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Date: 1920 - 1945

By: Matthews, Marmaduke, 1885?-1949; Hird, Edward James, 1924-2002

Reference: A-197-051

Description: A view of Worser Bay from Seatoun Heights, with people on the beach and small boats anchored nearby. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 195 x 266 mm. Provenance: Estate of Mr Edward James Hird, 2002.

Date: ca 1930s

From: Hird, Edward James, 1924-2002 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7754-2

Description: Loose photographs extracted from album (PA1-o-1549). Includes photographs of a hill climbing sports car event, sports car club meeting, Wellington beaches, Wellington suburbs and housing developments, and the construction of a house. Mr Hird was an electrical designer, involved in the development of television, designing radios for Sir Edmund Hillary in Antarctica, and was apparently in radio surveillance in WW2. His father taught at Seatoun school. Mr Hird lived most of his life in the house at Mantell Street. See 'Freedom' newspaper, 25 Nov 1953, p.6 re his involvement in developing television. He was also a jazz musician. Quantity: 79 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1925

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1052

Description: Album recording a motoring and camping holiday through the South Island of New Zealand. This took in the New Zealand South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and included the West Coast, Otago, and Canterbury. The central part of the album has images of Khandallah, Wellington, and the family home in that suburb. Family photographs include Doug on his Norton Motorcycle, and Jack and Neville similarly posed on a Douglas Motorcycle. Rene and Frank stand at the net holding tennis rackets, and mother has several images with young Joyce. The last part of the album recordes something of a holiday to Auckland where the family camped at Brown's Bay and took a trip to Kawau Island. A group shot on Mt Messanger on the way back and some views of Pukekura Park New Plymouth complete the album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1922 - 1923

By: City Printing Company; Wright & Carman Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-REAL-ESTATE-1922-01

Description: Shows a view of Lyall Bay. Accompany sheets promote the area as a place to live, and describe the marked growth in the suburb in the last 13 years. Prices of each section are listed, and it is implied that values will rise when the new tunnel is completed. Other Titles - Stellin Estate Date confirmed in Evening post, for 13 December 1922, property pages. The auction of the property in 72 section allotments was conducted by J H Bethune & Co. on 14 December 1922 at 2.30 pm. The vendor was Mr James Stellin. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on 3 sheets, each 250 x 314 mm. (Second sheet was originally larger)

Date: 1920 - 1945

By: Matthews, Marmaduke, 1885?-1949

Reference: A-197-050

Description: A view of Seatoun from Seatoun Heights, with a tree trunk and pine tree at the right. A ferry is steaming from the direction of the Heads. Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 140 x 189 mm. Provenance: Estate of Mr Edward James Hird, 2002.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-2031-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over Lowry Bay with Wellington Harbour and the beach on the left. A road runs along the foreshore. Houses on the slopes to the right of the beach with steep bush-clad hills behind. In the right foreground there is a single-storeyed house with verandahs along the front and an iron roof. Lawns in front of the house with shrubs, and a tennis court near the road. A gazebo, small outbuildings and a water tank in the back garden; rows of vegetables in a plot on a rise behind the house. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Lowry Bay. No. 383. Wellington; Marginal notes on negative - Lowry Bay Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 116.8 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: 1923

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

Reference: Pan-2033-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over Eastbourne North with Wellington Harbour, Ward Island, and the Eastbourne Pier on the right. Several dinghies drawn up on the beach; row of fishing nets and pots along a fence near the beach on the right. Houses on flat area on the right of Muritai Road and amongst trees on the slope to the left at the foot of steep bush-clad hills. The business premises of Wright and Kinvig (Builders) are visible in the centre middle distance. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Eastbourne North. 1923. No. 385; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - R P Moore's circular business stamp Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 25.7 x 108.5 cm

Date: 1923

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

Reference: Pan-2034-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over Eastbourne South from Muritai Park. The township is on flat land in the foreground with Wellington Harbour in the centre, Matiu/Somes Island on the right and Ward Island in the centre middle distance. Muritai Road runs below the hill in the foregound; St Alban's Anglican Church in Ngaio Street is seen in centre left of the image. Tennis courts near the water's edge in centre right middle distance. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Eastbourne South from Muritai Park. 1923; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - R P Moore's circular business stamp Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 25.7 x 94.0 cm

Date: [ca 1890-1900]

By: Foster, Susan E, 1946-; Beckett, Ethel Mary, active 1890s; Beckett, Amy Middleton, -1964; Beckett, Thomas Wrench Naylor, 1839-1906; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6244

Description: Photographs, mostly of the South Island, from the collection of the Beckett family. Most were taken by Ethel Mary Beckett, with some being the work of Amy Middleton Beckett. The work of Wheeler & Son, of Christchurch, and Albert E Winzenberg of Masterton is also represented. A photograph of Palmerston Atoll, in the Cook Islands, is included in the collection. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-181858-G to 1/2-181894-G Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s). 37 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

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

Reference: PA12-7809

Description: Transparency slides of Wellington and various locations, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: 2001 - 2002

From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]

By: McAlister, Olive, active 1968

Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-2002-04

Description: Each of the twelve openings shows an early photograph of the Seatoun, Karaka Bay, Fort Dorset, Worser Bay, Scorching Bay area. Includes a sepia reproduction of the painting "Wahine Day 10 April 1968", by Olive McAlister in August 1968. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on calendar pages, each 213 x 298 mm. Provenance: Donated by Barbara Brownlie in 2002.

Date: 1925

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

Reference: 1/2-045352-G

Description: Part 2 of a 2 part panorama of Lyall Bay, Wellington, showing Lyall Parade and the beach. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith in 1925. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1946

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

Reference: 1/2-046246-G

Description: A view of Paremata, taken in 1946 from the opposite side of the road bridge, showing a small sandy beach, and some yachts and dinghies. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [192-?]

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

Reference: 1/2-048182-G

Description: Overlooking the suburb of Muritai, Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, Wellington. Shows houses by the beach. Photograph taken circa 1920s by Sydney Charles Smith. Source of descriptive information - Photographer's inscription on negative. Date estimated by cataloguer. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Muritai Eastbourne Wellington NZ SC Smith Photo Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

By: Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: 1/2-C-03315-F

Description: A view of Worser Bay showing the rocky beach. There are a few people in the water. Photograph taken by Joseph Zachariah. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Photographer's title: Worser Bay - Wellington N.Z> "ZAK" photo 737 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

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

Reference: 1/2-046845-G

Description: A view overlooking Paekakariki. Shows the main highway with houses between it and the sea and tussock hills on the right of it. Photograph taken by Charles Sydney Smith.

Date: 1925

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

Reference: 1/2-045357-G

Description: Lyall Bay, Wellington, in 1925, showing houses, streets, beach and coastline. The power house at Evans Bay can be seen in the distance. There is a long line of cars parked on the Parade and a few trams being driven. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1925

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

Reference: 1/2-045356-G

Description: Overlooking the suburb of Lyall Bay, Wellington, in 1925. Lyall Parade runs alongside the waterfront. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Reference: 1/2-C-002249-F

Description: Looking down over Lyall Bay, Wellington, showing houses, streets and some figures in the distance. The beach is on the right. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).