Places

Date: 1848 - 1849

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

By: Turnbull, Henry Hume, -1858

Reference: E-454-q-012

Description: Six members of a family alongside their house, with a chimney and Euroepan windows and a half door. In the background are hills and another house at a small distance. The drawing on the other side of this sheet is of Kaiwharawhara and this view could also be at Kaiwharawhara, around the Wellington Harbour, or at Porirua. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page 180 x 259 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Kate Kavanagh, England, 1993

From: Downie, Robert Ingram, 1879-1925 :[Scenes of New Zealand's North and South Islands, 1906-1914, and of England and Scotland, ca 1900 to 1905 and 1920-1925; also watercolours by the artist's brother James, including portaits of Robert Downie. ca 1900-1925]

Reference: A-463-001/050

Description: Early views of Wellington and surrounding area. Locations identified in pencil on the reverse of the paintings. Includes views of Wellington City from Kelburn, Petone, Evans Bay and Northland. The painting of Pencarrow shows the lighthouse. Also includes a view of Steeple Rock in Seatoun. The painting with reference number A-463-015 has a pencil portrait on the reverse - probably a self portrait of Robert Downie. Quantity: 50 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper

Date: [19-]-1939

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-32

Description: Includes essays on Maori place names and their origin from Ngati Toa who travelled along the west coast naming some areas Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph, typescripts (some with ms annotations), printed matter and photographs

Date: 1843

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; New Zealand Company

Reference: MapColl-832.4793gbbd/1843/Acc.37837

Description: Cadastral map of part of the Roll Plan 544 held by the District's Office, Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington. Shows the Hutt District and part of the Harbour District and the Lowry Bay District. Each district is divided into numbered 100-acre blocks, listing owner's names, including: Molesworth, Watt, Child, Capt. Daniell, Hanson, Hunter, Wicksteed, Capt. Smith, Catchpool, Dr Evans, Kettle, St. Hill, Alzdorf, Riddiford, Stokes, Bidwell, Duppa, G Robins, J Forbes, W Tod, E Dunlop, D Grant, A Tennant, Hart, Partridge, Wieford, Parke, Bevans, Col. Wakefield, Jackson, T Wallace, Bevan. Shows over 20 Native (Maori) reserves. The map was surveyed by S.C. Brees, who was the principal surveyor for the New Zealand Company. The map shows the original 100 acre blocks as they were surveyed and sold. See also similar copies of same section of map, shelved at Acc.7921-2, donated by Lance Hall. See also MapColl-832.47gbbd/1843/Acc.11503-8 which is the entire map on several sheets. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 60.2 x 44.5 cm. Processing information: Map call number corrected to the right Boggs & Lewis area code for Hutt Valley [Igor, 01/11/2022].

Date: [1908-1912]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-q-103

Description: Photographs, chiefly taken by Albert Percy Godber, including family portraits, areas where he lived, Petone and the Petone Fire Brigade, railways, the Hutt Valley, Wellington, and areas in the upper North Island. The family photographs show his immediate family (his wife Laura (nee Zinckgraf), and children William Albert and Phyllis Mary); groups including his father and mother Charles and Mary Ann Godber, his brother Harry Leonard and wife Annie and their daughter Constance Alice, and Laura's brother Charles Albert Zinckgraf. Godber was a fireman with the Petone Fire Brigade, and there are photographs of groups of firemen and fire fighting equipment, and displays of methods of fire fighting. Associated with Godber's work with New Zealand Railways, and particularly at the Petone Railway Workshops, there are views of various workshop buildings, groups of railway workers; one of M J Mack (General Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand); images of damage to rolling stock after railway accidents; trains; the Raurimu Spiral; railway viaducts; logging railways; and railway stations. Photographs taken in the northern part of the North Island include coal mines, rock formations, hot springs at Te Aroha and Kamo; Whangarei and the Wairua Falls; suburbs of Auckland including Newmarket, Remuera, Parnell, Onehunga, and Ellerslie Race Course. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 110 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram covers; 30.0 x 23.5 cm

Date: 1843

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; New Zealand Company; War Memorial Library (Lower Hutt, N.Z.); Hall, Lance, 1899-1985

Reference: MapColl-832.47gbbd/1843/Acc.7922

Description: Cadastral map of part of the Roll Plan 544 held by the District's Office, Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington. Shows the Hutt District and part of the Harbour District and the Lowry Bay District. Each district is divided into numbered 100-acre blocks, listing owner's names, including: Molesworth, Watt, Child, Capt. Daniell, Hanson, Hunter, Wickstead, Capt. Smith, Catchpool, Dr Evans, Kettle, St. Hill, Alzdorf, Riddiford, Stokes, Bidwell, Duppa, G Robins, J Forbes, W Tod, E Dunlop, D Grant, A Tennant, Hart, Partridge, Wieford, Parke, ?Revans, Col. Wakefield, Jackson, Wallace. The map was surveyed by S.C. Brees, who was the principal surveyor for the New Zealand Company. The map shows the original 100 acre blocks as they were surveyed and sold. See also second copy of map (positive photographic copy, shelved at Acc.7921). Written on this map (before copying): '50. 544. 2nd Jan, 1843'. Written on map verso: 'Hutt Valley 2nd Jan. 1843. S.C. Brees RP 544.' Written on recto: 'R[oll] P[lan] 544, By Sam Chas Brees, Principal surveyor NZ Company, 2nd Jany 1843.' 'Please return Lance Hall.' See also MapColl-832.47gbbd/1843/Acc.11503-8 which is the entire map on several sheets. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Negative photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 59 x 44.5 cm.

Date: [ca 1960s-1970s]

From: New Zealand Centre for Photography :Photographs

By: Hoy, Douglas George, 1937-1992

Reference: PAColl-9528-1

Description: Photographs of railway scenes taken by Douglas George Hoy Accompanying material - Negative index Quantity: 75 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: B-031-016

Description: Two Pakeha beaching a rowboat on the shore in the foreground, watched by a Maori man, a small child and a dog. Two further Maori and a dog are walking away in the distance. The view is from the western shore of Wellington Harbour, possibly close to Kaiwharwhara, looking towards Petone in the distance. The western hills are shown covered in bush Other Titles - View of Petone Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in brushpoint Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 228 x 470 mm

Date: 1846

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-023-017

Description: Shows a squat pillar-shape rock beside the sea, with a narrow area between itself and the steep hill slope behind. A Maori [?] figure in a blanket sits beside the rock formation. Similar to a privately owned work, which has been photographed, and whose negative number is: 1/2-124004-F. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 176 x 126 mm.