Places

Date: [1900-1910]

Reference: PA4-1000

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a ship docked at Kilbirnie, Wellington, taken by Akon. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Patent slip. Kilbirnie. Wellington; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Recto - left of image - Akon - Photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: ca1908

By: Skinner, V (Mrs), active 1986; Warren, Gertrude, active 1908?; Wonderland (Amusement park)

Reference: PAColl-1357

Description: Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s) and. 7 photocopy/ies in one envelope. Provenance: Photographs taken by "Gertrude Warren, mother of (illegible)"

Date: 1933

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

Reference: 1/2-048937-G

Date: 1905 - 1910

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Ki/[ca.1905]/Acc.14383

Description: Cadastral, part surveyed map showing subdivision of land belonging to Carson in Kilbirnie, Wellington, bounded by Rodrigo Road, Duncan Terrace and Burke Street. Sections are numbered 1-14, and include price in pounds sterling (prices have been significantly reduced on some sections). The two largest sections are marked sold. Note on map calculates time to cable car stops at Lyall Bay and Constable Street. Written on map is number '1446'. The land possibly belonged to either William or Andrew Carson, farmers in Evans Bay flat, Wellington (see Wises 1912). Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, part coloured, on dressed linen, scale indeterminable, 38.7 x 26.5 cm

Date: [ca 28 Nov 1978]

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

Reference: EP/1978/3978-F

Description: Workmen fitting a rose-patterned glass window to the chapel at the new St Patrick's College site, Kilbirnie, Wellington. Photographs taken circa 28 November 1978 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1945 - 1955

From: [Ephemera and posters around A3 size, for variety, comedy, and music-hall shows and performances in New Zealand. 1900-1969].

By: Gibson, R J, active 1998

Reference: Eph-C-VARIETY-1939-01

Description: An arrangement of text. Performers included: Herbert F (Tony) Woods, Famous Jenkins Clown Troupe, The Yodelling Girl, Mr H E Rillstone (cartoonist), Doug Kedzlie's Savonia Dance Band, Miss Dorothy Laing (acrobatic dancer), Mr L McIlvride (baritone), Will Henry (one-man band), Brian Barstow (impersonater of Stanley Holloway), R M Stratmore and his English concertina, Miss Dorothy Daniels' ballet pupils, Ashley Cooper and Colin Curry (comedians), Norman Wilson (Wellington's Bobby Breen), Shirley Wilson (singer), The Edlin trio (banjoists), Jim Watkins and his pal Ginger (ventriloquist), girl gymnasts. Date confirmed in Evening Post, 28 July 1939, Page 6 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Letterpress, on sheet 362 x 140 mm. Provenance: Donated by R J Gibson in 1998.

Date: 1925 - 1935

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

Reference: Plans-93-0613/0614

Description: Shows ground and first floor plans, sections and elevations of a two-storeyed building containing six bedrooms (including one for a maid and one for a housekeeper. The house also contained a library, office, reception room, waiting room, dining room, kitchen and wash-house. Architect may be Bertie Fleming Kelly who designed St Patrick's School, built in 1925. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on dressed linen, sizes varying around 560 x 750 mm.

Date: 1917, 1940

By: Shaw, Alan M, active 1976

Reference: PAColl-5557

Description: Postcard photograph of Hataitai taken by F G Radcliffe in 1917, photographs of New Zealand Centennial Exhibition and Khandallah taken in 1940. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1891-1903

From: Crawford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1001-253

Description: Includes Wellington City Council, 1903-1905; Miramar Borough Council, 1906 re tramway and roading; Wellington Education Board, 1905 re school for Kilbirnie; Kilbirnie Road Board, 1888 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1952

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Kelly & Mair (Firm)

Reference: Plans-93-0441/0442

Description: Includes floor plan, and perspective drawings of the exterior. Floor plan shows pram park, waiting room, examination room and test feed room. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying

Date: 21 April 1984

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

Reference: EP/1984/1755-F

Description: Lillian Climo, oldest living pupil at Kilbirnie School's centennial reunion, cuts the cake held by centennial committee members Strato Cotsilinis, and Elaine Kermode. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Greg King on the 21st of April 1984. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 8 November 1994

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

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1994/3397-F

Description: View of flooding in Kilbirnie Crescent, Kilbirnie, Wellington. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson on the 8th of November 1994. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler film negative, 35mm

Date: [ca 27 May 1999]

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

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1999/1494-F

Description: Father Chris Skinner, chaplain of St Patrick's College, Wellington, playing his guitar beside the College chapel. Photographs taken circa 27 May 1999 by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strips with 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm

Date: 1906

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

By: McLeod, Hector Norman, 1872-

Reference: MapColl-832.4799eam/Ki/1906/Acc.4867

Description: Tracing of a map of the area from Hamilton and Evans Bay roads to Childers Terrace, Lyall Bay and Onepu roads. Streets are named. The post office, recreation ground, baths, property of J. D. Topp, a church, fire brigade station, the tram line down Seatoun Road leading to Lyall Bay Road, also the new Kilbirnie Post Office are marked. The projected Wellington Harbour Board area of reclamation includes its acreage and is situated along the Evans Bay foreshore is shown. A note states that the authorised area of reclamation under the Empowering Act of 1906 is 22 acres, with power to lease about 5 acres. The low water mark is shown. Includes a proposed road between Lyall Bay Road and the Evans Bay Road leading to the patent slip. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, linen backed, scale not given, 56.8 x 30.1 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLeod, Hector Norman, fl 1902-1927. Business papers. MS-Papers-0154.

Date: 1900 - 1925, 1959

By: Remington, Wilma, active 1993; Tomlinson, Francis Ernest, 1864-1944

Reference: PAColl-3299

Description: Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1897, 1920s-1930s

From: Crawford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1001-260

Description: Includes locality plan prepared by Seaton, Sladden & Pavitt, consulting engineers and registered surveyors, Wellington, 2 Feb 1937 of area in Miramar and Seatoun Heights; sketch of land to be taken for defence purposes at Seatoun, 27 Apr 1935; plan of the Branda Estate (Breaker Bay) to be sold at public auction by J H Bethune & Co, 5 Feb 1924; plan of sections in Buckingham Road, Lyall Bay/Kilbirnie, nd; memo from the Mayor, Wellington City Council, 1897 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1896-1949]

From: Duncan, Archibald, 1875-1951 : Scrapbooks

By: Duncan family

Reference: MSX-8288

Description: No 1 Scrapbook `Archibald Duncan - Family matters' begins with brief details of his family and his career with the Customs Department, including examinations he passed. Also invitations, examination results, marriage notices, obituaries, letters of condolence, etc relating to the following families - McMurrich, Anderson, Cruickshank, Duncan, Easton, Osborne, Richardson, Telfer, Walker, Corr, Dobbie, Crosbie, Tait, Lawson, Cranstoun. Names and places mentioned have been added to Name & Place fields. Other - Explanatory notes for the scrapbook, compiled by Gordon Duncan (son), are in MS-Papers-9224 Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter

Date: 24 December 1971

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

Reference: EP/1971/6545-F

Description: Machine demolishing Kilbirnie School, Wellington, New Zealand. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 24th of December 1971 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: [ca 1878-1938]

From: Land deeds, land grants and bonds

Reference: MS-Papers-0156-27

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Dymock McShane and Co Ltd, 1971 Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - Maps (list of those transferred in folder).

Date: 1903-1905

From: Crawford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1001-259

Description: Letter from Town Clerk's Office re amalgamation of the Borough of Melrose with the City of Wellington, 1903; two letters from Peter McWhannell, Tully Street, Kilbirnie Quantity: 1 folder(s).