Places

Date: 1952

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[39 copies of cartoons from 'Lodge looks at Wellington', Nevile Lodge, 1952]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: H-727-022

Description: Shows seven scenes. In the first a man and a woman are standing at a tram stop looking angry as a full tram passes them by. In the second a man and a woman are sitting at a coffee shop table talking as other other customers are queuing up for seats. In the third a man is leaving a pub carrying a bag containing full flagons of beer as another man is going into the pub to get his empty flagon filled. In the fourth scene the Seatoun tram's overhead poles have become detached from the power lines. In the fifth scene a woman is walking along carrying several bags of shopping and a loaf of bread under one arm. In the sixth scene a woman is battling the wind as it blows her skirt up at the back while she holds it down at the front with one hand and holds her hat on with the other. In the final scene a parking warden disregards a diplomatic car parked on a no parking sign. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: 2 A4 size photocopies

Date: Probably March 24 - 25 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8792

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides was probably taken earlier than those on some of the preceding sheets (information from his diary). This sheet contains images of Wellington, including Wellington Airport; views from Mount Victoria; around the Wellington coast including shore with marram grass and black-backed gulls; the Petone Settlers' Memorial; Marine Parade around Miramar, with the Monowai sailing through Wellington Heads; buildings in the city including Parliament Buildings, Government Buildings, Wakefield House at 90 The Terrace, used by the Founders Club; and an old two-storeyed wooden house on the Terrace; the Corinthic loading various goods at Wellington Wharves; Lambton Quay; Cable Car terminal and views of Wellington; and the Carter Observatory. Slides on this sheet are numbered 505-528, with a gap for no. 506. Arrangement: Image no. 506 (showing the view from Mount Victoria in Wellington) was taken as part of Williams' representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: [ca 1850s-1940s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm); Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-001

Description: Views of Wellington and environs, many of them copies of originals by W T L Travers and others, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. They include early churches, street scenes, shipping and personalities, and a view of Te Rauparaha's monument in Otaki. Aso included are a number of original photographs by Wrigglesworth and Binns of Wellington. Quantity: 76 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1935 - 1955

From: [Scrapbook] :Child's ticket collection of transport tickets. [1940-1950s?].

Reference: Eph-A-TRANSPORT-1940/50-01-05

Description: Contains nine tickets for: Eastbourne ferry (adult return 1942); Eastbourne omnibus (child single and adult single); Johnsonville to Wellington (child single); Eastbourne omnibus (child single); Eastbourne ferry (child return 1936); Eastbourne omnibus (single); Armed Forces Wellington to Simla Crescent and Johnsonville (train, return); Eastbourne ferry (child single). Extended Title - from "Transport tickets" scrapbook, page 5. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Exercise book, with nine tickets stuck to page, 210 x 165 mm. Provenance: Estate of L Quartermain, 1974.

Date: 1955-1971

By: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002

Reference: PA-Group-00375

Description: Wellington, openings of Parliament, politicians, Governors General, show personalities, Antarctic teams, police, army, visiting diplomats and heads of state, ship visits, memorials, RNZAF, fighter planes and fighter plane training, rugby and rugby players and selectors, film censorship, conferences, agricultural air shows, artists, royalty, manufacturing industries, models and fashion parades, New Zealand Players, etc Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 35mm-18037 to 18703, 120-0881 to 0959, 1/4-071736 to 072044, 1/2-177020 to 177461. Quantity: 1483 b&w original negative(s) 78 120 strips comprising 158 images, 666 35mm strips comprising 1,976 images, 308 1/4 plate negs, 441 1/2 plate negs. Total images 2,883. Finding Aids: Library generated negative registers provide a good access point to this collection. The negatives are listed within subject groupings.. Processing information: Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4814 to PA-Group-00375 in 2009.