Harbours - New Zealand - Otago Region

Date: 1866

From: O'Brien, George, 1821?-1888 :Paintings by George O'Brien reproduced on postcards. Otago Early Settlers' Museum Collection, Dunedin, New Zealand. [1970s]

Reference: E-278-q-066

Description: Reproduction of painting by O'Brien showing the harbour as viewed from hills above Port Chalmers [?] showing the lower harbour and Otago Peninsula Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-lithograph, 96 x 137 mm

Date: 1894

By: New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works; Hawcridge, Robert, 1866-1920; New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal; Fagan, J A, active 1970s

Reference: D-001-029

Description: View from the Town Belt in the Mornington area looking down over the city, with South Dunedin to the right. Otago Boys' High is the large Victorian Gothic building to the left in the foreground and Queens Drive curves around the bush-clad hill to its left. In the distance on the left is Logan Lake, now reclaimed as Logan Park. The dominant church spire in the centre belongs to First Church. Houses, stores and industrial buildings are shown, along with shipping activity in the port. In the centre and right foreground are a park and a road, along which a couple is walking. Extended Title - Supplement to: New Zealand Graphic, Christmas Number, 1894. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 310 x 865 mm

Date: ca 1880s

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/2-003202-G

Description: View of old Port Chalmers, looking across the harbour towards the township, with ships in the harbour, and the Methodist chapel and the Anglican church visible on the hill, centre background; the Presbyterian church at far right centre. Photographed by David Alexander De Maus. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Port Chalmers. 31. Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1889 - 1890

From: [Various artists] :[Exhibition certificates 1865-1924]

By: Lambert, Thomas Stoddart, 1840-1915; McIntyre, Peter, 1862-1922; Caxton Printing Company (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: C-098-015

Description: Exhibition certificate with decorative border using Maori carving and weaving patterns. Inside the border, and surrounded by native flowers, are eight vignettes depicting various scenes of the NZ economy (coal mining, sheep farming, scientific research, wheat harvesting, etc). Additional scenes of trade and industry and the agricultural economy are depicted in a panel forming the top of an archway. On either side are supporting columns topped with the lion and the unicorn. At the bottom is a view of Dunedin city showing First Church and other buildings in Moray Place and the surrounding area with Otago Harbour in the background. In the distance, to the right, are the exhibition buildings in South Dunedin. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph with holograph 560 x 710 mm

Date: 1883

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

Reference: E-328-f-139-2

Description: Shows the lighthouse at Port Chalmers Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - The Last of New Zealand. The tug cast off and making for Port Chalmers. 22/2/83. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 52 x 242 mm

Date: Between 1873 and 1875

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/2-014446-G

Description: View of the three-masted schooner "Euphrosyne" moored at Port Chalmers. Photographed by David Alexander De Maus. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - "Euphrosyne." Foundered. 1875 Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1886 - 1890

From: Willis, Archibald Dudingston (Firm) :N. Z. Christmas cards. - Wanganui ; A.D. Willis [1886 or later].

Reference: E-068-007-2

Description: View looking north along the waterfront, with the breakwater, shipping, port buildings and low hills in the distance Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chomolithograph 72 x 104 mm on album page ca 137 x 180 mm

Date: 1893

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1893]

Reference: E-497-q-011

Description: Possibly a drawing of Otago Harbour looking towards the harbour entrance and Taiaroa Head as seen from the vicinity of Port Chalmers. In the foreground is a jetty with a boat tied to it. Smaller drawings at the top and bottom of the page are continuations of the view to the left and right, and the relationship to the main drawing is indicated by crosses. Colour notes have been added. Artist's monograph in ink on lower righthand side. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing in sketchbook, page size 135 x 188 mm

Date: 1882

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

By: Hunter, Norman Mitchell, 1859-

Reference: E-328-f-012-3

Description: A view from Queens Drive looking over Dunedin City Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - From Queens Drive (top of Canongate) Dunedin Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 119 x 182 mm

Date: 1889 - 1890

From: [Various artists] :[Exhibition certificates 1865-1924]

By: Lambert, Thomas Stoddart, 1840-1915; McIntyre, Peter, 1862-1922; Caxton Printing Company (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: C-098-018

Description: Exhibition certificate with decorative border using Maori carving and weaving patterns. Inside the border, and surrounded by native flowers, are eight vignettes depicting various scenes of the NZ economy (coal mining, sheep farming, scientific research, wheat harvesting, etc). Additional scenes of trade and industry and the agricultural economy are depicted in a panel forming the top of an archway. On either side are supporting columns topped with the lion and the unicorn. At the bottom is a view of Dunedin city showing First Church and other buildings in Moray Place and the surrounding area with Otago Harbour in the background. In the distance, to the right, are the exhibition buildings in South Dunedin. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph with holograph 560 x 710 mm

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Five sketchbooks with views of Dunedin and district and manuscript notes]

Reference: E-017-3-015/016

Description: Unfinished drawing, showing a steamer on the right, jetties, part of the bridge across the Clutha and indications of buildings Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two pages of sketchbook, 64 x 216 mm (page size)

Date: 1872

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Dunedin, Australia, and Central Otago] 1872 [and] 1878

Reference: E-032-2-050

Description: Looking down towards Otago harbour from hills and trees. Includes extensive colour notes On opposite page: a small sketch of the details of hills and headlands Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, on sketchbook page, page size 113 x 188 mm

Date: 1940s

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-021655-F

Description: The steamship 'Taiaroa' in Otago Harbour, under steam, with passengers visible on board. Photographer probably Catherine Euphemia Matheson who took over the De Maus studio in 1932. The 'Taiaroa' was a two-masted steamship of 252 tons, built in 1943 at Auckland by Mason Brothers Engineering Co. From 1947 onwards she was registered at the Port of Dunedin. See "Index to the New Zealand section of the 'Register of all British ships' 1840-1950" compiled by M N Watt. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1867

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook. 1865-1867].

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995

Reference: E-511-002

Description: Shows view of the inner end of Otago Harbour, looking towards the harbour entrance, from a street in the city and from a house formerly owned by the Hodgkins family. Other houses are visible at a lower level. Other Titles - View from Royal Terrace 1867. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; (On loose scrap of yellow paper): View from Royal Terrace 1867 / 54%. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. 6.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 123 x 206 mm. Provenance: Estate of Eric McCormick, 1995. Transfers: Transfer from Manuscripts and Archives, A95-145..

Date: 1997

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6556

Description: Roaring Bay, Nugget Point, Otago (May 1997) Views of Otago Harbour (May 1997). Plants and views on the Heaphy Track (May 1997). Crew with river craft, Whataroa River, West Coast, South Island (September 1997). Cordyline indivisa, Pureora Forest (October 1997). Falls track and Taranaki Falls near Mount Ruapehu (October 1997). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: 1872 - 1983

By: O'Brien, George, 1821?-1888

Reference: A-017-040

Description: Looking down onto Otago Peninsula and Harbour. Subject includes two surveyors in foreground, with theodolite and flags Original watercolour held by Auckland City Art Gallery, measures 468 x 620 mm Extended Title - Issued with: Keith, H H. Images of Early New Zealand. Auckland, 1983 (Held at f758.1. KEI) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 235 x 308 mm (oval), on sheet 310 x 340 mm

Date: 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

Reference: A-225-027

Description: Shows Prime Minister Richard Seddon with muddy hands, as he digs at the site of the Port Chalmers dry dock. He is speaking to a man in suit and hat. The suited man is William Cable, chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board in 1904-1905. He was known to point out often that "big shipping repair jobs were constantly being sent out to Lyttelton or Port Chalmerse reason that Wellington, with the best commercial harbour in the country, had no dock at all" (See Cable's obituary, Dominion, 10 June 1922 - pasted in NZ Obituaries, volume 2 (1922), page 18) Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on newsprint, 280 x 237 mm. Transfers: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002..

Date: [1929-1935]

From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 : Papers

Reference: MSI-Papers-5995

Description: Comprises NZ topographic map (NZMS 1 S157, `Heath' (2d ed 1987)) with L Ursula and Furkert Pass highlighted; `The New railway link, Ohura route joins Taranaki and Auckland, 1901-1932 (Taranaki Herald, 5 Nov 1932); `Oamaru Harbour works, proposed breakwater extension', a report by Furkert (Oamaru herald 12 Sep 1933); `Electric power system; 70th anniversary' (Evening post, 8 Feb 1935) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Includes map showing Lake Ursula and Furkert Pass (Southland region)

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Permin, James William, 1880-1921

Reference: PA4-0842

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Port Chalmers, taken by J W Permin Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Port Chalmers; Recto - right of image - J W Perman - photo; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1852

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-087-3

Description: View across a harbour The Clutha district is suggested as the location of this view since the two other drawings on this page are both located south of Dunedin on the east coast. The name Port Pandora is no longer in use. Language - the word Pandora is written in Greek letters Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 178 x 253 mm