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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: 1841-ca1930

From: Zoe Martin-Carter: Photographs of Wellington and the Centennial Exhibition

By: Shore Bennett, Beverley Doris, 1928-; Martin-Carter, Zoe, 1870-1947

Reference: PA1-f-171

Description: views of Wellington and many of its principal buildings from settlement in 1840 to about the mid 1940s Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1848 - 1850

From: [Turnbull, Henry Hume] d 1858 :[New Zealand and Pacific sketchbook, 1848 to 1856]

By: Turnbull, Henry Hume, -1858

Reference: E-454-q-023

Description: View north across the harbour from Thorndon, just to the left of Pipitea Pa, with the palisades of the pa on the right, a ravine and three Maori to the left of the ravine. Kaiwharawhara with the hotel is visible on the extreme left, with the Western hills leading to the Tararuas, and the Hutt Valley in the distance. The view may possibly be further along Thorndon Beach from the Pa. There was a ravine where the motorway now runs, crossed by the Hobson Street Bridge in later years, and this may be the area shown, in central Thorndon. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page 180 x 259 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Kate Kavanagh, England, 1993

Date: ca 1860-1870

By: Taylor, Clyde Romer Hughes, 1905-1997

Reference: PAColl-6511

Description: Five photographs of Wellington in the 1860s and 1870s: one of St Andrews, Lambton Quay; one of Thorndon from Tinakori Hill; one looking towards Tinakori Hill from the top of Molesworth Street; one looking down Molesworth Street looking towards Mount Victoria; and one from the Terrace looking towards Queen's Wharf. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-010011, 010014, 010016, 010019, 010020, 010022, and 021042 Quantity: 7 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives Transfers: Print from one negative at PAColl-6208-22..

Date: 1860 - 1862

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

Reference: E-569-003

Description: A rough sketch with a few houses and gardens in the foreground, and part of Tinakori Road, looking north along the Hutt Road, with the Kaiwharawhara hotel in the middle distance and the western hills at the end of Wellington Harbour Other Titles - [Harbour view. Former title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil sketch, on page 173 x 126 mm.

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-073

Description: View from lower Wadestown, looking along the Hutt Road towards Petone. A steamer in the foreground and Kaiwharawhara with the Kaiwharawhara Hotel. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm

Date: [ca 1866-1868]

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

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-44-25

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. Identical image at PA7-43-09 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: [ca 1866-1868]

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

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-44-10

Description: Panoramic view taken from end of Brown's wharf opposite the Royal Hotel, with the wharf and harbour in the foreground. From left to right are: Old St Pauls and St Pauls schoolhouse (behind); Royal Hotel; Brown & Ross, livery stables; Davies & Sims, blacksmith & farriers (behind); F Magnuson, tailor, Clements & Dawson, grocer & general store; and a painting and paperhanging business. One of a series of panoramic photographs taken of Wellington by W H W Davis, ca 1866-1868. Relationship complexity - Original negative at 10x8-2086-G; copy of same image at PA7-09-03 (albumen), PA7-43-08 (albumen),and PA7-44-01 (silver gelatin). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints 20.5 x 25.3 cm

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-023

Description: 1. 'Kai Warra Warra Hutt Road near Wellington'. View looking north along the waterfront towards Petone, with a low bridge in the foreground and the Kaiwharawhara Hotel and other buildings viewed from across the stream. 2. 'Harbour Wellington New Zealand looking towards te Aro Flat. Barracks on the Hill side Mount Cook'. This has the court house and Thistle Inn in the foreground, lower Mulgrave Street, and looks south across the harbour towards Te Aro, with the highest buildings being the barracks on Mount Cook. 3. 'Wairarapa Race Course blackguard. Bobby Naikoi' shows a ferocious-looking Maori man in European clothes, wearing a cap Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & wash, watercolour or ink & watercolour, sizes vary

Date: [ca 1866-1868]

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

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-43-08

Description: View taken from end of Brown's wharf opposite the Royal Hotel, with the wharf and harbour in the foreground. From left to right are: Old St Pauls and St Pauls schoolhouse (behind); Royal Hotel; Brown & Ross, livery stables; Davies & Sims, blacksmith & farriers (behind); F Magnuson, tailor, Clements & Dawson, grocer & general store; and a painting and paperhanging business. Tinakor Hill is in the background. One of a series of panoramic views of Lambton Quay and Thorndon Quay taken by W H W Davis, ca 1866-1868. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Brown's wharf 1868 Relationship complexity - Original negative at 10x8-2086-G; copy of same image at PA7-09-03 (albumen print); PA7-44-10 (silver gelatin); PA7-44-01 (silver gelatin). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15.2 x 20 cm on mount 25.3 x 30.3 cm

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-069

Description: View looking north from Thorndon, Stowe Hill, or lower Wadestown, along the Hutt Road, with Kaiwharawhara Hotel and other buildings visible. Almost identical to the artist's "Kaiwara" two pages further on in the sketchbook (E-346-2-071) Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-071

Description: View looking north from Thorndon, Stowe Hill or lower Wadestown, along the Hutt Road, with Kaiwharawhara Hotel and other buildings visible. Almost identical to the artist's "Kaiwarra", 2 pages earlier in the sketchbook (E-346-2-069) Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: [ca 1866-1868]

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

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-44-02

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. One of a series of panoramic photographs taken by W H W Davis, ca 1866. Relationship complexity - Original negative at 10x8-2087-G; another print at PA7-43-09 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21 x 26.5 cm

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.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: B-049-065/067

Description: Three panoramic views of Wellington, between 1842 and 1845. The top view stretches across Thorndon Flat with Dr Evans' house on the left, a range of early houses and businesses along the waterfront and on the right, Colonel William Wakefield's house with flagpole. The centre view looks down over Te Aro Flat towards Mt Victoria. The lowest view is a completely circular one looking down onto Wellington Harbour and Evans Bay from the top of Mount Victoria. Extended Title - From Brees, S. C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand. London, 1847. Panorama plate [Plate 22, double page spread at end of volume Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings, on sheet 381 x 550 mm.

Date: [ca 1866-1868]

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

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-44-01

Description: Panoramic view taken from end of Brown's wharf opposite the Royal Hotel, with the wharf and harbour in the foreground. From left to right are: Old St Pauls and St Pauls schoolhouse (behind); Royal Hotel; Brown & Ross, livery stables; Davies & Sims, blacksmith & farriers (behind); F Magnuson, tailor, Clements & Dawson, grocer & general store; and a painting and paperhanging business. The left hand side of the panorama is printed separately and overlaps. This includes Barrett's Hotel with Parliament Buildings and St Mary's Cathedral behind. One of a series of panoramic photographs taken of Wellington by W H W Davis, ca 1866-1868. Relationship complexity - Original negative at 10x8-2086-G; copy of same image at PA7-09-03 and PA7-43-08. Lefthand side of panorama also at PA7-43-06 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints 21 x 26.7 cm; 20.8 x 16.5 cm

Date: 1850

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

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

Reference: C-103-011-1

Description: A view from Ngaio or Khandallah looking down towards Kaiwharawharal, with the hotel, the pa and houses visible. Thorndon and Pipitea Point can be seen in the backgroundl, with houses and the gully running parallel to Tinakori Road (now part of the motorway) visible. The faint outline of the hills behind the town can be seen on theleft-hand sheet. Mantell's title suggests that the hill from which he took the drawing may have been called Kohekohe (from the predominant tree in the area, perhaps). Two trees in the right foreground may be kohekohe On the reverse (C-103-011-3) is a pencil drawing titled [River and tree ferns] probably showing the Hutt River Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch on two sheets, 228 x 132 mm and 228 x 184 mm

Date: [ca 1866-1868]

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

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-09-03

Description: View taken from the end of Brown's wharf opposite the Royal Hotel, with the wharf and harbour in the foreground. From left to right are: Old St Paul's and St Paul's schoolhouse (behind); Royal Hotel; Brown & Ross livery stables; Davies & Sims; blacksmith & farriers (behind); F Magnuson, tailor; Clements & Dawson, grocer & general store; and a painting and paperhanging business. Tinakori Hill is in the background. One of a series of panoramic views of Lambton Quay and Thorndon Quay taken by W H W Davis, ca 1866-1868. Identical view at PA7-43-08 (albumen print); PA7-44-01 (silver gelatin print); PA7-44-10 (silver gelatin print). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

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.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: PUBL-0020-22-1

Description: View taken from the terrace in the garden of Dr George Samuel Evans, whose residence is shown in the left foreground. The first house below this on the hill at left, is that of Mr Mocatta. Beyond that house, rather indistinctly, are the New Zealand Company's Survey Offices, Stores, and the Emigration Houses; Messrs Clifford and Vavasour's Establishment, &c., &c. The Hutt Valley is in the distance, with the Hutt Road shown at the left of the harbour. In the centre, the large group of buildings comprises the Supreme Courts, Major Richmond's and the Government Offices; the Thistle Inn, Major Hornbrook's Stores, &c., and a little further to the right, the back of Barrett's may be seen by the side of the harbour. Further along is Mr Fox's house (under a vessel sailing into Lambton Harbour; Colonel Wakefield's residence, with the flagstaff, is a little further to the right, on rising ground, and at a greater distance. Passing on, the eye ranges down the beach to the house at Kuma Toto; Windy Point a little beyond, and Te Aro Flat in the distance. The large roof seen just to the right of Colonel Wakefield's flag-staff, is the Church of England, and the foreground on this side is finished by the residence and grounds of Mr Chetham Strode, which joins Dr Evans' premises. Other Titles - [Plate 65] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 77 x 513 mm., on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1847 - 1849

From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-288-009

Description: Four huts surrounded by palisades on the sloping foreshore, two Maori standing near the water's edge, the two-storied building of the Kaiwharawhara hotel on its spit of land to the left and the Hutt Road and Hutt Valley beyond. Inscriptions: Verso - A picture of New Zealand by CEG [in pencil, probably in the artist's daughter's hand]. My dearres My dearrest Car [in ink, apparently written by the artist in his old age to his daughter Caroline] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 182 x 266 mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-035

Description: View from the Hutt Road, North of Kaiwharawhara, looking towards the Kaiwharawhara Hotel, with Thorndon and Te Aro in the distance. A sailing ship and smaller boats are on the harbour, and a canoe and small yacht are in the foreground. Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 230 x 420 mm