Places

Date: ca 1868-1890

Reference: PAColl-6529

Description: Three prints of two views of Wellington: two of Willis Street with the Criterion Hotel to the right and the wharves on the left, and one of Worser Bay showing a few houses. These are copy prints made from the original negatives some time around the 1920s. All three images have been removed from the same album at some point as they have the same green paper residue on the reverse. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1842

From: Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington (sketched in the middle of the year 1842). Plate IV.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: B-110-058

Description: Right-hand third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows Maori group sitting near flagpole at left, smoking long pipes, other Maori figures and three thatched buildings on the foreshore. On centre foreshore is Messrs Ridgways and Co's wharf and stores. At right is Willis Street with the Southern Cross Hotel and further back the Ship Hotel. On the other side of the bay are the Customhouse Office, Post Office, Waitt's Wharf and stores, John Wade's store, the Exchange, and Rhodes's Wharf and store. Willis and Co's store is in the left background near Te Aro Pa. In the distance are Mount Albert and Mount Cook. There are colour transparencies available (photographed from better copies of this work, in volume of Wakefield's book). Extended Title - From Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1845. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Te Aro Flat; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - bottom right - Day & Haghe, Lithrs to the Queen Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 453 mm.

Date: 1859

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

By: Swan, George Henry, 1833-1913; Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: E-455-f-031-2

Description: View looking from above down to the crossroads of Willis, Manners and Boulcott Streets, with businesses and houses. The large building in the left foreground, corner Willis and Boulcott Streets, was the Union Bank of Australia. A man leads a horse and cart up Willis Street towards the hills on the right The Barracks are visible on Mount Cook in the left background The site became the Hotel St George corner Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 159 x 258 mm

Date: 1914

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1911-1919]

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1914-01-04

Description: The letters M, N, O and P of an illustrated alphabet advertising Martin a wallpaper supplier, Neave's food for babies, "Our" bootmaker J Goer, and Palliser Pharmacy. Extended Title - From, The rhyming trades alphabet, Wellington, 1914. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of booklet.. Physical Description: Offset print on page 247 x 187 mm.

Date: 1842

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

By: Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: PUBL-0011-16-3

Description: Right-hand third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows Maori group sitting near flagpole at left, smoking long pipes, other Maori figures and three thatched buildings on the foreshore. On centre foreshore is Messrs Ridgways and Co's wharf and stores. At right is Willis Street with the Southern Cross Hotel and further back the Ship Hotel. On the other side of the bay are the Customhouse Office, Post Office, Waitt's Wharf and stores, John Wade's store, the Exchange, and Rhodes's Wharf and store. Willis and Co's store is in the left background near Te Aro Pa. In the distance are Mount Albert and Mount Cook. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Te Aro Flat; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - bottom right - Day & Haghe, Lithrs to the Queen Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 453 mm.

Date: [ca 1870s]

From: Monro, John Stuart (Dr), 1888-1971 :Photographs of Wellington and Nelson

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA7-48-10

Description: View of Te Aro from a vantage point above Boulcott and Willis streets, looking south-east along Manners Street towards Mount Victoria. The Methodist Church can be seen on the right. The Duke of Edinburgh Hotel is on the corner of Manners and Wills streets. In the foreground is a timber yard, St Mary of the Angels Church, and several houses with glass conservatories in Boulcott Street. Photograph taken by D L Mundy after the Criterion Hotel changed its name to the Duke of Edinburgh in the 1870s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 19.3 x 23.5 cm