Places

Date: ca 1890s

Reference: PAColl-7486

Description: Three views of Sir William Fitzherbert's house in Lower Hutt. Photographer unidentified. Described on the reverse of the file prints as copy negatives from prints in the "small red album". Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-005053 to 005055 Quantity: 3 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1853

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-065-2

Description: The Hutt River and bridge on the left, two two-storied buildings, probably the two hotels, other single-storied buildings, the church with a small bell-tower on the right. The bush-clad western hills are in the background. The church was located in Myrtle Street Inscriptions: Album page - bottom centre - title in ink. Additional title in pencil on reverse of work. Physical Description: Pencil sketch on buff paper, 132 x 272 mm

Date: 1864 - 1872

Reference: MapColl-832.4792/[ca 1864-1882]/Acc.37803

Description: Cadastral map showing two Native (Maori) reserves in Wellington. The first is in Lowry Bay, and shows three sections, numbered 1, 3 and 4, which have two roads running through them, one unnamed and one named from the Hutt to Wainuiomata. Section 1 and 3 are shaded. Part of section 9 is indicated, with the name Mr Fitzherbert. Measurements are indicated in chains. The second Native (Maori) reserve states it is in Waiwetu (Waiwhetu), which is present day Seaview. It shows the mouth of the Hutt River and the Waiwhetu River, the Hutt race course, 11 acres and section 15, with the name Mr Wakefield. The name Waiwhetu refers to what is known on similar maps as the Waiwetu (Waiwhetu) Flat. It is present day Seaview, at the mouth of the Hutt River, and the Waiwhetu River (which may have been slightly diverted). Extended Title - Native reserves in Lowry Bay and Waiwhetu, Wellington Quantity: 2 map(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 36.6 x 61.9 cm.

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: 1881

By: Briscoe, Edward Villiers, 1824?-1899; Hall, Lance, 1899-1985; War Memorial Library (Lower Hutt, N.Z.)

Reference: MapColl-832.4794gbbd/1881/Acc.10470

Description: Cadastral map, with acreage and survey measurements, of sections 24 and 28, Hutt District, Wellington, bounded by sections 25, 29 and 31. Section 24 is shown to be owned by Fitzherbert and section 28 by Richard Barton. Shows the Hutt River's path as at 1881, the main roads, shingle beds, Waiwhetu Road, the town settlement of the eastern side of the river including the Mechanic's Institute, post office, family hotel, Whitewood Hotel, the new bridge's toll house, the new bridge, as well as the Railway Hotel and school house south of the bridge. Several properties, showing acreage and owners name are shown, including Mary Roy, Sir Francis D Bell and Henry S Harrison, T Burt, HW Petre, B Buck, W Bishopp (sic), G Hill, JL Phillip, J Dodd, W & J Hall. Stamped indexed. Written on map: 42/49. Registered DP 24 - 67. Written on map: See also plan 41/25, 41/6, 41/8, 42/32 DP 89 180/35, 180/23, 323 41/14. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, 44.5 x 60.4 cm. Provenance: From the Lance Hall Collection.

Date: 1886

By: Allan, Joseph Stuart, 1861-1930

Reference: B-034-002-a

Description: Shows a series of humorous horse racing scenes. Shows also Sir William Fitzherbert, T G McCarthy, two unidentified women of the Pearce family, and a Mr Young Supplement to the Evening Press, Wellington, 4th December, 1886 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 508 x 381 mm

Date: 1886

By: Allan, Joseph Stuart, 1861-1930

Reference: B-034-002

Description: Shows a series of humorous horse racing scenes. Shows also Sir William Fitzherbert, T G McCarthy, two unidentified women of the Pearce family, and a Mr Young Supplement to the Evening Press, Wellington, 4th December, 1886 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 508 x 381 mm

Date: 1853

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-065-1

Description: A small house and outbuildings with cleared fenced land and dead tree trunks and a few tree stumps. Another more substantial homestead is in the background and bush-clad hills are just beyond. The larger house is probably William Fitzherbert's since his was a large property. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom centre - title in ink. Additional title in pencil on reverse of work. Physical Description: Pencil sketch on buff paper, 132 x 257 mm

Date: [Circa 1860s-1870s]

From: Murray, H N :Photograph of Queens Wharf and an album

By: Murray, Herbert Nicholas, 1899-1974; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-q-165

Description: Photographs of the Wellington area in the North Island, and in the South Island views particularly of Lake Guyon and surrounds, the Mount Travers Station, and the Waiau River and bridge, taken by William Thomas Locke Travers. The Wellington views include several of the `Nghauranga' [i.e. Ngauranga] Valley, including one of two wagons laden with timber crossing a wooden bridge; one of a small group of buildings at the foot of the gorge; and one of a bend in the road, a man seated on a log in the foreground, and smoke coming from the chimney of a house partially hidden to the right. All the other scenes in the Wellington area are in the Hutt Valley, or Belmont Hills, including `Fitzherbert's' (the home of Sir William Fitzherbert?). The view of the Mount Travers Station on the edge of Lake Guyon shows a building partially hidden by trees on the left, a woman and child sitting in front of a camera on a tripod, and a man sitting in a dinghy on the edge of the lake. A number of scenes are in the Lake Guyon area, with various streams and creeks; and views of the Waiau River into which the lake drains. Inscriptions: Album page - `H.N. Murray, Motueka. His book'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather binding, entitled `New Zealand scenery' in gold lettering; 29.0 x 38.5 cm

Date: [Ca 1870s-1900s]

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902

Reference: PA1-o-222

Description: Album of photographs of the Wellington region. Views of early Wellington churches include Christ Church at Taita, St Mary's Church in Karori, St Alban's Church at Pauatahanui, the old Anglican church in Lower Hutt, and two which were later destroyed by fire: St Mary's Roman Catholic Church (Hill Street), and Wesley Church in Manners Street. Pages 8-12 show views of Oriental Bay, including one of a house in Oriental Parade which was originally built originally as a seaside residence for Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell in the 1870s. It was then owned by W Bannister, before Walter James Helyer took possession, living there with his wife Annie Helyer. At the beginning of the album is a photograph of an engraving by N. Chevalier (J & G P Nicholls, printer), with the note "This happened in New Zealand: they had placed a drunken Maori in the public stocks". There is also an undated cutting from a Wanganui newspaper relating to the use of stocks in Wellington, and in particular to this case. Page 13 shows Tamate Wiremu Te Were and his wife Ina seated on a porch, at their home in Ohiro Road. Added to that information is a note at the top of the page which reads "The last Maori to live at Te Aro Pa. Tamate Wiremu Te Were. Died May 6th, 1903. Aged 79?". Pages 16-17 & 19, show views of Sir William Fitzherbert's house in Lower Hutt. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - [?] Helyer, 338 Oriental Bay, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red album with art nouveau decoration in black, entitled `Album'; 17 x 22 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-025-009

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. 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. This 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. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil. This is not in Heaphy's hand. It has been taken from the title of the matching lithograph Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 442 x 620 mm on sheet 518 x 698 mm Provenance: Purchased in London in 1915 by Alexander Turnbull Library along with 114 other New Zealand Company drawings

Date: 1843 - 1847 - 1845

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: PUBL-0020-17-1

Description: A Maori family in the foreground, with the buildings of Simmonds and Hoggard's Windmill behind them (now the site of the Embassy Theatre at the foot of Mount Victoria). Part way up the hill to the left is 'Victoria Cottage' (the top of Marjoribanks Street). This was William Fitzherbert's farm cottage. The windmill was built in 1843. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving 69 x 139 mm

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-005

Description: Two fantails in dense bush amongst tall tree trunks, Hutt Forest, Hutt Valley Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 5.5 x 3.7 ins