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Date: ca 1890s

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10X8-1019-G

Description: Oriental Bay, Wellington, circa 1890s. Photograph taken by the Tyree Studio. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Oriental Bay, Wellington. Tyree, Photo, Nelson 5454 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: between 1895 and 1906

From: Rowe, Reginald Keith, 1906-: Negatives of Wellington, Otaki, Wanganui and other districts

Reference: 1/1-003757-G

Description: Oriental Bay, Wellington. Looks east from Oriental Terrace, over Oriental Parade, towards Point Jerningham. Photograph taken by Mr Rowe between 1895 and 1906. 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: 1842

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

By: Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: PUBL-0011-16-2

Description: Central third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows groups of figures on foreshore including man on horseback, man examining ships through spyglass, two small groups of Maori watching, two men smoking long pipes, 14 sailing ships including one rounding Point Halswell, Somes Island with flag flying at its southern end, two Maori craft including one with sails. View extends from Warepori's Village in Pitone at left, to Mount Victoria at right. Features named are: Warepori's village Pitone, Valley of the Hutt, Tararua Mountains, Somes's Island, Pt Halswell (the entrance from the sea), Pt Jerningham, Mr Duppa's house (Oriental Bay), Mount Victoria. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Title]; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - beneath image - From a sketch taken by Captain Mein Smith R.A. / London, Smith, Elder & Co. Cornhill. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 502 mm.

Date: ca 1891

From: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-020531-G

Description: View of houses in Oriental Bay, looking over towards the hills. Taken by Henry Wright ca 1891. These houses also appeared in a painting by Christopher Aubrey in 1889 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1875 - 1885

By: Tronson, Fairlie Harold active 1883; Bock & Elliot (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-051-016

Description: View possibly from upper Dixon Street or McDonald Crescent, looking across Te Aro and up Willis Street towards Mount Victoria. St Peter's Church dominates the centre of the view and the Gasworks can be seen immediately to the left of the steeple of the church. Marjoribanks Street shows up clearly rising up Mount Victoria, and Oriental Bay, the entrance to Evans Bay and Miramar Peninsula are also clearly visible. Bush in the foreground, shops along Willis Street and several houses. In the right foreground is a large house with two steep gables, and a tree-filled garden, including two young Norfolk Pines. Note to A.H. Turnbull on corner. Other: The two-storied house in the right foreground may still be in existence in 2014, down a path leading from the lower end of The Terrace (formerly Woolcombe Street) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Two-tone lithograph 265 x325 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: [ca 1867]

From: Thomson, S :Photograph of Parliament Building 1866, Te Aro flat 1857 and a panorama of Wellington harbour

Reference: 1/2-003687-F

Description: Part of a panorama of the Wellington City shoreline, circa 1867. Shows Oriental Bay. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Processing information: This panorama was originally made up of more than 6 parts. More negatives for the right hand side have not been located.

Date: [ca 1867]

From: Thomson, S :Photograph of Parliament Building 1866, Te Aro flat 1857 and a panorama of Wellington harbour

Reference: 1/2-003686-F

Description: Part of panorama of the Wellington City shoreline, circa 1867. Shows Oriental Bay. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Processing information: This panorama was originally made up of more than 6 parts. More negatives for the right hand side have not been located.

Date: 1890s

Reference: 1/2-003711-F

Description: A scene at Oriental Bay, Wellington, showing Walter James Helyer, and one other, in a sailing boat close to shore. A group, including three girls, stands nearby on the rocky waterfront. In the background are five houses and the road going up to Roseneath. Inscriptions: W J Helyer's wife, Annie Helyer, may have taken the picture as well as others of Wellington. The girls may be their daughters. (Transcribed from back of file print.) Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Alexander Turnbull Library :File prints from W Wilson Album

Reference: 1/2-110647-F

Description: View looking east across Oriental Bay, Wellington, showing a horse and cart on Oriental Terrace to the right and houses and boat sheds along Oriental Parade in the centre. Taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1900. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) (copied from original print in Wilson album). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1890s

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 1

Reference: PAColl-5471-060

Description: The quarry is in the immediate foreground, with houses in Oriental Terrace, Palliser Road and Shannon street in the centre background. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1877

By: Langford, H (Mr), active 1940s-1950s

Reference: A-090-021

Description: View across the harbour towards Mount Victoria and Oriental Bay, Point Jerningham, the entrance to Evans Bay and part of the Miramar Peninsula. Mount Victoria has houses and some roads visible and a signal tower on its summit. There are several ships in the harbour Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 140 x 229 mm

Date: 1880's

Reference: 1/2-062591-F

Description: Oriental Bay, Wellington showing James Edward Fitzgerald's house on top of the hill. The house was on the site of St Gerard's Monastery. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca 1890

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 1/2-011607-G

Description: Oriental Parade, Wellington, circa 1890, photographed by the Tyree Studio. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Oriental Bay, Wellingn Tyree, Phot, Nelson 502 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: ca 1883

From: Lowe, John Henry, 1841-1906 :Photographs of Wellington, Westland, New Plymouth and Ohakune

By: Connolly & Company

Reference: 1/2-048029-F

Description: Oriental Bay, Wellington, showing the rail track that was constructed from the Oriental Bay quarry to the Te Aro reclamation by Peter McGrath. Taken by Connolly & Co (Firm) ca 1883. The rail track ran out into Te Aro Harbour over a trestle railway. Peter McGrath undertook to reclaim 23 acres in 1882 and went bankrupt in 1884. (Information from 'Colonial capital: Wellington 1865-1910' by Terence Hodgson, Auckland, Random Century, 1990.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca 1884

From: Chilton Historical Trust :Photographs and negatives relating to Chilton St James School

Reference: PAColl-2603-01

Description: Looking along Oriental Parade, Oriental Bay, Wellington, circa 1884. Photographer unidentified. Looks along a road, showing the coastline on the left and hills on the right. A group of two storied wooden houses is in the centre. James Edward Fitzgerald's house Clyde Cliff is on top of a hill, right of centre, on a site later occupied by St Gerard's Monastery. Source of descriptive information - The inscription signed G F G was possibly written by Geraldine Fitzgerald shortly before her death in 1955. Other Titles - Note - Inscription mis-spells Gerard's Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - The Wellington home of J E Fitzgerald, about 1884. This site is now occupied by St Gerrard's monastery.; Mount verso - Clyde Cliff in 1884 or earlier. The cliff was cut down for reclamation about'85 or'86. G F G Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.9 x 20.5, mounted on board 23.6 x 29 cm

Date: 1890s

From: New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation :Negatives relating to the programme on Katherine Mansfield - "The White Gardenia".

Reference: 1/4-016217-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: [ca 1891]

From: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-020596-G

Description: View looking north along the waterfront at Oriental Bay in Wellington. Shows houses, boatsheds, gravel road, and hills. Photographed circa 1891 by Henry Charles Clarke Wright. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-159-021

Description: Shows Wellington city and harbour viewed from the area near the top of Vivian Street. A figure in horseback rides along a track curving around the hill slope at the left, and four head of cattle stand on a path amongst willows and other trees at the right. Further away is a road, possibly Abel Smith Street, with buildings including a house with a square turret. A church at left centre near the waterfront appears to be of Gothic design. There are several sail and steam ships in the harbour near Queens Wharf. The Hutt Valley and the snow-capped Tararuas can be seen in the distance. The original watercolour for a chromolithograph published in Barraud's "New Zealand graphic and descriptive" (London, 1879). Accompanied by backing board with name of Mrs Pownall, previous owner. Other Titles - New Zealand Inscriptions: Backing board recto - top centre - [Title]; Backing board recto - centre - Eigendom van Mevrouw Pownall [Property of Mrs Pownall] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on sheet 250 x 355 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Mrs Pownall.

Date: 1889

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-030-023

Description: View from the south end of Oriental Bay looking north toward Wellington, showing rowing boat, boat-sheds, cows in field, houses, Oriental Parade and Oriental Terrace The large red house on the hill, upper left, was known as 'Thomas's Folly' and was built of Australian hardwood by Sir Godfrey John Thomas, half-brother to Sir George Grey, then later owned by Alfred Maurice Lewis of Thompson Lewis. The wood used for this house was said to have been left over from the Government Buildings in Lambton Quay. The large white house, also on the left, but lower, in Wilkinson Street (leading to Grass Street), was first owned by a Mr Wilkinson. The single-storey house on the corner of Hay Street was owned by a Mr Laurence Arcus. Painting has been trimmed. Supplied title Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [C.A]ubrey Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 249 x 499 mm on sheet 306 x 543 mm