Places

Date: [Between 1954 and 1968]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-200

Description: Album of photographs, some prints, some contacts from 35mm film, taken by Professor John Salmon in Wellington. Most of the images describe his use of different camera lenses and filters. Many of the scenes are taken from Professor Salmon's window at Victoria University of Wellington, showing different moods in different weather patterns. They include early morning, afternoon, and night views, northerly wind and southerly wind cloud patterns, including a southerly storm. He also has a large number of images of Wellington Harbour and wharves, again taken in different lights, showing ships, reflections and buildings. Other sequences show views of the Hutt Valley, Silverstream, and Glenmore Street in Wellington, many taken on misty early mornings. The last scenes are coloured photographs showing some of the decorations erected for the Royal visit of Queen Elizabeth II, in January 1954. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cream cover, Cobra ring binder; 30 x 24 cm

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: 1869

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

Reference: PAColl-D-0790

Description: View looking down onto the Terrace School and beyond that to Queen's Wharf and recently reclaimed land, and across the harbour to Roseneath and Oriental Bay. In the middle distance is the department store, Kirkcaldie & Stains, on Lambton Quay. Photograph taken by James Bragge in 1869, and print made from negative by R H Taylor ca 1907 Identical image at PA7-30-09, PA7-57-07, PAColl-D-0009. Image is in the centre of a panorama at PA6-271 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Protected R Taylor; Mount recto - beneath image - 1869 Lambton Quay & Queens Wharf from above the terrace 1869 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 290 x 390 mm mounted on card 485 x 550 mm

Date: [Between 1930 and 1934]

By: New Zealand Railways; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm); Mitchell, Lindsay, active 1930-1942

Reference: PA1-f-058

Description: Album of publicity photographs including designs for advertisements for use in the new Zealand Railway Magazine; designs for posters for use in Railways Ticket Offices and one for a large neon lighting sign "Suggested `Claude Neon' Display for New Zealand Railway Publicity Department, Wellington. `Travel by train'". One photograph is entitled "`Post' corner 1880. Now site of King's Chambers". A number of images show a [Labour Day?] parade of marching people, and floats some of which are advertising NZ Railways holiday destinations, with slogans reading `Come to Rotorua', `Come to Waitomo', `Come to The Chateau Tongariro'. There are designs of title pages for the New Zealand Railways Magazine; a view of a commemorative key with a sheaf of corn on the handle in a presentation box; and designs for a programme of events surround the laying of the foundation stone for the new Government Railway Station, Wellington, N.Z. by HRH the Duke of Gloucester, December 17th 1934. These are followed by photographs taken during the Duke's tour of New Zealand, including crowd scenes in Wellington, Maori celebrations of welcome at Ngaruawahia, and scenes in the Rotorua thermal area. There are a few individual and group portraits of the management and administrative staff of New Zealand Railways, most unidentified. Most of the images relate to the 1930s, but there are a few copies of earlier photographs. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, maroon spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C4'; 42 x 59 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: PA7-44-29

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

From: Estate of Mr and Mrs E S Knight :Photographs of Wellington

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: PA1-o-252

Description: Photograph album of views of Wellington, ranging from copies of early paintings from the 1840s, and early photographs up to the 1870s, to a series of postcards from the 1920s. Most of the early images have clear descriptions, giving year made, location, and in some cases further information about buildings that can be seen. For example, one view shows Kebble's house, now the site of the Grand Opera House. Views in the postcards are identified, but no dates are given. Most of the postcard views were taken by Sydney Charles Smith Inscriptions: Album page - `To E.S.K. with all good wishes for the 8th Nov. 1925, from a wellwisher' (illuminated inscription inside front cover) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Black album, entitled `Photographs'; `E.S.K.' lettered in lower right-hand corner; 26 x 33 cm

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: [1910s-1980s]

From: Castle family :Photographs

By: Spencer Digby Studios; Jauncey, Philip Henry, 1902-1982

Reference: PAColl-9642

Description: Photographs relating to the Castle family. Includes photographs of an organ at the Whanganui Museum, Wellington Zoo, voyage to England, views of London and other parts of England. Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s). 19 item(s) of photographic ephemera.

Date: Probably March 24 - 25 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8792

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides was probably taken earlier than those on some of the preceding sheets (information from his diary). This sheet contains images of Wellington, including Wellington Airport; views from Mount Victoria; around the Wellington coast including shore with marram grass and black-backed gulls; the Petone Settlers' Memorial; Marine Parade around Miramar, with the Monowai sailing through Wellington Heads; buildings in the city including Parliament Buildings, Government Buildings, Wakefield House at 90 The Terrace, used by the Founders Club; and an old two-storeyed wooden house on the Terrace; the Corinthic loading various goods at Wellington Wharves; Lambton Quay; Cable Car terminal and views of Wellington; and the Carter Observatory. Slides on this sheet are numbered 505-528, with a gap for no. 506. Arrangement: Image no. 506 (showing the view from Mount Victoria in Wellington) was taken as part of Williams' representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1851 - 1854

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

Reference: E-455-f-080-2

Description: A schooner in sail, anchored at a small distance from a wharf. Other ships and boats in the background. Inscriptions: Album page - on right of image: The "Governor Grey" Schooner plied regularly between Wanganui & Wellington. J[ohn] P[earse] took his passage to Wanganui by her but returned overland. With adverse winds anchored off Kapiti 3 days. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 70 x 110 mm

Date: [1869]

From: MacQuarrie, J T : Photographs of early Wellington

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

Reference: PA7-57-07

Description: View looking down onto the Terrace School and beyond that to Queen's wharf, and recently reclaimed land, and across the harbour to Roseneath and Oriental Bay. In the middle distance is the department store, Kirkcaldie & Stains, on Lambton Quay. Photograph taken by James Bragge in 1869, and print made from negative by R H Taylor ca 1907 Identical image at PA7-30-09 & PAColl-D-0009. Image is in the centre of a panorama at PA6-271 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Protected RHT Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 30 x 32 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: 190?

By: Frank Duncan and Company; Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PA1-o-1210

Description: Album of views of Wellington published ca 1905 by Frank Duncan & Co. Photographers include Zak and S C Smith. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchase, January 2004

Date: 1932-1962

Reference: PAColl-0566

Description: Photographs showing troops at the surrender ceremony in Singapore, 1945; shipping in New Zealand, Europe and the South Atlantic ca 1932, the airship Graf Zeppelin in the South Atlantic, 1932; North Atlantic Convoys, 1940. 1/4-057384 Arrangement: Prints at PAColl-0566-1. Negative at 1/4-057348. Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). 3 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1869

From: Wellington Historical and Early Settlers Association :Photographs

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

Reference: PA9-074

Description: View looking down onto The Terrace School and beyond that to Queens Wharf and recently reclaimed land, and across the harbour to Roseneath and Oriental Bay, Wellington. In the middle distance is the department store, Kirkcaldie & Stains, on Lambton Quay. Photograph taken by James Bragge in 1869, and print made from negative by R H Taylor ca 1907 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic print 26.8 x 35.1 cm [visible image], in frame 30.3 x 37.9 cm

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: [1869]

From: Government House Collection : Prints of Te Aro flat, Lambton Quay, Parliament Building, Government Buildings, Post Office and Governor's residence

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

Reference: PAColl-D-0009

Description: View looking down onto the Terrace School and beyond that to recently reclaimed land, Queen's Wharf and across the harbour to Roseneath and Oriental Bay. In the middle distance is the department store, Kirkcaldie & Stains, on Lambton Quay. Photograph taken by James Bragge in 1869, and print made from negative by R H Taylor ca 1907 Identical image at PA7-30-09 & PA7-57-07. Image is in the centre of a panorama at PA6-271 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Protected R Taylor; Backing board recto - beneath image - Part of old Lambton Quay and the Well[ingto]n Harbour taken fron the high ground behind the old Terrace School in or about the year 1865 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 29 x 39.4 cm

Date: 1868

By: Igglesden, Charles Moore, 1832-1920; Goodman Fielder Wattie (N.Z.)

Reference: C-119-022

Description: Shows in foreground a circular island of garden with a grass border, in the centre of a circular driveway. A gardener kneels to tend plants at the left, and a dog sits keeping him company. At the right is an herbaceous border, in front of the partly obscured Wellington Terrace. Across the Terrace is a wooden house with finials, brick chimney, shingled roof, and a "To Let" sign in the window. Beyond this in the right background is Wellington Harbour and the flat area of Lower Hutt. In the centre background behind the circular garden, is the shingle roof, finial, brick chimney, and H-shaped metal chimney-pot of a neighbouring house, possibly that owned in 1878/79 (see Wise's Post Office Directory) by Joseph Nancarrow. Beyond is a pier projecting out from Lambton Quay, with Midland Point beyond. In the left background is the Boys' Grammar School (with spire) on Clifton Terrace and further north St Mary's Church, Hill Street; on the crest of the hill on the top left now the area occupied by the suburb of Wadestown, is Captain William Barnard Rhodes' house, "The Grange". Sometimes entitled: "A Wellington resident's house and garden, Flagstaff Hill, above Boulcott Street, looking North towards the Hutt Valley" or "Wellington from Flagstaff Hill". Previously thought to be a view from Mr Hays' residence. Sharp's residence was on the upper side of the Terrace, probably just north of the present join with Salamanca Road. According to notes compiled by B. M. Igglesden, grandson (TL 3/1/1, 1 August 1985), the gardens of the property extended from Mount Street to Everton Terrace, and when the estate was later cut up, 25 homes were built on the land, including Sir Robert Stout's home. See also notes at TL 3/1/1, 8 May 1985, or the Evening Post of 29 September 1928, for notes about the Sharp household (and other houses on the Terrace). Other Titles - Wellington from Flagstaff Hill Other Titles - A Wellington resident's house and garden, Flagstaff Hill, above Boulcott Street, looking North towards the Hutt Valley. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Igglesden - Decr. 1868 Igglesden was the nephew of Captain Sharp, and was living in Wellington at this time, being commissioned a Lieutenant in No. 1 Company Wellington Militia on 2 December 1868. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 384 x 519 mm Provenance: Sold at Philips, London, September 1984. Bought by a Melbourne dealer for £2,100. Auctioned at McArthur's, 10 May 1985, and bought by the Goodman Group.

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877

Reference: A-329-009

Description: Shows a general view of Wellington Harbour, probably from the position of the Bolton Street Cemetery. There are several dwellings in the foreground, a flagpole on the foreshore at the left, near a wharf which juts out into the harbour. The flagpole probably marks the site of Government House. On the foreshore at centre right, is a building with a square turret, with a pointed roof, probably on Lambton Quay The house roof in the left near section adjacent to bushes and trees may be those of the house of Robert Park. His house was adjacent to and below the Bolton Street Cemetery Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - [Title]; (On edge of frame now discarded) - suggested date of around 1868. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 177 x 254 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Mr Handley Thomson, Silverstream.

Date: [ca 1866-1867]

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

Reference: 10x8-2083-G

Description: View taken from off-shore of buildings along Lambton Quay with Brandon's Corner on the far right. Houses on Wellington Terrace and beyond, and the Bolton Street Cemetery can be seen on the hill behind, with Tinakori Hill in the background. Identifiable premises on Lambton Quay are: T J Mountain; Edward Greaves Smith (Music Warehouse); Henry Owen; baker's shop; chemist & druggist; G Read; J Cook & Son. The Star Boating Club's shed can be seen on the waterfront. One of a panoramic sequence taken 1866 or 1867 by William Henry Whitmore Davis. Other - Sixth image from left in panoramic sequence 10x8-2078 to 10x8-2087 Relationship complexity - A print from this negative is at PA7-44-06 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 8 x 10 inches