Cyanotypes that reproduce designs as white lines against a blue background. Introduced in the United States ca. 1876; predominant method for reproducing architectural and engineering drawings by the 1950s; largely discontinued by 1980.
Blueprints
[Creator unknown] :[Sections bounded by Hawkestone, Molesworth and Hill streets, Thornd...
Date: 1920 - 1930
By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd
Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Th/[ca.1925]/Acc.14623
Description: Cadastral, surveyed map of sections bounded by Hawkestone, Molesworth and Hill streets, including Golders Hill and Collina Terrace, Thorndon, Wellington. Includes section numbers, certificate of title numbers and some deposited plan numbers. Names of owners include: K L Smith & V M S Earp Thomas, Burns, Phillip & Co Ltd, D E A Bottomley, R J Collins Estate, J F Ginn, L J Seddon, E M Sutherland & W Thawley, J Twiss, Estate of E J Riddiford, W Freeman, G A A Anderson, R H Hankins, M K Litchfield, Crown, F M Chapman, S Riske, W P Sommerville, A Whittaker, H & R Hall, J R Foster, L & E Cohen. Written on reverse: Thorndon - Hill St, Molesworth St, Hawkestone St, Golder's Hill Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Blueprint on paper, scale indeterminable, 40.8 x 79.2 cm
Gummer & Ford, architects :Residence of Maurice Chambers, Esq., Havelock North, H.B. Fe...
Date: 1926
By: Gummer & Ford (Firm); Donnelly, Pamela, active 1990
Reference: Plans-96-027
Description: Includes: ground plan, floor plans, elevations and sections. Other Titles - Hawkes Bay Quantity: 10 plan(s) stapled into red buckram folder.. Physical Description: 10 blueprint plans, 560 x 740 mm, in red buckram folder. Provenance: Deposited for safekeeping on behalf of owner, in 1992. Later recorded as a donation by Pamela Donnelly, Havelock North
[Prouse & Gummer] :[Plan of] Match Factory, Tory St. Wellington for Messrs Bryant & May...
Date: 1922
By: Prouse & Gummer (Firm)
Reference: Plans-80-0741
Description: Shows details of first floor plan Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprint
Prouse & Gummer :[Plan of] Match Factory, Tory St. Wellington for Messrs Bryant & May B...
Date: 1922
By: Prouse & Gummer (Firm)
Reference: Plans-80-0754
Description: Shows compressor block steelwork Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Prouse & Gummer Architects, Wellington and Auckland Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprint
Blenheim Borough Council :Proposed layout of parking area, "The Loop". 1954.
Date: 1954
From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
Reference: Plans-91-0647
Description: Shows the intersection at York Terrace, Alfred Street and Russell Terrace, with the following buildings marked: RSA Clubhouse and bowling green, Blenheim Borough School, Criterion Hotel, Church and Sunday School. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprint, 505 x 733 mm.
[Fulton, James E] :Kelburne and Karori tramway. [1898?]
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
Architect unknown :Additions [to] residence, Willis Street, for Edward Anderson esq. W ...
Date: 1910 - 1935
From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]
By: Anderson, Edward, active 1910-1920?; Young, William Gray, 1885-1962
Reference: A-408-058
Description: Shows plans, elevations and sections of a car garage and a waiting room to be built of a doctor's surgery. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprint, 323 x 226 mm.
Clere, Frederick de Jersey 1856-1952 :Church at Matawai. Wellington, 1916
Date: 1916
By: Clere, Frederick de Jersey, 1856-1952
Reference: Plans-80-0815
Description: Plan and elevation Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprint 444 x 584 mm Provenance: Presented 1962 by Mr E H Clere
Fulton, James Edward, 1854-1928 :[Plan of] Kelburne & Karori Tramway. 13th November 189...
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
Architect unknown :Plan of proposed dwelling to be erected at the Birch Range Observato...
Date: 1981 - 1983
From: Various architects :[Architectural plans for Mt John Observatory, Lake Tekapo, Commonwealth Solar Observatory (Canberra) and related buildings. ca 1950-1960s]
Reference: Plans-2008-016-012
Description: Shows a floor plan, north and west elevations, details of outer walls, and position of future dome. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprint, 312 x 515 mm.
[Prouse & Gummer] :[Plan of] Match Factory, Tory St. Wellington for Messrs Bryant & May...
Date: 1922
By: Prouse & Gummer (Firm)
Reference: Plans-80-0740-1
Description: Shows details of plans for match factory Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprint
Kelly, Bertie Fleming, 1888-1962 :[Plans for a classroom block at the Convent of the Sa...
Date: 1926
From: Various architects :[Architectural plans from the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. 1922-1984]
By: Kelly, Bertie Fleming, 1888-1962
Reference: Plans-2009-043-183
Description: Shows floor plans, back and front elevation, end elevation, and sections, of a two-storey classroom block, with a small tower with cross, on the ridgepole. File number G 35 This plan was not used. Date taken from accompanying enclosure and inscription on verso. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Coloured pencil on blueprint, 555 x 647 mm.
Prouse & Gummer :[Plan of] Match Factory, Tory St. Wellington for Messrs Bryant & May B...
Date: 1922
By: Prouse & Gummer (Firm)
Reference: Plans-80-0751
Description: Shows elevations of tower steelwork no sheet no on this drawing Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Prouse & Gummer Architects, Wellington and Auckland; Recto - centre right - Stamped: City Engineers Department, Wellington Town Hall received 10 June 1922 Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprint
Gray Young, Morton & Young :Residence Main Road Wadestown for H H Young, esq [ca 1928-1...
Date: 1928 - 1934
From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]
By: Gray Young, Morton & Young (Firm)
Reference: Plans-2009-082-4128-001
Description: Sheet shows ground and first floor plans, elevations, sections and a section of the toolshed and toilet block. The house was to be of weatherboard with a tile roof and shutters on the west and north sides of the upper storey. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprint, 535 x 693 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803.
[Crichton and McKay] :Foundation plans and section [for office building for] W M Bannat...
Date: 1907
From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By: Crichton & McKay (Firm)
Reference: Plans-91-0609
Description: Plan view of foundations. Elevation of section See also related blueprints at Plans-91-0590, -0591 and related drawings at -0593 and -0594 Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprint, 393 x 578 mm
[Prouse & Gummer] :[Plan of] Match Factory, Tory St. Wellington for Messrs Bryant & May...
Date: 1922
By: Prouse & Gummer (Firm)
Reference: Plans-80-0740
Description: Shows details of plans for match factory, showing boundaries, Lorne Street, Argyle St and Tory Street. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprint
Clere, Frederick de Jersey 1856-1952 :Church of St Augustine, Petone. Plans, 1902. Alte...
Date: 1902 - 1947
By: Clere, Frederick de Jersey, 1856-1952
Reference: Plans-94-028-001/006
Description: 1. Blueprint plan of additions and alterations, St Augustine's school-room, Britannia St Petone - front elevation, ground plan, sections, 1947, by an unknown architect; 2. Blueprint plan of additions and alterations - duplicate of number 1; 3.Ink and watercolour Church of St Augustine Petone, 1902, Sheet no. 1, ground plan, north and east sections, east elevations, by F. de J. Clere; 4. Ink and watercolour, Church of St Augustine Petone, 1902, sheet no. 3, details, by F. de J. Clere; 5. Ink and watercolour Church of St Augustine Petone, 1902, sheet no. 2, west and south elevations, section through tower, by F. de J. Clere; 6. Ink and watercolour Church of St Augustine Petone, 1902, sheet no. 4, details of west front, by F. de J. Clere The church is situated in Britannia Street, Petone Quantity: 6 plan(s). Physical Description: Various media and sizes Transfers: Vols at MS x 3325-3345, MS y 2988-3011 and 3018, MS z 474-492.
Young, William Gray, 1885-1962 :Residence Grove Road Kelburne for Mrs H Hogg. 28th Sept...
Date: 1909
From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Further plans collected by Perry Martin Hill. ca 1900-1950]
By: Young, William Gray, 1885-1962
Reference: Plans-2008-086-040/041
Description: Shows ground floor and first floor plan, four elevations and a cross-section of a two-storeyed five-bedroom house, with a separate building for toilet and coal-shed. Two identical blue-print plans Other Titles - Kelburn Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprint, 470 x 610 mm. Transfers: Other material from the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-1622, and PA Collection..
Seaton & Sladden :Cross sections of reclamation. [1910]
Date: 1910
From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By: Seaton & Sladden (Firm)
Reference: Plans-92-0155/0157
Description: Includes site plan showing workshop fronting on to Evans Bay Road. Buildings include laundry, coal bunkers, furnace, power house, boilermakers, blacksmiths, engineers & electricians, pattern store, shipwrights and boat builders (with sailmakers over), sawmill (with joiners over), salvage store (with upholsterers over), iron rack and wire store (with offices over). By the slipway are the boat shed, painters' shed and bond shed. Also includes a plan of the rubble and landfill. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprints, sizes varying
[Prouse & Gummer] :[Plan of] Match Factory, Tory St. Wellington for Messrs Bryant & May...
Date: 1922
By: Prouse & Gummer (Firm)
Reference: Plans-80-0749
Description: Shows elevation of piers and gates to Tory Street and other details Same as 80-0749-1 Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprint