Places

Date: ca 1880

Reference: PAColl-7406

Description: Photographs of Auckland including: looking across the harbour to Devonport; the Rakaia in Caliope dock; the Scotch church; looking down College Hill; Victoria Street looking across Queen Street to Albert Park showing businesses in the area such as Sharland & Co and R White boot shop; Mount Eden; the Supreme Court; the flagpole and cannons at the top of Albert Park looking out over the harbour; two views of Karangahape Road showing shops, carriages and carts; the first St Matthew's Church; St Paul's Church on Symonds Street; the public hospital showing the tennis court in front and the screens on the balconies; houses on Franklin Road, Ponsonby; the Railway Station with advertising for the New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd and Arthur Cleave & Co; Ponsonby Road with a church on the left and J Clarke, undertakers, on the right; Ponsonby Road with a bakers and butchers on the right; the Synagogue on Princes Street; looking north along Queen Street with the DSC building on the right; a ship in dry-dock at the wharves; Hobson Street with St Matthew's Church on the right; and four views of the wharves including one showing the ferry. Photographs of Lyttelton: two elevated views to the harbour one with a church in the centre and the other with an artist painting the view at an easel; the railway lines at the wharves; and three men next to coal carts being loaded with coal from a ship at the wharves. Described on the reverse of the file prints as "copy negatives taken from faded prints". Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004172 to 004200 Quantity: 30 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: April 1952 to March 1957

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-005

Description: "Illustrating geological observations, Vol 5". Black & white images of geological aspects in NZ. Includes aspects of the traverse from the Rimutaka trig to the East portal of the Rimutaka Tunnel via Knobby Spur; Rimutaka Tunnel construction (23 Feb 1952); investigation of the cause of flooding of Ohau River at Levin (4 July 1952); Otaki Railway Bridge; Mangaroa Basin; geomorphic features of the east coast of Wellington Harbour; Gibb's Fault, Paraparaumu; Kapiti area, including Otaihanga outlier; geological data from the Hobson St gully, Thorndon, Wellington (May 1953); NZ Geological Survey Staff Conference (Nelson, 17-24 June 1953); Lyall Bay from Moa Point prior to construction of the breakwater for airport construction (July 1953); Wellington fault angles; geological tour of central Waikato District with W. Neill, including Pohora Cliffs, Mt Karangahake; Wellington City water-supply intake at Pakuratahi, Hutt Forks March 1954); piercing of the main Rimutaka Tunnel & first train through (23.4.1954); NZ Geological Survey Staff Conference, Auckland (17-24 May 1954) with group photo, all named; geological excursion to Hutt Valley & Porirua Harbour (Sept 1954); excursion to Opouawe River & White Rock, East Wairarapa, with group photo of Royal Society Geological Section members on the tour (all named); Marlborough Sounds, petrological investigation by Prof Charles Vitaliano, J J Reed, and G L Adkin; Charles Vitaliano's wife and children at Blenheim, 1955; Tongue Point via south coast of Wellington from Owhiro Bay; features of the Owhariu Fault & Colonial Knob; eastern shore of Wellington Harbour & Pencarrow Lagoons; discovery and description of features of the Seatoun Fault (Sept-Oct 1955); tour of North Island including Tokaanu, Hamilton, Raglan, Thames, New Plymouth (Dec 1955-Jan 1956); geomorphology of south Makara to the Lower Karori Stream Gorge; evidence of tectonic coastal uplift at Wellington; Tour fromWellington, New Plymouth, Hamilton,Taupo, Hunterville (Fev 1957); Waikanae River & Reikorangi Basin (March 1957)

Date: [ca 1910-1973]

Reference: PAColl-8000

Description: Collection comprises scenes in an unidentified port by L Daroux; interior of All Saints Church, Foxton; scene at Foxton race course; group at a Foxton School reunion ca 1954; Kimi Ora Cerebral Palsy School, Hobson Street, Wellington; and album page with photographs of service cars and a family. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 album page with 16 photographic prints. Transfers: To Ephemera Collection - 'Foxton School reunion decade register for first five decades' (A SCHOOLS Foxton 1915) and 'Particulars of Samuel and Eliza Crowther and family 1820-1956' (A GENEALOGY 1956), copies of which are at PAColl-8000.

Date: [late 1930s]

By: McNaughton, Henry Leslie, -1969; Woodward, Joan, active 1960s-1990s

Reference: PA1-o-914

Description: Album showing housing conditions in Newton Gully, Ponsonby and Freeman's Bay, compiled by H L McNaughton, headmaster of Grey Lynn School in Surrey Crescent, as part of an investigation undertaken in the late 1930s into the living conditions of children attending his school. The album also contains H L Mc Naughton's report to the Department of Health. The area in which these photographs were taken is bounded by Nelson Street, Union Street, Fanshaw Street and Victoria Park Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Joan Woodward's father was headmaster of Grey Lynn School in the 1940s, after H L McNaughton.

Date: ca 1860s-1870s

By: Webster, Hartley, -1906; Kinder, John, 1819-1903

Reference: PAColl-4246

Description: Small book of photographs of early Auckland and some Maori studies. Two of the photographers are John Kinder and Hartley Webster but there may be others unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at: 1/4-015157 to 015172 and 1/2-018462 to 018463 Processing information: It is believed that the album was dismantled after deposit. The two original prints mounted on one small page in this collection may be from the album. Knowledge of the other images comes from the reference to Bennett's deposit on the back of the file prints. The album has been taken apart and only two original prints are still locatable.

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: [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: 1900-1910

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-002808-G

Description: View of Ponsonby, Auckland, taken from the tower of St Matthew's in the City, looking over Nelson Street, Hobson Street and Cook Street. The gas works can be seen in the distance on the right hand side of the image. Taken by an unidentified photographer between 1900-1910. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

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: 1939

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-55869-G

Description: Aerial photograph of the central business district of Auckland, and the wharves along Quay Street. Photograph taken 1939 by Leo White. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation Box red 08, Auckland City and wharves 1930s-1970s.

Date: Jan 1870

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Taylor, Robert H, active 1907-1910

Reference: PA7-57-12

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 Jan 1870 and printed by Robert H Taylor ca 1907. Identical image at PA7-57-10 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Protected R H Taylor No 95 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 30 x 37.5 mounted on card

Date: October-November 1892

By: Vogel, Henry Benjamin, 1868-1947

Reference: PA1-o-1035

Description: Scenes in houses at Fitzherbert Terrace and Hobson Street in Thorndon; Lower Hutt; and views in Kawhatau River & Gorge (Upper Rangitikei), Mt Ruapehu, Tauranga Taupo River, Lake Taupo, Arawhata river (Kaingaroa), Galatea, and Opepe. Photographs taken October-November 1892, probably by Henry Benjamin Vogel. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth-bound photograph album 25 x 21.5 cm Transfers: Transfer from MS-Papers-2072.. Processing information: Formerly held at MSX-1075.

Date: 4 Feb 1965

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-63372-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 2 Apr 1957

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-43931

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic negative

Date: [Between 1858 and 1870]

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

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Moresby, Matthew Fortescue, 1828-1918; Stock, Arthur Henry (Rev), 1823-1901

Reference: PA1-f-019

Description: Album compiled in the late 1850s and early 1860s by James Coutts Crawford (1817-1889). The photographs fall into distinct groups, interspersed through the album, as follows: Portraits of the Dundas and Moreton families, and scenes in Anverara, Dalmally, Overton and other localities in Scotland, as well as views of Barton Court, Tortworth Court (Gloucestershire) and Kintbury (Berkshire) in England. These photographs were probably taken during Crawford's residence in England during the 1850s. Photographs of the Crawford, Clifford, Weld and Levin families in Wellington, and views around Molesworth, Mulgrave and Hobson Streets, taken in the late 1850s and early 1860s. The photographer is unknown, but possibly Crawford himself. Views of Wellington from the Terrace, taken in 1858 by the Reverend Arthur Stock (1823-1901). Views of Ngauranga Gorge taken on 22 March 1859 by Matthew Fortescue Moresby, paymaster of HMS Iris. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, dark green leather spine, 42 x 31 cm

Date: Between 1924 and 1944

By: Luke, Kenneth Ewart, 1890-1965; Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-o-279

Description: Photographs of road construction, rubbish tip construction, earthquake damage restoration, relating to engineering projects in Wellington between 1924 and 1944; album created by city engineer Kenneth Ewart Luke. Photographs include scenes of construction of the Hutt Road, in 1924 and in 1926; the Liardet Street Tip before filling operation started in 1939, and during progress in 1943 (later becoming Macalister Park); the site of the Salamanca Road Tip (later becoming Kelburn Park), with views of Victoria University and the Mount Street Cemetery in 1944; interior and exterior views of the Hobson Street Air Raid Shelters, and the Kaiwarra (Kaiwharawhara) Air Raid Shelter; a visit by the Minister of Public Works and local dignitaries to the weir site for the Hutt Water Supply Development Scheme in 1944; scenes of the Karori Reservoir showing shortage of water in 1943; earthquake damage restoration at the Wellington Town hall and King's Chambers, 1943-1944 (after the 1941 earthquake); views of the outdoor Karori Swimming Pool (constructed in 1936) after the addition of a beginners' pool in 1945; and a photograph of a plan drawn up by S. Drake for a proposed development of Te Aro (in 1944). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown embossed cover, entitled `Photographs'; 25 x 30 cm