Places

Date: 1888

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: D-032-002

Description: Shows a view of Wellington and Wellington Harbour as far as the Hutt Valley. The view includes the Terrace and Terrace prison, the streets and buildings of Oriental Bay and Te Aro on the flat, including gasometers, chimneys and churches (St John's and St Peter's Willis Street), the houses on Mount Victoria, Somes Island. Three cows and a calf are attended by a man with a staff, in the foreground. The image is similar to that at C-030-025, "[Te Aro and Wellington Harbour]", but extends further on either side. The scale is very similar, but the images of the buildings are not identical. Unlike most other Aubrey works held in the Library, both of these pictures use some gum arabic in the foreground. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C Aubrey 1888 Very similar to C-030-025, "[Te Aro and Wellington Harbour]", but includes detail on both sides missing in Te Aro and Wellingon Harbour. Unlike most other Aubrey works held by the Library, this work uses some gum arabic in the foreground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and gum arabic, 531 x 918 mm. Provenance: Possibly owned by Ivan Napier, Greytown, 1970s or early 1980s. In Harnett & Wedde winter antique auction, 1987, purchased Brierley's Ltd, Wellington.

Date: [ca 12 September 1989]

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

Reference: EP/1989/3286/13-F

Description: Star Boating Club building being moved into position beside the Wellington Rowing Club building at the end of Taranaki Street Wharf on Wellington waterfront. Shows Mount Victoria in the background. Photograph taken ca 12 September 1989 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) individual image on a 35mm strip. Finding Aids: Photocopy of print available in Evening Post illustrations file EP-Transport-Shipping-Harbour Board-Waterfront 1 (17/2).

Date: [ca 1945]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-001911-F

Description: Looking south west over Wellington City, circa 1945. Shows the suburb of Mount Victoria, the southern end of Te Aro flat, the Basin Reserve, National Museum and surrounding area. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1851 - 1854

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-084-1

Description: A view close to the foot of Mount Victoria, looking towards the Basin Reserve, with the hill on the left. A swift-flowing stream runs down the flat. The view is likely to predate the 1855 earthquake when the land depicted was raised. The stream may be the Waitangi Creek, which flowed intermittently prior to the earthquake Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 131 x 207 mm

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 4

By: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972; Williams, T A, active 1958

Reference: PAColl-5744-24

Description: Overlooking Wellington City, circa 1915. Looks south over Brougham Street, Mount Victoria and over Te Aro flat. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Panorama of Wellington. (1) Te Aro Flat; Recto - beneath image - F T Series No 1001; Recto - beneath image - S C Smith Photo Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Transfers: PAColl-4705.

Date: [1920s?]

By: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PAColl-D-0804

Description: Anzac Day parade at the Basin Resrve, Wellington. Buildings and houses in Mount Victoria can be seen in the background. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith, possibly in 1920s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1878]

From: Bloch, Theodor Thorlacius, 1844-1935 :Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PA1-o-041-2

Description: Part 2 of a 5 part panorama of Wellington City from Mount Victoria, circa 1878. Looks south west towards Mount Cook with Majoribanks Street in the foreground, and Cambridge and Kent Terraces running from right to left, middle ground. Photograph taken by Theodor Bloch. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1888

By: Drew, T, active 1888

Reference: A-303-019

Description: Shows a view from the lower slopes of Brooklyn of the Mount Cook / Te Aro area, with part of the Basin Reserve to the left, the Mount Cook prison on the hilltop, the prison brickworks behind it, the Alexandra Barracks, and other buildings. Mount Victoria is in the background The chimney on the left was part of the prison brickworks, immediately behind the Mount Cook Prison and now approximately on the site of Wellington High School. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, on sheet 130 x 209 mm, stuck to card.

Date: ca 1908-1910

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-019582-G

Description: Part 4 of a 6 part panorama of Wellington, circa 1908-1910. Shows Clyde Quay School on the left and Kent Terrace on the right. Majoribanks Street runs horizontally across the middle ground. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Part five of six-part panorama. From 1-6: 1/1-019585, 019586, 019587, 019582, 019581, 019584. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1949

By: MacDiarmid, Douglas Kerr, 1922-2020

Reference: A-135-011

Description: Cubist compostition, but with recognisable railway lines and city buildings and the houses on Mount Victoria in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - D. K. MacDiarmid.'49.; Verso - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Gouache, 280 x 380 mm

Date: [ca 1899]

From: Thompson, D (Mrs) fl 1975 :Postcards of New Zealand scenes

Reference: 1/2-C-03317-F

Description: A view of Wellington, showing Mount Victoria ca 1899, with the hills and coastline in the background. Taken by unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Photographer's title: Wellington, N.Z. showing Mount Victoria; bottom right - S.M. Co.'s Series Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1920s

Reference: 1/2-075148-G

Description: Shows Wellington Harbour looking towards Oriental Parade and part of Mount Victoria. Amongst other city buildings is the Town Hall tower which stands out. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1908-10]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-019587-G

Description: Part 3 of a 6 part panorama of Wellington city, 1908-1910. Shows Roxburgh Street in the foreground. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Part 3 of a 4 part panorama. Parts 1-6: 1/1-019585, 019586, 019587, 019582, 019581, 019584. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1939-1945

From: Klee, A A (Mr), fl 1998 :Photographs of New Zealand soldiers and scenes of military training from the South African War to World War II

Reference: PAColl-5657-01

Description: Caterpillar tractor manned by two uniformed soldiers towing a gun on a gun carriage. Two more uniformed soldiers sit on the gun carriage behind the tractor. Photograph has been taken on the Hutt Road with a view of Wellington Harbour, Mount Victoria and the eastern hills in the Background. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1957

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

Reference: EP/1957/0971-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 cm

Date: 1852

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-034-1

Description: Two small Maori figures standing on a road, probably Tory Street or nearby, with the harbour in the background, flax on either side of the road. On the right can be seen a windmill (probably Simmonds' and Hoggard's flourmill) and the lower slopes of Mount Victoria Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 105 x 135 mm

Date: [ca 1909]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-048241-G

Description: Looking over the rooftops of city buildings in Courtenay Place, Wellington, towards houses in Mount Victoria. Photograph taken circa 1909 by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: April 1933

From: Harkness, W E :Photographs

Reference: 1/2-062481-F

Description: View of Te Aro, Wellington, looking east from Brooklyn, past the Carillon and towards Mount Victoria. Taken in April 1933. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Te Aro from Brooklyn Wellington NZ The first iron girders for the front of the Dominion Museum were up by this month. These can be seen behind the Carillon. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1893

By: New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works; New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal

Reference: D-001-005

Description: View from the lower end of the Terrace, looking down into the Aro Valley and Te Aro Flat and across towards Mount Victoria, Oriental Bay and the Miramar Peninsula. Part of the Thorndon end of the city can be seen on the left. Courtenay Place runs away from the viewer in the centre of the scene, with Marjoribanks Street moving up Mount Victoria. The gasometers on both sides of Courtenay Place show clearly. On the far right in the distance is Wellington College. Same as D-001-005-a, -b & -c and as a framed version at G-385 Extended Title - Supplement to the Christmas number of the New Zealand Graphic, 1893 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 360 x 940 on sheet 455 x 1015 mm

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000148-G

Description: View of Campbell's Point from Parnell with Devonport and Mount Victoria visible in the distance across the Waitemata Harbour. A large vessel can be seen at anchor opposite the Point. Photograph taken by William Price ca 1910. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Campbell's Point. Parnell. Auckland. No 3084. William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches