Places

Date: between 1934 and 1935

Reference: PAColl-6619

Description: 46 images of the Duke of Gloucester's tour of New Zealand in 1934-5 including: nine of his visit to Rotorua including Maori kapa haka; one of veterans at the bridge of remembrance in Christchurch; one of him opening Tekapo bridge and another of the party at Tekapo House hotel; one of him in a crowd outside the railway station in Hokitika; one of him inspecting a parade of nurses; one of him visiting a traditional whare; two of him as a jockey at a race meeting; three of the felling of a kauri tree; seven of his stay at Longbeach sheep station, Ashburton County; and two of him at the Waitangi memorial. Photographer unidentified but possibly Hall Raine. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-019066 to 019078, 019082 to 019107, 019111, 019113, and 059505 to 059509 Quantity: 46 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: 1852-1853

From: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Wellington Diocese : Further records

Reference: 89-008-09/20

Description: Crown grant for 32 perches of land (part of Section 564) on corner of Hill and Molesworth streets, Jun 1852; and 117 acres in Upper Hutt, 1853 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 items).

Date: 1947

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-224

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1947. Duck shooting at Lake Ellesmere; sign of the Pick and Shovel at Gabriel's Gully; disabled soldiers in wheelchairs watching a horse race; first aid clinic; locomotive having its tender filled with coal at Paekakariki; Herekino State Forest; Lake Wakatipu; The Chateau; Mount Ruapehu; Vogeltown Bowling Club, New Plymouth; Youth Travel Association party at Waiouru; rugby referees examinations held in Wellington (G R Penhale & D Chant); Hilton Thomassen and Jimmy Black of Taneatua Bowling Club, Whakatane (tallest & shortest players). House moving (Dr H B Berney's surgery, Masterton); Horsa Glider home and houseboats (England); Silver Jubilee display of sewing done by Correspondence School pupils held at Central Library, Wellington; English family building their own home; Les Curtice sounding the Last Post; Rehabilitation Committee meeting; R J Jacobs & C O Bell laying a wreath at the Cenotaph, Wellington (view of shops in lower Molesworth Street in background). Series of photographs taken at Ruatoki - Jim Merritt (Native Department supervisor), Rev Rangi (Maori Battalion padre), Takerau Tamerau (paramount chief of Tuhoe) and others. Series of photographs relating to the Post Office training school courses. Named participants included K R Murray, G H Glozier, T J Nixon, H McLachland, R W Hundy, D C Mundy, L W Palmer, H C Waterhouse, A J L Hamilton, B Story, R Innes, T Collins, A S Beck, R Cleary. Courses included engineering, morse code, switch board operators, automatic exchange switches; dismantling and testing telephones, etc. Helicopters (United States); Naseby (children's fancy dress parade); Tekapo; Country Library Service (librarian-driver Evelyn Franklin of Waikato, Coronation Library at Little River, and bus at Gropers Bush); Series of photographs relating to the Government Home Aid Scheme and day in the life of employee Edna Chandler. WAACS for welfare work in Japan - Subaltern J N Bullard & Junior Commander W M White; Pat Pysden and Pear Hunt; on parade (Ruth Ransfield, Margaret Bown and Doris Dempsey); Quartermaster-Sgt M V Wilson and P Cronin; Yvonne Trainor. Hine Hopu (carved guardian on Hongi's Track); Thomas Burn's statue in The Octagon, Dunedin; Young woman planting cauliflowers at Waimate farm; deerstalker's camp in Woodgrove district, North Canterbury; boy scouts in France; hikers on road to Milford Hotel; hydro-electric generating plant at Karapiro; holiday makers on board launch in Marlborough Sounds; Deepwater Cove, Bay of Islands; speed boat racing at New Plymouth; Pelorous Bridge; mayor of New Plymouth Mr Gilmour at civic reception held in Pukekura Park. Opening of the air service between New Zealand and Canada - Captain I N Holyman, managing director of Australian National Airways receiving first mail from Hon F S Hackett, Postmaster General; J A C Allum, Mayor of Auckland and Captain P Taylor. Quantity: 94 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1900

Reference: PA1-o-242

Description: Album of views of the Second New Zealand Contingent at camp in Newtown Park, being reviewed by the Governor at Island Bay, in procession through Wellington from the Basin Reserve to Parliament, and embarking on troop ship Waiwera for South Africa. One group portrait shows Mr, Mrs and Miss Horneman, and Lieutenants Crawshaw and Banks in uniform. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - centre - Views of Second N.Z. Contingent, presented with love to my sister Edith, on the occasion of her birthday, 20th February 1900, from her brother Al. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green morocco binding 12.7 x 15.4 cm

Date: 1985 - 1997

From: Paul, Janet Elaine, 1919-2004 :[Thirty-one sketchbooks 1959-1997].

Reference: E-686

Description: Includes figure sketches: Keri Kaa, a group at the Settlement, four women seated; Rhond[d]a Greig 10.2.1985; Anne McCartney gardening; Mary Havell Kennedy's Bay 1989; Anne McCartney; Ruth, Kennedy's Bay; Lou, Kennedy's Bay; Maori women writers read their own work at hui at Island Bay Marae; Mere, Monica, Teremoana. Bruce Stewart, Taputiranga; Aunti Mihi; Tom Cunningham, 3.1 1997; Chari reading to Kevin; Joanna and Pascal, 48 ...; P, Cynthia and Joanna; Alan Roddick. Includes various landscape sketches: untitled sketch of Molesworth Street towards Mount Kaukau, from a high position; Valley of the Moas near Oamaru; Te Puke o te Hurua; 129 Queen Street, 4.1 1997 (interior). Housed in the same box as E-680 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Hardback book in light brown buckram, 50 leaves, each 248 x 157 mm. Provenance: Estate of Janet Elaine Paul, 2005.

Date: 1842 - 1845

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-047/049

Description: Views of Wellington between 1842 and 1845. The top view shows the house of William Wakefield (the site of the Beehive) looking up The Terrace beyond. The central view is of Captain Daniell's sawmill on the Kaiwharawhara stream. A bullock cart is carrying logs to the right, several men are resting in the foreground, there are piles of tree trunks in the foreground, and tall bush in the background. The lowest view shows the bank on the corner of Willis Street and Manners Street with soldiers marching by, from the barracks next door to the bank. Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261

Date: 2 July 1969-23 July 1971

From: Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd :Photographs relating to New Zealand architectural projects

Reference: PAColl-9842-24

Description: T&G building, Lower Hutt, and Rossmore House, 123 Molesworth Street, Thorndon, Wellington. Progress photographs recording the construction of the T&G building from 2 July 1969 to 20 March 1970, and Rossmore House from 24 November 1969 to 23 July 1971. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 59 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd, Wellington, in 2011

Date: 1892 - 1893

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.

Reference: E-373-018

Description: St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral in the left foreground and Hill Street running down towards the water's edge. The houses of Thorndon and the spire of St Paul's Pro-cathedral are also visible. A view across the harbour, taking in Somes Island. The row of buildings in the centre foreground at the bottom of the hill may be in Molesworth Street, between Aitken Street and Kate Sheppard Place (then Sydney Street East). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, in sketchbook 130 x 180 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..

Date: [ca 1930s]

Reference: PAColl-D-0666

Description: Possibly an aerial photography showing Thorndon in foreground and extending across Wellington Harbour to Roseneath and Oriental Bay. St Paul's Cathedral is in the centre of the photograph. Name of photographer and exact date unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: 400 x 490 mm

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: 1871

From: McIntosh, Doris (Lady), fl 1934-1979 :Photographs of Wellington, Ernst Plischke and Sir Roy and Lady Price

Reference: PAColl-4483-3

Description: View of Thorndon, Wellington Harbour, and Mount Victoria. Molesworth Street and Murphy streets are in the centre of the image, and part of Tinakori Road can be seen left foreground. This is a print probably taken from a James Bragg negative by the Hardie Shaw Studio in the 1900. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 19.5 x 12 cm, on cardboard mount