Places

Date: [Between 1954 and 1968]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-200

Description: Album of photographs, some prints, some contacts from 35mm film, taken by Professor John Salmon in Wellington. Most of the images describe his use of different camera lenses and filters. Many of the scenes are taken from Professor Salmon's window at Victoria University of Wellington, showing different moods in different weather patterns. They include early morning, afternoon, and night views, northerly wind and southerly wind cloud patterns, including a southerly storm. He also has a large number of images of Wellington Harbour and wharves, again taken in different lights, showing ships, reflections and buildings. Other sequences show views of the Hutt Valley, Silverstream, and Glenmore Street in Wellington, many taken on misty early mornings. The last scenes are coloured photographs showing some of the decorations erected for the Royal visit of Queen Elizabeth II, in January 1954. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cream cover, Cobra ring binder; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1901

Reference: PA1-f-064

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901. Scenes include the arrival of the royal visitors at various places, by ship, Royal carriages, and Royal train; ceremonies and rites welcoming them; views of triumphal arches erected for the tour, including Marble Arch (Queen Street, Auckland), the Auckland Harbour Board Arch, the Citizen's Arch (Wellesley Street), and the Government Arch (City of Wellington). Other ceremonies are associated with the presentation of war-medals; the laying of foundation stones (Victoria College for Maori Girls, Parnell, Auckland), the Wellington Town Hall, and the Queens Memorial Statue in Dunedin); and the march past and inspection of various guards, troops and veterans. One photograph shows Lord Ranfurly in Auckland, reading the proclamation extending the boundaries of the colony to include the Cook Islands (p 16). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "Visit of Duke of Cornwall and York (King George V.). 1901. Maoris - Auckland. Wellington. Christchurch". Hand-printed in ink on slip attached to front cover.

Date: 1886

By: Koch, Augustus Carl Ferdinand, 1834-1901

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gmfs/A/1886/Acc.3319

Description: Map showing of Wellington Harbour as at 1886, from Waterloo Quay to Clyde Quay, showing harbour soundings, Queen's Wharf, railway wharf, wool wharf, buildings in the vicinity including government offices, Supreme Court, police station, harbour board, drill shed, freezing works, railway terminus, parliamentary buildings, Government House, Custom Post and Telegraph, marine telegraph, wool shed, boat harbour, Thorndon and Te Aro Baths, and several banks. Shows named Te Aro streets from Courtenay Place to Marjoribanks Street, and unnamed reclaimed streets from Wakefield Street to Jervois Quay and Cable Street, identifying the proposed reclamation corporation endowment. Includes two tables on the map, one showing class and tonnage of goods passing over wharves, the other berthage accommodation along the wharf. Soundings shown in feet. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photograph, scale indeterminable, 26 x 37 cm.

Date: 1960 - 1965

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973 :Old homes & sheds, farms made by pioneers in Norsewood. [1950s-1964].

By: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973

Reference: E-029-q-067

Description: View looking east towards the Orongorongos in the far distance, and houses in Miramar in the distance. Evans Bay Wharf and the benzine tanks are in the middle distance across the other side of the bay. A sailing ship is in the bay. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour and gum arabic, 245 x 315 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist available.. Provenance: Donated by Mrs J. Brenkley in 1964.

Date: [Between 1927 and 1955]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-206

Description: Photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1927 and 1955, mostly in the Wellington Region. Some are art photographs, including still life images of carvings, cloisonne ware and porcelain, and some are tinted. One sequence shows the Dominion Museum and Art Gallery, both interior and exterior views. Some were taken in April 1936 before the building was furnished; others were taken later in 1936 and 1937, including the Kauri Hall, the Sculpture Hall, the Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Academy Gallery, the Maori Hall, and the entrance vestibule. Civic events are shown in illuminations at the Government Buildings for the King George V Silver Jubilee on 12th May 1935; the Carillon tower floodlit for for the coronation of King George VI; and night photographs of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in 1940, including the Australian and British pavilions. Wellington is shown in views from various hills and rooftops. Specific trips and occasions include a Waikaremoana trip in 1930; the Victoria University College Natural History Society trip to Butterfly Creek in 1933; a Camera Club outing near Mangaroa Hill in 1938; and celebrating Xmas in Auckland in 1952. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super-Cobra binder file; 30 x 24 cm

Date: [ca 1920-1943]

By: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962; Deste, Eileen, 1909-1986; Hastings Public Library (N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-0365

Description: A collection of photographs including views of Nelson by F N Jones, buildings and earthquake damage in Wellington in 1943 and others from around the country including three hand-touched photographs of Napier and Hastings. The photographs of Wellington are captioned with the building the weather conditions when the photographs were taken and whether flash was used. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1930 and 1934]

By: New Zealand Railways; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm); Mitchell, Lindsay, active 1930-1942

Reference: PA1-f-058

Description: Album of publicity photographs including designs for advertisements for use in the new Zealand Railway Magazine; designs for posters for use in Railways Ticket Offices and one for a large neon lighting sign "Suggested `Claude Neon' Display for New Zealand Railway Publicity Department, Wellington. `Travel by train'". One photograph is entitled "`Post' corner 1880. Now site of King's Chambers". A number of images show a [Labour Day?] parade of marching people, and floats some of which are advertising NZ Railways holiday destinations, with slogans reading `Come to Rotorua', `Come to Waitomo', `Come to The Chateau Tongariro'. There are designs of title pages for the New Zealand Railways Magazine; a view of a commemorative key with a sheaf of corn on the handle in a presentation box; and designs for a programme of events surround the laying of the foundation stone for the new Government Railway Station, Wellington, N.Z. by HRH the Duke of Gloucester, December 17th 1934. These are followed by photographs taken during the Duke's tour of New Zealand, including crowd scenes in Wellington, Maori celebrations of welcome at Ngaruawahia, and scenes in the Rotorua thermal area. There are a few individual and group portraits of the management and administrative staff of New Zealand Railways, most unidentified. Most of the images relate to the 1930s, but there are a few copies of earlier photographs. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, maroon spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C4'; 42 x 59 cm

Date: 1905-1909

From: Berwick, S W (Mr) :Albums of New Zealand scenes and coastal towns

Reference: PA1-o-833

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/ca.1940/Acc.14598

Description: A copy of a cadastral map of the area between The Terrace and Whitmore Street, Boulcott Street to Cuba Street, Brougham Street to Clyde Quay Wharf and Herd Street. Sections and subdivisions are numbered and include numerous Deeds plan numbers. Government, provincial and Thorn Reclamation land includes block numbers. Wharves are named. Names include Town Hall, and land belonging to the Wellington Harbour Board and Wellington City Council is marked. Streets are named, as are some rights of way such as Opera House Lane. Red ink annotations show property values in pounds sterling. Title supplied by cataloguer - subtitle taken from top right of map Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on diazo print, some colour, scale not given, 107.2 x 74 cm.

Date: 1932

By: Wellington Harbour Board; Gandar & Gardiner (Firm); Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Ha/1932/Acc.10265

Description: Wellington Harbour Board topographic and survey map of the Patent Slipway Company's property on Evans Bay Road, now known as Evans Bay Parade. The area includes sites of two slipways and jetties, engine rooms, engineering, blacksmith, boilerhouse, tinsmiths, paint, basket and upholstery workshops, general and bond stores, timber rack, brick garage and laundry. Respective building materials are listed. The boundary, a wharf and a limit of reclamation are marked with the total acreage to the outer boundary. Reservoirs, stormwater overflow and sewer drains are marked, as are property boundaries of post, rail and wire fences with the position of wooden dwellings, some outside of the Company's area on Kainui Road. Picket, board and iron fences are marked, as is a vegetable garden and fowl house. Includes high water marks by Ward in 1887, sites of dolphins, a beach, concrete wall and stone pitching. Evans Bay Road is described as bitumen and its width is given. Additions to the base map are various acreages and boundary measurements of the workshop and store areas of the Patent Slipway Company's property at Evans Bay. Acreages of hilly and flat land are totalled separately. A pencilled note gives valuations for the acreage 3.2.20 at 4000 pounds sterling an acre, also for 'Northeast triangle' at 3200 pounds sterling. Scale of original: Scale [1:1 200] Stamp on base map: Drawing Office. Handwritten notes on base map: T.N. No. 1315. Also 70/41 Handwritten annotations: Areas are approximate. Dimensions in feet and inches. Handwritten annotation: For valuation purposes Extended Title - Wellington Harbour Board - Plan of the Patent Slipway Company property, Evans Bay Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and colourwash on photocopy, linen backed, coloured, scale indeterminable, 50.5 x 37.4 cm

Date: [Circa 1935]

By: New Zealand Railways; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964

Reference: PA1-f-059

Description: Album of publicity photographs, taken by unidentified photographers, chiefly in 1935 At the beginning of the album there are a large number of photographs of the buildings, and crowds at a race meeting at the Trentham Racecourse. (See article by O.N. Gillespie in New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue, 12, March 1, 1935). The album has many publicity photographs, designs for railway advertisements and posters, all showing the advantages of travel by rail. The advertisements include methods for travel savings: `Buy travel stamps. Travel savings N.Z.R. 1/-, 2/-, 2/6, 5/-, from railway stations & booking offices'; also `Start saving to-day for your trip away...'. Other posters advertise cheaper travel in the off-season, including summer holidays at the Hermitage, with low combined rail and motor fares" as well as advertising full season trips to tourist destinations. There is one photograph of a programme [?] for "New Zealand Authors' Week, 1936. Souvenir". Near the start of the album there is a large group of views at Flock House, agricultural college at Bulls. They show pig farming, dairy cows, sheep, lucerne for pasture and vegetable growing (See New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 12, March 1, 1935); and in one of these Lord Bledisloe is bending down examining pasture (See New Zealand Railways magazine, Vol. 9, Issue 11, February 1, 1935) There are a few individual and group portraits, but only one or two are identified. Interior photographs of Union Steam Ship Company luxury liners Rangatira and Aorangi, are shown as individual pictures, as well as in a montage (published in New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 10, issue 4, July 1, 1935). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscelleous 5'; 41 x 59 cm

From: Estate of Mr and Mrs E S Knight :Photographs of Wellington

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: PA1-o-252

Description: Photograph album of views of Wellington, ranging from copies of early paintings from the 1840s, and early photographs up to the 1870s, to a series of postcards from the 1920s. Most of the early images have clear descriptions, giving year made, location, and in some cases further information about buildings that can be seen. For example, one view shows Kebble's house, now the site of the Grand Opera House. Views in the postcards are identified, but no dates are given. Most of the postcard views were taken by Sydney Charles Smith Inscriptions: Album page - `To E.S.K. with all good wishes for the 8th Nov. 1925, from a wellwisher' (illuminated inscription inside front cover) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Black album, entitled `Photographs'; `E.S.K.' lettered in lower right-hand corner; 26 x 33 cm

Date: 1973

From: Dennis, Jonathan Spencer, 1953-2002 :Photographs

Reference: PA6-624

Description: General view of Oriental Bay and the southern section of the Inner Harbour. The major features and buildings on the south eastern side of the harbour, where the city meets the sea, can be seen. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Panoramic photograph

Date: ca 1920

By: Hewitt, George R, active 1920-1985

Reference: PAColl-0601

Description: Postcards collected by the depositor while working as an able seaman on HMS Renown during the tour by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Black and white postcards of Auckland, Christchurch, particularly the botanic gardens, Lyttelton, Picton, and Samoa and colour postcards of Wellington. Quantity: 43 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

From: McLeod, Hector Norman, fl 1870s-1957 :Maps from papers

By: McLeod, Hector Norman, 1872-

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gfktm/Ha/[n.d.]/Acc.37470

Description: Plan of United Union Steam Company's works at Evans Bay, Wellington, showing the slip, wharf, jetty, patent slip, timber yard, rails, laundry, main storage, and sheds including coalburners, furnace power, boilermakers, blacksmiths, engineers and electricians, sawmill, salvage and iron and wire store. Indicates water depth around wharf. Shows beginning of proposed new road. Written on red backing under title: A district now receiving attention from captains of industry. Red backing acts as a 'frame' around the map Other Titles - Union Steam Ship Company's works, Evans Bay, frontage 1/8th mile Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, backed with red paper, scale indeterminable, 54 x 76 cm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLeod, Hector Norman, fl 1902-1927. Business papers. MS-Papers-0154.

Date: [ca 1885-1945]

By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PAColl-0422

Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 20 Mar 1977

By: Temple, Robert Philip, 1939-; Clark & Matheson (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-D-0727

Description: One of a series of photographs taken by Temple entitled `Images of Wellington'. Aerial view of Wellington taken over Khandallah. The Ngaio Gorge Road is in the immediate foreground, as well as the motorway, Thorndon Container Wharf, houses in Wadestown. The railway yards, Thorndon and CBD can be seen in the middle distance. Taken at sunrise (note lack of vehicles on the motorway). Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Recto - bottom right - Photographer's signature and date Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-mechanical print 440 x 295 mm on sheet 565 x 430 mm

Date: 1951

By: Wellington Harbour Board. Chief Engineer's Office; Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gmp/Mi/1951/Acc.10264

Description: Planning map of the area from Burnham Wharf to Evans Bay Road. Existing roads are named and a proposed road is marked on an area of reclaimed land. Rongotai Terrace is shown at the site of the proposed airport runway. Blocks of land are prominently colour coded and are referred to in extensive Certification of Title schedules which include total areas. A second Wellington Harbour Board schedule, by D.P. plan references, refers to each block of land. Includes a survey of the sea bed and the reclamation limit is marked, as is the low water mark. The boundary of the harbour bed vested in Wellington Harbour Board M3187 is marked. Area A, adjacent to Miramar Wharf and Aberdeen Quay, includes the the limit of the 1 in 7 batter cut. Topographic features are of slopes and a knoll. Calibar, Wrexford, Watford, Tirangi, Seatoun, Onepu, Wellington and Evans Bay roads are named, as are Salek, Te Whiti, Yule and Coutts streets, also Kilbirnie Crescent. An electric power station is marked adjacent to Watford Road and Salek Street. Other Titles - Wellington Harbour Board - Evans Bay, affected by Rongotai Aerodrome proposal Notes on bottom left of original: Compiled from W.H.B Plans 72/100 22/20 54.82. W.H.B. Land Book & P.W.D. plan W.H.B. No. 75/93. B.W. Diccle 4.1.51 Note on bottom right of original: P.D. 57 Stamp on bottom right: Wellington Harbour Board, Chief Engineer's Office. 17/97 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Colourwash on duplicated plan, coloured, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 67.7 x 64.4 cm.

Date: [Circa 1880s]

From: Blundell, John Barraud, 1904-1975 : Photograph albums

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-043

Description: Album chiefly containing views of the North Island of New Zealand, many taken by professional photographers Wrigglesworth and Binns. Images include one of a cricket match between an English team and the Wellington team, March 23-24 1888, at the Basin Reserve, showing spectators in the foreground, the players on the field, and buildings on the hill behind. There are a number of views of the Whanganui River, including a cave, a canoe with 5 men poling through rapids, a view of the river from Hiruharama, and a waterfall. At the end of the album there are images of Port Said, Malabar, and two newspaper photographs, one of Mrs J Milbourne (nee Maud Beatty, a member of the Pollard Opera Company), and William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, governor of New South Wales 1899-1900. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cover 245 x 315 mm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1487-F

Description: Panoramic view of Wellington City and Harbour taken from a hill on the way up to Wadestown. Thorndon Quay with Dalgety's Stores are seen on the left, railway yards centre right, with a large area of reclaimed land and areas awaiting reclamation in the centre foreground. Wharves edge the harbour centre right middle distance, city on the right, Oriental Bay and Mount Victoria visible in the right background. Several fishing boats in the harbour. Start of the Hutt Road just visible on the far left, and Petone is in the distance on the far left. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Wellington Harbour showing Petone 317 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 134.4 cm