Places

Date: 1860 - 1880

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :Album. [1860s?]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: E-297-018

Description: St John's Presbyterian Church, Willis Street in the foreground, viewed from behind and above, and the view looking down Dixon Street towards Mount Victoria. Te Aro Hotel and Jameson's Cooperative Store are clearly identified on opposite corners of Willis and Dixon Streets. Photograph numbered554 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph 135 x 205 mm glued to album page 177 x 225 mm

From: W B Chennells :Collection of maps

By: Masterton Public Library

Reference: MapColl-832.4595gbbd/[19-?]/Acc.36572

Description: Plan of subdivision of land blocks bound by Dixon and Herbert Streets and the Kuripuni Stream. Sections include survey measurements, section number and size. Some include an annotated price; some are marked sold. Section 79 is marked 'Reserve'. The unnamed road southwest of Kuripuni Stream is now known as Kuripuni Street. Other Titles - St Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, scale indeterminable, 54.3 x 57.3 cm.

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 1890-1910

By: Fairlie Museum Inc; Barcham, Robert, 1867-1960; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Inman, M J (Mrs), active 1993

Reference: PAColl-3400

Description: Wellington and Hutt Valley scenes:City, wharves, Lambton Quay, Bellvue Gardens, bridge over Hutt River, Parliament Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) in one envelope. Physical Description: One 'loose' postcard 89 x 139mm and 5 postcard of similar dimensions in fold out holder

Date: [Between 1897 and 1901]

From: St John's Church :Photographs of church buildings, personalities and activities

By: Davis, T, active 1890s; Howitt, Adam, 1871-1954; Jupp, George Henry (Rev), 1878-1955; Lowe, E C, active 1900s; Thornton, C J, active 1910; Tustin, William Henry, 1880-1970

Reference: PA1-o-451

Description: Photographs relating to St John's Presbyterian Church in Wellington. They include views of St Paul's Presbyterian Church in Christchurch in 1898 and in 1901 when there were combined encampments held in Christchurch, involving Young Men's Bible Classes of the two churches. Many of the photographers are identified (names listed above). One photograph shows Dr John Elmslie of St Paul's Church, standing at the pulpit which is decorated with flowers, with the word "Mizpah" picked out in white. Several images show Dixon Street houses above St John's Church (p 09), and "fallen houses" (p 25) Another group of images show triumphal arches celebrating the arrival in Wellington of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall in 1901. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album (lacks cover); 27 x 23 cm

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

From: W B Chennells :Collection of maps

By: Masterton Public Library

Reference: MapColl-832.45gbbd/[n.d.]/Acc.36617

Description: Consists of two maps drawn on separate linen and then glued together. The first map is a sketch of Riversdale, from Patanui Stream and the Homewood Main Road to Masterton, eastwards along the Whakaeanga Stream and the Motuwaireka Stream to the ocean at Riversdale Beach. Shows cadastral information for several numbered and part surveyed sections, including Pt 695-700, Pt 813, Pt 33, Pt 35-37, Pt 784. Shows a private road off the Homewood Main Road, leading to the Riversdale homestead beside the ocean. Includes comments on land description and quality; total land area is 2125 acres. The second map shows a sketch of a section of streets in Masterton, and names Dixon Street and Worksop Road. Other streets are sketched and unnamed, with some properties outlined. Quantity: 2 manuscript map(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, scale indeterminable, 30 x 30.4 and 31.2 x 38.4 cm, sheet 31.2 x 68.8 cm.

Date: 1875 - 1885

By: Tronson, Fairlie Harold active 1883; Bock & Elliot (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-051-016

Description: View possibly from upper Dixon Street or McDonald Crescent, looking across Te Aro and up Willis Street towards Mount Victoria. St Peter's Church dominates the centre of the view and the Gasworks can be seen immediately to the left of the steeple of the church. Marjoribanks Street shows up clearly rising up Mount Victoria, and Oriental Bay, the entrance to Evans Bay and Miramar Peninsula are also clearly visible. Bush in the foreground, shops along Willis Street and several houses. In the right foreground is a large house with two steep gables, and a tree-filled garden, including two young Norfolk Pines. Note to A.H. Turnbull on corner. Other: The two-storied house in the right foreground may still be in existence in 2014, down a path leading from the lower end of The Terrace (formerly Woolcombe Street) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Two-tone lithograph 265 x325 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1890

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-126-008

Description: Shows wooden church with high roofed aisle, clerestory windows, flanked by side aisles. [West?] entrance door is under wooden spire. To the right is the wooden church hall. Both are seen behind wooden fence beyond road in foreground. At left a man on horseback rides along road towards left distance. A man and woman with parasol stand in left foregrround, and a woman and child stand outside the church fence on the opposite side of the road. See earlier correspondence about the disposal of this painting. AT 10/14, 22 December 1994. Inscription below painting (valid 1990s?): A C. Aubrey ink & watercolour study of the first St Matthew's Church and hall situated in the church acre, corner of Church and Dixon Streets, Masterton, at the turn of the 20th century. The church was demolished about 1914, but the hall was shifted to the present site, & is used by youth groups, behind the present parish hall, Church Street, Masterton. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C. Aubrey /90 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 382 x 595 mm.

Date: July - November 2013

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000929

Description: Comprises street views and various buildings in Wellington, Petone, Hamilton, and Upper Hutt, taken by Dylan Owen from July - November 2013. Includes images of Ghuznee Street, Victoria Street, Pipitea Street, and Marjoribanks Street in Wellington; Jackson Street in Petone, and Main Street in Upper Hutt. Also includes views of Barton Street in Hamilton. See also PADL-000924 for images of individual buildings on these streets. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Street views" Quantity: 11 digital photograph(s).