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: 1885

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: E-964-q-003

Description: A view across Lake Rotoroa, in Hamilton. On a rise above the opposite bank is the Lake House, designed and built about 1872. Two smaller buildings sit further to the right, on the shores of the lake. A small, lone yacht sails on the water. A range of hills can be seen in the distance, possibly the Hakarimata Range Other Titles - Lake Rotoroa, Hamilton Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Lake Hamilton [in ink] 102 Lake Crescent, Hamilton was designed by architect Isaac Richardson Vialou and built in 1872 for Alfred Cox. It was later owned by Harold Bullock-Webster Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on wove paper, 150 x 260 mm (image)

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: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1721-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across Elaine Bay to a single-storeyed house at the base of the hill centre right. Trees behind, high cleared hills in the background. Boatshed and jetty at the water's edge. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - 8 8 8 8 [in list formation]; Photographer's title on negative - Elaine Bay. No. 436. Pelorous [i.e. Pelorus] Sounds. New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 114.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Brownlie, J M, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1728-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across at a single-storeyed farmhouse on a knoll above the water, centre left. An area of cultivated land on lower slope and a boatshed and jetty partially visible. Lawn in front of the house with an area of newly planted shrubs [orchard?] nearer the camera. Trees by the water's edge. Netting fencing far right, cleared hills across the bay. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1724 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "The Rocks" Pelorous [i.e. Pelorus] Sounds; Marginal notes on negative - J.M. Brownlie. The Rocks. Pelorus Sounds; Marginal notes on negative - 4 4 4 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 118.0 cm

Date: [Between 1923 and 1928]

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

Reference: Pan-2021-F

Description: Panoramic view showing a single-storeyed wooden house on the far left with a road running past on the right alongside the Whanganui River. A gravel drive leads up to the house on the far left. A large lawn in the centre, and a man standing with a gardening implement by a flower bed in the centre. Trees along the far side of the section. Boats and boatsheds are visible on the far side of the river with rows of houses on the ridge above. Bench seat across the road facing the river. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Source of descriptive information - Description and location from other images in R P Moore's own numerical sequence which were taken at Aramoho Relationship complexity - See also 1/2-134200-F Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 114.0 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: 28 January - 2 February 1959

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

Reference: PA12-8779

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides includes views of Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers, Gillespies Beach, Revingtons Hotel (Greymouth), over the Lewis Pass by bus to Christchurch. There he shows views of Warner's Hotel, a large Victorian house, a boathouse on the River Avon, a view from the Summit Road, Lyttelton Harbour and Homebush (home of the Deans family at Darfield). From Christchurch views include the Rakaia River and Lake Coleridge. Slides on this sheet are numbered 148A-174 with gaps for those removed for lectures on New Zealand. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. 149-151, 154-155, 158-159, 161-162, 166, 168, 172) showing views of Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers, Maruia Springs, over the Lewis Pass, views of Christchurch (including Christchurch Cathedral and Cathedral Square, the River Avon and Scott's Statue), and the Rakaia River. These were taken as part of a 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: 15 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

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: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: 1/2-001214-G

Description: View of Oriental Bay taken from the beach looking east across the bay to the houses on the hill overlooking the bay. There are several boathouses on the foreshore and houses line Oriental Parade. In the foreground is a man in a rowboat near to the shore. Men and boys are gathered on the beach watching him. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Oriental Bay. Wellington. 628 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1910

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

Reference: 1/1-022761-G

Description: Looking south east across Oriental Bay, Wellington, in 1910, with the boat harbour in the foreground. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1896

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: D-035-001

Description: Looking north from southern Fyffe's Bay towards Kaikoura township and the Seaward Kaikoura Range. Fyffe House, two boatsheds and a stone wharf are in the middle distance. In the left foreground is a man with a beached fishing boat. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - W F Barraud 1896 [in brown brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour