Places

Date: 1965

By: Fowler, Edward Michael Coulson (Sir), 1929-2022

Reference: E-278-q-056

Description: View of the boat sheds and yacht harbour at Oriental Bay, Wellington. Freyberg Pool can be seen in the distance, and St Gerard's Monastery on the hill above. On recto: `This sketch of mine is of the yacht harbour and St gerards. help me and the whole Citizens Team make this city an even more beautiful and exciting place in which to live. Michael Fowler, Citizens Mayoral Candidate'. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 108 x 155 mm

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

Reference: PAColl-6952

Description: 13 miscellaneous images: a house with a verandah and deck chairs; two of battleships, one moored at Overseas Terminal; the marina at Oriental Bay with the boathouses and Mount Victoria in the background; a view over Island Bay; a field of hay stacks; a large railway junction with various rolling stock and chimneys in the background; a view over Days Bay including the pier; men and women rock climbing; two motor buses outside a large house, possibly a hotel, with people milling around; the door to the Observatory Tower at the University of Canterbury; HMS Hood moored at an unidentified location; and people cooking outdoors under an awning. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-058211 to 058223 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: [ca 1950s]

Reference: PAColl-7022

Description: Views of the beach at Pukerua Bay with maintenance to prevent erosion. Also views of a house built on the beach including one of the owners on the verandah. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-099111 to 099118 Quantity: 8 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1965

From: Fowler, Edward Michael Coulson 1929- :Wellington prints [by] Michael Fowler. [Wellington, Whitcombe & Tombs, 1971]

Reference: B-086-065

Description: Front cover of Folio II. View of the boat sheds and yacht harbour at Oriental Bay, Wellington. Freyberg Pool can be seen in the distance, and St Gerard's Monastery on the hill above. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 215 x 324 mm

Date: ca 1890

From: Barrer, Nina Agatha Rosamond, 1879-1965 : Photographs of Rolleston House students at Canterbury University, Wellington Harbour Board and others

Reference: PAColl-0732-3

Description: Postcard of the boathouses on Oriental Bay with the houses of Mount Victoria behind them. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Sloane, Andrew Dunbar, 1878-1957

Reference: Pan-1924-F

Description: Panoramic view of Titahi Bay with the bay and the beach across the image to the right. There are several boatsheds at the near end of the beach in the left foreground. A large two-storeyed hotel building above the boatsheds with the sign "Titahi Bay Club" has verandahs on both floors. A road winds down to the beach past the club. There are a number of houses in the village on the left of the road with a few large ones, mostly smaller. Several cottages above the beach centre right, and several others with more land around them on a rise to the right of the road. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Dunbar Sloan [i.e. Sloane]. Titahi Bay Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 123.2 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1925-F

Description: Panoramic view of the northern end of Titahi Bay with the Titahi Bay Club (Hotel) centre right. It is a two-storeyed building advertising `Luncheon, Afternoon Tea, Hot Water'. Verandahs on both floors on the left of the building, with a fire escape from the upper floor on the right. On the beach below on the left there are a number of boatsheds. Houses are visible behind the club on the right, and on a slope to the left with a fenced grassy field above a sheer cliff in the centre of the image. Mana Island is partially visible in the middle distance. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 109.0 cm

Date: 1965

From: Fowler, Edward Michael Coulson 1929- :Wellington prints [by] Michael Fowler. [Wellington, Whitcombe & Tombs, 1971]

Reference: B-086-060

Description: View of the boat sheds and yacht harbour at Oriental Bay, Wellington. Freyberg Pool can be seen in the distance, and St Gerard's Monastery on the hill above. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 215 x 324 mm

Date: 1920 - 1930

From: [Gifford, Algernon Charles] 1862-1948 :[Unidentified views of New Zealand. ca 1920]

Reference: A-205-017

Description: Looking across water towards houses clustered around a beach, high hills behind. A fishing boat is in the water Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 254 x 356 mm

Date: [ca 1940s]

Reference: PAColl-6960

Description: An assorted collection including a number of images of scouts camping, being taught to light fires etc. Also included are a number of family groups taken in a garden, a trig point on a hilltop, battleships moored in a harbour, electric train in Wellington Railway Station etc. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059018 to 059111 Quantity: 94 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1950 to 1957

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-014

Description: Adkin album. Wellington (2), nos. 241-441. Views of Wellington taken between 1950 and 1957. Includes harbour swim event at Evans Bay, 26 February 1950; speedboat contests at Evans Bay, 4 March 1950; Patent slip and the Union Steam Ship Co's wharf at Evans Bay; tulip Sunday at the Wellington Botanic Garden (15 October 1950); Evans Bay Yacht Club yard in use as a temporary base for Solent flying boats with the Ararangi at a mooring; various views of reclamation undertaken by TEAL for their flying boat service at Evans Bay, and flying boats. Many of the images in this album are linked with Evans Bay, as Adkin was living at 424 Evans Bay Parade in the 1950s, several images showing the house. Views of Wellington from the Mount Victoria lookout and from the Tinakori Ridge Radio Station, in 1952; the old Robert Hannah residence in Boulcott Street; views of the inner city including the upper end of Ghuznee St., Upper Willis St., the Children's Dental Clinic. Image no. 313 shows a house at 214 Upper Willis Street (known as Restwyn), taken in Feb 1953, while image no. 434 shows the same site in January 1957 after the house had been demolished. Numbers of images show preparations and decorations for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. There are many photographs of preparation for extending the airport at Rongotai, showing Moa Point Hill in course of destruction to provide spoil for reclamation, and also Rongotai Ridge, with one view of a house being moved from the ridge, also showing development of the breakwater at Moa Point, all taken betwen 1953 and 1957. A 1954 image shows an extension to the Town Hall under construction for municipal offices in December 1953; the Hinemoa at No. 1 Ferry Wharf; preparations and decorations for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in December 1953, including decorations at the Railway Station, Defence Stores Building in Featherston St., Kirkcaldie & Stains, James Smiths Corner, DIC, and the GPO. Image taken in March 1956 shows a house with turret on the corner of Upper Willis St and Aro St (a house which was shown in CD Barraud's painting of 1877). Views of yachting in the harbour, Ward Island, and the Eastbourne seawall. Outcast yacht is pictured.

Date: 1896 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-035

Description: Shows Eridge, the house and garden of J F and Robert Maunsell, on a hill in Masterton, with Lansdowne Lake at the foot of the hill, a boatshed at the shore. There are futher hills in the background The house, completed 1895, was the town house of brother J F and Robert Maunsell, who farmed Tinui Station, to the east. The lake was an artificial one. The remains of the house still stand in Titoki Street, Masterton Other Titles - Maunsell Inscriptions: Recto - [on opposite page of sketchbook] W [or Mr] Maunsel's Masterton Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

Date: April - December 2008

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000252

Description: Photographs of the exterior of buildings in Wellington, Upper Hutt, Wairarapa and Kapiti Coast, taken from April to December 2008. Includes Martinborough Town Hall. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within folders called "New Zealand Buildings April to July 2008" and "New Zealand Buildings July to December 2008" Quantity: 70 digital photograph(s).

Date: [ca 1906]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001213-G

Description: View taken from Oriental Parade (in the vicinity of Oriental Terrace) looking east showing the houses on Oriental Parade and on the hill overlooking the bay. A boathouse is on the foreshore in the middle distance. Children are playing on the beach near the boat house and a woman and child are sitting on the beach in the immediate foreground. Photograph taken by William Archer Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Oriental Bay. Wellington. 615 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1940

Reference: 1/2-004267-F

Description: Looking from the sundial and park benches on Herd Street, over to yachts in the Clyde Quay Marina as well as the boat sheds and houses on Oriental Bay. St Gerard's Monastery is on the distance, centre left. A man sits on one of the park benches in the foreground. Photograph taken in Wellington in 1940. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1921

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

Reference: 1/2-047929-G

Description: The beach at Island Bay, Wellington in 1921, showing people on the sand and in the water, and one man on the diving platform. On the near left is the boat house and farther on are the ladies bathing sheds. There are two residential houses in the background. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [Circa 1924 to 1926]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-0606-1/2-G

Description: View of the boat harbour in Oriental Bay, Wellington, circa 1920s. Shows people in a small cutter "Oyster" moored next to the boat ramp, and another boat anchored further out. People mull around in front of the boat houses on the shore, and houses are visible in the background. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post newspaper. Possibly a welcome party for the vessel when she was first owned in Wellington. From box containing EP-0578 to 0626 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: ca 1890s

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10X8-0006-G

Description: Looking down Oriental Parade with houses on the right and Oriental Bay on the left. Taken by the Tyree Studio circa 1890s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - ORIENTAL BAY, WELLINGTON. TYREE. PHOTO. NELSON Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: 1/1-022762-G

Description: A view of the boat harbour in Oriental Bay, Wellington, 1910, showing the boats, boathouses and some residential houses in the background. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1940s]

From: Feisst, A fl 1977 :Negatives and photographs, mostly of Lower Hutt and Wellington

Reference: 1/4-027664-F

Description: View of small boats and yachts anchored in the boat harbour at Oriental Bay, Wellington. Shows moored boats, along with boatsheds on the shore, and houses in the background. St Gerards Catholic church can be seen on the hill overlooking the harbour. Photograph taken circa 1940s, by A Feisst. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative