Places

Date: [ca 1966]

From: Winder, Duncan, 1919-1970: Architectural photographs

Reference: DW-2530-F

Description: Wellington Polytech building, Mt Cook, Wellington, circa 1966, photographed by Duncan Winder. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1934

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

Reference: 1/2-047757-G

Description: Wellington, 1934, circa August-October, showing Dominion Museum under construction, and the Carillon. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1931]

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

Reference: 1/2-090207-G

Description: Photograph of labourers carrying out the earthwork on the western approach to the Wellington National War Memorial Carillon and Dominion Museum in Mt Cook, Wellington, taken circa 1931 by an unidentified Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1955

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

Reference: EP/1955/0783-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1888

By: Drew, T, active 1888

Reference: A-303-019

Description: Shows a view from the lower slopes of Brooklyn of the Mount Cook / Te Aro area, with part of the Basin Reserve to the left, the Mount Cook prison on the hilltop, the prison brickworks behind it, the Alexandra Barracks, and other buildings. Mount Victoria is in the background The chimney on the left was part of the prison brickworks, immediately behind the Mount Cook Prison and now approximately on the site of Wellington High School. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, on sheet 130 x 209 mm, stuck to card.

Date: 1843 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: B-031-005

Description: Shows the windmill, looking south towards Mount Cook (with the barracks on top in the distance), Brooklyn hills and Te Aro from the foot of Mount Victoria where Oriental Bay Road begins. There is a sandy beach in the left foreground, with a man sifting sand or shells, probably for construction. The man is being watched by three children. Bullock carts are visible at the foot of the windmill and there are several other buildings close to it. There are two hens in the yard close to a house in the right foreground, and a square wooden construction in the right foreground, possibly a small lime-kiln. The windmill, or flourmill, was built in March 1843 at the foot of Marjoribanks Street and Kent Terrace junction, the present site of the Embassy Theatre. It was the only open-structured mill in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 181 x 370 mm

Date: 1908

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

Reference: 1/1-022915-G

Description: 1908 Dominion Day celebrations at Basin Reserve, Wellington, showing a crowd of people waving flags, rows of soldiers, and spectators in the foreground. In the background are St Marks Church (left), Wellington College (centre) and buildings on Rugby Street. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith circa 1910. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1940

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 7

By: Deste, Eileen, 1909-1986

Reference: PAColl-6001-23

Description: Looking over Newtown and Mt Cook, Wellington, from the playing field of Wellington East Girls' College, circa 1940. Government House is in the foreground. The Winter Show Buildings are on the left, middle ground. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1913

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

Reference: 1/1-019684-G

Description: Sleeping quarters for some of the Mounted Special Police, at the Mount Cook Barracks, Wellington, during the 1913 waterfront strike. Shows men lying on straw, on the floor of a large hall. Leslie Adkin is sitting up, facing the camera, in the centre of the picture. Photograph taken by S C Smith. Other - Note on back of file print reads "...similar photo published in Auckland Weekly News 13/11/13..." Other - Note on back of file print, signed by Library client, reads: "Leslie Adkin sitting up facing camera centre of picture. See his diary, held by Museum." Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass dry plate negative

Date: 1950

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

Reference: 114/206/09-G

Description: Two women at the 75th anniversary of Mount Cook School photographed in 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1913

From: West Coast Historical and Mechanical Society : Photographs

Reference: 1/2-096909-F

Description: A group of Massey's Special Constables, on horseback, armed with batons, at the Mount Cook Barracks during the Waterfront Strike of 1913. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1934

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

Reference: PAColl-6301-59

Description: Aerial view of Mount Cook, Wellington, 1934. Shows the Dominion Museum under construction, and the Carillon. Evening Post photograph. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.5 x 20.3 cm

Date: [ca 1936]

From: New Zealand Railways: Photographs

Reference: 1/1-025022-G

Description: Tea-room interior, Dominion Museum, Wellington, circa 1936. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass dry plate negative

Date: 1950

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

Reference: 114/206/10-G

Description: Three women at the 75th anniversary of Mount Cook School photographed in 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1852 - 1856

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

Reference: E-455-f-037-3

Description: A moonlit view from Mount Cook, over Wellington and the harbour, looking north. Lambton Quay lies below along the foreshore with Pipitea Point in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 137 x 249 mm

From: Burt, Gordon Onslow Hilbury, 1893-1968 :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-036351-F

Description: Looking south over roofs to the Basin Reserve, Wellington, where a crowd watches a cricket game. On the right is Adelaide Road with the Caledonian Hotel on the corner. Wellington College buildings are on the top left. Also on the left is St Mark's Church. Houses around Rugby Street and Adelaide Road can also be seen. Photograph taken by Gordon Burt. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: 1/1-020192-G

Description: Mount Cook Prison and surrounding area, Mount Cook, Wellington. Shows buildings on Buckle Street in the foreground. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith circa 1910. This later became the site of the Dominion Museum Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-025-009

Description: View from Clay Point hill above the junction of modern Willis St and Lambton Quay. The beach in the foreground is lower Willis Street, while upper Willis Street passes up the rise on the far right. The beach in the background is modern Mercer and Wakefield Streets. Cows, goats, two Maori canoes, a couple on horseback and Bethune & Hunter's Stores are in the foreground, with a jetty and sailing ships in the harbour. Further jetties and public and private buildings are in the background on Te Aro Flat. The most prominent building along the waterfront, with a Grecian-style frontage, is the Exchange Building. Mounts Cook, Albert and Victoria are indicated in the skyline above their relevant peaks. For a key to the identity of individual buildings, see negative 15576 1/2. T. M. Hocken's 'Key plan of Heaphy's View of a part of the town of Wellington ... 1885'. The original for this key is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection. This watercolour was the original for the lithograph of the same title, published in London in 1842. There were also later prints from the same stone produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See reference number C-026-002 for copies of the lithograph. Reproduced by the Library in 1963 as one of the Queen's Prints, along with its companion view 'Thorndon Flat and part of the city of Wellington, 1841' and Heaphy's 'View of Nelson Haven', also dating from 1841. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil. This is not in Heaphy's hand. It has been taken from the title of the matching lithograph Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 442 x 620 mm on sheet 518 x 698 mm Provenance: Purchased in London in 1915 by Alexander Turnbull Library along with 114 other New Zealand Company drawings

Date: 1950

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

Reference: 114/206/14-G

Description: Four men at the 75th anniversary of Mount Cook School photographed in 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 11 Jun 1958

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

Reference: EP/1958/1871-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 inches