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Richards, Edward Smallwood, 1834-1917 :Wellington from Sydney Street West, Thorndon

Date: [ca 1875]

By: Richards, Edward Smallwood, 1834-1917

Reference: PA7-51-02

Description: View taken from Sydney Street West looking towards Bolton Street and south-east towards Te Aro and Mount Victoria. Wellington College can be seen on the extreme right in the far distance. The Colonial Museum in Museum Street is in the foreground to the left. Photograph taken by E S Richards in the 1870s Copy negative at 1/2-021636-F. File print available at PFP-030465. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Looking towards Bolton Street from above Sydney Street West. Colonial Museum in Museum Street on left foreground. Lion Foundry in Waring Taylor Street in background, c 1875 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 18.5 x 28.8 cm

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Tuna and porcupine fish at museum

Date: 29/2/56

From: The Dominion :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-145692-F

Description: Box Misc S12

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Muttonbird at Museum

From: The Dominion :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-145494-G

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Salmon album 10

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

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Taxidermist at Museum

Date: 29/2/56

From: The Dominion :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-145691-F

Description: Box Misc S12

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Creator unknown :Museum album

Date: [1860s-1880s?]

Reference: PA1-q-166

Description: Scrap book of miscellaneous photographs, many of which have no captions and have not been identified. At the front of the album is an undated newspaper cutting showing the original building used for the Colonial Museum in 1865, which `has been revealed by the pulling down of the Dominion Museum, at the back of Parliament House. For many years this building has been used for a variety of purposes, museum exhibits being housed in adjacent quarters, but it is about to be demolished'. The first group show interior scenes of the Canterbury Museum, with exhibits of bird skeletons, and mounted birds. Other scenes show mounted animals, possibly not in Canterbury. Scenery includes views of the Franz Josef Glacier; and a number which are identified showing the gold-mining area around Ross and Donoghues, the Totara River and Mikonui River. One page has six photographs of mountainous regions in Switzerland; several show the area near the Wellington caves in Queensland, Australia; and two views show the breaking of the Cook Strait Cable. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, maroon spine and corners, entitled `Photographic scrap book'; 30 x 24 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available. Possibly part of a larger collection.

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Tauherenikau Race Course, Briscoe's building, and Dominion Museum

Date: 1929-1948

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7666-1

Description: Photographs of the stands and other buildings at Tauherenikau Race Course taken by Photo News Wellington on the 24th of February 1948. Portions of the facade of Briscoe's Building which was located in Victoria and Harris streets, Wellington, photographed about 1930. Designs and plans for the Dominion Museum, National Art Gallery, and Carillon, Wellington, for the 1929 competition for these buildings. Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1126: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd: Records. See also Drawings and Prints collection Plans-2002-058: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd : [Architectural plans.1906-1995]. Note: Photographs at PAColl-7666-1 are associated with Plans-2002-058-08 (for Tauherenikau Race Course buildings). Plans-2002-058-Folder 033 (for Briscoe's Building). Plans-2002-058-Folder-080 (for Dominion Museum and National Art Gallery)..

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Dominion Museum : Photographs from the C J Lindsay collection

Date: ca 1910s-1940s

By: Lindsay, Charles John, 1902-1966; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Dominion Museum (N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-4337

Description: Photographs of yachts and yachting in the Wellington area. They include: yachts under construction or repair, a dry dock between two rows of boatsheds, the boatshed of the Brighton Power Boat Club, a yacht called the Igdrasil in the fiords, the Muratai in 1946, the Banika at Akaroa in 1948, the Hex leaving Wellington for the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, the Patari and Pacific at Purau, Lyttelton (taken by Allson Wright of Hereford Street, Christchurch), some men and women on the launch Tarepa ca 1940s, the Ludwig in 1925, and the Rawene in 1934. Also included are a photograph of a man working on an exhibit of a pa tuwatawata in the Dominion Museum with the maihi of a meeting house or pataka behind him and other carvings along the walls and a photograph of two men working in the taxidermy department with a variety of birds and bird skeletons on the table. Quantity: 34 b&w original photographic print(s).

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People and occupations

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-091

Description: Photographs of people and their occupations, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1939 and 1940. Includes photographs made to accompany stories relating to: Whitebaiting, floods, hedgehogs, movie extras and a Plimmerton fisherman. Also includes photographs of Kauri gum being weighed, lace being made, a cattle auction, handloom weaving, mussel dredging in the Coromandel, installation of the Lowburn Dredge, a homemade diving suit, a power pole in Russell, rural scenes in Hamilton. Includes the oldest blacksmith in New Zealand, a waterwheel in the Carrick Ranges, lapidiaries, a car with a gasometer, Kauri carvings, a farmer repairing a fence, water bicycles, a tower of matches. Also an unusual carrot, pony traction, a travelling repairman, North Auckland Inlet transport, a postman, a whitewashed mining cottage in Arrowtown, a model railway. Women working at the Dominion Museum and the Turnbull Library, packhorses, Tahurangi Hut, Roger Kingsford and a Maori meeting house at Ohinemuri. Quantity: 97 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Dominion Museum (N.Z.) :Maori warfare. Maori canoes. Dominion Museum Education Service ...

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: Dominion Museum (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-D-MAORI-1940s-02

Description: Information sheet has two sections. The top section 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 lower section 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. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on sheet 592 x 457 mm.

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[Artist unknown] :[Wellington panorama from above Kelburn Park] 1945

Date: 1945

Reference: F-008

Description: Panoramic view of Wellington Harbour and city from Kelburn, including clear views of ships in the harbour, the wharves, the Railway Station, the Government Buildings, the high-rise buildings in the city, Weir House, Kelburn Park, Te Aro flat, the Carillon, the Museum and Oriental Bay with St Gerard's Monastery. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - '45 [in pencil, plus a complex monogram including the letters J.C.H. & W, also in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, hand-coloured 244 x 1420 mm Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane, October 1969 for $30.00

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Dominion Museum : Photograph from the Gordon collection

Date: 18 August 1860

By: Dominion Museum (N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-4330

Description: Photograph of a sketch by Lt John V Rees of the 40th Regiment of the camp at Waitara. `A' indicates the pa at Onukukaitara and `B' the pa at Puketakauere viewed from near the pa of Ihaia. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Ballantyne, Edie:Album of North Island views

Date: 1921 - 1928

By: Ballantyne, Edie, active 1920s?; Davidson, Joan, active 1990

Reference: PA1-o-655

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Edie Ballantyne was housekeeper to Davidson family. Transfers: Album was received with collection of books at Dorothy Neal White collection.

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Postcards of Wellington

Date: ca 1940

Reference: PAColl-8027

Description: Views of Parliament, New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, Oriental Bay, the Carillon, the Dominion Museum, Willis Street, Lambton Quay, Wellington harbour, and the Invercargill Water Tower.and other scenes. Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: From Serials Collection - PR-02-0450.

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National Publicity Studios :[Prime minister's Christmas card, 1969-1970. Captain Cook l...

Date: 1969

By: New Zealand. National Publicity Studios; R E Owen (Firm); Holyoake, Keith Jacka (Sir), 1904-1983

Reference: E-279-q-046

Description: Christmas card sent out by the Prime Minister's Office, Wellington, 1969-1970 showing the tableau based on Cook's own description of when he first set foot on New Zealand soil on 9 Oct 1769. It was built from photographs of the landing site at Poverty Bay as it appeared in 1969 and formed part of the Cook Bicentennial Exhibition prepared for display at the Dominion Museum, Wellington. Shows Cook and a fellow officer looking across a stretch of water to a pa site. In the foreground is the boat which bought him ashore, and accompanying soldiers and crew members. Signed Keith Holyoake, Norman Holyoake Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 102 x 155 mm

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Adkin album 09

Date: From 1911 to 1949

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

Reference: PA1-o-007

Description: Black & white photographs of the Wellington area, Vol 1 (images 1-240), taken by G L Adkin between 1911 and 1949. Earlier images include the house Fern Hill (at 324 The Terrace), and views from the house; Kelburn Cable Car tunnel, and view of the cable car from Kelburn Park; Wellington Botanic Garden; inner city views of Willis St., Lambton Quay (1913); Lyall Bay, Kilbirnie isthmus, Wellington Heads, Oriental Bay (1913); Harbour and city; swimming carnival at Island Bay; city from Mt Cook trig station (1918); panorama of Thorndon with Pipitea Point reclamation from the Nth end of Barnard St (1923); interior view of the Wellington City Corporation Trams Shed at Newtown; Kemp Point Powerhouse, Evans Bay; Miramar Gas Works (1923); Wider views of the city with Tinakori Ridge from Roseneath, Oriental Bay, Lyall Bay (1926); loading the Maheno (1926). Laying Foundation Stone of new railway station by the Duke of Gloucester, showing steel frame of the building under construction (17 December 1934). Views around the city in 1936, including Worser Bay, Breaker Bay, Dorset Point, Queens Drive, the city (panorama from Karepa St, Brooklyn); "wilds of Wellington" Mitchelltown, Highbury, Taitville, and Kelburn (from Karepa St); snow on hills and at Mt Kaukau (2 August 1936). Centennial Exhibition (6 March 1940). Views around the bays in 1948, Lyall Bay, Evans Bay, Kilbirnie, Eastbourne, Days Bay, Lowry Bay. Comparative views from Mt Alfred (1 taken in 1948, the other in 1905). Pamir sailing ship at Aotea Quay (December 1948); railway yards; Kaiwharawhara Gorge (1948); and the first visit of the Solent flying boat Ararangi to Evans Bay, October 1949.

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Proposed design for Carillon and Dominion Museum

Date: 1929

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

Reference: EP-3868-1/2-G

Description: Copy negative taken between 1929 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

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Design drawing for Carillon and Dominion Museum, by Gummer and Ford architectural firm,...

Date: 1929

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

Reference: EP-3875-1/2-G

Description: Copy negative taken between 1929 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

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Proposed design for Carillon and Dominion Museum

Date: 1929

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

Reference: EP-3867-1/2-G

Description: Copy negative taken between 1929 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

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New Zealand lecture, part 3 of 8 sheets of slides

Date: 1958 to 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

By: Kiwi Colour Slides; Dominion Museum (N.Z.)

Reference: PA12-8809

Description: Transparency slides of New Zealand selected by Mr Williams as a representative collection to be used in a series of lectures on his return to England. This group includes both slides Mr Williams took himself, and slides he purchased. This sheet shows aspects of the thermal areas at Whakarewarewa and Waimangu, and scenes of Maori life. These include a group using a hot pool for cooking, a group of poi dancers, women weaving flax, a Maori carver at work with a group of tourists watching, a Maori warrior at the gate of a pa, and a group of women and children wearing a variety of Maori cloaks. The next set are from the Tarawera area, and include views of the Frying Pan Lake, Gibraltar Rock; three images copied from publications, one showing the White Terraces, and two showing the effects of the Tarawera eruption in 1886; a launch for hire on Lake Tarawera; and the entrance to the buried village at Te Wairoa. The last two views show the beach near Gisborne looking south, and looking down over Gisborne township from a hill. The slides are not in his original numerical sequence, and are selected by subject relating to particular talks. Arrangement: These slides were selected by Mr Williams from his original sequence to create a representative collection of New Zealand images which he used in illustrated lectures on his return to England. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

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