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Webster album 6
Date: [Circa 1880s]
From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Lomer, Albert, active 1862-1900; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)
Reference: PA1-q-262
Description: Album of Australian photographs of Brisbane and Tasmania, and views of a range of sites in New Zealand, taken by various photographers circa 1880s. Names and places identified in the album are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine; 30.5 x 25.0 cm
Reade album 2
Date: [Between 1841 and 1929]
By: Reade, M A (Mrs), active 1969; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Tyree Brothers (Firm); Bragge, James, 1833-1908
Reference: PA1-o-430
Description: Recent prints from old photographs of Wellington, originallty taken between about 1841 and 1929. Includes one photograph of a painting of Wellington waterfront from 1841, by Charles Heaphy. Only a few images identify the photographers, the Burton Brothers, Tyree Brothers and James Bragge. The Bragge photograph (looking down to the Harbour from Hill Street taken in the 1880s) was identified from his horse-drawn carriage with his name and occupation emblazoned on the side. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red mock-crocodile textured cover, entitled `Photographs'; 26.0 x 36.5 cm Processing information: Most of the photographs have reference numbers linking them with items in the Alexander Turnbull Library photographic collections.
Knight album
From: Estate of Mr and Mrs E S Knight :Photographs of Wellington
By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869
Reference: PA1-o-252
Description: Photograph album of views of Wellington, ranging from copies of early paintings from the 1840s, and early photographs up to the 1870s, to a series of postcards from the 1920s. Most of the early images have clear descriptions, giving year made, location, and in some cases further information about buildings that can be seen. For example, one view shows Kebble's house, now the site of the Grand Opera House. Views in the postcards are identified, but no dates are given. Most of the postcard views were taken by Sydney Charles Smith Inscriptions: Album page - `To E.S.K. with all good wishes for the 8th Nov. 1925, from a wellwisher' (illuminated inscription inside front cover) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Black album, entitled `Photographs'; `E.S.K.' lettered in lower right-hand corner; 26 x 33 cm
Munt album
Date: 1919
From: Munt, Jeanie, fl 1978 :Album of a selection of tourist photographs, of a school and of the Munt family, and loose prints
By: Jobson, Nancy, 1880-1964
Reference: PA1-o-356
Description: Album created by Nancy Jobson, the first principal of Queen Margaret College when it opened in Hobson Street in 1919. Photographs have captions, listing various staff members, including Miss Fyfe, Miss Gold, Miss Irving and Miss Naylor; pupils listed only with Christian names; and interior and exterior views of the school. Activities and outings are shown, including celebrations around Peace Day, with a visit on board HMS New Zealand (showing gun turrets, decks, and views from the wharf), banners and processions; picnics at the beach; trips to Kapiti Island; and pupils dressed for a performance of the Merchant of Venice. For full names of the pupils and staff of Queen Margaret College in 1919 see `A history of Queen Margaret College' by Mollie D Gambrill (1969) "Nancy Jobson" is printed in ink on the last page of the album. Inscriptions: Album page - `To dear Olive in loving appreciation and memory of her love and fidelity through the long years since 1919, from Nancy Jobson' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red-brown mock-suede cover, end-papers with brown, gold and red pattern; inscribed `N.J., Wellington 1919' in gold lettering; 21 x 26 cm
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.