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Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :At Muritai, Eastern Bays [ca 1920]

Date: 1920 - 1921

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948; Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898-1980

Reference: A-156-017

Description: View looking along the coastline to the south Inscriptions: Signed: A.L.H. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 175 x 250 mm

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James Beard & Company :Lambton Harbour original 1840 shoreline plaques. [Job no.] 5030....

Date: 1975 - 1976

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

Reference: Plans-2009-082-5030-001/002

Description: One sheet shows a full sized plan of the plaque with the words "Shoreline 1840" on it. The other sheet shows a map of the shoreline area with locations of the eleven plaques marked: Pipitea Point, the Cenotaph, Masons Steps, Woodward Stret (Kumutoto), Stewart Dawsons (Noah's Ark), Mercer Street, Farish Street, Cuba Street, Taranaki Street, Wakefield Street, Oriental Parade. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on draughting paper, 420 x 595 mm. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Architectural plans - To Photographic Archive - Photographs.

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Oriental Bay, Wellington, NZ.

Date: Between 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0314

Description: Oriental Bay taken ca 1910-1913 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph 85 x 135 mm

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Oriental Bay, Wellington, NZ.

Date: Between 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0316

Description: Oriental Bay taken ca 1910-1913 Same as PA5-0315 (this copy has lower left corner missing) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 85 x 135 mm

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Rocky coastline

Date: Between 1930 and 1939

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-038885-G

Description: View of a rocky coastline, probably near Castlepoint, photographed, probably in the 1930s, by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

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[Creator unknown] :[Plan of area around Lambton Harbour, Wellington] [copy of map with ...

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/ca.1940/Acc.14598

Description: A copy of a cadastral map of the area between The Terrace and Whitmore Street, Boulcott Street to Cuba Street, Brougham Street to Clyde Quay Wharf and Herd Street. Sections and subdivisions are numbered and include numerous Deeds plan numbers. Government, provincial and Thorn Reclamation land includes block numbers. Wharves are named. Names include Town Hall, and land belonging to the Wellington Harbour Board and Wellington City Council is marked. Streets are named, as are some rights of way such as Opera House Lane. Red ink annotations show property values in pounds sterling. Title supplied by cataloguer - subtitle taken from top right of map Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on diazo print, some colour, scale not given, 107.2 x 74 cm.

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Smith, Maurice Crompton, 1864-1953 :[Beach, water, hills, sky]. 1896.

Date: 1896

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953; Onslow Historical Society (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-072-010

Description: Shows a view of a tranquil coastline or lake edge, with grasses in the foreground, a dark wooded headland in the middle distance, and distant hills. Probably the Wellington Region, perhaps near Porirua; or it may show a Canterbury beach Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - M C Smith 1896 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 300 x 415 mm.

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Album relating to Kay family

Date: 1904-1916

From: Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1556

Description: Photographs relating to R V Kay and his family. Includes photographs of Pencarrow, Ward Island, Victoria University College, Hospital ship Maheno, Wellington views, Sybil Satchell and her mother Mrs Edith Satchell, Louis Vincent Kay and his wife, picnics, drilling at Nelson College, Huntley School in Marton, public buildings and botanical gardens in Wellington, Japanese warship at Clyde Quay Wharf during WWI, sailing with Clement Watson in Wellington Harbour, Waikanae views, Karori military camp, group portraits at 'Sunnybank', Huntley School group portraits, 'Moana Mara' homestead in Levin, Gladstone Road, holiday in Russell, Bay of Islands, and Public Trust picnic at Days Bay. relating to Satchell family. Includes photographs of family members, recreation by rivers, tug-of-war game, automobile travel, picnics, golf playing, pheasant hunters and friends. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 195 x 240 mm

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Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Wellington Harbour and Lambton Quay

Date: [1866 or 1867]

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-43-11

Description: View of Lambton Quay, Te Aro and ships in Wellington Harbour looking south from a jetty near the site of the Wellington Railway Station. Lambton Quay and reclamation is on the right; Willis Street is in the centre background, and Te Aro on the left. Part of a panorama taken by W H W Davis ca 1866-1867. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - beneath image - Lambton Quay & Wharf. 1867. W H Davis; Backing board verso - top left - H.B.Museum 41/67 No 1050 Box Y; Backing board verso - centre - W H Davis 1867; Backing board verso - centre left - W F Barraud Relationship complexity - Original negative at 10x8-2079-G. Duplicate image at PA7-44-26 (1/2-052979) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 18.4 x 25.8 cm on card 18.3 x 25.7 cm. Some retouching.

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Oriental Bay, Wellington. F T series no. 454.

Date: Between 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0317

Description: Oriental Bay taken ca 1910-1913 Verso has message from Eoline Amos and addressed to Miss D Tonks Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 87 x 135 mm

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Construction of the sea wall in Oriental Bay, Wellington

Date: 1930

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-6301-09

Description: Construction of the sea wall in Oriental Bay, Wellington. Carlton Gore Road is on the left. Taken by an unidentified photographer in 1930. Caption cut from EP reads: [.... ] the Roseneath Sea-Wall - Work has been resumed in the construction of the sea wall which is being continued from Oriental Bay, past Carlton Gore Road, and round the hill at Roseneath into Evans Bay. Stamp on back of print reads: 25 Jun 1930 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

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Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Lambton Quay and Brandon's Corner

Date: [ca 1866-1867]

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-43-07

Description: View taken from off-shore of buildings along Lambton Quay with Brandon's Corner on far right. Houses in Wellington Terrace and beyond, and the Bolton Street Cemetery (on right) can be seen on the hills behind, with Tinakori Hill in the background. Identifiable premises on Lambton Quay are: T J Mountain; Edward Greaves Smith (Music Warehouse); Henry Owen; baker's shop; chemist & druggist; G Read; J Cook & Son. The Star Boating Club's shed can be seen on the waterfront. One of a series of panoramic views of Lambton Quay taken by W H W Davis, ca 1866-1867. Pasted on verso: A glimpse of New Plymouth's beautiful recreation grounds showing the nband rotunda with the Poet's bridge in the background (ca 1890s-1900s). Photograph cut from a newspaper. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - right of image - Wellington. Before 1865 Relationship complexity - Same images at PA7-09-04 (albumen print), PA7-43-13 (albumen print), PA7-44-06 (silver gelatin print), and PAColl-3339-03 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 22 x 25.5 cm on card 22 x 27.7 cm

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Rocky coastline

Date: Between 1930 and 1939

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-038887-G

Description: View of a rocky coastline, probably near Castlepoint, photographed, probably in the 1930s, by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

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St Christopher's Presbyterian Church (Seatoun and Strathmore) :Photographs of Worser Ba...

Date: [190-?]

By: St. Christopher's Presbyterian Church (Wellington, N.Z.); Marshall, Carolyn, active 2010

Reference: PAColl-9796

Description: Photographs of waterfront scenes at Worser Bay, Wellington, taken ca 1900s by unidentified photographers. One shows a group, including children, on the beach with the Pilot's boat-shed on left and a cottage on rocks behind them. The other shows the Bay, a row boat on the water, and a [boat-shed ?] on rocks behind. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Oriental Bay, Wellington, New Zealand. Littleburys series.

Date: Between 1910-1913

By: Littleburys (Firm)

Reference: PA5-0320

Description: Oriental Bay, showing children in the water, taken ca 1910-1913. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 85 x 138 mm

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Mrs June Taylor and her boat garden, Breaker Bay, Wellington - Photographs taken by Ros...

Date: [ca 17 Jan 1984]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s

Reference: EP/1984/0242-F

Description: Mrs June Taylor with her garden that grows in a wooden row boat, and her German shepherd-collie cross dog named Sheba, at Breaker Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken circa 17 January 1984 by Ross Giblin for the Evening Post. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

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Oriental Bay, Wellington, NZ.

Date: Between 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0315

Description: Oriental Bay taken before it was given its surfacing of sand Note on back of card reads: Oriental Bay, before it was given its surfacing of sand Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 85 x 135 mm

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Cental Wellington and the waterfront around Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand)

Date: 1992-[ca 2008]

From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs

Reference: PAColl-9938-25

Description: View of central Wellington. Main focus is on Customhouse Quay, Featherston and Grey Streets, ca 1997. Views of Wellington's environs from a new lookout on Wright's Hill, September 1992. Views of Polhill, Karori Reservoir, and the Wellington fault valley, January 1993. Photographic survey of Chaffers Park (now Waitangi Park) and surrounding areas, roughly from the Overseas Terminal to Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand), ca 2003. Photographic survey of the surroundings of Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand), ca 2008. Quantity: 131 colour original photographic print(s).

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Wellington, Marlborough Sounds and various locations

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7829

Description: Transparency slides of Wellington, Marlborough and various locations, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

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MacDonald, J H :Photographs of Wellington Waterfront

Date: ca 1930-1940

By: MacDonald, Stewart James, active 1940-1944; Macdonald, John H, active 1980s

Reference: PAColl-0207

Description: Six photoprints taken by J H MacDonald, showing the Wellington Waterfront during the 1930s. Two photographs show a major fire. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s).

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