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Date: [Between 1927 and 1955]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-206

Description: Photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1927 and 1955, mostly in the Wellington Region. Some are art photographs, including still life images of carvings, cloisonne ware and porcelain, and some are tinted. One sequence shows the Dominion Museum and Art Gallery, both interior and exterior views. Some were taken in April 1936 before the building was furnished; others were taken later in 1936 and 1937, including the Kauri Hall, the Sculpture Hall, the Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Academy Gallery, the Maori Hall, and the entrance vestibule. Civic events are shown in illuminations at the Government Buildings for the King George V Silver Jubilee on 12th May 1935; the Carillon tower floodlit for for the coronation of King George VI; and night photographs of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in 1940, including the Australian and British pavilions. Wellington is shown in views from various hills and rooftops. Specific trips and occasions include a Waikaremoana trip in 1930; the Victoria University College Natural History Society trip to Butterfly Creek in 1933; a Camera Club outing near Mangaroa Hill in 1938; and celebrating Xmas in Auckland in 1952. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super-Cobra binder file; 30 x 24 cm

Date: [ca 1913]-1955

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972 :Photographic prints

Reference: PAColl-9942-3

Description: Includes - Opening of the Estuary (or Pipe) Bridge over the Hutt River, Waione Street, Petone, 1955. Views of Lower Hutt, ca 1949. Views of Upper Hutt, ca 1930s. View of main road, Mana township, and surrounding countryside, ca 1950. View of Picton. The Captain Cook Memorial, Ship Cove, Queen Charlotte Sound. View of Ship Cove, ca 1913. Cars and people camping beside a river, ca 1930. Group of men standing on coastal rocks. Group photograph of people, including soldiers, probably taken during a dance, ca 1940. Portraits of yachts under sail. View of warships entering Wellington Heads. Crowd watching warships in Wellington Harbour, late 1930s. Portraits of warships, one of which is HMS Renown. Fishing boat entering Island Bay on a heavy swell. Coastal seascapes. Quantity: 52 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 28 January 1955

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1955/0212-F

Description: Photograph showing the shipping congestion at the Wellington Wharves. The ships are; Tai Shan (alone on the left at the Dock Wharf). Along Aotea Quay from right: Cumberland. Karitane. Royal Star. Port Hardy. Corinthic. Cedar Hill. Blyth Trader. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 28th of January 1955. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 10.5 x 8 cm

Date: 1950 - 1955

By: Mallitte, Howard Leon, 1910-1979

Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-1950s-02

Description: Shows a view of Wellington at dusk, seen from the harbour, with ships and wharves in the foreground, and the lights of the city streets and buildings on the hills behind. Identity of artist provided indirectly by Alan Collins, a colleague of Mallitte, on 18 May 2012. Date: Mallitte began work for the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts in 1948. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour print, 765 x 510 mm.