Places

Date: From 1911 to 1949

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

Reference: PA1-o-007

Description: Black & white photographs of the Wellington area, Vol 1 (images 1-240), taken by G L Adkin between 1911 and 1949. Earlier images include the house Fern Hill (at 324 The Terrace), and views from the house; Kelburn Cable Car tunnel, and view of the cable car from Kelburn Park; Wellington Botanic Garden; inner city views of Willis St., Lambton Quay (1913); Lyall Bay, Kilbirnie isthmus, Wellington Heads, Oriental Bay (1913); Harbour and city; swimming carnival at Island Bay; city from Mt Cook trig station (1918); panorama of Thorndon with Pipitea Point reclamation from the Nth end of Barnard St (1923); interior view of the Wellington City Corporation Trams Shed at Newtown; Kemp Point Powerhouse, Evans Bay; Miramar Gas Works (1923); Wider views of the city with Tinakori Ridge from Roseneath, Oriental Bay, Lyall Bay (1926); loading the Maheno (1926). Laying Foundation Stone of new railway station by the Duke of Gloucester, showing steel frame of the building under construction (17 December 1934). Views around the city in 1936, including Worser Bay, Breaker Bay, Dorset Point, Queens Drive, the city (panorama from Karepa St, Brooklyn); "wilds of Wellington" Mitchelltown, Highbury, Taitville, and Kelburn (from Karepa St); snow on hills and at Mt Kaukau (2 August 1936). Centennial Exhibition (6 March 1940). Views around the bays in 1948, Lyall Bay, Evans Bay, Kilbirnie, Eastbourne, Days Bay, Lowry Bay. Comparative views from Mt Alfred (1 taken in 1948, the other in 1905). Pamir sailing ship at Aotea Quay (December 1948); railway yards; Kaiwharawhara Gorge (1948); and the first visit of the Solent flying boat Ararangi to Evans Bay, October 1949.

Date: 1905-1920

By: Caldwell, Richard Pringle, active 1954-1981

Reference: PAColl-3123

Description: Arrangement: Negatives catalogued at 1/4-39818 to 39819, 1/2-105804 to 105817, 105895 to 105938, 105970 to 106144, 106153 to 106295. 10 35mm copy negatives in 35mm registers at 16298-16299. The following file prints are available at PAColl-3123 in the Photographic Archive: F105804-1/2, G105809-1/2, G105986-1/2, G105909-1/2, G105918-1/2, F105922-23-1/2, G105937-1/2, G105975-1/2, G105978-1/2, G105983-1/2, G105996-1/2, G105997-99-1/2, G106003-06-1/2, G106012-13-1/2, G106015-1/2, G106022-1/2, G106024-1/2, G106031-32-1/2, G106034-35-1/2, G106038-1/2, G106042-1/2, G106044-1/2, F106048-1/2, F106050-1/2, F106056-1/2, G106065-1/2, F106068-69-1/2, F106070-1/2, G106076-1/2, G106078-1/2, F106082-83-1/2F106086-87-1/2, G106089-1/2, F106095-1/2, F106097-1/2, G106098-1/2, F106100-1/2, F106104-1/2, F106108-1/2, F106117-1/2, G106123-1/2, G106125-1/2, G106127-1/2. Quantity: 409 b&w original negative(s). 171 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: ¼ and 1/2 plate film and (mainly) glass negatives Processing information: Note that these 1/2-plate negaives may actually be found with the 1/2-plate sequence to be recatalogued as 1/4 plate. The negative register is not clear about this. Note also that there may be other file prints from this collection amongst file prints to be processed in PA and file prints to be captioned in PRS (Pictorial Reference Service). Those that are not to go into the PRS files should be added to this collection. File prints already in the PAColl have been counted as original b/w prints

Date: ca 1950-1957

From: Holland, Florence Beatrice, 1894-1976 :Photographs relating to the career of Sir Sidney Holland

By: Bachrach, Fabian, active 1950s; Blackstone Studios; Crown Studios (Wellington, N.Z.); Photo News Ltd; Studio Harcourt; Tesla Studios; The Central Press Photos Ltd

Reference: PAColl-4416

Description: Photographs of: Meeting of Commonwealth Prime Ministers held in London in January 1951 with the prime ministers seated in three rows; the visit of Sidney Holland and his wife and daughter to Johnson Bros in Hanley, Staffordshire in June 1953 with the party on the steps of the China Department; Sidney Holland and another man shaking hands in front of a large marlin caught on 24 February 1957; and unidentified house; three head and shoulder studio portraits of Sidney Holland by Blackstone Studios, one by Studio Harcourt and another by Tesla; a signed studio portrait of Dean Acheson taken by Fabian Bachrach; the Indian Wanderers Hockey Team with the names - L W Claudius, Naresh Chander, Gur Dass, Pishori Lal Sharma, Raghbir Lal Sharma, O P Malhorta, Suraj Balram, Jagat Inder, Balbir Singh Jr, Krishnan Lal Sethi, Jaswant Raj, K D Singh, Gurbachan Singh (Vice-Captain), R L Malhorta (Manager), Dr Gurcharan Singh (Captain), Gurnarain Singh (Assistant Manager and Coach), Balbir Singh Sr, R S Gentle taken by Crown Studios; attendees at the Annual Conference of the National Party outside the Skyline Restaurant in Wellington in August 1957; studio portrait of Lady Holland; two photographs of Lady Holland being given a bouquet by a Japanese girl on alighting from a train in Japan with Sidney Holland; a procession of coaches and horses and cavalry on Pall Mall with the route lined by soldiers at arms; Miss Barbara Welch, the BOAC air hostess on the flight from London to Montreal; and Canadian Prime Minister Louis St Laurent meeting Holland at the airport and others of Holland with Canadian politicians and the Governor General Viscount Alexander. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1870

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Scrymgeour, William John Tyndal, 1922?-; Grey, George (Sir), 1812-1898

Reference: D-022-006

Description: View from cleared hills with several native trees, a road winding down to the right, with a gate and a man on a dray being pulled by two horses. The harbour with two ships centre and centre right, with Somes Island to the right. On the left in the middle distance, part of Thorndon, with St Paul's Church and a jetty. The Western hills, the Hutt Valley, Eastbourne and the Tararuas in the distance. Probably a view from above The Glen in Kelburn Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D.Barraud. 1870 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white 455 x 785 mm Provenance: Hung with a watercolour of Lake Coleridge Station, 1870 (D-022-007), in Government House, Wellington, during the governorship of Sir George Grey. Sold at auction in Wellington to the vendor's grandfather, also a Mr Scrymgeour (or Scrimgeour) in the 1880s or 1890s. Mr Scrymgeour migrated to Australia in the early 1900s to Goondawindi Station. The paintings passed to his son (died 1968) then to his grandson, William John Tyndal Scrymgeour, born ca 1922, of "Arran", Warwick, Queensland.

Date: 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-175-009

Description: Shows a horse and cart, with the driver seated in the cart. The cart heads away along a road that curves around a bend of a road through native bush. There is a tree fern in the right foreground, epiphytes on some trees in the packground, and a drainage gutter at the left side of the road. Marking the corner of the road is a white wooden fence. May show part of Karori Road Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pastel, 380 x 274 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library