Places

Date: [3 May 1951]

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

Reference: 114/291/12-G

Description: Construction on the new western access road, from Blackbridge Road to Wilton Road. Photograph taken 3 May 1951 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres

Date: 1846

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 :Maps from collection

By: Groves, Mr, active 1845-1846; Nops, John George, -1847; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: MapColl-832.11hk/1846/Acc.35844

Description: Map of the area from Kawiti's Pa at Ruapekapeka to Pahia, including the Bay of Islands, to Cape Brett and the coastline south of Wangarura Harbour. Inked lines identify the routes taken by the combined forces in December 1845, including descriptions of the terrain and dates of their advancement. Physical features such as rivers, rocks and bays are named. Stockades and Pa sites are marked, as well as two routes taken by the combined forces which includes notes about the terrain. An detailed table gives dates of battles, numbers of forces engaged, and the wounded. See also MapColl-832.11hkm/1846/Acc.424 for similar map (different title) Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, part coloured, 46.2 x 63.4 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967: The Webster collection and papers - MS-Group-0002.

Date: 1840 - 1850

Reference: B-009-013

Description: Two men resting beside a narrow road newly cleared through native bush, including a tall tree fern, with a river to the left. Could possibly be the Karori or Porirua areas, but more likely to show the making of the road between Petone and Taita Gorge in 1842, overseen by the artist, who was then Chief Surveyor. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print in 1972 - see C-028-036. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 315 x 228 mm

Date: 1863

By: Eastwood, James, 1846-1937; Donne, Thomas Edward, 1860-1945

Reference: A-050-020

Description: A view from the road leading down into the port from the south, with a couple standing on the road looking at the view. A house is below the road amidst low scrub, with several other roofs visible, and ships and a mole can be seen, as well as the hills on the opposite side Attributed by Anne Kirker; see TL 3/1/1, 19.12.75 Other Titles - Port Lyttelton Inscriptions: Recto - top left - title and date in pencil. Also in pencil on the verso 'Port Lyttelton' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 115 x 190 mm Provenance: Formerly in the collection of T E Donne

Date: 1846

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-024-021

Description: A track at the edge of a cliff, with water and hills beyond, probably where the Hutt Road meets Petone foreshore. Formerly identified wrongly as located at Eastbourne Other Titles - Petone Road For identification of location compare William Mein Smith's watercolour "South Eastern Bay, Petoni Road, March 1852" (A-034-005), showing the view looking in the opposite direction towards Wellington. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 135 x 210 mm

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: PUBL-0020-09-2

Description: Shows Wellington seen from the Hutt Road with a rocky outcrop in the centre foreground. Other Titles - Petone Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 75 x 190 mm. on page.

Date: 1924

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1306-1/2-G

Description: Improvements to the Rimutaka Road showing the old road to the left, with a new cutting straightening the route. A Ford motor car is rounding the bend. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1924. A print of this image is in Godber album Vol 109, p 209 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - Improvements to Rimutaka Road. Old road on left. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1910-1930]

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

Reference: 1/2-000277-G

Description: Road making using horses under construction at northern end of Waima, near the Tokomaru Bay freezing works. Photograph possibly taken by Oates Bros of Tokomaru Bay in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Making road. Freezing works. Tokomaru Bay. No O.B. 120 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1946

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

Reference: 1/2-046246-G

Description: A view of Paremata, taken in 1946 from the opposite side of the road bridge, showing a small sandy beach, and some yachts and dinghies. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-079-018

Description: An extensive view at Waimate North, with a windmill, the mission station and the church on the horizon. Bracken in the foreground and a rutted dirt road running away into the distance. Fenced paddocks to the right and three small people walking away on the road to the left. Several dead trees in the foreground. Compare a very similar work by Cyprian Bridge at A-079-035 The work appears to have been part of a sketchbook at an earlier stage, with signs of having been bound on its left side. Probably removed by the Library from album E-320-f, which contained 16 sketches on acquisition by Alexander Turnbull in 1893. Identification: the reference to 'Poka Noi' is to a volcanic cone, Puke Nui, or Pukenui, now known as Te Ahuahu, just visible in the centre background Other Titles - Waimate North, Pukenui, Puke Nui, Tamati Waka Nene Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Coloured crayon over sepia ink and wash, 253 x 365 mm

Date: 1927

From: Neill, W T :Negatives and prints of tramping in the Tararuas.

Reference: 1/4-021186-F

Description: Truck, with passengers on the back, on the Mangaroa Hill Road, Upper Hutt. Shows the vehicle on an unsealed road, facing the camera. Photograph taken in 1927 by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1852 - 1856

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

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-043-1

Description: View looking north along the Hutt Road, with the harbour and Somes Island to the right. A canoe is drawing in close to the road and a Maori man is walking towards the viewer along the road. The road appears pitted and muddy. Other Titles - Braithwaite Ngauranga Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash, 159 x 258 mm

Date: [Between 1910 and 1930]

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

Reference: 1/2-000514-G

Description: View of Lambton Harbour taken from Oriental Parade looking north-east towards Petone with Somes Island visisble in the distance. A fishing boat [?] is heading out to sea. Two women and a boy are standing on the rocks on the foreshore in the foreground on the left. Several people are on the roadway, one riding a bicycle. Photograph taken between 1910 and 1930 by William Archer Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Oriental Bay. Wellington. 616 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [between ca 1920s and 1940s?]

Reference: PAColl-8241

Description: Photograph showing road construction workers standing in a row with shovels, used for levelling piles of gravel that have been poured from the back of a truck on a road over a bridge in Sanson, near Palmerston North. Photograph taken between circa 1920s and the 1940s?, by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Sanson Palmerston North Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20.6 x 15 cm

Date: 1864

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-182-074

Description: Shows a view of the plain from the slope of Knobby's Track, on which a man leads a loaded horse. A river meanders across the plain and there are hills in the distance. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 170 x 350 mm

Date: [late 1930s]

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-091738-F

Description: View down a gravel road with Zeila Wells, wife of the photographer, standing beside a car, photographed by Robert E Wells, probably in the late 1930s. Caption - Mangamahu Rd: Zeila and car on Rd - white pine bush [from photographer's negative register] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [ca 1940]

From: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946 :Prints and negatives of New Zealand wildlife and scenery

Reference: 1/2-009937-F

Description: Photograph of a car on an unidentified road, Punakaiki, circa 1940. Shows a car facing the camera, parked on the road. Photograph taken by Thelma Rene Kent. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: Date unknown, ca 1910?

Reference: 1/2-056908-F

Description: Covered carriage advertising Smith Bros of Owaka, in mud on the main road to Houipapa, during winter. Date unknown (circa 1910?). Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1863

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: PUBL-0033-1863-477

Description: A road carved out through dense bush, with infantry marching along it. There are large trunks from the cleared bush in the right foreground The incident took place at Ramarama, South Auckland Other Titles - Hoyte, John Barr Clarke After an original watercolour by John Barr Clark Hoyte in the Auckland Art Gallery Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 160 x 240 mm

Date: 1923

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1696-1/2-G

Description: Four people with a car (possibly Chevrolet), the hood up, parked outside a two-storied house at Kaitoke. The photographer's wife, Laura Godber, is sitting in the back seat on the left. There is an unidentified man standing on the left of the car, a woman next to Laura Godber in the back seat, and a young girl standing on the running board on the right. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1923. Information from Godber's index held in Photographic Archives (under Box 74. House. Kaitoke. 1923. Car in front) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches