Places

Date: [Between 1954 and 1968]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-200

Description: Album of photographs, some prints, some contacts from 35mm film, taken by Professor John Salmon in Wellington. Most of the images describe his use of different camera lenses and filters. Many of the scenes are taken from Professor Salmon's window at Victoria University of Wellington, showing different moods in different weather patterns. They include early morning, afternoon, and night views, northerly wind and southerly wind cloud patterns, including a southerly storm. He also has a large number of images of Wellington Harbour and wharves, again taken in different lights, showing ships, reflections and buildings. Other sequences show views of the Hutt Valley, Silverstream, and Glenmore Street in Wellington, many taken on misty early mornings. The last scenes are coloured photographs showing some of the decorations erected for the Royal visit of Queen Elizabeth II, in January 1954. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cream cover, Cobra ring binder; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1962-1981

From: Fuller, James Ferris (Brigadier), 1913-2001 :Papers

Reference: 98-181-1

Description: A box-file containing files relating to yachting. Topics covered are marina developments at Evans Bay (Wellington), the development of a fleet of Flying Fifteen yachts in Wellington and New Zealand and the participation of the Governor-General, Sir Bernard Fergussson, in a Cook Strait yacht race aboard the `Mata-a-Tua' in Dec 1962 Fuller served as president of the Evans Bay Yacht and Motor Boat Club Quantity: 1 box(es). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs Finding Aids: A detailed list compiled by the donor is available on request.

Date: 1960 - 1965

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973 :Old homes & sheds, farms made by pioneers in Norsewood. [1950s-1964].

By: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973

Reference: E-029-q-073

Description: View of Evans Bay Road (Parade) lined with telegraph posts, looking east towards the Hutt Valley in the far distance. Evans Bay and the harbour are on the right. In the immediate foreground is the foreshore with a dinghy upturned at the water's edge and further away a boatshed with a red roof. A ship is in the distance heading to the entrance to the harbour. Other Titles - Evans Bay Parade Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour and gum arabic, 245 x 315 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist available.. Provenance: Donated by Mrs J. Brenkley in 1964.

Date: 1935 - 1936

From: Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976]

By: New Zealand sportsman (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-D-CABOT-Carnival-1935-01

Description: Arrangement of text, black on yellow. Urges patrons to see "thrilling contests under latest electrical indicators". Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print, 760 x 508 mm.

Date: 22 October 1984

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016

Reference: EP/1984/4946-F

Description: Rescue of a wetsuit-clad person from rough seas by the Evans Bay rescue boat. A yacht with two people on board is visible on the right. Photographed 22 October 1984 by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1900 - 1950

From: McLeod, Hector Norman, fl 1870s-1957 :Maps from papers

By: McLeod, Hector Norman, 1872-

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Ki/[19-?]/Acc.37539

Description: Cadastral map of subdivision in Evans Bay, on Old Farm Road, of surveyed sections 1-9, showing dwellings. Also shows sections 6-8 Evans Bay Road which are part surveyed. Marks the edge of the water at Evans Bay. Includes note in bottom right corner, regarding Farm Road and Seaton Road. Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, part coloured, on dressed linen, scale [1:480], 28.7 x 45.6 cm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLeod, Hector Norman, fl 1902-1927. Business papers. MS-Papers-0154.

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: 1960-1979

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2916

Description: Views of Evans Bay, Wellington City, New Zealand, the Patent Slip, and ships, taken by Cyril Beavis in the 1960s. Also includes views of the Wahine wreck taken from Seatoun by Cyril Beavis circa 1969, and portraits of Cyril Beavis taken by an unidentified photographer between 1960 and 1979. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in May 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-09.

Date: 1905 - 1928

By: Forbes, Alexander, 1875-1945; Pearson, Joan, active 1940s-1990s

Reference: E-457-q

Description: Photocopies of pencil, pen & ink and watercolour sketches of Wellington scenes between 1905 and 1928, with some scenes from other parts of the country. Includes views of Island Bay, Evans Bay, Houghton Bay, Oriental Bay, Roseneath, Central Wellington, Melrose, Newtown, Kilbirnie, Carterton, Levin, Thermal area, Auckland and Gisborne. Includes introduction with biographical notes and copy of a photograph of the artist and his family, an index and location map for the Wellington sketches (the majority of the views). Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Photocopies (colour and black and white) of watercolours, ink and pencil sketches A4 size page in clear plastic covers with plastic spiral binding

Date: 1960 - 1965

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973 :Old homes & sheds, farms made by pioneers in Norsewood. [1950s-1964].

By: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973

Reference: E-029-q-067

Description: View looking east towards the Orongorongos in the far distance, and houses in Miramar in the distance. Evans Bay Wharf and the benzine tanks are in the middle distance across the other side of the bay. A sailing ship is in the bay. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour and gum arabic, 245 x 315 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist available.. Provenance: Donated by Mrs J. Brenkley in 1964.

Date: [193-?]

By: Deste, Eileen, 1909-1986

Reference: PAColl-8468

Description: Photograph of Evans Bay waterfront in Wellington, showing boats in the water and a large ship in the background, taken circa 1930s? by Eileen Deste. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Photographer's stamp: Eileen Deste, / 101 Willis St / Tel. 47-811 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 19.8 x 14.8 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: 1910

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Seaton & Sladden (Firm)

Reference: Plans-92-0155/0157

Description: Includes site plan showing workshop fronting on to Evans Bay Road. Buildings include laundry, coal bunkers, furnace, power house, boilermakers, blacksmiths, engineers & electricians, pattern store, shipwrights and boat builders (with sailmakers over), sawmill (with joiners over), salvage store (with upholsterers over), iron rack and wire store (with offices over). By the slipway are the boat shed, painters' shed and bond shed. Also includes a plan of the rubble and landfill. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprints, sizes varying

Date: 1911

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton & McKay (Firm)

Reference: Plans-92-0951/0953

Description: Includes floor plan, side elevations, sections for a painters' shop, boat shed and timber stack shed. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on dressed linen, sizes varying up to 530 x 685 mm.

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: [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: 1956

By: Wright, Wilbur Shepherd, active 1950s; Gordon Harcourt Ltd; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey. Wellington District Office

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Ha/1956/Acc.10285

Description: Survey map of the area from the junction of Rata Road and Evans Bay Parade to the site of the flying boat base. The road width is marked and the boundary of the proposed road widening by Wellington City Council. This base map has been used to highlight the flying boat base's boundaries and buildings, also to mark the beginning and end of the road widening of Evans Bay Parade. Handwritten note on verso: T.E.A.L. Base, Evans Bay Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colourwash on diazo photoprint, linen backed, scale [1:360], 52 x 64.2 cm.

Date: ca 1910s-1940s

By: Lindsay, Charles John, 1902-1966; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Dominion Museum (N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-4337

Description: Photographs of yachts and yachting in the Wellington area. They include: yachts under construction or repair, a dry dock between two rows of boatsheds, the boatshed of the Brighton Power Boat Club, a yacht called the Igdrasil in the fiords, the Muratai in 1946, the Banika at Akaroa in 1948, the Hex leaving Wellington for the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, the Patari and Pacific at Purau, Lyttelton (taken by Allson Wright of Hereford Street, Christchurch), some men and women on the launch Tarepa ca 1940s, the Ludwig in 1925, and the Rawene in 1934. Also included are a photograph of a man working on an exhibit of a pa tuwatawata in the Dominion Museum with the maihi of a meeting house or pataka behind him and other carvings along the walls and a photograph of two men working in the taxidermy department with a variety of birds and bird skeletons on the table. Quantity: 34 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1930s

Reference: PAColl-3514

Description: Mother and child; Wellington city and suburb scenes; reception Government House Wellington; Greymouth and Grey River from the air; China; Wallabies; etc Arrangement: Negative numbers allocated: G68289-G68317-1/4 Quantity: 29 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1932

By: Wellington Harbour Board; Gandar & Gardiner (Firm); Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Ha/1932/Acc.10265

Description: Wellington Harbour Board topographic and survey map of the Patent Slipway Company's property on Evans Bay Road, now known as Evans Bay Parade. The area includes sites of two slipways and jetties, engine rooms, engineering, blacksmith, boilerhouse, tinsmiths, paint, basket and upholstery workshops, general and bond stores, timber rack, brick garage and laundry. Respective building materials are listed. The boundary, a wharf and a limit of reclamation are marked with the total acreage to the outer boundary. Reservoirs, stormwater overflow and sewer drains are marked, as are property boundaries of post, rail and wire fences with the position of wooden dwellings, some outside of the Company's area on Kainui Road. Picket, board and iron fences are marked, as is a vegetable garden and fowl house. Includes high water marks by Ward in 1887, sites of dolphins, a beach, concrete wall and stone pitching. Evans Bay Road is described as bitumen and its width is given. Additions to the base map are various acreages and boundary measurements of the workshop and store areas of the Patent Slipway Company's property at Evans Bay. Acreages of hilly and flat land are totalled separately. A pencilled note gives valuations for the acreage 3.2.20 at 4000 pounds sterling an acre, also for 'Northeast triangle' at 3200 pounds sterling. Scale of original: Scale [1:1 200] Stamp on base map: Drawing Office. Handwritten notes on base map: T.N. No. 1315. Also 70/41 Handwritten annotations: Areas are approximate. Dimensions in feet and inches. Handwritten annotation: For valuation purposes Extended Title - Wellington Harbour Board - Plan of the Patent Slipway Company property, Evans Bay Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and colourwash on photocopy, linen backed, coloured, scale indeterminable, 50.5 x 37.4 cm