Martins Bay

Date: 1870

From: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918 :[South Island sketches, 1870-1888]

Reference: A-120-013

Description: Upper view: Jamestown and Gravel cove, Lake McKerrow, shows a single small house and a tent amidst thick bush at the edge of the lake. Hills in the background and a small steamer and a rowboat at the water's edge. Lower view: Steamer Charles Edwards snagged in Hollyford River, Feb, 1870, signed lower left, J. Welch, 1870, shows the half-sunk paddle steamer in the river, hills beyond. In: Welch, J. S. [Album of Sketches] 1876 Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolours with scratching out 140 x 226 mm and 139 x 226 mm glued to a single sheet.

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks and catalogue of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, 1889-1890] ca 1860-1893

Reference: E-324-q-2-115

Description: A scene on the Martin's Bay track showing trees, fallen branches and mountains Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W Hodgkins; Recto - bottom left - On the Martin's Bay track Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 183 x 235 mm

Date: [ca 1890-1948]

From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9824

Description: Photographs of Martins Bay, Southland, and surrounding districts. These include - View of Martins Bay, ca 1900. Boat on the Hollyford River built by the McKenzie brothers. Group at Greenstone Hut, 1900. McKenzie house, Martins Bay, 1900. Sunny Creek Hut. Lake McKerrow and mountains, 1900. Mr J George's house, Martins Bay, 1900. Hollyford River. Nine Mile Hut, Sunny Creek. Hollyford Valley and cave at Martins Bay, 1900. Hidden Falls, Hollyford Valley. View of Martins Bay and newly cleared bush land. McKenzie brothers yarding cattle at Martins Bay. Landscape views with mountains. Sea birds, Milford Sound. Group of men on the edge of a cliff, 1931. View of Queenstown. Group on the Ohau Bridge, ca 1890. D J McKenzie and another man pitsawing logs. Huts on site of homestead, Martins Bay, 1948. Site of Jamestown, 1948., Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1948

Reference: 1/4-002907

Description: Lake County, Martin's Bay - homestead made of corrugated iron January 1948. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1875

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook; Fiordland and West Coast views]. 1875

Reference: E-401-057

Description: Looking east from the sea towards the curve of Martin's Bay and the mountains beyond it Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two pages of sketchbook, image size 105 x 360 mm.

Date: Nov 1888-Dec 1890

By: Mackenzie, Alice, 1873-1963

Reference: MS-1184-1185

Description: She records her daily routine of milking and butter-making, as well as other details of domestic and farming activities Alice was fifteen when she began keeping a diary of life on her parent's isolated property at Martin's Bay, Southland Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs (23 cm)

Date: 1940s

From: Leaker, Alice Margaret fl 1992-1995 : Mackenzie family papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5311-10

Description: Second part of Pioneers of Martin's Bay (pp128-199) Quantity: 1 folder(s) (71 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1973

From: Einhorn family :Photographs

Reference: PA12-7954

Description: South Island trips. 1973 trip on the Routeburn track. This includes the Pyke River. Native forest and views from the track to Martins Bay. Martins Bay. Native forest and other views on the Routeburn track. Lake Harris in the mountains. Photographed by Helmut Einhorn. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1875, 1880]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-015-011

Description: A track through tall trees, with a snow-clad range visible on the left. A distant figure is walking the track The artist has accidentally written the name Copland as Boupland Other Titles - Copland Range; Coupland Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 105 x 110 mm

Date: 1973

From: Einhorn family :Photographs

Reference: PA12-7953

Description: South Island trips. 1973 trip on the Routeburn track. This includes Martins Bay, the track from Martins Bay, Lake McKerrow, and the Pyke river. Photographed by Helmut Einhorn. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca1920-1992]

From: Leaker, Alice Margaret fl 1992-1995 : Mackenzie family papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5311-07

Description: An essay on the white kiwi, correspondence from Mum to Mary Phelan, land transfer documents, a family tree and miscellaneous documents Quantity: 1 folder(s) (28 leaves). Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)

Date: 1863 (1915, 1920)

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921

Reference: qMS-1386

Description: Other related material bound in: 1. List of newspaper sources, 1863-1864, on Hector's expedition; with Moreton's ms transcripts of various newspaper accounts relating to the Milford district - particularly Martin's Bay, Jackson's Bay and Big Bay (The Press, 1875, 1886-1887). 2. Hector's official report (Otago Provincial Govt Gazette, 1863, p 435-478). 3. A E Wildey Making the most of our Fiordland (1926); with ms note by the author. 4. Newspaper account; Mr White's narrative of the disappearance of Professor Mainwaring Brown, while exploring Lake Manapouri, 10 Dec 1888. Also tourist brochure, 1924; reproductions of two paintings by Moreton, and photos of him and W Boers. Loose at rear: 4 newspaper clippings Quantity: 1 volume(s) (cca 60 pages). Physical Description: Typescripts and mss (35 cm; ½ green calf, green linen) Includes illustrations and portraits

Date: [Between 1868 and 1895]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-044

Description: Images of New Zealand, including the first photograph in the album made up of a collage of Maori portraits entitled "Maori land". Photographs taken by the Burton Brothers of Dunedin. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black covered album, 30 x 25 cm

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, one sketch dated 1875]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-014-q-2-002

Description: Shows a tall native tree with broken branches. The tree is in a forest setting Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 270 x 170 mm

Date: 1887-1992

By: Leaker, Alice Margaret, active 1992-1995

Reference: MS-Papers-5311

Description: The collection includes a handwritten draft of Pioneers of Martins Bay by Alice McKenzie (1947); a fern scrapbook kept by her; a diary kept by her for 1890-1891; three groups of her writings including some poetry and general topics; a diary of Daniel McKenzie (1903) and two diaries of Hugh McKenzie (1920, 1928); and Memories of Martins Bay by Jane Elizabeth Donovan (nee Campbell) Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - The Library also holds the following related collections: Alice Mackenzie's diaries (MS-1184-1185 and MS-Copy-Micro-0227), and correspondence re various publications and moa sighting (MS-Papers-4705 and A93-111). A thesis on Alice McKenzie by Laura Kroetsch, `Fine in the morning' is in the printed collection. Quantity: 12 folder(s). 0.13 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 1876

By: Illustrated New Zealand Herald (Newspaper); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: A-109-011

Description: Shows sheep droving in a broad river basin, with cabbage trees to the left, mountains on the far side of the river. Published in: Illustrated New Zealand herald, No. 103, March 10 1876, p. 8 Engraving after a photograph by the Burton Brothers Inscriptions: Signed: JWC [a monogram, with the J crossing the W - could be WJC] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 176 x 226 mm

Date: 1880 - 1956 - 1889 - 1958

From: Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].

Reference: B-140-021

Description: Six-panelled account of an alleged sighting of a moa in the Martin's Bay area, Fiordland, by Alice McKenzie (later Mrs Peter Mackenzie), aged 7, in 1880. Her father saw the spot and measured footprints, and her brother saw a moa-like bird in 1889 in the distance These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Jenny Gibbs, of Auckland, in 1995.

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918 :[South Island sketches, 1870-1888]

By: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918

Reference: A-120-010/015-2

Description: Individually titled: 10. South Head; 10a. North Head & the Bar; 11. Lake McKerrow from Gravel Cove; 11/1. Lake Alabaster; 12. Junction of Pyke's Creek with Hollyford River; 12/1. Hollyford Valley taken from 5 miles above Lake McKerrow; 13/1. Steamer "Charles Edward" snagged in Hollyford River. Feb. 1870; 14. Tutoko, from Pyke's Creek; 14/1. Part of Darren Range Hollyford Valley; 15. Pyke's Creek part of Lake Alabaster & Hollyford River; 15/1. Skippers Range, Lake McKerrow. In: Welch, J. S. [Album of Sketches] 1876 Quantity: 12 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolours, 138 x 228 mm

Date: [ca1895-1918]

From: Leaker, Alice Margaret fl 1992-1995 : Mackenzie family papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5311-05

Description: The volume is labelled No 2, Mrs Peter Mackenzie, Senior, Queenstown and is a collection of poems about Central Otago and Westland and on topics such as hospital, war and life Quantity: 1 folder(s) (50 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1974 - 1977

By: New Zealand. School Publications Branch

Reference: Eph-D-EDUCATION-Charts-1970s

Description: Includes: When Great-grandpa went driving. Part 2, number 1, 1974; Chinese writing. Part 2, number 3 1974 When Great-grandpa took the stage-coach. Part 2, number 2, 1974 (same image on both sides) Captain Smith tug master. Part 2, number 2, 1974; When Great-grandpa drove the traction engine. Part 2, number 3, 1974 7. When Great-grandpa worked in the bush. Part 2, number 3 1975; 8. When Greart-grandpa took the ferry. Part 2, number 1 1975 9. Stories from a childhood in Guyana, by Mona Williams. Part 2, numbers 1, 3 and 4 1975; 10. Captain Hassett - pilot. Part 2, number 3 1975 13. When Great-grandma went out to work. Part 1, number 2 1975; 14. Great-grandma's dolls. Part 1, number 4 1975 17. Mr Te Koeti - oyster opener. Part 1 number 3 1975; 18. Mr Kini, oyster-boat skipper. Part 1, number 2 1975 31. Mr Johnson - sail maker. Part 2, number 1 1977; 32. Pioneers of Martins Bay. Part 2, number 1 1977 33. Pioneers of Martins Bay. Part 2, numbers 1-4 1977; 34. Pioneers of Martins Bay. Part 2, numbers 1-4 1977 39. Penguins on the Snares. Part 1 number 4 1977; 40. Jim Mills - zoologist. Part 1, number 5 1977 41. The kakapo's secret. Part 1 number 1 1977; Up with the herons. Part 1, number 3 1977; 42. Jim Mills - zoologist. Part 1 number 5 1977; As dead as a dodo. Part 1 number 2, 1977 Quantity: 11 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on both sides of sheets, 510 x 760 mm.