Places

Date: 1885-1900

Reference: PAColl-1942

Description: Wellington streets, dwellings, historic buildings, harbour, ships, wharves and tax department staff 1900 Hunterville main street and unidentified church Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s) loose album pages.

Date: [ca 1927]

From: Government House Collection : Prints of Te Aro flat, Lambton Quay, Parliament Building, Government Buildings, Post Office and Governor's residence

Reference: PAColl-D-0119

Description: Panoramic view taken from Wireless Hill (Tinakori Hill) looking down on the city and across the harbour to Roseneath, Oriental Bay and Mount Victoria, with the Miramar peninsula in the distance. Bolton Street Cemetery is in the immediate foreground. The Government Building, Parliament Buildings, Government House, Government Print building and Thorndon railway station are to the left. Several ships are berthed at the wharves and a ship is steaming towards Queens Wharf in the middle distance. Kelvin Chambers and Mayfair Chambers can be seen (both under construction). The Taranaki Street Wharf is on the far right. Taken by an unidentified photographer, ca 1927 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Recto - bottom right - 2249 Similiar view at 1/2-058525 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 402 x 560 mm with mount

Date: 1851

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: McCleverty, William Anson, 1806-1897

Reference: E-144-046-2

Description: Looking down Molesworth Street to Wellington Harbour, with Government House and its flagpole and sentry box on the right. Three Maori stand in the road with a dog. A fourth man is seated by the roadside. The cliff above Lambton Quay is in the right background. Several shops in the harbour. A building, probably Barrett's Hotel is at the foot of the road, by the harbour. Part of another building is on the left, with three European men seated in the shade outside Other Titles - Government Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - W M 1851 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour, original 8.4 x 12.6 inches

Date: [1870s-1880s]

By: Norris, Joseph Foxley, active 1880s; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Wilson, George Washington, 1823-1893

Reference: PA1-q-094

Description: Photographic album created by Joseph Foxley Norris, with many images of places visited in Great Britain, including castles, cathedrals, stately homes, ports, landscapes, and bridges. Joseph Foxley Norris was a founding member of the Cyclists' Touring Club in England, and was a member of the Pickwick Bicycle Club in England with one image being a group portrait of members of the club. A number of the English scenes were photographed by G.W.W. (George Washington Wilson). Other regions visited include Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro. Views of New Zealand are mostly in the South Island, with a few of Wellington (including Government Buildings, Parliament Buildings and Government House). One photograph taken by James Bragge shows a group of unidentified Maori standing outside a meeting house in Masterton. South Island views include a bicycle "meet" in Christchurch, with a large crowd gathered, and a number of penny-farthing bicycles visible. A number of images show men riding penny-farthing bicycles and the dangers of so doing, with posed views of two men underneath their bicycles and one clutching a fence, taken in and around Christchurch. On page 108 is hand-printed award `Anniversary Sports, Christchurch,N.Z. 16th December 1880. The following ten views taken from the Cathedral Tower, Christchurch, are the 3rd prize in the One Mile Champion Bicycle Race won by J. Foxley Norris, Pioneer Bicycle Club'. Other views include a group of about four men touring along the West Coast Road, and notable buildings in Christchurch and Dunedin. One image shows the "cage" crossing the Teremakau River. A group portrait in Christchurch shows members of Harper & Co. (Solicitors) Inscriptions: Album page - J. Foxley Norris. 1880 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with a black cover, spine title `Photo's'; 29.0 x 24.5 cm

Date: [ca 1866]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-44-08

Description: View of the intersection of Lambton Quay and Charlotte Street (later known as Molesworth Street), Wellington. Photograph taken from the waterfront looking towards Tinakori Hill by William Henry Whitmore Davis. At the extreme left is the house of `Squatter' Jones, with Government House immediately to the right. In the foreground to the right are the houses of Dr Samuel Evans (on the corber of Charlotte Street), and Barrett's Hotel. Behind them are Parliament Buildings and St Mary's Cathedral. One of a series of panoramic views of Lambton Quay and Thorndon Quay taken by Davis, ca 1866-1867. Relationship complexity - Albumen prints at PA7-43-06 and PA7-09-02. Copy negative 1/2-052974 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21 x 26.8 cm

Date: [Between 1880s and 1890s]

From: Bothamley family: Papers and photographs

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911; Lindt, John William, 1845-1926; Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936

Reference: PA1-o-431

Description: Photographs taken during the 1880s and 1890s, chiefly by Henry Charles Clarke Wright, with others probably taken by Herbert Deveril. All show scenes in New Zealand except one, prabably taken by J W Lindt, of an Australian aboriginal man and woman standing over a kangaroo which they have caught. They have boomerangs and a spear. Photographs of the town of Tarawera and the White Terraces were taken before the eruption in 1886. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, coloured picture of two cats playing with a ball of wool inset, and bordered by gold and black decoration, entitled `Children's scrap book'; 25.0 x 32.5 cm

Date: [Between about 1879 and 1899]

From: Bothamley family: Papers and photographs

By: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936

Reference: PA1-q-192

Description: Photographs taken by Henry Wright in the Wellington Region between about 1879 and 1899. In the album there is one photograph (p 33), of the Pink Terraces which was possibly taken by the Burton brothers. They include two photographs (on p 1, 36) of his wife (probably his second wife Mary Jane (nee Woolman), as it is likely they were taken between 1886 and 1890, dated from the style of her dress, and he didn't marry his third wife, Elizabeth Hughes Hallett, until 1907) Many were taken around the Wellington coast, including views of the Wellington Heads; two views of Maori whare at Karaka Bay (circa 1879)(p 13) and one with a Maori chief in front of a whare (p 15); and three photographs of a bay near Karaka Bay showing torpedo sheds (p 20), a naval camp (p 30), and the explosion of a torpedo in the sea (p 31). Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, decorated with gold patterns, central section with red, white and green inserts with the Scottish thistle, English rose and Irish clover (one section, presumably the Welsh one missing). Entitled `Photographic scrap album'; 28.5 x 24.5 cm

Date: 1849

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-070

Description: View from Hill Street area looking down onto the garden of Government House (now the site of the Beehive) with flagpole and sentry-box. Domett's house, which Collinson shared during his stay in Wellington, is in the left foreground. Mount Victoria is in the background and five ships and four smaller vessels are in the harbour, four of the ships identified. A faintly sketched horse is grazing in the foreground. This drawing forms an inexact panorama with A-292-071. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil with ink inscriptions Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1841

By: Wicksteed, John Tylston, 1806-1860

Reference: A-166-011

Description: Shows flat land in the foreground, Wakefield's house with flagstaff in the middle distance, and rising up the hill (modern Bowen Street area) a church spire amid trees, referred to in an accompanying letter as being the proposed site for St Paul's, although in fact this was not the site of the first St Paul's (Museum Street further down the hill), built 1844. The harbour can be seen to the left, along with the far end of Lambton Quay, a few houses and tents on Te Aro Flat and the track that became The Terrace winding up the hill Enclosed in letter from Wicksteed to Robert Few, Church Society of New Zealand, 30 Jan 1841. '...A reference to the map of Wellington and to the sketch sent herewith, will convey a tolerably correct idea of the place which I have resolved to propose to the Committee. It is the triangular piece of land (not numbered, being a public reserve) lying immediately under number 500 on the map, and above numbers 470, 371 and 472. A road or street bounds it on the north west and separates it from another public reserve, designed for a cemetery [later Bolton Street Cemetery]. In the sketch, the principal house with the flagstaff near it, is Colonel Wakefield's, and the spot on which a church spire is placed is that to which I have drawn your attention. It is almost first seen on turning the corner, as I may call it, on entering Lambton Harbour. I regret that the sketch is so slight, but it is faithful' (Ref. MS Papers 256) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 115 x 225 mm Transfers: transferred from MS Papers 256, April 1978..

Date: 1867

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

Reference: 10x8-2084-G

Description: Intersection of Lambton Quay and Molesworth Street, Wellington, from Wellington Harbour looking towards Tinakori Hill, photographed 1867 by William Henry Whitmore Davis. At extreme left is the house of "Squatter" Jones, with Government House immediately to the right. At the right, in the foreground are the house of Dr G Samuel Evans, on the corner of Charlotte (Molesworth) Street, and Barrett's Hotel. Behind them are Parliament Buildings and St Mary's Cathedral. Other - Seventh image from left in panoramic sequence 10x8-2078 to 10x8-2087 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 8 x 10 inches Processing information: Record updated on 7 July 2023 to change date from 1866 to 1867 on advice of a researcher concerning the spire on St Mary's Cathedral opened in November 1867.

Date: 1889

By: Young, John Henry, 1869-1937

Reference: G-265

Description: Shows a view from the lower slopes of Kelburn. The top of St Andrew's Presbyterian Church can be seen, and Government House with tower and flag flying. Six or seven tall industrial chimneys and the gasometer stand out on the flat area of the city at Te Aro. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J H Young 1889 Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 385 x 590 mm (sight) Provenance: Sold at Dunbar Sloane's in the 1980s (evidence from a photograph supplied by Dunbar Sloane's).

Date: [ca 1880]

From: Bothamley, Arthur Thomas, 1846-1938 :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-231029-G

Description: View south-east across Thorndon, Wellington. Included is Government House, Hill Street (in foreground), the Colonial Museum, Wellington Harbour with sailing ships clustered at Queen's Wharf, Mount Victoria and Mount Albert. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1880 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Work on the reclamation for the site of the Goverment Building began in 1873. Construction of the building began in early 1875. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 16.2 x 10.4 cm

Date: [ca 1870s-1880s]

From: Scott, Mrs :Original and mounted photographic prints

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-23

Description: View taken from the grounds of Parliament looking south. In the foreground are Sydney Street (running left to right), and Government House stables on the corner of Sydney and Museum streets. The wharves can be seen in the middle distance. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril, ca 1870s-1880s Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 26 x 35 cm

Date: 1853-1885

By: Richmond, Christopher William (Hon), 1821-1895

Reference: E-284

Description: Include views of Central Otago, West Coast, Marlborough, Wellington, Bream Head, Egypt, England, France, voyage to England, seascapes, yachts and ships. For details see records for individual pages. At head of title: Richmond and Atkinson family papers, vol 45. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) containing. 85 drawing(s) (pencil). 4 drawing(s) pencil and ink. 1 drawing(s) pencil and wash. Physical Description: Art originals, pencil, 170 x 230 mm or smaller, in album, 240 mm, 1/2 blue moroccco, blue buckram Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - acc. 77-253: Richmond and Atkinson papers.