Places

Date: [Between 1910 and 1914?]

From: Miller, E D N :Photographs by Isaac Jeffares, and of family

Reference: PA1-o-247

Description: Album of photographs taken by Isaac H B Jeffares, circa 1900 to 1914. Most of the views are in the Wellington region, including a large number of the Star Boating Club, ships in the harbour, the Wellington Botanic Gardens, and some of target practice and a military camp, probably in the Hutt Valley. Other areas are in an around Napier, and on the West Coast. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, entitled `Views'; 15.5 x 21.5 cm

Date: [1890s-1900s]

From: Harris, Esme Enid, 1913-1993 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-115

Description: Album containing family photographs (mostly unidentified); photographs of life in Wellington and the region nearby, including two group portraits of school children, views of public buildings in the city, the Kelburn Cable Car, shipping in the harbour, and views of fire fighters, the fire brigade building in Newtown, and fire fighting equiment. In the Wellington region are views of the Porirua Hospital, and the Maori meeting house at Otaki. Source of descriptive information - Biographical information for M E Coulter from Library client, 2007 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with ochre coloured buckram cover, entitled `Sunny memories'; 33 x 28 cm

Date: [Circa 1900-1910]

From: Miller, E D N :Photographs by Isaac Jeffares, and of family

Reference: PA1-o-245

Description: Photographs taken by Isaac H B Jeffares. These include family photographs, many of which are not identified. Those whose names are given (at a later date) are Beryl Charlotte Cameron (aged one); Isaac Jeffares himself; and Isaac Jeffares' mother, Mrs Jane Jeffares (nee Warrell). Scenic photographs were chiefly taken in Wellington, with harbour views, Wellington City, and several well-known public buildings; Napier, including Bluff Hill and Cape Kidnappers; and Greymouth. Other Titles - Sunny memories Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, entitled `Sunny memories'; 20 x 22 cm

Date: 1922

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1892-F

Description: Panoramic view looking over Kelburn Park with a section of the rails of the Kelburn Cable Car seen on the right. The Kelburn Tea Kiosk is seen at the top of the hill to the left of the Cable Car. Salamanca Road winds up the hill on the right of the Arts Building (now the Hunter Building) of the Victoria University College. Wellington College is faintly visible on the far left. There are two areas of Kelburn Park in the foreground. The area closest to the camera shows a clubhouse and a man with a lawn roller. In the area nearer to the University there is a man walking behind a horse-drawn mower. Taken by Robert Percy Moore in 1922 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Kelburn; Photographer's title on negative - Kelburn. Wellington, N.Z. 1922. No. 395 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 103.6 cm

Date: From 1911 to 1949

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

Reference: PA1-o-007

Description: Black & white photographs of the Wellington area, Vol 1 (images 1-240), taken by G L Adkin between 1911 and 1949. Earlier images include the house Fern Hill (at 324 The Terrace), and views from the house; Kelburn Cable Car tunnel, and view of the cable car from Kelburn Park; Wellington Botanic Garden; inner city views of Willis St., Lambton Quay (1913); Lyall Bay, Kilbirnie isthmus, Wellington Heads, Oriental Bay (1913); Harbour and city; swimming carnival at Island Bay; city from Mt Cook trig station (1918); panorama of Thorndon with Pipitea Point reclamation from the Nth end of Barnard St (1923); interior view of the Wellington City Corporation Trams Shed at Newtown; Kemp Point Powerhouse, Evans Bay; Miramar Gas Works (1923); Wider views of the city with Tinakori Ridge from Roseneath, Oriental Bay, Lyall Bay (1926); loading the Maheno (1926). Laying Foundation Stone of new railway station by the Duke of Gloucester, showing steel frame of the building under construction (17 December 1934). Views around the city in 1936, including Worser Bay, Breaker Bay, Dorset Point, Queens Drive, the city (panorama from Karepa St, Brooklyn); "wilds of Wellington" Mitchelltown, Highbury, Taitville, and Kelburn (from Karepa St); snow on hills and at Mt Kaukau (2 August 1936). Centennial Exhibition (6 March 1940). Views around the bays in 1948, Lyall Bay, Evans Bay, Kilbirnie, Eastbourne, Days Bay, Lowry Bay. Comparative views from Mt Alfred (1 taken in 1948, the other in 1905). Pamir sailing ship at Aotea Quay (December 1948); railway yards; Kaiwharawhara Gorge (1948); and the first visit of the Solent flying boat Ararangi to Evans Bay, October 1949.

Date: 1977-1979

From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs

Reference: PA12-8686

Description: Views of Wellington include - From Salamanca Road looking north over Wellington. Kelburn Park looking east. Houses, Kelburn. Kelburn Parade and Victoria University. Cable Car and harbour from Kelburn. House at 21 Salamanca Road. Quantity: 9 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 30 October 1936

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

Reference: EP-Municipal-Cable car-07

Description: View of the Kelburn cable car from the Clifton Terrace stop. The view looks down towards the tunnel which leads under The Terrace to the city terminal. A cable car is on the track, and the view includes houses and fenced off access from The Terrace. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 30th of October 1936. Access from The Terrace to the Clifton Terrace stop had been closed off by the Kelburn Tramway Company in about 1931. This photograph was taken when the access was in the process of being rienstated as a result of successful negociations on the matter between the City Council and the Kelburn Tramway Company. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 21 x 16 cm

Date: 1940 - 1920 - 1960 - 1955 - 1929 - 1970

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cable cars, including the Wellington Cable Car]

Reference: Eph-A-CABLE-CAR-02

Description: Four tickets, one from the time when twelve trips cost 1/-, two from when twelve rides cost 2/- (1940s), and one from the 1960s or later, when the cable car was administered by the WCC Transport Department. Kelburne and Karori Tramway became part of Wellington Corporation Tramways in 1946. Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on tickets.. Physical Description: Letterpress, on tickets, sizes varying slightly around 46 x 88 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1946

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to cable cars, including the Wellington Cable Car]

Reference: Eph-A-CABLE-CAR-1940s-01

Description: Arrangement of text, with 12 spaces for clips. Eight spaces have been clipped. Ticket number 408718. Kelburne and Karori Tramway became part of Wellington Corporation Tramways in 1946. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on ticket.. Physical Description: Letterpress, on green ticket 41 x 78 mm.

Date: 15 July 1929

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

Reference: EP-Municipal-Cable car-06

Description: View of the Salamanca Road bridge on the Kelburn cable car route, Wellington, New Zealand. Men can be seen working on the sides of the bridge. In the background are houses just below the Botanic Garden. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 15th of July 1929. This photograph was published in the Evening Post on the 17th of July 1929 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.3 x 15.2 cm