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Brown, Byron Paul, 1866-1947 :Photographs
Date: [ca 1860s-1930s]
By: Brown, Byron Paul, 1866-1947; Billens Studio; Butterfield, Frederic Augustus, active 1938; Herrmann, Richard, -1892; Kinsey, William Henry Scott, 1860-1931; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918; Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965; Hay, Mary-Annette, 1925-2024
Reference: PAColl-9373
Description: Photographs of Byron Brown and family taken ca 1860s-1930s by a variety of photographers. Includes photographs of; his wife, Susie Brown nee Bright; his daughter Pauline Burgess nee Bright; his parents Arthur and Jane Brown; his wife's parents Mary Ann and Frederic Bright; his daughter Pauline Burgess nee Brown; and Bright and Brown properties and businesses in Otaki. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). 29 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photographic prints and photocopies Provenance: Donor is grand-daughter of Byron Brown. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1739 : Brown, Byron Paul: Papers. See also Oral History Collection..
Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875 :Wellington, 1852 / E. N. [del]. T. S. Ralph lith
Date: 1852
By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Ralph, Thomas Shearman (Dr), 1813-1891
Reference: A-215-017
Description: View from Te Aro Flat, probably from the bottom of Mount Victoria, looking towards Wellington. A small hut at the water's edge nearby, swampy ground and the Waitangi Stream in the foreground, fencing marking Te Aro Pa, European houses beyond, cliffs marking the beginning of Lambton Quay with houses running its length at the waterfront, the sloping line of The Terrace, with several houses running up the hill in the left background and ships moored in the harbour. One of two copies at A-215-017 and A-215-018. One copy is an untouched proof, the other has pencil pencil additions of mosque, basilica, buildings on hills and wharf Another copy in Pearse, J Album (ATL) p. 34. This copy is not able to be issued Inscriptions: Signed: E N : T S Ralph Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 194 x 294 mm on sheet 245 x 295 mm
Wellington grows; an album of historical photographs relating to Wellington
Date: 1841-ca1930
From: Zoe Martin-Carter: Photographs of Wellington and the Centennial Exhibition
By: Shore Bennett, Beverley Doris, 1928-; Martin-Carter, Zoe, 1870-1947
Reference: PA1-f-171
Description: views of Wellington and many of its principal buildings from settlement in 1840 to about the mid 1940s Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
[F. W. Niven & Company] :View of Masterton, N.Z. from Fire Brigade tower. - [Ballarat, ...
Date: 1880 - 1920
By: Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association; F W Niven & Company
Reference: D-009-009
Description: The print shows the View of Masterton (257 x 643 mm irreg.) surrounded by 28 vignettes advertising Wairarapa businesses. These include (from top left) H. Phillips Occidental Hotel, F. Hollway Family Butcher Queen Street, Dixon Bros ... cordial manufacturers, Chapel St, J. L. Murray mercer & outfitter, Isedore Mandel hot baths and showers, H. Pearson taylor, Pinhey Bros livery & stables, William Whitt cabinet maker Queen Street, John Henderson tailor, James Wickens pastrycook, Wairarapa Star offices, Hounslow & Hoar cabinet makers, Chas E. Daniell general contractor, O. Pragnell draper, [two illegible advertisements], A. White tobacconists and hairdressers, Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative, Masterton Coach Factory, J. Graham general merchants, Waipoua Coach Factory Queen street, John Watt bookseller & stationer. Attributed to F. W. Niven from its strong similarity to other large chromolithographs of the same period. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: 1 print on backing board; chromolithograph 668 x 995 mm
Gyles Printpak Ltd :1885-1985. 100 years. In celebration of our centenary year 1985, th...
Date: 1885 - 1985
By: Gyles Printpak Ltd
Reference: Eph-D-PRINTING-1985-01
Description: Coloured overlay shows a colour photograph of the building occupied by Gyles Printpak in 1985. The photograph below shows a scene of Wellington from Kaiwharawhara in 1885. Library holds another copy at the same location. It is Print number 427. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, one black and white and one coloured overlay, 460 x 620 mm.
[Heaphy, Charles], 1820-1881 :View of Port Wellington, New Zealand. [London, 1843]
Date: 1841 - 1843
From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881
Reference: E-106-f-047-3
Description: View from Clay Point hill above the junction of modern Willis St and Lambton Quay. The beach in the foreground is lower Willis Street, while upper Willis Street passes up the rise on the far right. The beach in the background is modern Mercer and Wakefield Streets. Cows, goats, two Maori canoes, a couple on horseback and Bethune & Hunter's Stores are in the foreground, with a jetty and sailing ships in the harbour. Further jetties and public and private buildings are in the background on Te Aro Flat. The most prominent building along the waterfront, with a Grecian-style frontage, is the Exchange Building. Mounts Cook, Albert and Victoria are indicated in the skyline above their relevant peaks. From water-colour by Charles Heaphy; engraver unknown. For a key to the identity of individual buildings, see negative 15576 1/2. T. M. Hocken's 'Key plan of Heaphy's View of a part of the town of Wellington ... 1885'. The original for this key is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection. A watercolour was the original for the lithograph of the same title, published in London in 1842. There were also later prints from the same stone produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See reference number C-026-002 for copies of the lithograph. Reproduced by the Library in 1963 as one of the Queen's Prints, along with its companion view `Thorndon Flat and part of the city of Wellington, 1841' and Heaphy's `View of Nelson Haven', also dating from 1841. Very similar image at copy negative 1/2-005440 Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Vol 2 II, p 206 [1843 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 95 x 155 mm
Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co
Date: [ca 1880-1982]
By: Gear Meat Company Ltd
Reference: PA-Group-00160
Description: Gear Meat Works Petone, its works, workers and shops. Other freezing works Arrangement: Prints housed at PAColl-D-106, PAColl-D-154, PAColl-D-160 to 162, PAColl-D-165 to 167, PAColl-D-181 to 186, PAColl-0613, PAColl-0969, PAColl-2827, PAColl-4373, PA6-439 and PA6-445. Negatives in 35mm sequence at 16085 - 16087, and F 68979 1/4. Negatives previously NEGColl-57/1 Quantity: 400 b&w original photographic print(s). 20 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s). 12 colour original negative(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Maritime Museum :Photographs of early Wellington, and photographs of Luke Bros. staff i...
Date: 1850s, ca 1900-1920
By: Museum of Wellington City & Sea
Reference: PAColl-0220
Description: Mounted prints, including 2 copies of lithographs of Auckland, 1850s. The remainder cover the activities of St Luke & Co., Engineers, Wellington. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s).
Foster, Susan E, 1946- :Photographs by Ethel Mary Beckett and relatives
Date: [ca 1890-1900]
By: Foster, Susan E, 1946-; Beckett, Ethel Mary, active 1890s; Beckett, Amy Middleton, -1964; Beckett, Thomas Wrench Naylor, 1839-1906; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-6244
Description: Photographs, mostly of the South Island, from the collection of the Beckett family. Most were taken by Ethel Mary Beckett, with some being the work of Amy Middleton Beckett. The work of Wheeler & Son, of Christchurch, and Albert E Winzenberg of Masterton is also represented. A photograph of Palmerston Atoll, in the Cook Islands, is included in the collection. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-181858-G to 1/2-181894-G Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s). 37 b&w original negative(s).
Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :[Wellington Harbour from the Terrace? 1892 or 1893]
Date: 1892 - 1893
From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.
Reference: E-373-017
Description: View across the harbour with Points Jerningham and Halswell and the eastern hills. In the foreground is a sloping partly bush-clad site, with the tower of St Andrews on the Terrace (?) to the right and a large multi-storey building further down the hill, near the water's edge, probably the wooden Government Buildings. Ships in the harbour. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook 130 x 180 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..
Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875 :Wellington, 1852 / E. N. [del]. T. S. Ralph lith
Date: 1852
By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Ralph, Thomas Shearman (Dr), 1813-1891
Reference: A-215-018
Description: View from Te Aro Flat, probably from the bottom of Mount Victoria, looking towards Wellington. A small hut at the water's edge nearby, swampy ground and the Waitangi Stream in the foreground, fencing marking Te Aro Pa, European houses beyond, cliffs marking the beginning of Lambton Quay with houses running its length at the waterfront, the sloping line of The Terrace, with several houses running up the hill in the left background and ships moored in the harbour. This copy has been heavily annotated with various people, soldiers (including a group in the act of firing), large buildings, including at least two with domes, buildings on the skyline, etc. An untouched proof copy of this lithograph is held at A-215-017 Another copy, an etching, in Pearse, J Album (ATL) p. 34 (E-455-f-034-2 hand-coloured). This copy is not issuable Inscriptions: Signed: E N : T S Ralph Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 194 x 294 mm on sheet 245 x 295 mm
Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Wellington Bay. [1892 or 1893]
Date: 1892 - 1893
From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.
Reference: E-373-018
Description: St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral in the left foreground and Hill Street running down towards the water's edge. The houses of Thorndon and the spire of St Paul's Pro-cathedral are also visible. A view across the harbour, taking in Somes Island. The row of buildings in the centre foreground at the bottom of the hill may be in Molesworth Street, between Aitken Street and Kate Sheppard Place (then Sydney Street East). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, in sketchbook 130 x 180 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..
Sheehy, E M :Photographs of Rotorua and district, and of Sheehy's chemist shop in Welli...
Date: ca 1895. 1910
By: Sheehy, E M (Mrs), active 1976
Reference: PAColl-0266
Description: Tourist views of Rotorua in colour and photo of Sheehy's Chemist Shop, 80 Courtney Place, Wellington 1/2-068556 Quantity: 8 colour original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :Key to the View of the Town of Wellington. [1841. Drawn by C...
Date: 1841 - 1842
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; C Hullmandel (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company
Reference: C-026-001
Description: Outline key to Heaphy's "Part of Lambton Harbour, in Port Nicholson, New Zealand ... April 1841" published in London in 1842 as a lithograph based on Heaphy's watercolour "Thorndon Flat and part of the City of Wellington". Names features, buildings and their owners, and ships, including 1. Messrs Willis's Storehouses. 2. Messrs Wade's Storehouses. 3. Losack's Store. 4. Durie & Co's Store. 5. Mr Grace's Academy. 6. Messrs Waters & Smith's Stores. 7. Allen's Store. 8. Taine's Store. 9. Residence of Captain Cole. 10. Residence of L. Nattrass Esquire. 11. Residence of Dr Johnstone. 12. Messrs Cook's Storehouse. 13. Residence of Col. Wakefield. 14. Residence of Dr Evans. 15. Residence of Mr StHill Esquire J. P. 16. Residence of R. Stokes Esquire. 17. Temporary Exchange and Library. 18. Barrett's Hotel. 19. Houses belonging to F. A. Molesworth Esquire. 20. Residence of Dr Fitzgerald. 21. Hornbrooke's Store. 22. Messrs Hay & McHattie's Storehouses. 23. Residence of Dr Dorset. 24. Company's Immigration Depot. 25. Court House. 26. Residence of Michael Murphy Esquire. 27. Residence of Michael Harrison Esquire. 28. Jail. 29. Residence of Captain Chaffers. 30 Riddiford & Co's Storehouses. 31. Residence of K. D. Harrison Esquire. 32. Path to Ohario. 33. Southern Road to the Porirua Valley. 34. Belsize Point. 35. Schooner "Jane". 36. Schooner "Elizabeth". 37. Cutter "Harriet". 38. Brig "Patriot". 39. N. Z. Co's Barque "Cuba". 40. Ship "London". 41. American Brig "Emigrant". 42. Chilean Ship "Morley". 43. Chilian Brig "Heron". 44. N. Z. Co's Barque "Brougham". 45. Schooner "Kate". 46. Ship "Martha Ridgway". 47. Kumo Toto Point. 48. Town Acre no. 512. xxx Native Potatoe Plantations. Ellis' Early prints of New Zealand. no. 286 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 369 x 551 mm
James Smith's shop, Te Aro House, Cuba Street Wellington, ca 1880
Date: ca 1880
From: James Smith Ltd :Photographs of personnel, activities and shops
Reference: PAColl-3332-17-2
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :View of a part of the town of Wellington, New Zealand, looki...
Date: 1841
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: C-025-009
Description: View from Clay Point hill above the junction of modern Willis St and Lambton Quay. The beach in the foreground is lower Willis Street, while upper Willis Street passes up the rise on the far right. The beach in the background is modern Mercer and Wakefield Streets. Cows, goats, two Maori canoes, a couple on horseback and Bethune & Hunter's Stores are in the foreground, with a jetty and sailing ships in the harbour. Further jetties and public and private buildings are in the background on Te Aro Flat. The most prominent building along the waterfront, with a Grecian-style frontage, is the Exchange Building. Mounts Cook, Albert and Victoria are indicated in the skyline above their relevant peaks. For a key to the identity of individual buildings, see negative 15576 1/2. T. M. Hocken's 'Key plan of Heaphy's View of a part of the town of Wellington ... 1885'. The original for this key is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection. This watercolour was the original for the lithograph of the same title, published in London in 1842. There were also later prints from the same stone produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See reference number C-026-002 for copies of the lithograph. Reproduced by the Library in 1963 as one of the Queen's Prints, along with its companion view 'Thorndon Flat and part of the city of Wellington, 1841' and Heaphy's 'View of Nelson Haven', also dating from 1841. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil. This is not in Heaphy's hand. It has been taken from the title of the matching lithograph Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 442 x 620 mm on sheet 518 x 698 mm Provenance: Purchased in London in 1915 by Alexander Turnbull Library along with 114 other New Zealand Company drawings
Aubrey, Christopher, fl 1868-1906 :[Upper Hutt, with railway station]. 1890.
Date: 1890
By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Wilkie, Francis Howard, 1870-1945; Paterson, Nola Laura Noble, 1915-2008
Reference: C-030-030
Description: Shows the railway station and ancillary buildings, including railway cottages, the goods shed and the engine shed. Also shown are St Joseph's Catholic Church, the Provincial Hotel, P A Wilkie's second store (to the right of the hotel), and, to its left, Edward Wilkie's bakery and boarding-house Supplied title. Reproduced in: Kenneally, J M Upper Hutt, Wellington. 1980 (q993.1. KEN) with the following text (p.6). "The artist ... is known to have stayed with station-owners and at hotels and is believed to have left paintings of the district in lieu of board. While staying at Upper Hutt around 1890 he gave two paintings to Francis Howard Wilkie. One is a view of Upper Hutt and the other shows two bridges at the entrance to the Akatarawa Valley. The paintings have since passed to Mr Wilkie's daughter and son-in-law, Mr & Mrs J. H. G. Patterson of Totara Park, Upper Hutt. [Both watercolours in the Turnbull Library from the 1980s]. Shown in the painting of Upper Hutt are railway cottages, station building, goods shed and the engine shed. Also St Joseph's Catholic Church and the Provincial Hotel. On the right of the hotel is P. A. Wilkie's second store built about 1875 when the Fortune Lane community moved north to Upper Hutt to be near the railway station. The building at the left of the Provincial Hotel is Edward Wilkie's bakery and boardinghouse. Other copies: A second, almost identical version of this view was offered at International Art Centre, Auckland, 19 March 2008, lot 26. It was passed in. The only differences between the two works were in small details like the appearance of the cows and in the small group of trees in the left foreground. Both works were of the same dimensions Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 345 x 550 mm
Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :[Te Aro and Thorndon] 1852
Date: 1852
By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Chapman, Frederick Revans (Sir), 1849-1936
Reference: C-007-007
Description: The preliminary watercolour for Barraud's more finished version ("Wellington from Brooklyn" C-007-011) showing Te Aro flat with Waitangi Creek meandering through it on the right, a low hill in the foreground (the lower slopes between Mount Cook and Brooklyn) with Te Aro Pa visible on the shore to the right and houses, businesses and churches, more densely settled closer to Clay Point, the cliff face by the sea on the left, with Plimmer's Ark visible at its foot at the water's edge. The larger building near the waterfront may be the Maori Chapel. The road passing diagonally across Te Aro flat slightly right of centre is most likely to be Cuba Street. Thorndon is visible in the distance on the left. The large church on the left is St Peter's in Willis Street. Reproduced in Louis E. Ward's 'Early Wellington' (Wellington, 1928), opp. p. 302 ('in the possession of Sir F. R. Chapman'), labelled 'Te Aro 1850' (it is actually dated 1852), with the caption 'From Mount Cook. St Peter's Church, Boulcott St, and Clay Point are on the left of the Maori Chapel, Te Aro Pa, Swamp and Waitangi Creek are to the right' Other Titles - Wellington from Mount Cook Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & pencil on grey paper, 355 x 601 mm Provenance: Formerly the property of Sir Frederick Revans Chapman.
James Smith Ltd, Te Aro House after the fire
Date: 1885
From: James Smith Ltd :Photographs of personnel, activities and shops
Reference: PAColl-3332-1-3
Description: Shows Te Aro House after the fire of 18 April 1885. Staff have hung lengths of fabric from the windows and roof line to dry out Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Tronson, Fairlie Harold, fl 1883 :Te Aro, Wellington. F.H. Tronson, del; Bock & Elliot,...
Date: 1875 - 1885
By: Tronson, Fairlie Harold active 1883; Bock & Elliot (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: B-051-016
Description: View possibly from upper Dixon Street or McDonald Crescent, looking across Te Aro and up Willis Street towards Mount Victoria. St Peter's Church dominates the centre of the view and the Gasworks can be seen immediately to the left of the steeple of the church. Marjoribanks Street shows up clearly rising up Mount Victoria, and Oriental Bay, the entrance to Evans Bay and Miramar Peninsula are also clearly visible. Bush in the foreground, shops along Willis Street and several houses. In the right foreground is a large house with two steep gables, and a tree-filled garden, including two young Norfolk Pines. Note to A.H. Turnbull on corner. Other: The two-storied house in the right foreground may still be in existence in 2014, down a path leading from the lower end of The Terrace (formerly Woolcombe Street) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Two-tone lithograph 265 x325 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull