Cape Egmont

Date: 1900, 1923 - 1933, 1938, 1947

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

By: Wells, Robert Ernest, 1905-2006

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-2

Description: Quantity: 74 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1923

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-2-151

Description: Photo of the Cape Egmont lighthouse keeper, his wife, three sons, daughter and a dog standing on the porch of a house, photographed in 1923 by Robert E Wells. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - 1923. The lighthouse keeper and family at Cape Egmont Lighthouse. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 10.8 x 15.1 cm

Date: [ca 1959-1968]

From: Meyer, Robert John, 1921-1990: Photographs of engineering projects in the North Island

Reference: 1/4-132180-F

Description: Negative of people walking on a road with lighthouse in background. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1975-1977, 1980, 1991-1992, date unknown

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11678

Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Some slides are not dated. Arrangement: The second of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1980-2003

From: Tiller, Eileen, active 1957-2014: Collection

By: Hanna, John Robert, 1850-1915

Reference: PA1-q-1313

Description: Scrapbook album compiled by Eileen Tiller relating to lighthouses and the Hansen family, covering a time period of circa 1860s to 2000s, likely compiled over a period from the 1980s to 2013. Photographers largely unidentified but many are likely taken by Hansen family members. Eileen Tiller is identified as a photographer. Includes typescript histories, clippings, and photographs from lighthouses and their surrounding areas and associated buildings. The lighthouses featured are Cape Maria van Diemen, Cape Reinga, North Head of Kaipara Harbour, Cape Brett, Moko Hinau [sic] Island, Cuvier Island, Tiritiri Matangi Island, East Cape, Cape Egmont, Portland Island, Castlepoint, Cape Palliser, Pencarrow Head (lighthouse and low-level automated light), Baring Head, Somes Island, The Brothers, and Stephens Island. Cranes and derricks, pullies, tramlines and pathways, social activitities (listening to the wireless, picnics), construction of lighthouses, automated lights, and the introduction of solar powered navigation lights (Parengarenga and Fraser Rock) are some subjects that are covered. Animals, including goats and dogs appear in some photographs. Identified people include Hansen family members (Anders Hansen, Elizabeth Hansen, Lena Hansen, Annie Hansen, and Fred Hansen are named); Inez Pearce, Mr Pearce, and Mrs Sheerwood at Cape Brett Lighthouse; Oliver Robertson and Mr Dowley at Cape Egmont Lighthouse; keeper Mr Shepherd and W Cookson of Wairoa [Cape Egmont or Portland Island lighthouse?]; Nicholas Sciascia, including a carte de visite by Hanna, and material relating to his death; J Marchbanks, Chief Engineer of the Wellington Harbour Board, and other unidentified Habour Board employees; Mr R S Wilson principal keeper at Pencarrow; Steve O’Neill Principal Keeper at Pencarrow; Captain C M Duthie; Mrs E Riddiford; and Mr Pearce, Hermia Hutton (née Hansen) and Bob Hutton, and Jamie Seddon all photographed on Somes Island. Unidentified people include a family at Tiritiri Ligthouse, Swiss Sharemilkers and their musical instruments at Cape Egmont Lighthouse, and two group photographs of keepers and their families on Portland Island (one on a beach picnic, another seated in front of a house). Named ships are the government lighthouse tenders 'Hinemoa' and 'Tutanekai'. The 'Huanui' is also identified, There are photographs and articles relating to shipwrecks including that of the ship 'Pirate' on Portland Island and that of the 'Zuleika' off Cape Palliser. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Scrapbook album arrived at the Library containing loose items and with items stored in an envelope stuck to the front cover. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing photographs, clippings, ephemera. Physical Description: Scrapbook with brown plastic cover, 31.5 x 38.2 Transfers: Materials separated from this album are now at MS-Papers-12440-1.. Processing information: Material that was loose or stored in inappropriate housing was separated from album for conservation and housing purposes.

Date: 1977

From: McPike, Joan Norma, 1919- :Twenty-two lighthouses of New Zealand. Wellington, Ra Moana Prints 1977

Reference: A-104-064-a

Description: View of the lighthouse and nearby building Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 445 x 335 mm

Date: 1977

From: McPike, Joan Norma, 1919- :Twenty-two lighthouses of New Zealand. Wellington, Ra Moana Prints 1977

Reference: A-104-064

Description: View of the lighthouse and nearby building Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 445 x 335 mm

Date: 1972

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

Reference: PA1-o-847

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1920 - 1922

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: A-174-015

Description: Looking south along the Taranaki Coast towards Cape Egmont. The artist also made a copy of this work in oils (G-622) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 240 x 355 mm

Date: 1978 - 1979

From: Eagle, Audrey Lily, 1926- :[Collection of original paintings made for "Eagle's trees and shrubs of New Zealand" books. 1955-2005]

Reference: A-437-459

Description: Shows leaves, flowers, seedpod and individual seed of the pohuhe or pohue. Artist's list: C. sepium ssp. roseata: Flowers Jan. 1978, from a cult. plant orig. from nr. Cape Egmont. Capsule March 1979. Both from Tony Druce. Appears on page 911 of Eagle's "Complete trees and shrubs of New Zealand" Other Titles - Near; January Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour mounted on sheet 253 x 201 mm.

Date: 1881

By: Hall, John (Hon Sir), 1824-1907

Reference: MapColl-832.2gbbd/1881/Acc.37029

Description: Cadastral map from Cape Egmont south to Moutoti, Taranaki, depicting lands to be sold by the New Zealand Government under the Land Purchase Act 1877, Cape Opunake Blocks XII, I and V. Shows four areas of Native cultivation, a reserve for possible extension of small farm lots, three lots of land reserved at Mr Parris's request (lots 34, 41 and 90), large Maori burial grounds (lots 78 and 87), Rahotu Camp, a cemetery, school site, land reserved for public buildings, Native reserves, recreation reserves and a temporary reserve. Note regarding colour coding on the map and differentiates land to be sold for cash, small farm allotments, village allotments and land for sale on deferred payments or small farm deferred payments. Some handwritten pencil notes on land lots read 'Withheld from sale'. Base Map: 'Cape Survey District & Opunake Survey District' (Wellington: Lands and Survey, 1881). Base map features include site of new whares along Otahi Stream, 'new clearings and new fencing to be destroyed', and 'fenced paddocks on ground felled and burnt last Dec and Jan along Parihaka Road'. Also shows 'new fencing and cultivations felled and burnt last year'. Depicts over sixteen Native reserves of varied sizes. Includes locality map. Map is made up of two main sections, glued to card. Title has been extended from 'Cape Survey District' to include '& Opunake Survey District' (glued onto map). Written on map: 'Cape Pounake' and [Blocks] 'XII', 'I', 'V'. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, coloured, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 88 x 39 cm. Provenance: From the Sir John Hall papers, donated by the Hall family Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-1784.

Date: 1930 - 1931

Reference: MapColl-832aj/1931/Acc.11598

Description: Drawn on published map. Shows hydrographic corrections from Manukau Harbour to Cape Egmont, river and smooth water limits, extended river and partially smooth water limits. Manuscript corrections to 1931. Insets of New Plykouth harbour and soundings, with corrections, and Aotea Harbour, Waikato River and Mokau River smooth water limits. Base map: 'Manakau Harbour to Cape Egmont' (London, Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty, 1857) with small corrections to 1929. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, hand coloured annotations, scale indeterminable, 94 x 60 cm.

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Smith, Elder & Company; Day & Haghe (Firm)

Reference: A-015-016

Description: Shows small storehouse on two stout poles about 10 feet high, with a notched pole used as a ladder between them. Beneath the house are bags of food, and a Maori pounds stick on a block. Another stands at bottom of ladder. In the background two figures sit by a cooking pot outside a whare, and a dog roams in front of them. At right is a fence with carved posts. The tallest post depicts a carved humanoid figure smoking a pipe. Cf original watercolour shelved at A-146-009. Extended Title - From: Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand by E. J. Wakefield. Plate 11 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, two-tone 261 x 178 mm

Date: [ca January 1908]

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

Reference: 1/1-026521-G

Description: Cape Egmont lighthouse. Photograph taken ca 1910s by Northwood brothers of Kaitaia. Source of descriptive information - Dated from Otago Witness, 22 January 1908 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1920 - 1922

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953; Crompton-Smith, Elsie Marian, 1901-1996

Reference: G-622

Description: Looking south along the Taranaki Coast towards Cape Egmont. Copy of Smith's watercolour 'Cape Egmont from near the breakwater, New Plymouth', (A-174-015). Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on cardboard 180 x 250 mm Provenance: Family descent to the artist's daughter, Miss Elsie Crompton Smith.

Date: [Ca January 1908]

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

Reference: 1/1-005693-G

Description: Lighthouse at Cape Egmont, photographed circa January 1908 by Arthur Northwood of Kaitaia. Two unidentified men sit on rocks in the foreground. Source of descriptive information - Dated from Otago Witness, 22 January 1908 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 24 Aug 1949

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-21727-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 24 Aug 1949

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-21726-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-146-009

Description: Shows the ornately carved frontage of a storehouse on two poles, with a notched climbing pole for access. In the left background sit a Maori man and women with a cooking pot and a dog in front of a large whare. There is a wooden enclosure fence with carved posts at the right and behind, including one human figurehead, a pipe in his mouth. There are woven bags of food possibly kumara stacked beneath the storehouse. Mount Egmont, its height and symmetry exaggerated, is in the background Lithograph, entitled "Wata or Provision house at Otumatua" (neg. 1/2-150220-F), was made by an unknown lithographer, after this watercolour, and included as an illustration in Wakefield, E. J. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand (London, 1845). A watercolour by Heaphy in the Hocken Library, Dunedin, is titled by the artist 'Gateway at Otumatia Pa'. The correct form of the name is not known Other Titles - Wata or provision house at Otumatua. Pa. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Chas Heaphy; Recto - bottom left - Portfolio D; Recto - top centre - [New Zealand Company stamp]: Mar 23 1842 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 315 x 260 mm Provenance: Purchased with other New Zealand Company material by Alexander Turnbull, Francis Edwards, London, 1915.

Date: 1841

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: PUBL-0011-11

Description: Mount Taranaki in the background of this view inside a pa, showing a provision store, elaborately carved, on poles with a notched central pole acting as a ladder, a Maori woman [?] about to ascend the central ladder with a dead sucking pig, and flax baskets (kete) of supplies stacked at its base to the right. A Maori man is beating an object, possibly fern root, with a pounder on a stone in the right foreground. Two figures are seated by a cooking pot in the background in front of a whare puni or sleeping house, a dog on the right. The decorated barge boards of another whare are visible and the palisades around the pa include a carved human figure with a pipe in its mouth. The accompanying text reads: Chiefly used to keep articles of food. The carving is in wood, and these figures are painted with red ochre, charcoal, and white clay, in quaint patterns. In the back-ground is a ware puni or sleeping-house. Based on Charles Heaphy's watercolour "Provision house at Otumatua Pah, Cape Egmont [1841]" (Ref. no. A-146-009). The watercolour has the background figures and the dog, but not the foreground figures. Other details have been reasonably faithfully followed in the lithograph, apart from the addition of tall trees outside the palisades of the pa. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 258 x 176 mm