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An aerial view of Wellington
Date: [ca July-August] 1934
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: 1/2-122291-F
Description: An aerial view of Wellington in 1934, looking over Mt Cook, Basin Reserve, Newtown (upper centre and right), Hataitai, Kilbirnie and Miramar (upper left). Some of the buildings which can be identified are: National Museum Wellington (being constructed), Carillion War Memorial Monument and Wellington College. Photograph taken by a photographer from the Evening Post. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Wellington, showing the Dominion Museum under construction, and the Carillon
Date: 1934
From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: 1/2-047757-G
Description: Wellington, 1934, circa August-October, showing Dominion Museum under construction, and the Carillon. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Tea-room interior, Dominion Museum, Wellington
Date: [ca 1936]
From: New Zealand Railways: Photographs
Reference: 1/1-025022-G
Description: Tea-room interior, Dominion Museum, Wellington, circa 1936. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass dry plate negative
Representatives of the Whanganui River tribes and their solicitor D G B Morison, Domini...
Date: 1945
From: Maynard, Margaret A :Photographs of Judge D G B Morison and representatives of the Whanganui River tribes
Reference: PAColl-2427-1
Description: Elders and other representatives of Whanganui River tribes, with their counsel, D G B Morison, in Wellington for a hearing of the Maori Appellate Court of their claim to ownership of the bed of the Whanganui River. Back row, from left to right: Kaiwhare Kiriona, Tanginoa Tapa, Tekiira Peina, Tonga Tume, Hohepa Hekenui, Henare Keremeneta. Middle row: Te Rama Whanarere, Hekenui Whakarake, D G B Morison, Titi Tihu, Tonga Awhikau. Front row: Taka-te-iwa Anderson, Kahukiwi Whakareke. Photograph taken at the Dominion Museum in 1945, by an unidentified photographer. Identifications from http://wai8155s1.verdi.2day.com/reports/niwest/wai167b/chapt07/Chapt0702.asp (Waitangi Tribunal, report summaries) Other Titles - Further information written by D G B Morison regarding this photograph is at PAColl-2427 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic print
Grounds being laid out in front of the Dominion Museum, Wellington
Date: Jun-Jul 1936
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: PAColl-6301-35
Description: Grounds being laid out by the Wellington Parks Department in front of the Dominion Museum, Wellington, between June-July, 1936. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.5 x 20.2 cm
Basin Reserve, National Museum and Carillon, Wellington
Date: 1987
From: Hedley, William Grant, 1952- :Collection
Reference: 35mm-03954-36A
Description: Looking over the Basin Reserve, Wellington, towards the National Museum and Carillon. Photograph taken by William Grant Hedley, on the 13th of January 1987. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Carrington, Frederic, Alonzo, 1808?-1901 :Rough sketch of ground at New Plymouth [ms ma...
Date: 1841
By: Carrington, Frederic Alonzo, 1808?-1901; Dominion Museum (N.Z.)
Reference: MapColl-832.295bj/1841/Acc.2788
Description: Topographic map of New Plymouth includes unnamed rivers, streams, hachures, settlements. Stamp of the Dominion Museum on bottom right corner Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on paper, linen backed, coloured, 22.8 x 30 cm.
John Moreland with a thresher shark in the courtyard of the Dominion Museum, Wellington
Date: 24 July 1957
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP/1957/2999-F
Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 inches
Mounted casts of black marlin, striped marlin and a whaler shark, in the basement of th...
Date: 11 Jun 1958
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP/1958/1871-F
Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 inches
Dominion Museum, Mount Cook, Wellington, under construction
Date: Mar-Apr 1934
Reference: 1/2-053016-F
Description: Dominion Museum, Mount Cook, Wellington, under construction, between March-April, 1934. The Carillon is in the background. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Carrington, Frederic Alonzo, 1808?-1901 :River Waitara, New Plymouth, New Zealand [ms m...
Date: 1843
By: Carrington, Frederic Alonzo, 1808?-1901; Dominion Museum (N.Z.)
Reference: MapColl-832.2bj/1843/Acc.2789-90
Description: Topographic map of the Waitara River from the sea to a pa site. Each map is marked where they adjoin each other. Sheet 2 entitled: Part of the River Waitara at low water Each map has a stamp of the Dominion Museum, Wellington, New Zealand and the reference number 7384. Pencilled note states: Scale 6 chains to the inch. Each map has pencilled annotations of Sheet 1 and Sheet 2. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) 2 sheets. Physical Description: Ink, pencil and watercolour on paper, linen backed, coloured, 33.3 x 24.6 cm. and 33.6 x 23.8 cm.
Blanchard, Henry Pudham, fl 1883 :Part of rural section no 101 ... intended to be compr...
Date: 1883
By: Blanchard, Henry Pudham, active 1883; Dominion Museum (N.Z.); Blakiston, Charles Robert, 1825-1898
Reference: MapColl-834.4492gbbd/1883/Acc.3167
Description: Survey map with cadastral information for a subdivision of 125 residential lots and new roads, one block north of Ferry Road, Christchurch. New roads bounding the subdivision are named Mapleton Street, Robert Street, unnamed (Smith Street?), and Matlock Street; roads crossing the subdivision are named as Mackworth Street, Charles Street and Overton Street (now Okeover Street). Title from description "Dominion Museum Wellington F 430" Two shillings and sixpence stamp duty stamp (Queen Victoria) at bottom left, annotated "29.6.83" Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper on dressed linen, 76 x 76 cm
Girls from Woodford House School, at the Dominion Museum, with the exhibited carved house
Date: 1957
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP/1957/4683-F
Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 inches
Overlooking the Dominion Museum, Mount Cook, Wellington, under construction
Date: Aug-Oct 1934
From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: 1/2-046048-G
Description: Overlooking the Dominion Museum, Mount Cook, Wellington, under construction. The Carillon is to the left. Houses in Mount Victoria are in the background. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith between August and October, 1934. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass dry plate negative
Dominion Museum, Wellington, under construction
Date: 1934
From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: 1/1-023103-G
Description: Dominion Museum, Wellington, under construction, with Wellington High School in the background. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith in 1934. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass dry plate negative
Men working on western approach to Carillon and Dominion Museum, Mt Cook, Wellington
Date: [ca 1931]
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: 1/2-090207-G
Description: Photograph of labourers carrying out the earthwork on the western approach to the Wellington National War Memorial Carillon and Dominion Museum in Mt Cook, Wellington, taken circa 1931 by an unidentified Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Aerial view over Mount Cook, Wellington, while the Dominion Museum was being constructed
Date: 1933
Reference: 1/2-053018-F
Description: Aerial view over Mount Cook, Wellington in 1933, overlooking the Carillon, and Wellington High School. The Dominion Museum was under construction. Photograph taken by William Hall Raine. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Dead elephant from Wirths Circus outside the museum, Wellington
Date: 1950
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: 114/106/06-G
Description: Dead elephant from Wirths Circus, Betty, lying on the ground outside the museum in Wellington, with inspectors looking on. Photograph taken in 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches
Dominion Museum (N.Z.) : Maori warfare. Maori canoes. Dominion Museum Education Service...
Date: 1940s
From: Dominion Museum Education Service Māori posters
By: Dominion Museum (N.Z.)
Reference: Eph-C-MAORI-1940s-02
Description: Information sheet printed on both sides. One side relates to Maori canoes - tree-felling, hollowing out. Shows a mokihi or raft, a river canoe, war canoe and fishing canoe as well as a canoe bailer. Shows a reproduction of a picture of canoes at Gisborne in 1836, by Joel Samuel Polack. The other side shows scenes of Maori warfare and weaponry, reproductions of pictures of war canoes, a haka, patu and other weapons (includes George French Angas' "Weapons and implements of war ; warriors preparing for a fight" 1847; his "War dance before the Pah of Oinemutu, near Rotorua Lake"; and J I McDonald's [Alarm in a Maori pa] 1906); a photograph of a model of a pa in the Dominion Museum, and a picture of the earthworks at Gate Pa. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) 2 copies. Physical Description: Photolithograph on both sides of sheet 293 x 457 mm. Processing information: Description changed and poster re-housed 20 November 2023.
View of Wellington, taken from Mt Victoria, showing the Dominion Museum, the Basin Rese...
Date: 1936
From: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955 :Negatives of New Zealand towns and scenery, and Fiji
Reference: 1/2-041956-G
Description: View of Wellington, taken from Mt Victoria, showing the Dominion Museum, the Basin Reserve and Wellington East Girls' College. Photograph take by William Hall Raine in 1936. Dominion Museum opened 1 Aug 1936. Wellington High School was built between 1920-1938. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).