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Date: 1869

By: Bothamley, Arthur Thomas, 1846-1938; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-032-016

Description: View across Wellington Harbour with the Hutt Valley and Tararua Range in the background towards the left. In the foreground, on gently sloping land, are two small sheds or houses and a larger two-storied house, the latter with a fenced garden with trees. According to a note on the back 'From window in Princess Hotel at top of Molesworth St w. Mrs Bannantyne's later Pynsents in Hobson St. A T. Bothamley'. Inscriptions: Recto - title, date and signature in pencil; further information about location of the view Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 140 x 254 mm

Date: 1852

By: Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878

Reference: A-050-022

Description: A view looking from Hobson Street down over the town of Auckland and out to the harbour towards Rangitoto. Two men in a horse and cart are in the foreground. Original of: No. 1. Auckland, New Zealand / P J Hogan - London : Standidge, 1852. (C-010/002/14) and Mitchell Library oil: Auckland from Hobson St South Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - P. J. Hogan; Recto - beneath image - title in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, b&w 110 x 170 mm on sheet 150 x 210 mm

Date: ca 1859

From: Crawford family :Photographs of James Coutts Crawford and family

Reference: PA1-f-019-25-3

Description: View looking south along Hobson Street, Thorndon, Wellington, towards the intersection with Davis Street, taken circa 1859, possibly by James Coutts Crawford. Standing in the street is Mrs Bannantyne. Mrs Jessie Crawford, with H Bannantyne on her knee, and Mrs Caroline Harriet Abraham, are seated. The boy on the right is unidentified. The ships 'Pelorus' and 'Cordelia' are in the harbour. Mount Victoria is in the background. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - From Hobson street, Wellington. Mrs Abraham and Mrs Crawford Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 9.4 x 11.9 cm, mounted on album page 40.7 x 29.5 cm

Date: 1885 - 1886

By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)

Reference: D-001-006

Description: Bird's-eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed bird's-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm

Date: [ca 1859]

From: Crawford family :Photographs of James Coutts Crawford and family

Reference: PA1-f-019-18-3

Description: View looking south along Hobson Street, Thorndon, towards the intersection with Davis Street, taken ca 1859 by an unknown photographer. Standing in the street are Robert Park and Mrs Jessie Crawford. In the background may be seen a schooner in the Harbour, and Mount Victoria. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - From Hobson street, Wellington. Mr Park & Mrs Crawford. Jessie Crawford is pregnant in this photograph. Her son, Henry Duncan Crawford, was born in 1859. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 9.6 x 11.9 cm mounted on album page

Date: 1880

By: Stowe, Jane, 1838-1931

Reference: A-439-004

Description: Shows a view from the lower slopes of the Wadestown Hill looking towards the harbour. There is a garden in the foreground and a street of houses, possibly Hobson Street, leading away towards Wellington Harbour with sailboats, and the houses of Oriental Bay and Mt Victoria behind. There is a flagpole or aerial on the top of Mt Victoria (shown as a flagpole on most contemporaneous illustrations). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 179 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by members of the artist's family. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1852

By: Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878; Standidge & Company

Reference: C-010-014

Description: View from a high point of early Auckland, looking down over the town, with the spire of St Paul's Church in the distance and the barracks outlined against the sea towards the right, past North Head towards Rangitoto. The Library holds an ink and wash original for this view. A watercolour version is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. An uncoloured lithograph is also held at C-010-002 Article about Hogan's four views of Auckland in "New Zealander", 6 July 1853. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 315 x 457 mm on sheet 320 x 475 mm

Date: Jan 1870

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA7-57-10

Description: View looking over Thorndon Flat towards the harbour on Wellington's 30th Anniversary Day. Houses in Hobson Street are on the extreme left and Molesworth Street is on the extreme right. The Princess Hotel can be seen at the insection of Molesworth Street with Murphy Street. St Paul's Cathedral on Mulgrave Street is visible in the middle distance. Tinakori Road runs from left to right in the immediate foreground. The flying squadron of British warships which accompanied the Duke of Edinburgh in his visit to New Zealand are at anchor in the harbour. Photograph taken by James Bragge in 1870. Identical image at PA7-57-12 Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Thorndon from Wadestown Hill 1869 [handwritten] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 29.5 x 38.5 mounted on card

Date: [1860s]

Reference: A-457-006

Description: Shows a view of Freemans Bay from the rise of Wellesley Street, possibly from the corner of Wellesley and Hobson Streets. A number of wooden houses can be seen, with a tall three-storeyed building nearer the water's edge, beside which is the house that James Stuart Freeman resided in. The coastline of Devonport can be seen in the distance See also A-457-007-1/2, another Auckland street scene, probably by the same artist and of the same area, from a different perspective Other Titles - Freemans Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Wellesley Street looking to Freeman's Bay [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 107 x 229 mm