Places

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/ca.1940/Acc.14595

Description: Cadastral map of subdivisions, some numbered, in sections 312, 313 and 314 on the corner of Brougham and Elizabeth streets, intersected by Moncrief Street. Includes acreages and boundary measurements. Sections 313 and 314 include C.T. numbers and are part of D.P. 240. Names include W. Hodson, F. & C.S. Cording, P.Chetwood Watt, E. S. Quinlan, Education Board which is currently the site of Clyde Quay School. The plan for alterations, for Mr. L. Quinlan, (builder) for a residence at 32 Brougham Street includes faint outlines of the original building. Specifications are not included on the plan but a pencilled note gives measurements in square feet. Other Titles - Alterations to residence - 32 Brougham Street - for Mr. L. Quinlan Title supplied by cataloguer for map. Title for plan taken from item Scale of map [1:31 680]. Scale of plan - [1:15] Note on verso states: Brougham Street, Quinlan Quantity: 2 map(s) on one sheet - one an architectural plan of dwelling. Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scales vary, 77.4 x 45.4 cm.

Date: [Between 1938 and 1940]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-061

Description: Album of publicity photographs, and photographs of posters and advertisements taken by unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways. Many of the images in this album were taken for a series of articles written by Oliver Neal Gillespie between January 1939 and June 1940, published in the New Zealand Railways Magazine. The series was entitled "Buy New Zealand goods and build New Zealand. New Zealand Industries Series". These contribute the largest group of images in the album, covering a wide range of industries. They include men's and women's clothing manufacturers; electrical engineering companies such as Pallo Engineering (petrol pumps), National Engineering (Neeco electric ovens), Standard Engineering Company; tobacco factories; potteries; Nugget shoe polish factory; brushware factories; and companies associated with the manufacture of food products (eg Watties canneries, Edmonds Baking Powder, Griffins and Bycrofts biscuit makers, and Whittome & Stevenson sauce and pickle makers. There are other sequences of images, including newly built state housing in Lower Hutt, with some houses still under construction beside the Hutt River, a streetscape, and a children's playground (p 7-8); a large crowd joining in a send-off of R.S.A. men to Australia in April 1938; a train laden with boxes of oranges from Rarotonga, the "Special orange train from Auckland"; and photographs of charts showing the progress of the New Zealand Government Railways, with railways workshops staff organisation charts (for Otahuhu, Addington, Hutt & Hillside Workshops (p 28-29). On p 35 there are views of a new hangar at Rongotai Aerodrome, under construction, then views of the completed exterior and the interior with a row of Blackburn B-5 Baffin bi-planes. Several images show collection of Railway sports trophies (including cups for their cricket teams), and two views of New Zealand Railways staff member Neil Edwards, a tennis champion who represented New Zealand in Britain in 1939. Pages 39-41 show the construction of a large dredge on the West Coast; p 57 show a burst watermain on Waterloo Quary, wellington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous 7'; 41 x 61 cm

Date: 1929 - 1939

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799/A/[1939?]/Acc.14588

Description: Cadastral map of Mount Victoria from Patterson Street to Oriental Bay, Wellington, showing streets, property boundaries, some section numbers, and deposited plan numbers. A few sections are named, such as Doctors Common, McIntyre. Outlines the Town Belt. Written on recto: Mount Victoria Title from recto and cataloguer Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink, part coloured, on diazo photoprint on dressed linen, scale indeterminable, 69 x 107.5 cm

Date: Mar 1940

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

Reference: PAColl-7796-27

Description: Group standing at the lookout on Mt Victoria, Wellington, with Wellington Harbour in the background. Shows the bronze geographical distance guide and map of Wellington, and the bronze busts of the Duke of Wellington and Edward Gibbon Wakefield, in the middle of the lookout. Photograph taken in March 1940, by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - 16 Mar 1940 [Date stamp]; Verso - top right - Copyright / Photograph / 15 Mar 1940 / "The Evening Post" / Wellington, N Z [copyright stamp]; Verso - centre - The new lookout on Mount Victoria, officially opened by the Mayor of Wellington, Mr T C A Hislop, yesterday afternoon. The lookout gives a magnificent panoramic view from the Tararuas to Cook Strait. Left, geographical distance guide in bronze and map of Wellington in the mjiddle of the lookout. [Pasted clipping from original publication]; Verso - bottom right - 3 col x 4 1/2 / Sat Original Evening Post caption reads: `The new lookout on Mount Victoria, officially opened by the Mayor of Wellington, Mr T C A Hislop, yesterday afternoon. The lookout gives a magnificent panoramic view from the Tararuas to Cook Strait.' Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 19.2 x 14.9 cm

Date: 20 Oct 2002

By: Lowe, R Jeremy, active 1950-2002

Reference: MS-Papers-7559

Description: Described as a partial biography of Houston Francis Logan by Lowe, his compilation includes family background information a description of Logan's development of a Tinakori Road property, extracts from the `Cyclopedia of New Zealand' (v1, Wellington), entries from the burgess roll, ratebooks, probate records, Ward's `Early Wellington', and directories etc Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1957

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

Reference: EP/1957/3333-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm

Date: 1937

By: Martin & Dyett (Firm); Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Or/1937/Acc.10182

Description: Cadastral map of the area between Oriental Parade and McFarlane Street, Wellington. Four numbered lots include acreages and boundary mesurements. Lot 1 includes the site of a shed and garage. The site of a residence is marked on Lot 2 and a note refers to the building alignment from McFarland Street. A garage from an adjoining section is noted as 7" over the boundary of Lot 4. Private ways have boundary measurements and their respective acreages are added to the totals of relevant lots. Accompanied by a copy of a typewritten sheet detailing valuations of each lot and City Council rules about drainage, rights of way and frontages onto the street. Notes refer to G.G.G. Watson's property, also to Mr. Watson, Mr. Russell, Chapman, Tripp, Watson, James and Co., 20 Brandon Street, Wellington Other Titles - Plan of part of Section 373, town of Wellington Note on bottom right states: Distances and areas are subject to amendment on check of survey by Land Transfer Office Handwritten notes on verso state: Oriental Pde / Macfarlane Street [sic]. G.G. Watson's property, Oriental Bay Quantity: 1 map(s). 1 accompanying note. Physical Description: Colourwash on duplicated plan, coloured, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 33.9 x 34.6 cm. on sheet 36.5 x 38.7 cm.

Date: [ca 1930], 1946-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-175

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, ca 1946-1959 Kapiti coastline (including view looking north from Paekakariki); Lower Hutt - St James' Church; council buildings; Riddiford Baths; library; St Stephen's Presbyterian Church; aerial view of southern end of Lower Hutt (over Moera); elevated view of Naenae (showing Rata Street School in foreground). Rimutaka Hill Road; Kaitoke, 1948 (shows swing bridge); filtration plant site (Hutt River) re Kaitoke Waterworks construction; bridge at Pakutatahi; Akatarawa Valley road (with Morris Minor at roadside); house in Akatarawa Valley; Hutt Valley Pony Club members with their ponys on Akatarawa Road; Kapiti coast looking north from Paekakariki. Middle Run, Gladstone in Wairarapa - Daffodils in paddocks at Middle Run (owned by Mrs W H Booth), and view of homestead Elevated view of Miramar looking south-west; Lambton Quay with Kirkcaldie & Stains on left; Pigeon Park; Wellington Botanic Garden and tulip beds; view from Mount Victoria looking towards the Basin Reserve, Mount Cook and Brooklyn, with houses in Mount Victoria in foreground (taken ca 1930). Demonstration house at Karori designed and built by The Architectural Centre, 1949 Quantity: 44 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1970

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R18/1A-Acc.

Description: Identifies in colour Regional boundary, water catchment areas, urban areas, motorways, major roads etc. Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations]. Physical Description: Coloured ink on greaseproof paper. Scale [ca 1: 63 360] 113 x 76 cm.

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7803

Description: Transparency slides of Wellington, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: 1938

Reference: 1/2-055158-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: December 1944, 17 November 1945

By: Brown, L, active 2009

Reference: PAColl-9663

Description: Comprises: Photograph of Tasman Glacier, taken December 1944, from front of Ball Hut with sevice car in foreground View of Evans Bay and Rongotai from Mount Victoria, Wellington, taken 17 November 1945 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: From Book Collections - see also Ephemera Collections.

Date: Aug 2001

From: Rhodes, Valerie June, 1932- : Spencer and Rhodes family histories

Reference: MSX-8196

Description: Reminiscence of this early years growing up in Mount Victoria, Wellington, and teenage years spent in Lyall Bay, Wellington. Describes the family homes at Derby Street and Kent Terrace, Mount Victoria; holidays at Hihitahi; childhood entertainment; war years and visit of the Pamir; hobbies (reading, model-making); years at Clyde Quay School (includes photo of Std 1 taken in 1939) and time spent at Otaki Health Camp. Move to Queens Drive, Lyall Bay and years at Wellington College. Discusses first years of his working life and ends with his move to Upper Hutt as an optometrist with Cocks & Newall, and meeting his wife Valerie Spencer in 1954. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Finding Aids: Surname index at back.

Date: 1907-1908

By: Phillips, Jillian, 1950-

Reference: PA1-q-1069

Description: Photograph album of Wellington and trips around the North Island. Includes views of the opening of Victoria Bowling Club, bowling matches and other bowling clubs in the North Island, the contruction of the Grafton Bridge, Rotorua geysers, Te Wairoa buried village, and Dominion Day celebrations at Newtown Park, Wellington, Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 310 x 260 mm Provenance: Photograph album was compiled by Jill Phillips' great-grandfather.

Date: [ca 1928-1932]

By: McBride, Denise, active 2001; McBride, Megan, active 2001

Reference: PAColl-6359

Description: Photographs of Brooklyn, and views of the city from Brooklyn. Many of the photographs include parts of Central Park, and streets such as Brooklyn Road, Tanera Crescent, and Ohiro Road. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-182006-F to 1/2-182019-F, and 1/2-182020-G to 1/2-182024-G Quantity: 19 b&w original negative(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Film and glass negatives, dye coupler print Provenance: Donated by Denise and Megan McBride, Havelock North, 2001

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: 1973

From: Dennis, Jonathan Spencer, 1953-2002 :Photographs

Reference: PA6-624

Description: General view of Oriental Bay and the southern section of the Inner Harbour. The major features and buildings on the south eastern side of the harbour, where the city meets the sea, can be seen. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Panoramic photograph

Date: ca 1923

From: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955 :Negatives of New Zealand towns and scenery, and Fiji

Reference: 1/1-005413-G

Description: Group at Wellington College, Wellington, circa 1923. Shows school boys, and others, including Lord Jellicoe (front row, centre group, third from left) and Joseph Firth (front row, centre group, first on left). Photograph taken by William Hall Raine. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: ca 1946

By: Meyer, Robert John, 1921-1990

Reference: PAColl-4514

Description: SS Cobar leaving the Overseas Terminal with Mount Victoria in the background. The tug boat Toia is still moored at the terminal. Photographer was R J Meyer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1974-1975

From: Angus Corporation: Photographs of building construction

Reference: PA1-q-418

Description: Photographs of the construction of a covered swimming pool for the Town House Motor Inn overlooking Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club and Oriental Bay, Wellington, from 3 April 1974 to 3 September 1975, taken by Photocraft. Source of title - Title from album cover. Earlier photographs at PA1-q-437 and PA1-q-421