Places

Date: 1930 - 1940

By: Welch, Nugent Herrmann, 1881-1970

Reference: C-167-003

Description: Shows an area at Pauatahanui, at the entrance to the Horokiwi Valley, with a road winding around the harbour in the foreground. A number of houses can be seen in the distance at the foot of the hills Similar scenes held in the collections were executed in watercolour and sepia ink and wash by C D Barraud (B-006-015 and E-297-015 respectively), and as a pencil sketch by James Coutts Crawford (E-171-031/032), all in the 1860s Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - N. Welch [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 315 x 525 mm (sight)

Date: 1841

From: Various artists :[Album of watercolours, cards and published pictures, including scenes in New Zealand and European countries, belonging to Cherie Templer (nee Connell)]. 1830-1890

By: Connell, B, active 1840-1843

Reference: E-943-q-007-1

Description: Shows the Hutt Road (as a cart track) at the bottom of the steep bush-clad Western Hills on the right. There is a Maori canoe near the road, and three figures on the road, as well as one man in the foreground, possibly fishing. The suggestion of a settlement (Kaiwharawhara) can be seen at the water's edge in the distance. The same scene was reproduced by B Connell for the Hobson album (E-216-f-087-1), with almost identical details Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Wellington 1841 [in blue ink]; Recto - bottom right - Petoni Road Wellington 1841 [in faint pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 112 x 182 mm, pasted to page of album 265 x 220 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs E. J. Templer, UK (formerly of Tasmania), September 2012

Date: Between 1886 and 1888

From: Levin, William Hort, 1845-1893 :Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company Ltd :Views on the Wellington & Manawatu Railway

Reference: PA1-f-239-20

Description: View looking north over Otaki from Pukekaraka hill, showing a road and houses, 1886 and 1888 by Wrigglesworth & Binns of Wellington. Identifed from "Uncommon Carrier", by K R Cassells, Wellington, 1994. Probably taken at same time as PA1-f-239-19. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 195. Looking N from Otaki. W&B Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Collodion print 15.3 x 20.5 cm, mounted on album page 23.4 x 30.1 cm

Date: 1875 - 1885

By: Stowe, Jane, 1838-1931

Reference: A-389-007

Description: View from a road in a cliff on the left, with a bush-filled gully below. Somes Island with a building or buildings near its summit and buildings visible at Petone on the far side of the Wellington Harbour. The Tararua Range in the background Sent to the Library for identification in September 1976. Identified as Wellington Harbour by an unknown artist and somewhat similar to the work of C D Barraud or E A Chapman, in a letter sent to John Monteith Antiques Ltd, Auckland, 22 September 1976. However the work resembles that of Jane Stowe more closely than that of C D Barraud or E A Chapman Other Titles - Jane Stowe Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 252 x 357 mm Provenance: In 1976 owned by John Monteith Antiques Ltd, Auckland.

Date: March 1930

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

Reference: EP-Transport-Roads-Tunnels-02

Description: View of the road to the entrance of the Mount Victoria Tunnel under construction. A truck and men working can be seen as well as a railway carrying containers of spoil from the tunnel to the site of Hataitai Park. Beyond can be seen part of the suburb of Hataitai. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer in March 1930 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 25.5 x 20.2

Date: 1839 - 1845

By: Park, Robert, 1812-1870; Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: NON-ATL-P-0004

Description: Palisades of the pa at Kaiwharawhara, at the water's edge, with raupo houses, with verandahs and tree-trunk columns in the foreground, with one Maori man reclining in the left foreground and a woman and child seated by one of the whare. Two canoes, with Maori chapel of raupo beyond them in the middle ground and a European yacht beyond that. On the background hill to the right, the whalers' lookout "Tutaewera", aand on the central hill, a zig-zag Maori path running up the Ngaio Gorge area. The background range shows British Peak on the left and Mount Kaukau on the right. The file print during 1970s and 80s attributed to John Pearse and titled "Wellington". However, it pre-dates Pearse's time in Wellington during the 1850s. Other Titles - Wellington. John Pearse. See article about this picture in Kapa-Mana News 20 August 1980, by William Secker. The painting is pre-1845, since the Hutt Road is not yet formed. The architecture of the raupo huts on the left shows the whalers' influence, with the tree-trunk verandah posts. If the attribution to Robert Park is correct, the work could be as early as 1840. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: [Photograph of] watercolour, size unknown

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-008

Description: Kaiwharawhara stream and bridge in foreground; across the stream is a raupo hut and John Lodge's two-storeyed public house (also known as the Rainbow Hotel or Kaiwharawhara Hotel). The raupo whare is either one built for road-makers, or the immigration barracks built by Te Kaeaea (Taringa Kuri) to house Scottish colonists put ashore at Kaiwharawhara in December 1840. The area is shown before the 1855 earthquake, which raised the flat land in this part, and made the stream more shallow. The road up the hill on the near side of the stream is the Porirua Bridle Path, 6 feet wide. On the far side of the stream is the original Porirua coach road. (Information from Kapi-Mana news, Vol 23 no. 14, 10 March 1981, p. 22, by William Secker). Original deposited by on indefinite loan by Brigadier H N Crawford, August 1968. (See TL 2/56). Bequeathed to the Library in 1993 See also Onslow Historian, Vol 6 no 3, 1976, p. 9. Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 177 x 261 mm

Date: 1865

By: Chesney, Francis Rawdon, 1824-; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: A-196-025

Description: A rocky foreshore and cliff in the foreground, possibly Kaiwharawhara, or further along the Hutt Road at Rocky Point looking towards Khandallah and Ngaio. Only two houses are shown amidst bushy hills. In the foreground a European man is on horseback, accompanied by a Maori man and woman. Another European is standing near a Maori man while the latter pushes a small canoe out from the rocks. A single yacht is in the water. Date of 1865 is suggested because an F. R. Chesney wrote to James Coutts Crawford from Tasmania on geological matters in December 1864 and may have come later to Wellington as a visitor. Wellington became the capital in 1865. The view appears to be quite early with only two houses showing and Maori shown in partial European dress. The signature on the letter from Tasmania matches that on the watercolour. Chesney's letter makes it clear that he is a resident in Tasmania and that English is probably his first language, suggesting that the French title may have been added by a later owner Other Titles - Nouvelle Zelande, Port de Nicholson. New Zealand Port Nicholson, Wellington, near the capital [translation and correction] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - monogram FC in ink; also F. R. Chesney in brushpoint.; Verso - title in pencil in French; also inscriptions in pencil transcribing the title and repeating it in English along with a signature and date (17 Jany 1934) in the hand of A. W. F. Fuller. Further very faint illegible inscriptions in pencil. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on light card, 195 x 284 mm. Provenance: Collection of A. W. F. Fuller.

Date: 1850 - 1870

By: Hawke's Bay Art Gallery and Museum

Reference: A-113-009

Description: A road in the left foreground, probably Ohiro Road, with bush, open fields and scattered houses on a sloping area, with dense housing and businesses on the flat shore area in the distance. The road running across the centre of the view into the housing on the left is probably Willis Street. The view looks north across the harbour towards the Hutt Valley. Several sailing ships and smaller boats are in the harbour. By same hand as A-113-010 [River flat and homestead, ca 1860] Originally catalogued as by an artist with surname Capot, on the grounds that a series of squiggles on the right side of the road in the left foreground could read "Capot" when turned upside-down. However, the marks are more likely to be intended to represent pebbles on the road. Other Titles - Capot [?] [Wellington from the Brooklyn Hills, ca 1860] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour over pencil 241 x 339 mm

Date: [Between 1910 and 1930]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000529-G

Description: View taken from Oriental Parade with Carlton Gore Road on the right and Lambton Harbour on the left. Two children are standing on the rocky foreshore in the immediate foreground. Two men are on Oriental Parade on the right. Houses overlooking Oriental Bay (on Carlton Gore Road) are visible in the top right. Photograph taken between 1910 and 1930 by William Archer Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Oriental Bay. Wellington. 603 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1891]

From: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-020596-G

Description: View looking north along the waterfront at Oriental Bay in Wellington. Shows houses, boatsheds, gravel road, and hills. Photographed circa 1891 by Henry Charles Clarke Wright. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1906]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001612-G

Description: View taken from Oriental Parade with Carlton Gore Road on the left and Lambton Harbour on the right, looking towards the city area and hill suburbs in the distance. Children are standing on the rocky foreshore in the middle distance. A house overlooking Oriental Bay (on Carlton Gore Road) is visible in the top left. Houses under construction on Oriental Parade can be seen in the distance. A large sign advertising `Nelson Teas [?]' can be seen on the hillside in the middle distance near the houses under construction. Photograph taken ca 1906 when these houses are known to have been constructed, by William Archer Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Oriental Bay. Wellington. 604 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1970

From: Todd, Harry Jackson :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6060-5-1379

Description: Wainuiomata Hill Road at Gracefield intersection. Shows traffic congestion, and railway workers' camp at right. Photograph taken 1970 by Harry Todd. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 12 x 19.7 cm

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-046845-G

Description: A view overlooking Paekakariki. Shows the main highway with houses between it and the sea and tussock hills on the right of it. Photograph taken by Charles Sydney Smith.

Date: [ca 1939]

From: Beattie, Mr :Photographs and negatives relating to the construction of Paekakariki Road

Reference: 1/2-115771-F

Description: Shows coastal road, Paekakariki ca 1939. On the left side there are two houses with hills in the background and on the right hand side three dwellings and a vacant site with just a white gate, are visible. The House on the left side of the road, still on temporary piles having been shifted bodily southwards and across road from its former position at the white gate in foreground. This was carried out during construction of the Paekakariki coastal road ca 1939. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca 1920

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-033706-F

Description: View of Kaiwharawhara, from above, looking over towards factories and the railway line. The main road out of Wellington is curving off around the hill. Houses can be seen below the photographer. Taken by an unidentified photographer, ca 1920. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca 1930s

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-046866-G

Description: View of part of Paremata, Porirua, looking towards the hills. Houses can be seen below where the photographer is standing, and a car is travelling along the road past the houses. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith during the 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).