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Birrell album 3
Date: [1950s]
From: Birrell, Kenneth Stewart (Dr), b 1909 :Albums of photographs taken by Kenneth Stewart Birrell
Reference: PA1-q-032
Description: Album contains coloured photographs with views of New Zealand, and some unlabelled family photographs, taken by Dr Ken Birrell, circa 1950s. Images also include three of Oregon and the Oregon State University. New Zealand views are concentrated mainly in the Wellington area including the Wairarapa, Milford Sound and the Dunedin area. Note handwritten at top right-hand corner of the cover reads "Aerial. Qtn-Milford 1957 & Chch-Qtn. (Air & bus)" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue covered album, with "Photographs" lettered in gold, 255 x 380 mm
AFCM album 2
Date: Between 1910s and 1930s
From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs
By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955
Reference: PA1-f-002
Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.
Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972 :Crowd on the beach at Island Bay, Wellington
Date: [ca 1920s]
By: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972
Reference: PA7-51-28
Description: View of people on the beach at Island Bay. Young children are playing on the sand, or in dinghies and canoes close to the shore. Fishing fleet is at anchor in the bay. Photograph taken by S C Smith in 1920s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Island Bay. Wellington. New Zealand. 890 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 155 x 205 mm
Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :Island Bay. George Eiby. July '75
Date: 1975
From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook].
Reference: E-480-f-030
Description: Fishing boat and dinghy up on the hard at Island Bay Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 282 x 350 mm
Fleet of Japanese squid boats docked at Aotea Quay, Wellington
Date: [ca 20 December 1978]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1978/4272
Description: Fleet of Japanese squid boats docked at Aotea Quay, Wellington, before beginning fishing operations off the West Coast of the South Island, taken ca 20 December 1978 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Wills, Mary, 1859?-1942 :Wellington Harbour. [ca 1920]
Date: 1917 - 1920
From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]
Reference: A-462-269
Description: A view of the harbour, showing a fishing vessel heading towards the docks. Seagulls skim the surface of the water. Pencil sketch, with colour legend noted in places Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Wellington Harbour [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 67 x 265 mm
[Bleakley, Joe], fl 1980-2000s :The blessing of the boats. Island Bay Festival, Februar...
Date: 2008
By: Bleakley, Joe, active 1980-2000s; Angus, Rita, 1908-1970
Reference: Eph-D-FESTIVAL-Wellington-2008-01
Description: Poster featuring an adaptation of a Rita Angus painting of fishing boats at Island Bay, with Christ and his followers in the foreground boat. The boats are flying pennants which represent words, and are waiting to begin a circumnavigation of the Island, which is seen in the background. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital print, 595 x 420 mm.
Wellington wharf police tow the upturned fishing boat Maria Luisa to shore - Photograph...
Date: [ca 30 December 1996]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s
Reference: EP/1996/3725-F
Description: Wellington wharf police tow the upturned fishing boat 'Maria Luisa' back to shore after it had collided with the container ship 'Sydney Express'. Photographs taken ca 30 December 1996 by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm
Laugesen, Carl Thorwald, 1900-1987 :Paremata. [19]41
Date: 1941
From: Laugesen, Carl Thorwald, 1900-1987 :[Sketchbook. ca 1932-1944]
Reference: E-937-1-025/026
Description: View of Paremata looking out to Porirua Harbour, shown twice as a pencil sketch and a watercolour. Both feature fishing craft in the water, a figure, possibly a fisherman, at the water's edge, and a boathouse in the foreground. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom left - Paremata / C T Laugesen / 41 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on spread pages of sketchbook, 102 x 325 mm Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane, auction 1104, Wellington, 4 April 2012, lot no. 374
Views of Wellington
Date: [ca 1935-1950]
From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972 :Photographic prints
Reference: PAColl-9942-5
Description: Includes - Two views of Wellington and Harbour, ca 1950. View of Wellington and Harbour, ca 1935. Fishing boat entering Island Bay on a heavy swell. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s).
Wellington
Date: [ca 1960s]
From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip
Reference: PA12-6992
Description: Photographs of Wellington taken ca 1960s by John Ingle. Includes views of construction of the Wellington urban motorway; Massey Memorial; Evans Bay road; upper reaches of the Hutt River; Wahine storm damage at Keith George Park; Wellington city and harbour; groups of Forest & Bird members on walks on Raumati Beach, and the Cross Creek track; fishing boats and the ferry from Island Bay; Paremata coast; painters at Houghton Bay; lifeboat in Wellington Harbour; hut in the Tararuas; the Hall of Memories in the carillon tower; Parliament Buildings and a pathway in the grounds; Petone Settlers Museum; and the Dominion Museum. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm
Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :Island Bay. George Eiby. Nov '67
Date: 1967
From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook]. May-November 1967.
Reference: E-471-f-023
Description: In the foreground are two rowboats and several crayfish pots close to a building on the foreshore at Island Bay. A fishing boat lies at anchor in the distance. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink 273 x 360 mm
[Medley, Mary Catherine], 1835-1922 :Plimerton [Between 1900 and 1902]
Date: 1900 - 1902
From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketches
Reference: E-346-3-028
Description: A small house with lean-to and water-tank, several fishing boats around it, close to Plimmerton Beach, looking back towards the entrance to Porirua Harbour. Flax bushes in the foreground. Other Titles - Plimmerton Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sketchbook page, 163 x 224 mm
Lysaght, Emily Muriel, 1875-1971 :Island Bay. After S left. 1893
Date: 1893
From: Various artists :[Watercolour and pencil drawings by members of the Lysaght and Stowe families. ca 1870-1930]
By: Lysaght, Emily Muriel, 1875-1971
Reference: B-190-042
Description: A view of the rocky coast at Island Bay, with the snow-capped Kaikouras in the distance. The faint sketch of a fishing boat can be seen on the far left in the harbour The 'S' referred to could be Emily's sister, Sylvia Stowe Inscriptions: Verso - top right - E M Stowe / 1893 [in pencil]; Verso - top left - Island Bay. After S left [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on loose sketchbook page, 127 x 183 mm
Crew of wrecked Taiwanese fishing boat the Yung Pen are brought ashore by residents and...
Date: [ca 13 December 1982]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Nicholson, John, active 1997
Reference: EP-Accidents-Shipwrecks 1980 to 1986-02
Description: Crew of wrecked Taiwanese fishing boat the Yung Pen are brought ashore by residents and police at Owhiro Bay, Wellington, taken ca 13 December 1982 by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Resin-coated paper print 25.5 x 20.4 cm
Men fishing from the boat Liberta, Island Bay
Date: [ca 1920s]
From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: 1/2-047911-G
Description: Men fishing off the boat Liberta, Island Bay, Wellington. Photographed by S C Smith, circa 1920s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative
Fishermen Frank Dellabarca and Jimmy Imlach at Island Bay, Wellington
Date: July 1957
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP/1957/3049-F
Description: Fishermen Frank Dellabarca and Jimmy Imlach at Island Bay, photographed in July 1957 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Original newspaper caption reads: "unloading the dinghies on the eastern side of Island Bay. The two fishermen facing the camera have a groper in each hand and are carrying them to the truck. The time is about 4.30pm and they have been out for about 12 hours" (Evening Post, 27 July 1957). Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - beneath image - 1957 3025 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose acetate negative, 5.5 x 5.6 cm
Fishing trawler Phyllis being towed to Evans Bay patent slip, Wellington - Photograph t...
Date: Aug 1954
From: Tourist and Publicity
By: Walker, W (Mr), active 1940s-1950s
Reference: 1/2-029992-F
Description: Fishing trawler Phyllis being towed to Evans Bay patent slip, Wellington, for an overhaul, 1949. Photograph taken by W Walker for the National Publicity Studios. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.
Group of Italian Fishermen, Island Bay, Wellington
Date: 1930s
From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: 1/2-046941-G
Description: Group of Italian fishermen in a row boat, Island Bay, Wellington. Photographed by Sydney Charles Smith in the 1930s. Men are from left: Franceso Cataldo, Santo Saffioti, Pasquale Olivio, Pietro Federico, Antonio Aprea and Gennaro Amitrano. Source of descriptive information - names of men taken from 'Alla fine del mondo' revised edition - previously one of the men was described as being Gustavo Durante, but researcher advises this was an error. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Fishing huts and boats, Island Bay, Wellington
Date: [between ca 1900-1905]
From: Paul, L J :Photographs of Wellington
Reference: 1/2-075747-F
Description: Fishing huts and boats, Island Bay, Wellington, taken between circa 1900-1905 by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).