Location of where the Declaration of Independence was signed 1835 and the Treaty of Waitangi was signed on 6 February, 1840. Georgian style house. Originally the home of James Busby (1802-1871), who was appointed 'British Resident' in New Zealand in 1832. The house and 400 ha of the surrounding land was purchased in 1932 by Lord Bledisloe, the Governor General of the time, and presented to the nation as a historic reserve. (Information from page 451, Wises New Zealand Guide, A Gazetteer of New Zealand, 1987 ed.) Circa 1903 it was owned by Eustace Gordon Hewin (1875-1944), who began renovations in 1905. (Information from back of file print from neg 1/2-018070 which quotes as its source: "pages 44-49 'The garden of NZ'")
Treaty House (Waitangi, N.Z.)
Tuhoe Meeting House
Date: 1934
From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0018B
Description: Correspondence regarding the building of the Tuhoe Meeting House in Ruatoki including detailed lists of materials. contains letter from the Builder and contractor, R.J. Wills in regard to the Waitangi Treaty House and the Takitimu house in Wairoa. Language - English translations Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
Evans, Malcolm 1947-:Twenty-five cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald during 2000.
Date: 2000
By: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945-; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)
Reference: H-643-001/025
Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Politicians response to digital television, matchfixing in cricket, community responsibility for child abuse, Maori support of disgraced Maori MP and lack of support for abused Maori children, Fiji - banana dictatorship, Middle East peace process, concern over disparity between NZ and Australian defence forces reimbursement for serving in East Timor, Queen Mother celebrates her 100th birthday, space exploration, world opinion swings againsgt Israel's heavy-handed tactics, ACC payouts in Australia, cost cutting measures in the NZ Police Force, silencing Dover Samuels and social policy critics, high cost of yachting's Viaduct Basin, state-owned enterprises over-spend on conferences, British royals have a go at the tabloid press, Mark Todd's chances of selection damaged following sex and drug scandal, South Africa's reluctance to comment on Zimbabwe, terrorism in NZ? or just plain violence, Human genetic secrets uncovered, 'closing the gaps' policy, May Day and workers' rights, Fiji embroiled in racism, the price of the American Presidential election and recounts, Prime Minister announces she not going to attend Waitangi on Waitangi Day. Quantity: 25 photocopy/ies photocopies of computer print-outs, A4 size.. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of computer print-outs.
Stafford, Donald Murray, 1927- :The Treaty House, Waitangi - New Zealand. Rotorua, Ther...
Date: 1975
From: Stafford, Donald Murray, 1927- :Russell - Waitangi; art prints from original drawings by Don Stafford. Rotorua Thermalart Productions [1975].
Reference: A-104-040
Description: A view of the front of the Waitangi Treaty House. A pohutukawa is in the foreground and a cabbage tree is visible beyond the verandah on the right Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 203 x 254 mm, in envelope.
[Ephemera, pamphlets and fliers advertising and promoting tourism in the Bay of Islands...
Date: 1970 - 1979
By: Marfleet Litho Print Ltd
Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Bay-of-Islands-1970s
Description: Includes: 1970s: Bay of Islands Public Relations Office. Bay of Islands. Sunny Pacific paradise of northern New Zealand. Printed by Marfleet Lith Print Limited [1970s?] Bay of Islands Public Relations Office. Bay of Islands. Sunny Pacific paradise of northern New Zealand. Printed by the Northern Advocate, Whangarei [ca 1972] Bay of Islands Public Relations Office. Historic Russell [ca 1972](Yellow pamphlet) Kerikeri Chamber of Commerce. Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands welcomes you. 1972 Sea safaris by Fullers. Bay of Islands New Zealand. Blue water safaris in the beautiful Bay of Islands (2 copies, one with tickets stapled to front cover) Fuller's famous Bay of Island cruises Fuller's world famous crusies. Bay of Islands, New Zealand Kaikohe News [ca 1977?] (2 copies) Society for the Preservation of the Kerikeri Stone Store Area Inc. Don't miss! New Zealand's only replica pre-European Maori village on the waterfront and Kerikeri. [1970s?] Tourist Hotel Corporation. Playground of New Zealand's winterless north. New Waitangi Hotel at the famous Bay of Islands. [Pamphlet] Designed by Charles Haines Ltd. Welcome aboard the Bay Explorer. The Bay Explorer story (2 copies) Sea scapades by Rex, Bay of Islands New Zealand. MV "Bay Explorer" (2 different pamphlets) 1975?: Jane Taylor. Janes scenic and historic tours of Russell. Blue and white minibus [ca 1975?] 1976: Bay of Islands for deep sea fishing. New Zealand 1976-77. The tourists' El Dorado 1978: Treaty House Waitangi, Bay of Islands, New Zealand. No 33517. [Printed by] Corbett & Horne, Whangarei, 9/78 [1978] Mount Cook Airlines. Bay of Islands Discovery holidays 1973 (2 copies); October 1977/March 1978 (2 copies) Mount Cook Airlines World Travel. At your service in Bay of Islands Mount Cook Airlines Golden Goose Service: Bay of Islands Discovery holidays. Issues for April/September 1974; October 1974 / March 1975 (2 copies) Mount Cook Airlines. Catch the Cat around the Bay. 'Tiger Lily' Bay tours. 1979 (Pamphlet and yellow card) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on pamphlets, fliers, tickets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.
Railways album 5
Date: [Circa 1937]
Reference: PA1-f-054
Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways between 1937 and 1938 by unidentified photographers. Photographs in the North Island include tours between Stratford and Ongarue; Ngaruawahia celebrations in 1938 (including views of King Koroki's house which was built in 1938); Rotorua and six lakes trip; and opening ceremonies for the Hutt Railway. In the South Island views include Caroline Bay with events at the soundshell; in Timaru, views of a two-storied clubhouse and men playing bowls, a person practising croquet, and several games of tennis on a series of tennis courts; areas in Queen Charlotte Sound, Portage, Pelorus and Kenepuru Sounds and Blenheim Aerodrome; Tasman and Franz Josef Glaciers; Milford Sound; Punakaiki; and Cromwell. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, dark green spine, entitled `Tours 5'; 40 x 60 cm
Salmon album 11
Date: [Between 1930 and 1941]
From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints
By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999
Reference: PA1-q-207
Description: Album of photographs (mainly landscapes) taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1930 and 1941. The album is divided into sections (not in chronological order), many relating to camping holidays with an unidentified companion. Areas covered included a Christmas holiday trip in 1937 to the East Coast and thermal regions around Tikitere and Waimangu, the Morere nikau forest, Mount Maunganui beach, Hongi's track, the buried village at Te Wairoa, and Rotorua. A North Auckland trip in December 1938 included camping as far north as Paihia, Russell and Waitangi, the Waitangi Falls, the Waipoua Kauri Forest and Trounson's Kauri Park, also Auckland, the Kaingaroa Plains and Waiouru Valley. Areas of erosion were noted, and mangrove swamps. An Anniversary Day trip (22-23 January 1939) took Salmon to the Putangirua Pinnacles in the Wairarapa; and in September 1941 he went to the Hawke's Bay area. In 1945 he went on a North Island Expedition working on malaria control, with ?Bissett, and William John Phillipps. February 20-27 1939 was a trip across the Napier-Taupo Road, and included a number of images of the silt and desolation caused by a great flood in the Esk Valley in 1938. In 1936 Salmon went on a geological trip to the Rotorua area, and at Orakei Korako he was particularly interested in "sinter formations" (thermal deposits of silica, of which the Pink and White Terraces were examples). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm
Taylor album 1
Date: [Circa 1930s]
From: Taylor, Jill fl 1984 :Photographs relating to Alice Brown, Wellington sports teams, Wellington's Queen Carnival and Red Cross Transport
Reference: PA1-o-490
Description: Snapshots of family and friends relating to Alice Brown. The only images with captions are small postcards Includes envelope inside front cover containing three loose photographs Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled The "Cambrian" Album; 19.5 x 24.5 cm
Series 3 - Papers relating to Maori culture and history
Date: 1877-1972
From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Further papers
Reference: Series-3334
Description: The papers in this series include material such as volumes, papers, research notes, lecture notes, printed matter, letterbooks, partial diaries and letters relating to research in the areas of Maori dance, language and literature, tribal and family genealogy, Christianity, architecture, carving, tukutuku and education. Some materials in this series are from beyond the date range of Ngata's life but came into the library with the collection. Quantity: 49 volume(s) 47 folder(s). Processing information: Series description was updated in January 2020 following query from a researcher.
Jones, Grace :Photographic prints and postcards of Russell historic places
Date: 1900-1930
By: Jones, Grace, active 1981
Reference: PAColl-0147
Description: All but one of the photographs are of Russell and other historical buildings, towns and sites in the Bay of Islands. Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s). 11 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).
Scenes in Waitangi
Date: Between 1895 and 1900
From: Denton, Frank J, 1869-1963 :Collection of negatives, prints and albums
Reference: PA1-o-130-02
Description: Two photographs taken in Waitangi in the late 1890s by Frank Denton. The original album captions are: (Upper photograph) "Victoria", the scene of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, 1840 (Mr Busby's house behind pine trees in centre). (Lower photograph) Treaty house and monument, Treaty of Waitangi. Physical Description: Two photographs mounted on album page, 25 x 20.1 cm (page size)
Photographer unknown: Royal Tour by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh 1963
Date: 1963
Reference: PAColl-6640
Description: 7 views of the Royal Tour of 1963: the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in full regalia at the top of steps; two of the Queen and the Duke at a parade ground with clergy and royal standard bearers in attendance; the Queen, the Duke and Josiah Hanan, Minister of Maori Affairs, greeting Sir Eruera Tirikatene and Lady Tirikatene outside the Treaty House at Waitangi; the Queen greeting Mr Vernon Reed member of the Waitangi Trust Board in the grounds of the Treaty House; and two of lifeguards holding banners of their home towns and a pipe band on a beach waiting for the arrival of the Queen. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-020504 to 020510 Quantity: 7 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives
Woods, S J, fl 1970s-1980s :[Historic buildings of New Zealand. 1980s?]
Date: 1832 - 1869 - 1877
By: Woods, S J, active 1970s-1980s; Blakeley, Philip William, 1915-1994
Reference: A-003-041
Description: Modern reproductions of artist's impressions of historic buildings of New Zealand: Christchurch Cathedral, 1881; University of Otago, Dunedin, 1869; Government Building, Wellington, 1877; Waitangi Treaty House, 1832. Possibly calendars with date sections removed. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - S.J. Woods; Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, coloured, each image 228 x 323 mm, on sheet 280 x 372 mm, bound together with metal strip along top. Provenance: Donated by P.W. Blakeley, of Kelburn in 1992.
McComb, Ralph, fl 1933 : Restoration of the Treaty House at Waitangi
Date: 1933
By: McComb, Ralph, active 1933
Reference: MS-Papers-3670
Description: Notes on the preparation for, and the restoration of the Treaty House, under the supervision of the author, and in conjunction with Gummer & Ford & William M Page, Associated Architects Quantity: 1 folder(s) (17 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr Ralph McComb, 16 December 1966 Plan of restorations on Treaty House
Photographs of Northland Region
Date: 1840, 1941 - 1959
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
By: Hardcastle, Peter Richard, 1921-1991; Whites Aviation Ltd; Ross, Neville, active 1959
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-025
Description: Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Sharp, Barbara, fl 2003 :Photographs taken and collected by the family of Kathleen Dye
Date: ca 1900-ca 1915, 1930s, 1960s
By: Dye, Kathleen, active 1930s; Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940; Goodall, Gladys Mary, 1908-2015; Sharp, Barbara, active 2003
Reference: PAColl-7713
Description: Photographs of the Rodney district, Russell, Waitangi, Te Kuiti, Te Aroha, Wanganui, Hunua Falls, skiing in Tongariro National Park, Rotorua, Nelson, and army groups. Kathleen Dye was the donor's mother. The family lived north of Auckland, in the Kaukapakapa - Warkworth area. Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcard. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Barbara Sharp, Levin, in August 2003.
Duncan, Russell, album 7
Date: [Between 1893 and 1920]
From: Duncan, Russell James, 1855-1946 :Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-o-142
Description: Photographs taken by Russell Duncan, dated 1893, 1903, 1910, 1914 and 1920. Images show places of historical interest in the Bay of Islands, Dusky Sound, and the Bay of Plenty. Included are views of John Fox's house at Paihia; William Busby's house at Waitangi; the Kemp House; the Stone Store at Kerikeri; the site of Governor Hobson's house at Okiato; Bishop Pompallier's house at Russell; the site of the Roberton House on Motuarohia Island, where Mrs Roberton (wife of Captain Richard Roberton), her two children, a Māori-Pākehā boy, and a man-servant were killed on 20 November 1841, and their house burnt; and the last post standing at Te Heu Heu's Pa (Waitahanui Pa) at Taupo. Several views follow of areas in Dusky Sound, and one of Sulphur Bay on Whale Island, Bay of Plenty. Contains index at the beginning of the album, with historical notes hand-written beneath each image. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green album with darker green spine and corners; lettering on spine `Photographs. Places of historic interest. Photos taken and presented by Russell Duncan. Nos. 91-106', 26 x 31 cm Processing information: Description updated 19 September 2023 following information provided by a staff member.
Denton album 1
Date: 1895-1900
From: Denton, Frank J, 1869-1963 :Collection of negatives, prints and albums
Reference: PA1-o-130
Description: Photographs taken in the Bay of Islands and Hokianga districts in the late 1890s, by Frank J Denton. Include several of Paihia; the church with ruins of Archdeacon Williams' house; church belfry (standing alone in a field in front of the church); monument to Archdeacon Williams, Paihia Cemetery, `raised solely by Maori subscription'; and monument to the Treaty of Waitangi. Views of Kerikeri include the oldest wooden house, and the oldest stone house in New Zealand; and Kerikeri Falls (Rainbow Falls). At Waimate views show ruins of the first mill in New Zealand, remains of a factory near the old mill; puriri trees; and Waimate Church. Pakaraka views show interior and exterior views of Pakaraka Church; and `The Retreat', Archdeacon Williams' residence. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth-bound album entitled "Photographic views", 28 x 21 cm
Bathurst, Charles, 1st Baron Bledisloe 1867-1958 : Letter, Wellington
Date: 21 Feb 1933
By: Bledisloe, Charles Bathurst, Viscount, 1867-1958
Reference: MS-Papers-0789
Description: Letter to R W D Weaver (NSW Minister for Public Works & Health) thanking him for his help in locating plans of the Residency at Waitangi. Includes 2 typed letters from Weaver to Ifould re the Bledisloe letter Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript (photocopies)
[Lister family] :Bay of Islands, New Zealand, Mar. 1889. Mr Busby's house ...
Date: 1889
From: Lister, Joseph Jackson 1857-1927 :[Lister album] 1886-1890 [Watercolours by Joseph, and possibly Isabella and Gulielma Lister]
Reference: E-394-f-025-2
Description: View in the Bay of Island from Waikare Inlet looking west, past Okiato on the right (wrongly described as Opooa, or Opua) and looking towards Waitangi in the distance, with Motumaire in the central distance. The position of the Treaty House is indicated but the house is not visible Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Pencil inscriptions: Koti Kotinga. Motumaide. Te Pooa. Mr Busby's house - where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed - ceding New Zealand to Britain. On Te Pooa point Old Russel was situated - the first capital of New Zealand. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 93 x 138 mm
Transparencies of Northland scenes
Date: February 1956, January 1958
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: PA12-7614
Description: Transparencies of Northland, taken February 1956 and January 1958 by Whites Aviation. Comprises views of Waitangi Falls, the Treaty House, sheep being unloaded from a barge, and Williams Memorial Church of St Paul in Paihia. Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies