Railways, Cable - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1898

By: Fulton, James Edward, 1854-1928

Reference: Plans-85-0346/0347

Description: Plans 2 and 4 of a sequence for tracks showing pier details, sectional elevations Other Titles - Kelburn cable car Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprints, 555 x 742 mm

Date: 1899

By: Fulton, James Edward, 1854-1928

Reference: Plans-80-0720

Description: Shows details excavations and reinforcing for bridges on the route of the Kelburn and Karori Tramway (Wellington cable car). Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - This is one of the plans referred to in the annexed deed and bound and signed by me this 13th day of November 1899, Maurice O'Connor, F McParland, David Robertson and witness A E Waterson Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprint

Date: 1910 - 1915

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Lambert, Thomas Stoddart, 1840-1915

Reference: Plans-91-1338

Description: Shows the area of Kelburne Park, Botanical Road, Gladstone Terrace, Talavera Terrace, the Orphanage Endowment, Wesleyan Endowment, Kilburne [Kelburne] Tramway, Hospital Endowment, Salamance Road, and Botanical Gardens Road. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on dressed linen, 650 x 470 mm.

Date: 1929

By: Anscombe, Edmund, 1874-1948; Edmund Anscombe & Associates

Reference: Plans-80-1185

Description: Plan for an arcade leading to the Cable Car terminus, with a series of shops lining the arcade. An alternative with an insurance office at the rear has been pasted over the first option, showing shops only See Plans-80-1186 for the proposed top floor of this building Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, hand-coloured, on paper, 734 x 425 mm

Date: 19 Mar 1910

By: Barcham, Robert, 1867-1960

Reference: PA5-0412

Description: Lower Hutt from hills overlooking the station, taken by photographer Barcham Verso has message to Dad from Willie and addressed to Mr A P Godber and date stamped, Petone 19 Mar [19]10. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 87 x 134 mm

Date: 1971

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Shearer, Archibald Reid, 1914-1997

Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-1971-01

Description: Poster advertising New Zealand tourist attractions with six photographs: Mount Cook, light aircraft flights to glaciers, Waitomo Caves boat trip, Pohutu Geyser at Whakarewarewa, the Wellington Cable Car, dining in a restaurant, picnicking and fishing beside a river. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 810 x 535 mm. Provenance: One copy purchased from Vintage Posters Only, Australia, in 2007.

Date: 1980

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

By: Wellington (N.Z.). City Council

Reference: Plans-2007-030-0516/0517

Description: Includes a survey plan of the area around Rawhiti Terrace, showing the underground location of the Kelburn-Karori Tramway. Building plan shows existing floor plan, proposed floor plan, window schedule, and detail of shaving cabinet. Collected by architect Martin Hill as part of Project 787. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, 595 x 860 mm.

Date: 1910 - 1980 - 1920 - 1990

By: Downard, Ida Christina, 1913-2006

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Downard

Description: Unused postcards of Kinross and Lake Leven, Strathmiglo, one each of Peebles, Kladno and humorous chicken postcard. Includes a view of Wellington from Mt Victoria and a postcard featuring the Wellington cable car. Quantity: 26 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, each approximately 90 x 140 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Joyce Cleaver, Paraparaumu, in 2006. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-8513 - Material of the same provenance housed at MS-Papers-8513..

Date: [Between 1901 and 1903]

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

Reference: PA1-q-100

Description: Album of photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1901 and 1903. South Island subjects include the Cape Foulwind Lighthouse and quarry, Westport railway yards and wharf, Reefton, and scenes of explosions in Lyttelton Harbour for Regatta Day, 1st January 1909, and a large number of people beside the Spit Volunteer Fire Brigade building. Scenes show the laying of foundation stones for the Petone Waterworks, and for the Baptist Church in Petone, both in 1903. There is also a view of the lecturn for St Augustine's Church in Petone, which was made by the Petone Railway Workshops. Several photographs show the Kelburn Cable Car, the cable car tunnel and the engine room, in 1903. Two photographs of a group of school children, the girls wearing white pinafores over dark coloured dresses. Some photographs relate to New Zealand railways, including specific locomotives, the Rimutaka Incline with the middle rail (part of the Fell System), railway tunnels, bush railways and railway workshops and yards; and some relate to Godber's interest and work in fire fighting. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 106 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 31.0 x 25.5 cm

Date: [ca 1904-ca 1970]

From: Stuart, Henrietta, fl 1950s :Postcard albums

Reference: PA1-q-1014

Description: Postcards of Wellington, Auckland, and Dunedin. These include views of the cities, their notable buildings, suburbs, harbours, and beaches. Of the three cities Wellington is most richly represented with, in many cases, good clear photographs of streets and buildings. The Wellington cable car is well represented and trams are conspicuous features throughout the collection. There are single photographs of Invercargill and Oamaru. Several postcards in the Dunedin section are views of the Waipori Gorge. One photograph shows the Salvation Army Institute building at Featherston Military Camp. There are also some greeting postcards throughout the album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 2007

By: Cacao Tree Ltd; Icon-nz Chocolates (Firm)

Reference: Eph-F-CONFECTIONERY-2007-01

Description: Polka dot yellow chocolate packet showing a smiling blonde woman with a 1950s hairstyle at the left. The central portion of the packet is cut away to reveal a "classic" postcard inserted beneath. This one shows the Wellington cable car, reproduced from a photograph by Gladys Goodall, held in the Alexander Turnbull Library. The postcard is published by IconNZ Cocolates, www.icon-nz.co.nz Quantity: 1 package.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on cardboard box, 104 x 200 x 10 mm.

Date: 1902

From: Swan family : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-3928-39

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1965

From: Fowler, Edward Michael Coulson 1929- :Wellington prints [by] Michael Fowler. [Wellington, Whitcombe & Tombs, 1971]

Reference: B-086-063

Description: View of the Kelburn cable car as it makes its way down to the city centre. In the distance is the harbour, Oriental Bay and Roseneath. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 324 x 215 mm

Date: [189-?]

Reference: PAColl-0870

Description: Photographs of the cable car approaching its Kelburn terminus with the tea kiosk behind it and the cable car winding house to the right; railway bridge at Wanganui; ferry at a wharf in Auckland; Grafton bridge under construction; couple standing outside the Sanatorium at Rotorua; and an unidentified house. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1979

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

Reference: Plans-2009-082-3117-001/005

Description: Includes maps of the area including Upland Road, and the top of the cable car, North Terrace, the Boatanical Gardens, Rawhiti Terrace and Glasgow Street, and showing the Skyline Family Restaurant, tea shop and bottle shop with its adjacent parking area. Quantity: 5 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints and ink drawings on draughting paper, sizes varying up to 840 x 1185 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.

Date: May 1963

From: Smith, Alan Eldridge, 1945- : Collection

Reference: 35mm-02039-12-F

Description: Tramway Avenue, looking west from The Terrace, photographed in May 1963 by Alan Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) (individual frame on 35mm strip). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative

Date: 1922

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1892-F

Description: Panoramic view looking over Kelburn Park with a section of the rails of the Kelburn Cable Car seen on the right. The Kelburn Tea Kiosk is seen at the top of the hill to the left of the Cable Car. Salamanca Road winds up the hill on the right of the Arts Building (now the Hunter Building) of the Victoria University College. Wellington College is faintly visible on the far left. There are two areas of Kelburn Park in the foreground. The area closest to the camera shows a clubhouse and a man with a lawn roller. In the area nearer to the University there is a man walking behind a horse-drawn mower. Taken by Robert Percy Moore in 1922 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Kelburn; Photographer's title on negative - Kelburn. Wellington, N.Z. 1922. No. 395 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 103.6 cm

Date: 1995 - 2012

Reference: Eph-A-TRADE-CARDS-2012-4

Description: Includes: AA Membership card (3 different) Astoria, wine, beer, spirits LoyalT shoe rewards; Banks Shoes, Shoe Connection, Plimmer Shoes. Temporary loyalty card Moving Image Centre membership card, expires 1996 National Library of New Zealand. Photocopier card Victoria University card Wellington Cable Car Ltd. 12 month validity Wellington Public Library. Photocopier card Quantity: 10 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on cards sizes around 70 x 100 mm. Provenance: Donated by Fiona Gray, Wellington, in 2012.

Date: 1899

By: Fulton, James Edward, 1854-1928

Reference: Plans-80-0718

Description: Cross-sections of tunnels and excavations on the route of the Kelburn and Karori Tramway (Wellington's cable car). Inscriptions: Recto - centre left - This is one of the plans referred to in the annexed deed and bound and signed by me this 13th day of November 1899, Maurice O'Connor, F McParland, David Robertson and witness A E Waterson Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprint

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

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

Reference: PA12-7813

Description: Transparency slides of Wellington, Desert Road, and Rotorua, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides.