Places

Date: 1910 - 1915

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Lambert, Thomas Stoddart, 1840-1915

Reference: Plans-91-1338

Description: Shows the area of Kelburne Park, Botanical Road, Gladstone Terrace, Talavera Terrace, the Orphanage Endowment, Wesleyan Endowment, Kilburne [Kelburne] Tramway, Hospital Endowment, Salamance Road, and Botanical Gardens Road. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on dressed linen, 650 x 470 mm.

Date: 1971

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook]. 1971.

Reference: E-476-f-005

Description: View of houses at the Bolton Street-end of Salamanca Road and the intersection with the driveway into the Met. Office, looking north-east towards Petone in far distance Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 270 x 356 mm

Date: 1922

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

Reference: Pan-1892-F

Description: Panoramic view looking over Kelburn Park with a section of the rails of the Kelburn Cable Car seen on the right. The Kelburn Tea Kiosk is seen at the top of the hill to the left of the Cable Car. Salamanca Road winds up the hill on the right of the Arts Building (now the Hunter Building) of the Victoria University College. Wellington College is faintly visible on the far left. There are two areas of Kelburn Park in the foreground. The area closest to the camera shows a clubhouse and a man with a lawn roller. In the area nearer to the University there is a man walking behind a horse-drawn mower. Taken by Robert Percy Moore in 1922 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Kelburn; Photographer's title on negative - Kelburn. Wellington, N.Z. 1922. No. 395 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 103.6 cm

Date: 1977-1979

From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs

Reference: PA12-8686

Description: Views of Wellington include - From Salamanca Road looking north over Wellington. Kelburn Park looking east. Houses, Kelburn. Kelburn Parade and Victoria University. Cable Car and harbour from Kelburn. House at 21 Salamanca Road. Quantity: 9 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [1903]

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

Reference: EP-Municipal-Cable car-01

Description: View of the Kelburn cable car track, Wellington, New Zealand, showing the bridges across Salamanca Road and Rawhiti Terrace. Houses and a windmill above Salamanca Road, and trees at the top of the Botanic Garden can be seen. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1903. Date established as engineer's house at the top of the incline is built (March 1903), but leveling the ground for the kiosk has not yet begun (1904). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned gelatin silver print 15.7 x 20.8 cm, on mount

Date: 1845 - 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-449-012

Description: View from the top of the Terrace looking down over Te Aro Flat with Mount Victoria in the distance. Manners Street can clearly be seen in the bottom left of the picture, leading to the Wesleyan Chapel on the right-hand side of the road. Wellington Harbour can be seen on the left of the view, with ships dotted in the harbour The reference to 'Captain Sharpe' should correctly be Captain Sharp. Captain Charles Kingsford Sharp owned a house at the top of The Terrace, Wellington, where Salamanca Road joins The Terrace Extended Title - From Brees, S. C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand. London, 1847. Panorama plate Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 110 x 310 mm on sheet 125 x 440 mm

Date: 1931

By: Welch, Nugent Herrmann, 1881-1970

Reference: B-156-009

Description: Shows a view of Wellington Harbour, with a two-storeyed wooden Georgian house with red tile roof, in the foreground, at the curve of the road where two paths at the left converge. The paths have come down from the Cable Car and the present Meteorological Office. Other Titles - October Inscriptions: Verso - bottom left - 27th Oct 1931 /N.W.; Verso - bottom centre - green of 1 tree Aureolin & raw sienna / Payne's Grey - used for dark greens Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 232 x 295 mm.

Date: From 1911 to 1949

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-007

Description: Black & white photographs of the Wellington area, Vol 1 (images 1-240), taken by G L Adkin between 1911 and 1949. Earlier images include the house Fern Hill (at 324 The Terrace), and views from the house; Kelburn Cable Car tunnel, and view of the cable car from Kelburn Park; Wellington Botanic Garden; inner city views of Willis St., Lambton Quay (1913); Lyall Bay, Kilbirnie isthmus, Wellington Heads, Oriental Bay (1913); Harbour and city; swimming carnival at Island Bay; city from Mt Cook trig station (1918); panorama of Thorndon with Pipitea Point reclamation from the Nth end of Barnard St (1923); interior view of the Wellington City Corporation Trams Shed at Newtown; Kemp Point Powerhouse, Evans Bay; Miramar Gas Works (1923); Wider views of the city with Tinakori Ridge from Roseneath, Oriental Bay, Lyall Bay (1926); loading the Maheno (1926). Laying Foundation Stone of new railway station by the Duke of Gloucester, showing steel frame of the building under construction (17 December 1934). Views around the city in 1936, including Worser Bay, Breaker Bay, Dorset Point, Queens Drive, the city (panorama from Karepa St, Brooklyn); "wilds of Wellington" Mitchelltown, Highbury, Taitville, and Kelburn (from Karepa St); snow on hills and at Mt Kaukau (2 August 1936). Centennial Exhibition (6 March 1940). Views around the bays in 1948, Lyall Bay, Evans Bay, Kilbirnie, Eastbourne, Days Bay, Lowry Bay. Comparative views from Mt Alfred (1 taken in 1948, the other in 1905). Pamir sailing ship at Aotea Quay (December 1948); railway yards; Kaiwharawhara Gorge (1948); and the first visit of the Solent flying boat Ararangi to Evans Bay, October 1949.

Date: Between 1924 and 1944

By: Luke, Kenneth Ewart, 1890-1965; Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-o-279

Description: Photographs of road construction, rubbish tip construction, earthquake damage restoration, relating to engineering projects in Wellington between 1924 and 1944; album created by city engineer Kenneth Ewart Luke. Photographs include scenes of construction of the Hutt Road, in 1924 and in 1926; the Liardet Street Tip before filling operation started in 1939, and during progress in 1943 (later becoming Macalister Park); the site of the Salamanca Road Tip (later becoming Kelburn Park), with views of Victoria University and the Mount Street Cemetery in 1944; interior and exterior views of the Hobson Street Air Raid Shelters, and the Kaiwarra (Kaiwharawhara) Air Raid Shelter; a visit by the Minister of Public Works and local dignitaries to the weir site for the Hutt Water Supply Development Scheme in 1944; scenes of the Karori Reservoir showing shortage of water in 1943; earthquake damage restoration at the Wellington Town hall and King's Chambers, 1943-1944 (after the 1941 earthquake); views of the outdoor Karori Swimming Pool (constructed in 1936) after the addition of a beginners' pool in 1945; and a photograph of a plan drawn up by S. Drake for a proposed development of Te Aro (in 1944). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown embossed cover, entitled `Photographs'; 25 x 30 cm