Places

Date: 1860 - 1880

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :Album. [1860s?]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: E-297-018

Description: St John's Presbyterian Church, Willis Street in the foreground, viewed from behind and above, and the view looking down Dixon Street towards Mount Victoria. Te Aro Hotel and Jameson's Cooperative Store are clearly identified on opposite corners of Willis and Dixon Streets. Photograph numbered554 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph 135 x 205 mm glued to album page 177 x 225 mm

Date: 1896 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-015

Description: Several buildings in the foreground, a harbour and tall hills, one with a signalling station on top. May show a view of Mt Victoria and Wellington Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

Date: 1848 - 1852

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-172-013

Description: A rough sketch with a view from Thorndon, looking towards Lambton Quay, and Te Aro, with Government House and its flagpole in the foreground, the waterfront (Lambton Quay) with several houses visible, Clay Point indicated and Mount Cook beyond it, with the Barracks. Bush with either tree ferns or cabbage trees is indicated in the near foreground. There are three ships in the harbour Attribution: attributed by the Library on cataloguing, 1980, to H J Warre. However the handwriting is not that of Warre, and the style appears less precise than his. This is one of four drawings in the same hand, with the same provenance, (A-172-013 to -016) one of which appears to be a preliminary drawing for a watercolour by Colonel C E Gold. The group of four was reattributed to Gold in 2011 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 222 x 285 mm

Date: [ca 1930], 1946-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-175

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, ca 1946-1959 Kapiti coastline (including view looking north from Paekakariki); Lower Hutt - St James' Church; council buildings; Riddiford Baths; library; St Stephen's Presbyterian Church; aerial view of southern end of Lower Hutt (over Moera); elevated view of Naenae (showing Rata Street School in foreground). Rimutaka Hill Road; Kaitoke, 1948 (shows swing bridge); filtration plant site (Hutt River) re Kaitoke Waterworks construction; bridge at Pakutatahi; Akatarawa Valley road (with Morris Minor at roadside); house in Akatarawa Valley; Hutt Valley Pony Club members with their ponys on Akatarawa Road; Kapiti coast looking north from Paekakariki. Middle Run, Gladstone in Wairarapa - Daffodils in paddocks at Middle Run (owned by Mrs W H Booth), and view of homestead Elevated view of Miramar looking south-west; Lambton Quay with Kirkcaldie & Stains on left; Pigeon Park; Wellington Botanic Garden and tulip beds; view from Mount Victoria looking towards the Basin Reserve, Mount Cook and Brooklyn, with houses in Mount Victoria in foreground (taken ca 1930). Demonstration house at Karori designed and built by The Architectural Centre, 1949 Quantity: 44 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7803

Description: Transparency slides of Wellington, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

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: B-049-044/046

Description: Shows views in the Hutt Valley, Wellington and Wairarapa. At the top, a view looking west along Palliser Bayl, with Hokorewa Pa visible on the flat land near the coast in the distance, at the mouth of the Ruamahanga River. In the centre a view from the hills above Brooklyn and Ohiro Valley, looking west towards the harbour entrance. A few sheep are grazing in the foreground. Mount Victoria, Evans Bay and Lyall Bay can be seen. At the bottom, the house of William Swainson, with other buildings around it and trees on both sides. Three cows grazing in the foreground. Other Titles - William Swainson Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1890

By: Tabor, Henry John, active 1950

Reference: G-611

Description: A view looking south from close to the bottom of Tinakori Road at its junction with Thorndon Quay. Mount Victoria is in the background. Stowe Hill rises to the right. A man stands on Tinakori Road on the right, at the foot of the hill. A building, possibly the Thorndon Baths, is visible at Pipitea Point on the waterfront in the middle distance and houses are just visible in Thorndon. Artist unknown Other Titles - Stowe Hill Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil painting, 127 x 177 mm

Date: ca 1860-1870

By: Taylor, Clyde Romer Hughes, 1905-1997

Reference: PAColl-6511

Description: Five photographs of Wellington in the 1860s and 1870s: one of St Andrews, Lambton Quay; one of Thorndon from Tinakori Hill; one looking towards Tinakori Hill from the top of Molesworth Street; one looking down Molesworth Street looking towards Mount Victoria; and one from the Terrace looking towards Queen's Wharf. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-010011, 010014, 010016, 010019, 010020, 010022, and 021042 Quantity: 7 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives Transfers: Print from one negative at PAColl-6208-22..

Date: [between 1878 and Jun 1879]

From: McKay, Alexander :Photographs

By: Bloch, Theodor Thorlacius, 1844-1935

Reference: PA6-500

Description: Parts 4 & 5 of the 5-part panorama at PAColl-D-0725 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Four images joined to form one panoramic print Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - PA Series 14:164.

Date: [ca 1928-1932]

By: McBride, Denise, active 2001; McBride, Megan, active 2001

Reference: PAColl-6359

Description: Photographs of Brooklyn, and views of the city from Brooklyn. Many of the photographs include parts of Central Park, and streets such as Brooklyn Road, Tanera Crescent, and Ohiro Road. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-182006-F to 1/2-182019-F, and 1/2-182020-G to 1/2-182024-G Quantity: 19 b&w original negative(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Film and glass negatives, dye coupler print Provenance: Donated by Denise and Megan McBride, Havelock North, 2001

Date: 1842

From: Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington (sketched in the middle of the year 1842). Plate IV.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: B-110-057

Description: Central third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows groups of figures on foreshore including man on horseback, man examining ships through spyglass, two small groups of Maori watching, two men smoking long pipes, 14 sailing ships including one rounding Point Halswell, Somes Island with flag flying at its southern end, two Maori craft including one with sails. View extends from Warepori's Village in Pitone at left, to Mount Victoria at right. Features named are: Warepori's village Pitone, Valley of the Hutt, Tararua Mountains, Somes's Island, Pt Halswell (the entrance from the sea), Pt Jerningham, Mr Duppa's house (Oriental Bay), Mount Victoria. There are colour transparencies available (photographed from better copies of this work, in volume of Wakefield's book). The copy negatives listed here are also from this book rather than from this copy at B-110-056/058. Extended Title - From Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1845. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Title]; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - beneath image - From a sketch taken by Captain Mein Smith R.A. / London, Smith, Elder & Co. Cornhill. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 502 mm.

Date: 1844 - 1846

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938

Reference: B-061-003

Description: A view from below the summit of The Terrace, looking south down onto Te Aro and along the beach towards Mount Victoria and Oriental Bay. There are houses along the shoreline, a jetty, Manners Street runs parallel to the shore and there are houses dotted back over the flat land. There is low scrub in the foreground Appears to be a copy of the left side of of S C Brees' "Te Aro flat from near Captain Sharpe's residence" which shows Wellington in 1844 or 1845. (Panorama plate 66 in Brees' Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand, published London, 1847). Some details differ. The road in the left foreground is more marked, there are additional houses stretching back over the valley floor, and several buildings nearer the foreground are different from Brees' engraving, as are the details of the outline of Mount Victoria and the cliffs leading towards Oriental Bay. Several of these differences can also be observed in the wood engraving of the same view published in the Illustrated London News, 'Wellington, Te Aro flat' Sept 11 1847, p. 168, and in a related oil painting in the National Library of Australia. Both this watercolour and the oil painting may be copied from the Illustrated London news. The style of the watercolour is very like that of W. S. Hatton, who is known to have copied many views from the Illustrated London news, although his or her work was normally signed. Paper watermarked D & C Blauw Other Titles - Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on laid paper, 229 x 381 mm

Date: [between 1878 and Jun 1879]

By: Bloch, Theodor Thorlacius, 1844-1935

Reference: PAColl-D-0725

Description: Parts 4 and 5 of a panoramic view of Wellington taken from above Roxburgh and Hawker streets, Mount Victoria and looking across the harbour to the Tinakori Hills and the city. Queens Wharf is in the middle distance and the Government Buildings slightly to the right. Old St Peter's Church, Willis Street is on the far left. Dated from buildings known to have existed or not existed between 1878 and June 1879. Photographer Theodor Bloch. Parts 2 to 5 of the 5-part panorama at PA6-500 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) Parts 4 & 5 of a 5-part panorama. Physical Description: 175 x 472 mm on card 276 x 580 mm

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

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Christie, Hettie Florence, 1902-1988 :Photographs and album of New Zealand scenes

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA7-41-10

Description: Elevated view of Wellington taken from The Terrace looking south-east over Te Aro and across Wellington Harbour to Mount Victoria. St John's Presbyterian Church is in the foreground. Photograph taken by Frank Arnold Coxhead in 1880s Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Te Aro, Wellington. N.Z. 544; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - F.A.C. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.8 x 19.5 cm

Date: [ca 1927]

From: Government House Collection : Prints of Te Aro flat, Lambton Quay, Parliament Building, Government Buildings, Post Office and Governor's residence

Reference: PAColl-D-0119

Description: Panoramic view taken from Wireless Hill (Tinakori Hill) looking down on the city and across the harbour to Roseneath, Oriental Bay and Mount Victoria, with the Miramar peninsula in the distance. Bolton Street Cemetery is in the immediate foreground. The Government Building, Parliament Buildings, Government House, Government Print building and Thorndon railway station are to the left. Several ships are berthed at the wharves and a ship is steaming towards Queens Wharf in the middle distance. Kelvin Chambers and Mayfair Chambers can be seen (both under construction). The Taranaki Street Wharf is on the far right. Taken by an unidentified photographer, ca 1927 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Recto - bottom right - 2249 Similiar view at 1/2-058525 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 402 x 560 mm with mount

Date: 1870 - 1890

By: Hetley, Georgina Burne, 1832-1898

Reference: A-175-005

Description: Shows a Maori canoe on shore at the mouth of a small stream at the foot of a cliff in the foreground, with a man wrapped in a blanket standing at the stern of the canoe, another figure seated in the prow. Yachts and ships are in Auckland harbour in the middle distance. Mt Victoria and North Head are in the background, with houses along the shoreline below Mount Victoria. The peak of Rangitoto is in the distance. The view may be from close to the modern central city foreshore, possibly from St Mary's Bay Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 139 x 350 mm

Date: [1870s-1880s?]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-081

Description: Views of the South Island, chiefly in Southland and Otago, taken by unidentified photographers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, lacking spine and back cover, 30.0 x 23.5 cm

Date: 1875 - 1970 - 1975

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Bell, Gully, Buddle, Weir (Firm)

Reference: E-279-q-114

Description: Scene by C D Barraud reproduced on a Christmas card sent out by the law firm Bell Gully Buddle Weir in 1970s. Shows the view from the hills at the southern end of the city, looking northward along the longer axis of the harbour, and was taken towards the close of a fine autumn day when the light of the setting sun was reflected on the distant masses of the Rimutaka and Tararua Ranges. The lower slopes of Brooklyn Hill are in the foreground, with the houses of Te Aro Flat in the middle ground, part of Mt Victoria on the right, ships in the harbour, Somes Island and Petone with the Tararua Ranges beyond in the distance. Extended Title - From, Barraud, C. D. New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive ... London, 1877, opp. p. 1 with additional title View of Wellington Harbour from the hills south of the city. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 134 x 195 mm on folded card

Date: 1945

Reference: F-008

Description: Panoramic view of Wellington Harbour and city from Kelburn, including clear views of ships in the harbour, the wharves, the Railway Station, the Government Buildings, the high-rise buildings in the city, Weir House, Kelburn Park, Te Aro flat, the Carillon, the Museum and Oriental Bay with St Gerard's Monastery. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - '45 [in pencil, plus a complex monogram including the letters J.C.H. & W, also in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, hand-coloured 244 x 1420 mm Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane, October 1969 for $30.00