Places

Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

Date: [ca 17 Nov 1986]

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

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1986/5797-F

Description: Tent outside Government House, Newtown, Wellington, a temporary dining room pitched by the army, for the many guests staying with the Governor General and his wife, Sir and Lady Reeves, over the weekend. Photographs taken circa 17 November 1986, by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1905-1920

From: In the Light of the Past :Photographs of New Zealand stained glass in houses and public buildings

Reference: PA12-1453

Description: Most of these windows have designs based on conventional floral themes. In many the leading is used to provide the linear dynamic typical of art nouveau. Those that don't fit neatly into the art nouveau category are two windows from the Parliamentary Library and two from Government House which feature the National coat of arms. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: ca 1920s

Reference: PAColl-4630

Description: Interior photographs of the dining room and sitting room and two of the exterior of the building. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Prints housed at PAColl-6075-22 to PAColl-6075-25.

Date: Before 1894

By: Leitch, W A, active 1894; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-260

Description: Album of scenic views of Tasmania, Sydney and wider New South Wales, and of New Zealand, both North and South Islands. Views of lighthouses include Derwent Lighthouse (Tasmania), Macquarie Lighthouse (South Head, Sydney), and Farewell Spit Lighthouse (Tasman Region, New Zealand). The New Zealand photographs are nearly all taken by Josiah Martin, and include one that is a collage of scenes he photographed, and one of Maori weapons, with captions to say they were deposited [in Auckland Museum] by Captain Gilbert Mair. A photograph attached to the inside of the back cover is of the Farewell Spit Lighthouse, and was taken by the Tyree Brothers firm Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - W.A. Leitch. 1894 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled `Photographs' in gold lettering, with `Leitch' lettered in gold on spine; 21.5 x 28.5 cm Provenance: Purchase

Date: ca 1914-ca 1999

From: Starke, June, 1923-2006: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7791

Description: Collection comprises: two photographs of an unidentified man being accepted as Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, taken ca late 1990s at Parliament House by Woolf of Wellington; a photograph of the staff of the Alexander Turnbull Library ca 1970s; a photograph of the wedding of Murray and Jean McGeorg, with June Starke as bridesmaid, taken ca 1940s by The Phillips Candid Camera Service, Dunedin; family photographs of people picnicing, riding horses, and driving cars; photographs taken by Thomas Meek Laing in France durung the First World War; photograph of Kemp's pole beong repainted in 1977; photographs of Lower Hutt taken by S C Smith in the 1920s; photographs of school boys; photographs of the Akatarawa unemployment camp, and Trentham Military Camp; the staff of J J Bourke & Co, Wool Scourers, Lower Hutt; and the interior of St James' Anglican Church, Lower Hutt. Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s). Transfers: Transfer from Manuscripts & Archives - Reference MS-Group-0978 (A2003-282).

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.

Date: [1930-1934]

By: Bledisloe, Charles Bathurst, Viscount, 1867-1958

Reference: PA1-f-015

Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific taken 1930-1934 by Lord Bledisloe, comprising views of Government House (Wellington), Queen Charlotte Sound, Treaty House (Waitangi), Kawau Island, Whanganui River, Pipiriki,Jerusalem, Galatea, Ranana, Ruatahuna, Whakarewarewa, North Cape, Deep Creek (Nelson), Lake Waikaremoana, Mt Ngauruhoe, Lake Rotoroa (Nelson), Franz Joseph Glacier and environs, Rarotonga, Pago Pago, and Tongatapu. Also included are portraits of Mita Taupopoki, Honi Te Heu Heu, Guide Rangi, and Lord & Lady Bledisloe; a Cutty Sark seaplane of the New Zealand Permanent Air Force, the interior of a Ringatu meeting house at Ruatahuna, Maori groups, swordfish and trout fishing, and a scheelite mine at Deep Creek. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: The album was presented by Lord Bledisloe to the Duke of Gloucester in Christmas 1934, during his visit to New Zealand.

Date: [ca 1931-1949]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-204

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1931-1949. Wellington - Bryant & May (employees playing tennis); Cenotaph with Government House and Parliament Building in background; Rangatira at Lyttelton Wharf; aerial view of railway station and wharves; aerial view of Kelburn, 1939; Pigeon Park showing Manners Street & Dixon Street intersection looking towards Courtenay Place; Weir House with Mount Victoria etc in background; elevated views of the city from Tinakori Hills; Sydney Street under construction, 1939; garages in Sydney Street; Herd Street Post Office, 1950; Wellington Zoo showing children having an elephant ride; Worser Bay; sunbathers at Oriental Bay; view of Oriental Bay from grassy area above the bay; inner city tennis club (with Carillon in background); Carlton Gore Road and Oriental Parade looking west; Jervois Quay showing intersection of Cable Street and Wakefield Street; houses above Evans Bay; houses at Days Bay; tree planting in Highbury Street, 1948; cars on Hutt motorway, 1947; traffic signs; pohutukawa tree on The Terrace, 1946; Queens Wharf, 1860; policeboat, 1948; tree planting at Kelburn/Highbury on Arbor Day 1948 (including photo of young Christopher Rollings); Percy Reserve, Lower Hutt. Auckland - Winter Gardens at Auckland Domain; Auckland War Memorial Museum; car boarding the vehicular ferry, 1935; Auckland Harbour Board crane being towed by the launch Te Hauraki at Auckland Western Viaduct, 1949. Quantity: 39 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 6 September 1990

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

By: Pigney, Ray, active 1988

Reference: EP/1990/3144-F

Description: Mike Moore leaving Government house, Wellington, after being sworn in as Prime Minister. Press photographs and a policemabn are in the background. Photographs taken 6 September 1990 by Evening Post staff photographer Ray Pigney. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1993

From: Arts Marketing Board of Aotearoa New Zealand :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-576

Description: Social event at Government House, Wellington, Launching AMBA in 1993 Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1912-1976

From: Blight, Davey Roach, 1905-1995 :Photographs of Wellington

Reference: PA1-o-1529

Description: Blight family home 52 Parkvale Road, Karori, ca 1912. Opening day for new Wellington motorway, 1968. Wedding, 1962. Postcards from Wales, Brighton, and Invercargill. The Bullen family, Tokoroa, 1970. Demolition of old Government House, preparation of site for Beehive, and construction of Beehive, 1969-1970. Wellington buildings and places include - Turnbull House, 1970. Upper Willis Street, 1970. Queens Wharf, 1970. Sailing ship `Gloria' at Overseas Terminal, 1970. Pier Hotel, 1970. Post Office Hotel, 1970. In most cases the date of dmolition of buildings is also noted. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1911]

Reference: 1/2-112430-F

Description: View of the gateway and gatehouse at the entrance to Government House, Wellington, circa 1911. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Entrance to Government House, Wellington. N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1910

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

Reference: 1/1-022810-G

Description: View of Newtown, Wellington, looking over houses on Tasman Street and Adelaide Road towards Government House and Mount View Asylum. Photographed 1910 by Sydney Charles Smith. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - top centre - Site of new Gov. Residence 1910 V23 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1940

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 7

By: Deste, Eileen, 1909-1986

Reference: PAColl-6001-23

Description: Looking over Newtown and Mt Cook, Wellington, from the playing field of Wellington East Girls' College, circa 1940. Government House is in the foreground. The Winter Show Buildings are on the left, middle ground. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: 1/1-019877-G

Description: Looks over Newtown, Wellington, circa 1910. Shows a portion of the new gardens at Government House in the foreground. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Government house was built during 1910 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [between 1952-1957]

From: S P Andrew Ltd :Portrait negatives

Reference: 1/1-018236-F

Description: Reception room at Government House, Newtown, Wellington. Photograph taken by S P Andrew Ltd, between 1952-1957, when Lord and Lady Norrie were in residence. Other - Another view of this room is at 1/1-018248 Source of descriptive information - Dated by Library client Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [between 1952-1957]

From: S P Andrew Ltd :Portrait negatives

Reference: 1/1-018240-F

Description: Government House and surrounding lawn. Photograph taken by S P Andrew Ltd between 1952-1957, when Lord and Lady Norrie were in residence. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Dated in relation to 1/1-018231, likely to have been taken at the same time. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1910s]

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

Reference: 1/1-020061-G

Description: Government House, Newtown, Wellington, during renovations, circa 1910s, photographed by S C Smith. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: 1/1-019882-G

Description: Government House and grounds, Wellington, circa 1910. The suburbs of Mount Cook and Newtown can be seen in the background. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).