Places

Date: [ca 1866-1868]

From: Tait, Ethna Bessie J, fl 1960 :Photographs of early Wellington

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-43-09

Description: View of the intersection of Thorndon Quay and Mulgrave Street, Thorndon, Wellington with the harbour and a row boat in the foreground photographed by W H W Davis. From left to right are: Clents & Dawson, grocers and general storekeepers; painting and paperhanging shop; Warcup's bootmaking business; J Greaves, plumber and glazier; Thistle Inn. St Paul's Pro-Cathedral is on the right. Relationship complexity - Original negative at 10x8-2087-G Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.6 x 18.2 cm on mount 25.2 x 30.2 cm

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-056/058

Description: Top image shows the first church on the site of St Mary's of the Angels, Boulcott Street with a procession of white-robed priests and possibly choirboys; middle image shows the first court building in Lower Mulgrave Street, looking out to seal, with a small European building with vegetable garden and picket fence at the bottom of the slope to the left; and the lower image shows the back of Francis Molesworth's house and stables in the Hutt Valley, with forest behind. In the foreground a group of workers are resting beside a log bridge from their work Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 367 x 275 mm.

Date: [ca 1866-1868]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-44-25

Description: View of the intersection of Thorndon Quay and Mulgrave Street, Thorndon, Wellington with the harbour and a row boat in the foreground photographed by W H W Davis. From left to right are: Clents & Dawson, grocers and general storekeepers; painting and paperhanging shop; Warcup's bootmaking business; J Greaves, plumber and glazier; Thistle Inn. St Paul's Pro-Cathedral is on the right. Relationship complexity - Original negative at 10x8-2087-G. Identical image at PA7-43-09 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1852 - 1856

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

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-023-2

Description: View from lower Mulgrave Street with the Courthouse and Thistle Inn in the foreground, ships in the harbour and the hills and flat land of Te Aro and Mount Cook in the background. The highest building on Mount Cook is the Barracks Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour, 127 x 195 mm

Date: 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-449-013

Description: View of lower Mulgrave Street, with the first court building shown on the higher side of the street. A small European house with a woman and child outside can be seen across the street on the lower side, with a vegetable garden at the back of the house. Groups of men stand outside the courthouse; two men are on horseback. The Thistle Inn lies just beyond the courthouse, at the water's edge, and the harbour and Te Aro are visible in the background Based on a watercolour by Brees, held by the Library, located at B-031-009 Extended Title - From Brees, S. C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand. London, 1847. Panorama plate Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 120 x 195 mm on sheet 134 x 252 mm

Date: [ca 1866-1868]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-44-02

Description: View of the intersection of Thorndon Quay and Mulgrave Street, Thorndon, Wellington with the harbour and a row boat in the foreground photographed by W H W Davis. From left to right are: Clents & Dawson, grocers and general storekeepers; painting and paperhanging shop; Warcup's bootmaking business; J Greaves, plumber and glazier; Thistle Inn. St Paul's Pro-Cathedral is on the right. One of a series of panoramic photographs taken by W H W Davis, ca 1866. Relationship complexity - Original negative at 10x8-2087-G; another print at PA7-43-09 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21 x 26.5 cm

Date: 1844 - 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Syme, William James, 1909-1989

Reference: A-459-003/008

Description: Views include: 'The Hutt Road taken at the gorge looking toward Wellington'; 'Mr Brees' cottage, Karori Road'; 'Colonel Wakefield's residence Wellington'; 'Petoni [sic] Road, with Wellington in the distance'; 'Church of England, Wellington'; 'Parsonage Wellington'; 'Barrett's Hotel Wellington'; 'View looking down Hawkestone Street Wellington with Mr Brees' cottage'; 'Tinakori Road Wellington'; 'Courts of Justice, Wellington' Other colour copies of these prints held by the Library, including original watercolours of some Quantity: 10 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on 6 pages. Physical Description: Photolithographs, sepiatone, page sizes vary, approximately 185 x 240 mm

Date: 1895

By: Ross, Samuel G, active 1890s

Reference: E-341-f

Description: Scenes of St Paul's pro-cathedral, Bishop's Court, Government House, Queen's wharf and Lake Manapouri. Surrounded by native vegetation including nikau, toetoe, tree fern, flax, a cabbage tree, rata, clematis paniculata and ferns. There are also taiaha and tewhatewha (Maori weapons) used as backgrounds to two of the inserts. Image of Lake Manapouri inaccurately shows a nikau and cabbage tree, neither of which occur naturally in southern Fiordland Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour in bound format, dark green watered silk front endpaper, inlaid ornamental wood cover-folder in kauri, 450 x 360 mm

Date: [ca 1860]

From: Crawford family :Photographs of James Coutts Crawford and family

Reference: PA1-f-019-15-5

Description: Looking south along Mulgrave Street towards the site of Wellington Railway Station, with a group of unidentified women and girls in the foreground Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Print, 9.5 x 11.9 cm

Date: [between 1867 and 1869]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-017885-G

Description: Copy negative taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch. Photographer of original unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: [between 1866 and 1880s]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

Reference: 1/1-039675-G

Description: Photograph taken by William Henry Whitmore Davis. Source of descriptive information - Negative register. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 1/1 plate

Date: [between 1866 and 1880s]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

Reference: 1/1-039673-G

Description: Photograph taken by William Henry Whitmore Davis. Source of descriptive information - Negative register. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 1/1 plate

Date: 1857 - 1859

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-170

Description: Three women standing on Mulgrave Street, with the harbour as a background and Mt Victoria and Te Aro in the distance. A horse and cart are on the right, in front of a building belonging to a plumber named Warcup, and the Thistle Inn is beyond, closer to the shore. Quantity: 1 photograph(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Photograph, 102 x 123 mm

Date: 1986

Reference: Eph-C-PEACE-1986-02

Description: A semi-abstract poster showing a design of a map of New Zealand inside a triangular "iceberg" (the Freyberg building) which is emitting missiles. A dotted line indicates a road into the triangle from lower left. There is a female symbol in the top left corner of the poster. "Spyberg" refers to the Freyberg Building on the corner of Mulgrave and Aitken Streets. Part of that building was occupied by the Government Communications Security Bureau which provided foreign signals intelligence to the government; and, this poster suggests, to New Zealand's allies. The bureau was the headquarters of the Tangimoana communications interception station in the Manawatu. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 420 x 297 mm.

Date: 1950 - 1970

By: Spencer-Bower, Catherine Olivia Orme, 1905-1982; Carpenter, A (Miss), active 1960s?

Reference: C-126-004

Description: View from the park above Grant Road, looking down Park Road, towards Molesworth and Mulgrave Streets, showing houses, the corner dairy at Tinakori Road, the houses of Thorndon, the wharf buildings, the harbour and Mount Victoria Other Titles - Wellington (title from backing board) Other Titles - Wellington from Grant Road (title from Dunbar Sloane auction catalogue) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Olivia Spencer Bower; Backing board verso - top centre - Wellington 1192 Spencer Bower; Backing board verso - bottom centre - Miss A Carpenter, Park St, Wellington Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour pasted onto card 390 x 454 mm Provenance: Label on verso: Miss A Carpenter, Park St, Wellington