Places

Date: 1898, 1901

Reference: PAColl-3375

Description: D Battery in Wellington comprising 6 pound Armstrong cannon at an Evans Bay shoot; posing for the camera at Miramar; in camp in Miramar. Also during the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.

Date: 22 October 1984

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

By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016

Reference: EP/1984/4946-F

Description: Rescue of a wetsuit-clad person from rough seas by the Evans Bay rescue boat. A yacht with two people on board is visible on the right. Photographed 22 October 1984 by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: circa 1890-1910

From: Shaw, G W :Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna

By: Wilson, Alex R, active 1900s; Shaw, Helen M G, active 1976

Reference: PA1-q-269

Description: Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna. William M Wilson was born in Glasgow in 1868, coming to New Zealand when 8 years of age. He was apprenticed to John Fitchett, coach builder in Wellington, then with other firms including Rouse & Hurrell. He was employed by Wilfred Woolf in Eketahuna in 1894, and subsequently bought his business, and entered the firm of Kibblewhite and Wilson. See Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Wellington Provincial District, Eketahuna. Includes dwellings; carriages; group outings and portraits; 1 of the Club Hotel of F D Pelling; 3 of the Ryan family at Tawa Flat; 1 of a house at Island Bay, 1 of a thatched whare at Plimmerton, a Ghuznee St boarding house; 2 relating to the Burnett family; 2 scenes in Manakau; 1 of D A Greenlees store; 2 of Rarotanga; 2 relating to the business of Lyon & Blair, steam printers and lithographers; 1 of a group outside a house in Eastbourne; 3 relating to the Manson family; 1 of a military camp in New Zealand in preparation for the South African War. Also includes a pocket on the inside back cover containing newspaper clippings, and a photocopy of a letter written by the donor Mrs Helen M G Shaw, which gives some information about the album. Inscriptions: Album page - Alex R Wilson, Central Terrace, Kelburne, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover; 28.5 x 20.5 cm

Date: [ca 5 June 1976]

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

Reference: EP/1976/2048-F

Description: Ken Clements operating the ship-to-shore radio in the control room of the Wellington Sea Rescue Service in Evans Bay. Photographed circa 5 June 1976 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: February 1950

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

Reference: 114/112/15-F

Description: Raising of the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Boeing Canada PB2B-1 Catalina flying boat NZ 4051 KN-H from the sea following a crash at Evans Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 7 February 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: February 1950

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

Reference: 114/112/13-F

Description: Raising the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Boeing Canada PB2B-1 Catalina flying boat NZ 4051 KN-H from the sea following a crash at Evans Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 7 February 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: February 1950

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

Reference: 114/112/14-F

Description: Raising the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Boeing Canada PB2B-1 Catalina flying boat NZ 4051 KN-H from the sea following a crash at Evans Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 7 February 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: February 1950

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

Reference: 114/112/05-F

Description: Men raising the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Boeing Canada PB2B-1 Catalina flying boat NZ 4051 KN-H from the sea following a crash at Evans Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 7 February 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: Between 1912 and 1933

By: Lindsay, Charles John, 1902-1966

Reference: PA1-o-263

Description: Photograph album created by Charles John Lindsay, containing scenes of various holiday yachting cruises, usually at Christmas and Easter (between 1925 and 1933), to the Marlborough Sounds and Kapiti Island. Crew members are identified with initials and surnames. The yachts they crewed on were the Viking, Iolanthe, Wairere (I), and Rawene. Many other yachts seen while sailing are also named. Picnic parties including men and women are shown in group portraits Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled `Photographs'; 18.5 x 30.0 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available

Date: 1892-1896, [ca 1948]

By: Tustin, B, active 1988; Tustin, William Henry, 1880-1970; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PAColl-1281

Description: Collection comprises postcards of Wellington views, views of Karori, panorama of Wellington taken 1892, photographs near Gladstone, bush scene, railway scene, and Raumati store Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card and. 9 b&w original photographic print(s) and. 7 b&w original photographic print(s) (postcards) and. 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera in one box.

Date: 1927-1935, 1943-1944, 1949

By: Lindsay, Charles John, 1902-1966

Reference: MS-Papers-0514

Description: Informal records of holiday outings in small craft from Evans Bay to Picton and the sounds, over Christmas and Easter periods. Includes a 1949 trip around Fiordland and 1933 (Easter) trip to Kapiti Island. Includes a few comments on bird life. Also includes a typescript called `Scarcity of introduced birds', a 2-leaf observation on a tour of the South Island Relationship complexity - Closely related to MS-Papers-0384 Lindsay was a founder member of the Evans Bay Frolickers Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 22 November 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile..

Date: ca 1900-1915

Reference: PAColl-7391

Description: Two photographs of the view across Wellington Harbour from near Pencarrow Head to Seatoun and Point Dorset; three photographs of the rocks and beaches around Point Dorset and The Pinnacles; people on the beach and in the sea at Lyall Bay; two men and a woman amongst the pine trees in Newtown Park; a woman in the Wellington Botanic Gardens with Glenmore Street behind her; three views looking down on the houses around Oriental Bay; next to the harbour on Oriental Bay showing the tram lines; the convalescent home on Mount Victoria above Oriental Bay; horses grazing with Evans Bay and the Miramar peninsula in the background; the SS Hawera and SS Haupiri in the patent slip at Evans Bay; the patent slip and the Union Steam Ship Company laundry at Evans Bay; a man and a woman on a path through the bush at Days Bay; looking over Roseneath towards Somes Island; and a yacht sailing at sunset near Pencarrow Head. Photographer unidentified. All the negatives have similar numbering and lettering on the reverse. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003942 to 003961, 003963 to 003964, and 003981 to 003985. 1/2-003982 is missing and has been entered as a copy negative to a print at PAColl-7081-53. Other negatives have been entered as child records of this collection. Quantity: 27 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [1940s]

By: New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Navy

Reference: PA-Group-00692

Description: Aerial views of Royal New Zealand Navy stations, taken 1940s by military photographers. Includes views of naval establishments at Evans Bay; Shelly Bay; Long Island, Marlborough; Ngataringa Bay, Devonport; Waikawa Bay, Picton; HMNZS Tamaki, Motuihe Island; magazine area, Kauri Point, Auckland; naval hospital, Devonport; Kaiwharahwara; Point Halswell, Wellington. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 26 b&w original negative(s). 13 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1942 - 1952

By: Williams, P L B, active 1942-1952

Reference: MapColl-Collection-Williams

Description: Six topographic maps with accompanying map case, and two epaulettes issued to P L B Williams of No. 4 Platoon, Wadestown Company, Home Guard. The collection contains three maps with hard board backing showing the Glenside and Tawa Flat area; a hand- coloured diazo print of a manuscript map showing the Waitakere Range; a hand-coloured diazo print of a manuscript map showing the lower portion of the Wellington City Battalion Home Guard Area in Evans Bay and Lyall Bay; and a published map of Waitakere Quantity: 5 manuscript map(s). 1 map(s). 2 curio(s) - pair of epaulettes. 1 curio(s) - map case. Physical Description: 3 x ink on paper, hard board backing, coloured; 1 x ink on paper, mesh backing, coloured; 2 x Diazo print, coloured

Date: February 1950

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

Reference: 114/112/09-F

Description: Raising the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Boeing Canada PB2B-1 Catalina flying boat NZ 4051 KN-H from the sea following a crash at Evans Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 7 February 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: 1940 - 1949

Reference: Eph-A-CARNIVAL-1940s

Description: Includes: 1940: Tramways Band Christmas and New Year Carnival Fair. Evans Bay Foreshore, 21 December [1940] - 4 January [1941]. Flyer (2 copies pink, 1 copy blue) 1941: Victory Queen Carnival Coronation ceremony. Coronation and grand pageant. Wellington Town Hall, 3-5 June 1941. Souvenir programme 1943: Tramways Band Christmas & New Year Carnival Fair. Evans Bay Foreshore. Application for licence and space for side-shows, games and selling stands [blank form. 1943? or 1937? etc] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, programmes, sizes varying up to 240 mm. Provenance: Purchased and donated from various sources

Date: 1940 - 1969

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to fairs]

Reference: Eph-B-FAIR-1940/1969

Description: Includes: 1940: Tramways Band Christmas and New Year Fair, Evans Bay Foreshore, Saturday Dec 21 1940 to Saturday Jan 4 1941. Flyer 1960: Hutt Valley Industries Fair. Lower Hutt Civic Centre, 19th-27th August 1960. Prospectus and Exhibitors loading schedule Hutt Valley Industries Fair, 19th-27th August 1960. Eggs and milk. Issued with the compliments of (NZ) Egg Marketing Authority Wellington and the Hutt Valley Milk Treatment Station Taita. Printed by Universal Printers Ltd, 22-26 Blair St., Wellington 1961: New Zealand International Trade Fair 1961, 22 Aug to Sept 9th [1961]. Pamphlet and map (2 items). 1962: Wairarapa Industries fair. 29 September - 6 October 1962. Circular letters and conditions (Typescript sheets) 1963: Wellington Show Association. New Zealand Trade Fair 1963. Show Building, John Street, 2-18 May 1963. Prospectus. 1964: Waikato Trade Fair Committee. 1964, Hamilton's centenary year - 100 years of progress at the Waikato Trade Fair. 1968: New Zealand Industries Fair. Canterbury Court, Christchurch, 15-31 August 1968. (Circular letter on mimeographed flyer) Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on flyers, pamphlet and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: February 1950

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

Reference: 114/112/04-F

Description: Men working to raise the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Boeing Canada PB2B-1 Catalina flying boat NZ 4051 KN-H from the sea following a crash at Evans Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 7 February 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: February 1950

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

Reference: 114/112/03-F

Description: Men raising the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Boeing Canada PB2B-1 Catalina flying boat NZ 4051 KN-H from the sea following a crash at Evans Bay, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 7 February 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Film negative, 35mm

Date: 1938 - 1963

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-026

Description: Photographs of Wellington made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance between 1938 and 1963. Includes photographs of Winter Show buildings after 1956 fire, various Wellington city buildings, Athletic Park and several photographs of the construction of Wellington International Airport. Quantity: 91 b&w original photographic print(s).