Places

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

Date: [Circa 1880s]

By: Phillips-Turner, Roland Glyndwr, 1902-1988; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: PA1-f-077

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken circa 1880s by various photographers including James Bragge and Josiah Martin. Photographs of the Manawatu Gorge were taken by James Bragge, some of which show the horse and carriage in which Bragge carried his equipment. There is one photograph of English explorer and adventurer Captain Speedy who spent many years in Abyssinia and other parts of Africa, and who came to New Zealand in 1864, where he fought with the Waikato Militia before returning overseas. He is shown wearing Abyssinian costume (p 15). Some photographs relate to the Haultain family, with a view of St John's College, of which Thomas Minet Haultain was a governor, anda view of Colonel Haultain and his family at their home in St Stephen's Avenue, Parnell, Auckland Inscriptions: Album page - "Frances Aplin Haultain, 14, August 1886"; Album page - "To I & E Phillips Turner, Easter 1905" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, brown leather corners and spine; 31 x 42 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1924

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

By: George, William H, active 1923-1928

Reference: Pan-0856-F

Description: Panoramic view of the two-storeyed wooden house and the garden of Mr W H George at Haywards (the house centre left). On the extreme right a railway line, two railway cars, and a small railway building can be seen. Taken by Robert Percy Moore Refer also Pan-0850-F, Pan-0851-F, Pan-0852-F, Pan-0853-F, Pan-0855-F and Pan-0858-F Source of descriptive information - dates from the fact that R P Moore's client, Mr W H George, left Haywards to live in Australia at the end of 1923 or the beginning of 1924 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on tape - Mr George Haywards Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.5 x 98.9 cm

Date: [ca 1910s-1950s]

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6866

Description: 152 views and portraits. They include: at least 22 of Picton and and the surrounding area showing boating in the harbour, people pic-nicking on the waterfront, people watching a rowing race, a speedboat called Pelorus Jack racing in the Sounds, and ferries coming in to the terminus; 10 images of the geothermal area around Wairakei inlcuding mud pools and geysers; nine images of a Studebaker Commander 6 either parked at scenic views or driving along country roads; eight images of men talking possibly at race meetings; six of the timber industry particularly the building of a timber boom; four aerial views of a liner coming into Auckland harbour; three views of groups of well-dressed men and women wearing what are possibly conference badges in an area decorated with bunting; three similar images of a large group of women photographed at Te Aro School near the Carillon also with conference badges; three general views of Wellington harbour; three images of the Spa Hotel, Taupo; two images of two women in bathing suits; two views of the railway station from The Terrace, Wellington; two views of a girl in Wellington Botanic Gardens; a scene on board the RMS Mononwai with a woman being photographed framed by the life belt; two of Aorangi; one of the ferry Cobar in Wellington Harbour; two of children riding on donkeys; two of the same elderly couple outside their house; two of young men on the boat Starlight; a group of what are probably sheep shearers outside their shed; Aotea Quay, Wellington; the yacht Ilex in Wellington harbour; children playing on swings; a large wooden gothic style house (location unknown); sheep droving; two women on a Bell Bus Company tour; various scenes on board ship including passengers watching an entertainer, a boxing match and a crossing the equator ceremony; a ship's officer climing down a rope ladder on the side of a ship; two of kauri trunks being transported on the Roxen, 1932; and a small child looking at an overturned carved wooden statue. The majority of the remaining images are of unidentified landscapes. Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-030982, 030983, 030985, 030992 to 030996, 030998, 031005, 031007 to 031010, 031012, 031013, 031016 to 031045, 031049, 031051 to 031059, 031154 to 031192, 031198 to 031203, 031205 to 031217, 031227 to 031248, 031737, 031739, 031740, 092294 to 092305 Quantity: 114 b&w original negative(s) film. 38 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-081

Description: The essay covers the period 1882-1941 and describes the lives of Elizabeth and Alexander Allan, their voyage to New Zealand in 1882 on the Loch Doon, their homes at Cross Creek on the Rimutaka Incline, and Upper Hutt. It describes the railway township of Cross Creek and the Fell railway system; the accident by which Alexander lost his life. The story continues with Elizabeth's life and those of her 10 children and their families especially Helen Includes a family tree Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published inventory available. Photographs of Alexander and Elizabeth, and Elizabeth and Amelia Burrell

Date: ca 1880

Reference: 1/2-005469-G

Description: A ballast train travelling round the waterfront at Oriental Bay carrying ballast from the quarry for land reclamation further round the harbour ca 1880. The train is passing a row of five two-storied houses. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass half plate copy negative

Date: ca 1880-1954

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); S P Andrew Ltd; Swan & Wrigglesworth (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0507

Description: A collection of photographs of the Hunter family particularly of George Ernest Hunter and his wife and dogs at their home in Watt Street, Wadestown but also of his brother Robert Henry Hunter (the two men look very alike). They include a number of photographs of their house, garden and neighbourhood but also a postcard of Paekakariki beach, a postcard of two wagons with passengers passing through the Devil's Elbow between Buttermere and Keswick in the English Lake District, seven men with penny-farthing bicycles ca 1880, a carte de visite of four young Maori wearing kakahu taken by Swan & Wrigglesworth, and a photograph of a sketch of Porerua Bay near Wanganui (mid 19th century). The collection includes a letter to a Mr Ellingham from I W Macdonald of 8 Lower Watt Street, Wadestown offering him the photographs. Quantity: 83 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [Chiefly between 1912 and 1914]

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

Reference: PA1-o-198

Description: Album of photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1912 and 1914. Images include Godber's family, a few of identified people (names listed in the name file), and many with no identification. One image of a group of fitters and turners apprentices at the Petone Railway Workshops, taken in 1913, has all the apprentices named (listed in the full record for Godber negative, APG-0457-1/2) Views of the old Central Fire Station at Petone, and the new Petone Fire Brigade Station; the aftermath of a huge fire at Cooks' Cooperage (on January 14, 1914); and a locomotive which had rolled. Local Petone scenes include the Petone Council Chambers and town clock, and a number of houses in the area, including the home of Godber's friend Tom Mather; Korokoro bush, and the Korokoro Reservoir. Away from the Wellington area, Godber photographed a number of houses in Clonbern Road area; the Makatote Viaduct and the Manganui-o-te-Ao Viaduct. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 107 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 25 x 32 cm

Date: 1880s

By: College of St. John the Evangelist (Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-6362

Description: Photographs by Burton Brothers, F Coxhead, Wheeler & Son, and other 19th Century New Zealand photographers. Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1885-1945]

By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PAColl-0422

Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1890s]

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

Reference: PAColl-7324

Description: Photographs of the Rimutaka railway including a locomotive at Cross Creek, a locomotive and carriages at the summit with railway workers houses next to the track, a tunnel, and the part of the track called Siberia. Photographer was the Burton Bros. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003407 to 003411 and 003413 to 003414 Quantity: 7 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: Between 1923 and 1924

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

By: George, William H, active 1923-1928

Reference: Pan-0859-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across the Hutt Valley with the Hutt River on the far side. Railway lines can be seen in the near side of the valley. Taken by Robert Percy Moore Refer also Pan-0850-F, Pan-0851, Pan-0852-F, Pan-0853-F, Pan-0855 and Pan-0856-F Source of descriptive information - dated from the fact that R P Moore's client, Mr W H George, left Haywards to live in Australia about the end of 1923 or the beginning of 1924 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on tape - George Haywards 3 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative

Date: Between 1923 and 1924

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

By: George, William H, active 1923-1928

Reference: Pan-0858-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across the Hutt Valley with the Hutt River on the far side. The view is taken from behind the two-storeyed wooden home of W H George which is visible in the bottom left corner of the image. Railway lines can be seen in the near side of the valley. Taken by Robert Percy Moore Refer also Pan-0850-F, Pan-0851, Pan-0852-F, Pan-0853-F, Pan-0855 and Pan-0856-F Source of descriptive information - dated from the fact that R P Moore's client, Mr W H George, left Haywards to live in Australia about the end of 1923 or the beginning of 1924 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on tape - George Haywards 3 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 110.4 cm

Date: [ca 1940-1951]

Reference: PAColl-6862

Description: 50 views of Wellington harbour. 34 are of the docks showing bales of wool being prepared for loading; merchant and naval ships docked; soldiers preparing for embarkation with supplies and artillery; construction of dockside buildings; cranes in use including the Hikitia etc. The remaining 16 images are of Oriental Bay and various leisure activities around it such as sunbathing, swimming and running. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-031255 to 031304 Quantity: 30 b&w original negative(s) glass. 20 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1908 - 1909

By: Buck, William Seldon, 1846-1919

Reference: MapColl-832.47enc/1908/Acc.9769

Description: Surveying map of the area from the Wellington and Napier Railway, adjacent to the Hutt Road, and including the Ngauranga Government trig. Makara County is marked. The site for the stationmaster's house to be taken under the Public Works Act 1908, Sections 29 & 188, is in Part section No. 8, Harbour District - Belmont S.D. Blk. XII. This is adjacent to an area of land marked as a right of way on one side and the Ngauranga Defence Works which is also Part section No. 8, Harbour District on the other side. The site of an hotel is marked. Title assigned by cataloguer from similar map Signature at bottom right: William S. Buck Handwritten note in site of stationmaster's house states: Surveyed Jany. 1909 for Railway Department Other Titles - Ngauranga, proposed site for stationmaster's house Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on dressed linen, coloured, scale [1:394], 45 x 38.8 cm.

Date: [ca 5 Sep 1985]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016

Reference: EP/1985/3967-F

Description: Looking over the suburb of Ngaio, Wellington, including New Zealand Railways Corporation houses which are part of the Railways' Tarikaka Street settlement. The settlement is bounded by Khandallah Road (foreground), Tarikaka Street (centre), Ngata, Bombay, and Pomare Streets. Photographs taken circa 5 Sepember 1985 by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid. At this time the Railways Coporation was considering the possibility of selling its Ngaio houses. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: [1865, 1900-1905]

By: Macey, William Henry, -1931; J H Bethune and Company Ltd

Reference: PA1-o-1231

Description: Album of views of Picton (including visit of Governor Ranfurly and New Year celebrations); Waimakariri, Broken River (including a workmens's camp) and Otarama from the Midland Railway; Cable Bay (including telegraph staff); Wakapuaka (including native bush); Nelson; Rai Falls; Wellington (showing decorations for the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York, 1901); Dunedin (including Larnach's Castle); Masterton (showing earthquake damage to Post Office); Manawatu Gorge Bridge; Wanganui; Taihape; Hamurana Springs; Rotorua; and meeting house at Te Ore Ore. One photograph is copy of an 1865 view of Picton, and the other photographs were taken ca 1900-1905. A number of the Picton images were taken by William Henry Macey. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1970 - 1989

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

Reference: Plans-2007-030-0131/0166

Description: Includes floor plans and plans of details of architraves, skirting, jambs, trim, cornices, etc. The buildings included are: 0131: Adelaide Road - Sally Schoons 0132: Angus [Rita Angus Cottage, Thorndon?] 0133: 6 Ascot Street 0134-0135: Chapman-Taylor house, Burnell Avenue 0136-0137: Futuna Chapel, Karori 0138: W R Sims' residence, 66 Homewood Ave, Karori 0139: Mr A E Boyes, Duthie Street Karori (diazo print) 0140-0141: Khandallah Automatic Telephone Exchange 0142: Mairiri [Mariri?] Road, Queen Anne style 0143: Brick bungalow in Mirimar [Miramar] 0144-0145: Park Street. Military cottage, cnr Grant Road and Park Street 0146: Plimmer House 0147-0148: Roxburgh Street 0149: Rugby Street, Wellington 0150: 127 Tasman Street and 193 Tinakori Road 0151-0152: Tinakori Road 0153: Wadestown and 202 Tinakori Road 0154: 64 Wright Street 0155: Gary Adams Ltd, 37 Percy Dyett Drive, Karori 0156: Wellington 0157: 156 The Terrace 0158: Hobart Street, Wellington. Page 64 0159: Military cottage - section 0160: Brick villa Wellington. Page 50 0161-0163: J L Williams, Otahuao 0164: Otaki and Otahuao 0165: Jenkins cottage [Otaki] 0166: Station master's house, Greytown, 1850 These measured drawings were made for inclusion in the book "Restoring with style" (1985). Quantity: 36 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings, and diazo prints, sizes varying

Date: 1957 to 1968

From: Luke, David M fl 1950- :Photographic albums, negatives, colour slides and prints

Reference: PA1-o-275

Description: Photographs of a series of tramping trips taken by David M Luke, alone or with friends, in the Wellington area between 1957 and 1968 Terawhiti solo reconnoitre trip, 3 March 1957 From Cross Creek to Upper Hutt, following the 17 mile route of the old railway line over the Rimutaka Range, with Hew Bruce, 17 March 1957 Terawhiti, with Hew bruce, 15 September 1957 Terawhiti, with Hew Bruce, 26 January 1958 Terawhiti (an attempted trip, abandoned during the day by bad weather) with Hew Bruce, 15 March 1958 Terawhiti, with the Wrigglesworth family, 25 October 1958 Terawhiti, with Hew Bruce, 17 May 1959 From the Horokiwi Road, along the hills between Belmont and Porirua, towards the Haywards-Pauatahanui Road, with Hew Bruce, 17 October 1959 From Kaitoke, over the Puffer, into the upper reaches of the Tauherenikau River, with Hew Bruce, 9 January 1960 A trip to the site of the gold mines on the summit of Diggins Hill, with Hew Bruce, 22 February 1964 Terawhiti (a New Zealand Historic Places Trust Field Day) with Jack Wrigglesworth, and Kelvin and `Mick' Fleet, 4 December 1966 Makara, a Sunday drive, 2 June 1968 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with grey cover, entitled `Photographs'; 20 x 26 cm

Date: [ca 1860-1914]

By: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944

Reference: PAColl-0341

Description: Photographs of various scenes: two of the convoy in Wellington Harbour in October 1914 (one from Field album VIII); the Field children outside a dilapidated house in Waikanae; a photographed captioned "mother and Peter" of two women, four children and a man in the mouth of Karori tunnel; a train passing through Te Aroha (Field album V); Auckland from the north shore (Field Album V); Sir George Grey's house at Momona Bay, Kawau (Field album IX); an excursion train meeting a river boat (Field Album XV); a house next to a small lake captioned New Plymouth (Field album IX); two of the visit by the Duke and Duchess of York in 1901 (one from Field Album VI); Mrs Edward and her mother on the verandah of their house in Khandallah; a post card of the station at Manakau; farm horses in harness eating at a trough (Field Album XV); Maori men, women and children around a meeting house for a tangi in Manaia, Coromandel - above the door is written Rahera Titia (Field Album V); Hot Springs Hotel beside the lake at Waiwera (Field Album V); looking down the Waimakariri from what is now Glacier Hotel at an old homestead and two of Mitre Peak and Milford Sound (stuck to the same piece of card Field Album IX); large two storey house (Field Album XVIII); and a panorama of Dunedin showing Rattray Street in the foreground and the wharves behind (Field Album VIII). Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-115913 to 115936 Quantity: 42 b&w original negative(s). 25 b&w original photographic print(s).