General view of the landscape.

Landscape format. [View of the ford on Barron River with woman on horse-back crossing].

At Govett’s [sic] Leap 206 x 155 mm. A view looking along the sheer cliff face towards he falls, which drop 1000 feet into the heavily wooded Grose Valley.

192 x 141 mm. A view looking across a pool on the other side of which two Maori women, their children and a dog pose for the photographer.

146 x 201 mm A study of a Maori woman holding a baby wrapped in a blanket, and standing in front of a hut. Lake Tarewera lies in the hot spring district south of Lake Rotorua.

363 x 266 mm. A view looking along the steeply rising banks of the lake, with a man sitting in a rowing boat at the lakeside in the foreground.

Landscape format. A private house and grounds resembling an old English home: Launceston. [Pair of horses pulling open carriage carrying lady with driver in bowler hat approaching the gates].

200 x 143 mm. A portrait of a group of Maori women standing and sitting in front of the entrance of an assembly house. This group are all in traditional costume, probably their finery especially brought out for the photographer. Two of the girls wear cloaks made from Kiwi feathers (kahu-kiwi) and one a cloak decorated with black cords (korowai).

197 x 142 mm. A portrait showing Maori women and children grouped in front of a house. Most of the women are wearing European clothes, apart from one older woman who wears a cloak decorated with long black cords (korowai).

205 x 152 mm. A view showing families standing in front of their huts.

These files include annual reports, accompanied in some cases by explanatory letters, reports of annual general meetings, statements of accounts and other papers.

284 x 231 mm. A view looking down a hillside and on to the City of Auckland with small residential houses and gardens in the foreground. In the background Northcote Harbour can be seen, with the North Shore and Devonport beyond, and Rangitoto in the distance.

290 x 190 mm. A view looking down onto the city, and beyond it to the harbour. Auckland, founded by Governor Hobson in 1840, in this photograph is still a small and neat city, with broad streets and open spaces between the suburbs at the left, and the waterfront.

184 x 144 mm. A view looking down from Mt Eden on to the city, with the harbour in the distance. All detail of the city has been lost through fading.

200 x 150 mm. A view looking down from a different part of Mt Eden on to the city and harbour, with most of the detail lost through fading.

199 x 148 mm. A view looking down on the suburbs of Auckland, with well–spaced houses, gardens and fields. The harbour can be seen in the distance.

206 x 143 mm. A view looking down on the suburbs of Auckland similar to the previous plate, with the harbour visible in the distance.

199 x 149 mm. A view looking down on scattered houses, gardens and fields on the outskirts of Auckland. In this plate the town is giving way to country scenery.

195 x 147 mm. A view taken from hilly ground looking across the harbour towards the city. All detail of the city has been lost through fading.

202 x 146 mm. A view from the beach on the North Shore looking across Northcote Harbour towards the city. No details of the city are visible through a combination of distance and fading.

196 x 148 mm. A view from a hillside on the North Shore, looking over the small settlement there and across Northcote Harbour towards the city. No details of the city are visible through fading.

204 x 143 mm. A view from Devonport, at the southern end of the North Shore, looking over houses and gardens towards Northcote Harbour and the city. No details of the city are visible due to fading.

185 x 147 mm. A view looking out across Northcote Harbour towards the city, no details of which are visible due to fading.

205 x 158 mm. A view showing part of the North Shore in the foreground, with a cluster of houses at the right and looking out across Waitemata Harbour towards the city of Auckland. Photographer unknown.