Places

Date: [ca 1860s-1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6886

Description: 22 images: 18 are copy negatives of images in books of Old Wellington in the 1860s many of which are captioned; two are of people milling around in front of the Cathedral in Christchurch; one is of the ship Marama ca 1920s; and one is probably an original negative of two older children and a baby in a garden. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044160 to 044181 Quantity: 22 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate copy negatives

Date: Probably March 24 - 25 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8792

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides was probably taken earlier than those on some of the preceding sheets (information from his diary). This sheet contains images of Wellington, including Wellington Airport; views from Mount Victoria; around the Wellington coast including shore with marram grass and black-backed gulls; the Petone Settlers' Memorial; Marine Parade around Miramar, with the Monowai sailing through Wellington Heads; buildings in the city including Parliament Buildings, Government Buildings, Wakefield House at 90 The Terrace, used by the Founders Club; and an old two-storeyed wooden house on the Terrace; the Corinthic loading various goods at Wellington Wharves; Lambton Quay; Cable Car terminal and views of Wellington; and the Carter Observatory. Slides on this sheet are numbered 505-528, with a gap for no. 506. Arrangement: Image no. 506 (showing the view from Mount Victoria in Wellington) was taken as part of Williams' representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1851 - 1854

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-080-2

Description: A schooner in sail, anchored at a small distance from a wharf. Other ships and boats in the background. Inscriptions: Album page - on right of image: The "Governor Grey" Schooner plied regularly between Wanganui & Wellington. J[ohn] P[earse] took his passage to Wanganui by her but returned overland. With adverse winds anchored off Kapiti 3 days. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 70 x 110 mm

Date: 1932-1962

Reference: PAColl-0566

Description: Photographs showing troops at the surrender ceremony in Singapore, 1945; shipping in New Zealand, Europe and the South Atlantic ca 1932, the airship Graf Zeppelin in the South Atlantic, 1932; North Atlantic Convoys, 1940. 1/4-057384 Arrangement: Prints at PAColl-0566-1. Negative at 1/4-057348. Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). 3 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: ca 1878-1885

Reference: PAColl-7556

Description: Photographs of: the Supreme Court and Government Buildings with Government House in the background and wasteland in the foreground ca 1880; Courtenay Place looking towards Mount Victoria with City Hotel on a corner on the left ca 1880s; looking up a wharf with railway tracks running down it towards Thorndon and Tinakori Hill with St Paul's Church on the right ca 1880; two further views of Customhouse Quay taken from the harbour one with the New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Co Ltd on the left ca 1878; and the view over the roofs of commercial buildings on Grey Street towards ships moored in the harbour ca 1880s. Photographer unidentified. 1/2-005777 contains two negatives of different prints of the same image. 1/2-005777b has the additional caption "National Club and Johnston's corner of Featherston and Panama Streets". Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-005775 to 005780 Quantity: 6 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: [ca 1866-1867]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

Reference: 10x8-2083-G

Description: View taken from off-shore of buildings along Lambton Quay with Brandon's Corner on the far right. Houses on Wellington Terrace and beyond, and the Bolton Street Cemetery can be seen on the hill 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 panoramic sequence taken 1866 or 1867 by William Henry Whitmore Davis. Other - Sixth image from left in panoramic sequence 10x8-2078 to 10x8-2087 Relationship complexity - A print from this negative is at PA7-44-06 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 8 x 10 inches

Date: 1879

From: Richmond, Christopher William, 1821-1895 :Sketch book ; sketches numbered 1 to 74 [i.e. 95] / [by] C W Richmond.

Reference: E-284-040

Description: Part of the front garden (a lawn ringed with shrubs) of Sir James Prendergast, Bolton Street in the foreground. To the left is the wooden Parliament Building with its square tower, in Bowen Street. To the right are the wooden Government Buildings in Lambton Quay. Other buildings and the wharf area can also be seen and the view looks across the harbour, with a steam ship and Somes Island and the eastern hills in the background Other Titles - Government buildings. Parliament Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 123 x 201 mm