Places

Date: [ca 1880]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-12-24

Description: View of the Government Building and Supreme Court on Lambton Quay, and ships in Wellington Harbour taken from the Bolton Street Cemetery by W H W Davis in 1880s. Government House is on the left and St-Andrews-on-the-Terrace on the right. In the immediate foreground are headstones (inscriptions unable to be deciphered). Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1976

By: Irving, Wilhelmina G, active 1930s-1970s

Reference: B-023-046/054

Description: Contents: Old houses in Ascot Terrace, Plimmer House, Willis St, Bolton Street Cemetery, Wellington; "Charnwood", Lower Hutt and Cottleville Tce Wellington; a house named Woodside and a further old house wooden house with a turret, probably in Wellington The drawing of Cottleville Tce is further reproduced on the folder; the same picture also appears in the group numbered by the Library B-023-042/045 and received by the Library in 1977. Both groups are within the same folder. From original ink drawings signed: "W.G. Irving" Edition: 190/240 Quantity: 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) 1 folder. Physical Description: Photolithographs, b&w 431 x 352 mm ; ill 432 x 355 mm

Date: 1920 - 1980

From: Mitchell, Mary Stewart, 1911-1982 :[Wellington scenes, 1920s to 1970s?]

Reference: A-281-007

Description: View of the entrance porch and chapel surrounded by trees in the Bolton Street Cemetery. There is a bench seat on the foreground Inscriptions: Signed but undated. Title taken from backing board, now discarded. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 275 x 300 mm

Date: [ca 1927]

From: Government House Collection : Prints of Te Aro flat, Lambton Quay, Parliament Building, Government Buildings, Post Office and Governor's residence

Reference: PAColl-D-0119

Description: Panoramic view taken from Wireless Hill (Tinakori Hill) looking down on the city and across the harbour to Roseneath, Oriental Bay and Mount Victoria, with the Miramar peninsula in the distance. Bolton Street Cemetery is in the immediate foreground. The Government Building, Parliament Buildings, Government House, Government Print building and Thorndon railway station are to the left. Several ships are berthed at the wharves and a ship is steaming towards Queens Wharf in the middle distance. Kelvin Chambers and Mayfair Chambers can be seen (both under construction). The Taranaki Street Wharf is on the far right. Taken by an unidentified photographer, ca 1927 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Recto - bottom right - 2249 Similiar view at 1/2-058525 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 402 x 560 mm with mount

Date: [ca 1866-1867]

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-43-07

Description: View taken from off-shore of buildings along Lambton Quay with Brandon's Corner on far right. Houses in Wellington Terrace and beyond, and the Bolton Street Cemetery (on right) can be seen on the hills behind, with Tinakori Hill in the background. Identifiable premises on Lambton Quay are: T J Mountain; Edward Greaves Smith (Music Warehouse); Henry Owen; baker's shop; chemist & druggist; G Read; J Cook & Son. The Star Boating Club's shed can be seen on the waterfront. One of a series of panoramic views of Lambton Quay taken by W H W Davis, ca 1866-1867. Pasted on verso: A glimpse of New Plymouth's beautiful recreation grounds showing the nband rotunda with the Poet's bridge in the background (ca 1890s-1900s). Photograph cut from a newspaper. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - right of image - Wellington. Before 1865 Relationship complexity - Same images at PA7-09-04 (albumen print), PA7-43-13 (albumen print), PA7-44-06 (silver gelatin print), and PAColl-3339-03 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 22 x 25.5 cm on card 22 x 27.7 cm

Date: [ca 1880]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-12-12

Description: View from Sydney Street taken from the grounds of Parliament Buildings and looking north-east. The harbour can be seen on the left; church tower of St Andrew's-on-the-Terrace in middle distance (centre). On right in distance are Bolton Street and Bolton Street Cemetery, and the Terrace School. Photograph taken by W H W Davis ca 1880. Forms a panorama with PA7-12-11 Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1997-1998

From: Scoble, Juliet Rosalie, 1955- :Chiefly photographs of New Zealand railway locomotives, rolling stock and stations

Reference: PA1-o-1873

Description: Photograph album containing colour prints of scenes around Wellington, taken by Juliet Scoble between 1997 and 1998. Most photographs are dated and identified. Inscriptions: On album cover: Wellington Album Book No 311 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with plastic pockets, 16.3 x 12.1 cm

Date: [Circa 1935-1945]

Reference: PA1-o-200

Description: Album of snapshots, chiefly family groups. None are labelled, but it appears the album is of Arthur James Luke and his wider family; two dogs, a spaniel and a small terrier; his home at 84 Bolton Street, Wellington; family holidays at Napier; views of Lowry Bay; and views of unidentified people linked with tennis. Views in Napier include the Napier Botanical Gardens, various monuments including the monument to the South African War, and buildings damaged by the napier earthquake in 1931. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Grey cloth-bound album, entitled Photographs (in gold lettering); 16 x 22 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available

Date: 1955 - 1975

From: Laugesen, Carl Thorwald, 1900-1987 :[Sketchbook. ca 1958-1971]

Reference: E-937-2-002

Description: View of the harbour and hills in the distance, taken form a leafy pathway above the city, possibly before the entrance to Bolton Street Memorial Park Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on page of sketchbook, 180 x 250 mm Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane, auction 1104, Wellington, 4 April 2012, lot no. 374

Date: 1856

By: Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874

Reference: A-090-013

Description: Wellington seen from Bolton Street cemetery with fenced graves in the foreground, the flagpole at Government House visible lower down the hill and the houses of Thorndon to the left. The view looks north across Wellington Harbour with Somes Island and the Hutt Valley and Tararua Range in the distance Another very similar view in an album by Chapman - 'Wellington burying ground' - is held by the Hawkes Bay Cultural Trust. A photographic copy is the Drawings & Prints files Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 160 x 250 mm

Date: 1914

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

Reference: 1/1-022941-G

Description: View of Wellington fron Tinakori Hill. Photographed by Sydney Charles Smith in about 1914 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Whole plate glass negative

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877

Reference: A-329-009

Description: Shows a general view of Wellington Harbour, probably from the position of the Bolton Street Cemetery. There are several dwellings in the foreground, a flagpole on the foreshore at the left, near a wharf which juts out into the harbour. The flagpole probably marks the site of Government House. On the foreshore at centre right, is a building with a square turret, with a pointed roof, probably on Lambton Quay The house roof in the left near section adjacent to bushes and trees may be those of the house of Robert Park. His house was adjacent to and below the Bolton Street Cemetery Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - [Title]; (On edge of frame now discarded) - suggested date of around 1868. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 177 x 254 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Mr Handley Thomson, Silverstream.

Date: [ca 1866-1867]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

Reference: 10x8-2083-G

Description: View taken from off-shore of buildings along Lambton Quay with Brandon's Corner on the far right. Houses on Wellington Terrace and beyond, and the Bolton Street Cemetery can be seen on the hill behind, with Tinakori Hill in the background. Identifiable premises on Lambton Quay are: T J Mountain; Edward Greaves Smith (Music Warehouse); Henry Owen; baker's shop; chemist & druggist; G Read; J Cook & Son. The Star Boating Club's shed can be seen on the waterfront. One of a panoramic sequence taken 1866 or 1867 by William Henry Whitmore Davis. Other - Sixth image from left in panoramic sequence 10x8-2078 to 10x8-2087 Relationship complexity - A print from this negative is at PA7-44-06 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 8 x 10 inches

Date: 2007-2012

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000754

Description: Photographs of memorials and graves throughout New Zealand taken between 2007 and 2012 taken by Dylan Owen. Views of South Island locations include the 9/11 Memorial steel sculpture at Firefighters Reserve on the Avon River, Christchurch, the Kaiapoi War Memorial featuring a stone statue of a New Zealand soldier carved by W.T Trethewey across the road from Blackwells Department Store, Kaiapoi, wooden crosses in the dog cemetery in Diamond Bay, statues of a colonial couple and town heraldic shield outside Oamaru club (Inc), Severn Street, Oamaru, the Oamaru South African (Boer) War memorial next to the Countdown supermaket, Oamaru, which features a statue of Trooper Jack carved by Italian sculptor Carlo Bergamini and the imperial lion and the Great War memorial in Mercer which consists of a soldier statue mounted on the gun turret of the Pioneer paddle steamer. Views of the Wellington locations include crosses on gravestones at Bolton Street Cemetery and Bolton Street Memorial Park, angel statues on a child's grave, family plot and mausoleum, cabbage trees surrounding a 1887 gravestone, rows of war graves in the Karori Servicemean's Cemetery and the Tangiwai memorial at Karori Cemetery. Views of Kapiti and Horowhenua locations include picket fence around the MacKay family burial ground, Paekakariki and the Market Gardener Statue, a bronze statue of a Chinese market gardener by Dennis Hall outside Levin Mall entrance on Oxford street, Levin. Views of Taranakai locations include Marsland Hill New Zealand Wars memorial on Marsland Hill, New Plymouth commemorating colonial and imperial forces and kuapapa Maori, dense native ponga trees and bush surrounding the grave of surveyor Joshua Morgan in Tangarakau Gorge, near Tangarakau Bridge, Stratford, memorial cross to Reverend Robert Ward outside the entrance to the Samoan Methodist Church Fitzroy, New Plymouth, Turi's Canoe at Patea and the Hawera Memorial Arch monument to fallen of World War One and Two on Princes street, Hawera . Views of Northland locations include the Hokianga Arch of Remembrance on the path to the pier on foreshore, Kohukohu, memorial stone Christ Church, Russell, the memorial stone (in Maori and English) for the pioneer residents who died in defence of Kororareka 1845 in grounds of Christ Church, Russell, and the Maori language wording of Te Tirito O Waitangi (Treaty) on a panel of Te Tii memorial at Te Tii marae, Waitangi. Also includes views of the Dannevirke War Memorial cenotaph showing the soldier relief sculpture above the 'Lest We forget' plaque and the Te Aroha First World War memorial showing the bronze statue of a soldier by Italian artist Giobanni. Arrangement: Files were transferred to the Library in a folder titled 'Social Events & Misc items 2000s/Memorials 2000s' Quantity: 27 digital photograph(s).

Date: 1950 - 1964

By: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973

Reference: E-029-q

Description: Sketchbook contains 152 watercolours, including views of churches and hotels in Norsewood, Botanical Gardens in Wellington, Old Chapel Bolton St Cemetery Wellington, views near Wairoa, and studies of New Zealand birds. Inside front cover are 2 loose greeting cards and 1 postcard, by Jane Brenkley, together with a separate sheet showing a comic sketch of a runaway draughthorse and an old woman's reaction to it. These are of later date than most of the album and appear to have come to the Library separately from the album Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Almost all works entitled and some dated. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Watercolours, 245 x 315 mm, in sketchbook, 1/2 black buckram, cream linen. Finding Aids: Shelflist available..

Date: [ca 1900-1920]

By: Parton, L I, active 1968; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; William Beattie & Company; Aldersley, David James, 1862-1928; Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: PAColl-4601

Description: Postcards of: the old gun on Mount Victoria; the General Post Office, Wellington lit up with lights for coronation night 1902; parade at Newtown Park on Dominion Day 1907 with the gun from HMS Challenger; Lord Plunket inspecting troops during the Dominion Day parade 1907; spectators at the Dominion Day celebrations in Newtown Park, taken by Zak 1908; battalions marching past on Dominion Day 1907, taken by Zak; the junction of Wills Street and Lambton Quay with the Bank of New Zealand on the left; looking along Lambton Quay towards Willis Street with the Wellington Investment Trustee & Agency Co Ltd on the left; Lambton Quay at the Government Buildings with Quinton's Corner on the right; the Makohine Viaduct on the Main Trunk Railway (taken by Aldersley); the Hapuawhenua Viaduct on the main trunk line taken by Frederick Radcliffe; Raurimu at the foot of the spiral with the railway track in the foreground; the fire on the High Street, Christchurch February 6th 1908; the Salvation Army Rescue and Children's Home, Newtown (in colour); Maori carved house called Takitimu at Martinborough with pakeha visitors outside it; two of the view from Tinakori Hill over to Wellington harbour with Tinakori Road in the foreground and Bolton Street cemetery to the right; a view looking west along Oriental Bay towards St Gerard's Monastery with a billboard for Crescent Tea on a shop to the left; a locomotive going through Ohakune railway station; a fire in Courtenay Place in which six shops were demolished; the interior of the conservatory at Wainoni Park, Christchurch with chrysanthemums; River entrance to Wainoni Park, Christchurch; The lion at Wellington Zoo called 'King Dick', possibly photographed by Zak Studios; Main Street, Ohakune, photographed circa 1 June 1908 by William Beattie and Company; Opening of the Victoria Bowling Club, Wellington, 1908, photographed by Joseph Zachariah. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: ca 1886

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Photographs and papers

Reference: 1/1-025535-G

Description: View from Wadestown, looking southeast across Thorndon and Wellington harbour, toward Oriental Bay (on the left) and Wellington City. Bolton Street Cemetery can be seen in the centre. An unidentified man stands in the foreground. Photograph taken by William Williams, circa 1886. Note on back of file print reads: From neg bag- Wellington showing shipping from Tinakori Hill, from file 6/1/41 - mid 80s. (After 1885 - Lmabton Station moved north to final site. St Patricks College completed. Not later than 1887 - Post office burned down that year) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative