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Photographer unknown: Various scenes in the Wellington region and elsewhere

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

Reference: PAColl-6952

Description: 13 miscellaneous images: a house with a verandah and deck chairs; two of battleships, one moored at Overseas Terminal; the marina at Oriental Bay with the boathouses and Mount Victoria in the background; a view over Island Bay; a field of hay stacks; a large railway junction with various rolling stock and chimneys in the background; a view over Days Bay including the pier; men and women rock climbing; two motor buses outside a large house, possibly a hotel, with people milling around; the door to the Observatory Tower at the University of Canterbury; HMS Hood moored at an unidentified location; and people cooking outdoors under an awning. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-058211 to 058223 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

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Sklenars, Linda :Album of views of North Island, New Zealand

Date: 1924

By: Sklenars, Linda, active 2004

Reference: PA1-o-1212

Description: Album compiled on a tour of the North Island in 1924 by an unknown photographer. The album includes views of Wellington, Auckland, Rotorua, Wairakei, Lake Taupo, Lake Rotoiti, Lake Rotoehu, Lake Rotoma, Lake Rotomahana, Hamurana Springs, Whakarewarewa, Waimangu and Waitomo. The scenes in Wellington include views of Parliament, Government Buildings, St Mary of the Angels church, Oriental Bay, Island Bay, Wellington Heads, Breaker Bay, Seatoun, Miramar, Lyall Bay, Khandallah and Days Bay. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown leather bound album

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Craddock album 1

Date: [Circa 1929-1939]

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

By: Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966; Springboks (Rugby team)

Reference: PA1-o-112

Description: Album of images collected and partly photographed by Gerald Rainsford Craddock. Images include clipping from newspapers and magazines, and postcards (chiefly of Akaroa, Wellington, Sydney and Perth). The photographs include family photographs, mountaineering trips, scenery in various parts of New Zealand, interior views of the Union Bank of Australia (Wellington Branch) where Gerald Rainsford worked from 1936-1939, and several views of the first Springbok test at Athletic Park in 1937. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "Photographs", 26 x 32.5 cm

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Wellington City Council :File prints

Date: ca 1939

By: Wellington (N.Z.). City Council

Reference: PAColl-3960

Description: Picturesque views around Wellington Arrangement: 1/2-125361-G to 1/2-125406-G, 1/1-25262 Quantity: 42 b&w original photographic print(s) (as file prints).

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Tustin, B :Photographs of Wellington and the surrounding area taken by W H Tustin and c...

Date: 1892-1896, [ca 1948]

By: Tustin, B, active 1988; Tustin, William Henry, 1880-1970; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PAColl-1281

Description: Collection comprises postcards of Wellington views, views of Karori, panorama of Wellington taken 1892, photographs near Gladstone, bush scene, railway scene, and Raumati store Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card and. 9 b&w original photographic print(s) and. 7 b&w original photographic print(s) (postcards) and. 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera in one box.

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Creator unknown : Photographs of Wellington

Date: ca 1900-1915

Reference: PAColl-7391

Description: Two photographs of the view across Wellington Harbour from near Pencarrow Head to Seatoun and Point Dorset; three photographs of the rocks and beaches around Point Dorset and The Pinnacles; people on the beach and in the sea at Lyall Bay; two men and a woman amongst the pine trees in Newtown Park; a woman in the Wellington Botanic Gardens with Glenmore Street behind her; three views looking down on the houses around Oriental Bay; next to the harbour on Oriental Bay showing the tram lines; the convalescent home on Mount Victoria above Oriental Bay; horses grazing with Evans Bay and the Miramar peninsula in the background; the SS Hawera and SS Haupiri in the patent slip at Evans Bay; the patent slip and the Union Steam Ship Company laundry at Evans Bay; a man and a woman on a path through the bush at Days Bay; looking over Roseneath towards Somes Island; and a yacht sailing at sunset near Pencarrow Head. Photographer unidentified. All the negatives have similar numbering and lettering on the reverse. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003942 to 003961, 003963 to 003964, and 003981 to 003985. 1/2-003982 is missing and has been entered as a copy negative to a print at PAColl-7081-53. Other negatives have been entered as child records of this collection. Quantity: 27 b&w original negative(s).

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Ballantyne, Edie:Album of North Island views

Date: 1921 - 1928

By: Ballantyne, Edie, active 1920s?; Davidson, Joan, active 1990

Reference: PA1-o-655

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Edie Ballantyne was housekeeper to Davidson family. Transfers: Album was received with collection of books at Dorothy Neal White collection.

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Postcards of Wellington

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.

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Wellington and other locations

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

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

Reference: PA12-7808

Description: Transparency slides of Wellington and other various locations, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

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Cleveland album

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-101

Description: A first edition of coloured postcards with views of Wellington and district, and the West Coast of New Zealand, circa 1900. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Postcards with paper cover, pages interfolded within an acid-free album, 30.5 x 32.5 cm

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New Zealand cities - Wellington & Auckland

Date: [ca 1931-1949]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-204

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1931-1949. Wellington - Bryant & May (employees playing tennis); Cenotaph with Government House and Parliament Building in background; Rangatira at Lyttelton Wharf; aerial view of railway station and wharves; aerial view of Kelburn, 1939; Pigeon Park showing Manners Street & Dixon Street intersection looking towards Courtenay Place; Weir House with Mount Victoria etc in background; elevated views of the city from Tinakori Hills; Sydney Street under construction, 1939; garages in Sydney Street; Herd Street Post Office, 1950; Wellington Zoo showing children having an elephant ride; Worser Bay; sunbathers at Oriental Bay; view of Oriental Bay from grassy area above the bay; inner city tennis club (with Carillon in background); Carlton Gore Road and Oriental Parade looking west; Jervois Quay showing intersection of Cable Street and Wakefield Street; houses above Evans Bay; houses at Days Bay; tree planting in Highbury Street, 1948; cars on Hutt motorway, 1947; traffic signs; pohutukawa tree on The Terrace, 1946; Queens Wharf, 1860; policeboat, 1948; tree planting at Kelburn/Highbury on Arbor Day 1948 (including photo of young Christopher Rollings); Percy Reserve, Lower Hutt. Auckland - Winter Gardens at Auckland Domain; Auckland War Memorial Museum; car boarding the vehicular ferry, 1935; Auckland Harbour Board crane being towed by the launch Te Hauraki at Auckland Western Viaduct, 1949. Quantity: 39 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :Our beaches. Nevile Lodge, 1952.

Date: 1952

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[39 copies of cartoons from 'Lodge looks at Wellington', Nevile Lodge, 1952]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; A H & A W Reed (Firm)

Reference: J-059-010

Description: Shows six scenes of Wellington and Petone beaches: a couple and a child struggling against the wind at Island Bay as a boat pitches in high seas; a couple and a child struggling against the wind at Lyall Bay as a surfer runs past them into the waves; a view from the footpath of a row of legs of sunbathers lying under the wall at Oriental Bay; sunbathers lying on the beach at Days Bay and man looking at a shapely woman in a bikini; a man and a woman bracing themselves against the wind at Petone Beach; a man, woman and buried child in mounds of sand at Worser Bay. Exhibited in 'Lodge Laughs at Wellington: Celebrating the life and works of cartoonist Nevile Lodge' exhibition of cartoons By Nevile Lodge on Wellington topics over the period 1943-1988, curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive for the Wellington Museum of City and Sea, and exhibited at the Museum from 25 May to August 2004. Published in book 'Lodge Laughs at Wellington' by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive, 2004. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size laser copy on poster paper.

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Frank Duncan & Co :Wellington NZ; 24 artistic views

Date: 190?

By: Frank Duncan and Company; Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PA1-o-1210

Description: Album of views of Wellington published ca 1905 by Frank Duncan & Co. Photographers include Zak and S C Smith. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchase, January 2004

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Tanner album

Date: 1890 - 1920

From: Tanner, Cyril William :Photographs of Wellington Harbour

By: Tanner, Cyril William, 1860-1930

Reference: PA1-o-574

Description: Photographs show Tanner family, Silverstream, Wellington waterfront, Balaena Bay, Evans Bay, yachting in Wellington Harbour and Marlborough Sounds, and several photographs of waka. By examination of photographs and comparison with PO Directories, it was determined that they were the work of Cyril William Tanner. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Photographs purchased from junk shop by Mrs Thompson. The photographs of waka were sent to a Miss Tanner in 1939 by Te Puea Herangi, with a covering letter

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Adkin album 09

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.

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :Our beaches. Nevile Lodge, 1952.

Date: 1952

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[39 copies of cartoons from 'Lodge looks at Wellington', Nevile Lodge, 1952]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; A H & A W Reed (Firm)

Reference: H-727-029

Description: Shows six scenes of Wellington and Petone beaches: a couple and a child struggling against the wind at Island Bay as a boat pitches in high seas; a couple and a child struggling against the wind at Lyall Bay as a surfer runs past them into the waves; a view from the footpath of a row of legs of sunbathers lying under the wall at Oriental Bay; sunbathers lying on the beach at Days Bay and man looking at a shapely woman in a bikini; a man and a woman bracing themselves against the wind at Petone Beach; a man, woman and buried child in mounds of sand at Worser Bay. Exhibited in 'Lodge Laughs at Wellington: Celebrating the life and works of cartoonist Nevile Lodge' exhibition of cartoons By Nevile Lodge on Wellington topics over the period 1943-1988, curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive for the Wellington Museum of City and Sea, and exhibited at the Museum from 25 May to August 2004. Published in book 'Lodge Laughs at Wellington' by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive, 2004. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy

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