Monuments - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: Mar 1940

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

Reference: PAColl-7796-27

Description: Group standing at the lookout on Mt Victoria, Wellington, with Wellington Harbour in the background. Shows the bronze geographical distance guide and map of Wellington, and the bronze busts of the Duke of Wellington and Edward Gibbon Wakefield, in the middle of the lookout. Photograph taken in March 1940, by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - 16 Mar 1940 [Date stamp]; Verso - top right - Copyright / Photograph / 15 Mar 1940 / "The Evening Post" / Wellington, N Z [copyright stamp]; Verso - centre - The new lookout on Mount Victoria, officially opened by the Mayor of Wellington, Mr T C A Hislop, yesterday afternoon. The lookout gives a magnificent panoramic view from the Tararuas to Cook Strait. Left, geographical distance guide in bronze and map of Wellington in the mjiddle of the lookout. [Pasted clipping from original publication]; Verso - bottom right - 3 col x 4 1/2 / Sat Original Evening Post caption reads: `The new lookout on Mount Victoria, officially opened by the Mayor of Wellington, Mr T C A Hislop, yesterday afternoon. The lookout gives a magnificent panoramic view from the Tararuas to Cook Strait.' Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 19.2 x 14.9 cm

Date: 1953

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

Reference: Plans-2001-099

Description: One plan (EA 314/1) is a locality plan, and the other (EA 314/2) shows elevations from four sides. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - EA 314/1 [and] EA 314/2 Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on waxed paper, 560 x 765 mm. Transfers: From Cartographic Collection -. Processing information: Transferred from Cartographic Collection in 2001.

Date: [1934]

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: MS-0850

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (5 numbered pages). Physical Description: Ms (24 cm; red linen)

Date: 1901, 1935

By: Petone Public Library

Reference: PAColl-0249

Description: Both prints mounted on cardboard. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: These two prints were part of a donation which included seven postcards which have been put into the Postcard file..

Date: ca 1938-1940

By: McKenzie, Albert Lindsay, active 1940; McKenzie, Andrew E, active 1998

Reference: PA1-o-909

Description: Album of photographs taken by Albert Lyndsay McKenzie, showing Haywards substation, Centennial Exhibition, Union Airways aircraft at Rongotai airport, and views of war memorials, other monuments, some buildings and parks and gardens in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. There are also some scenic views of rivers and landscape, and one photograph of bee keepers at work on hives. Albert Lyndsay McKenzie, the father of the donor, was born in Christchurch. He started an apprenticeship as a process art engraver, which was interrupted by World War 2, and never completed. He returned to Christchurch after the war. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

From: Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988 :Photographs of New Zealand buildings

Reference: 1/4-075447-F

Date: ca 1930s

Reference: PAColl-3514

Description: Mother and child; Wellington city and suburb scenes; reception Government House Wellington; Greymouth and Grey River from the air; China; Wallabies; etc Arrangement: Negative numbers allocated: G68289-G68317-1/4 Quantity: 29 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1845-1990

From: Alexander Turnbull Library : Maori Manuscripts Librarian working notes

Reference: MS-Papers-6373-21

Description: Contains copies of papers from the Grey collection manuscripts, mostly from Te Rangikaheke's material. Also contains copy of published work by Samuel Locke about the history and traditions of Taupo and the East Coast. Includes various indexes and inventories to the collection with some holographic notes by Piripi Walker. also contains papers and correspondence between Keith Cairns, the Alexander Turnbull Library, the Masterton Borough Council and the Wairarapa Tribal Committee about Maori records contain within the Monument of Peace erected in Masterton in 1921. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1932

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-147

Description: Shows the Te Rauparaha Monument and the monument to the advent of Christianity in Otaki. Trees, hills and two buildings are visible in the background. The inscriptions from each of the monuments is transcribed in pencil onto the lower part of the painting. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - 'Monument erected by Maoris & Europeans 9th Feb. 1927 to commemorate the advent of Christianity in this district in the year of Our Lord 1840' and 'Ko Te Rauparaha 1849' The monument to the advent of Christianity replaced the Jubilee Pole in 1927. The Jubilee Pole was erected 9 February 1880 to commemorate 40 years of the Maori Christian Church Mission on the Kapiti Coast. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 215 x 135 mm

Date: 17 April 1932

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

Reference: 1/2-086172-G

Description: Photograph related to a dedication ceremony at the cenotaph, corner of Bowen Street and Lambton Quay, Wellington, taken on 17 April 1932, for the Evening Post newspaper. Source of descriptive information - From negative register only. Image not seen. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1921

By: W Parkinson & Company (Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: Plans-79-0519

Description: Shows a design for a commemorative granite obelisk for Masterton, with an accompanying letter giving specifications Aperture card shows Jowett, R O as an associated name, with no indication of the reason for his involvement Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour

Date: [1895-1900?]

From: Denton, Frank J, 1869-1963 :Collection of negatives, prints and albums

Reference: PA1-o-131

Description: Album of photographs, mainly of the Wellington Region, Marlborough and Horowhenua Regions, interspersed with copies of photographs by unidentified photographers, unidentified lithographs and illustrations. A number of the photographic copies are portraits of Maori. The last images in the album, taken by unidentified photographers, relate to Darjeeling (Bengal, India). Inscriptions: Album page - Photographed by Frank J. Denton, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover with gold patterns on corners and spine, 25 x 32 cm

Date: [Circa 1935-1945]

Reference: PA1-o-200

Description: Album of snapshots, chiefly family groups. None are labelled, but it appears the album is of Arthur James Luke and his wider family; two dogs, a spaniel and a small terrier; his home at 84 Bolton Street, Wellington; family holidays at Napier; views of Lowry Bay; and views of unidentified people linked with tennis. Views in Napier include the Napier Botanical Gardens, various monuments including the monument to the South African War, and buildings damaged by the napier earthquake in 1931. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Grey cloth-bound album, entitled Photographs (in gold lettering); 16 x 22 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available

Date: 1963

By: Braithwaite, Isobel, active 1963

Reference: C-053-020

Description: A large crowd in Parliament grounds, seen from a high viewpoint Believed to be a late entry for N Z A F A Exhibition Mounted on Whakatane board Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 485 x 655 mm

Date: From 1911 to 1949

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-007

Description: Black & white photographs of the Wellington area, Vol 1 (images 1-240), taken by G L Adkin between 1911 and 1949. Earlier images include the house Fern Hill (at 324 The Terrace), and views from the house; Kelburn Cable Car tunnel, and view of the cable car from Kelburn Park; Wellington Botanic Garden; inner city views of Willis St., Lambton Quay (1913); Lyall Bay, Kilbirnie isthmus, Wellington Heads, Oriental Bay (1913); Harbour and city; swimming carnival at Island Bay; city from Mt Cook trig station (1918); panorama of Thorndon with Pipitea Point reclamation from the Nth end of Barnard St (1923); interior view of the Wellington City Corporation Trams Shed at Newtown; Kemp Point Powerhouse, Evans Bay; Miramar Gas Works (1923); Wider views of the city with Tinakori Ridge from Roseneath, Oriental Bay, Lyall Bay (1926); loading the Maheno (1926). Laying Foundation Stone of new railway station by the Duke of Gloucester, showing steel frame of the building under construction (17 December 1934). Views around the city in 1936, including Worser Bay, Breaker Bay, Dorset Point, Queens Drive, the city (panorama from Karepa St, Brooklyn); "wilds of Wellington" Mitchelltown, Highbury, Taitville, and Kelburn (from Karepa St); snow on hills and at Mt Kaukau (2 August 1936). Centennial Exhibition (6 March 1940). Views around the bays in 1948, Lyall Bay, Evans Bay, Kilbirnie, Eastbourne, Days Bay, Lowry Bay. Comparative views from Mt Alfred (1 taken in 1948, the other in 1905). Pamir sailing ship at Aotea Quay (December 1948); railway yards; Kaiwharawhara Gorge (1948); and the first visit of the Solent flying boat Ararangi to Evans Bay, October 1949.

Date: 1934

By: Macmillan, Ethel Louisa, -1942

Reference: A-006-032

Description: Subject: View down Todman Street to Somes Island and hills beyond, Mt Victoria at right, war memorial statue on Sugar Loaf Hill, left foreground Inscribed on backing board (now discarded) in donor's hand: "Ethel Macmillan, Tauranga" Inscriptions: Recto - Signed and dated Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour over pencil 252 x 332 mm

Date: 1930 - 1939

By: Matthews, Marmaduke, 1885?-1949

Reference: A-197-034

Description: Subject: Carillon from Buckle St., National Museum and Art Gallery behind Edition: 20/50 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed in pencil Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching; plate mark 234 x 171 mm on sheet 292 x 219 mm Provenance: Purchased at Harnett & Wedde's auction 8/3/1986.

Date: 1948

By: Hyde, William Julius, 1889-1962

Reference: A-122-019

Description: Photograph of design drawing in the shape of a beacon, possibly intended as bomb or bullet-shaped. The top conical portion was to be of stainless steel and would reflect light. Just below this top was a thin layer of 52 windows shining light from within. Comment at lower right "Suprema a situ / Lone Pine e[ast] of Cenotaph". A note below indicates that the height was to be "three score and ten" feet. Inscriptions on verso of photograph show that the inscription around the lower part of the circular monument would read: "Where'er they fought / Where'er they fell / This might[y] rock / Their deeds shall tell". The monument was to be "built of materials freely given by the people personally and by their own personal labour". The plan was to be circular with an entrance on the south side, with steps leading up and down. A light lift could be incorporated. There would be an entrance charge of a shipping for adults and 6d or 3d for children, for the upkeep of the monument. The verso also has references to "Letters to the editor", in the Evening post, 27 August 1948; Dominion, 6 September 1948; Observer, 1 September 1948. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph, 150 x 126 mm, of pencil and ink drawing Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1948.

Date: 1920

By: T G Hoar and Sons (Firm)

Reference: Plans-80-2301

Description: Elevation and plan of base of monument Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing on cream paper

Date: ca 1890s

Reference: 1/2-100567-G

Description: Photograph taken in the 1890s by an unknown photographer showing an unidentified group in front of the Jubilee Pole which commemorates 40 years of the Christian mission on the Kapiti Coast, and is a wooden column with a cross on top and dates ranging from 1840-1880 around the sides. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).