Places

Date: 1854

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-007-002

Description: Shows a rata tree with epiphytes, beside a path which goes past on the left. There is a tree fern in the right background. The original sketch for this appears to be the work at A-029-031. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 465 x 333 mm. (sight)

Date: 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-175-009

Description: Shows a horse and cart, with the driver seated in the cart. The cart heads away along a road that curves around a bend of a road through native bush. There is a tree fern in the right foreground, epiphytes on some trees in the packground, and a drainage gutter at the left side of the road. Marking the corner of the road is a white wooden fence. May show part of Karori Road Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pastel, 380 x 274 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library

Date: [ca 1909]

By: Newcombe, Gwendoline, 1898-1991; Karori Historical Society

Reference: 1/2-152951-F

Description: Overlooking Karori circa 1909. Reading Street, Beauchamp Street, and Karori Road are visible. The house, on Hatton Street, which was lived in by Arthur Paul Harper, is on the bottom right hand corner. The house lived in by William Fry Newcombe is bottom left, surrounded by trees. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1985]

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

By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016

Reference: EP-Municipal-Towns, Wellington and Suburbs-Karori-01

Description: Three boys cycle across a vacant section off Karori Road. They are (from left) David Hale, Richard Gilberd, and Guy Uttley. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley some time in the 1980s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 24.5 x 17.4 cm

Date: 15 June - 8 Nov 2012

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000831

Description: Comprises street scenes of historic buildings, shops, pedestrians, traffic taken in Wellington region, Queenstown, Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa, Auckland taken between 15 June and 8 November 2012 by Dylan Owen. Includes views of Bay Road, Onepu Road, Kilbirnie, bars, shops and eateries on Courtney Place, Cosmic shop on Cuba mall, Featherston Street, people at bustop on Manners Street, apartments on Tory Street, cafe tables outdoors on Ghunzee Street, Upper Cuba Street, Victoria Street, Wellington City, houses on Waterhouse Drive, Brooklyn, shops on Rintoul Street, Beramphore, Riddiford Street, Newtown, Metlink yellow bus at pedestrian crossing on Karori Road, Karori. Includes views of Hastings Street, Napier, Heretaunga Street, West Hastings. Includes views of High Street, Railway Avenue, Lower Hutt, George apartments and shops on Jackson Street, Petone, shops and electorate office of MP Chris Hipkins at Taita shopping centre, mother and boy on scooter on Randwick Road, Moera. Includes views of Parnell Village shops on Parnell Road, Parnell, Camp Street and Shotover Street, Queenstown, and High Street, North Carterton, and Ridgeway Street, Whanganui. Arrangement: Files delivered to library within a folder called "AAA Street Views July - Dec 2012 d" Quantity: 43 digital photograph(s).

Date: 12 Dec 1947

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-11407-F

Description: Aerial photograph above Karori suburb, Wellington. Karori Road is visible on right of frame. Samuel Marsden Collegiate School is visible in centre of frame. Taken by Whites Aviation on 12 December 1947. Source of descriptive information - Location identified by Library client Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate