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Hector McLeod & Company :Plan of Miramar, including Seatoun, Worser Bay, and Karaka Bay...
Date: 1911
By: Hector McLeod & Company; McLeod, Hector Norman, 1872-
Reference: Eph-E-LOCAL-Miramar-1911-01
Description: Shows a map of the streets of Miramar, Seatoun, Worser Bay, Karaka Bay and Evans Bay (including projected reclamation). The map is surrounded by advertisements for the following local businesses: Briscoe & Company (Wunderlich Ceilings and Marseilles Tiles), C S & P Cording (booksellers, Courtenay Place), D Palliser (chemist, Courtenay Place), Miramar Tramway Junction Land Co, A Lindsay Ltd (shoe shop, Lambton Quay and Cuba Street), B Matthews (painter and decorator, Miramar), F Mildenhall (plumber, Miramar), DIC, Miramar Building & Investment Company, Jackson & Co (paint and glass importers, Cuba Street), H K Robertshaw (baker and grocer), William Telford (Glen Dairy, Miramar) Another two copies of the map only, are held at MapColl 832.4799gbbd Mi 1911 11008. Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on sheet 660 x 570 mm (most of bottom strip missing) Transfers: From the Hector McLeod papers, MS-Papers, 0154, 43A - card index..
Views of the Wahine wreck taken from Seatoun, Wellington, portraits of Cyril Beavis, an...
Date: 1960-1979
From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints
Reference: PA12-2916
Description: Views of Evans Bay, Wellington City, New Zealand, the Patent Slip, and ships, taken by Cyril Beavis in the 1960s. Also includes views of the Wahine wreck taken from Seatoun by Cyril Beavis circa 1969, and portraits of Cyril Beavis taken by an unidentified photographer between 1960 and 1979. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in May 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-09.
Loose photographs from album (PA1-o-1549)
Date: ca 1930s
From: Hird, Edward James, 1924-2002 :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-7754-2
Description: Loose photographs extracted from album (PA1-o-1549). Includes photographs of a hill climbing sports car event, sports car club meeting, Wellington beaches, Wellington suburbs and housing developments, and the construction of a house. Mr Hird was an electrical designer, involved in the development of television, designing radios for Sir Edmund Hillary in Antarctica, and was apparently in radio surveillance in WW2. His father taught at Seatoun school. Mr Hird lived most of his life in the house at Mantell Street. See 'Freedom' newspaper, 25 Nov 1953, p.6 re his involvement in developing television. He was also a jazz musician. Quantity: 79 b&w original photographic print(s).
Photographer unknown: Views of Wellington and Murchison
Date: [ca 1929]
Reference: PAColl-6887
Description: 16 views of Wellington and Murchison including: Oriental Bay from the west and the east; a park on Oriental Bay looking towards the harbour with a family with a pram pic-nicking; two of J O Smith's gentleman's outfitters on the corner of Lambton Quay and Bowen Street, one with the Government Buildings in the background and one taken from them; the Carillon from Buckle Street; the Hikitia lifting a buoy in Wellington Harbour; Seatoun taken from the north; the steamer Cowan (location unknown); three men, one in a uniform, standing next to a car with Newman Bros Ltd on the windscreen; a display for visiting dignitaries in the form of a human Union Jack possibly in Athletic Park for the Duke of York's visit; the Public Library building on Mercer Street with the Technical College and the Town Hall in the background and Wakefield Street to the right; Willis Street looking south; and three showing the damage after the 1929 earthquake to H J Hodgson & Co General Merchants and Ross's Hotel in Murchison and Nelson Boys' College. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044200 to 044215 Quantity: 16 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives
Gooch Mitchell & Macdiarmid :Seatoun School Recreation and Art Centre. [1980s?]
Date: 1980 - 1989
From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].
By: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd
Reference: Plans-2002-058-D-10-036/037
Description: Includes site plans, perspective drawings, and floor plans. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing and photocopy on sheets varying up to 590 x 875 mm.
Sklenars, Linda :Album of views of North Island, New Zealand
Date: 1924
By: Sklenars, Linda, active 2004
Reference: PA1-o-1212
Description: Album compiled on a tour of the North Island in 1924 by an unknown photographer. The album includes views of Wellington, Auckland, Rotorua, Wairakei, Lake Taupo, Lake Rotoiti, Lake Rotoehu, Lake Rotoma, Lake Rotomahana, Hamurana Springs, Whakarewarewa, Waimangu and Waitomo. The scenes in Wellington include views of Parliament, Government Buildings, St Mary of the Angels church, Oriental Bay, Island Bay, Wellington Heads, Breaker Bay, Seatoun, Miramar, Lyall Bay, Khandallah and Days Bay. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown leather bound album
Survivors from the Wahine shipwreck
Date: 11 April 1968
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1968/1569-F
Description: Survivors of the Wahine shipwreck receiving assistance on Seatoun beach, photographed 10 April 1968 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Craddock album 1
Date: [Circa 1929-1939]
From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India
By: Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966; Springboks (Rugby team)
Reference: PA1-o-112
Description: Album of images collected and partly photographed by Gerald Rainsford Craddock. Images include clipping from newspapers and magazines, and postcards (chiefly of Akaroa, Wellington, Sydney and Perth). The photographs include family photographs, mountaineering trips, scenery in various parts of New Zealand, interior views of the Union Bank of Australia (Wellington Branch) where Gerald Rainsford worked from 1936-1939, and several views of the first Springbok test at Athletic Park in 1937. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "Photographs", 26 x 32.5 cm
Aerial view of Breaker Bay, Strathmore Park, Seatoun, and Wellington Harbour
Date: 1971
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1971/6161-F
Description: Aerial view of Breaker Bay, Strathmore Park, Seatoun, and Wellington Harbour. Photographed for the Evening Post newspaper by an unknown photographer in December 1971 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative
City of Hastings Public Library :Photographs of New Zealand towns
Date: [ca 1920-1943]
By: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962; Deste, Eileen, 1909-1986; Hastings Public Library (N.Z.)
Reference: PAColl-0365
Description: A collection of photographs including views of Nelson by F N Jones, buildings and earthquake damage in Wellington in 1943 and others from around the country including three hand-touched photographs of Napier and Hastings. The photographs of Wellington are captioned with the building the weather conditions when the photographs were taken and whether flash was used. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).
Life boat from ship Wahine landing on Seatoun beach
Date: 11 April 1968
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1968/1573-F
Description: Lifeboat from ship Wahine landing passengers and crew on Seatoun Beach, after the ship sank on 10 April 1968, photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative 6 x 6 cm
Whyte, Hilda Edith, 1917-2004: Photograph of Artillery Battalion, Fort Dorset, Wellington
Date: [192-]
By: Whyte, Hilda Edith, 1917-2004
Reference: PA9-019
Description: Group portrait of Artillery Battalion at Fort Dorset, Wellington, taken late 1920s by an unidentified photographer Second row on left: Mr C Milroy Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Backing board verso - centre - P George Hilda Edith Whyte (née Milroy) is the daughter of Charles and Annie Milroy. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 19 x 55.5 cm [visible image], in frame 34.9 x 69.2 cm
Mitchell & Mitchell (Firm) :Residence at Seatoun for J Thorpe esquire. November 1940.
Date: 1940
From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].
By: Mitchell & Mitchell (Firm)
Reference: Plans-2002-058-025-019/020
Description: Foundation plans, floor plans, elevations and sections of a single storeyed flat roofed house. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on tracing paper, 450 x 690 mm.
Field, A N album 5
Date: [1920s]
From: Field, Arthur Nelson : Collection of albums and negatives
Reference: PA1-o-161
Description: Album of photographs (each one 4.5 x 6.5 cm), with views of the North Island. One shows a group of four cars on the Paekakariki Hill Road; others show camping sites, landscapes and the Duchess (yacht). A number of people are shown, but are not clearly identified. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown mock-crocodile cover, entitled "Photographs"; 13.5 x 22.0 cm
A view of Seatoun, Wellington
Date: 1981
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1981/2699-10-F
Description: View of part of Seatoun including the Seashells Dairy. Photographed for the Evening Post newspaper by an unknown photographer in 1981. Caption reads: "Seatoun, an old inner seaside suburb of Wellington, now enjoying something of a rebirth as young, well-off families move into what has been a postwar suburb of flatters and retired folk." This image was published in the Evening Post on 8 August 1981 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm, comprising three images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative
Fitchett, W B, fl 1960 :Photograph album depicting the departure of Main Body, New Zeal...
Date: October 1914, February 1919
By: Fitchett, W B, active 1935-1960; Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942; Maybury, Horace R, active 1907-1943; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972; Tibbutt, Walter Francis, 1872-1929
Reference: PA1-f-022
Description: Album mainly of photographs of the assembly and departure of the Main Body, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, from Wellington in October 1914. It includes photographs of the troopships, Japanese and British naval escort, temporary camps, exercising of horses, embarkation of soldiers and loading of supplies. One photo showing the Verdala (As HMNZT No 13) with a pencil annotation reading 'Verdala with reinforcements' from December 1914. Most photographs were taken by S C Smith, with others taken by H R Maybury, Leslie Hinge and W F Tibbutt. It also includes a photograph of Queens Wharf, Wellington, taken February 1919 by H R Maybury. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue cloth bound album 27.4 x 39 cm Provenance: Album formerly in the possession of W B Fitchett, Lowry Bay.
Matthews, Marmaduke 1885?-1949 :Seatoun from the heights. [1920-1940s].
Date: 1920 - 1945
By: Matthews, Marmaduke, 1885?-1949
Reference: A-197-050
Description: A view of Seatoun from Seatoun Heights, with a tree trunk and pine tree at the right. A ferry is steaming from the direction of the Heads. Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 140 x 189 mm. Provenance: Estate of Mr Edward James Hird, 2002.
Aerial view of Wahine shipwreck with Seatoun in background
Date: 11 April 1968
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1968/1571-F
Description: Aerial view of the Wahine shipwreck, with Seatoun in the background, photographed 11 April 1968 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s) negative strips with 8 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm