Places

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

Reference: PAColl-6952

Description: 13 miscellaneous images: a house with a verandah and deck chairs; two of battleships, one moored at Overseas Terminal; the marina at Oriental Bay with the boathouses and Mount Victoria in the background; a view over Island Bay; a field of hay stacks; a large railway junction with various rolling stock and chimneys in the background; a view over Days Bay including the pier; men and women rock climbing; two motor buses outside a large house, possibly a hotel, with people milling around; the door to the Observatory Tower at the University of Canterbury; HMS Hood moored at an unidentified location; and people cooking outdoors under an awning. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-058211 to 058223 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1908 - 1909

From: [Postcard album of cards collected by Bessie Cornish. 1905-1920].

Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-12-075

Description: Shows a view of the Hutt Road with the railway beside it, and an overhead bridge, across which the New Plymouth train is steaming. Wellington is in the distance, with the harbour at the left. Published by Fergusson Limited, and printed in Sydney. Sepia series. Exhibited in 'Petone Days; Photographs by Percy Godber 1900-1920 (Exhibition)' Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard in album.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 89 x 138 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs B L M August in 1976.

Date: 1981

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R17/7A-Acc.

Description: Identifies walk connector, car centroid connector and bus and rail link See MapColl-WRC-R17/3A Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations] + transparency. Physical Description: Ink on pink paper. Scale indeterminable, 83 x 78 cm.

Date: 1880s

From: Three albums of New Zealand views

Reference: PA1-o-983

Description: Views of New Zealand, comprising Mt Egmont from New Plymouth Domain, Napier, bullock team hauling wool at Cheviot, Wellington, Manawatu Gorge bridge, Manawatu Gorge, Rimutaka railway, Mount Alexander, Otira Gorge, Lyttelton breakwater, Armagh Street bridge in Christchurch, and Christchurch Cathedral. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1909

From: Berwick, S W (Mr) :Albums of New Zealand scenes and coastal towns

Reference: PA1-o-834

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-215

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1939-1940. Karangarua River bridge; Rakaia River bridge; market gardens in Heathcote Valley; Palmerston North library; Old English Fair held in Dunedin in aid of the patriotic funds; new Gisborne Intermediate School; Archbishop Julius Memorial stone; Auckland's Patriotic Queen Carnival; model of HMS Rodney; giant pipe cast by Public Works Department for pipeline at headworks of the mid-Canterbury irrigation scheme; Garden Place Hill earthworks at Hamilton; hop picking, Riwaka Valley; new friary built for the Brothers of St Francis at Hillsborough, Auckland; construction of tunnels and power house for hydro-electric works at Tuai, Waikaremoana; opening of Horowhenua College, Levin; demolition of wing at Nelson College; floating pontoon being lowered into position at Mechanics Bay; tram cars converted into homes. Construction of Centennial Drive, Kapiti Coast; new Hamiltion General Post Office; construction of Wellington Harbour Board cargo shed; opening of Catholic church at Georgetown, Invercargill; shoe-cleaner at Lincoln College; view of Waikanae Beach from Kaiti Hill, Gisborne; road works north of Gisborne; Railway Bus Terminus, Dunedin (opposite Queens Gardens); Dunedin Emergency Transport Organisation practising arm signals. Race-goers at Wellington Racing Club meeting, and at Canterbury Jockey Club & NZ Metropolitan Trotting Club meeting at Christchurch. Landslide at a Brighton farm; construction of the Pokeno-Paeroa line; laying of the foundation stone of building in Stout Street by Minister of Public Worls, Hon R Semple. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: ca 1880

Reference: 1/2-005469-G

Description: A ballast train travelling round the waterfront at Oriental Bay carrying ballast from the quarry for land reclamation further round the harbour ca 1880. The train is passing a row of five two-storied houses. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass half plate copy negative

Date: 1897 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-066

Description: Shows a train crossing a high valley line, with the tunnel mouth to the left. Trees, including tree ferns, surround the scene. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 165 x 230 (page size)

Date: [1860s]

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

Reference: 1/1-039769-F

Description: View of the southern Hutt Valley from Percy's Mill. Included are part of the mill buildings, the water wheel, paddocks hedged and fenced with post and rail fences, farm houses, belts and patches of trees, and the railway line. In the distance can be seen Wellington Harbour and Soames Island. Photographed by an unknown photographer some time in the 1860s. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Another copy negative of this image is registered at 1/2-067933-F. This was made by the library from an original print lent by Mr A C Clendon in 1976. A file print from this negative can be found in Turnbull Library Pictures at 42. Hutt Co. Hutt Valley 1860s. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 21 x 16 cm

Date: [Chiefly between 1912 and 1914]

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

Reference: PA1-o-198

Description: Album of photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1912 and 1914. Images include Godber's family, a few of identified people (names listed in the name file), and many with no identification. One image of a group of fitters and turners apprentices at the Petone Railway Workshops, taken in 1913, has all the apprentices named (listed in the full record for Godber negative, APG-0457-1/2) Views of the old Central Fire Station at Petone, and the new Petone Fire Brigade Station; the aftermath of a huge fire at Cooks' Cooperage (on January 14, 1914); and a locomotive which had rolled. Local Petone scenes include the Petone Council Chambers and town clock, and a number of houses in the area, including the home of Godber's friend Tom Mather; Korokoro bush, and the Korokoro Reservoir. Away from the Wellington area, Godber photographed a number of houses in Clonbern Road area; the Makatote Viaduct and the Manganui-o-te-Ao Viaduct. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 107 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 25 x 32 cm

Date: 1981

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R17/3A-Acc.

Description: Identifies walk connector, car centroid connector and bus and rail link (Superceded by R17/7A) Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations] + transparency. Physical Description: Ink on pink paper. Scale indeterminable, 92 x 77 cm.

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-057

Description: A railway line winding around the edges of steep hills, with a train on the left and a tunnel at a lower point on the right entering a steep hill. bush. Probably a view from the track, looking at another part of the track and the tunnel ahead. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1981

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R17/7C-Acc.

Description: Porirua 1980 public transport identifying walk connector, car centroid connector and bus and rail link See MapColl-WRC-R17/3C Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations] + transparency. Physical Description: Ink on white paper. Scale indeterminable, 85 x 61 cm.

Date: 1981

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R17/7D-Acc.

Description: Upper Hutt 1980 public transport identifying walk connector, car centroid connector and bus and rail link See MapColl-WRC-R17/3D Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations] + transparency. Physical Description: Ink on white paper. Scale indeterminable, 54 x 77 cm.

Date: 5 March 1979

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

Reference: EP/1979/0782-F

Description: Aerial view of Aotea Lagoon and park under construction. The view also includes State Highway One, the Main Trunk Railway, the Police College, and Part of Papkowhai and Cannons Creek. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 5th of March 1979. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 6 x 6 cm Finding Aids: Print in Turnbull Library Pictures Evening Post illustrations file at Wellington, Porirua-Aerial views (Cabinet no 12, drawer 2)..

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1487-F

Description: Panoramic view of Wellington City and Harbour taken from a hill on the way up to Wadestown. Thorndon Quay with Dalgety's Stores are seen on the left, railway yards centre right, with a large area of reclaimed land and areas awaiting reclamation in the centre foreground. Wharves edge the harbour centre right middle distance, city on the right, Oriental Bay and Mount Victoria visible in the right background. Several fishing boats in the harbour. Start of the Hutt Road just visible on the far left, and Petone is in the distance on the far left. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Wellington Harbour showing Petone 317 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 134.4 cm

Date: 1926

From: New Zealand Railways :[Ephemera relating to railways, railway trains, rail timetables, rail travel in New Zealand. 1920-1929]

Reference: Eph-A-RAIL-1926-01

Description: Arrangement of text on a ticket. The name of the person permitted to travel on the ticket is handwritten in the space provided, but is illegible on this ticket. Anyone using the ticket if not the designated passenger "shall be liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two months, or to a fine not exceeding ten pounds". The ticket has been clipped once, at top right. It is also stamped in two places: the number 466 at top right; and date stamp 1926 at top left. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on light card backed with red buckram, 71 x 96 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Keith Hales, Wellington, in 2012.

Date: [ca 1900-2008]

From: Ranger, Diana Rosemary, fl 1972-2009: Photographs taken by Murray and Stanley Vincent

Reference: PAColl-10028-3

Description: Photographs chiefly taken by Stanley Raymond Vincent (d 1991) and also his son Murray Francis Vincent (1944-2008). - Photographs by S R Vincent of the construction of the East Coast Railway (1937-1942). These feature the Waikura Tunnel, Tiki Whata Tunnel, Coast Tunnel, Kopuwhara Viaduct, Waipoa Bridge, [and Waratuha Tunnel] and illustrate bracing, lining, ventilation, electric lighting, and other construction techniques. Also shows unidentified workers, an anti-erosion technique, elevated tramway, steam engines, workers' camps (including at the south portal of the Waikura Tunnel) and the opening of the line on 3 Sep 1942 (with steam engines Ab' 710 and 750). Prints of unidentified railway yards [Gisborne?] and steam engine K900 are also included in collection. - Miscellaneous series show: the organ at Wellington Town Hall; Hamilton County Bluegrass Band anniversary concert group portraits; ships in the harbour (Straight Shipping), and trams; various family photos, including holidays (car and caravan), fishing, portraits, and unidentified houses; model steam boats at Pukekura Park (New Plymouth) and Taranaki Daily News steam train excursion (Inglewood to Midhurst). Also contains images showing a Fieldair Freight plane (ZK-BBJ) being loaded with fertilizer in Gisborne, Kihikihi Stores Ltd van and Murray Roberts & Co tyre distributors vehicle, Mount Aorangi and track at Buller Gorge, various [World War II?] images, including boats, fighter plane, and unidentified soldiers), an unidentified house, a sheep mustering scene, bullock train, and an early motorcar. Accompanying material - two sheets of paper with family history information Arrangement: Prints numbered 164 to 234 are in this box Quantity: 52 b&w original photographic print(s). 18 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: Between 1949 and 1952

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

Reference: PA1-o-004

Description: "Illustrating geological observations, Vol 4". Black & white photographs of geological aspects of NZ. Includes details of structure & stratigraphy in the Otaki formation at Forest Lakes Road near Manakau, Horowhenua; geomorphological and geological notes on the Paremata area, Porirua Harbour, shoreline features on the eastern side of Wellington Harbour; features of Turakina, Waitotara and Castlecliff; NZ Geological Survey Staff Conference, Invercargill (April 25-May 6, 1950) with trips to Mataura Valley, Otamita River Valley, Bluff, Waiau River; visit to the Otaihanga tertiary outlier; features of the Wellington fault and escarpments (several images taken at different periods between 1949 and 1952); features of the Brocken Range and Kaiwhata Valley, East Wairarapa; geological notes on the Bay of Plenty area (December 7-14, 1950), including the causeway over the Waimapu Estuary at Tauranga, Mount Maunganui, Whakatane, Pohutaroa Rock; The Royal Society of NZ Science Congress, Christchurch (May 14-24, 1951), including an image of those attending the congress, with names (p 27); geological excursion to the Manawatu Gorge (November 24-25 1951); features of Rimutaka railway tunnels (Feb 1952); features of the south-east Wairarapa including Dry River and Ruakokopatuna Valleys, Eastern Palliser Bay and the Putangirua Pinnacles; NZ Geological Survey Staff Conference, Wellington (30 April-7 May 1952), with group photo of those attending, with names (p 41).

Date: [ca 1940-1951]

Reference: PAColl-6862

Description: 50 views of Wellington harbour. 34 are of the docks showing bales of wool being prepared for loading; merchant and naval ships docked; soldiers preparing for embarkation with supplies and artillery; construction of dockside buildings; cranes in use including the Hikitia etc. The remaining 16 images are of Oriental Bay and various leisure activities around it such as sunbathing, swimming and running. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-031255 to 031304 Quantity: 30 b&w original negative(s) glass. 20 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives