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Date: [ca 1931-1949]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-204

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1931-1949. Wellington - Bryant & May (employees playing tennis); Cenotaph with Government House and Parliament Building in background; Rangatira at Lyttelton Wharf; aerial view of railway station and wharves; aerial view of Kelburn, 1939; Pigeon Park showing Manners Street & Dixon Street intersection looking towards Courtenay Place; Weir House with Mount Victoria etc in background; elevated views of the city from Tinakori Hills; Sydney Street under construction, 1939; garages in Sydney Street; Herd Street Post Office, 1950; Wellington Zoo showing children having an elephant ride; Worser Bay; sunbathers at Oriental Bay; view of Oriental Bay from grassy area above the bay; inner city tennis club (with Carillon in background); Carlton Gore Road and Oriental Parade looking west; Jervois Quay showing intersection of Cable Street and Wakefield Street; houses above Evans Bay; houses at Days Bay; tree planting in Highbury Street, 1948; cars on Hutt motorway, 1947; traffic signs; pohutukawa tree on The Terrace, 1946; Queens Wharf, 1860; policeboat, 1948; tree planting at Kelburn/Highbury on Arbor Day 1948 (including photo of young Christopher Rollings); Percy Reserve, Lower Hutt. Auckland - Winter Gardens at Auckland Domain; Auckland War Memorial Museum; car boarding the vehicular ferry, 1935; Auckland Harbour Board crane being towed by the launch Te Hauraki at Auckland Western Viaduct, 1949. Quantity: 39 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1868

By: Igglesden, Charles Moore, 1832-1920; Goodman Fielder Wattie (N.Z.)

Reference: C-119-022

Description: Shows in foreground a circular island of garden with a grass border, in the centre of a circular driveway. A gardener kneels to tend plants at the left, and a dog sits keeping him company. At the right is an herbaceous border, in front of the partly obscured Wellington Terrace. Across the Terrace is a wooden house with finials, brick chimney, shingled roof, and a "To Let" sign in the window. Beyond this in the right background is Wellington Harbour and the flat area of Lower Hutt. In the centre background behind the circular garden, is the shingle roof, finial, brick chimney, and H-shaped metal chimney-pot of a neighbouring house, possibly that owned in 1878/79 (see Wise's Post Office Directory) by Joseph Nancarrow. Beyond is a pier projecting out from Lambton Quay, with Midland Point beyond. In the left background is the Boys' Grammar School (with spire) on Clifton Terrace and further north St Mary's Church, Hill Street; on the crest of the hill on the top left now the area occupied by the suburb of Wadestown, is Captain William Barnard Rhodes' house, "The Grange". Sometimes entitled: "A Wellington resident's house and garden, Flagstaff Hill, above Boulcott Street, looking North towards the Hutt Valley" or "Wellington from Flagstaff Hill". Previously thought to be a view from Mr Hays' residence. Sharp's residence was on the upper side of the Terrace, probably just north of the present join with Salamanca Road. According to notes compiled by B. M. Igglesden, grandson (TL 3/1/1, 1 August 1985), the gardens of the property extended from Mount Street to Everton Terrace, and when the estate was later cut up, 25 homes were built on the land, including Sir Robert Stout's home. See also notes at TL 3/1/1, 8 May 1985, or the Evening Post of 29 September 1928, for notes about the Sharp household (and other houses on the Terrace). Other Titles - Wellington from Flagstaff Hill Other Titles - A Wellington resident's house and garden, Flagstaff Hill, above Boulcott Street, looking North towards the Hutt Valley. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Igglesden - Decr. 1868 Igglesden was the nephew of Captain Sharp, and was living in Wellington at this time, being commissioned a Lieutenant in No. 1 Company Wellington Militia on 2 December 1868. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 384 x 519 mm Provenance: Sold at Philips, London, September 1984. Bought by a Melbourne dealer for £2,100. Auctioned at McArthur's, 10 May 1985, and bought by the Goodman Group.

Date: 1848

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

By: White, Frederick John, active 1837-1848

Reference: A-292-072

Description: A view of Wellington, looking up The Terrace, with gardens, fences and houses, two people walking up the road, the harbour on the left and Mt Cook and part of Mt Victoria in the background, along with a few houses on the Te Aro foreshore, possibly including Te Aro Pa. On the verso is an outline pencil sketch of the contours of the hills with the harbour from the same viewpoint. Attributed to White on stylistic grounds, especially the liberal use of red gouache. The watercolour is titled in the hand of T. B. Collinson, but is not drawn in his style. The next three sketches in this group of loose sketches are signed Fred. J. White. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in ink in the hand of T. B. Collinson Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gouache on paper, 138 x 226 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

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-292-071

Description: View from Hill Street area looking south past the garden of Government House (now the site of the Beehive) on the far left, (with what is probably Alfred Domett's garden in the foreground), and towards the original St Paul's Church (Museum Street), along Lambton Quay (the shoreline) and The Terrace (marked as Constitution Hill here), with Te Aro, including the Pa and Mount Cook, with the military barracks in the distance. Stables are also indicated written on the roof of a building beyond the fence of Government House and above Lambton Quay. "The Baron's" (the hotel of Baron von Alzdorf) is indicated too, along Lambton Quay. This drawing forms an inexact panorama with A-292-070. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil with ink inscriptions on paper, 231 x 331 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1900 - 1920

By: W P (Artist), active 1900-1920; Potts, William, 1859-1947

Reference: B-121-019

Description: The road rising from the centre of the view to the left is the Te Aro end of The Terrace, with the Terrace Gaol prominent on the left. St Peter's church spire can be seen to the right, with Te Aro and part of Wellington Harbour. The view is painted from Mitchelltown and a fenced garden and a conifer form the foreground on the right. Possibly painted by William Potts, although the only basis for this assumption is the initials and the approximate period of the work. The Library has no other watercolours known to be by Potts with which to compare the style. Potts certainly painted realistic watercolours of Wellington at this period, but they are known only through the chromolithograpic copies made from them. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W.P. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 269 x 418 mm