Construction industry - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1957

From: Kee, Douglas Franklyn, fl 1890s?-1966 :Rongotai [airport construction] / Frank Kee. 1957-1958

Reference: B-121-007

Description: Shows men working on the excavation and structure of the underpass beneath Wellington airport. A truck with a concrete mixer is above the excavation to the right Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 315 x 380 mm on sheet 350 x 440 mm

Date: 1881-1882

By: New Zealand. Post and Telegraph Department

Reference: MS-Papers-3690

Description: Tenders invited by Thomas Turnbull,Esq, architect. Contract undertaken by Barry & MacDowell, Builders of Wellington. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Unknown

Date: 1940-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-207

Description: Photographs of state houses, mostly in the Wellington region, taken in the 1940s, mostly by National Publicity Studios photographers. No captions supplied. Arrangement: Prints from box labelled `Plates of NZ Industry State Houses, Factories, etc'. Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1930-1931

By: Aked, M S, active 1990s; Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PAColl-3228

Description: The photographs show the construction of and the completed Kelburn Viaduct, and one photograph of W E Aked the chief engineer for the site. Several of the photographs are long views that show large portions of the suburb of Kelburn Quantity: 27 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope. Physical Description: Twenty-six 160 x 210mm photoprints and one 145 x 95mm photoprit mounted in a folder

Date: 16 July 1977

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

Reference: EP/1977/2742-F

Description: Photograph of Wellington from Queens wharf looking towards Post Office square, taken 16 July 1977 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Original caption reads: "The old, the middle-aged, the new, and the under construction. Some of Wellington's varied buildings can be seen from Queens Wharf. The Huddart Parker Building on the left, and the Harbour Board offices on the right, will soon be overshadowed by the Grey street project - a 12-storey office block being built for the AMP Society. Behind them all, the James Cook Hotel and IBM House tower up from the Terrace". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1945

Reference: Plans-80-1398

Description: Details of old seawall and new shed New work enclosed in red lines Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing on cream paper

Date: 1923-1928

From: Panoramic photographs of New Zealand taken by R P Moore

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-187

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Between 1955 and 1957

Reference: PA1-q-160

Description: Photographs showing all the stages of construction of Massey House, from a view of the site (undated), photographs beginning on 4th February 1955, finishing in October 1957, exterior only. Building designed by Ernst Plischke and Cedric Firth, built by Cubitt, Wells, for the New Zealand Dairy Board, opened by the Right Honourable Keith Holyoake. At the end of the album is a page with acknowledgements by the contractors for the work done by sub-contractors. Inscriptions: Album page - `This album was presented by the contractors, A.G. Wells Ltd. (Cubitt, Wells Ltd.) to the New Zealand Dairy Board on the occasion of the official opening of "Massey House" by the Prime Minister, the Right Honourable K.J. Holyoake on the 4th October, 1957' Physical Description: Album with textured black, entitled `1957 Massey House', inserted in black container; 27.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1958

From: Kee, Douglas Franklyn, fl 1890s?-1966 :Rongotai [airport construction] / Frank Kee. 1957-1958

Reference: B-121-008

Description: The southern area of the airport, looking towards the sea, showing tree stumps, bulldozed land, trucks, and several houses at the foot of the hill at Moa Point. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 320 x 395 mm on sheet 375 x 442 mm

Date: 1973

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook]. 1973-1989.

Reference: E-465-f-004

Description: Early stage in the construction of the BNZ Centre on the corner of Willis Street and Willeston Street, Wellington. Construction site in the foreground and Lambton Quay and Stewart Dawson's Corner in background to the left. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink, 360 x 435 mm

Date: 1993

From: Robinson, Peter Franklin, active 1970-2017: Colour slides of Wellington City and suburbs, and railways images

Reference: PA12-0069

Description: Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1966]

Reference: PAColl-0381

Description: Two photographs of the front and back of the Government Print Building, opened in 1966, under construction looking towards Thorndon Quay in both perspectives. In the foreground of one is a crane with the name V A Draper & Co Ltd on it. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted photographic prints

Date: 1854

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-048

Description: Front and back views of the artist's intended house (never built) at the foot of The Terrace Related material: A memorandum of agreement between builder John McLaggan and Pearse, drawings for a fence and a plan view of the house appear on the preceding pages Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour, 158 x 303 mm and 171 x 267 mm

Date: 1957-1972

By: Roberts, Jim, -1992?; Waller, Frank, active 2004

Reference: PAColl-8008

Description: Sequences of images taken in 1957, 1959, 1960, and 1972 showing the area, operations and progress of building the Wellington International Airport at Rongotai. Arrangement: Slides at PA12-3354 to PA12-3359 Quantity: 119 colour original transparency/ies. Provenance: Frank Waller was given this collection by Bruce Martin who told him that it belonged to Jim Roberts (died early 1990s) who was an engineer working on the construction of the Wellington International Airport.

By: Photo Engravers; Cable Price Downer; Brierley Investments Ltd

Reference: Curios-021-011/013

Description: Includes blocks for images as follows: Row of bells, the closest of which is engraved (to the memory of?) S A Rhodes and William Barnard Rhodes; the bells in place in a belfry; and a large cylinder tank made by Wm Cable & Co Ltd. Mrs S A Rhodes died in 1913. Quantity: 3 curio(s). Physical Description: Zinc plates on wooden blocks, sizes ranging from 105 x 157 mm, to 82 x 109 mm. Transfers: Part of Cable Price Downer papers, donated by Brierley Investments in 1998..

From: Young Women's Christian Association of Wellington & Hutt Valley :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-1776-1

Description: Sports teams, and series of photographs covering the construction of YWCA Building on corner of upper Willis Street and Webb Street, Wellington Quantity: 58 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1842-1930

By: Percy family

Reference: MS-Papers-0005

Description: The papers reflect Joseph Percy's work as a builder in Lower Hutt from 1840 and includes the family's business and legal documents Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - See also 75-312 for further J H Percy & Son records Percy family arrived on the `Clifton' at Wellington in 1841 and were involved in flour milling at Petone and bridge and other construction work throughout Petone and the Hutt Valley Quantity: 20 folder(s). 0.18 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 2010

From: [Ephemera of quarto size concerning housing, rental accommodation, housing standards and solutions]

By: Amnico Management Trust

Reference: Eph-B-HOUSING-2010-01

Description: Booklet advertising the opening of a new subdivision in Ngarara Road, Waikanae, near Nga Manu Bird Sanctuary. Shows photographs of natural landscaping, scenic features, and show homes by David Reid Homes, Custance architects and interior designers, Tuohy Homes, B & K Developers, Cameron Builders, North Face Construction, Fleckwood Homes, Colour Options Ltd (Heather Thorley). Advertises Doublewinkel Real Estate Ltd. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 20 pages, 298 x 213 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dylan Owen, Wellington, in 2011.

Date: 1945-[ca 1965]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

Reference: PAColl-8765-18

Description: Photographs recording the process of preparing the site and building John and Dorothy Pascoe's house in native forest at Eastbournel, Lower Hutt. Six photographs of a Japanese mountaineering expedition climbing in the New Zealand Southern Alps possibly some time in the 1960s. Photographs supplied by the Mainichi Press, Tokyo, Japan. This house was designed by John Pascoe's brother Arnold Paul Pascoe. Quantity: 128 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1985]

By: Jones, Michael, active 1970s-2003

Reference: PAColl-3180

Description: Exterior and interior views of the construction of the National Library Building, Wellington, ca 1985 Michael Jones was the Manager of Property Resources, National Library of New Zealand. Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s) (Two 35mm strips). 43 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.