Launceston

Date: 1883

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-133-2

Description: A view of Launceston, showing the South Esk River Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Launceton - with Twin Bridge over South Esk Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 110 x 185 mm

Reference: PAColl-6338

Description: Postcards of King Street, Temuka; Invercargill Railway Station; the water tower and pumping station in Invercargill; Dee Street, Invercargill; Invercargill Hospital; the botanical gardens in Invercargill; Dunedin from Bell Hill, passengers on the Waikare just before the shipwreck; an elevated view of Clyde; the shelter on Stop Island built by the passengers of the Waikare after the shipwreck; Waratah and Mt Bischoff, Tasmania; Magnet Mine ore shed, Tasmania; fountain in Princes Square, Launceston, Tasmania; and a river near Latrobe, Tasmania. Photographer for some of the images was Muir & Moodie. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 1 b&w copy negative(s) of Dunedin from Bell Hill. 1 b&w original photographic print(s) postcard.

Date: [Circa 1880s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Lomer, Albert, active 1862-1900; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-262

Description: Album of Australian photographs of Brisbane and Tasmania, and views of a range of sites in New Zealand, taken by various photographers circa 1880s. Names and places identified in the album are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: [1890s-1900s?]

From: Teale, Edmund Oswald (Sir), 1874-1971 : Birell album

By: Charles H Kerry & Company; Shearsby, A J, active 1913-1928; Star Photo Company; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA1-q-029

Description: Postcards, chiefly of Australia, including Tasmania, Adelaide, Queensland, New South Wales, with several showing various tin mines in Tasmania. There is a section of New Zealand postcards in the middle of the album, many taken by an Australian photographic company "Charles H Kerry & Co", labelled "Series 53. Hot Lakes District, New Zealand". These images are tinted, and include views of the Huka Falls, the Pink and White Terraces, Waiotapu, Ohinemutu, Whakarewarewa, Lakes Waikaremoana and Taupo, and the Aratiatia Rapids. The NZ images also include views of the Mount Cook region of the South Island, including Franz Josef Glacier, Hooker Glacier, Mounts Darwin, Sefton and Cook, and Lakes Te Anau and Wakatipu. Many of the postcards show the photographers' names, and include R C Harvey, A J Shearsby, the Star Photo Co., de Tourret, and the New Zealand Tourist Department. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown "Postcard album" with red, green and blue decoration, 285 x 240 mm

Date: 1850

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-098/099

Description: Panoramic view from a hill looking down over Launceston with streets, houses, churches, businesses, the harbour in the Tamar River on the left, and the Esk River on the right Other Titles - Van Diemen's Land, Tasmania Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - in pencil titles and date; also the phrase V. D. Land repeated on the right-hand section Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sheets of paper, each 230 x 331 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1883

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-133-3

Description: Launceston Town Hall, Tasmania Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Town Hall, Launceton Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 105 x 185 mm

Date: 1869

From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]

By: Calvert, Samuel, 1828-1913; Cooke, Albert Charles, 1836-1902

Reference: E-043-q-094

Description: The wood engraving (top left) by artist Albert Cooke, shows an elevated wooden road (or walkway) built on rocky left bank of the South Esk River, Launceston. Published in The illustrated Australian news, 28 Mar 1870. The wood engraving (top right) by unidentified artist (possibly Albert Cooke) shows the Horse-Shoe Falls on the South Esk River. Published in The illustrated Australian news, 28 Mar 1870. The wood engraving (bottom left) by artist Albert Cooke and engraver Samuel Calvert, shows Circular Head on the north-west coast of Tasmania. Published in The illustrated Australian news, 28 Mar 1870. The wood engraving (bottom right) shows the salmon ponds. Published in The illustrated Australian news, 6 Dec 1869. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Titles Quantity: 4 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engravings, stuck to page 275 x 215 mm

Date: Before 1894

By: Leitch, W A, active 1894; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-260

Description: Album of scenic views of Tasmania, Sydney and wider New South Wales, and of New Zealand, both North and South Islands. Views of lighthouses include Derwent Lighthouse (Tasmania), Macquarie Lighthouse (South Head, Sydney), and Farewell Spit Lighthouse (Tasman Region, New Zealand). The New Zealand photographs are nearly all taken by Josiah Martin, and include one that is a collage of scenes he photographed, and one of Maori weapons, with captions to say they were deposited [in Auckland Museum] by Captain Gilbert Mair. A photograph attached to the inside of the back cover is of the Farewell Spit Lighthouse, and was taken by the Tyree Brothers firm Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - W.A. Leitch. 1894 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled `Photographs' in gold lettering, with `Leitch' lettered in gold on spine; 21.5 x 28.5 cm Provenance: Purchase

Date: 1883

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-132-2

Description: A small settlement on Tasmania's Main Line Railway (MLR) Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Evandale (M.L.R) near Launceston Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 105 x 190 mm

Date: 1860-1880s

From: Saxby, Stephen Hector, 1907- :Photograph albums

By: Monro, David (Sir), 1813-1877; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903; Beattie, John Watt, 1859-1930

Reference: PA1-q-214

Description: Album of views in New Zealand and Australia, comprising photographs of Nelson, mostly taken by Sir David Monro ca 1860-1865, showing his family and properties, "Bearcroft", and "Newstead"; views of Lake Guyon and district taken ca 1865 by W T L Travers, and scenes in Tasmania taken by John Watt Beattie of Hobart, ca 1880s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with tan cloth cover, dark green leather spine; 35 x 26 cm

Date: 9 Feb - 3 Jul 1894

By: Brown, H J (Mr), active 1894

Reference: MSX-9260

Description: Travel journal of Mr H J Brown. Details a five month, 9 Feb - 3 Jul 1894, journey to New Zealand and Australia. 9 Feb - 24 Mar : Describes the voyage on the ship 'Oroya' from London to Sydney. Includes details about activities aboard the ship, day excursions at port cities - Gibralter [sic] with a Portguese guide called Joseph Buzaglo; Naples and Pompeii ruins with Mr Cook & Son (Tour guides); Port Said; Colombo at the Oriental Hotel and vehicle tour with Mr Cohen; Albany, West Australia; Melbourne; and final port Sydney. 25 Mar - 3 Apr: Describes time in Sydney staying at the 'Australia Hotel', and travels at to the Blue Mountains and Kaloomba [sic]. 4 - 8 Apr : Describes the voyage on the ship 'Mararoa' from Sydney to Australia, and the unpleasant conditions on board. 9 - 19 Apr : Describes travel through the North Island from Auckland to Wellington on buggy and rail. Includes detailed description of visit to Whakarewarewa and hot pools area of Rotorua with tour guides Mr Cook & Son, staying at the 'Geyser Hotel', observations of Maori, cruise on Lake Rotorua to Mokoia Island, the story of Hinemoa and Tutauakie [sic], temple to the 'God of the Sweet Potato', Hamurana Stream, use of Maori language, Okere and Tutea Falls, Tikitere, Waiatapu Valley, Mount Tarawera eruption, Wairakie [sic], Huka Falls, Lake Taupo, Tarawera, the strains of buggy travel, Napier, train to Wellington, stay at the 'Occidential Hotel', pre European Maori times, and land ownership. 19 - 21 Apr : Describes voyage on the ship 'Penguin', from Wellington to Port Chalmers, via Lyttelton. Includes observation of Lyttelton. 21 - 26 Apr : Describes time in Dunedin, a visit to Rosslyn Woollen Mills, business trip to Woodlands and associates P Briscoe and Tom Price. 26 Apr - 1 May : Describes voyage on the ship 'Talune' from Port Chalmers to Hobart, Tasmania, via the Bluff. Includes retrospective general observations of New Zealand and Maori. 1 - 5 May : Describes Hobart, trip to Brown's River and train to Launceston. 7 - 8 May : Describes the voyage on the ship 'Patenna' from Launceston to Melbourne. 9 - 12 May : Describes time in Melbourne and the economy. 12 May - 3 July : Describes the return home voyage on the ship 'Ormuz' from Melbourne. Includes day excursions at port cities Adelaide, Colombo, Port Said, Naples, and Gibraltor; mentions 'Bluejackets' naval officers onboard, the frustration of the ship being quarantined in Colombo due to scarlet fever, the recreation onboard, and final entry mentions passing the ship 'Orient' outward bound. End pages of journal include a tally distances (miles) travelled, list of people they met, books read, and 'Son Macauley's Riddle' in Arabic. Source of title - Supplied by Library Other - Frontpiece stamp 'Hatchett & Kingsnorth, Stationers, 428 Strand' Quantity: 1 volume(s) 136 pages. 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, Newspaper clippings p 62 sketch of a buggy; p 77 map of North Island and rail and coach routes taken; p 124 map of canal from Port Said to Suez.

Date: [ca 1902]

By: Pettifer, Walter, active 1902

Reference: PAColl-7744

Description: Photographs, many of which are panoramas, of New Zealand cities, rivers and lakes. Includes photographs of Sydney and Tasmania, and a photograph of Brooklyn Bridge, New York. Taken ca 1902, possibly by Walter Pettifer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Purchased from Judith Grant, London, September 2002. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1135 : Pettifer, Walter, fl 1902 : Diary and scrapbook..

Date: [1930s]

By: MacKay, Horatio Murdoch, 1886-1968; Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966

Reference: PA1-o-305

Description: Album created with aviation pioneer Horatio Murdoch MacKay. Photographs include several in which MacKay was the first man to fly across the Tasman as a passenger, making the flight with Charles Kingsford Smith. One sequence shows Boeing biplane (purchased by New Zealand Airways Ltd in 1934), shipped from Vancouver and assembed in New Zealand, and the first landing at Green Island `Aerodrome'. A number of views of different aeroplanes, both monoplanes and biplanes follows. There are a large number of postcards of Launceston, Jenolan Caves, and Ballarat in Australia, and caves in the Waitomo area of New Zealand. Photographs of a group travelling on a South Island tour by White Star Taxis, a company which MacKay established, including views of the first hotel at Wanaka `The White Star Private Hotel'. One scene shows one of the taxis after an accident. Other scenes show a group skiing, a group at the summit of the Crown Range, and a large group on a motor launch. The last sequence is chiefly family photographs, including several houses, and two different wedding parties; several portraits, possibly of Horatio MacKay's wife Helen Emma (nee Griffiths). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue and brown patterned cover, entitled `Snapshots'; 26 x 33 cm

Date: 1839-1841

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2665

Description: Comprises diaries of Robert McCormick, while on the Ross expedition to Antarctica on HMS Erebus and Terror, 1839-1841. Decribes sightings of birds and other wildlife while on the voyage from London to Tasmania and New Zealand. Detailed accounts on life in Tasmania, and the the Bay of Islands. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: ca 1860s

By: de Uphaugh, C, active 1958

Reference: PAColl-3382

Description: Two views over Nelson in the 1860s with hay fields in the foreground; the Dun Mountain Copper and Chrome Iron mine in Nelson showing a mine railway and chutes; Wairoa Saddle stable, Dun Mountain, 1862; Launceston, Tasmania ca 1861; a bush scene; two women in crinolines possibly from the Duppa family; Dun Mountain Copper Mining depot, Brook Street Valley, Nelson. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-015703 to 015704 and 055253 Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Two photoprints 154 x 207mm on mount 248 x 307mm; one photoprint 167 x 212mm

Date: [1880s-1890s?]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-q-056

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand and Australia photographed by Frank Arnold Coxhead (F.A.C.). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, with spine title "New Zealand and Australia, 3360-3417", 31 x 27 cm

Date: 1845 - 1891 - 1851

From: Burt, John fl 1815-1851 :Literary fragments / by John Burt, written about the years 1845-51 in Westbury, near Launceston, Tasmania.

By: Simpson, William, 1823-1899

Reference: E-249-q-001

Description: A decorative title page for a scrapbook. Includes a pattern of naval insignia on the left sidea and a decorative border along the top Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - in blue brushpoint. W. S. 1891 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on card glued to album page, 172 x 129 mm Provenance: William Simpson had a family connection with John Burt, and may be the compiler of the scrapbook and artist of this title page. The volume was donated along with work by William Simpson, by Mrs Penelope Hewitt, nee Simpson

Date: 1902, 1950?

By: Pettifer, Walter, active 1902

Reference: MS-Group-1135

Description: Diary kept by Pettifer who sailed round the world on the `Ophir' as a servant of its captain, Captain Tryon; and scrapbook compiled by Pettifer of itinerary, postcards, ephemera, clippings, maps, stamps and photographs etc The diary has daily entries, some very brief, describing the voyage, ports, weather etc rather than Pettifer's work on board the vessel Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Judith Grant, London, Sep 2002 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transferred to the Photographic Archive - To Photographic Archive - 32 loose photographs (PAColl-7744).

Date: 1838-1842

By: Cleveland, William, active 1838-1842

Reference: Micro-MS-0505

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (c900p.).

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: Hannam, John (Sir), active 1936; Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-111

Description: Photograph album of views of New Zealand and Australia, taken by various photographers. Three photographs taken by the Burton Brothers show the sunken pa at Ohinemutu (Burton Bros. 3880); two Maori rangatira, image entitled `Were Were & Kiriwere, Waipahihi, Lake Taupo' (Burton Bros. 3747); and Maori meeting at Whare-Komiti-Haerehuka, King Country (Burton Bros. 3624). Other - Photograph `Maori meeting at Whare-Komiti-Haerehuka, King Country' (Burton Bros. 3624) appears to have been taken at the same time as image at PA7-36-30 `Great chiefs at Whare-Komiti-Haerehuka, King Country (Burton Bros. 3622). Several of the chiefs who were named in the Great Chiefs image can be identified in the view in this album. Other - Photograph `Were Were & Kiriwere, Waipahihi, Lake Taupo' (Burton Bros. 3747) appears to have been taken at the same time as the image at PA1-o-088-13. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram covers; 28 x 38 cm Provenance: Donated by Sir John Hannam, London, 1936