Places

Date: [ca 1914]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000736-G

Description: View of the fountain in Albert Park. A woman nearby with children, and two men are looking at the fountain. Houses in Princes Street can be seen on the lefthandside. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, ca 1914. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Albert Park. Auckland. 717. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1908]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001626

Description: View of Bayswater from Princes Street, Northcote looking across Shoal Bay with Bayswater Wharf and Rangitoto Island visible in the distance. In the left foreground is a single-storied house. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Bayswater from Northcote, 3375 William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001712-G

Description: View from Princes Street looking down on houses in Tennyson Road and Nelson Avenue, Sulphur Beach (to the right). Taken ca 1910 by William Archer Price of Auckland. Source of descriptive information - Northcote Library Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Northcote. Looking towards Sulphur Beach. Auckland. 3605 William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [Late 1920s]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-008417-G

Description: Street scene by an unidentified photographer looking north up Princes Street, Dunedin, towards the Octagon. Shows the T & G Mutual Life building with clock tower, and the stock exchange area. Includes pedestrians, trams, and other aspects of Dunedin city life in the late 1920s. Source of descriptive information - Caption on back of file print reads: "View of Stock Exchange area, Cargills Monument, Princes Street looking North towards the Octagon." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: 1864

By: Meluish, William, 1822?-1888

Reference: 1/2-004373-F

Description: Looking across Princes Street, Dunedin, from Bell Hill, in 1864. Photograph taken by William Meluish. The Criterion Hotel and the Theatre Royal are visible. Note on back of file print reads "...The long line of buildings in the background was used by English troops in the Maori [sic] wars" Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Dunedin from Bell Hill Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1846

By: Wynyard, Robert Henry (Sir), 1802-1864

Reference: B-174-006

Description: Shows a view of a row of houses along the top of a rise, including those (from left) of Captain Denny, Major Matson, Colonel Wynyard, and Captain Cockraft, with the Treasury buildings to the right, including a small sentry-box on the far right. Across the lower part, a road passes two small buildings on the left and one on the right (St Paul's School). Reproduced in 'The Lively Capital' by Una Platts (Auckland, Avon Fine Prints, 1971), p. 151. The houses along the hilltop are described as fronting on to Princess Street. St Paul's School, bottom right, is described as being on the corner of Eden Crescent and Short Street Other Titles - Capt Denny; Major Matson; Col Wynyard; Capt Cockraft; Treasury and school Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - RHW; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - beneath image - Capt Denny; Major Matson; Col Wynyard; Capt Cockraft; Treasury and school Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, image 102 x 153 mm, on sheet 157 x 200 mm (sight) Provenance: Previously on sale from John Leech Gallery, 2007-2008. In the collection of R Lewin Wynyard, of Auckland in 1971, when reproduced in The lively capital by Una Platts (Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1971) p.151. It was described as being part of a sketchbook.

Date: 1888

By: O'Brien, George, 1821?-1888; McIntyre, Peter, 1862-1922; W.J. Prictor; Caxton Printing Company (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: C-060-006

Description: Shows the view looking North-East from the vicinity of Maitland Street across Dunedin and the wharf area, with Signal Hill on the distant right. Princes Street runs diagonally right to left. First Church is in the centre. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Caxton Co. Lith. Quantity: 1. Physical Description: Lithograph, coloured, 440 x 660 mm.

By: Allen, Joseph Weaver, 1821-1886

Reference: PA2-0009

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: late 1930s

From: Kenneally, Joseph Mervyn, 1944- : Photographs of the Wellington region, mainly of Upper Hutt, Whitemans Valley, Khandallah and Karori

Reference: 1/2-106764-F

Description: View of the Ford trucks and drivers of the Geange Carrying Company Ltd on Princes Street, Upper Hutt, late 1930s. Photographer unidentified. Drivers identified as (left to right) Fred McGhie, Paddy (Frank) Kelly, Mr Holcroft, Tom Bailey, Harry Tinsley, Arthur Hyde, LC (Alf) Gilbanks, Len Benge, Ken Geange (owner), Eric Mccarthy. Source of descriptive information - Location identified by Library client. Persons identified in Upper Hutt Library Heritage Collections record for their copy of this image (see P2-9-15) Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1849

By: Wynyard, Robert Henry (Sir), 1802-1864

Reference: B-189-012

Description: View looking down Princes Street towards Emily Place, with St Paul's church at the foot of the street, the harbour beyond. The long low house to the right of the church would have been that of Brigade-Major Joseph Greenwood. To the extreme left, the original Wood's Royal Hotel can be seen, with its verandah partly enclosed with lattice. The two-storey building next door to it is the Royal Masonic Hotel, and beside that, the Union Bank of Australia. Various men, women and children are standing or sitting in the street, and a carriage drawn by two horses, carrying four people, rides up the street According to Una Platts' 'The lively capital: Auckland 1840-1865', the image is given the title 'Princes Street, Auckland, 1849, with Colonel Wynyard's carriage'; this title does not appear on the original and may come from family knowledge Wynyard made two versions of the scene; the other is privately owned. The Library holds a photographic reference to this version Other Titles - Street Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Princes St. 1849 [in ink] See also John Williams' pencil and crayon drawing of the same scene, about 1850, at A-079-021 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on paper, 183 x 222 mm, hinged to gate-fold matt 480 x 403 mm Provenance: Previously from a sketchbook of R H Wynyard's, owned by R Lewin Wynyard, Auckland (see U Platts, 'The lively capital ...', 1971, List of illustrations p.257)

Date: 11 Dec 1985

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-78416-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 12 Dec 1968

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-68159-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Other - Notes on negative sleeve reads: Auckland University Special. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 19 Jun 1974

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-72077-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 7 Aug 1985

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-78281-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate