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Date: 1848 - 1852

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-172-013

Description: A rough sketch with a view from Thorndon, looking towards Lambton Quay, and Te Aro, with Government House and its flagpole in the foreground, the waterfront (Lambton Quay) with several houses visible, Clay Point indicated and Mount Cook beyond it, with the Barracks. Bush with either tree ferns or cabbage trees is indicated in the near foreground. There are three ships in the harbour Attribution: attributed by the Library on cataloguing, 1980, to H J Warre. However the handwriting is not that of Warre, and the style appears less precise than his. This is one of four drawings in the same hand, with the same provenance, (A-172-013 to -016) one of which appears to be a preliminary drawing for a watercolour by Colonel C E Gold. The group of four was reattributed to Gold in 2011 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 222 x 285 mm

Date: [1894-1900?]

From: Denton, Frank J, 1869-1963 :Collection of negatives, prints and albums

Reference: PA1-o-132

Description: Photographs, chiefly of the Wellington area, probably taken by Frank J Denton. A number show the house `Fernhill' in Woolcombe Street (now part of The Terrace), Wellington, views from the house and its gardens. Portraits in clude Laurie Denton, Tom Tolley (locksmith), Alfred Bennett and his family, Mrs Denton Snr, Mrs Waters (had a grocery shop in Dixon Street), G L Adkin (as a boy), Miss Dixon (of the aerated water family, the Dixons of Dixon Street), George Butler (artist), and Beaglehole (David Ernest Beaglehole, father of Professor Ernest Beaglehole, and Professor John Cawte Beaglehole). Also includes photograph of a portrait painted by George Edmund Butler of his father Joseph Cawte Butler (maternal grandfather of John Cawte Beaglehole). Other Titles - Wellington I Album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Maroon cover decorated with painted leaves, 22 x 26 cm

Date: [ca 1930], 1946-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-175

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, ca 1946-1959 Kapiti coastline (including view looking north from Paekakariki); Lower Hutt - St James' Church; council buildings; Riddiford Baths; library; St Stephen's Presbyterian Church; aerial view of southern end of Lower Hutt (over Moera); elevated view of Naenae (showing Rata Street School in foreground). Rimutaka Hill Road; Kaitoke, 1948 (shows swing bridge); filtration plant site (Hutt River) re Kaitoke Waterworks construction; bridge at Pakutatahi; Akatarawa Valley road (with Morris Minor at roadside); house in Akatarawa Valley; Hutt Valley Pony Club members with their ponys on Akatarawa Road; Kapiti coast looking north from Paekakariki. Middle Run, Gladstone in Wairarapa - Daffodils in paddocks at Middle Run (owned by Mrs W H Booth), and view of homestead Elevated view of Miramar looking south-west; Lambton Quay with Kirkcaldie & Stains on left; Pigeon Park; Wellington Botanic Garden and tulip beds; view from Mount Victoria looking towards the Basin Reserve, Mount Cook and Brooklyn, with houses in Mount Victoria in foreground (taken ca 1930). Demonstration house at Karori designed and built by The Architectural Centre, 1949 Quantity: 44 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1932

By: Bartleet, Ellen Wintrup, 1896-

Reference: A-238-001

Description: The Carillon seen from a distance across a small park or garden, with other buildings around it, Mount Cook behind it. On verso: Island Bay from the shore looking towards the Island On back: unfinished watercolour of Island Bay Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 635 x 482 mm

Date: 1842

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Connell, B, active 1840-1843

Reference: E-216-f-087-2

Description: View from above Te Aro Flat wotj houses and other buildings on the flat landl, a few houses, a fence and trees (including a cabbage tree) in the foreground, Pipitea Point and its houses visible in the distance to the left, six sailing ships in the harbour, Somes Island and the Hutt Valley in the distance. Another drawing by B. Connell (E-216-f-069) 'Wellington from the London' suggests that the artist arrived on board the London, in 1842. The state and number of the houses shown also suggest a date not before 1842 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - B. Connell Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper, glued to album page, 153 x 236 mm

Date: 1920 - 1980

From: Mitchell, Mary Stewart, 1911-1982 :[Wellington scenes, 1920s to 1970s?]

By: Gellatly, R D, active 1988; Mitchell, Mary Stewart, 1911?-1982

Reference: A-281-013

Description: Shows a portion of Bidwill Street and its houses at a curve near Brooklyn Road. Looking back east towards the suburb of Mount Cook, with the Orongorongos in the distance. Titles from artist's inscriptions on pinex backing boards, now discarded. Inscriptions: Unsigned and undated. Title taken from backing board, now discarded. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 300 x 310 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist's son, Mr R. D. Gellatly, Newlands, in 1988.

Date: 1841 - 1843

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: E-106-f-047-3

Description: View from Clay Point hill above the junction of modern Willis St and Lambton Quay. The beach in the foreground is lower Willis Street, while upper Willis Street passes up the rise on the far right. The beach in the background is modern Mercer and Wakefield Streets. Cows, goats, two Maori canoes, a couple on horseback and Bethune & Hunter's Stores are in the foreground, with a jetty and sailing ships in the harbour. Further jetties and public and private buildings are in the background on Te Aro Flat. The most prominent building along the waterfront, with a Grecian-style frontage, is the Exchange Building. Mounts Cook, Albert and Victoria are indicated in the skyline above their relevant peaks. From water-colour by Charles Heaphy; engraver unknown. For a key to the identity of individual buildings, see negative 15576 1/2. T. M. Hocken's 'Key plan of Heaphy's View of a part of the town of Wellington ... 1885'. The original for this key is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection. A watercolour was the original for the lithograph of the same title, published in London in 1842. There were also later prints from the same stone produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See reference number C-026-002 for copies of the lithograph. Reproduced by the Library in 1963 as one of the Queen's Prints, along with its companion view `Thorndon Flat and part of the city of Wellington, 1841' and Heaphy's `View of Nelson Haven', also dating from 1841. Very similar image at copy negative 1/2-005440 Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Vol 2 II, p 206 [1843 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 95 x 155 mm

Date: 1945

Reference: F-008

Description: Panoramic view of Wellington Harbour and city from Kelburn, including clear views of ships in the harbour, the wharves, the Railway Station, the Government Buildings, the high-rise buildings in the city, Weir House, Kelburn Park, Te Aro flat, the Carillon, the Museum and Oriental Bay with St Gerard's Monastery. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - '45 [in pencil, plus a complex monogram including the letters J.C.H. & W, also in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, hand-coloured 244 x 1420 mm Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane, October 1969 for $30.00

Date: 1842

From: Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington (sketched in the middle of the year 1842). Plate IV.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: B-110-058

Description: Right-hand third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows Maori group sitting near flagpole at left, smoking long pipes, other Maori figures and three thatched buildings on the foreshore. On centre foreshore is Messrs Ridgways and Co's wharf and stores. At right is Willis Street with the Southern Cross Hotel and further back the Ship Hotel. On the other side of the bay are the Customhouse Office, Post Office, Waitt's Wharf and stores, John Wade's store, the Exchange, and Rhodes's Wharf and store. Willis and Co's store is in the left background near Te Aro Pa. In the distance are Mount Albert and Mount Cook. There are colour transparencies available (photographed from better copies of this work, in volume of Wakefield's book). Extended Title - From Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1845. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Te Aro Flat; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - bottom right - Day & Haghe, Lithrs to the Queen Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 453 mm.

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-023

Description: 1. 'Kai Warra Warra Hutt Road near Wellington'. View looking north along the waterfront towards Petone, with a low bridge in the foreground and the Kaiwharawhara Hotel and other buildings viewed from across the stream. 2. 'Harbour Wellington New Zealand looking towards te Aro Flat. Barracks on the Hill side Mount Cook'. This has the court house and Thistle Inn in the foreground, lower Mulgrave Street, and looks south across the harbour towards Te Aro, with the highest buildings being the barracks on Mount Cook. 3. 'Wairarapa Race Course blackguard. Bobby Naikoi' shows a ferocious-looking Maori man in European clothes, wearing a cap Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & wash, watercolour or ink & watercolour, sizes vary

Date: [1895-1900?]

From: Denton, Frank J, 1869-1963 :Collection of negatives, prints and albums

Reference: PA1-o-131

Description: Album of photographs, mainly of the Wellington Region, Marlborough and Horowhenua Regions, interspersed with copies of photographs by unidentified photographers, unidentified lithographs and illustrations. A number of the photographic copies are portraits of Maori. The last images in the album, taken by unidentified photographers, relate to Darjeeling (Bengal, India). Inscriptions: Album page - Photographed by Frank J. Denton, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover with gold patterns on corners and spine, 25 x 32 cm

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-023-2

Description: View from lower Mulgrave Street with the Courthouse and Thistle Inn in the foreground, ships in the harbour and the hills and flat land of Te Aro and Mount Cook in the background. The highest building on Mount Cook is the Barracks Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour, 127 x 195 mm

Date: 1859

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Swan, George Henry, 1833-1913; Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: E-455-f-031-2

Description: View looking from above down to the crossroads of Willis, Manners and Boulcott Streets, with businesses and houses. The large building in the left foreground, corner Willis and Boulcott Streets, was the Union Bank of Australia. A man leads a horse and cart up Willis Street towards the hills on the right The Barracks are visible on Mount Cook in the left background The site became the Hotel St George corner Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 159 x 258 mm

Date: 1979

By: Fidel, 1944-2001

Reference: B-160-010/010-b

Description: Shows the multi-storeyed apartments, built in the 1970s, in Arlington Street, Mount Cook, Wellington. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Fidel 1979; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on sheets 420 x 514 mm.

Date: January - June 2011

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000648

Description: Photographs of buildings in Wellington taken in February to June 2011 by Dylan Owen Arrangement: Images were originally in a folder labelled 'Buildings Jan to July 2011' Quantity: 23 digital photograph(s).

Date: April - December 2008

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000252

Description: Photographs of the exterior of buildings in Wellington, Upper Hutt, Wairarapa and Kapiti Coast, taken from April to December 2008. Includes Martinborough Town Hall. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within folders called "New Zealand Buildings April to July 2008" and "New Zealand Buildings July to December 2008" Quantity: 70 digital photograph(s).

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-037-3

Description: A moonlit view from Mount Cook, over Wellington and the harbour, looking north. Lambton Quay lies below along the foreshore with Pipitea Point in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 137 x 249 mm

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

Reference: 1/2-036351-F

Description: Looking south over roofs to the Basin Reserve, Wellington, where a crowd watches a cricket game. On the right is Adelaide Road with the Caledonian Hotel on the corner. Wellington College buildings are on the top left. Also on the left is St Mark's Church. Houses around Rugby Street and Adelaide Road can also be seen. Photograph taken by Gordon Burt. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1924]

From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs

By: Berg, Ivor Christian, 1900-1969

Reference: 1/4-060176-F

Description: View of Te Aro, Wellington, looking towards Buckle Street and Mount Cook. The photographer has taken the view from an upper story looking over the houses. In the foreground is a neigbouring roof, and beyond a yard in which is parked a horse and cart. A line of washing is visible in another yard. Beyond the houses are the buildings of Mount Cook School (replaced 1925 by a brick and stucco building). In the left background can be seen the Buckle Street Police Station. The lower slopes of Mount Cook take up the background. Photographed by Ivor Berg in about 1924. According to Ivor Berg's sister, Thelma France, at the time this photograph was taken, Berg was working for a coffin maker. The photograph was taken from the second story of the coffin maker's premises. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1855

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-032-2

Description: Looking south along Lambton Quay and up The Terrace (the track up the hill) from its lower end. Various features are numbered: 1. Flagstaff 2 or 3 miles off (on top of Mount Albert); 2. the barracks (on top of Mount Cook) 3.Clay Point (corner of Lambton Quay and Willis Streets with Plimmer's Ark moored at its base); 4. Captain Sharp's house on the top of Wellington Terrace; 5. The Terrace; 6. Dr T. S. Ralph's house on The Terrace, [no numbers 7 or 8 on Pearse's list, but two empty sections in the foreground are marked 7 & 8]; 9. Noah's [Plimmer's] Ark, 10. Barrett's Hotel (towards the end of Lambton Quay at the foot of the cliff in the middle distance); [no number 11 but Pearse has duplicated number 12 on the flanks of Mount Victoria to the left]; 12. Spot on Wellington Terrace behind J. P.'s office on the Beach - a difficult and dangerous clamber or crawl when a quiet retired cut to the works taken; 13. Front of Deighton's house on The Terrace where J. P. first lodged (a point on the right of The Terrace, part-way up); 14. Where the Kumutoto Bridge has been built. The project emanated from J.P. - roadway continued from Terrace (a flat spot above the small gorge formed by the Kumutoto Stream, modern Woodward Street) Likely to have been drawn after January 1855 because the companion view on the same page, E-455-f-032-1, mentions 'the late Baron Alzdorf'. Alzdorf died in January 1855 during the Wellington earthquake. The drawing of Dr T S Ralph's house also indicates a date of 1855. Ralph was resident on The Terrace in 1855 according to electoral rolls, but had moved elsewhere by 1856. Pearse returned to England in 1856 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash drawing on blue paper, 207 x 320 mm