Places

Date: 1893

By: New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works; New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal

Reference: D-001-005

Description: View from the lower end of the Terrace, looking down into the Aro Valley and Te Aro Flat and across towards Mount Victoria, Oriental Bay and the Miramar Peninsula. Part of the Thorndon end of the city can be seen on the left. Courtenay Place runs away from the viewer in the centre of the scene, with Marjoribanks Street moving up Mount Victoria. The gasometers on both sides of Courtenay Place show clearly. On the far right in the distance is Wellington College. Same as D-001-005-a, -b & -c and as a framed version at G-385 Extended Title - Supplement to the Christmas number of the New Zealand Graphic, 1893 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 360 x 940 on sheet 455 x 1015 mm

Date: 1860 - 1862

From: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877 :Sketchbook. [1860-1864]

Reference: E-569-002

Description: Shows a harbour view framed by trees, with flat land in the middle distance and houses beyond that. High hills across the far side of the harbour. Possibly a view from Tinakori Hill looking across Thorndon Flat The domestic building depicted is possibly the vicarage of St Paul's, in which Bishop and Caroline Abraham lived from 1860-1870 Other Titles - [Harbour view with houses. Former title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, on page 126 x 173 mm.

Date: 1885

From: [Doubleday, William and John], fl 1880s :[Twenty-three watercolours of New Zealand and the Pacific. 1884-1885]

Reference: C-150-013

Description: Shows a view of Wellington and the harbour looking up the harbour towards the Hutt Valley. In the left foreground are a tree fern, cabbage tree and rata in flower. There is a square-towered church in the city in the middle distance (likely to be St Mary's Hill Street). Other Titles - December, February Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 122 x 186 mm.

Date: ca 1860s

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/1-000532-G

Description: View looking toward Walter Turnbull's house `Elibank' in Thorndon and Wellington Harbour. Ships are visible in the harbour and reclamation work can be seen in the centre. Museum Street is in the foreground. Photograph taken by W J Harding, circa 1860s. Note on back of file print reads: Looking towards city and Te Aro Flat from Museum Street (in foreground) with reclamation work shown to the left, in the centre ca 1860s Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

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: Jan 1870

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA7-57-10

Description: View looking over Thorndon Flat towards the harbour on Wellington's 30th Anniversary Day. Houses in Hobson Street are on the extreme left and Molesworth Street is on the extreme right. The Princess Hotel can be seen at the insection of Molesworth Street with Murphy Street. St Paul's Cathedral on Mulgrave Street is visible in the middle distance. Tinakori Road runs from left to right in the immediate foreground. The flying squadron of British warships which accompanied the Duke of Edinburgh in his visit to New Zealand are at anchor in the harbour. Photograph taken by James Bragge in 1870. Identical image at PA7-57-12 Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Thorndon from Wadestown Hill 1869 [handwritten] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 29.5 x 38.5 mounted on card

Date: 1871

From: McIntosh, Doris (Lady), fl 1934-1979 :Photographs of Wellington, Ernst Plischke and Sir Roy and Lady Price

Reference: PAColl-4483-3

Description: View of Thorndon, Wellington Harbour, and Mount Victoria. Molesworth Street and Murphy streets are in the centre of the image, and part of Tinakori Road can be seen left foreground. This is a print probably taken from a James Bragg negative by the Hardie Shaw Studio in the 1900. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 19.5 x 12 cm, on cardboard mount

Date: [ca 1868]

Reference: 1/2-010900-F

Description: View across Thorndon, Wellington, taking in Old St Pauls, Wellington Harbour, and part of Mount Victoria. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1868 Other - Forms an imperfect panorama with 1/2-010901 Other - Same image as 1/1-017885. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1861

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: G-670

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. 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 of this original was reproduced for "The Barraud prints" published by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board in 1967. The photolithograph was entitled: "Wellington from Brooklyn - across Te Aro and Thorndon, 1861". Other Titles - Wellington from Brooklyn - across Te Aro and Thorndon, 1861 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud / NZ. 1861. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 443 x 1370 mm Processing information: Reframed in 1986. The original frame has been retained.

Date: 1935 - 1949

By: Sun Printers

Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-1940s-04

Description: Shows a general view of Thorndon and Lambton Quay area, probably from Tinakori Hill looking towards Point Jerningham, over the army huts on Anderson Park, towards Queen's Wharf. The Government Buildings and the Railway Station can be seen, as well as the spire of St Andrews on the Terrace and the houses up Bolton Street. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Sepia photolithograph, on sheet 760 x 510 mm.

Date: ca 1886

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025535-G

Description: View from Wadestown, looking southeast across Thorndon and Wellington harbour, toward Oriental Bay (on the left) and Wellington City. Bolton Street Cemetery can be seen in the centre. An unidentified man stands in the foreground. Photograph taken by William Williams, circa 1886. Note on back of file print reads: From neg bag- Wellington showing shipping from Tinakori Hill, from file 6/1/41 - mid 80s. (After 1885 - Lmabton Station moved north to final site. St Patricks College completed. Not later than 1887 - Post office burned down that year) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: between 1962-1970

From: Winder, Duncan, 1919-1970: Architectural photographs

Reference: DW-0047-F

Description: Overlooking Wellington Harbour and Thorndon from Tinakori Hill, with the railway yards on the left. Photograph taken by Duncan Winder between 1962 and 1970. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877

Reference: A-329-009

Description: Shows a general view of Wellington Harbour, probably from the position of the Bolton Street Cemetery. There are several dwellings in the foreground, a flagpole on the foreshore at the left, near a wharf which juts out into the harbour. The flagpole probably marks the site of Government House. On the foreshore at centre right, is a building with a square turret, with a pointed roof, probably on Lambton Quay The house roof in the left near section adjacent to bushes and trees may be those of the house of Robert Park. His house was adjacent to and below the Bolton Street Cemetery Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - [Title]; (On edge of frame now discarded) - suggested date of around 1868. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 177 x 254 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Mr Handley Thomson, Silverstream.

Date: 1880

By: Stowe, Jane, 1838-1931

Reference: A-439-004

Description: Shows a view from the lower slopes of the Wadestown Hill looking towards the harbour. There is a garden in the foreground and a street of houses, possibly Hobson Street, leading away towards Wellington Harbour with sailboats, and the houses of Oriental Bay and Mt Victoria behind. There is a flagpole or aerial on the top of Mt Victoria (shown as a flagpole on most contemporaneous illustrations). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 179 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by members of the artist's family. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1851

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: G-596

Description: Shows a view of Wellington and the harbour from the ridge above Mt Cook, towards the hills on the western side of the harbour. It shows the flat area of Te Aro with Te Aro Pa close to the shore and other buildings in the foreground. Plimmer's Ark is on the waterfront to the left just beyond the Clay Point cliff. The large church building on the left is St Peter's, Willis Street, and the large building on the waterfront is either the Maori or the Wesleyan Chapel in Manners St. Thorndon is in the background with Pipitea Point (now Thorndon Quay) and Kumutoto Spit (now Midland Park) both visible. Watercolours by Barraud, related to this view, but dated 1852, are at C-007-011 and C-007-007. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C D Barraud / 1851 Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 370 x 652 mm (sight) Provenance: It was sold at the International Art Centre by a private vendor who purchased it in Sydney from the estate of Germain Curvens (1926-1997), a Sydney art dealer who had reportedly owned the work for 30-40 years.

Date: [ca 1905]

From: Birch, A E :Scenic negatives and prints taken by Thomas Pringle

Reference: 1/1-007070-G

Description: View looking north over Thorndon and Wellington Harbour from Timakori Hill, towards the Hutt Valley, Somes Island and Eastbourne in the background. Houses on Grant Road may be seen in the foreground. The Government steamer Tutanekai may be seen at the extreme right of a group of vessels including a barque, a steamer and a hulk. Photograph taken ca 1905 by Thomas Pringle of Wellington. 1/1-007068-G and 1/1-007071-G may originally have been the 3rd and 4th images in a 4-part panorama, of which 1/1-007070-G formed the extreme left portion. The second image does not exist in the collection. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).