Karaka Bay

Date: [Between 1954 and 1968]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-200

Description: Album of photographs, some prints, some contacts from 35mm film, taken by Professor John Salmon in Wellington. Most of the images describe his use of different camera lenses and filters. Many of the scenes are taken from Professor Salmon's window at Victoria University of Wellington, showing different moods in different weather patterns. They include early morning, afternoon, and night views, northerly wind and southerly wind cloud patterns, including a southerly storm. He also has a large number of images of Wellington Harbour and wharves, again taken in different lights, showing ships, reflections and buildings. Other sequences show views of the Hutt Valley, Silverstream, and Glenmore Street in Wellington, many taken on misty early mornings. The last scenes are coloured photographs showing some of the decorations erected for the Royal visit of Queen Elizabeth II, in January 1954. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cream cover, Cobra ring binder; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1911

By: Hector McLeod & Company; McLeod, Hector Norman, 1872-

Reference: Eph-E-LOCAL-Miramar-1911-01

Description: Shows a map of the streets of Miramar, Seatoun, Worser Bay, Karaka Bay and Evans Bay (including projected reclamation). The map is surrounded by advertisements for the following local businesses: Briscoe & Company (Wunderlich Ceilings and Marseilles Tiles), C S & P Cording (booksellers, Courtenay Place), D Palliser (chemist, Courtenay Place), Miramar Tramway Junction Land Co, A Lindsay Ltd (shoe shop, Lambton Quay and Cuba Street), B Matthews (painter and decorator, Miramar), F Mildenhall (plumber, Miramar), DIC, Miramar Building & Investment Company, Jackson & Co (paint and glass importers, Cuba Street), H K Robertshaw (baker and grocer), William Telford (Glen Dairy, Miramar) Another two copies of the map only, are held at MapColl 832.4799gbbd Mi 1911 11008. Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on sheet 660 x 570 mm (most of bottom strip missing) Transfers: From the Hector McLeod papers, MS-Papers, 0154, 43A - card index..

Date: [ca 1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6968

Description: Photographs of boys practising their diving at Te Aro Baths. One looks as Also includes an image of passengers leaning on the railings of a steamship, possibly one of the harbour ferries such as the Cobarl, and a group of cars and people on the shore at Karaka Bay looking out towards some small boats. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059174 to 059184 Quantity: 11 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1924

From: Bilbrough, David Murray, 1952?-1997: Photographs

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-629

Description: Panoramic view of the houses and their background from the jetty, Karaka Bay, Wellington, taken in 1924 by Robert Percy Moore. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1879

By: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936

Reference: PAColl-1418

Description: Photograph of whare at the northern end of Karaka Bay, taken ca 1879 by Henry Wright. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - bottom right - 97; Mount verso - top centre - Taken in 1877 by late Henry Wright from North end of Karaka Bay (next Scorching Bay.) All whares burnt by order of Health Depnt in 1891 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1931 - 1939

From: Wickham, Charles, 1853-1940s :Family album. Uncle Charlie's unfinished drawings. [1926-1941].

Reference: E-563-q-29

Description: Shows a view looking from the south end of Karaka Bay towards the houses and pier of the bay. In the right foreground is the rocky outcrop at the bay's south end. Somes Island is visible in the right distance. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) inserted into slits in page of album.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 183 x 237 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Mr Thomas H Hudson of England in 1997.

Date: [Between 1910-1913]

Reference: PA5-0410

Description: A panoramic view of Karaka Bay, Wellington, New Zealand taken as part of Gold Medal series Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 87 x 137 mm

Date: ca 1900

By: Gibbons, Ian, active 1981

Reference: PAColl-6928

Description: Postcards of Karaka Bay, Wellington, taken ca 1900s by an unidentified photographer. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-056913-F and 1/2-056914-F Quantity: 2 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: [1890s]

Reference: PA1-q-222

Description: Photographs relating to Herbert Spackman and his family and relatives, chiefly taken by him. Places include views of Wellington and bays, Eketahuna and the Wanganui district. Very few of the people shown are fully identified but are likely to be Harry Spackman’s: mother (Eliza Spackman, nee Hawkings), father (Henry Spackman), brother, mother-in-law (Mrs Coxall, mother of Harry’s first wife Amy), and father-in-law (Mr Parnell, father of Fanny Parnell, Harry's second wife). Several houses are shown, including: ‘Rangiuru’, located at 63 Hutt Road, Petone, Wellington; House of Eketahuna farmer David S Lowe; House of David S Lowe’s brother Henry (‘Harry’) Goold Spackman in Wanganui, both interior and exterior, ‘Ben Venuto’ situated at 59 Rintoul Street and house of Henry (‘Harry’) Goold Spackman in Wellington, both interior and exterior views. Herbert Spackman's nephew Roy Spackman (Clement Roy) attended Wanganui Collegiate School, and there are several views of the chapel (interior and exterior) and the music room. There is one group portrait of Wanganui Collegiate School boys (p 41). Source of descriptive information - Information sourced from various places including the internet, and a family member. Two articles on Henry and Herbert Spackman both before they left England, and in New Zealand can be found at www.bris.ac.uk/music/CHOMBEC/chombec-news-1.pdf and www.bris.ac.uk/music/CHOMBEC/chombec-news-4.pdf Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark red cover, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 29 x 24 cm

Date: 23 July 1985

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

Reference: EP/1985/3280

Description: Wellington City Council's Municipal Electricity Department staff moving power lines from one pole to another, Karaka Bay. Mr Harold Braumann won a court order to have a pole removed from in front of his garage door and a new pole has been planted a little further south. Photographed 23 July 1985 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: [ca 1890s], 1916-[ca 1921], 1943-1989

From: Reed, Delys Mary, 1936-: Photographs of and relating to John Reece Cole

By: Anderson's Studio; Billens, Henry, 1846-1936; Dominion (Newspaper); New Zealand. National Publicity Studios; Saunders, W, active 1890s

Reference: PAColl-10378

Description: Photographic prints relating to John Reece Cole, his family, friends, and professional life. Apart from one image taken circa 1890s, the photographs were taken between 1916 and 1989. Photographs were taken by various photographers including Delys Reed and John Reece Cole. Some photographers are unknown. Includes: - Carte de visite portrait of Cole's grandmother Martha Dove, taken circa 1890s by London photographer W Saunders. - Studio portraits of Cole as an infant and young boy, including with his mother Florence Inkpen. - Image showing the door and interior of Frank Sargeson's Takapuna bach, probably taken in the early 1940s. - Photograph showing Cole in airforce uniform with friend in Time Square, New York City. - Image of Cole with artist Eric Lee-Johnson and his family posing by car in countryside near Waimamaku. - Images relating to Cole's work at the Alexander Turnbull Library, including examining items with J C Beaglehole and cabinet minister David Seath. - Four images taken at New Zealand Society of Authors party at Ian Cross's house, including several showing Delys Reed sitting with Kiriwai Mete. - Other images taken during the 1970s and 1980s showing Cole, family members or friends at his home in Karaka Bay, Wellington, including in the garden or house, or on deck with views of the Wellington Harbour entrance beyond. Also portraits of Cole standing on the nearby beach; in the Wellington Botanic Gardens; and outside his mother's house in Palmerston North. Delys Reed features in many photographs. Many of the photographs features inscriptions on the reverse, which give some date, subject, and place information. Arrangement: Photographs have been arranged in chronological order, as near as can be ascertained Quantity: 32 colour original photographic print(s). 28 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints, dye coupler prints

Date: 1950-2000

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

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-104

Description: Photographs taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 1893-1894

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1984

Description: Album of and relating to the family of Arthur Edward and Annie Vida Kate Pearce, 1893-1894. Identified photographers are Mr Travers, C Pearce, Miss Holroyd, and Lady Dorothy Boyle. The Pearce's Lowry Bay family house 'Te Namu' is photographed a number of times. Also pictured in Lowry Bay is 'The Lodge', the wharf, and a coastal scene. House 'Makaki' and Government House are both photographed in 1894. Photographs of house interior scenes are likely at 'Te Namu'. Children Kitty and Bertha Clifford with Topsy, Pickle [Agnes Isobel Pearce], and Mary [Vida Pearce] are identified in captions. Lord Kelburne and Miss Thurston are photographed sitting at the foot of a tree. Family scenes show Annie Vida Kate and Arthur Edward Pearce with their two girls on a balcony. The two Pearce girls are also photographed clutching their toys. A Christmas group photograph from 1893 features the Pearce family. Album also contains recreation scenes. Groups are pictured picnicking at Karaka Bay (October 1894) and Lowry Bay (January 1894). Photographs also include river and swimming scenes. Donor's note that accompanied album read "A Pearce album" Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 47 b&w prints. Physical Description: Brown card photograph album, 23 x 27.6 cm

Date: 2006 - 2007

By: National Heart Foundation of New Zealand; New Zealand Post

Reference: Eph-E-HEALTH-NHF-2006-01

Description: Poster shows a photograph of four people at a bus stop on the shore of Wellington Harbour, perhaps at Karaka Bay north of Seatoun, with Eastbourne in the distance. The man at left leans on the bus stop sign; at centre a woman in a bear costume holds red roses and looks annoyed or disappointed; and a couple holds hands at the right. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 840 x 595 mm.

Date: 2018

From: [New Zealand calendars and blank diaries of octavo size]

Reference: Eph-A-CALENDAR-2018-01

Description: Calendar shows views of Ascot Lane, a rockpool at Island Bay, Karaka Bay, view from The Terrace, corner on Aro Street, Island Bay shoreline, Botanic Gardens, city rain, Owhiro Bay. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Calendar of 12 openings, 234 x 170 mm.

Date: 1931 - 1939

From: Wickham, Charles, 1853-1940s :Family album. Uncle Charlie's unfinished drawings. [1926-1941].

Reference: E-563-q-28

Description: Shows a view looking along the coastline from Karaka Bay north of Seatoun past a rocky outcrop towards the waterfront and pier at Seatoun. There are some houses on the right, and the hills near Pencarrow Head are visible in the left background. Other Titles - Seatoun Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) inserted into slits in page of album.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 181 x 238 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Mr Thomas H Hudson of England in 1997.

Date: 1919

From: Munt, Jeanie, fl 1978 :Album of a selection of tourist photographs, of a school and of the Munt family, and loose prints

By: Jobson, Nancy, 1880-1964

Reference: PA1-o-356

Description: Album created by Nancy Jobson, the first principal of Queen Margaret College when it opened in Hobson Street in 1919. Photographs have captions, listing various staff members, including Miss Fyfe, Miss Gold, Miss Irving and Miss Naylor; pupils listed only with Christian names; and interior and exterior views of the school. Activities and outings are shown, including celebrations around Peace Day, with a visit on board HMS New Zealand (showing gun turrets, decks, and views from the wharf), banners and processions; picnics at the beach; trips to Kapiti Island; and pupils dressed for a performance of the Merchant of Venice. For full names of the pupils and staff of Queen Margaret College in 1919 see `A history of Queen Margaret College' by Mollie D Gambrill (1969) "Nancy Jobson" is printed in ink on the last page of the album. Inscriptions: Album page - `To dear Olive in loving appreciation and memory of her love and fidelity through the long years since 1919, from Nancy Jobson' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red-brown mock-suede cover, end-papers with brown, gold and red pattern; inscribed `N.J., Wellington 1919' in gold lettering; 21 x 26 cm

Date: [Between 1931 and 1966]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-204

Description: Album containing many contacts from 35mm film, as well as black and white prints of differing sizes, taken by Professor John Tenison Salmon. He takes particular interest in the flora and fauna of New Zealand, the damaging effects of road construction, erosion from bush felling, and destruction caused by introduced species including deer. There are huge collections of close-up images of various plants (only a few of which are listed above), including flowers, leaves and seeds. He comments on mangrove swamps at Tauranga, which are growing at the furthest point from the Equator possible for them to exist. The other important collection shows various stages in the life cycle of insects and animals, including wetas, katydids, different types of moths, mosquitoes, bees, stick insects, and native New Zealand frogs (Hochstetter's frogs) (p. 91-92). Photographs relating to wetas include scenes of ovipositor tracks of cave wetas in the mud in Waitomo Caves; different varieties of wetas including cave wetas; and weta nests. In 1935 he photographed two Australian species of lizards which he found in the yard of the Dominion Museum, the Australia crested dragon, and the Australian blue-tongued lizard. Many of these photographs were taken on a photomicroscope, including photographs of rock sections (p. 72-75), and photographs of insects and larvae. There are also views of his photomicrosope equipment. Professor Salmon worked at Victoria University, and there are numbers of "contaflex" views of Wellington from his office window, taken to demonstrate the use of various filters (p. 26-29). There are also images of Professor Salmon in his study lab in April 1955; and further images of him in the Entomological Department of the Dominion Museum. Page 35 has views of a science exhibition organised by the Wellington Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand held in the Wellington Town Hall, 12-14 April 1948. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 29.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: [Between 1910-1913]

By: Smith, C, active 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0411

Description: Karaka Bay, Wellington, New Zealand, taken by C Smith Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph, 85 x 137 mm

Date: [ca 1890s]

From: Onslow, William Hillier, Earl of, 1853-1911 : Photographs, chiefly taken in New Zealand

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936

Reference: PAColl-0380-1

Description: Photographs, taken circa 1890s, chiefly in New Zealand. Includes portraits of Maori taken by Henry Wright at Karaka Bay, Wellington. Portraits taken by Wright are at PAColl-0380-1-02 to PAColl-0380-1-04, and at PAColl-0380-1-07 to PAColl-0380-1-15. Other photographers unidentified. Includes portraits of Hoani Taipua Te Puna-i-rangiriri, Kereopa Takumaru, Heni te Rei, Wi Parata Te Kakakura, Maraku, Tamikaua Te Hoia. (Note that names have been transcribed from the backs of the prints and many contain errors.) Other portraits unidentified. Includes 3 photographs by Josiah Martin. Includes 4 photographs taken of Sri Lanka. Quantity: 38 b&w original photographic print(s).