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Roy Towers cleaning a war veteran's headstone, Karori Cemetery, Wellington - Photograph...

Date: 12 May 1989

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

By: Round, Mark, active 1991

Reference: EP/1989/1694-F

Description: Roy Towers cleaning a war veteran's headstone, Karori Cemetery, Wellington. Photographed 15 May 1989 by Evening Post staff photographer Mark Round. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

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Maps of Karori Cemetery

From: Shotter, P J E :Negatives and albums (with index) of graves in the Bolton Street and Sydney Street cemeteries, Wellington

Reference: 35mm-25453-F

Description: Maps of Karori Cemetery. Formerly part of negative roll A. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative

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Otaki residents in the graveyard alongside the charred ruins of Rangiatea Church - Phot...

Date: 7 Oct 1995

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

Reference: EP/1995/4101-F

Description: Looking across a graveyard towards towards the charred ruins of Rangiatea Church. Two images shows Otaki residents standing alongside. Photographs taken by Ray Pigney of the Evening Post, on the 7th of October 1995, the day the church was destroyed by fire. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm Finding Aids: Print in Turnbull Library Pictures Evening Post illustrations file at cabinet 14, drawer 2 at Religion-Anglican Churches (2), in an envelope labelled "Rangiatea Church".

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Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964 :The church at Makara. [1937].

Date: 1937

By: Taylor, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964

Reference: A-320-006

Description: Shows the church seen from the square tower end, with a stone cross headstone in the right foreground. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Woodcut, image 130 x 117 mm, on sheet 186 x 163 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Dunbar Sloane auction, 30 November 2000, lot 219.

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Richmond, Christopher William, 1821-1895 :Sketch book ; sketches numbered 1 to 74 [i.e....

Date: 1853-1885

By: Richmond, Christopher William (Hon), 1821-1895

Reference: E-284

Description: Include views of Central Otago, West Coast, Marlborough, Wellington, Bream Head, Egypt, England, France, voyage to England, seascapes, yachts and ships. For details see records for individual pages. At head of title: Richmond and Atkinson family papers, vol 45. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) containing. 85 drawing(s) (pencil). 4 drawing(s) pencil and ink. 1 drawing(s) pencil and wash. Physical Description: Art originals, pencil, 170 x 230 mm or smaller, in album, 240 mm, 1/2 blue moroccco, blue buckram Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - acc. 77-253: Richmond and Atkinson papers.

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[Hadfield, Octavius 1814-1904] :[Otaki Church, Rangiatea. 184-?]

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Hadfield, Octavius, 1814-1904

Reference: A-241-015

Description: Otaki Maori church with a small house to its right, the cemetery on the hill behind, fences and bush Photocopy of a pencil drawing in Auckland Museum, reference number PD 52 (19). The Library also has a photograph of this drawing, a better-quality copy under artist and title in the photographic files of the Drawings & Prints Section. Other Titles - [Church Missionary Society church and house, probably at Waikanae or Otaki - former title] Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy of drawing 210 x 330 mm

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Waikanae Anglican Parish :Photographs

Date: 1841-ca 1980

By: Waikanae Anglican Parish

Reference: PAColl-6376

Description: Photographs of buildings, personalities, furniture and fittings and liturgical objects (chalices, patterns, collection plates, wardens staves etc) associated with St Lukes and St Michael's churches. There are also photographs of the Parata Family cemetery which is next to St Luke's Church. Typed inventory available Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 33267 - 33283 Quantity: 38 b&w original photographic print(s). 11 b&w original negative(s) strips with 37 images.

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Creator of collection unknown :Possibly Evening Post

Date: ca 1930s

Reference: PAColl-3514

Description: Mother and child; Wellington city and suburb scenes; reception Government House Wellington; Greymouth and Grey River from the air; China; Wallabies; etc Arrangement: Negative numbers allocated: G68289-G68317-1/4 Quantity: 29 b&w original negative(s).

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Warburton, Charlotte Eliot, 1883-1961 :Hill with Maori cemetery from sea shore, Plimmer...

Date: 1896

By: Warburton, Charlotte Eliot, 1883-1961

Reference: A-090-014

Description: A site close to Plimmerton beach, looking north towards a sandhill, with fencing surrounding it at its base and on the top. Inscriptions: Verso - title, date and signature in a childish hand. Note about its being used as an illustration for 'Changing days and changing ways' by Warburton. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Wash drawing 177 x 253 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Warburton typscript for Changing Days and Changing Ways - 1960s?.

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Mitchell, Mary Stewart 1911-1982 :[Chapel in Bolton Street Cemetery]. Mary S Mitchell. ...

Date: 1920 - 1980

From: Mitchell, Mary Stewart, 1911-1982 :[Wellington scenes, 1920s to 1970s?]

Reference: A-281-007

Description: View of the entrance porch and chapel surrounded by trees in the Bolton Street Cemetery. There is a bench seat on the foreground Inscriptions: Signed but undated. Title taken from backing board, now discarded. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 275 x 300 mm

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[Wellington City Council] :WCC cemeteries. Gas cremator. Steel works & C. [195-?]

Date: 1950 - 1959

Reference: Plans-80-1348

Description: Shows front and side elevations, damper lifting mechanism and long and half section plans Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on cream paper

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Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975 :Wellington from Mount St Cemetery. [ca 1918]

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Views of Wellington] [1930s to 1950s?]

Reference: A-227-161

Description: Shows houses, a harbour and hills in the distance. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 285 mm

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Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Lambton Quay and Brandon's Corner

Date: [ca 1866-1867]

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-43-07

Description: View taken from off-shore of buildings along Lambton Quay with Brandon's Corner on far right. Houses in Wellington Terrace and beyond, and the Bolton Street Cemetery (on right) can be seen on the hills behind, with Tinakori Hill in the background. Identifiable premises on Lambton Quay are: T J Mountain; Edward Greaves Smith (Music Warehouse); Henry Owen; baker's shop; chemist & druggist; G Read; J Cook & Son. The Star Boating Club's shed can be seen on the waterfront. One of a series of panoramic views of Lambton Quay taken by W H W Davis, ca 1866-1867. Pasted on verso: A glimpse of New Plymouth's beautiful recreation grounds showing the nband rotunda with the Poet's bridge in the background (ca 1890s-1900s). Photograph cut from a newspaper. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - right of image - Wellington. Before 1865 Relationship complexity - Same images at PA7-09-04 (albumen print), PA7-43-13 (albumen print), PA7-44-06 (silver gelatin print), and PAColl-3339-03 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 22 x 25.5 cm on card 22 x 27.7 cm

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Wellington Regional Council :Werluts 1980. Upper Hutt. June 1981. [map with ms annotati...

Date: 1981

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R17/5e-Acc.

Description: Reference chart given, showing churches, cemeteries, conveniences, public telephone boxes, state highways, accessways, foot tracks, bus routes, hotels, taverns etc etc. Identifies Ascot Lodge, Quins Post and St John's Church. Base map: NZMS 271 Upper Hutt 1st edition. (Department of Lands and Survey) Ascot Lodge boarding house in Camp Street, Trentham, was later renamed the Rifleman Bed and Breakfast Inn and Espresso Cafe. Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations] + transparency. Physical Description: Ink on cream paper. Scale [ca 1: 20 000] 58 x 78 cm.

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[Ephemera relating to death, means of dying, grief, cemeteries. 1900-2000s]

Date: 1930 - 1999

Reference: Eph-B-DEATH

Description: Includes pamphlets and fliers from the Voluntary Euthanasia Society, the "Death with Dignity" Bill, the Petition for the Adoption of Voluntary Euthanasia (P.A.V.E.). Also includes a flier containing the rules governing the Presbyterian Cemetery at Wallaceville, Upper Hutt. Ephemera relating to funerals and funeral services is located at: FUNERAL Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and typescripts, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

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Rural area and cemetery, Mangaroa Road, Upper Hutt

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Wellington Regional Council: Marie Sang Collection, Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1404

Description: Photographs of a rural area, and a cemetery, Mangaroa Road (formerly known as Mungaroa Road), Upper Hutt. Images taken in circa 1960s by unidentified photographers, and used by the planning department of the Wellington Regional Council. Inscriptions: Mount recto - top centre - Mungaroa; Mount recto - bottom right - Mungaroa; Mount recto - underneath photographs: Mungaroa Road - Cemetery site Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s) on one mount. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints 8.9 x 9 cm, on cardboard mount 76.2 x 101.8 cm

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Historian Kitty Wood beside memorial to six Karori early settlers - Photograph taken by...

Date: 18 March 1995

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

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1995/0783-F

Description: Historian Kitty Wood beside a new memorial to six Karori early settlers, Karori Cemetery, Wellington. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson 18 March 1995. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler film negative, 35mm

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Medley, Mary Catherine (Taylor), b. 1835 :Uncle Spencer Medley's recumbent tomb stone i...

Date: 1895

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook of Mary C. Medley nee Taylor...1895. No. 14.

Reference: E-379-022

Description: Shows tombstone at Karori cemetery of Uncle Spencer Melody Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Uncle Spencer Medley's recujbent tomb stone in Karori cemetery Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 130 x 225 mm (page size)

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Wheeler, W F album

Date: [Circa 1864 to 1869]

By: Wheeler, William Fox, 1845?-1896; Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Morris, John Richard, 1831-1909; Tempsky, Gustavus Ferdinand von, 1828-1868

Reference: PA1-q-266

Description: Albumen prints of Fijian people, a photograph of Dunedin taken by J R Morris, and newspaper cuttings about the SS Mataura were inserted in the front pocket of the album. (The albumen prints have now been placed in protective sleeves and are housed in an envelope outside the album) Album of photographs, albumen prints of popular art works, maps, hand-written and illuminated programmes, and one hand-written poem, created by William Fox Wheeler between 1864 and 1869, during which he was purser on board the SS Mataura. Most of the art-works and hand-written and illustrated items were done by William Fox Wheeler himself. Items of unusual interest are listed below. A map "shewing mail services performed by the Panama, New Zealand & Australian Royal Mail Company, and lines connecting with the company's vessels at Panama" (between p. 46-47). Interspersed with albumen prints of popular art works such as "The Angel Gabriel", "Mother & child", "The Last farewell of Marie Antoinette", and "Fascination" are scenes of places visited by the SS Mataura in the 1860s. Numbers of images show scenes in New Zealand, many of which are unidentified. Several are small portraits of Maori men and women. The album contains a page with early New Zealand, German, Australian and United States postage stamps. A photograph of a painting by Gustavus Von Tempsky showing "`Waiari' scene of conflict with the rebel Maoris on the 11th February 1864" is on page 27. An ink and wash picture taken from Panama (p. 11) An albumen print of a painting of St Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Sydney when on fire in 1866 (p. 38) Photograph of the Wellington Custom House with the time-ball on the roof was taken in 1866 (p. 40) Hand-written poem "Padre Bandelli proses to the Duke Ludovic Sforza about Leonardo da Vinci", with "Leonardo da Vinci poetises to the Duke in his own defence" (11 p. inserted between p. 47 & 48) Handwritten and illuminated "Programme of an evening's amusement on board the steamship "Mataura" given by her passengers while on their voyage between Panama and New Zealand in October 1867" with water-colour painting of the Mataura at head of item (p. 54-55) Another programme dated September 1868 (p. 56) Another programme entitled "Temperance Hall. Under the patronage of Capt. G.E. Bird, RMR, Sir George Grey, Bart. KCB" (beteen p. 58 & 59) Map of South America (between p. 60-61) Handwritten humourous item "Supreme Court, SS Mataura, in criminal jurisdiction" signed H W Humphries, initialled W.F.W. (p. 62) One photograph taken by Daniel Manders Beere shows King Matutaera's "Palace" (p. 30) Inscriptions: Album page - "W.F. Wheeler, P.N.Z. & A.R.M. Cos. SS "Mataura". R.H.N. 1869" (Hand-coloured in oval frame, with water-colour painting of the Mataura, 2 x 4 cm.) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with patterned cover (in burgundy and black design), brown leather corners and spine, with torn outer cover of waxed cloth, sewn inside front cover creating a pocket; 29 x 24 cm Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Pencilled cartoon originally inserted in pocket inside front cover..

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McIntosh album 6

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1900s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-290

Description: Photographs of various areas in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region and Wellington Region circa 1890s, probably taken by George William Barltrop (identification from other albums in this sequence). A large number show church buildings, including a Roman Catholic church in Johnsonville; an Anglican church in Featherston; St Luke's Anglican Church in Greytown; a church in Carterton; St Matthews Anglican church in Masterton; a church in Pahiatua; one in Ashhurst; an Anglican church in Bunnythorpe; St John's Anglican church in Feilding; All Saints Anglican church in Palmerston North; and a church at Kiwitea. A small group show the area around Alfredton, with a timber mill, several types of saw, and teams of horses transporting logs. One view is of a cemetery, probably in Lower or Upper Hutt, with the gravestone of George Keary clearly visible. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, impressed title `Photographic views'; `McIntosh VI' lettered in gold on spine; 17.5 x 24.0 cm

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