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Richards, Edward Smallwood, 1834-1917 :Wellington from Sydney Street West, Thorndon
Date: [ca 1875]
By: Richards, Edward Smallwood, 1834-1917
Reference: PA7-51-02
Description: View taken from Sydney Street West looking towards Bolton Street and south-east towards Te Aro and Mount Victoria. Wellington College can be seen on the extreme right in the far distance. The Colonial Museum in Museum Street is in the foreground to the left. Photograph taken by E S Richards in the 1870s Copy negative at 1/2-021636-F. File print available at PFP-030465. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Looking towards Bolton Street from above Sydney Street West. Colonial Museum in Museum Street on left foreground. Lion Foundry in Waring Taylor Street in background, c 1875 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 18.5 x 28.8 cm
Photographer unknown :View of Wellington Harbour from Wireless Hill
Date: [ca 1927]
From: Government House Collection : Prints of Te Aro flat, Lambton Quay, Parliament Building, Government Buildings, Post Office and Governor's residence
Reference: PAColl-D-0119
Description: Panoramic view taken from Wireless Hill (Tinakori Hill) looking down on the city and across the harbour to Roseneath, Oriental Bay and Mount Victoria, with the Miramar peninsula in the distance. Bolton Street Cemetery is in the immediate foreground. The Government Building, Parliament Buildings, Government House, Government Print building and Thorndon railway station are to the left. Several ships are berthed at the wharves and a ship is steaming towards Queens Wharf in the middle distance. Kelvin Chambers and Mayfair Chambers can be seen (both under construction). The Taranaki Street Wharf is on the far right. Taken by an unidentified photographer, ca 1927 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Recto - bottom right - 2249 Similiar view at 1/2-058525 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 402 x 560 mm with mount
Parliament buildings, and houses in Alicetown
Date: 1987
From: Parnham, J W :Houses and buildings in Petone, Alicetown and Wellington
By: Parnham, John Warrington, 1917-2006
Reference: 35mm-14318-F
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) (35mm strip) containing 3 images. Finding Aids: Photocopies identifying Alicetown houses housed with PAColl-1618-1. Provenance: Photographs taken by Mr Parnham
Chapman, Alfred, 1829-1874 :The site of the late Mr C H Piper's grave at Wellington dra...
Date: 1856
By: Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874
Reference: A-090-013
Description: Wellington seen from Bolton Street cemetery with fenced graves in the foreground, the flagpole at Government House visible lower down the hill and the houses of Thorndon to the left. The view looks north across Wellington Harbour with Somes Island and the Hutt Valley and Tararua Range in the distance Another very similar view in an album by Chapman - 'Wellington burying ground' - is held by the Hawkes Bay Cultural Trust. A photographic copy is the Drawings & Prints files Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 160 x 250 mm
View of Thorndon and Wellington Harbour, Wellington
Date: ca 1860s
From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district
Reference: 1/1-000532-G
Description: View looking toward Walter Turnbull's house `Elibank' in Thorndon and Wellington Harbour. Ships are visible in the harbour and reclamation work can be seen in the centre. Museum Street is in the foreground. Photograph taken by W J Harding, circa 1860s. Note on back of file print reads: Looking towards city and Te Aro Flat from Museum Street (in foreground) with reclamation work shown to the left, in the centre ca 1860s Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Wellington N. Z. 1849. Gov[ernmen]t House. Te Aro ...
Date: 1849
From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Reference: A-292-071
Description: View from Hill Street area looking south past the garden of Government House (now the site of the Beehive) on the far left, (with what is probably Alfred Domett's garden in the foreground), and towards the original St Paul's Church (Museum Street), along Lambton Quay (the shoreline) and The Terrace (marked as Constitution Hill here), with Te Aro, including the Pa and Mount Cook, with the military barracks in the distance. Stables are also indicated written on the roof of a building beyond the fence of Government House and above Lambton Quay. "The Baron's" (the hotel of Baron von Alzdorf) is indicated too, along Lambton Quay. This drawing forms an inexact panorama with A-292-070. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil with ink inscriptions on paper, 231 x 331 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].
View of Sydney Street and Museum Street, Thorndon, Wellington - Photograph taken by Her...
Date: [ca 1870s-1880s]
From: Scott, Mrs :Original and mounted photographic prints
By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911
Reference: PA7-46-23
Description: View taken from the grounds of Parliament looking south. In the foreground are Sydney Street (running left to right), and Government House stables on the corner of Sydney and Museum streets. The wharves can be seen in the middle distance. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril, ca 1870s-1880s Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 26 x 35 cm