Places

Date: 1973 - 1893

From: [Various artists] :Three panoramas. Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1973.

By: Cockerell, E A, active 1890s

Reference: D-001-015

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 is Wellington College Issued with descriptive text sheet. First published as a coloured chromolithograph in the Christmas issue of the Weekly graphic, 1893 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 261 x 745 mm on sheet 427 x 890 mm

Date: [19--]

From: Hunter family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0049-137

Description: Undated manuscripts articles etc. Includes notes on Willis Street, Tollemaches; notes on Lower Hutt; New Zealand birds; New Zealand Company ships - Oriental, Adelaide, Aurora; Bishop Selwyn; list of directors of the New Zealand Company; Port Nicholson; reminiscences of old Willis Street; opening of Barrett's Hotel; Government Commissioners' decision,; G F Angas on Wellington, 1845; arrival of Samuel C Brees, surveyor-general of NZ Company; account of a sale of cattle at Bethune & Hunter's auction mart, 25 Dec 1841; naming of Hunter Street after Sir George Hunter; naming of Island Bay (Sir George Hunter proprietor of the estate); account of first race in New Zealand held at Te Aro pa; statement discrediting Governor Hobson's low opinion of Port Nicholson; founding of Wellington Chamber of Commerce, 1856 with names of presidents, 1856-1868 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: [ca 1900]

Reference: PAColl-0329

Description: Photographs of Mount Cook and an intersection in Te Aro, Wellington, looking west and showing the Union Bank of Australia on the right. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives for the image of Te Aro housed at 1/2-003925 and 023113 and 1/1-017880 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints mounted on thin card

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

Date: 1860s to 1880s

Reference: PAColl-3766

Description: Early farms and settlements, portraits of individual homes and settlers, groups of maori, landscapes, timber industry and land clearance, view of Te Aro flat Arrangement: 1/2-83904-F to 1/2-83930-F Quantity: 28 b&w copy photographic print(s) in one envelope.

Date: [1869]

From: MacQuarrie, J T : Photographs of early Wellington

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Taylor, Robert H, active 1907-1910

Reference: PA7-57-06

Description: View looking down from Tinakori Hill towards The Terrace, the harbour. Te Aro and Mount Victoria are in the far distance. Photograph taken by James Bragge, and print made from negative by R H Taylor ca 1907 Identical image at PA7-57-05. Image is on the far righthand side of a panorama at PA6-271 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Protected RHT Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 30 x 37 cm

Date: ca 1880s

Reference: PA6-378

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Four images forming one print, mounted on card

Date: 1852

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Ralph, Thomas Shearman (Dr), 1813-1891

Reference: A-215-017

Description: View from Te Aro Flat, probably from the bottom of Mount Victoria, looking towards Wellington. A small hut at the water's edge nearby, swampy ground and the Waitangi Stream in the foreground, fencing marking Te Aro Pa, European houses beyond, cliffs marking the beginning of Lambton Quay with houses running its length at the waterfront, the sloping line of The Terrace, with several houses running up the hill in the left background and ships moored in the harbour. One of two copies at A-215-017 and A-215-018. One copy is an untouched proof, the other has pencil pencil additions of mosque, basilica, buildings on hills and wharf Another copy in Pearse, J Album (ATL) p. 34. This copy is not able to be issued Inscriptions: Signed: E N : T S Ralph Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 194 x 294 mm on sheet 245 x 295 mm

Date: [1866 or 1867]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-44-26

Description: View of Lambton Quay, Te Aro and ships in Wellington Harbour looking south from a jetty near the site of the Wellington Railway Station. Lambton Quay and reclamation is on the right; Willis Street is in the centre background, and Te Aro on the left. Part of a panorama taken by W H W Davis ca 1866-1867. Relationship complexity - Original negative at 10x8-2079-G. Duplicate image at PA7-43-11. Forms at panorama with 1/2-052978 & 1/2-052980. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1848 - 1852

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-172-013

Description: A rough sketch with a view from Thorndon, looking towards Lambton Quay, and Te Aro, with Government House and its flagpole in the foreground, the waterfront (Lambton Quay) with several houses visible, Clay Point indicated and Mount Cook beyond it, with the Barracks. Bush with either tree ferns or cabbage trees is indicated in the near foreground. There are three ships in the harbour Attribution: attributed by the Library on cataloguing, 1980, to H J Warre. However the handwriting is not that of Warre, and the style appears less precise than his. This is one of four drawings in the same hand, with the same provenance, (A-172-013 to -016) one of which appears to be a preliminary drawing for a watercolour by Colonel C E Gold. The group of four was reattributed to Gold in 2011 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 222 x 285 mm

Date: 1895

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-023

Description: Contains notes on various Māori-related subjects. There is a full contents list at the front. Includes transcript of notes by G H Davies on Māori-Pākehā children. Also comprises notes on death ceremonies - cremation; Kāi Tahu death ceremonies, as well as karakia, waiata and whakataukī including tapu lifting practices. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Processing information: Description updated 19 September 2023 following information provided by a staff member.

Date: 1841-ca1930

From: Zoe Martin-Carter: Photographs of Wellington and the Centennial Exhibition

By: Shore Bennett, Beverley Doris, 1928-; Martin-Carter, Zoe, 1870-1947

Reference: PA1-f-171

Description: views of Wellington and many of its principal buildings from settlement in 1840 to about the mid 1940s Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [1894-1900?]

From: Denton, Frank J, 1869-1963 :Collection of negatives, prints and albums

Reference: PA1-o-132

Description: Photographs, chiefly of the Wellington area, probably taken by Frank J Denton. A number show the house `Fernhill' in Woolcombe Street (now part of The Terrace), Wellington, views from the house and its gardens. Portraits in clude Laurie Denton, Tom Tolley (locksmith), Alfred Bennett and his family, Mrs Denton Snr, Mrs Waters (had a grocery shop in Dixon Street), G L Adkin (as a boy), Miss Dixon (of the aerated water family, the Dixons of Dixon Street), George Butler (artist), and Beaglehole (David Ernest Beaglehole, father of Professor Ernest Beaglehole, and Professor John Cawte Beaglehole). Also includes photograph of a portrait painted by George Edmund Butler of his father Joseph Cawte Butler (maternal grandfather of John Cawte Beaglehole). Other Titles - Wellington I Album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Maroon cover decorated with painted leaves, 22 x 26 cm

Date: [Between 1890s and 1900s]

From: Hamerton, N & G (Misses), fl 1967 :Photograph albums of Wellington scenes

Reference: PA1-o-540

Description: Album of photographs of early Wellington, circa 1880s to 1890s. One view shows the wreck of the Oliver Lang at Kaiwharawhara. Other views of ships show the RMS Ruapehu on arrival in Wellington; the ship Pleione in port, and the Opawa on the patent slip at Evans Bay. Other views in the album include one of the tram track on the way to Oriental Bay; Te Aro (1883); Wellington from Bolton Street; Government House and Offices; a view from "Gaol Hill" (near the Te Aro Prison at the junction of The Terrace and Abel Smith Street); a tram run by the Wellington Tramway Company in front of Government Buildings; the corner of Featherston Street and Lambton Quay with the Union Bank of Australia and Johnny Martin's fountain; the tombstone of Mete Kingi Paetahi at Whanganui; the memorial to Te Wharepouri at Ngauranga; the Karori Reservoir; and a view of the mouth of the Hutt River from the eastern hills. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cloth cover, entitled "Sketched by the sun"; 17.5 x 21.5 cm

Date: 1861 - 1967

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-011

Description: Shows ships in harbour, houses, and a man driving cows on a hillside path at right. From Brooklyn looking across Te Aro and the harbour to the Hutt Valley. At left is a Maori wood-gatherer. Tall tree in left foreground has the creeper kie kie growing on it. A tree has been felled in centre foreground, and there is a cabbage tree at right. Upper Willis Street runs down to Clay Point, at the junction of the present Willis Street and Lambton Quay. Thorndon Flat lies beyond ending at Pipitea Point. Colour photolithograph was reproduced from the original "[View of Wellington. 1861]" held at ATL G-670. Other Titles - View of Wellington, 1861. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud / NZ. 1861.; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board.; Recto - bottom right - Print no. 4 / Serial 10: 1967 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 310 x 510 mm.

Date: 1860s

By: Millar, Ross, active 1980s; Wellington Club

Reference: PAColl-1197

Description: Photographs of Wellington city from the 1860s found in the store room of the Wellington Club Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on boadr in one envelope. Provenance: Found in the store room of the Wellington Club

Date: 1861 - 1967

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-011-c

Description: Shows ships in harbour, houses, and a man driving cows on a hillside path at right. From Brooklyn looking across Te Aro and the harbour to the Hutt Valley. At left is a Maori wood-gatherer. Tall tree in left foreground has the creeper kie kie growing on it. A tree has been felled in centre foreground, and there is a cabbage tree at right. Upper Willis Street runs down to Clay Point, at the junction of the present Willis Street and Lambton Quay. Thorndon Flat lies beyond ending at Pipitea Point. Other Titles - View of Wellington, 1861. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud / NZ. 1861.; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board.; Recto - bottom right - Print no. 4 / Serial 10: 1967 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 310 x 510 mm.

Date: 1842

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Connell, B, active 1840-1843

Reference: E-216-f-087-2

Description: View from above Te Aro Flat wotj houses and other buildings on the flat landl, a few houses, a fence and trees (including a cabbage tree) in the foreground, Pipitea Point and its houses visible in the distance to the left, six sailing ships in the harbour, Somes Island and the Hutt Valley in the distance. Another drawing by B. Connell (E-216-f-069) 'Wellington from the London' suggests that the artist arrived on board the London, in 1842. The state and number of the houses shown also suggest a date not before 1842 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - B. Connell Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper, glued to album page, 153 x 236 mm

Date: 1947-1948

From: New Zealand. Ministry of Education :Photographs from the Ministry of Works Library

Reference: PA1-q-940

Description: Photographs of regional plans, town plans, and architectural drawings of future city developments. Included is a plan showing urban development in the Wellington region, development plans for Upper Hutt, plans for the establishment and development of Porirua including an architects drawing of a proposed town centre, development plans for Johnsonville incuding an architects drawing of a proposed community and shopping area for the suburb, and some of the panels from the Wellington Architectural Centre's "Te Aro Replanned Project" exhibition of 1947/1948. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1850 - 1880

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-029-066

Description: Shows a view looking down on a section of Wellington Harbour including Somes Island. Scattered houses are visible on the flat. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 305 x 309 mm