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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.

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.

Date: 1898-1985

By: Brooklyn School (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PA-Group-00461

Description: Photographs relating to Brooklyn School, Wellington Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 569 b&w original photographic print(s). 60 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s). 4 b&w copy photographic print(s). 2 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Brooklyn School: Records (84-1983).

Date: [ca 1966]

By: Stuart, Mabel, 1880-

Reference: MS-Papers-3631

Description: Letter sent to Brooklyn School Committee in connection with its ninety-fifth anniversary. The author who was both a pupil and a teacher there, gives a brief note on the history of the school, with personal reminiscences 1885-1894. Mabel won a scholarship to Nelson Girls' College and in 1897 returned to Brooklyn School as a teacher. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (10 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1879-1904

By: Beavis, G (Miss), active 1996

Reference: PAColl-1857

Description: Photograph of Fitchett's Farm, Brooklyn, ca 1879, and "La Bella" stranded at Owhiro Bay, 1904 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

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: [1860s-1950s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-002

Description: Views of the Orongorongo River, Otago, Milford and early Wellington made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. They include photographs of early artwork, street scenes, shipping, government buildings, mountains, lakes, rivers and people engaged in outdoor activities such as tramping and hunting. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1883-1983

By: Brooklyn School (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: 84-219

Description: Records comprise school log books 1929-1967, pupil registers for Vogeltown and Brooklyn schools 1883-1969, minutes of staff meetings 1957-1967, School Centennial Committee minutes 1982-1983, historical notes and correspondence, 1983, registration cards for Brooklyn School Reunion, and large number of class and historic photographs (photocopies). Original photocopies have been transferred to Photographic Archive. Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - See further records at 89-231 Vogeltown School, which opened in 1883 and was situated on the Ridgway, was the first in the area. In 1898 a new school was opened on the present site. In 1903 the name was changed to Brooklyn. Quantity: 2 box(es). 0.06 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Loose photos (mainly classroom 1955-1984 and some historical) - PA-Group-00461 - To Other - Brass plate - Brooklyn Play Area 1924.

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-a

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. 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. 634 / Serial 10: 1967 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 310 x 510 mm.

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-b

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. 23 / Serial 10: 1967 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 310 x 510 mm.

Date: [ca 1855-1950]

By: Clift, Charles William, 1896-1984; Nisbet, Eleanor M, active 1980s-1990s

Reference: PAColl-4889

Description: New Zealand towns and scenery, Wellington and Brooklyn in Particular during the 1920s and 1930s. Ships, pre schools, churches, holidays and Clift and Jones family portraits Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 248 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 2 album(s).

Date: 1860 - 1967

By: Fruit Distributors Ltd; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-086-1967-01

Description: A reproduction of C D Barraud's watercolour Wellington from Brooklyn, 1860, looking down over Wellington Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph in calendar

Date: 1882-1902

By: Fitchett, Ashton Buddle, 1844-1931

Reference: qMS-0790

Description: Mainly letters to R B O Todman and the Mayor of Wellington, Mr George Fisher, concerning the development of the town of Fitchett from land owned by Fitchett and Todman, and including a list of sections sold, with prices and names of buyers. Also includes miscellaneous entries relevant to farm stock and sales, family letters, including one original letter (1882) from E M Rollo to Mrs Louisa S Fitchett (mother of Ashton Fitchett). Fitchett town is section 13, Owhiro Block, of the suburb of Brooklyn, Wellington. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (245 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and mss (28 cm, ½ brown calf, marbled boards)

Date: ca 1879-1925

By: Fitchett, Ashton Buddle, 1844-1931; Fitchett, Ashton John (Dr), 1926-2008

Reference: PA-Group-00365

Description: Photographs of Brooklyn, Wellington, taken ca 1879-1925 by Ashton Buddle Fitchett, farmer and businessman of Ohiro farm, Brooklyn. Collection comprises views of Brooklyn ca1900-ca1920, the Brooklyn brick works, farm work, dairy cows and views of Wellington from Brooklyn. Also contains views of Foxton ca 1910, showing port and flax industry, including factory interiors and details of machinery. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives in registers at 1/2-176835-G to 1/2-176987-G File prints on shelf at PAColl-3758 Quantity: 153 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-3758 to PA-Group-00365 in 2009.

Date: 1899-1946

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: PA-Group-00048

Description: Photographs taken ca 1899-1946 by Albert Percy Godber (1875-1949), railway employee and amateur photographer. The collection comprises photographs of railways, timber industry, Maori art, and general views throughout New Zealand. It features a considerable number of views of Petone, where the Godber family lived for many years, and of the railway workshops at Petone and Hillside. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Prints housed at PAColl-3039-1, PAColl-0912, PAColl-4380, PA7-14-09. Other prints dispersed in sequences. Negatives housed at APG-0001 to 2115, 1/4-002920 to 002921, 1/4-002739 to 002740, 008767 to 008771, 008777, 008780 to 008781, 009010, 009012, 009028, 009254 to 009256, 015153 to 015154, 015317 to 015326, 015446, 015449 to 015452, 015305 to 015313, 015317 to 015326, 018619, 018620, 021690, 038846 to 039809, 050273 to 050338, 050344 to 051277, 051762 to 052187, 057748 to 057745, 057757 to 057795, 091523 to 091535, 105708 to 105744, 105746 to 105748, 106038, 106040; 1/2-003136, 003137, 003171, 003264, 003279, 003302, 003707, 003758, 0003792, 003869, 003872, 003873, 03988 to 004012, 004139, 008032 sequence, 011868 to 011905, 021518, 104701 to 104746. Lantern slides housed at PA11-028 to PA11-030. Photographs taken and collected by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 13 album(s) Album(s). 2060 b&w original negative(s) approx.. Finding Aids: Negative listing with correspondence file TL6/1/15, negative registers held by Photographic Archive.. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-0078.

Date: 1883-1961 [transcribed 2008]

By: New Zealand Society of Genealogists. Wellington Branch

Reference: MSDL-0369

Description: Electronic transcription of the original school admission registers of Vogeltown and Brooklyn schools, Wellington (MSY-5730 to MSY-5738), transcribed by members of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists. Source of title - Transcribed from item Arrangement: The spreadsheet arranged in surname alphabetical order. It is a merger of the Vogeltown and Brooklyn Schools admission registers and comprises 14 fields - register, register number, former number, administration date, sort date (yyyy/mm/dd), name (surname, forename), parent, address, birth date, last school, last day, destination, and comment Quantity: 2 megabyte(s). 1 Electronic document(s).