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From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0442-1/2-G

Description: Petone Railway Workshops, with houses and Wellington Harbour in background, photographed from Korokoro by A P Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: ca 1870s

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

Reference: PA1-q-262-54

Description: View looking from The Terrace across Wellington City and Harbour toward Somes Island. Several sailing ships can be seen in the harbour. Queen's Wharf is visible on the extreme left and the spire of St Johns Church can be seen on the left. Taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1870s. Note on back of file print reads: taken before 1878 when St Peters Anglican Church, Ghuznee/Willis Street was replaced. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1860 - 1862

From: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877 :Sketchbook. [1860-1864]

Reference: E-569-002

Description: Shows a harbour view framed by trees, with flat land in the middle distance and houses beyond that. High hills across the far side of the harbour. Possibly a view from Tinakori Hill looking across Thorndon Flat The domestic building depicted is possibly the vicarage of St Paul's, in which Bishop and Caroline Abraham lived from 1860-1870 Other Titles - [Harbour view with houses. Former title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, on page 126 x 173 mm.

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-037-3

Description: A moonlit view from Mount Cook, over Wellington and the harbour, looking north. Lambton Quay lies below along the foreshore with Pipitea Point in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 137 x 249 mm

Date: 1879

From: Barton, C : Hector and Barton family photographs

Reference: 1/4-063723-G

Description: View of Petone and Wellington Harbour from above Ratanui, Sir James Hector's house on the Western Hutt road. Ratanui and part of its garden can be seen including a norfolk pine and a Pinus radiata shelter belt. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 5 x 4 cm

Date: April 1913

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-022718-G

Description: View from Mount Victoria, looking across Oriental Bay toward Wellington City. HMS New Zealand can be seen in the harbour. Taken by S C Smith in 1913. Note on back of file print reads: Dated April 1913 (HMS New Zealand arrived Wellington 10 April 1913) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: 1867

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

Reference: 10x8-2084-G

Description: Intersection of Lambton Quay and Molesworth Street, Wellington, from Wellington Harbour looking towards Tinakori Hill, photographed 1867 by William Henry Whitmore Davis. At extreme left is the house of "Squatter" Jones, with Government House immediately to the right. At the right, in the foreground are the house of Dr G Samuel Evans, on the corner of Charlotte (Molesworth) Street, and Barrett's Hotel. Behind them are Parliament Buildings and St Mary's Cathedral. Other - Seventh image from left in panoramic sequence 10x8-2078 to 10x8-2087 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 8 x 10 inches Processing information: Record updated on 7 July 2023 to change date from 1866 to 1867 on advice of a researcher concerning the spire on St Mary's Cathedral opened in November 1867.

Date: ca 1860s

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/1-000532-G

Description: View looking toward Walter Turnbull's house `Elibank' in Thorndon and Wellington Harbour. Ships are visible in the harbour and reclamation work can be seen in the centre. Museum Street is in the foreground. Photograph taken by W J Harding, circa 1860s. Note on back of file print reads: Looking towards city and Te Aro Flat from Museum Street (in foreground) with reclamation work shown to the left, in the centre ca 1860s Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1880]

From: Bothamley, Arthur Thomas, 1846-1938 :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-231029-G

Description: View south-east across Thorndon, Wellington. Included is Government House, Hill Street (in foreground), the Colonial Museum, Wellington Harbour with sailing ships clustered at Queen's Wharf, Mount Victoria and Mount Albert. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1880 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Work on the reclamation for the site of the Goverment Building began in 1873. Construction of the building began in early 1875. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 16.2 x 10.4 cm

Date: [ca 1866-1868]

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

Reference: PA7-44-03

Description: View of the dwellings along Thorndon Quay. One of a sequence of panoramic photographs taken by W H W Davis, ca 1866. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16.5 x 21.5 cm

Date: 1890s

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10X8-0044-G

Description: View of Wellington Harbour looking down Boulcott Street. Houses can be seen on one side of Boulcott Street and down towards the harbour. The building which housed the Star Boating Club is on the foreshore on the right of the tall chimney. The building with the tower is the Marist Brother's School, built 1876. Photograph taken by the Tyree Brothers in the 1890s. The inscription on this photograph says that the view is looking down Hill Street, which is in Thorndon, but it is actually Boulcott Street. Other Titles - Tyree No. 5459 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Wellington Harbour from Hill Street. Tyree photo Nelson. 5459 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1870 - 1877

Reference: A-389-002

Description: Looking west from Worser Bay towards the harbour, Somes Island and the western hills. The pilot station, three other houses and a boat shed are on the left, close to the beach. A bather wearing a long-legged costume is emerging from the sea onto the rocky beach in the foreground Dated 1870s because of the small number of buildings present in the area, and the lack of a road over the hill towards the end. The road went in in the 1880s. By 1877 there were signal stations, not recorded here. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 239 x 356 mm Provenance: Purchase: Martin Berthold, Wellington, 3 June 2008

Date: 1840 - 1857 - 1849 - 1867

From: Ruck, Charlotte Steward, 1840?-1916 :[Scrapbooks, ca 1860 to ca 1899]

Reference: E-309-q-1-002

Description: View from Tinakori Hill, looking down onto Thorndon, showing houses close to Pipitea Point, the harbour beyond and Mount Victoria in the background. There appears to be no housing on Mount Victoria Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 110 x 154 mm

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0740-1/2-G

Description: View over the Petone Railway Workshops, with houses and Wellington Harbour in background, photographed from Korokoro by A P Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [Between 1910 and 1930]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000525-G

Description: View across Wellington, taken from Kelburn, with the houses along The Terrace in the middle distance. The wharves and ships in the harbour are in the middle distance. Somes Island can be seen on the left in the far distance. Oriental Bay is on the right. Photograph taken between 1910 and 1930 by William Archer Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Wellington. NZ. 601 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1885

From: Dillberg, Gustaf, 1858-1934 :[New Zealand sketchbook. 1879-1887]

Reference: E-085-032/033

Description: Double-page spread looking south from Featherston Hill past the Thorndon railyards, towards the city. A panoramic view that includes Oriental Bay, Miramar Peninsula and Somes Island Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in pencil. Also top left 'upstairs window' in pencil. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 178 x 508 mm (page size).

Date: 1865

From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867

Reference: A-277-035

Description: A view from the harbour past small boats and ships towards the buildings of Lambton Quay along the shoreline, with The Terrace and its buildings rising diagonally above the Quay. "Plimmer's Ark" (John Plimmer's warehouse aboard the hulk of the ship "Inconstant" can be seen at the water's edge in the centre of the view Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink & watercolour, 87 x 201 mm

Date: [ca 1866-1867]

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

Reference: 10x8-2083-G

Description: View taken from off-shore of buildings along Lambton Quay with Brandon's Corner on the far right. Houses on Wellington Terrace and beyond, and the Bolton Street Cemetery can be seen on the hill behind, with Tinakori Hill in the background. Identifiable premises on Lambton Quay are: T J Mountain; Edward Greaves Smith (Music Warehouse); Henry Owen; baker's shop; chemist & druggist; G Read; J Cook & Son. The Star Boating Club's shed can be seen on the waterfront. One of a panoramic sequence taken 1866 or 1867 by William Henry Whitmore Davis. Other - Sixth image from left in panoramic sequence 10x8-2078 to 10x8-2087 Relationship complexity - A print from this negative is at PA7-44-06 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 8 x 10 inches

Date: 14 July 1969

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

Reference: EP-Municipal-Towns, Wellington and Suburbs-Miramar-01

Description: Aerial view of Miramar Peninsula and Wellington Harbour looking north. Miramar streets and houses can be seen with layout of the future Mapuia suburb in centre. Beyond Maupuia is Mount Crawford and Wellington Harbour, with Somes Island and Hutt Valley hills in the distance. Photographed by an unknown photographer in July 1969. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 25 x 20 cm

Date: 11 August 1975

From: Radcliffe, Graham Tuaraki, b 1943 :Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-023514-F

Description: Aerial view of the suburb of Miramar, looking across Wellington Harbour, toward Eastbourne. On the right a ship is about to cross in front of Ward Island. Photographed by Graham Tuaraki Radcliffe on 11 August 1975. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative