Places

Date: [Between 1900s and 1910s]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Hopkins, Alfred Walter, 1882-1969

Reference: 1/2-000402-G

Description: View of Ashburton Hospital and nurses' home. Photograph probably taken by Alfred W Hopkins, bookseller and stationer at 55 East Street, Ashburton Source of descriptive information - Photographer identifiedas Alfre W Hopkins from image at 1/2-000883 and from Wise's Post office Directory between 1910s and 1920s Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Nurses Home and hospital. Ashburton. Protd. A.W.H. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 24 May 1939

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/4-048882-G

Description: View of the start of construction work on the Berhampore (or Centennial) Flats on Adelaide Road in Wellington, for the State Housing Department. Shows the building site, and the structure and scaffolding of the apartment block. In the distance is the premises of the Berhampore Tennis Club, and other houses in Berhampore and surrounding hill suburbs. Photograph taken in May 1939, by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post. Source of descriptive information - Caption from Evening Post 26/5/1939, p7, reads: "A start has been made by the contractors with the erection of the multiple dwelling block at Berhampore for the State Housing Department. When completed it will be the largest building of its kind in New Zealand, containing 50 separate flats and eleven garages. In the background is the Berhampore Tennis Club's premises". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [19 Jul 1950]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/173/12-G

Description: Houses on the coast at Eastbourne are threatened by erosion from the sea. Photograph taken Jul 1950 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres

Date: [3 May 1951]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/292/04-G

Description: Housing settlement for Hutt Valley railwaymen at Manor Park in the Hutt Valley. Photograph taken 3 May 1951 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres

Date: 28 July 1973

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Accidents-Fires 1973-01

Description: Smoke billowing from the Greytown Nurses' Home. Fire fighters train hoses into the building. Photographed by an unknown photographer the 28th of July 1973. Was published in the Evening Post on the 30th of July 1973 The building which was being used by teachers at the time, was reduced to a shell. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16 x 12 cm

Date: 1920s

Reference: 1/2-075148-G

Description: Shows Wellington Harbour looking towards Oriental Parade and part of Mount Victoria. Amongst other city buildings is the Town Hall tower which stands out. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1850 - 1852

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891

Reference: B-139-004

Description: Shows view of Lyttelton looking towards the immigration barracks, John Robert Godley's house, and the Sumner Road. Shows surrounding houses including one on the hillside above the Sumner Road, with the flagpole outside it. Assumed to be by Weld because of similarity in style to depictions of Lyttleton at the same time, said to be by Weld, held at Canterbury Museum, especially one taken from the same spot and dated 1852. Note long parallel brush strokes, fence palings, ploughed fields. Likely to be slightly after 1850. Compare William Fox's Passengers by the Cressy Landing drawn in December 1850. Weld's painting shows extra buildings and the barracks of the 1850 view converted into houses. It does not show Holy Trinity Church, built and blown down in 1853, but the church might be out of sight on the left from this angle. However, a Canterbury Museum watercolour taken from the identical spot by Mary Townsend is dated 1850. The vendors had this work catalogued as 'School of William Fox', dated ca 1851 Other Titles - Lyttelton, New Zealand c. 1851 Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - Lyttelton, New Zealand c.1851; Unsigned. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 195 x 295 mm.

Date: 1907

From: New Zealand free lance, 1901-

By: New Zealand free lance (Newspaper); Blomfield, John Collis, 1878-1942

Reference: PUBL-0096-1907-03-30-013

Description: Shows a worker explaining to Robert McNab, Minister of Lands, the reasons he does not find the workers' homes satisfactory. These relate mainly to the distance from place of work and the resultant expense in getting to work. Other Titles - homes Extended Title - In "New Zealand free lance", 30 March 1907, page 13. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of newspaper.. Physical Description: Lithograph, 140 x 115 mm.

Date: [24 May 1951]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/300/13-G

Description: Houses on the coast at Eastbourne are threatened by erosion from the sea. Photograph taken 24 May 1951 by an Evening Post staff photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres

Date: 1913

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-019684-G

Description: Sleeping quarters for some of the Mounted Special Police, at the Mount Cook Barracks, Wellington, during the 1913 waterfront strike. Shows men lying on straw, on the floor of a large hall. Leslie Adkin is sitting up, facing the camera, in the centre of the picture. Photograph taken by S C Smith. Other - Note on back of file print reads "...similar photo published in Auckland Weekly News 13/11/13..." Other - Note on back of file print, signed by Library client, reads: "Leslie Adkin sitting up facing camera centre of picture. See his diary, held by Museum." Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass dry plate negative

Date: [24 May 1951]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/300/11-G

Description: Houses on the coast at Eastbourne are threatened by erosion from the sea. Photograph taken 24 May 1951 by an Evening Post staff photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: C-025-015

Description: View from the first ridge above the beach showing a prefabricated barracks to the left and the tents erected to house the first settlers to Nelson, a well, a flag, and several carts. The view looks from the land towards the Boulder Bank and Haulashore Island, and the Arrow or Fifeshire rock across Tasman Bay to the distant snow-capped Moutere Hills and Tasman Range. The first three immigrant ships, The Will Watch, the Whitby and the Arrow are shown in the harbour with flags flying. There are clumps of trees at the water's edge, but the land is otherwise grassed or with flax and bracken. Original watercolour for the related lithograph "View of Nelson Haven in Tasman's Gulf, New Zealand, including a part of the site of the Town of Nelson" published in 1842. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. Exhibited: Treasures in Trust. Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth 1997, Robert McDougall Art Gallery Christchurch, 1997, Southland Museum and Art Gallery, 1997, total exposure 27 weeks. Inscriptions: Recto - Signature and title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 386 x 492 mm on sheet 465 x 587 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull with other material from the disbanded New Zealand Company in 1915 in London.

Date: [17 Aug 1951]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/338/15-G

Description: New housing settlement at Newlands in Wellington. Photograph taken circa 17 Aug 1951 by an Evening Post staff photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres

Date: [17 Aug 1951]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/338/14-G

Description: New housing settlement at Newlands in Wellington. Photograph taken circa 17 Aug 1951 by an Evening Post staff photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres

Date: [pre 1931]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 2

Reference: PAColl-5584-11

Description: Shows the nurses' home, Napier before it was demolished in the 1931 earthquake. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 7 Sep 1951]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/348/05-G

Description: Site of the reclamation of land for housing at Evans Bay photographed circa 7 Sep 1951 by an Evening Post staff photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.1 cm x 10.7 cm

Date: [24 May 1951]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/300/15-G

Description: Houses on the coast at Eastbourne are threatened by erosion from the sea. Photograph taken 24 May 1951 by an Evening Post staff photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres

Date: 1906

From: New Zealand free lance, 1901-

By: New Zealand free lance (Newspaper); Blomfield, John Collis, 1878-1942

Reference: PUBL-0096-1906-10-06-014

Description: Shows a collection of small panels showing the people of Petone: Seen at Rouse and Hurrell's Coach factory; Off to the railway station; "All aboard"; An artist; A land agent; "Out of Gear"; Workmen's Homes - apply early; A Mystery of the railway station; Captured at Ngauranga; Country life; Viewing the workmen's homes; From the Vaterland (an immigrant from the Boer War?); More XXX; Still More XX. Extended Title - In "New Zealand free lance", 6 October 1906, page 14. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of newspaper.. Physical Description: Lithograph, 210 x 235 mm.

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: [3 May 1951]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/292/05-G

Description: Housing settlement for Hutt Valley railwaymen at Manor Park in the Hutt Valley. Photograph taken 3 May 1951 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres