Places

Date: [ca 3 May 1967]

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

Reference: EP/1967/2425-F

Description: Photographs of a new housing subdivision in Southgate, Wellington, taken ca 3 May 1967 by an Evening Post staff photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1968

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook]. 1967-1968.

Reference: E-461-f-020

Description: View of houses looking south-east from Chartwell towards Somes Island Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink, 324 x 395 mm

Date: 1957, April 1960

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7779

Description: Transparencies of aerial views of suburbs in the Auckland Region, taken 1957 and April 1960 by Whites Aviation. Comprises views of Takapuna Beach, housing in Tamaki, and a carnival at Western Springs Stadium. Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: December 1955, 2 April 1957, January 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7661

Description: Transparencies of Mount Eden, Auckland City, taken 1955 and 1957-1958 by Whites Aviation. Comprises view of Auckland from Mount Eden, aerial views of Mount Eden, and Mount Eden kiosk. Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: 1970

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

Reference: EP/1970/2928-7-F

Description: Preparation for underground electric cables, Breaker Bay Road, Wellington. Caption reads: "These wooden poles will soon be removed as underground electricity and telephone cables are laid in Breaker Bay Road, the second area in Wellington where residents have agreed to contribute towards the costs of underground reticulation." Photographed for the Evening Post newspaper by an unknown photographer in 1970 This image was published in the Evening Post on 10 July 1970 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative

Date: ca 1890-1911

Reference: PAColl-7376

Description: Photographs of Khandallah: from Aplin's farm looking south west with Woodmancote Road centre left; from behind Gorsy Knob looking south with the Presbyterian Church at the junction of Khandallah and Cockayne Roads on the left and the Catholic Church at the end of the row of houses centre right - the former Anglican Babies' Home was in the trees to the right of Presbyterian Church April 1911; from the school, Clark Street in the foreground and the Catholic Church in the centre April 1911; from near the top of Box Hill looking north with a house on Woodmancote Road and others in the distance on Baroda Street; from near the top of Box Hill with Burma Road in the centre and Rangoon Street running to the top right; Aplin's farm from Sunnybank with Burma Road running across the centre with Maldive Street at right angles; and from Te Kainga (top of Jubilee Road) looking west. Others are entered as child records. Photographer unidentified. The image at 1/2-003774 (not included in this collection) is Crompton Smith (PAColl-4073) so this collection may be related. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003765 to 003773 and 003775 to 003779 Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1925

Reference: MapColl-832.1291bje/[ca.1925]/Acc.4423

Description: Photograph of a proposed cadastral town planning map of the suburb of Orakei which is drawn on a base map showing the relief of the Orakei peninsula. The base map includes the route of the railway line and all roads are un-named, except for the Promenade. Carparking areas, the town hall and public buildings, schools, churches, the Oval, children's playgrounds, playing fields, a tea house, baths, shops, the university, flats and private hotels, are marked. Blocks of land between the roads are subdivided into sections and each includes the site of a house. Title supplied by cataloguer. Date of publication estimated from other planning maps of the time. Publisher of base map not known. Stamp on reverse of photograph states the Alexander Turnbull Library photographic collection's statement regarding reproduction. Orakei written in pencil on the reverse. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photograph, watercolour, backed with card, coloured, scale unknown, 19 x 21 cm. Processing information: This photograph was previously glued to card.

Date: 30 March 1957, January 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7673

Description: Transparencies of Takapuna comprising aerial views and beach scenes, taken 1957-1958 by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: ca 1930s

From: Hird, Edward James, 1924-2002 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7754-2

Description: Loose photographs extracted from album (PA1-o-1549). Includes photographs of a hill climbing sports car event, sports car club meeting, Wellington beaches, Wellington suburbs and housing developments, and the construction of a house. Mr Hird was an electrical designer, involved in the development of television, designing radios for Sir Edmund Hillary in Antarctica, and was apparently in radio surveillance in WW2. His father taught at Seatoun school. Mr Hird lived most of his life in the house at Mantell Street. See 'Freedom' newspaper, 25 Nov 1953, p.6 re his involvement in developing television. He was also a jazz musician. Quantity: 79 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1925

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1052

Description: Album recording a motoring and camping holiday through the South Island of New Zealand. This took in the New Zealand South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and included the West Coast, Otago, and Canterbury. The central part of the album has images of Khandallah, Wellington, and the family home in that suburb. Family photographs include Doug on his Norton Motorcycle, and Jack and Neville similarly posed on a Douglas Motorcycle. Rene and Frank stand at the net holding tennis rackets, and mother has several images with young Joyce. The last part of the album recordes something of a holiday to Auckland where the family camped at Brown's Bay and took a trip to Kawau Island. A group shot on Mt Messanger on the way back and some views of Pukekura Park New Plymouth complete the album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1890s

Reference: 1/2-003754-G

Description: View over Hataitai with Evans Bay, the Miramar peninsuala and the Orongorongo mountains behind. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [ca 1930], 1946-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-175

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, ca 1946-1959 Kapiti coastline (including view looking north from Paekakariki); Lower Hutt - St James' Church; council buildings; Riddiford Baths; library; St Stephen's Presbyterian Church; aerial view of southern end of Lower Hutt (over Moera); elevated view of Naenae (showing Rata Street School in foreground). Rimutaka Hill Road; Kaitoke, 1948 (shows swing bridge); filtration plant site (Hutt River) re Kaitoke Waterworks construction; bridge at Pakutatahi; Akatarawa Valley road (with Morris Minor at roadside); house in Akatarawa Valley; Hutt Valley Pony Club members with their ponys on Akatarawa Road; Kapiti coast looking north from Paekakariki. Middle Run, Gladstone in Wairarapa - Daffodils in paddocks at Middle Run (owned by Mrs W H Booth), and view of homestead Elevated view of Miramar looking south-west; Lambton Quay with Kirkcaldie & Stains on left; Pigeon Park; Wellington Botanic Garden and tulip beds; view from Mount Victoria looking towards the Basin Reserve, Mount Cook and Brooklyn, with houses in Mount Victoria in foreground (taken ca 1930). Demonstration house at Karori designed and built by The Architectural Centre, 1949 Quantity: 44 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1968

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook]. 1968-1969.

Reference: E-464-f-005

Description: Hilly rural landscape showing broken fence beside a road. Flowering gorse and other plants are gowing on the far side of the fenced area. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and charcoal, in sketchbook 320 x 410 mm

Date: [ca 31 May 1969]

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

Reference: EP/1969/2302-F

Description: Road and city commuter train in the suburb of Khandallah, Wellington, in 1931. Photographs taken circa 31 May 1969 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1999 - 2000

From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]

Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-2000-01

Description: Twelve openings each showing an historical sepia photograph of a scene in Island Bay. Quantity: 1 calendar. Physical Description: Calendar of 12 pages, 210 x 297 mm (closed)

Date: [ca 2001]

From: Tume, Clayton, fl 2000-2015 :Panoramic photographs of Wellington Region

Reference: PA6-702

Description: Panoramic view of Wellington from the hills west of Island Bay, taken ca 2001 by Clayton Tume. Berhampore and Island Bay can be seen in the centre of the image, with Owhiro Bay to the right. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Resin-coated paper print 12.6 x 56.3 cm

Date: 1971

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

Reference: EP/1971/6161-F

Description: Aerial view of Breaker Bay, Strathmore Park, Seatoun, and Wellington Harbour. Photographed for the Evening Post newspaper by an unknown photographer in December 1971 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative

Date: [ca 1926]

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1053

Description: A motor tour in the North Island of New Zealand. The album opens at Napier City and includes views of places, bush scenery, rivers, lakes, and camps as the party moves through Hawke's Bay, the Gisborne Region, the Bay of Plenty, then across and into Taranaki via Mount Messenger and back to Wellington via New Plymouth and Wanganui. There are views of Wellington and Newtown Park during the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York in 1926, Wellington Harbour, Haughton Bay, Porirua Hospital, and Khandallah Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1975

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook]. August 1975-January 1990.

Reference: E-481-f-004

Description: View of the end of a cul-de-sac looking down to houses in valley below and across to the hills beyond. There is a car parked to the left in the immediate foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 280 x 350 mm

Date: ca 1958, ca 1968

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2891

Description: Transparencies showing a group of adults and youths taking a launch to Kāpiti Island, Kapiti Coast District, New Zealand. Photographed by Cyril Beavis circa 1968. Also includes black and white transparencies showing people taking a walk at Titahi Bay, Porirua, taken by Cyril Beavis circa 1958. Transparencies showing Titahi Bay are continued at PA12-2892. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Slides delivered in housing with annotations that read "Agepe [Agape?] Reversal. Titahi Bay". Quantity: 15 colour original transparency/ies. 10 b&w original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in March 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-83.