Places

Date: 1931 - 1939

From: Wickham, Charles, 1853-1940s :Family album. Uncle Charlie's unfinished drawings. [1926-1941].

Reference: E-563-q-26

Description: Shows a sketch of Days Bay from the south, looking along the beach towards the pier in the background. In the foreground are two isolated sheds, possibly used as changing sheds. One of them has wheels. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) inserted into slits in page of album.. Physical Description: Pencil, ink and watercolour, 183 x 248 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Mr Thomas H Hudson of England in 1997.

Date: 1931 - 1939

From: Wickham, Charles, 1853-1940s :Family album. Uncle Charlie's unfinished drawings. [1926-1941].

Reference: E-563-q-25

Description: Shows a sketch of Days Bay from the north, looking along the beach towards the pier in the right background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) inserted into slits in page of album.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 188 x 253 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Mr Thomas H Hudson of England in 1997.

Date: ca 1900

Reference: 1/2-003874-F

Description: A view of the beach at Days Bay with a boy in a sailor suit in the foreground sitting next to the stream that crosses the beach. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1930 - 1992 - 1939

Reference: E-498-038

Description: View from the water (or a rocky outcrop in the water) looking back towards the beach with houses, cars parked at the edge of beach, rowing boats at water's edge, seagulls on rocks in the foreground A greetings card reproducing a watercolour in the Library's collections, A-090-039 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on greeting card.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on card, 118 x 178 mm. (folded)

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039506-G

Description: Overlooking Days Bay, with The Pavilion, sportsfield, beach and the ferry Duchess at the jetty. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: ca 1900-1915

Reference: PAColl-7391

Description: Two photographs of the view across Wellington Harbour from near Pencarrow Head to Seatoun and Point Dorset; three photographs of the rocks and beaches around Point Dorset and The Pinnacles; people on the beach and in the sea at Lyall Bay; two men and a woman amongst the pine trees in Newtown Park; a woman in the Wellington Botanic Gardens with Glenmore Street behind her; three views looking down on the houses around Oriental Bay; next to the harbour on Oriental Bay showing the tram lines; the convalescent home on Mount Victoria above Oriental Bay; horses grazing with Evans Bay and the Miramar peninsula in the background; the SS Hawera and SS Haupiri in the patent slip at Evans Bay; the patent slip and the Union Steam Ship Company laundry at Evans Bay; a man and a woman on a path through the bush at Days Bay; looking over Roseneath towards Somes Island; and a yacht sailing at sunset near Pencarrow Head. Photographer unidentified. All the negatives have similar numbering and lettering on the reverse. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003942 to 003961, 003963 to 003964, and 003981 to 003985. 1/2-003982 is missing and has been entered as a copy negative to a print at PAColl-7081-53. Other negatives have been entered as child records of this collection. Quantity: 27 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1924

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2014-F

Description: Panoramic view showing crowds of people on a grassed area in the centre, and several tents. On the left there is a board reading "Eastbourne Borough Council Tennis Court Bookings" in front of groups on the tennis courts. The beach and sea are on the right where there are some swimmers and some people picnicking and walking on the beach. Houses at the back of the recreation ground at the base of steep hills, bush-clad in parts. Wellington Heads centre right. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Eastbourne Recreation Grounds. Rona Bay, from Refreshment Pavilion. 1924. No. 356 Relationship complexity - Print available at PA6-321 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 110.8 cm

Date: 1927

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2032-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over Days Bay with Wellington Harbour, the Days Bay Wharf and the Wellington Heads on the right. Houses on the slopes and up amongst trees at the foot of bush-clad hills. The Days Bay ferry is moored on the far side of the pier, the Days Bay Pavilion is in the centre of the image with lawns by the road. People playing tennis on courts to the left of the pavilion and behind a large two-storeyed building (side view, then Croydon School, later Wellesley College). Grassed court in the left foreground with small clubhouse in front of the two-storeyed building. Eastbourne can be seen in the centre right in the distance. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Days Bay. No. 384. 1927 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 100.5 cm

Date: [1900s-1910s]

From: Hall, George Patterson, 1875-1958: Photographs of Campbell Island, early whaling, and others

Reference: PA1-o-1639

Description: Photographs of maritime life, including wreck of ship Knight of the Garter, whaling from the Whangamumu whaling station, and coastal shipping, compiled by Captain G P Hall ca 1900s-1910s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 235 x 300 mm

Date: ca 1880-1920

Reference: PAColl-6613

Description: 4 images of Wellington harbour ferries: one of a ferry at the pier in Day's Bay with a mother and daughter on the beach in the foreground, described on the reverse of the file print as Mr Hugh Downe's Bay View House; a panorama of a ferry at the pier showing the football pitches in Williams Park; one of a ferry leaving Wellington; and one of the pleasure gardens and boating pond in Day's Bay. One of the ferries may be the Duchess. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-018459 to 018462 Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7808

Description: Transparency slides of Wellington and other various locations, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: 1909

From: Medley, Mary Catherine 1835-1922 :Mary Medley [Sketchbook] No. 13 1909-1919.

Reference: E-378-001/002

Description: A scene at Days Bay in 1909 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Days Bay 1909 Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double page). Physical Description: Pencil, 163 x 447 cm (page size)

Date: 1930 - 1992 - 1939

Reference: E-498-038-a

Description: View from the water (or a rocky outcrop in the water) looking back towards the beach with houses, cars parked at the edge of beach, rowing boats at water's edge, seagulls on rocks in the foreground A greetings card reproducing a watercolour in the Library's collections, reference A-090-039 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on greeting card.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on card, 118 x 178 mm. (folded)

Date: [ca 1910-1925]

Reference: PAColl-6963

Description: Assorted views of army life and family photographs many of them taken on a beach. One of a hot air balloon is advertising Hudson's Baking Powder with the slogan "Bound to Rise". Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059554 to 059869 and 106041 to 106083 Quantity: 316 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039489-G

Description: Children riding donkeys at Days Bay. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039509-G

Description: Bathers at Days Bay. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1930

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

Reference: 1/2-048206-G

Description: People on the beach at Days Bay, Lower Hutt, in 1930. Includes a man in a bathing costume, women with parasols and sun hats and a baby in a pram in the foreground. The ferry `Muritai' is docked at the Days Bay Wharf in the background. Appears to have been taken on the same day as 1/2-048207. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1930 - 1939

Reference: A-090-039

Description: View from the water (or a rocky outcrop in the water) looking back towards the beach with houses, cars parked at the edge of beach, rowing boats at water's edge, seagulls on rocks in the foreground Title from verso Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in brushpoint Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 290 x 392 mm

Date: 1930

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

Reference: 1/2-048208-G

Description: Days Bay beach, 1930. Shows the wharf and ferries in the middle ground. Photogaph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Heinz, William Frederick, 1899-1976: Photographs and negatives of gold mining and other facets of the West Coast

Reference: 1/2-054196-G

Description: View looking north west from Days Bay toward Somes Island, Wellington Harbour, circa 1900. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative