Places

Date: 14 March 1968

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1968/1133-F

Description: View of Courtenay Place, Wellington, and Downstage Theatre from the Embassy Theatre Building. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 14th of March 1968. Photograph taken to show the Downstage Theatre site in context which was thought to be the most favoured location for the new Hannah Playhouse. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1969, 1975

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2884

Description: Transparencies showing views of traffic in Wellington streets. Photographed by Cyril Beavis in the early 1970s. Also includes transparencies showing views of Ning Nong Bay with views of the south Wairarapa coast, coastal landforms, and the baches at Ning Nong Bay. Photographed by Cyril Beavis in 1969. Transparencies showing Ning Nong Bay are continued at Library reference PA12-2885. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in March 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-80.

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/ca.1940/Acc.14598

Description: A copy of a cadastral map of the area between The Terrace and Whitmore Street, Boulcott Street to Cuba Street, Brougham Street to Clyde Quay Wharf and Herd Street. Sections and subdivisions are numbered and include numerous Deeds plan numbers. Government, provincial and Thorn Reclamation land includes block numbers. Wharves are named. Names include Town Hall, and land belonging to the Wellington Harbour Board and Wellington City Council is marked. Streets are named, as are some rights of way such as Opera House Lane. Red ink annotations show property values in pounds sterling. Title supplied by cataloguer - subtitle taken from top right of map Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on diazo print, some colour, scale not given, 107.2 x 74 cm.

Date: 1961

By: Martin & Dyett (Firm); Tawa Development Corporation Ltd; Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.47981gbbd/1961/Acc.9861

Description: The larger of the two maps is a cadastral map of a subdivision of Oxford Estate showing St. John's Terrace and part of Pembroke Street, Tawa. Residential sections include acreages and measurements. The second map is a locality plan showing the site of the proposed subdivision along St. John's Terrace and the junction of Pembroke Street. Roads include Magdalen Street, Lane Crescent, Redwood Avenue, Main Road, The Drive, Tawa Street and Tawa School site. The North Island Main Trunk railway is marked. Other Titles - Plan of house sections - Pembroke Street and St. John's Terrace, Oxford Estate, Tawa Scale of locality plan not given Quantity: 2 map(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Diazo print, linen backed, scale [1:580], 32.6 x 21 cm.

Date: 23 August 1999

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-7993

Description: Photographs of Streets in Ngaio, taken in August 1999 as a millenium project, with sponsorship by Ngaio Pharmacy Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm-80140 to 35mm-80169 Quantity: 30 colour original negative(s) 35mm strips with 108 frames. 108 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1960

By: Martin & Dyett (Firm); Tawa Development Corporation Ltd; Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.47981gbbd/[1960?]/Acc.9859

Description: The larger of the two maps is a cadastral map of a subdivision of Oxford Estate along part of Redwood Avenue showing Pembroke and Magdalen streets and Lane Crescent, Tawa. Residential sections include acreages and measurements. The second map is a locality plan showing the site of the proposed subdivision. Roads include Redwood Avenue, Main Road, Mascot Street, Kereru Bend, The Drive, Tawa Street and Tawa School site. The North Island Main Trunk railway is marked. Handwritten above title: D.P. 23020 Quantity: 2 map(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Diazo print, linen backed, scales [1:580 and 1:12 480], 32.8 x 21 cm.

Date: 1910 - 1919

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799/Is/ca.1910/Acc.14530

Description: Cadastral map of numbered sections adjacent to Eden Street and Travancore Road, which include boundary measurements and values in pounds sterling. A note states that Travancore Road was then being formed. Includes a right of way to the Parade. Names include Newberry & Haslett, M. O. Lewis residence, McIvor. The original of this map is joined to a map of Haughton Bay and a map of Belmont and is filed with Haughton Bay maps at MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Ho/ca.1910/Acc.14471. A copy is to be found at 832.4791gbbd/ca.1910. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and colourwash on paper, dressed linen backing, coloured, scale not given, 20.2 x 33 cm.

Date: 25 July 1972

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1972/3592-F

Description: View of Courtenay Place, Wellington, New Zealand. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 25 July 1972. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: ca1904

By: Denton, Frank James, 1869-1963

Reference: PAColl-6135

Description: Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1960

By: Martin & Dyett (Firm); Tawa Development Corporation Ltd; Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.47981gbbd/1960.Acc.9858

Description: The larger of the two maps is a base cadastral map of a subdivision of Oxford Estate along part of Redwood Avenue and Pembroke Street, Tawa. Residential sections include acreages and measurements. The second map is a locality plan showing the site of the proposed subdivision. Roads include Redwood Avenue, Main Road, Mascot Street, Kereru Bend, The Drive, Tawa Street and Tawa School site. The North Island Main Trunk railway is marked. Handwritten above title: D.P. 22565 Quantity: 2 map(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Diazo print, linen backed, scales [1:580 and 1:12 480], 32.8 x 21 cm.

Date: ca 1940

Reference: PAColl-8027

Description: Views of Parliament, New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, Oriental Bay, the Carillon, the Dominion Museum, Willis Street, Lambton Quay, Wellington harbour, and the Invercargill Water Tower.and other scenes. Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: From Serials Collection - PR-02-0450.

Date: 1956

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 1/2-177165-F

Description: High Street, Lower Hutt, photographed in 1956 by Morrie Hill. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 6 x 6 cm

Date: 1975-1985

From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs

Reference: PA12-8756

Description: View of Mana Marina, Porirua, 1985. Views of the Anderson House, 62 Hankey Street, Wellington, 1975. Views of the site of the Willis Street Village (142-148 Willis Street) and its environs, Wellington, 1975. The Willis Street Village was designed by Roger Walker and built in 1979 for the Public Service Investment Society (PSIS). Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1992-[ca 2008]

From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs

Reference: PAColl-9938-25

Description: View of central Wellington. Main focus is on Customhouse Quay, Featherston and Grey Streets, ca 1997. Views of Wellington's environs from a new lookout on Wright's Hill, September 1992. Views of Polhill, Karori Reservoir, and the Wellington fault valley, January 1993. Photographic survey of Chaffers Park (now Waitangi Park) and surrounding areas, roughly from the Overseas Terminal to Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand), ca 2003. Photographic survey of the surroundings of Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand), ca 2008. Quantity: 131 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1930 - 1950

Reference: MapColl-832.47964enc/19-?/Acc.6199

Description: Cadastral map of Porirua from Porirua East state housing area, the junction of Champion Street, Titahi Bay Road and State Highway 1, to the state housing area adjacent to the harbour north of Elsdon. The railway line is marked and the escarpment adjoining it. Roads are unnamed and vary slightly from current maps. A site of a shopping centre is marked but has had correcting fluid painted over its name. Title assigned by cataloguer Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and correcting fluid on plastic, scale not given, 12.3 x 11.4 cm. on sheet 15.4 x 12.9 cm.

Date: 1961

By: Martin & Dyett (Firm); Tawa Development Corporation Ltd; Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.47981gbbd/1961/Acc.9860

Description: The larger of the two maps is a cadastral map of a subdivision of Oxford Estate showing St. John's Terrace, Tawa. Residential sections include acreages and measurements. Includes a right of way between sections 1 to 5 inclusive. The second map is a locality plan showing the site of the proposed subdivision along St. John's Terrace. Roads include Pembroke Street, Lane Crescent, Redwood Avenue, Main Road, The Drive, Tawa Street and Tawa School site. The North Island Main Trunk railway is marked. Handwritten above title: D.P. 23622 Quantity: 2 map(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Diazo print, linen backed, scales [1:580 and 1:12 480], 32.6 x 21 cm.

By: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Ne/[n.d.]/Acc.39083

Description: The first undated map is of sections and a fowl run between Russell Terrace, Edinburgh Terrace and South Road, Newtown with dimensions of each section and the acreage of the fowl run. The second undated map is of four sections with a note about cottages, one section marked as a garden and the final section includes the name of Wilson, all include dimensions. The name of Athletic Park is written in one border. Quantity: 2 manuscript map(s) on 1 sheet. Physical Description: Pencil on card, scale not given, 20.6 x 33.2 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944. Papers. 73-128.

Date: ca1910

By: Tomlinson, Francis Ernest, 1864-1944

Reference: PAColl-6171

Description: View from a garden above Helen Street Brooklyn looking north-east across Mount Cook and Te Aro towards Mount Victoria. Part of the lower stretch of Helen Street can be seen and its junction with Tanera Crescent. The Fitchett house is centre left, and beyond it is a plantation of pines above the corner of Brooklyn and Ohiro Road (which at this point can't be seen). The fresh cuttings and the track of the new Brooklyn Road can be seen in the middle distance (which may mean that this photograph is nearer ca 1908 than 1910). On the left of Brooklyn Road is a small section of Central Park, and beyond it is Nairn Street Park. Photograph taken ca 1910 by Francis E Tomlinson. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Purchased from Dunbar Sloane art auction, 30 September 1999, lot 463.

Date: 2004

From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs

Reference: PAColl-9938-26

Description: Includes Thorndon houses in - Hobson Crescent, Halswell Street, Cottleville Terrace, Frandi Street, and Goldies Brae. Houses in lower Tinakori Road, Thorndon, October 2004. Houses in Grant road, Thorndon, October 2004. Houses in Lower Newman Terrace, Thorndon, October 2004. Land development at Kaiwharawhara on a hillside off the Hutt Road behind the `Animates' building. Quantity: 143 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1950s-1960s

From: Wassiliewa, Galina (estate) :Photographs relating to life and ballet career of Galina Wassiliewa in Lithuania and Wellington.

By: Wassiliew, Wassili, 1916-1983

Reference: PAColl-6125-28

Description: Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s).