Places

Date: 1913

By: Lee, Ina, active 1908-1931

Reference: A-123-023

Description: View near the mouth of the Hutt River, looking past a bridge towards Wellington Harbour and Wellington Heads. Houses at Petone are visible Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 286 x 210 mm

Date: [1890s-1900s]

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: PAColl-D-0185

Description: Photograph of the Gear Meat Company, Petone looking south to Somes Island. Photographer unidentified; date possibly 1890s or early 1900s. A closer view of image at PAColl-D-0162 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 320 x 570 mm with mount

Date: ca 1985

Reference: PAColl-4600

Description: Ten photographs of houses in Petone, five of bungalows and five of two-storey houses, most with cars parked outside. The houses were built around 1906. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1890s-1900s]

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: PAColl-D-0165

Description: Photograph of the Gear Meat Company, Petone looking south to Somes Island. Houses line both sides of Hutt Road in the foreground. In the immediate foreground is a timber yard and a bridge across the railway line. There is a horse and cart parked on the road. One the far right is a building on Jackson Street with Baker Bros estate advertisement painted on the side. Photographer unidentified; date possibly 1890s or early 1900s. Compare with image at PAColl-D-0162 taken on the same day from a slightly different angle Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 350 x 545 mm on card

Date: 1846

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-014

Description: A small thatched cottage with a tall conical roof, propped up with branches on three visible sides. A man standing to the left and a barrel lying on the ground near the building, flax bushes in the foreground and the harbour and Western Hutt hills in the background. Probably the first Petone court house building. Compare the building illustrated on p. 12 of Louis Ward's 'Early Wellington'. A very similar building is shown with a caption indicating that this is possibly the court house of the The Settlement at Petone. A further almost identical view on sale at Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 18 April 2010 is titled First Court House, Petoni Beach ... 1846. Other Titles - [Courthouse at The Settlement, Petone?] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. S. 1846. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 125 x 195 mm

Date: 1842

From: Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington (sketched in the middle of the year 1842). Plate IV.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: B-110-057

Description: Central third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows groups of figures on foreshore including man on horseback, man examining ships through spyglass, two small groups of Maori watching, two men smoking long pipes, 14 sailing ships including one rounding Point Halswell, Somes Island with flag flying at its southern end, two Maori craft including one with sails. View extends from Warepori's Village in Pitone at left, to Mount Victoria at right. Features named are: Warepori's village Pitone, Valley of the Hutt, Tararua Mountains, Somes's Island, Pt Halswell (the entrance from the sea), Pt Jerningham, Mr Duppa's house (Oriental Bay), Mount Victoria. There are colour transparencies available (photographed from better copies of this work, in volume of Wakefield's book). The copy negatives listed here are also from this book rather than from this copy at B-110-056/058. Extended Title - From Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1845. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Title]; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - beneath image - From a sketch taken by Captain Mein Smith R.A. / London, Smith, Elder & Co. Cornhill. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 502 mm.

From: Parnham, J W :Negatives and matching photographs of Petone and Lower Hutt

Reference: PAColl-1007-1

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co

Reference: PAColl-D-0154

Description: Aerial photograph [?] of Gear Meat Company and surrounding area looking south-east towards Port Howard. The wharf is partially visible on the right. Jackson Street in in the immediate foreground on left (bottom). Identical image to PAColl-D-0166 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Gear Freezing Works. Copright. Petone. N.Z. A7164 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 297 x 377 mm on card

Date: 1848 - 1849

From: [Turnbull, Henry Hume] d 1858 :[New Zealand and Pacific sketchbook, 1848 to 1856]

By: Turnbull, Henry Hume, -1858

Reference: E-454-q-012

Description: Six members of a family alongside their house, with a chimney and Euroepan windows and a half door. In the background are hills and another house at a small distance. The drawing on the other side of this sheet is of Kaiwharawhara and this view could also be at Kaiwharawhara, around the Wellington Harbour, or at Porirua. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page 180 x 259 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Kate Kavanagh, England, 1993

Date: 1986

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

By: Wellington (N.Z. : Region). Regional Council

Reference: MapColl-WRC-5/1/2A-B-Acc.

Description: Two maps of Petone Esplanade together with 13 photographs of houses, streets, cars etc. Includes photograph of Odlins and the old Gear Meat site. Quantity: 2 map(s) with ms annotations + 1 sheet of photographs. Physical Description: Ink on cream paper, on grey cardboard backing. Scale ca 1: 1000, 32 x 20 cm. and smaller

Reference: Plans-90-0446/0447

Description: Includes views of front of a similar type house painted in different colours. Also includes photocopy of a photograph from the Alexander Turnbull Library Godber collection showing a pioneer-style cottage. Quantity: 2 plan(s) + photocopy of one photograph. Physical Description: Coloured drawings of houses cut and pasted onto black cardboard

Date: Between 1915 and 1916

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-195

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1915 and 1916. Many of the images show various aspects of logging in Piha and Karekare. Views include the Piha Tramway, bush railway inclines, scenes of lumbermen cutting down kauri trees and cross-cutting felled trees, transportation of logs by bullock teams and horse-drawn rail wagons, the Piha timber camp and mill and men at everyday activities in camp buildings and in their workmen's huts. Other sections of the album show views of Petone, and Godber's family (his wife, Laura Godber, and two children, Phyllis and William (Bill)); views of the central North Island; farming in the Mendip Hills (Canterbury); and views of Trentham. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 101 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 26 x 30 cm

Date: 2 November 1985

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

By: Reid, Philip John, 1954-

Reference: EP/1986/3254-F

Description: Malcolm and Wendy Ackerley in kitchen of their Petone home, during renovation of their kitchen. Photographs taken 5 July 1986 by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid. Caption - 'The Ackerley's, Malcolm and wendy, are now to the wallpaper-choosing stage in their enlarged and modernised kitchen of their Petone home.' (Evening Post, 5 July 1986) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: [ca 1910]

Reference: PAColl-6812

Description: Postcard of Grove Cottage, Petone, and an unidentified group alongside, taken circa 1910 by an unknown photographer. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Grove Cottage Petone. NZ Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) (postcard). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print (postcard) 8.5 x 13.2 cm Provenance: Orignally donated to National Archives by the National Trust (London).

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co

Reference: PAColl-D-0135

Description: Aerial photograph [?] of Gear Meat Company and surrounding area looking south towards the wharf. In the immediate foreground (on Jackson Street) is a building with an advertisement for Plume benzine. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 127 x 517 mm on card

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

By: Fergusson Ltd

Reference: PA5-0150

Description: Petone, Wellington, showing the train, published ca 1910-1913 by Fergusson Limited. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 84 x 139 mm

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

By: Crown Studios (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PA5-0151

Description: Petone, Wellington, showing the railway track and dwellings, taken ca 1910-1913 by Crown Studios Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 88 x 139 mm

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

Reference: PA5-0145

Description: General view of Petone Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (sepia). Physical Description: Photolithograph 89 x 138 mm

Date: 1908

By: Lee, Ina, active 1908-1931

Reference: B-035-033

Description: Shows fishing nets spread out to dry behind a cottage, a coil of rope rolled up at its side. The house appears to be at the Hutt Estuary end of the foreshore. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 300 x 390 mm

Date: 1871

By: Bothamley, Arthur Thomas, 1846-1938; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-032-019

Description: View from the lower slopes of the Western Hutt hills, looking along a road across part of Lower Hutt and Petone towards Wellington Harbour, with Somes Island and Wellington Heads visible. several houses and gardens on the flat land at the bottom of the hill and a small stream runs away to the left. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in pencil; Signature and date in ink, lower right. Pencilled title on reverse has been crossed out. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 228 x 317 mm Provenance: Possibly collection of Alexander Turnbull