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Date: 1920

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

Reference: A-462-053

Description: A view of three large houses in the hills of Kelburn, Wellington. In the distance are the western hills leading out towards Petone, with a snow-covered Rimutaka Range beyond Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Kelburn Wellington [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on page of sketchbook, 160 x 252 mm

Date: 1900

From: Smith, Maurice Crompton, 1864-1953 :[Sketchbooks] 1883-1899, 1904-1943.

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: E-300-q-2-002

Description: Old Karori Road, with native forest on both sides Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 210 mm

Date: ca 1930

From: Wellington City Council :Negatives of Wellington taken for the Wellington City Council, chiefly by Frank Giles Barker

Reference: 1/1-025240-G

Description: Kelburn Viaduct under construction in 1930. Looks from alongside Upland Road, over to Northland Road. The two supports are surrounded by scaffolding. Work is progressing on the roadway. Photographer unidentified, but likely to have been Frank Giles Barker. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-175-009

Description: Shows a horse and cart, with the driver seated in the cart. The cart heads away along a road that curves around a bend of a road through native bush. There is a tree fern in the right foreground, epiphytes on some trees in the packground, and a drainage gutter at the left side of the road. Marking the corner of the road is a white wooden fence. May show part of Karori Road Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pastel, 380 x 274 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library

Date: [ca 1930]

Reference: PAColl-9483

Description: Photograph of the new and old Kelburn Viaducts, Wellington, circa 1930. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Relationship complexity - Very similar image is at 1/2-053025. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16.6 x 21.6 cm

Date: 1870

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Scrymgeour, William John Tyndal, 1922?-; Grey, George (Sir), 1812-1898

Reference: D-022-006

Description: View from cleared hills with several native trees, a road winding down to the right, with a gate and a man on a dray being pulled by two horses. The harbour with two ships centre and centre right, with Somes Island to the right. On the left in the middle distance, part of Thorndon, with St Paul's Church and a jetty. The Western hills, the Hutt Valley, Eastbourne and the Tararuas in the distance. Probably a view from above The Glen in Kelburn Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D.Barraud. 1870 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white 455 x 785 mm Provenance: Hung with a watercolour of Lake Coleridge Station, 1870 (D-022-007), in Government House, Wellington, during the governorship of Sir George Grey. Sold at auction in Wellington to the vendor's grandfather, also a Mr Scrymgeour (or Scrimgeour) in the 1880s or 1890s. Mr Scrymgeour migrated to Australia in the early 1900s to Goondawindi Station. The paintings passed to his son (died 1968) then to his grandson, William John Tyndal Scrymgeour, born ca 1922, of "Arran", Warwick, Queensland.