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View south over Wellington City with the suburb of Thorndon in foreground with the Parl...

Date: 27 Aug 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-47264-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

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Photographs of Wellington buildings

Date: January - June 2011

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000648

Description: Photographs of buildings in Wellington taken in February to June 2011 by Dylan Owen Arrangement: Images were originally in a folder labelled 'Buildings Jan to July 2011' Quantity: 23 digital photograph(s).

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View south over the suburb of Thorndon with Tinakori Road and the Botanic Gardens in fo...

Date: Apr 1947

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-07194-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 1/2 plate

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Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :[Wellington from Kelburn] 1870

Date: 1870

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Scrymgeour, William John Tyndal, 1922?-; Grey, George (Sir), 1812-1898

Reference: D-022-006

Description: View from cleared hills with several native trees, a road winding down to the right, with a gate and a man on a dray being pulled by two horses. The harbour with two ships centre and centre right, with Somes Island to the right. On the left in the middle distance, part of Thorndon, with St Paul's Church and a jetty. The Western hills, the Hutt Valley, Eastbourne and the Tararuas in the distance. Probably a view from above The Glen in Kelburn Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D.Barraud. 1870 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white 455 x 785 mm Provenance: Hung with a watercolour of Lake Coleridge Station, 1870 (D-022-007), in Government House, Wellington, during the governorship of Sir George Grey. Sold at auction in Wellington to the vendor's grandfather, also a Mr Scrymgeour (or Scrimgeour) in the 1880s or 1890s. Mr Scrymgeour migrated to Australia in the early 1900s to Goondawindi Station. The paintings passed to his son (died 1968) then to his grandson, William John Tyndal Scrymgeour, born ca 1922, of "Arran", Warwick, Queensland.

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Young, John Henry, 1869-1937 :View of Wellington. 1889.

Date: 1889

By: Young, John Henry, 1869-1937

Reference: G-265

Description: Shows a view from the lower slopes of Kelburn. The top of St Andrew's Presbyterian Church can be seen, and Government House with tower and flag flying. Six or seven tall industrial chimneys and the gasometer stand out on the flat area of the city at Te Aro. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J H Young 1889 Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 385 x 590 mm (sight) Provenance: Sold at Dunbar Sloane's in the 1980s (evidence from a photograph supplied by Dunbar Sloane's).

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