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Date: 1988

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Loose sketches of Wellington removed from sketchbooks by Mr Eiby]. 1949, 1971-1988

Reference: B-148-029

Description: View from rocky foreshore at south-west side of Lyall Bay looking across the entrance of Wellington Harbour to Baring Head on the other side. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, on sheet, 255 x 358 mm

Date: 1910

By: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937; Sturtevant, Ella Mary, -1969

Reference: C-071-004

Description: Shows a view across low hills towards the west end of Lyall Bay, with a dirt road or walking track to the right. A man walks up the track in the right foreground. The hills of Melrose are in the right background. There are sheep grazing on the hills in the left foreground. The sea is calm and there is a steamer on the horizon. Other Titles - Lyall Inscriptions: bottom right - Signed: G.N.Sturtevant Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 325 x 503 mm, mounted on thick card, 330 x 510 mm.

Date: 1931 - 1939

From: Wickham, Charles, 1853-1940s :Family album. Uncle Charlie's unfinished drawings. [1926-1941].

Reference: E-563-q-21

Description: Shows a view of Lyall Bay as it was before the airport was built. There is a two-storeyed house in the left foreground, and the houses of Lyall Bay are sugguested below. The shape of the bay is made more circular than in reality. Pencarrow Head is seen in the left distance. Other Titles - Lyall Bay from Melrose Wellington Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) inserted into slits in page of album.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 182 x 250 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Mr Thomas H Hudson of England in 1997.

Date: 12 December 1947

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-11357-F

Description: View of a part of western Lyall Bay, Wellington, New Zealand. Photographed by Whites Aviation 12 December 1947. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13.8 x 13.4 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation Box blue 553, Wellington Airport, east suburbs 1930s-1950s..

Date: [192-?]

From: Donne, Anne, fl 1975 :Photographs mainly of Richard John Seddon in New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: PAColl-3329-05

Description: View of rock formations at Lyall Bay, Wellington, taken ca 1920s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 10 x 15.3 cm

Date: 1870 - 1879

By: Igglesden, Charles Moore, 1832-1920

Reference: MapColl-832.4799a/[ca.1870]/Acc.1192

Description: Topographic map of the coastline from Lambton Harbour to Lyall Bay. Evans Bay is marked, includes depths in fathoms and the site of the dock with acreages and including the hill behind. In Lambton Harbour the site of a wharf adjacent to an area of reclaimed land is marked as is the site of the city of Wellington. Signal stations and a pilot's station are marked. The area of land from Evans Bay to Lyall bay is divided into numbered sections, part of which is named Burnham Water with notes which state that this land is now drained and that the whole peninsula is good grazing land and used as a sheep and cattle farm. The site of a homestead of Major Mc. Barnet is marked in section 9, about 390 acreas, on the peninsula. A homestead and stockyard etc. are marked at Evans Bay. Port Nicholson and Cook Strait are marked. Stamp on bottom left corner states: Waterlow and Sons, London - improved. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colourwash on paper, linen backed, coloured, 49.3 x 37.1 cm.

Date: 1939

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

Reference: 1/4-049187-G

Description: Aerial view of Lyall Bay (foreground), Evans Bay, and Rongotai, including New Zealand Centennial Exhibition buildings (centre). Kilbirnie Stadium alongside, and Rongotai Aerodrome on right. Photograph taken circa 27 July 1939 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Publication note - Possibly published in the Evening Post, 24 July 1939. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative