children, some bare foot, with their teacher outside their school; school girls with their teachers outside their school; Wakefield Cricket Club, part of Nelson Cricket Association, in their team uniform ca 1894; studio group portrait of a rugby team; two of the six members of the Nelson Water Polo Club (the seventh is shown in photograph); six girls in theatrical costume holding ribbons; men transporting wood across the Aorere River by punt for Collingwood Gold Fields Ltd; the sixteen members of the Takaka Races Committee; the staff of Nelson College in April 1901 - G T Palmer, F Milner, E J Parr, J Drummond, T A H Wing, W S Littlejohn; an unidentified man; two of unidentified groups of men; a clergyman and four other men under a tree; and an unidentified family group. Quantity: 20 b&w copy photographic print(s).
Nelson letters (photocopies)
Date: 1868-1875
From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7888-111
Description: Consist of letters between members of the Helps family and their friends. The main correspondents are Alfred and Francis Helps. Chatty in tone, they are concerned with social life and events in Nelson and on the Collingwood and West Coast gold diggings. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975 :Collingwood [1930s?]
By: Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975
Reference: A-227-178
Description: A small wooden church to the left, the roofs of houses, looking out into the inlet beyond Collingwood Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 190 x 285 mm Provenance: Estate of the artist 1976
Hooper, George Leonard b 1834 : Memoir
Date: [ca 1856]
By: Hooper, George Leonard, 1834-
Reference: MS-Papers-1386
Description: Fragment describing upbringing in Canada, journey to New Zealand via Australia, and work in Nelson, and in Collingwood gold diggings Quantity: 1 folder(s) (6 & 5 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typed transcript
Tyree Brothers (Firm) :Photograph of workers constructing the water race at the Colling...
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
By: Tyree Brothers (Firm)
Reference: PA7-24-17
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Gouland, Henry Godfrey 1801-1877 : Diary
Date: 1812-1872
By: Gouland, Henry Godfrey, 1801-1877
Reference: qMS-0863
Description: Gouland made brief entries of the more significant events of his life from his birth, marriage in 1823, to serving in India and his arrival in NZ in 1847. These selections deal with his life in the Wairau, Nelson area (including Collingwood) and trips to England. Source of title - Supplied Gouland arrived in NZ in 1847 after serving in India and settled in Nelson where he held a number of official posts including Provincial Secretary, Resident Magistrate and Speaker of the Provincial Executive Council Quantity: 1 volume(s) (23 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (35 cm, red buckram) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Marlborough Historical Society, Inc, 1965