Places

Date: 1913

By: Lee, Ina, active 1908-1931

Reference: A-123-023

Description: View near the mouth of the Hutt River, looking past a bridge towards Wellington Harbour and Wellington Heads. Houses at Petone are visible Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 286 x 210 mm

Date: [1880s-1900s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-o-167

Description: Family photographs, chiefly taken by William Hughes Field. Many of the views are unidentified, as are many of the portraits and group portraits. Some family members are identified, and a few taken in Botany Bay, Sydney, show Richard John Seddon and James Carroll speaking at a function. One image is a reproduction of a cartoon by William Hodgkins entitled `Mark Twain at the City hall Dunedin, on original sin (The watermelon story) ... A sketch from the stalls by W M Hodgkins' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green covers, 24 x 31 cm

Date: [ca 1866-1868]

From: Tait, Ethna Bessie J, fl 1960 :Photographs of early Wellington

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-43-09

Description: View of the intersection of Thorndon Quay and Mulgrave Street, Thorndon, Wellington with the harbour and a row boat in the foreground photographed by W H W Davis. From left to right are: Clents & Dawson, grocers and general storekeepers; painting and paperhanging shop; Warcup's bootmaking business; J Greaves, plumber and glazier; Thistle Inn. St Paul's Pro-Cathedral is on the right. Relationship complexity - Original negative at 10x8-2087-G Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.6 x 18.2 cm on mount 25.2 x 30.2 cm

Date: 1896 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-015

Description: Several buildings in the foreground, a harbour and tall hills, one with a signalling station on top. May show a view of Mt Victoria and Wellington Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

Date: [ca 1875]

By: Richards, Edward Smallwood, 1834-1917

Reference: PA7-51-02

Description: View taken from Sydney Street West looking towards Bolton Street and south-east towards Te Aro and Mount Victoria. Wellington College can be seen on the extreme right in the far distance. The Colonial Museum in Museum Street is in the foreground to the left. Photograph taken by E S Richards in the 1870s Copy negative at 1/2-021636-F. File print available at PFP-030465. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Looking towards Bolton Street from above Sydney Street West. Colonial Museum in Museum Street on left foreground. Lion Foundry in Waring Taylor Street in background, c 1875 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 18.5 x 28.8 cm

Date: [ca 1866-1868]

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

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-44-09

Description: View of the dwellings along Thorndon Quay. One of a sequence of panoramic photographs taken by W H W Davis, ca 1866. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16.5 x 21.5 cm (2 copies)

Date: Circa 1900 to 1905

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-295

Description: Album of photographs, probably taken by George William Barltrop, chiefly taken on a tour around the South Island. The first images relate to an area around Wellington, including Waiwhetu and Wainuiomata, including scenes of the Wainuiomata Reservoir. Two photographs taken in a park show three women wearing hats, full-length outfits, and carrying umbrellas, the "McNabs". One photograph shows a group of men and women, members of a camera club. The tour aound the South Island travels from Sheffield, down to the Otira Gorge, up to Lake Brunner and Inangahua, past Murchison, through Longford. In Wellington Harbour the steamship Ophir is sailing out, with people standing on the wharf in the foreground. Also in Wellington, is a large group portrait of men associated with the Missions to Seamen, gathered together on Labour Day 1901. Five photographs are taken around Otaki, one a pastoral scene, and two of three young Maori people (a young woman and a young girl in two scenes, with a second young girl in the third scene); a water mill; and a group of four people having a picnic in a field (two women (one obscured) and a young boy on the left, and a man with a bandaged hand on the right). The last few scenes are again of the South Island, at Temuka, Otago Harbour, Dunedin (including the Octagon), and a tram belonging to the Roslyn Tramway Company with a group of men on the front cab, and three standing in front. Inscriptions: Album page - G W Barltrop Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green album, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: 1852

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Ralph, Thomas Shearman (Dr), 1813-1891

Reference: A-215-017

Description: View from Te Aro Flat, probably from the bottom of Mount Victoria, looking towards Wellington. A small hut at the water's edge nearby, swampy ground and the Waitangi Stream in the foreground, fencing marking Te Aro Pa, European houses beyond, cliffs marking the beginning of Lambton Quay with houses running its length at the waterfront, the sloping line of The Terrace, with several houses running up the hill in the left background and ships moored in the harbour. One of two copies at A-215-017 and A-215-018. One copy is an untouched proof, the other has pencil pencil additions of mosque, basilica, buildings on hills and wharf Another copy in Pearse, J Album (ATL) p. 34. This copy is not able to be issued Inscriptions: Signed: E N : T S Ralph Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 194 x 294 mm on sheet 245 x 295 mm

Date: [1866 or 1867]

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

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-44-26

Description: View of Lambton Quay, Te Aro and ships in Wellington Harbour looking south from a jetty near the site of the Wellington Railway Station. Lambton Quay and reclamation is on the right; Willis Street is in the centre background, and Te Aro on the left. Part of a panorama taken by W H W Davis ca 1866-1867. Relationship complexity - Original negative at 10x8-2079-G. Duplicate image at PA7-43-11. Forms at panorama with 1/2-052978 & 1/2-052980. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

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: 1840

By: Stanley, Owen, 1811-1850

Reference: E-128-q-003

Description: A view from Charlotte Street (lower Molesworth Street) looking out to Wellington Harbour, with the side and back of Barrett's Hotel on the far left and the back of another house, 'the raupo house' in the centre. A flagstaff flying the Union Jack is alongside the near wall of Barrett's Hotel Copy of a wash drawing 'Barrett's Hotel, Port Nicholson' owned by the Royal Society Tasmania, and held in the collection of the Tasmanian Art Gallery and Museum, Hobart The 'raupo house' had a roof made of raupo and was said to be the first house built on Thorndon Beach (Thorndon Quay). It stood at the base of Charlotte Street, later Molesworth Street, on the right side as you face the sea, with Barrett's Hotel on the left side. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph (postcard), 89 x 139 mm glued to sheet 276 x 215 mm

Date: 1850

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-013-4

Description: Shows the Eastern hills, Wellington Harbour, bush and one house in the foreground in Wellington, possibly the Wadestown area. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 153 x 140 mm

Date: 1861 - 1967

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-011

Description: Shows ships in harbour, houses, and a man driving cows on a hillside path at right. From Brooklyn looking across Te Aro and the harbour to the Hutt Valley. At left is a Maori wood-gatherer. Tall tree in left foreground has the creeper kie kie growing on it. A tree has been felled in centre foreground, and there is a cabbage tree at right. Upper Willis Street runs down to Clay Point, at the junction of the present Willis Street and Lambton Quay. Thorndon Flat lies beyond ending at Pipitea Point. Colour photolithograph was reproduced from the original "[View of Wellington. 1861]" held at ATL G-670. Other Titles - View of Wellington, 1861. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud / NZ. 1861.; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board.; Recto - bottom right - Print no. 4 / Serial 10: 1967 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 310 x 510 mm.

Date: 1885

From: Dillberg, Gustaf, 1858-1934 :[New Zealand sketchbook. 1879-1887]

Reference: E-085-026

Description: Four views on one page. A small watercolour in the top left shows a steep bush-clad hill with a building on top. In the top centre, another watercolour shows a stony beach alongside a cliff, a house at the base of the cliff and a large rusty object, possibly part of a wrecked ship on the beach. The lower half of the picture includes two pencil views of Wellington Harbour, one with buildings close to the water where ships are morroored. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 178 x 254 mm (page size).

Date: 1965

From: Fowler, Edward Michael Coulson 1929- :Wellington prints [by] Michael Fowler. [Wellington, Whitcombe & Tombs, 1971]

Reference: B-086-070

Description: View of a row of identical working men's wooden cottages in Cottleville Terrace with wharves and harbour visible in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 215 x 324 mm

Date: 1861 - 1967

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-011-c

Description: Shows ships in harbour, houses, and a man driving cows on a hillside path at right. From Brooklyn looking across Te Aro and the harbour to the Hutt Valley. At left is a Maori wood-gatherer. Tall tree in left foreground has the creeper kie kie growing on it. A tree has been felled in centre foreground, and there is a cabbage tree at right. Upper Willis Street runs down to Clay Point, at the junction of the present Willis Street and Lambton Quay. Thorndon Flat lies beyond ending at Pipitea Point. Other Titles - View of Wellington, 1861. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud / NZ. 1861.; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board.; Recto - bottom right - Print no. 4 / Serial 10: 1967 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 310 x 510 mm.

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

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

Reference: PA12-7803

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

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-044/046

Description: Shows views in the Hutt Valley, Wellington and Wairarapa. At the top, a view looking west along Palliser Bayl, with Hokorewa Pa visible on the flat land near the coast in the distance, at the mouth of the Ruamahanga River. In the centre a view from the hills above Brooklyn and Ohiro Valley, looking west towards the harbour entrance. A few sheep are grazing in the foreground. Mount Victoria, Evans Bay and Lyall Bay can be seen. At the bottom, the house of William Swainson, with other buildings around it and trees on both sides. Three cows grazing in the foreground. Other Titles - William Swainson Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

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: 1916-1917

From: Firth, Pauline J, fl 1977 :Photograph albums of New Zealand and of World War I

By: Whitaker, Arthur, active 1916-1940?

Reference: PA1-o-174

Description: Snapshots of a group of friends, mostly in the Days Bay area, particularly at a house known as `Angel's Rest'; also a series of holiday photographs taken in Palmerston North at Christmas 1916. Two of these show soldiers marching in the Christmas Day Parade, and there are two views of a man posed beside a large cannon. People are identified only by their Christian names. Collection created by Arthur Whitaker. Inscriptions: Album page - Volume 2. More sunny memories. Arthur Whitaker. 12/12/16 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey cover, with inscription in black ink on front cover; 15.5 x 11.5 cm