Places

Date: August 1930

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

Reference: EP-Transport-Roads-Tunnels-01

Description: View of the western entrance of the Mount Victoria Tunnel under construction. Included in the view are houses at the southern end of Mount Victoria, Wellington East Girls Colledge, St Mark's Anglican Church, and part of the Basin Reserve. A tram can be seen turning into Rugby Street from Dufferin Street, and there is a view up Patterson Street above the approaches to the tunnel. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer in August 1930. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 21 x 16 cm

Date: 1901 - 1904

By: Caldwell, Robert, 1852-1918

Reference: MapColl-832.4799ekcmp/Ka/[1901-4]/Acc.25658

Description: Plan of Saint Mary's Anglican Church, Karori, Wellington, on the corner of Church Street and Karori Road, showing the outline of the original building, an addition, a proposed addition, paths leading to the vestry and main door, immediate grounds, and graveyard. Names on graves (some unable to decipher): Cole, Spiers, Sir Frederick Chapman, Newcombe Mills, Tonce, Home, Eagle, Heyes, Edwards, Lowe, Old, Thynne, Pollen, Bradnock, Burbery, Blake, Waters, Cameron, Gavin, Davis, Wallace, Cook, Fisher, Bulkley, Henderson, Williams, Horace, Edwards, Lancaster, Dasent, Caldwell, Lewer, Burn, Donald, A Brown, Slanden, Spiers, Campbell, Sedcole, Picot, Richards, Standen, Redward, Alington, Astwood, McKelvie, Benton, Barnes, Webb, S Bradnock, Whamby, Lancaster, Ballachey, Beauchamp, Thorby, Barnes, Gaskin, Eagle, Dryden, Cornford, Pratt, Dyer, Godfrey, Donald, Ashdown, Friend, Shotter, Moxham, Lewer, Evans, Frost, Buchanan, Fern, Porter, Skae, Bellett, Wallace, Tait, Mailin, Needham, Crossley, Hockley, Barnes, Kingdon, Egan, Ingle, Page, Hudson. Includes some pencil annotations Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, linen backed, 29.8 x 36.3 cm

Date: 1875 - 1885

By: Tronson, Fairlie Harold active 1883; Bock & Elliot (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-051-016

Description: View possibly from upper Dixon Street or McDonald Crescent, looking across Te Aro and up Willis Street towards Mount Victoria. St Peter's Church dominates the centre of the view and the Gasworks can be seen immediately to the left of the steeple of the church. Marjoribanks Street shows up clearly rising up Mount Victoria, and Oriental Bay, the entrance to Evans Bay and Miramar Peninsula are also clearly visible. Bush in the foreground, shops along Willis Street and several houses. In the right foreground is a large house with two steep gables, and a tree-filled garden, including two young Norfolk Pines. Note to A.H. Turnbull on corner. Other: The two-storied house in the right foreground may still be in existence in 2014, down a path leading from the lower end of The Terrace (formerly Woolcombe Street) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Two-tone lithograph 265 x325 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: Jan 1870

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA7-57-10

Description: View looking over Thorndon Flat towards the harbour on Wellington's 30th Anniversary Day. Houses in Hobson Street are on the extreme left and Molesworth Street is on the extreme right. The Princess Hotel can be seen at the insection of Molesworth Street with Murphy Street. St Paul's Cathedral on Mulgrave Street is visible in the middle distance. Tinakori Road runs from left to right in the immediate foreground. The flying squadron of British warships which accompanied the Duke of Edinburgh in his visit to New Zealand are at anchor in the harbour. Photograph taken by James Bragge in 1870. Identical image at PA7-57-12 Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Thorndon from Wadestown Hill 1869 [handwritten] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 29.5 x 38.5 mounted on card