Places

Date: Between 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0191

Description: Wellington from Town Hall looking towards Kelburne taken ca 1910-1913. Verso contains undated letter to Lillie from Peggy Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 87 x 135 mm

Date: [ca 1920-1943]

By: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962; Deste, Eileen, 1909-1986; Hastings Public Library (N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-0365

Description: A collection of photographs including views of Nelson by F N Jones, buildings and earthquake damage in Wellington in 1943 and others from around the country including three hand-touched photographs of Napier and Hastings. The photographs of Wellington are captioned with the building the weather conditions when the photographs were taken and whether flash was used. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1887

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: 1/4-038945-G

Description: View of commercial buildings on the Wellington Harbour waterfront, circa 1887, probably photographed by Wrigglesworth and Binns. This image is a glass copy negative made from an original, by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [1903-1920]

By: Grant, F J, active 1980s; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-0362

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of New Zealand made by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Many of the images are of military inspections and displays by school children. There are also displays of Maori dancing and singing, the sailors of the HMS Renown, on which the prince had travelled , prior to their soccer match in Dunedin, the prince addressing the crowds etc. A number of the images are in two-part panoramas. Also included are four scenic photographs by the New Zealand Tourist Department which may have been taken in 1903. The photographer for the tour photographs was Guy. Other - Similar images at 1/2-032642, 045102 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Christie, Hettie Florence, 1902-1988 :Photographs and album of New Zealand scenes

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA7-41-10

Description: Elevated view of Wellington taken from The Terrace looking south-east over Te Aro and across Wellington Harbour to Mount Victoria. St John's Presbyterian Church is in the foreground. Photograph taken by Frank Arnold Coxhead in 1880s Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Te Aro, Wellington. N.Z. 544; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - F.A.C. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.8 x 19.5 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1487-F

Description: Panoramic view of Wellington City and Harbour taken from a hill on the way up to Wadestown. Thorndon Quay with Dalgety's Stores are seen on the left, railway yards centre right, with a large area of reclaimed land and areas awaiting reclamation in the centre foreground. Wharves edge the harbour centre right middle distance, city on the right, Oriental Bay and Mount Victoria visible in the right background. Several fishing boats in the harbour. Start of the Hutt Road just visible on the far left, and Petone is in the distance on the far left. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Wellington Harbour showing Petone 317 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 134.4 cm

Date: [ca 1936-1940s]

By: Peart, Heaton Clairemont, 1894-1991; Royal Studios (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-10255

Description: Photographic postcards of Wellington and Rotorua taken circa 1940s. Three taken by Royal Studios and two by Heaton Clairemont Peart. Photographers of other images unidentified. Wellington City views are taken from Mount Victoria and Tinakori Hill. Prominent landmarks seen in these photographs include the National War Memorial and Carillon, Wellington High School, Basin Reserve cricket ground, Wellington East Girls' College, Wellington College, Winter Show Buildings, Weir House, Wellington Whares, St Gerard's Church, Basin Reserve, Wellington Railway Station, and the road to the Hutt Valley. In Rotorua sites photographed include Whakarewarewa with pa (whare and carvings) and hot pools (including Maori women washing clothes), Government Gardens Bath House and entranceway, Ward Bath house, top of Eagle's Nest geyser at Wairakei, and the shore at Lake Rotorua. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards mounted on two album pages. Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints mounted on brown card tied with blue ribbon Provenance: Donor bought them in England and passed them to the Nelson Provincial Museum, who, after consultation with the donor, passed them to the Library.

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7813

Description: Transparency slides of Wellington, Desert Road, and Rotorua, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: [ca 1884]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-39-15

Description: View looking across the city from St John's Church on corner of Dixon and Willis streets towards Oriental Bay and Roseneath. The Te Aro Hotel and premises of Wilkin & Field can be seen in the middle distance. The steeple of St John's Church dominates the righthand side of the view. Photograph taken by Burton Brothers, ca 1880s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 358 Wellington; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 24.5 x 29.8 cm

Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]

From: New Zealand Centre for Photography :Photographs

By: Hoy, Douglas George, 1937-1992

Reference: PAColl-9528-2

Description: Photographs of railway scenes taken by Douglas George Hoy. Includes photographs of Wellington Harbour Board buildings and vessels, United Kingdom trip in 1980, and photographs of friends, pets and various artistic photographs. Accompanying material - Negative index Quantity: 65 b&w original photographic print(s). 11 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1900

By: Shaw, Allen Desmond, 1944-; Child, Edward George, 1860-1949

Reference: PAColl-4658

Description: Photographs of: a bridge built for a logging tram at the saw mill in Livingstone with a horse pulling a load off it; the construction workers for the Makohine Viaduct; the Gear & Co building on Lambton Quay housing the head office of the Gear Meat Processing and Freezing Co headquarters and Harris's Wholesale and Retail Fruit Mart; Storer, Meek & Co building on Jervois Street; two of the D Benjamin & Co building; and the race horse Aurora taken by E G Child. 1/2-057719 to 057726 Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1870-1927

Reference: PAColl-5025

Description: Hunter st/Jervois Quay view of E W Mills and Co Building ca 1920, carte de visites of buildings from ca 1870s, and views of a masculine tea party in a Christchurch garden Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1940

From: Various artists :1. Jackson, Richard Edward, b. 1916. [Portrait of Sir Hamilton Mitchell. ca 1962]. 2. [Artist unknown. Four views showing vessels leaving Wellington Harbour. 1940-1941]. 3. Hooper, William John, 1916-1996. [Photolithograph of the New Zealanders who flew from RAF Hornchurch during the Battle of Britain, 1940] 1941

Reference: G-107

Description: Shows two troopships leaving Wellington Harbour on 8 November, 1940. One is almost certainly the HMT Batory, carrying 300 Maori Battalion reinforcements. They were transferred to the HMT Orion at Sydney, bound for the Middle East. The scene is painted from above The Terrace, possibly at Kelburn. The row of houses that face onto The Terrace can be seen in the middle distance, and among the city buildings shown are the Chief Post Office (clock tower visible) and the Government Life Insurance building. The eastern hills and Somes Island are only just visible through a driving rain Title taken from pencil inscription on verso of painting The artist is unidentified, but they have signed a monogram with the letters 'JMC' (or similar), 1940, in the bottom-right corner Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [monogram reading JMC, or similar, 1940, in brushstroke] Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 340 x 500 mm (sight), in oak frame 430 x 590 mm

Date: 1940

From: Various artists :1. Jackson, Richard Edward, b. 1916. [Portrait of Sir Hamilton Mitchell. ca 1962]. 2. [Artist unknown. Four views showing vessels leaving Wellington Harbour. 1940-1941]. 3. Hooper, William John, 1916-1996. [Photolithograph of the New Zealanders who flew from RAF Hornchurch during the Battle of Britain, 1940] 1941

Reference: G-106

Description: Shows the troopships SS 'Empress of Japan' and RMS 'Mauretania', leaving Wellington Harbour in August 1940. The scene is painted from above The Terrace, possibly at Kelburn. The row of houses that face onto The Terrace can be seen in the middle distance, and among the city buildings shown are the Chief Post Office (clock tower visible) and the Government Life building. The eastern hills and Somes Island complete the background, with a dark, cloudy sky above the city Title taken from pencil inscription on verso of painting The artist is unidentified, but they have signed a monogram with the letters 'JMC' (or similar), 1940, in the bottom-right corner Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [monogram reading JMC, or similar, 1940, in brushstroke] Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 545 x 450 mm (sight), in oak frame 640 x 535 mm

Date: 1941

From: Various artists :1. Jackson, Richard Edward, b. 1916. [Portrait of Sir Hamilton Mitchell. ca 1962]. 2. [Artist unknown. Four views showing vessels leaving Wellington Harbour. 1940-1941]. 3. Hooper, William John, 1916-1996. [Photolithograph of the New Zealanders who flew from RAF Hornchurch during the Battle of Britain, 1940] 1941

Reference: G-109

Description: Shows three transport ships leaving Wellington Harbour on 20 January 1941. One is possibly the HMT 'Nieuw Amsterdam'. The smallest of the three might be the 'Achilles', which escorted troopships on numerous occasions. The scene is painted from above The Terrace, possibly at Kelburn. The row of houses that face onto The Terrace can be seen in the middle distance, and among the city buildings shown are the Chief Post Office (clock tower visible) and the Government Life building; as it is 7.30 in the evening, lights can be seen shining in the tower's clock, and the top storey of the Insurance building windows. The eastern hills and Somes Island complete the background, with a dark, cloudy sky above the city. From the left, brown smoke is shown in the scene, suggesting a fire somewhere out of view Title taken from pencil inscription on verso of painting The artist is unidentified but, unlike the other three paintings in the series, they have not added their monogram and the year in the bottom-right corner Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 380 x 530 mm (sight), in oak frame 470 x 625 mm

Date: 1940 - 1941

From: Various artists :1. Jackson, Richard Edward, b. 1916. [Portrait of Sir Hamilton Mitchell. ca 1962]. 2. [Artist unknown. Four views showing vessels leaving Wellington Harbour. 1940-1941]. 3. Hooper, William John, 1916-1996. [Photolithograph of the New Zealanders who flew from RAF Hornchurch during the Battle of Britain, 1940] 1941

Reference: G-108

Description: Shows three ships leaving Wellington Harbour, possibly the troop convoy US.8, which comprised the liners 'Dominion Monarch' and 'Empress of Russia', escorted by the New Zealand light cruiser 'Achilles'. The convoy left Wellington on 19 December, 1940. The scene is painted from above The Terrace, possibly at Kelburn. The row of houses that face onto The Terrace can be seen in the middle distance, and among the city buildings shown are the Chief Post Office (clock tower visible) and the Government Life building. The eastern hills and Somes Island complete the background, with a dark, cloudy sky above the city Title taken from pencil inscription on verso of painting The artist is unidentified, but they have signed a monogram with the letters 'JMC' (or similar), 1941, in the bottom-right corner Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [monogram reading JMC, or similar, 1941, in brushstroke] Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 370 x 570 mm (sight), in oak frame 460 x 665 mm

Date: [ca 1903]

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

Reference: 1/2-001212-G

Description: View taken from Kelburn looking east towards Oriental Bay and Mt Victoria. The houses on The Terrace are in the foreground. The town hall can be seen under construction in the middle distance. Photograph taken by William Archer Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Wellington. NZ. 602 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [1920-1924]

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

Reference: 1/2-048604-F

Description: Looking west over Blair, Allen and Tory Streets, Wellington, towards Mount Victoria and Oriental Bay. Shows signs advertising the businesses of Shacklock Ltd, Petherick & Co, W A J Dutch, Neilson's NZ Acetylene Gas Lighting Co Ltd, Wellington's Fruit and Produce Exchange Ltd, R Hudson & Co, W Burbridge & Co, Townsend & Paul Limited and Turnbull & Jones Ltd. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [1928?]

From: Burt, Gordon Onslow Hilbury, 1893-1968 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-015566-G

Description: Bristol Piano Company building, Wellington, 218-222 Lambton Quay. Shows a three storey building with signs advertising The Bristol Piano Company Ltd, and Littlejohns opticians and jewellers. Two cars are parked outside. Photograph taken circa 1928 by Gordon Burt. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1987

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-1987-01

Description: Poster promoting New Zealand as a tourist destination. Shows two photographs, one of Auckland and one of Wellington, seen in the early morning light. Assumed to be published by Tourist and Publicity because of similar photographs appearing in their pamphlets at this time. Dated from similar photographs appearing in dated pamphlets produced by the Department. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph on poster, 750 x 495 mm.