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[Various artists] :Three panoramas. Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1973.

Date: 1973 - 1892 - 1894

By: Cockerell, E A, active 1890s; Hawcridge, Robert, 1866-1920; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: D-001-014/016

Description: Auckland, New Zealand, panoramic views of city and harbour from Birkenhead, by W.D.S. 1892; Wellington, New Zealand, panorama of city and harbour, by E.A. Cockerell. 1893; Dunedin, New Zealand, panorama of city and harbour, by R.H. Hawcridge. 1894. Issued with descriptive text sheet. First published as col. chromolithographs, reproduced from paintings, in Christmas issues of Weekly graphic, 1892-94, Auckland, New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing. Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Col. photolithographs 262 x 748 mm; 261 x 748 mm; 257 x 748 mm, on sheets 427 x 890 mm

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[Various artists] :Three panoramas. Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1973.

Date: 1973 - 1892 - 1894

By: Cockerell, E A, active 1890s; Hawcridge, Robert, 1866-1920; Avon Fine Prints; Schmidt, William Shaw Diedrich, 1870-1968

Reference: D-001-014-a/016-a

Description: Auckland, New Zealand, panoramic views of city and harbour from Birkenhead, by W.D.S. 1892; Wellington, New Zealand, panorama of city and harbour, by E.A. Cockerell. 1893; Dunedin, New Zealand, panorama of city and harbour, by R.H. Hawcridge. 1894. Issued with descriptive text sheet. First published as col. chromolithographs, reproduced from paintings, in Christmas issues of Weekly graphic, 1892-94, Auckland, New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing. Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Col. photolithographs 262 x 748 mm; 261 x 748 mm; 257 x 748 mm, on sheets 427 x 890 mm

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Field album 20

Date: [1880s-1900s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-o-167

Description: Family photographs, chiefly taken by William Hughes Field. Many of the views are unidentified, as are many of the portraits and group portraits. Some family members are identified, and a few taken in Botany Bay, Sydney, show Richard John Seddon and James Carroll speaking at a function. One image is a reproduction of a cartoon by William Hodgkins entitled `Mark Twain at the City hall Dunedin, on original sin (The watermelon story) ... A sketch from the stalls by W M Hodgkins' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green covers, 24 x 31 cm

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Star Boating Club (Wellington) : Records

Date: 1867-1972

By: Star Boating Club (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Group-0287

Description: Includes correspondence, minutes of general meetings, annual reports, registers of members, account books, receipts, registers of boats, and of plant and furniture, and one letter book. Includes programmes of events and rowing regatta Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - See also MS-Group-0644 Quantity: 53 folder(s). 25 volume(s). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available for sequence MS-Papers-0596 in reading room was removed on 14 December 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile.. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 7 photos of Rongotai College Rowing Eight (1972). Processing information: Not all child records from MS-Papers-0596 described

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Artist unknown :[Harbour and hills. 1890-1940s].

Date: 1890 - 1949

From: Various artists :[Thirty-nine watercolours, the collection and/or work of Maurice Crompton Smith. 1890-1940s].

Reference: A-372-005

Description: Shows distant hills seen over the harbour water. Artist may be Maurice Crompton Smith. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 130 x 179 mm.

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Colonel Charles Guy Powles' family and service photographs

Date: [ca 1890-1930]

From: Powles family :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9773

Description: Contains Powles family photographs from the 1890s to the 1920s. Includes: a group portrait of the Levin Football Club, `Cup winners, 1898'; a view of Wellington Harbour with masted ships; views of a harbour town, probably on the south coast of England; views of two churches probably in the south-east of England; a photograph of an aqueduct, possibly part of the Wey and Arun canal; landscape and village scenes from the south-east of england and New Zealand; portraits of military officers; photographs of Colonel Charles Guy Powles on a horse and meeting soldiers while serving in Egypt; unidentified photographs of people and locations, probably taken in the Wellington Region. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

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Artist unknown :[Bush, bay, hills and clouds. 1890-1940s].

Date: 1890 - 1949

From: Various artists :[Thirty-nine watercolours, the collection and/or work of Maurice Crompton Smith. 1890-1940s].

Reference: A-372-002

Description: Shows a landscape of harbour and distant hills. The hills could possibly be the Orongorongas seen over Wellington Harbour. Artist may be Maurice Crompton Smith. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 127 x 180 mm.

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White's Aviation :Present vista of Wellington Harbour, taken 25 January, 1971. [Hasting...

Date: 1982 - 1839 - 1843

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Whites Aviation Ltd

Reference: A-007-016

Description: An aerial view of Wellington Harbour taken from the same spot as Charles Heaphy's lithograph 'Birds-eye view of Port Nicholson, 1839' See also details in entry for copies of the Heaphy held by Library (C-029l-006, 006a) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photoprint, sepia; image 186 x 357 mm on sheet 330 x 410 mm + 1 information slip (4 x 10).

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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).

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Denton album 3

Date: [1894-1900?]

From: Denton, Frank J, 1869-1963 :Collection of negatives, prints and albums

Reference: PA1-o-132

Description: Photographs, chiefly of the Wellington area, probably taken by Frank J Denton. A number show the house `Fernhill' in Woolcombe Street (now part of The Terrace), Wellington, views from the house and its gardens. Portraits in clude Laurie Denton, Tom Tolley (locksmith), Alfred Bennett and his family, Mrs Denton Snr, Mrs Waters (had a grocery shop in Dixon Street), G L Adkin (as a boy), Miss Dixon (of the aerated water family, the Dixons of Dixon Street), George Butler (artist), and Beaglehole (David Ernest Beaglehole, father of Professor Ernest Beaglehole, and Professor John Cawte Beaglehole). Also includes photograph of a portrait painted by George Edmund Butler of his father Joseph Cawte Butler (maternal grandfather of John Cawte Beaglehole). Other Titles - Wellington I Album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Maroon cover decorated with painted leaves, 22 x 26 cm

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Yamerton [sic] album 2

Date: [Between 1890s and 1900s]

From: Hamerton, N & G (Misses), fl 1967 :Photograph albums of Wellington scenes

Reference: PA1-o-540

Description: Album of photographs of early Wellington, circa 1880s to 1890s. One view shows the wreck of the Oliver Lang at Kaiwharawhara. Other views of ships show the RMS Ruapehu on arrival in Wellington; the ship Pleione in port, and the Opawa on the patent slip at Evans Bay. Other views in the album include one of the tram track on the way to Oriental Bay; Te Aro (1883); Wellington from Bolton Street; Government House and Offices; a view from "Gaol Hill" (near the Te Aro Prison at the junction of The Terrace and Abel Smith Street); a tram run by the Wellington Tramway Company in front of Government Buildings; the corner of Featherston Street and Lambton Quay with the Union Bank of Australia and Johnny Martin's fountain; the tombstone of Mete Kingi Paetahi at Whanganui; the memorial to Te Wharepouri at Ngauranga; the Karori Reservoir; and a view of the mouth of the Hutt River from the eastern hills. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cloth cover, entitled "Sketched by the sun"; 17.5 x 21.5 cm

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[Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :Wellington from Brooklyn - across Te Aro and Thor...

Date: 1861 - 1967

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-011

Description: Shows ships in harbour, houses, and a man driving cows on a hillside path at right. From Brooklyn looking across Te Aro and the harbour to the Hutt Valley. At left is a Maori wood-gatherer. Tall tree in left foreground has the creeper kie kie growing on it. A tree has been felled in centre foreground, and there is a cabbage tree at right. Upper Willis Street runs down to Clay Point, at the junction of the present Willis Street and Lambton Quay. Thorndon Flat lies beyond ending at Pipitea Point. Colour photolithograph was reproduced from the original "[View of Wellington. 1861]" held at ATL G-670. Other Titles - View of Wellington, 1861. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud / NZ. 1861.; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board.; Recto - bottom right - Print no. 4 / Serial 10: 1967 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 310 x 510 mm.

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[Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :Wellington from Brooklyn - across Te Aro and Thor...

Date: 1861 - 1967

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-011-c

Description: Shows ships in harbour, houses, and a man driving cows on a hillside path at right. From Brooklyn looking across Te Aro and the harbour to the Hutt Valley. At left is a Maori wood-gatherer. Tall tree in left foreground has the creeper kie kie growing on it. A tree has been felled in centre foreground, and there is a cabbage tree at right. Upper Willis Street runs down to Clay Point, at the junction of the present Willis Street and Lambton Quay. Thorndon Flat lies beyond ending at Pipitea Point. Other Titles - View of Wellington, 1861. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud / NZ. 1861.; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board.; Recto - bottom right - Print no. 4 / Serial 10: 1967 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 310 x 510 mm.

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Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :(The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellingto...

Date: 1842 - 1983

By: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-112-028

Description: One of 4 prints issued as "the twenty-eighth set of the 'Turnbull Prints" with single information sheet [4] p. ; 300 mm. This view is from above the junction of Lambton Quay and Willis Street, looking out into the harbour A reproduction of an oil painting in the Library's collection Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph image 160 x 539 mm on sheet 250 x 590 mm

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[Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline], 1850?-1936? :Wellington harbour. Karori Road. [1880-1920]

Date: 1880 - 1920

From: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850?-1936? :[Sketchbook of Wellington and the Mokoia area. 1880-1920?]

Reference: E-634-001

Description: A sketch of Wellington Harbour, with a small hut on a slope at the right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, on page 178 x 252 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Mary Watt, Wellington, through the family of the artist, in 2004.

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Rogers photographs

Date: [ca 1900-1950s]

From: Rogers, Charles Marsden, 1892-1964 :Photographs

By: Sayers, Alan John, 1915-

Reference: PAColl-7829-1

Description: Photographs of scenes of Wellington and other parts of New Zealand, and images for advertisements. Many of the photographs were taken by Charles Marsden Rogers, but there are also photographs taken by other photographers. Quantity: 58 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

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Creator unknown :Photographs of Wellington and Hunterville

Date: 1885-1900

Reference: PAColl-1942

Description: Wellington streets, dwellings, historic buildings, harbour, ships, wharves and tax department staff 1900 Hunterville main street and unidentified church Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s) loose album pages.

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Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897 :Wellington from Kelburn, 1858 / by Charles Decimus...

Date: 1858 - 1984

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-112-034-a

Description: View from farmland in Kelburn, looking north over Wellington City and Harbour towards Petone Reproduced from a privately-owned original watercolour Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Art reproduction ; photolithograph image 320 x 589 mm on sheet 420 x 630 mm + 1 information sheet (270mm)

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White's Aviation :Present vista of Wellington Harbour, taken 25 January, 1971. [Hasting...

Date: 1982 - 1839 - 1843

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Whites Aviation Ltd

Reference: A-007-016-a

Description: An aerial view of Wellington Harbour taken from the same spot as Charles Heaphy's lithograph 'Birds-eye view of Port Nicholson, 1839' See also details in entry for copies of the Heaphy held by Library (C-029l-006, 006a) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photoprint ; image 186 x 357 mm on sheet 330 x 410 mm + 1 information slip (4 x 10).

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Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897 :Wellington Harbour. C D Barraud, del.; C F Kell, l...

Date: 1970 - 1877

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Avon Fine Prints; Blatchley, W D, active 1877-1898; Caxton Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: B-076-022-c

Description: Originally published 1877 in Barraud, C D New Zealand: Graphic and Descriptive, London, 1877 Same as B-076-022 & a&b Issued with sheet of descriptive text Printed by the Caxton Press Issued at $6.50 No. 3 of an edition of 1000 copies Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 230 x 355 mm on sheet 410 x 480 mm

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