Places

Date: 1973 - 1893

From: [Various artists] :Three panoramas. Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1973.

By: Cockerell, E A, active 1890s

Reference: D-001-015

Description: View from the lower end of The Terrace, looking down into the Aro Valley and Te Aro Flat and across towards Mount Victoria, Oriental Bay and the Miramar Peninsula. Part of the Thorndon end of the city can be seen on the left. Courtenay Place runs away from the viewer in the centre of the scene, with Marjoribanks Street moving up Mount Victoria. The gasometers on both sides of Courtenay Place show clearly. On the far right is Wellington College Issued with descriptive text sheet. First published as a coloured chromolithograph in the Christmas issue of the Weekly graphic, 1893 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 261 x 745 mm on sheet 427 x 890 mm

Date: [ca 1900]

Reference: PAColl-0329

Description: Photographs of Mount Cook and an intersection in Te Aro, Wellington, looking west and showing the Union Bank of Australia on the right. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives for the image of Te Aro housed at 1/2-003925 and 023113 and 1/1-017880 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints mounted on thin card

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: 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: 1947-1948

From: New Zealand. Ministry of Education :Photographs from the Ministry of Works Library

Reference: PA1-q-940

Description: Photographs of regional plans, town plans, and architectural drawings of future city developments. Included is a plan showing urban development in the Wellington region, development plans for Upper Hutt, plans for the establishment and development of Porirua including an architects drawing of a proposed town centre, development plans for Johnsonville incuding an architects drawing of a proposed community and shopping area for the suburb, and some of the panels from the Wellington Architectural Centre's "Te Aro Replanned Project" exhibition of 1947/1948. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1860s-1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6886

Description: 22 images: 18 are copy negatives of images in books of Old Wellington in the 1860s many of which are captioned; two are of people milling around in front of the Cathedral in Christchurch; one is of the ship Marama ca 1920s; and one is probably an original negative of two older children and a baby in a garden. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044160 to 044181 Quantity: 22 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate copy negatives

Date: [ca 1920-1943]

By: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962; Deste, Eileen, 1909-1986; Hastings Public Library (N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-0365

Description: A collection of photographs including views of Nelson by F N Jones, buildings and earthquake damage in Wellington in 1943 and others from around the country including three hand-touched photographs of Napier and Hastings. The photographs of Wellington are captioned with the building the weather conditions when the photographs were taken and whether flash was used. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1973 - 1893

From: [Various artists] :Three panoramas. Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1973.

By: Cockerell, E A, active 1890s

Reference: D-001-015-a

Description: View from the lower end of The Terrace, looking down into the Aro Valley and Te Aro Flat and across towards Mount Victoria, Oriental Bay and the Miramar Peninsula. Part of the Thorndon end of the city can be seen on the left. Courtenay Place runs away from the viewer in the centre of the scene, with Marjoribanks Street moving up Mount Victoria. The gasometers on both sides of Courtenay Place show clearly. On the far right is Wellington College Issued with descriptive text sheet. First published as a coloured chromolithograph in the Christmas issue of the Weekly graphic, 1893 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 261 x 745 mm on sheet 427 x 890 mm

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/ca.1940/Acc.14598

Description: A copy of a cadastral map of the area between The Terrace and Whitmore Street, Boulcott Street to Cuba Street, Brougham Street to Clyde Quay Wharf and Herd Street. Sections and subdivisions are numbered and include numerous Deeds plan numbers. Government, provincial and Thorn Reclamation land includes block numbers. Wharves are named. Names include Town Hall, and land belonging to the Wellington Harbour Board and Wellington City Council is marked. Streets are named, as are some rights of way such as Opera House Lane. Red ink annotations show property values in pounds sterling. Title supplied by cataloguer - subtitle taken from top right of map Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on diazo print, some colour, scale not given, 107.2 x 74 cm.

Date: 1952

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PA6-646

Description: Panoramic view of Wellington City and Harbour taken from above the Bolton Street Cemetery. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1952 for the Evening Post newspaper This panorama was first published in the Evening Post on 5 May 1952, and again on 6 September 1957 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver Gelatin Print

Date: 1963-1984; 1990

By: Mātauranga School

Reference: MS-Group-0744

Description: Comprises minutes of Matauranga Board of Governors meetings (1969-1981 (incomplete); minutes and papers relating to the Matauranga Children's Group (1968-1982); minutes and papers relating to Matauranga School Committee and School Parents (1973-1979, n d); `Matauranga magazine' (ca 1967-1973, n d); newsletters and other children's productions; report on Sally, Jeremy and Tim Rose (1973); papers re aspects of education; correspondence and papers relating to administration of the school (ca 1968-1974) Also includes duty rosters and school circulars; papers re closure of school (1983-1984); rolls; fees paid; clippings; cashbook (1977-19178); account book (1971-1975); accounts (1982-1983); administrative group papers; insurance and related papers; income and expenditure papers (1969-1982) Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also `Matauranga; a radical experiment in education', by Jeremy Rose (1990) in the Printed Collections Quantity: 21 folder(s). 4 volume(s). 0.40 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs used in production of `Matauranga; a radical experiment in education', by Jeremy Rose (Wellington, The Bureau, 1990).

Date: 1908 and 1975

From: Gough, R J :Photographs of Wellington and Cocks' optical workshop

Reference: PAColl-4382-1

Description: Two phototgraphs of the interior of Arthur Cocks & Co Ltd, wholesale opticians and jewellers, at 7 Victoria Street, Wellington. One shows the lathes (taken by Joseph Gough) and the other shows Gough sitting at a work bench. A photograph of Oriental Bay showing the blocks of flats lining it and another of the view from above Roxburgh Street looking out over Te Aro with Courtenay Place on the left and Victoria University in the distance. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by R J Gough of Sydney in July 1975.

Date: 1931

By: Thomson, Richard John James, 1890-1977

Reference: PA6-409

Description: Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Eastern Suburbs & Te Aro Flat No.5 R.J. Thomson. Photo. 1931 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1952 -

By: Conroy, Paul, active 1940s-1980s

Reference: PAColl-1153

Description: Photocopies of School class and sports photographs - Te Aro School and Karori Schools Quantity: 7 photocopy/ies in one envelope.

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: 1935 - 1945

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/[ca.1940]/Acc.14594

Description: Cadastral, surveyed map of a proposed subdivision of part of Stewart & Company's property at Courtenay Place and Wakefield Street, Wellington, showing Lots 1-6. Sites dwellings, including office, shop, sawmill, ironmongery and carriageware, hardware building and adjoining wall (owned by Gas Company). Written on recto: City, Wakefield St, Courtenay Place Other Titles - Plan of proposed subdivision of balance of Stewart's property at Courtenay Place & Wakefield Street Wellington Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on tracing paper, scale [ca 1:360], 63.5 x 50 cm Provenance: Donated by Gordon Harcourt, Wellington, 1971