Places

Date: 1893-1971

By: Wellington Convalescent Home

Reference: 80-025

Description: The records comprise minute books, 1893-1967, legal documents re titles, licences, bonds, contracts; Trustees correspondence, annual reports, from 1895; rules for the home; correspondence, reports etc on buildings, rights of way, roads and plans of buildings The Home was opened in 1893 in Wadestown Road and then moved to Bayview Terrace (Hay Street), Oriental Bay in 1894 where it operated until 1971 Quantity: 2 box(es). 0.66 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, and printed matter Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Architectural plans (see list in back file).

Date: circa 1890-1910

From: Shaw, G W :Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna

By: Wilson, Alex R, active 1900s; Shaw, Helen M G, active 1976

Reference: PA1-q-269

Description: Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna. William M Wilson was born in Glasgow in 1868, coming to New Zealand when 8 years of age. He was apprenticed to John Fitchett, coach builder in Wellington, then with other firms including Rouse & Hurrell. He was employed by Wilfred Woolf in Eketahuna in 1894, and subsequently bought his business, and entered the firm of Kibblewhite and Wilson. See Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Wellington Provincial District, Eketahuna. Includes dwellings; carriages; group outings and portraits; 1 of the Club Hotel of F D Pelling; 3 of the Ryan family at Tawa Flat; 1 of a house at Island Bay, 1 of a thatched whare at Plimmerton, a Ghuznee St boarding house; 2 relating to the Burnett family; 2 scenes in Manakau; 1 of D A Greenlees store; 2 of Rarotanga; 2 relating to the business of Lyon & Blair, steam printers and lithographers; 1 of a group outside a house in Eastbourne; 3 relating to the Manson family; 1 of a military camp in New Zealand in preparation for the South African War. Also includes a pocket on the inside back cover containing newspaper clippings, and a photocopy of a letter written by the donor Mrs Helen M G Shaw, which gives some information about the album. Inscriptions: Album page - Alex R Wilson, Central Terrace, Kelburne, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover; 28.5 x 20.5 cm

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).

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

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

Date: 1896 - 1936 - 1958 - 1902

By: Swan, John Sydney, 1874-1936; Clere, Fitzgerald and Richmond (Firm)

Reference: Plans-80-1232/1249

Description: Three plans of the "Wharenui" apartments at Oriental Bay. 15 plans of the grounds at Athletic Park, Rintoul Street, Wellington, showing site filling and digging, the grandstand at its extensions, the urinal and dressing sheds, the turnstile gates, the cycle track and extensions to the grounds in 1902. Quantity: 18 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, sizes vary

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

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.

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-043

Description: Additional material included with the essay includes Captain Bendall's shipboard diary kept on board `City of New York', `Zealandia', 1876; letter from William Edward Bendall re stranding of the `Ellerton', 1883; list of vessels Captain Bendall is known to have been master of; family trees Captain Bendall and his wife Mary, nee Taylor, arrived in Dunedin from Launceston, Tasmania on the `Three Sisters' in 1862. From that date until 1878 he was master of several coastal traders and New Zealand pilot for Pacific steamers. He was appointed Marine Surveyor and Lloyds representative in Wellington and salvaged several wrecked or stranded vessels. The couple had nine children. One daughter who lived for 107 years, died in 1986 Relationship complexity - Transcript of Captain Bendall's shipboard log, 1876 is at 88-155 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Photographs

Date: 1892-1896, [ca 1948]

By: Tustin, B, active 1988; Tustin, William Henry, 1880-1970; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PAColl-1281

Description: Collection comprises postcards of Wellington views, views of Karori, panorama of Wellington taken 1892, photographs near Gladstone, bush scene, railway scene, and Raumati store Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card and. 9 b&w original photographic print(s) and. 7 b&w original photographic print(s) (postcards) and. 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera in one box.

Date: [ca 1900, ca 1920s-1940s]

By: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: PA-Group-00795

Description: Glass negatives of a range of subjects taken by an unidentified photographer chiefly circa 1920s and circa 1940s, but also two taken circa 1900s. Images fall into three broad groups: - Unidentified portraits (including the two taken circa 1900s) - Staff and factory floor images taken at suit manufacturer J A Wilkinson & Son Ltd, possibly in Wellington circa 1940s - Scenes in Wellington, and scenes and buildings in Auckland and Wellington Specific items show a table of wedding gifts, the ship 'TSS Wahine' with a damaged bow at Pipitea Wharf, Wellington, in June 1936, a group outside a meeting house circa 1920s, an unidentified building decorated with ships wheel motifs, a significant ceremony outside an unidentified building under construction circa 1920s, Auckland University clock tower circa 1920s, Auckland Railway Station, and Oriental Bay marina, Wellington. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 28 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negatives, 4.75 x 6.5 inches, and 6.5 x 8.5 inches Provenance: Negatives were found in a Wellington house, possibly in Karori.

Date: 1895 - 1904

From: Strong, Austin, 1881-1952 :[Sketches. ca 1895-1904]

Reference: A-058-018

Description: Shows a view of Oriental Bay and Point Jerningham from the west. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 174 x 225 mm.

Date: [1895-1900?]

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

Reference: PA1-o-131

Description: Album of photographs, mainly of the Wellington Region, Marlborough and Horowhenua Regions, interspersed with copies of photographs by unidentified photographers, unidentified lithographs and illustrations. A number of the photographic copies are portraits of Maori. The last images in the album, taken by unidentified photographers, relate to Darjeeling (Bengal, India). Inscriptions: Album page - Photographed by Frank J. Denton, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover with gold patterns on corners and spine, 25 x 32 cm

Date: 1890 - 1900

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-123-022

Description: View looking towards the cliff at Oriental Bay across the harbour, with two hulks, a smaller boat, a dinghy and buoys in the water. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & wash 218 x 351 mm

Date: [ca 1887-1950s]

By: Seaward, Neville Stephen, 1913-2005; Tan, Sunny, active 2011

Reference: PAColl-9900

Description: One group portrait, an albumen print, of men with guns, possibly hunters, titled 'At the Butts Reefton Queen's Jubilee'. Notes on back read 'Luch. NZ Alpine Photo'. Photographer unidentified. Taken in 1887 or 1897 (The Golden Jubilee of 1887 celebrated 50 years of Queen Victoria's reign. Her Diamond Jubilee was held in 1897.) One of men and a woman in a canoe on the Avon River, Christchurch, taken circa 1900 by an unidentified photographer. One of Dawson Falls Mountain House, Mount Taranaki, showing children outside, taken circa 1900 by an unidentified photographer. Four taken during World War II comprising: A scene with troops on board a ship to Crete, Greece, showing Maori troops, possibly members of the Maori Battalion, performing an action song. They appear to be being accompanied by a piano accordian; Undated photograph of New Zealand troops playing rugby in Egypt before a very large crowd; a photograph of the camp at the 1st New Zealand General Hospital, Helwan, Egypt, 14 Jan 1941, with 'KSRA' noted on the back; soldier at an unidentified location photographing a tree with external roots and multiple trunks. Four scenic views of New Zealand taken circa 1950s. Three are taken by N S Seaward and show Wellington Harbour and surrounds, Milford Sound, and Queenstown. The fourth shows Oriental Bay, Wellington, and is taken by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and an albumen print Provenance: Donated by Sunny Tan, Wellington, 2011 Transfers: To Other - From Cartoon Archive: B-184-066 to B-184-070, and C-164-048: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- : [6 cartoons by Trace Hodgson] - To Ephemera Collection - Tanner Bros Ltd : The water front, Auckland. For auld lang syne. Maoriland postcard. FT Series X.2/704. [ca 1910] (Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Auckland-1910-01).

Date: 1890 - 1920

From: Tanner, Cyril William :Photographs of Wellington Harbour

By: Tanner, Cyril William, 1860-1930

Reference: PA1-o-574

Description: Photographs show Tanner family, Silverstream, Wellington waterfront, Balaena Bay, Evans Bay, yachting in Wellington Harbour and Marlborough Sounds, and several photographs of waka. By examination of photographs and comparison with PO Directories, it was determined that they were the work of Cyril William Tanner. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Photographs purchased from junk shop by Mrs Thompson. The photographs of waka were sent to a Miss Tanner in 1939 by Te Puea Herangi, with a covering letter

Date: [Between 1890s and 1900s]

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

Reference: PA1-o-539

Description: Album of photographs of early Wellington, circa 1880s to 1900s. One view shows the wreck of the "Oliver Lang" at Kaiwharawhara. Other views of the harbour show sailing ships, the SS Doric at Queens Wharf, the arrival of the RMS Aorangi, the small ship Manawatu in port, and the Cobar ferry. Away from the inner city and harbour there are three views of native bush with a stream running through, and one of the house under construction. The album is not full, with photographs only found on pages 8-15, and 19-21. The view of the Union Bank of Australia on the corner of Featherston Street and Lambton Quay shows Johnny Martin's fountain in the foreground. There are several views of inner Wellington, some from Bolton Street, with others showing Government House and Offices. The Chief Post Office is seen behind the wharf where the ship Manawatu is moored (p 14) This is the first of two albums which may have been given to the Misses Yamerton as birthday gifts at the same time, both having the same birthday greeting card, and both having a similar collection of photographs, though not all are the same. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 22.5 x 28.5 cm

Date: ca 1880s

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-11-33

Description: View of houses in Oriental Bay, Wellington. Photographed by William Henry Davis, circa 1880s. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1891]

From: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-020596-G

Description: View looking north along the waterfront at Oriental Bay in Wellington. Shows houses, boatsheds, gravel road, and hills. Photographed circa 1891 by Henry Charles Clarke Wright. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Alexander Turnbull Library :File prints from W Wilson Album

Reference: 1/2-110647-F

Description: View looking east across Oriental Bay, Wellington, showing a horse and cart on Oriental Terrace to the right and houses and boat sheds along Oriental Parade in the centre. Taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1900. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) (copied from original print in Wilson album). Physical Description: Film negative