Places

Date: Between 1910s and 1930s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-f-002

Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.

Date: Ca 2 Dec 1970

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

Reference: EP/1970/5206-F

Description: Maximum security station at quarantine station on Somes island, Wellington Harbour. Shows tour of facility, and cow in exercise yard. Photographs taken ca 2 December 1970 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: [1890s-1900s]

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: PAColl-D-0185

Description: Photograph of the Gear Meat Company, Petone looking south to Somes Island. Photographer unidentified; date possibly 1890s or early 1900s. A closer view of image at PAColl-D-0162 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 320 x 570 mm with mount

Date: 18 December 1887

From: Halse, Frederick James, 1863-1936 : Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/2-004064-G

Description: Yachts in the channel at Somes Island, including the yacht Rewa (on right), photographed on 18 December 1887 by Frederick James Halse of Wellington. Identified and dated from typescript index to negatives, housed at file TL 6/1/17. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches Processing information: Originally housed in Halse Collection box 2.

Date: [Between 1872 and 1899]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-287

Description: An album probably created, and chiefly photographed by George William Barltrop, between 1872 (one image of the laying of the foundation stone of (?) Provincial Buildings in 1872), and the rest being views of New Zealand taken in the late 1890s. One sequence of images shows St Thomas' Church (Newtown, Wellington) under construction, and both exterior and interior views when finished, in 1895. One image shows the wreck of the SS Wairarapa in 1894, and there are views of several lighthouses around New Zealand, two of which were taken by the Burton Brothers. A number of scenes are taken in the Nelson area, including several of the Dun Mountain railway (for the Dun Mountain Copper Mining Company), the Maitai River and valley, Nelson City, and Washington Valley. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album bound in black morocco, with black leather spine, entitled `Photographs' in gold, and McIntosh III lettered in gold on spine; 21.5 x 28.0 cm

Date: 1942-1945

By: Lee, Marjorie Hilda, 1921-

Reference: PAColl-5632

Description: Photographs of WRNZNS personnel at the degaussing station on Somes Island, 1942-1945. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-180083 to 180087. Quantity: 5 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin copy negatives Finding Aids: Photocopy on shelf at PAColl-5632.. Provenance: Copies of original prints loaned to the Library by Mrs M G Robinson, Taita, 1997

Date: [1890s-1900s]

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: PAColl-D-0165

Description: Photograph of the Gear Meat Company, Petone looking south to Somes Island. Houses line both sides of Hutt Road in the foreground. In the immediate foreground is a timber yard and a bridge across the railway line. There is a horse and cart parked on the road. One the far right is a building on Jackson Street with Baker Bros estate advertisement painted on the side. Photographer unidentified; date possibly 1890s or early 1900s. Compare with image at PAColl-D-0162 taken on the same day from a slightly different angle Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 350 x 545 mm on card

Date: 1914-1918

Reference: PAColl-6718

Description: Photographs of the internment camp on Somes Island: internees and guards on their way to the island on the Janie Seddon; two of groups of internees; two of a German band giving a concert on the parade ground; a working party; the arrival of some internees; a bull; view of the camp area where the two-storey blocks were for internees and the low blocks were for guards; the lighthouse and other buildings on the island; and three guards in army uniforms on board the Janie Seddon. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). 10 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1894, 1914-1918

Reference: PAColl-5313

Description: Arrangement: Negatives catalogued at 1/2-090501 to 090564, 1/2-091233 to 091248 Quantity: 80 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: [1903-1920]

By: Grant, F J, active 1980s; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-0362

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of New Zealand made by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Many of the images are of military inspections and displays by school children. There are also displays of Maori dancing and singing, the sailors of the HMS Renown, on which the prince had travelled , prior to their soccer match in Dunedin, the prince addressing the crowds etc. A number of the images are in two-part panoramas. Also included are four scenic photographs by the New Zealand Tourist Department which may have been taken in 1903. The photographer for the tour photographs was Guy. Other - Similar images at 1/2-032642, 045102 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1938-1942]

From: University of New Zealand: Photographs relating to the University of New Zealand

By: University of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-D-0118

Description: View of Victoria University College, Kelburn taken from Central Terrace with the central business area and Wellington Harbour in the background. Houses in Kelburn Parade can be seen in the immediate foreground. The Kirk Building has just been newly completed. Taken by an unidentified photographer, ca early 1940s Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin, 330 x 555 mm with mount

Date: 1939-1945

Reference: PAColl-5723

Description: These photographs are part of a collection held in Manuscripts. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1860s]

From: Bothamley, Arthur Thomas, 1846-1938 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-039769-F

Description: View of the southern Hutt Valley from Percy's Mill. Included are part of the mill buildings, the water wheel, paddocks hedged and fenced with post and rail fences, farm houses, belts and patches of trees, and the railway line. In the distance can be seen Wellington Harbour and Soames Island. Photographed by an unknown photographer some time in the 1860s. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Another copy negative of this image is registered at 1/2-067933-F. This was made by the library from an original print lent by Mr A C Clendon in 1976. A file print from this negative can be found in Turnbull Library Pictures at 42. Hutt Co. Hutt Valley 1860s. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 21 x 16 cm

By: Robinson, Marian Grace, 1931-2002

Reference: PAColl-5630

Description: Shows Somes Island during period James Kennedy Weir was caretaker for Department of Agriculture. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-180009 to 180029 Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1 February 1938

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-5482-023

Description: West side of Somes island, also known as Matiu Island. Photograph taken on 1 February 1938. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 13 November 1997]

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

By: Head, Jo, active 1998

Reference: EP/1997/4286

Description: Department of Conservation contractor David Pike injecting a black-backed seagull egg, Somes Island, as part of a control programme sponsored by Wellington Airport. Photographed ca 13 November 1997 by Evening Post staff photographer Jo Head. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm

Date: ca 1900-1915

Reference: PAColl-7391

Description: Two photographs of the view across Wellington Harbour from near Pencarrow Head to Seatoun and Point Dorset; three photographs of the rocks and beaches around Point Dorset and The Pinnacles; people on the beach and in the sea at Lyall Bay; two men and a woman amongst the pine trees in Newtown Park; a woman in the Wellington Botanic Gardens with Glenmore Street behind her; three views looking down on the houses around Oriental Bay; next to the harbour on Oriental Bay showing the tram lines; the convalescent home on Mount Victoria above Oriental Bay; horses grazing with Evans Bay and the Miramar peninsula in the background; the SS Hawera and SS Haupiri in the patent slip at Evans Bay; the patent slip and the Union Steam Ship Company laundry at Evans Bay; a man and a woman on a path through the bush at Days Bay; looking over Roseneath towards Somes Island; and a yacht sailing at sunset near Pencarrow Head. Photographer unidentified. All the negatives have similar numbering and lettering on the reverse. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003942 to 003961, 003963 to 003964, and 003981 to 003985. 1/2-003982 is missing and has been entered as a copy negative to a print at PAColl-7081-53. Other negatives have been entered as child records of this collection. Quantity: 27 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 24.9.1927

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1874-F

Description: Panoramic view over Lower Hutt from the Belmont Hills. Wellington Harbour in the distance on the right with Somes Island on the far right. Petone in the distance near the harbour on the right. Hutt River running from far left, curving out to sea in the middle distance centre right. Three bridges across the river. Township on both sides of the river across the centre of the image. Hills in the background. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Lower Hutt. 24.9.27. No. 364 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 130.0 cm

Date: Oct 1971, [1990s]

From: Catley, Christine McKelvie Cole (Dame), 1922-2011 : Photographs

By: Matthews, Graeme, active 1990s

Reference: PA12-11059

Description: Slides of Christine and Douglas Catley, the site of their house in Whatamango Bay and other subjects, taken in 1971 by unknown photographers. Also slide of Cape Jackson taken by Graeme Matthews, ca.1990s. One series of images show the Catleys with other people visiting an excavated site in Whatamango Bay, prior to the Catley's building their house there. Includes shots of the driveway and hillside terraces. Also images showing the Catleys outside their other home at 94 Bolton Street (Wellington). Several images of a family group and lighthouse were taken on Matiu/Somes Island in Wellington Harbour. One image is an aerial view of Cape Jackson and the Marlborough Sounds beyond, taken by Graeme Matthews Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: 1927

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2059-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over Days Bay. Groups of players on tennis courts in the centre foreground, sports grounds between the courts and the bay. Roofs of houses on the flat area, with a few houses visible amongst trees on the hills centre and right. Steep bush-clad hills behind. Wellington Harbour on the left and Somes Island seen centre left in the middle distance. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Day's Bay. No. 2 - 1927. [No.] 384A Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 112.5 cm