Places

Date: [ca 1875]

By: Richards, Edward Smallwood, 1834-1917

Reference: PA7-51-02

Description: View taken from Sydney Street West looking towards Bolton Street and south-east towards Te Aro and Mount Victoria. Wellington College can be seen on the extreme right in the far distance. The Colonial Museum in Museum Street is in the foreground to the left. Photograph taken by E S Richards in the 1870s Copy negative at 1/2-021636-F. File print available at PFP-030465. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Looking towards Bolton Street from above Sydney Street West. Colonial Museum in Museum Street on left foreground. Lion Foundry in Waring Taylor Street in background, c 1875 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 18.5 x 28.8 cm

Date: [Circa 1880s]

From: Blundell, John Barraud, 1904-1975 : Photograph albums

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-043

Description: Album chiefly containing views of the North Island of New Zealand, many taken by professional photographers Wrigglesworth and Binns. Images include one of a cricket match between an English team and the Wellington team, March 23-24 1888, at the Basin Reserve, showing spectators in the foreground, the players on the field, and buildings on the hill behind. There are a number of views of the Whanganui River, including a cave, a canoe with 5 men poling through rapids, a view of the river from Hiruharama, and a waterfall. At the end of the album there are images of Port Said, Malabar, and two newspaper photographs, one of Mrs J Milbourne (nee Maud Beatty, a member of the Pollard Opera Company), and William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, governor of New South Wales 1899-1900. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cover 245 x 315 mm

Date: ca 1892

By: Hector, James (Sir), 1834-1907

Reference: PA1-o-879

Description: Album complied by Sir James Hector titled "Dulce Domum, Xmas 1892", containing views of streets and businesses in Wellington and Petone. PAColl-5751 Inscriptions: Album page - centre - Dulce Domun; Xmas 1892 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1879

From: Richmond, Christopher William, 1821-1895 :Sketch book ; sketches numbered 1 to 74 [i.e. 95] / [by] C W Richmond.

Reference: E-284-040

Description: Part of the front garden (a lawn ringed with shrubs) of Sir James Prendergast, Bolton Street in the foreground. To the left is the wooden Parliament Building with its square tower, in Bowen Street. To the right are the wooden Government Buildings in Lambton Quay. Other buildings and the wharf area can also be seen and the view looks across the harbour, with a steam ship and Somes Island and the eastern hills in the background Other Titles - Government buildings. Parliament Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 123 x 201 mm