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Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-032/034

Description: Shows views in the Wellington area. The top view looks across cleared land towards Porirua Harbour, with cows grazing; the central view looks north along Lambton Quay with Barrett's Hotel and other buildings on the left, a group of Maori seated and standing on the waterfront to the right; the bottom view is of a rocky archway on the coast between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki Other Titles - Porirua Other Titles - Paripari Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870; Hutchison, Alan James Hanna, 1905-2000

Reference: A-259-042

Description: Shows views in the Wellington area. Other Titles - Porirua Paripari Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: circa 1890-1910

From: Shaw, G W :Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna

By: Wilson, Alex R, active 1900s; Shaw, Helen M G, active 1976

Reference: PA1-q-269

Description: Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna. William M Wilson was born in Glasgow in 1868, coming to New Zealand when 8 years of age. He was apprenticed to John Fitchett, coach builder in Wellington, then with other firms including Rouse & Hurrell. He was employed by Wilfred Woolf in Eketahuna in 1894, and subsequently bought his business, and entered the firm of Kibblewhite and Wilson. See Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Wellington Provincial District, Eketahuna. Includes dwellings; carriages; group outings and portraits; 1 of the Club Hotel of F D Pelling; 3 of the Ryan family at Tawa Flat; 1 of a house at Island Bay, 1 of a thatched whare at Plimmerton, a Ghuznee St boarding house; 2 relating to the Burnett family; 2 scenes in Manakau; 1 of D A Greenlees store; 2 of Rarotanga; 2 relating to the business of Lyon & Blair, steam printers and lithographers; 1 of a group outside a house in Eastbourne; 3 relating to the Manson family; 1 of a military camp in New Zealand in preparation for the South African War. Also includes a pocket on the inside back cover containing newspaper clippings, and a photocopy of a letter written by the donor Mrs Helen M G Shaw, which gives some information about the album. Inscriptions: Album page - Alex R Wilson, Central Terrace, Kelburne, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover; 28.5 x 20.5 cm

Date: 1950

By: New Zealand. Embassy (United States)

Reference: PAColl-4551

Description: Two photographs of an ANZAC Day parade in Wellington in 1950. The first shows a military band and returned servicemen walking past the war memorial at the bottom of Bowen Street with spectators lining the streets. The second shows bands, including pipe bands, coming from the direction of the Hotel Cecil and Molesworth Street towards the memorial (which is not in the picture) also watched by spectators. The Artcraft Theatre can be seen on the right. Photographer unidentified. Photograph of people sun-bathing on Kaiteriteri beach ca 1950s with the printed caption "Kaitere Beach, Nelson, South Island, New Zealand". Photographer unidentified. A stamp on the reverse of the prints reads: To Be Returned To New Zealand Embassy 16 Observatory Circle N W, Washington 8, D C. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).

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: [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: [ca 1860s-1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6886

Description: 22 images: 18 are copy negatives of images in books of Old Wellington in the 1860s many of which are captioned; two are of people milling around in front of the Cathedral in Christchurch; one is of the ship Marama ca 1920s; and one is probably an original negative of two older children and a baby in a garden. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044160 to 044181 Quantity: 22 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate copy negatives

Date: [ca 1866-1867]

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

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-44-29

Description: View of the buildings along Lambton Quay extending south from Brown's Wharf on the far left. Sweeney's Nelson Hotel can be identified in the centre. Houses on Wellington Terrace and further up can be clearly seen. One of a series of panoramic views of Lambton Quay taken by W H W Davis ca 1866-1867. Forms panorama with PA-7-44-06 (1/2-052975). Almost identical image to PA7-44-28 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: ca 1920

By: Hewitt, George R, active 1920-1985

Reference: PAColl-0601

Description: Postcards collected by the depositor while working as an able seaman on HMS Renown during the tour by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Black and white postcards of Auckland, Christchurch, particularly the botanic gardens, Lyttelton, Picton, and Samoa and colour postcards of Wellington. Quantity: 43 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1851

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: McCleverty, William Anson, 1806-1897

Reference: E-144-046-2

Description: Looking down Molesworth Street to Wellington Harbour, with Government House and its flagpole and sentry box on the right. Three Maori stand in the road with a dog. A fourth man is seated by the roadside. The cliff above Lambton Quay is in the right background. Several shops in the harbour. A building, probably Barrett's Hotel is at the foot of the road, by the harbour. Part of another building is on the left, with three European men seated in the shade outside Other Titles - Government Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - W M 1851 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour, original 8.4 x 12.6 inches

Date: [ca 1866]

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

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-44-08

Description: View of the intersection of Lambton Quay and Charlotte Street (later known as Molesworth Street), Wellington. Photograph taken from the waterfront looking towards Tinakori Hill by William Henry Whitmore Davis. At the extreme left is the house of `Squatter' Jones, with Government House immediately to the right. In the foreground to the right are the houses of Dr Samuel Evans (on the corber of Charlotte Street), and Barrett's Hotel. Behind them are Parliament Buildings and St Mary's Cathedral. One of a series of panoramic views of Lambton Quay and Thorndon Quay taken by Davis, ca 1866-1867. Relationship complexity - Albumen prints at PA7-43-06 and PA7-09-02. Copy negative 1/2-052974 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21 x 26.8 cm

Date: [ca 1866-1867]

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

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-44-28

Description: View of the buildings along Lambton Quay extending south from Brown's Wharf on the far left. Sweeney's Nelson Hotel can be identified in the centre. Houses on Wellington Terrace and further up can be clearly seen. One of a series of panoramic views of Lambton Quay taken by W H W Davis ca 1866-1867. Forms panorama with PA-7-44-06 (1/2-052975) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: ca 1878-1885

Reference: PAColl-7556

Description: Photographs of: the Supreme Court and Government Buildings with Government House in the background and wasteland in the foreground ca 1880; Courtenay Place looking towards Mount Victoria with City Hotel on a corner on the left ca 1880s; looking up a wharf with railway tracks running down it towards Thorndon and Tinakori Hill with St Paul's Church on the right ca 1880; two further views of Customhouse Quay taken from the harbour one with the New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Co Ltd on the left ca 1878; and the view over the roofs of commercial buildings on Grey Street towards ships moored in the harbour ca 1880s. Photographer unidentified. 1/2-005777 contains two negatives of different prints of the same image. 1/2-005777b has the additional caption "National Club and Johnston's corner of Featherston and Panama Streets". Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-005775 to 005780 Quantity: 6 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1852

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

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

Reference: E-455-f-030-1-1

Description: Key, listing the numbered features: Te Aro Pah, Thormium [phormium] tenax vulgarly called flax, Wellington Terrace, Noah's Ark or Plimmer's Wharf, Tinakori Road and on to Karori, Town Belt, English Church, Catholic Chapel, Baron Alzdorf's new hotel, Government House, Wades Town, Thorndon Flat, Pipitea Point & native pah, Mr Hart's offices (on sail of vessel), [....] Hutt Road. Quantity: 1 holograph. Physical Description: Ink

Date: 1856

By: Holmes, William Howard, 1825-1885

Reference: B-139-017

Description: Shows a view along the Wellington shoreline, looking north. Part of Barrett's Hotel is shown on the extreme left, beside a classical revival building. There are shops in the distance. A red-coated soldier leans against the door to Barrett's Hotel. A small rowboat is in the sea to the right of the road Title on engraved plate on frame. Artist attributed because of similarity of subject to Holmes' "Wellington Beach 1856" (A-032-040). The work is not as finished as that one however. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 241 x 343 mm (sight) Provenance: Prior to that in the collection of Mr Charles Levin of Sanson, descendant of W. H. Levin.

Date: 1852

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

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

Reference: E-455-f-030-1

Description: Shows a view of Wellington Harbour with sailing ships in port, as seen from the east side of the harbour, looking towards Lambton Quay. Clay Point is marked with a cross. Beneath the work, there is a key, listing lettered features: 'P. Te Aro Pah; 1.Thormium [phormium] tenax vulgarly called flax; W. Wellington Terrace; N. Noah's Ark or Plimmer's Wharf; T. K. Tinakori Road and on to Karori; B. Town Belt; L. English Church, C. Catholic Chapel; a. Baron Alzdorf's new hotel; g. Government House; W. Wades Town [Wadestown]; T. F. Thorndon Flat; p. Pipitea Point & native pah, H. Commencement of Hutt Road. H. Mr Hart's offices (on sail of vessel); X. Clay Point Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Lambton Quay - Wellington N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 193 x 293 mm.

Date: 1867

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

Reference: 10x8-2084-G

Description: Intersection of Lambton Quay and Molesworth Street, Wellington, from Wellington Harbour looking towards Tinakori Hill, photographed 1867 by William Henry Whitmore Davis. At extreme left is the house of "Squatter" Jones, with Government House immediately to the right. At the right, in the foreground are the house of Dr G Samuel Evans, on the corner of Charlotte (Molesworth) Street, and Barrett's Hotel. Behind them are Parliament Buildings and St Mary's Cathedral. Other - Seventh image from left in panoramic sequence 10x8-2078 to 10x8-2087 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 8 x 10 inches Processing information: Record updated on 7 July 2023 to change date from 1866 to 1867 on advice of a researcher concerning the spire on St Mary's Cathedral opened in November 1867.

Date: 1849

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-071

Description: View from Hill Street area looking south past the garden of Government House (now the site of the Beehive) on the far left, (with what is probably Alfred Domett's garden in the foreground), and towards the original St Paul's Church (Museum Street), along Lambton Quay (the shoreline) and The Terrace (marked as Constitution Hill here), with Te Aro, including the Pa and Mount Cook, with the military barracks in the distance. Stables are also indicated written on the roof of a building beyond the fence of Government House and above Lambton Quay. "The Baron's" (the hotel of Baron von Alzdorf) is indicated too, along Lambton Quay. This drawing forms an inexact panorama with A-292-070. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil with ink inscriptions on paper, 231 x 331 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1842

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: G-653

Description: Shows Thorndon and Te Aro, stores, houses, hotels, wharves, flagstaff, the Exchange, customhouse office, post office, man on horseback, settlers, Maoris, and ships in the harbour Original of: Day & Haghe. The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington. Published in Wakefield, E.J. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, 1845. Plate 4. For identification of buildings, refer to text of this publication. Smith was a New Zealand Company employee at the time of painting this oil and it was probably painted for the Company or as a promotion for colonisation of Wellington. Dimensions including frame: 460 x 1195 mm. Earlier frame, replaced in 1986 and again in 1990 included rounded upper inner corners. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 320 x 1060 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull?

Date: [ca 1900-1920]

By: Parton, L I, active 1968; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; William Beattie & Company; Aldersley, David James, 1862-1928; Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: PAColl-4601

Description: Postcards of: the old gun on Mount Victoria; the General Post Office, Wellington lit up with lights for coronation night 1902; parade at Newtown Park on Dominion Day 1907 with the gun from HMS Challenger; Lord Plunket inspecting troops during the Dominion Day parade 1907; spectators at the Dominion Day celebrations in Newtown Park, taken by Zak 1908; battalions marching past on Dominion Day 1907, taken by Zak; the junction of Wills Street and Lambton Quay with the Bank of New Zealand on the left; looking along Lambton Quay towards Willis Street with the Wellington Investment Trustee & Agency Co Ltd on the left; Lambton Quay at the Government Buildings with Quinton's Corner on the right; the Makohine Viaduct on the Main Trunk Railway (taken by Aldersley); the Hapuawhenua Viaduct on the main trunk line taken by Frederick Radcliffe; Raurimu at the foot of the spiral with the railway track in the foreground; the fire on the High Street, Christchurch February 6th 1908; the Salvation Army Rescue and Children's Home, Newtown (in colour); Maori carved house called Takitimu at Martinborough with pakeha visitors outside it; two of the view from Tinakori Hill over to Wellington harbour with Tinakori Road in the foreground and Bolton Street cemetery to the right; a view looking west along Oriental Bay towards St Gerard's Monastery with a billboard for Crescent Tea on a shop to the left; a locomotive going through Ohakune railway station; a fire in Courtenay Place in which six shops were demolished; the interior of the conservatory at Wainoni Park, Christchurch with chrysanthemums; River entrance to Wainoni Park, Christchurch; The lion at Wellington Zoo called 'King Dick', possibly photographed by Zak Studios; Main Street, Ohakune, photographed circa 1 June 1908 by William Beattie and Company; Opening of the Victoria Bowling Club, Wellington, 1908, photographed by Joseph Zachariah. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 1 b&w copy negative(s).