Places

Date: 1910-1915

By: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985

Reference: PAColl-0370

Description: Set of photographs of drainage operations on the Hauraki Plains. Spoil from the canal and ditch construction was used as foundation for roads so road construction is also shown. The photographs include two men hay harvesting in front of a small house, a man in a flax field, a dredge at work, the labourers' camp, boats moored at a jetty in Ngatea. Some of the photographs are captioned. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Copy photographic prints Provenance: Given to J H Christie by Dennis Hancock, the grandson of H J Hancock who created the collection.

Date: 1965

By: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992

Reference: G-222

Description: View from the beach at the west end of Island Bay, looking east across a jetty and the bay with fishing boats to houses at the foot of the hill and to Wellington Heads Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signature & date; Verso - on stretcher (covered by backing board) title, date Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 442 x 646 mm

Date: 1931 - 1939

From: Wickham, Charles, 1853-1940s :Family album. Uncle Charlie's unfinished drawings. [1926-1941].

Reference: E-563-q-26

Description: Shows a sketch of Days Bay from the south, looking along the beach towards the pier in the background. In the foreground are two isolated sheds, possibly used as changing sheds. One of them has wheels. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) inserted into slits in page of album.. Physical Description: Pencil, ink and watercolour, 183 x 248 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Mr Thomas H Hudson of England in 1997.

Date: Between 1910-1913

From: Atkinson, J :Photographs taken in the Middle East during World War I, and postcards of New Zealand

By: Andersen, P C, active 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0282

Description: Golden Bay showing boats anchored at the jetty, published by P C Andersen, Bluff, ca 1910-1913. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 88 x 135 mm

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Willis, Archibald Dudingston (Firm) :N. Z. Christmas cards. - Wanganui ; A.D. Willis [1886 or later].

Reference: E-068-005

Description: The Mansion House on Kawau Island, the jetty at the waterfront and boats in the harbour, seen from bush-clad hills to the left, the image surrounded with native ferns and flowers Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chomolithograph 105 x 144 mm on album page ca 137 x 180 mm

Date: 1931 - 1939

From: Wickham, Charles, 1853-1940s :Family album. Uncle Charlie's unfinished drawings. [1926-1941].

Reference: E-563-q-25

Description: Shows a sketch of Days Bay from the north, looking along the beach towards the pier in the right background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) inserted into slits in page of album.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 188 x 253 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Mr Thomas H Hudson of England in 1997.

Date: [ca 1920-1943]

By: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962; Deste, Eileen, 1909-1986; Hastings Public Library (N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-0365

Description: A collection of photographs including views of Nelson by F N Jones, buildings and earthquake damage in Wellington in 1943 and others from around the country including three hand-touched photographs of Napier and Hastings. The photographs of Wellington are captioned with the building the weather conditions when the photographs were taken and whether flash was used. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1852 - 1857

By: Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s

Reference: A-109-044-a

Description: View looking across Commercial Bay, lower Queen Street, the wharves and the city towards St Matthew's and St Patrick's churches, from the Britomart Barracks. After P. J. Hogan's lithograph: No 3 Auckland, Auckland New Zealand, from Britomart Barrack. Commercial Bay, part of lower Queen Street, with new wharf, Albert Hill, Wyndham Street, West Queen Street, with St Matthews Church and St Patrick (R. C.) church. 1852. See copies at C-010-004, C-010-004-a, C-010-018 & C-010-019. Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia. Opposite p. 195. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted, 89 x 155 mm

Date: 1852

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PA7-49-32

Description: View looking south-west from Bell Hill. In the foreground is a tidal area and jetty. At the end of the jetty are W H Cutten's store and Johnny Jones' store. Premises on Princes Street can be seen and other commercial buildings and dwellings. For identification of the buildings in the photograph see `View of Dunedin from Church Hill' by G B Shaw, Nov 1851, with key. Purported to be the earliest photograph of Dunedin. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Dunedin from Bell Hill 1852 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 17.7 x 28 cm

Date: 1841 - 1843

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: E-106-f-047-3

Description: View from Clay Point hill above the junction of modern Willis St and Lambton Quay. The beach in the foreground is lower Willis Street, while upper Willis Street passes up the rise on the far right. The beach in the background is modern Mercer and Wakefield Streets. Cows, goats, two Maori canoes, a couple on horseback and Bethune & Hunter's Stores are in the foreground, with a jetty and sailing ships in the harbour. Further jetties and public and private buildings are in the background on Te Aro Flat. The most prominent building along the waterfront, with a Grecian-style frontage, is the Exchange Building. Mounts Cook, Albert and Victoria are indicated in the skyline above their relevant peaks. From water-colour by Charles Heaphy; engraver unknown. For a key to the identity of individual buildings, see negative 15576 1/2. T. M. Hocken's 'Key plan of Heaphy's View of a part of the town of Wellington ... 1885'. The original for this key is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection. A watercolour was the original for the lithograph of the same title, published in London in 1842. There were also later prints from the same stone produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See reference number C-026-002 for copies of the lithograph. Reproduced by the Library in 1963 as one of the Queen's Prints, along with its companion view `Thorndon Flat and part of the city of Wellington, 1841' and Heaphy's `View of Nelson Haven', also dating from 1841. Very similar image at copy negative 1/2-005440 Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Vol 2 II, p 206 [1843 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 95 x 155 mm

From: McLeod, Hector Norman, fl 1870s-1957 :Maps from papers

By: McLeod, Hector Norman, 1872-

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gfktm/Ha/[n.d.]/Acc.37470

Description: Plan of United Union Steam Company's works at Evans Bay, Wellington, showing the slip, wharf, jetty, patent slip, timber yard, rails, laundry, main storage, and sheds including coalburners, furnace power, boilermakers, blacksmiths, engineers and electricians, sawmill, salvage and iron and wire store. Indicates water depth around wharf. Shows beginning of proposed new road. Written on red backing under title: A district now receiving attention from captains of industry. Red backing acts as a 'frame' around the map Other Titles - Union Steam Ship Company's works, Evans Bay, frontage 1/8th mile Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, backed with red paper, scale indeterminable, 54 x 76 cm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLeod, Hector Norman, fl 1902-1927. Business papers. MS-Papers-0154.

Date: [ca 1890]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA7-53-17

Description: View of Lyttelton Harbour from Quail Island. In the middle foreground is a man pointing to something in the far distance. The jetty (with winch) can be seen on the left. Photograph taken by Wheeler and Son, date unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 19 x 24 cm

Date: 1931 - 1939

From: Wickham, Charles, 1853-1940s :Family album. Uncle Charlie's unfinished drawings. [1926-1941].

Reference: E-563-q-29

Description: Shows a view looking from the south end of Karaka Bay towards the houses and pier of the bay. In the right foreground is the rocky outcrop at the bay's south end. Somes Island is visible in the right distance. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) inserted into slits in page of album.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 183 x 237 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Mr Thomas H Hudson of England in 1997.

Date: 1852 - 1857

By: Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s

Reference: A-109-044-b

Description: View looking across Commercial Bay, lower Queen Street, the wharves and the city towards St Matthew's and St Patrick's churches, from the Britomart Barracks. After P. J. Hogan's lithograph: No 3 Auckland, Auckland New Zealand, from Britomart Barrack. Commercial Bay, part of lower Queen Street, with new wharf, Albert Hill, Wyndham Street, West Queen Street, with St Matthews Church and St Patrick (R. C.) church. 1852. See copies at C-010-004, C-010-004-a, C-010-018 & C-010-019. Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia. Opposite p. 195. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted, 89 x 155 mm

Date: [ca 1866-1867]

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-43-07

Description: View taken from off-shore of buildings along Lambton Quay with Brandon's Corner on far right. Houses in Wellington Terrace and beyond, and the Bolton Street Cemetery (on right) can be seen on the hills behind, with Tinakori Hill in the background. Identifiable premises on Lambton Quay are: T J Mountain; Edward Greaves Smith (Music Warehouse); Henry Owen; baker's shop; chemist & druggist; G Read; J Cook & Son. The Star Boating Club's shed can be seen on the waterfront. One of a series of panoramic views of Lambton Quay taken by W H W Davis, ca 1866-1867. Pasted on verso: A glimpse of New Plymouth's beautiful recreation grounds showing the nband rotunda with the Poet's bridge in the background (ca 1890s-1900s). Photograph cut from a newspaper. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - right of image - Wellington. Before 1865 Relationship complexity - Same images at PA7-09-04 (albumen print), PA7-43-13 (albumen print), PA7-44-06 (silver gelatin print), and PAColl-3339-03 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 22 x 25.5 cm on card 22 x 27.7 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.

Reference: B-049-041/043

Description: Shows views in the Hutt Valley and Wellington. At the top, a view in Petone with Moreings Creek, a bridge and two horsemen in the foreground, houses in the distance. In the centre, a large cabbage tree leaning out over the Hutt River, with two Maori men standing on the bank, waving to the occupants of two canoes in the water. Francis Molesworth's farm is in the background. At the bottom, a view looking east along the waterfront at Te Aro, with the Exchange Building (with a false classical front) and Ridgway and Guyton's jetty, a boat hauled up in front of the building and other buildings along the waterfront in the distance. Hoggard and Simmond's windmill can be seen in the distance at the foot of Mount Victoria Other Titles - Petone Other Titles - Moreings Creek Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Willis, Archibald Dudingston (Firm) :N. Z. Christmas cards. - Wanganui ; A.D. Willis [1886 or later].

Reference: E-068-007-1

Description: A view along the waterfront with shipping and jetties, a road at the water's edge and houses Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chomolithograph 72 x 104 mm on album page ca 137 x 180 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: PA7-44-10

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: 1917

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-226

Description: Shows Tokaanu Stream with grass and trees. A white horse is grazing in the foreground. There is a person in a dinghy next to what appears to be a wooden jetty. A wooden post is on the opposite side of the river. A building is just visible at the edge of the image Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 167 x 125 mm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1669-F

Description: Looking down over a campsite in Otehei Bay, Urupukapuka Island, Bay of Islands. Communal buildings centre right, small cottages behind, and four tents on the right. Washing on a clothes-line behind. Sloping hills all around. Long jetty out over mud-flats to the water with a launch and a rowing boat at the foot of steps at the end of the jetty. Small bach in the next bend of the bay centre left. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1670 for a more distant view, also Pan-1673 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Fishing Camp. Orapukaka Island [i.e. Urupukapuka Island], Bay of Islands, New Zealand. No. 708; Marginal notes on negative - Zane Grey Camp. No. 3; Marginal notes on negative - 2 2 2 2 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 123.4 cm