Places

Date: 1886

By: Koch, Augustus Carl Ferdinand, 1834-1901

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gmfs/A/1886/Acc.3319

Description: Map showing of Wellington Harbour as at 1886, from Waterloo Quay to Clyde Quay, showing harbour soundings, Queen's Wharf, railway wharf, wool wharf, buildings in the vicinity including government offices, Supreme Court, police station, harbour board, drill shed, freezing works, railway terminus, parliamentary buildings, Government House, Custom Post and Telegraph, marine telegraph, wool shed, boat harbour, Thorndon and Te Aro Baths, and several banks. Shows named Te Aro streets from Courtenay Place to Marjoribanks Street, and unnamed reclaimed streets from Wakefield Street to Jervois Quay and Cable Street, identifying the proposed reclamation corporation endowment. Includes two tables on the map, one showing class and tonnage of goods passing over wharves, the other berthage accommodation along the wharf. Soundings shown in feet. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photograph, scale indeterminable, 26 x 37 cm.

Date: 1906

From: McLeod, Hector Norman, fl 1870s-1957 :Maps from papers

By: McLeod, Hector Norman, 1872-

Reference: MapColl-832.4799eam/Ki/1906/Acc.4867

Description: Tracing of a map of the area from Hamilton and Evans Bay roads to Childers Terrace, Lyall Bay and Onepu roads. Streets are named. The post office, recreation ground, baths, property of J. D. Topp, a church, fire brigade station, the tram line down Seatoun Road leading to Lyall Bay Road, also the new Kilbirnie Post Office are marked. The projected Wellington Harbour Board area of reclamation includes its acreage and is situated along the Evans Bay foreshore is shown. A note states that the authorised area of reclamation under the Empowering Act of 1906 is 22 acres, with power to lease about 5 acres. The low water mark is shown. Includes a proposed road between Lyall Bay Road and the Evans Bay Road leading to the patent slip. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, linen backed, scale not given, 56.8 x 30.1 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLeod, Hector Norman, fl 1902-1927. Business papers. MS-Papers-0154.

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/ca.1940/Acc.14598

Description: A copy of a cadastral map of the area between The Terrace and Whitmore Street, Boulcott Street to Cuba Street, Brougham Street to Clyde Quay Wharf and Herd Street. Sections and subdivisions are numbered and include numerous Deeds plan numbers. Government, provincial and Thorn Reclamation land includes block numbers. Wharves are named. Names include Town Hall, and land belonging to the Wellington Harbour Board and Wellington City Council is marked. Streets are named, as are some rights of way such as Opera House Lane. Red ink annotations show property values in pounds sterling. Title supplied by cataloguer - subtitle taken from top right of map Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on diazo print, some colour, scale not given, 107.2 x 74 cm.

Date: [Between 1841 and 1929]

By: Reade, M A (Mrs), active 1969; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Tyree Brothers (Firm); Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA1-o-430

Description: Recent prints from old photographs of Wellington, originallty taken between about 1841 and 1929. Includes one photograph of a painting of Wellington waterfront from 1841, by Charles Heaphy. Only a few images identify the photographers, the Burton Brothers, Tyree Brothers and James Bragge. The Bragge photograph (looking down to the Harbour from Hill Street taken in the 1880s) was identified from his horse-drawn carriage with his name and occupation emblazoned on the side. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red mock-crocodile textured cover, entitled `Photographs'; 26.0 x 36.5 cm Processing information: Most of the photographs have reference numbers linking them with items in the Alexander Turnbull Library photographic collections.

From: Estate of Mr and Mrs E S Knight :Photographs of Wellington

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: PA1-o-252

Description: Photograph album of views of Wellington, ranging from copies of early paintings from the 1840s, and early photographs up to the 1870s, to a series of postcards from the 1920s. Most of the early images have clear descriptions, giving year made, location, and in some cases further information about buildings that can be seen. For example, one view shows Kebble's house, now the site of the Grand Opera House. Views in the postcards are identified, but no dates are given. Most of the postcard views were taken by Sydney Charles Smith Inscriptions: Album page - `To E.S.K. with all good wishes for the 8th Nov. 1925, from a wellwisher' (illuminated inscription inside front cover) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Black album, entitled `Photographs'; `E.S.K.' lettered in lower right-hand corner; 26 x 33 cm

Date: 1951

By: Wellington Harbour Board. Chief Engineer's Office; Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gmp/Mi/1951/Acc.10264

Description: Planning map of the area from Burnham Wharf to Evans Bay Road. Existing roads are named and a proposed road is marked on an area of reclaimed land. Rongotai Terrace is shown at the site of the proposed airport runway. Blocks of land are prominently colour coded and are referred to in extensive Certification of Title schedules which include total areas. A second Wellington Harbour Board schedule, by D.P. plan references, refers to each block of land. Includes a survey of the sea bed and the reclamation limit is marked, as is the low water mark. The boundary of the harbour bed vested in Wellington Harbour Board M3187 is marked. Area A, adjacent to Miramar Wharf and Aberdeen Quay, includes the the limit of the 1 in 7 batter cut. Topographic features are of slopes and a knoll. Calibar, Wrexford, Watford, Tirangi, Seatoun, Onepu, Wellington and Evans Bay roads are named, as are Salek, Te Whiti, Yule and Coutts streets, also Kilbirnie Crescent. An electric power station is marked adjacent to Watford Road and Salek Street. Other Titles - Wellington Harbour Board - Evans Bay, affected by Rongotai Aerodrome proposal Notes on bottom left of original: Compiled from W.H.B Plans 72/100 22/20 54.82. W.H.B. Land Book & P.W.D. plan W.H.B. No. 75/93. B.W. Diccle 4.1.51 Note on bottom right of original: P.D. 57 Stamp on bottom right: Wellington Harbour Board, Chief Engineer's Office. 17/97 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Colourwash on duplicated plan, coloured, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 67.7 x 64.4 cm.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1487-F

Description: Panoramic view of Wellington City and Harbour taken from a hill on the way up to Wadestown. Thorndon Quay with Dalgety's Stores are seen on the left, railway yards centre right, with a large area of reclaimed land and areas awaiting reclamation in the centre foreground. Wharves edge the harbour centre right middle distance, city on the right, Oriental Bay and Mount Victoria visible in the right background. Several fishing boats in the harbour. Start of the Hutt Road just visible on the far left, and Petone is in the distance on the far left. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Wellington Harbour showing Petone 317 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 134.4 cm

Date: ca1876

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA6-273

Description: Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Wellington Harbour about 1876 showing early reclamations and, on left, Government Buildings under construction (printed text) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Panorama consists of three images forming one print, mounted and matted

Date: 1943

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey. Wellington District Office

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/1943/Acc.12633

Description: Cadastral, surveyed map showing Wellington Harbour Board reclaimed land bounded by Hinemoa Street and Waterloo Quay, Wellington, including acreage, and certificate of title, Wellington Survey Office and deposited plan numbers. Land is shown as owned by His Majesty the King and the Wellington Harbour Board. Part of the land described in the second schedule of the Act is highlighted, being an area of over one acre. Stamped PWD 118462; and SO 21090. Signed by chief surveyor. File 9/663. Lists reference plan numbers. Stamped New Zealand Lands and Survey Department, Wellington District Office, photostat copy. Written on reverse: Hinemoa Street Loan and ?Unc. land Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Negative photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 44.5 x 45.4 cm

Date: 1933 - 1946

By: Wellington Harbour Board. Chief Engineer's Office; Wellington (N.Z.). Municipal Electricity Department

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gena/Ki/1933-46/Acc.37533

Description: Plan of Evans Bay Power Station in the area between Salek Street, Seatoun Road, Londsdale Crescent and Watford Street. Notes refer to soundings taken by Wellington Harbour Board, 31-10-46, and depths below the Mean Low Water Level. Includes further notes about High and Low Water Levels and record water levels The plan of the electricity station includes sites of coal yards, a coal elevator, ash dump, power station, water and oil tanks, intake and discharge culverts with some measurements, annemometer. The old plant store and a kiosk are marked, as is the entrance off Seatoun Road and proposed roads. Wooden and galvanised iron fences are marked, also a brick fence and concrete bag wall. Harbour Board property is marked. Other Titles - Wellington City Electricity Department - Evans Bay Power Station Scale of original: [1:480] Stamp on bottom right: Wellington Harbour Board, Chief Engineer's Office. Copy of Plan No. 55/20 Pencilled note on top right: E436/1 Note on original refers to: Part of Section 7, Evans Bay District and part of the sea bed of Port Nicholson. D.P. 5999. The fourth schedule of the Wellington Harbour Board Land Reclamation and Empowering Act 1908. Printed on bottom right of original: S2558 Stamp on bottom right of original details the drawing, tracing and checking of this map, with reference number for this compiled survey, also revision date of 6.4.38 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Duplicated plan, scale indeterminable, 103 x 65.2 cm. Provenance: Donated by the Municipal Electricity Department

Date: 1953

By: Wellington (N.Z.). City Council. Electricity Department; Wellington (N.Z.). Municipal Electricity Department

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gmp/Ly/1953/Acc.37773

Description: Drawn on a street map, showing the layout of Rongotai Aerodrome, Wellington, from Evans Bay Parade and Seatoun Road (now Rongotai Road), south-eastwards to Sidlaw Street, Wellington. Shows the proposed land reclamation for the airstrip (approximately 102 acres in Evans Bay north of Seatoun Road, and at the southeast tip of Lyall Bay). Shows sections between Bridge and Miro Street that are in the path of the new runway; marks the proposed terminal area, future airstrip extensions and the Miramar golf links. Also shows proposed new housing subdivision on newly reclaimed land north of Seatoun Road, and a 10 acre proposed new recreation area. Marks Evans Bay and Lyall Bay. Written on map: EA313. Drg no E 2995. Traced by U Hogan, 3rd Mar 1953 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint on tracing paper, scale indeterminable, 86.5 x 75.7 cm Provenance: Donated by Wellington Municipal Electricty Department, 19 December 1990

Date: 16 February - 21 March 1958

From: Tomsett, Maurice William Henry :Colour slides of New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7762

Description: Phase 4 continued - 74. Distant view of Wellington from air; 75. Approaching Paraparaumu Airport. Phase 5; Wellington - 76. Wellington - looking across bay to Miramar and ocean; 77. Wellington - looking at new Rongotai Airport; 78. Lower Hutt, Southwood's fine, melted steel tube; 79. Port Nicholson, Somes Island, looking to Wellington from Gracefield; 80. Port Nicholson, Hutt River, reclamation work; 81. View up Hutt Valley; 82. View from Kelburn Park towards Government House and Hospital; 83. View from Kelburn Park across Lambton Harbour to Mt Victoria, Wellington's highest; 84. View from Kelburn Park across wharves to Petone, Lower Hutt; 85. Ohira Bay; 86. Siren's Rocks; 87. Tetrapods and beakwater in Lyall Bay, Rongotai airport; 88. From Mt Victoria across Evans Bay to Rongotai; 89. From Mt Victoria down to City proper; 90. Small craft in Lambton Harbour; 91. Near Evans Bay; 92. En route to Greytown (Wind); 93. En route to Greytown, eastern side of range. Phase 6 - Palmerston North; 94-96. Central Square gardens, All Saints church; 97. Tower and shell containing clock and chimes from P.O. damaged in earthquake of 1942. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1919-1964]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-5714-5

Description: Comprises letters of institution for Riddiford as a lay canon of the Cathedral Chapter of the Diocese of Wellington (1947); correspondence and papers re Riddiford gift of land for Marsden School and other related matters (1920-1964); amended list of Masterton Club members (1922); clipping re Lower Wairarapa Development Scheme (Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 Mar 1963); and financial papers re Ruamahanga Station (1919) and letter and memo from Wheeler [?] re Te Awaiti (1921?) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [Circa 1931]

By: New Zealand Railways; Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942; Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927; Gilmour, John Henry, 1892-1951; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964

Reference: PA1-f-056

Description: Mainly publicity photographs for New Zealand Railways, most taken by unidentified photographers, though there are several portraits taken by S P Andrew (Stanley Polkingorne Andrew); also a number of images near the beginning of the album have a pencilled note which says "Mr Hinge's negative". There are a number of photographs of advertisements and posters for New Zealand Railways, including one promoting safety at railway crossings. In this scene a young woman is holding up a banner "STOP! Safety first", wearing a hat labelled "Stop", a sash labelled "Safety first" and wearing a skirt with the image of a car crash at a railway crossing. At the end of the album there are several photographs of postage stamps. Several photographs were taken at the opening of the Auckland Railway Station. Then a number show luggage or goods being loaded onto the interislander ferry; and near the back of the album a series showing racehorses, with one view of a horse being lifted onto a ship in a crate. A large section shows the Wellington rally for Lord and Lady Baden-Powell at the Basin Reserve in 1931, and later in the album views of them laying a wreath at the Citizen's War memorial (Cenotaph). Pages 38-43 contain 20 black and white photographs of water colour paintings by Thomas Ryan, from the 1890s. The subjects are mostly lakes and mountains in the South Island, including Lakes Mahinapua, Wakatipu, Te Anau, Wanaka and Manapouri; Teremakau River, Bealey River, Teremakau River and Clinton Valley; and in the North Island Lakes Rotorua and Tikitapu, and two of the Uruwera. On page 64 there is a photograph of a barred window. In front there is an ice-axe, a pair of skis, a fishing rod, 2 rifles, and a lidded straw picnic basket. It seems to have been used as the basis for a New Zealand Railways poster advertising outdoor life in New Zealand (see p 65). There are a number of pages of portraits of children, several of which have been formed into montages of images. None of these are identified. Some portraits of dignitaries involved with New Zealand Railways are identified with surname, but many are not identified at all. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C2'; 36 x 52 cm

Date: Date unknown

Reference: 1/2-052604-F

Description: Historical plan of the port of Wellington showing reclamations and wharves constructed to 1884. Date, creator, and location of map unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1870 - 1879

By: Igglesden, Charles Moore, 1832-1920

Reference: MapColl-832.4799a/[ca.1870]/Acc.1192

Description: Topographic map of the coastline from Lambton Harbour to Lyall Bay. Evans Bay is marked, includes depths in fathoms and the site of the dock with acreages and including the hill behind. In Lambton Harbour the site of a wharf adjacent to an area of reclaimed land is marked as is the site of the city of Wellington. Signal stations and a pilot's station are marked. The area of land from Evans Bay to Lyall bay is divided into numbered sections, part of which is named Burnham Water with notes which state that this land is now drained and that the whole peninsula is good grazing land and used as a sheep and cattle farm. The site of a homestead of Major Mc. Barnet is marked in section 9, about 390 acreas, on the peninsula. A homestead and stockyard etc. are marked at Evans Bay. Port Nicholson and Cook Strait are marked. Stamp on bottom left corner states: Waterlow and Sons, London - improved. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colourwash on paper, linen backed, coloured, 49.3 x 37.1 cm.

Date: 6 April 1888

From: Halse, Frederick James, 1863-1936 : Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/2-004074-G

Description: Wellington from The Terrace, looking towards Mt. Victoria. Reclamation works to the left, spire of St Mary of the Angels front left, Manners Street running through the centre of the photo, Oriental Bay and Mount Victoria in the background. Photographed on 8 April 1888 by Frederick James Halse of Wellington. Identified and dated from typescript index to negatives, housed at file TL 6/1/17. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches Processing information: Originally housed in Halse Collection box 3.

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: ca 1883

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Photographs and papers

Reference: 1/1-025883-G

Description: Te Aro looking towards Mount Victoria from above St Mary of the Angels Roman Catholic Church. To the left can be seen part of the inner harbour where land reclamation is underway. A wooden trestle carrying a railway line crosses that part of the harbour fronting Te Aro flat. Nearer the viewer a barrier marks the beginning of reclamation for land on which now stands the Wellington Town Hall and Public Library. In the background can be seen the Wellington Town Belt from Mount Victoria to Mount Alfred. Photograph taken about 1883 by William Williams Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).