Places

Date: 2/1/56

From: The Dominion :Negatives

Reference: 1/4-056324-F

Date: 1911

By: Hector McLeod & Company; McLeod, Hector Norman, 1872-

Reference: Eph-E-LOCAL-Miramar-1911-01

Description: Shows a map of the streets of Miramar, Seatoun, Worser Bay, Karaka Bay and Evans Bay (including projected reclamation). The map is surrounded by advertisements for the following local businesses: Briscoe & Company (Wunderlich Ceilings and Marseilles Tiles), C S & P Cording (booksellers, Courtenay Place), D Palliser (chemist, Courtenay Place), Miramar Tramway Junction Land Co, A Lindsay Ltd (shoe shop, Lambton Quay and Cuba Street), B Matthews (painter and decorator, Miramar), F Mildenhall (plumber, Miramar), DIC, Miramar Building & Investment Company, Jackson & Co (paint and glass importers, Cuba Street), H K Robertshaw (baker and grocer), William Telford (Glen Dairy, Miramar) Another two copies of the map only, are held at MapColl 832.4799gbbd Mi 1911 11008. Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on sheet 660 x 570 mm (most of bottom strip missing) Transfers: From the Hector McLeod papers, MS-Papers, 0154, 43A - card index..

Date: 1905-1906

From: Land deeds, land grants and bonds

Reference: MS-Papers-0156-13

Description: Agreements between: Phil D Davis - E Balcombe Brown, John Whiteman, Job Harrison, 1905 (Includes accounts from G G Schwartz, architect; erection of trapshed and stables at Upper Hutt); E Balcombe Brown with John Whiteman, farmer, Upper Hutt, 1906; Watts Peninsula Land Company Ltd with Norman Reid, tea expert, Wellington and Rivers Johnson Loe, accountant, 1906; Norman Reid and R J Loe with Kilbirnie Estate Company Ltd, 1906 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 pieces).

Date: 1960-1979

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2916

Description: Views of Evans Bay, Wellington City, New Zealand, the Patent Slip, and ships, taken by Cyril Beavis in the 1960s. Also includes views of the Wahine wreck taken from Seatoun by Cyril Beavis circa 1969, and portraits of Cyril Beavis taken by an unidentified photographer between 1960 and 1979. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in May 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-09.

Date: ca 1930s

From: Hird, Edward James, 1924-2002 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7754-2

Description: Loose photographs extracted from album (PA1-o-1549). Includes photographs of a hill climbing sports car event, sports car club meeting, Wellington beaches, Wellington suburbs and housing developments, and the construction of a house. Mr Hird was an electrical designer, involved in the development of television, designing radios for Sir Edmund Hillary in Antarctica, and was apparently in radio surveillance in WW2. His father taught at Seatoun school. Mr Hird lived most of his life in the house at Mantell Street. See 'Freedom' newspaper, 25 Nov 1953, p.6 re his involvement in developing television. He was also a jazz musician. Quantity: 79 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1913 - 1935

By: Wellington Harbour Board; Hanify, Hugo Page, 1865-1945; Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Se/1935/Acc.10256

Description: Cadastral, surveyed map of subdivision of Sections 1-16 Marine Parade, and 16 and 17 Awa Road Seatoun, Wellington, showing acreage. Shows two recreation reserves on Worser Bay, reserve bounded by Awa Road and Marine Parade, Post & Telegraph Reserve, and reserve in Block 8. Written on map: T. No 773; Miramar Borough. Other Titles - Plan of subdivision of part Deposited Plan 2755, Section 8 Evans Bay Registration District; Block VII Port Nicholson Survey District Written on map: W N 27.2.[19]19 (T G H August 1935) Written on reverse (behind linen, so hard to decipher): W H B. Worser Bay, DP 2755 (1913) See also MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Se/1913/Acc.10179; 10225 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Blueprint, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 48 x 47 cm

Date: 1952

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[39 copies of cartoons from 'Lodge looks at Wellington', Nevile Lodge, 1952]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: H-727-022

Description: Shows seven scenes. In the first a man and a woman are standing at a tram stop looking angry as a full tram passes them by. In the second a man and a woman are sitting at a coffee shop table talking as other other customers are queuing up for seats. In the third a man is leaving a pub carrying a bag containing full flagons of beer as another man is going into the pub to get his empty flagon filled. In the fourth scene the Seatoun tram's overhead poles have become detached from the power lines. In the fifth scene a woman is walking along carrying several bags of shopping and a loaf of bread under one arm. In the sixth scene a woman is battling the wind as it blows her skirt up at the back while she holds it down at the front with one hand and holds her hat on with the other. In the final scene a parking warden disregards a diplomatic car parked on a no parking sign. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: 2 A4 size photocopies

Date: [ca 1929]

Reference: PAColl-6887

Description: 16 views of Wellington and Murchison including: Oriental Bay from the west and the east; a park on Oriental Bay looking towards the harbour with a family with a pram pic-nicking; two of J O Smith's gentleman's outfitters on the corner of Lambton Quay and Bowen Street, one with the Government Buildings in the background and one taken from them; the Carillon from Buckle Street; the Hikitia lifting a buoy in Wellington Harbour; Seatoun taken from the north; the steamer Cowan (location unknown); three men, one in a uniform, standing next to a car with Newman Bros Ltd on the windscreen; a display for visiting dignitaries in the form of a human Union Jack possibly in Athletic Park for the Duke of York's visit; the Public Library building on Mercer Street with the Technical College and the Town Hall in the background and Wakefield Street to the right; Willis Street looking south; and three showing the damage after the 1929 earthquake to H J Hodgson & Co General Merchants and Ross's Hotel in Murchison and Nelson Boys' College. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044200 to 044215 Quantity: 16 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1900 - 1940

From: McLeod, Hector Norman, fl 1870s-1957 :Maps from papers

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Se/[n.d.]/Acc.38018

Description: Cadastral map of numbered sections on Seatoun Road and in the vicinity of Beacon Road, now known as Beacon Hill Road, and Church Street. Sections include acreages and boundary measurements. One section is marked for tennis and bowling. Some roads are un-named. Other Titles - Part of sections 10 and 16, Watts Peninsula, Deposited Plan 2233 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colourwash on dressed linen, coloured, scale [1:792], 45.1 x 23 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLeod, Hector Norman, fl 1902-1927. Business papers. MS-Papers-0154.

Date: 1980 - 1989

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd

Reference: Plans-2002-058-D-10-036/037

Description: Includes site plans, perspective drawings, and floor plans. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing and photocopy on sheets varying up to 590 x 875 mm.

Date: [1939-1945]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Green & Hahn (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-040

Description: Photographs of coastal batteries at Palmer Head (Wellington), Battery Point, (Lyttelton), Fort Bastion (Auckland) and Fort Dorset (Wellington). Includes gun practise and radio equipment; one photograph of troops on South Island coastal defence at an abandoned farmhouse, displaying their cabbage harvest. Lyttelton photographs taken by Green & Hahn, Christchurch Quantity: 83 b&w original photographic print(s). 39 b&w original photographic print(s) (proof sheets with 169 images).

Date: 1924

By: Sklenars, Linda, active 2004

Reference: PA1-o-1212

Description: Album compiled on a tour of the North Island in 1924 by an unknown photographer. The album includes views of Wellington, Auckland, Rotorua, Wairakei, Lake Taupo, Lake Rotoiti, Lake Rotoehu, Lake Rotoma, Lake Rotomahana, Hamurana Springs, Whakarewarewa, Waimangu and Waitomo. The scenes in Wellington include views of Parliament, Government Buildings, St Mary of the Angels church, Oriental Bay, Island Bay, Wellington Heads, Breaker Bay, Seatoun, Miramar, Lyall Bay, Khandallah and Days Bay. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown leather bound album

Date: 11 April 1968

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

Reference: EP/1968/1569-F

Description: Survivors of the Wahine shipwreck receiving assistance on Seatoun beach, photographed 10 April 1968 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: [Circa 1929-1939]

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

By: Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966; Springboks (Rugby team)

Reference: PA1-o-112

Description: Album of images collected and partly photographed by Gerald Rainsford Craddock. Images include clipping from newspapers and magazines, and postcards (chiefly of Akaroa, Wellington, Sydney and Perth). The photographs include family photographs, mountaineering trips, scenery in various parts of New Zealand, interior views of the Union Bank of Australia (Wellington Branch) where Gerald Rainsford worked from 1936-1939, and several views of the first Springbok test at Athletic Park in 1937. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "Photographs", 26 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1971

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

Reference: EP/1971/6161-F

Description: Aerial view of Breaker Bay, Strathmore Park, Seatoun, and Wellington Harbour. Photographed for the Evening Post newspaper by an unknown photographer in December 1971 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative

Date: [ca 1920-1943]

By: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962; Deste, Eileen, 1909-1986; Hastings Public Library (N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-0365

Description: A collection of photographs including views of Nelson by F N Jones, buildings and earthquake damage in Wellington in 1943 and others from around the country including three hand-touched photographs of Napier and Hastings. The photographs of Wellington are captioned with the building the weather conditions when the photographs were taken and whether flash was used. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1963

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Wellington (N.Z. : Region). Regional Council

Reference: MapColl-WRC-1/2/6A-Acc.

Description: Wellington Regional Council planning units Base map: NZMS 16. Wellington, sheet 1, ist ed (Wellington: Lands and Survey Department, 1 Mar 1959) Quantity: 1 map(s) with ms annotations. Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream paper. Scale 1: 6336, 93 x 68 cm.

Date: 11 April 1968

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

Reference: EP/1968/1573-F

Description: Lifeboat from ship Wahine landing passengers and crew on Seatoun Beach, after the ship sank on 10 April 1968, photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative 6 x 6 cm

Date: 2/1/56

From: The Dominion :Negatives

Reference: 1/4-056323-F

Date: 1913

By: Wellington Harbour Board; Hanify, Hugo Page, 1865-1945; Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Se/1913/Acc.10179; 10225

Description: Cadastral, surveyed map of subdivision of Sections 1-16, Marine Parade, Seatoun, Wellington, showing acreage, unnamed roads and Worser Bay. Written on map: T. No 773; Miramar Borough. Two maps are identical, except Acc.10179 includes pencil annotation, "Leased to [Wellington] City Council on 999 years [?] lease" Other Titles - Plan of subdivision of part Deposited Plan 2755, Section 8 Evans Bay Registration District; Block VII Port Nicholson Survey District See also similar map MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Se/1935/Acc.10256 Quantity: 2 map(s). Physical Description: Blueprint, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 48 x 47 cm