Albums

Date: 1851

From: McLean family : Papers

By: McLean, Susan Douglas, 1828-1852

Reference: MS-1361

Description: Three weeks after her marriage she copied three pages of poems on love and marriage into her album Susan Strang married Donald McLean on 28 Aug 1851 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (4 pages). Physical Description: Ms (23 cm; ¼ dec. maroon roan, black composition sides, with colour picture inset under glass on front cover) Inserted is a Chinese rice-paper painting

Date: 1917-1920 - 1998-1999

From: McDonnell, Stephen Joseph, 1897-1995 : Papers

Reference: MSX-10262

Description: Comprises an album of postcards created by Lieutenant Stephen Joseph McDonnell who served in the New Zealand Armed Forces in 1917-1918. The album dates from 1920, with postcards collected from various locations while he was serving abroad during World War One, including: Jamaica, France, Belgium, Cologne, Bensberg, Limerick, the Giant's Causeway in Ireland, and Glasgow. Written in English and French, the album contains both black and white and colourised postcards. Also includes a typescript from 1998, and two photocopied pages from 1999 by Hilda McDonnell, Stephen McDonnell's daughter, which provides: - A numbered list of the postcards in the album, including postcard titles and locations of interest. - A photocopy of a postcard from the album from the 'Hotel-Restaurant "Kolner Hof" Bensberg bei Koln' in Germany. - A photocopy of a letter written by Hilda McDonnell to Linda M Graham, relating to the connection between her grandfather's diary, and the postcard from Bensberg. Title supplied by Library. Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Handwritten inscription "S J McDonnell 1920" written on inside album cover page. Quantity: 1 album(s) Includes typescript and two photocopied pages with album. Physical Description: One hardcover album, 23 x 30 cms.

Date: 1853-1902

By: Bridgen, Anne, -1897

Reference: qMS-0268-0270

Description: Includes newspaper clippings, miscellaneous items, an album inscribed, `Mrs Bridgen. Presented to her on the anniversary of her birthday by her affectionate daughters, Auckland 24 September 1853'. Contains poems written by Amelia, Anne, Caroline, Charlotte, Emily and Rosa Bridgen. Also a music album belonging to Emily Jane Bridgen of Parnell, dated 20 May 1865. Source of title - Supplied Ann Brigden (née Warren) was the wife of the Assistant-Commissary General Charles Bridgen (d 1853) Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (green linen cases, various sizes)

Date: 1880 - 1889

From: Hodgkins family :[Album of sketches 1880s, 1890s]

Reference: E-312-q-Cover

Description: Embossed and coloured album cover, titled 'Album' and adorned with flowers, a bird, butterflies and a decorative border Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Coloured buckram, 298 x 241 mm