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Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897 :Wellington Harbour - moonlight. 1864.
Date: 1864
By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926
Reference: C-007-010
Description: Shows two rather elegantly dressed figures on a stretch of road at the right foreground. The road skirts around a small bluff, and is separated from the water by a gently sloping rocky face. In the distance is the future site of Wellington City. On the water in the middle distance are a steamer and a sailboat. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 314 x 520 mm
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :The Wellington of the future. [Left side. 1945-1950].
Date: 1945 - 1950
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :[Five early cartoons. ca 1945-1950].
Reference: B-154-129
Description: Left half of a cartoon in two sheets; other half at B-156-130. At the left, two road workers frown as they look at the furrows gouged by trolley buses. At the right, workers at Rongotai Aerodrome discuss subdivision plans, in front of a hangar, with a rocket launch-pad in the background. Other Titles - \"One thing about trams, they used to break-up the roads just down the middle - these trolley buses do it all over\" Other Titles - \"I see that now that rockets don't need any runways they're going to sub-divide part of the 'drome into housing lots\" Date estimated as post Second World War. Estimated as pre-1950 because Lodge has not yet established his habit of incorporating the date into his signature. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing 320 x 445 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Frank Mitchell in 2002. Previously owned by his brother V Leonard W Mitchell.
[Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :Near Lowry Bay, Wellington [1868]
Date: 1868
By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898
Reference: A-028-013
Description: Looking south possibly from Point Howard, with a road running round a point, between a cliff and a tall rock formation, the sea breaking on rocks to the right. Hills, possibly of Lowry Bay, visible through the gap in the rocks Acquired before 1941 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 159 x 240 mm
Florance, Augustus H, 1812-1879 :Scene on the Hutt Road between Wellington (NZ) and the...
Date: 1856
By: Florance, Augustus (Dr), 1812-1879
Reference: C-031-005
Description: A horse and male rider standing at Petone where the Hutt road begins along the cliff-face, with sea and bush clad hills beyond Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour 305 x 381 mm
[Turnbull, Henry Hume] d 1858 :[View of Wellington Harbour from a tree-lined road, 1848...
Date: 1848 - 1850
From: [Turnbull, Henry Hume] d 1858 :[New Zealand and Pacific sketchbook, 1848 to 1856]
By: Turnbull, Henry Hume, -1858
Reference: E-454-q-009
Description: Road in left foreground with stumps at its edge, a tall tree and lower bushes with the harbour and hills visible in the background. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page 180 x 259 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Kate Kavanagh, England, 1993
James Beard & Company :State Highway Two Kaitoke proposed by-pass. October 1994.
Date: 1994
From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]
Reference: Plans-2009-082-8002-001/002
Description: The two sheets together form a map of the proposed highway bypass running along the northwest side of the two Te Marua lakes. The Te Marua Motor track is marked. There are numerous annotations indicating culverts, features, relocations, plantings. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Coloured pencil on photocopies, 595 x 850 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.
Photographs of Wellington and Seaview
Date: [ca 1869-ca 1900], [ca 1950s]
From: Wainuiomata Historical Society: Photographs
By: Richardson, Wal, active 1950
Reference: PAColl-7664
Description: Collection comprises: Photograph of road works in Ghuznee Street, Wellington, ca 1950s, by Pacific Photos, Courtney Place, Wellington. 3 photographs of Seaview, taken from the top of the Wainuiomata Hill in 1950 by Wal Richardson. Album leaf with 5 photographs of Wellington, ca 1860s-1900s, including preparations for visit of Duke of Edinburgh to Wellington, wedding of Ted and Amy Yates, portrait of a woman, Te Aroha Bathhouse and fire damage in Lambton Quay. Duke of Edinburgh visited New Zealand in 1869. Cadman Bathhouse opened in 1898. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 album leaf with 5 b&w original photographic prints. Provenance: Donated by Wainuiomata Historical Society, October 2002, through Mrs Vicky Alexander. The photographs were given to the society by the late Mrs Claire Burdan, whose husband was descended from Richard & Mary Prouse, and from the Dixon family, of the Dixon aerated water business. The photographs appear to have come from these families.
Ryvie (?), Miss L : Photographs
Date: [between 1858-1887]
Reference: PAColl-6114
Description: Comprises: Hutt Road in 1868; Queen's Wharf ca 1860s; Wellington circa 1887; Thorndon circa 1860s; St John's Presbyterian Church, Wellington, 1858. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/4-016071, 1/2-075008 and 1/2-091405 Quantity: 5 b&w copy photographic print(s).
Pearse, John, 1808-1882 :[Rimutaka Views] Foot of Rimutaka, Wellington side. [1st Janua...
Date: 1854
From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]
Reference: E-455-f-072-2
Description: The bush-clad Rimutaka Hill Road at its base, with a Maori family in traditional clothing (or blankets) seated in a clearing, trees cleared by the road, and heavy bush all around it. A flax bush is on the left. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 155 x 255 mm
Road and city commuter train, Khandallah, Wellington
Date: [ca 31 May 1969]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1969/2302-F
Description: Road and city commuter train in the suburb of Khandallah, Wellington, in 1931. Photographs taken circa 31 May 1969 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
[Cook, Hinehauone Coralie], 1904-1993 :[Rimutaka Hills, 1969]
Date: 1969
From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Loose prints, drawings and paintings; and two albums of prints and drawings. 1924-1991]
Reference: A-424-070
Description: Sketch of a road winding through high hills. Photographed in E-918-q, 365/279. Listed in Rod Cook's notebook at E-918-q Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Felt pen sketch on newsprint, 350 c 250 mm.
Connell, B :[The Hobson album]. Kiwarra Warra from the Petoni Road, Wellington [Between...
Date: 1840 - 1842
From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]
By: Connell, B, active 1840-1843
Reference: E-216-f-087-1
Description: The Hutt Road (a cart track) at the bottom of the steep bush-clad Western Hills on the right. The buildings of the Scottish settlement at Kaiwharawhara can be seen on flat land in the middle distance to the right, with suggested outlines of a few houses in Thorndon beyond. There is a Maori canoe near the road, and three figures on the road. Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara, Petone Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - B. Connell Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper, glued to album page, 155 x 233 mm
New Zealand - Miscellaneous
Date: 1939-1940
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-215
Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1939-1940. Karangarua River bridge; Rakaia River bridge; market gardens in Heathcote Valley; Palmerston North library; Old English Fair held in Dunedin in aid of the patriotic funds; new Gisborne Intermediate School; Archbishop Julius Memorial stone; Auckland's Patriotic Queen Carnival; model of HMS Rodney; giant pipe cast by Public Works Department for pipeline at headworks of the mid-Canterbury irrigation scheme; Garden Place Hill earthworks at Hamilton; hop picking, Riwaka Valley; new friary built for the Brothers of St Francis at Hillsborough, Auckland; construction of tunnels and power house for hydro-electric works at Tuai, Waikaremoana; opening of Horowhenua College, Levin; demolition of wing at Nelson College; floating pontoon being lowered into position at Mechanics Bay; tram cars converted into homes. Construction of Centennial Drive, Kapiti Coast; new Hamiltion General Post Office; construction of Wellington Harbour Board cargo shed; opening of Catholic church at Georgetown, Invercargill; shoe-cleaner at Lincoln College; view of Waikanae Beach from Kaiti Hill, Gisborne; road works north of Gisborne; Railway Bus Terminus, Dunedin (opposite Queens Gardens); Dunedin Emergency Transport Organisation practising arm signals. Race-goers at Wellington Racing Club meeting, and at Canterbury Jockey Club & NZ Metropolitan Trotting Club meeting at Christchurch. Landslide at a Brighton farm; construction of the Pokeno-Paeroa line; laying of the foundation stone of building in Stout Street by Minister of Public Worls, Hon R Semple. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Kember, Ian Robert, 1953- :Photographs of Wellington, St Andrew's on the Terrace, Ngaio...
Date: 1980 - 1998
By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999
Reference: PAColl-5734
Description: Two essays on Gay topics. The 13th Gay and Lesbian Fair, and a record of the life of a gay couple and the house and garden they lived in, and made, over 19 years. Ngaio School's 90th Reunion and some of the people attending. Views of Wellington sites -- the new State Highway 1 motorway interchange at Newlands, the Burma Motor Lodge, Johnsonville Railway line, Khandallah substation site and Thorndon New World Supermarket under construction. Transparencies include Youth for Christ summer programme, El Rancho camp, Waikanai in January 1980, Children at Timaru Highschool (1980), a concert in Civic Square, Wellington, by the National Youth Choir of Britain (1992), and various Wellington sites mainly in the Ngaio area Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm 22294 - 22323, slides at PA12-1519 to PA12-1521 Quantity: 59 b&w original photographic print(s). 65 colour original photographic print(s). 12 b&w original negative(s). 16 b&w original negative(s). 54 colour original transparency/ies.
[Horsfall, John Atherton] 1819-1900 :[Hutt Valley 1875?]
Date: 1873 - 1877
By: Horsfall, John Atherton, 1819-1900
Reference: B-079-032
Description: A broad view of the Hutt Valley, with a dirt road dug into the side of a hill to the right (probably Normandale Hill road), the river meandering across the valley, a few scattered houses and the Wainuiomata Hill Road visible in the distance across the valley Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 267 x 388 mm
Farm, Akatarawa
Date: [ca 1908-1910]
From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: 1/1-019991-G
Description: Farm at Akatarawa. An unformed road is in the foreground, and stones are piled against the fence at centre. Steam powered farm machinery is in the background. A man holding a child is standing by the gate in the foreground. Photograph taken circa 1908-1910 by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
[Brees, Samuel Charles] 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. Plate 3. Low...
Date: 1842 - 1847
By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870; Hutchison, Alan James Hanna, 1905-2000
Reference: A-259-039
Description: Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.
[Cook, Hinehauone Coralie], 1904-1993 :Rimutaka Hills, 24-3-69 [1969]
Date: 1969
From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Loose prints, drawings and paintings; and two albums of prints and drawings. 1924-1991]
Reference: A-424-069
Description: Sketch of a road winding through high hills. Photographed in E-918-q, 364/278. Listed in Rod Cook's notebook at E-918-q Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch on sheet, 405 x 255 mm.
[Turnbull, Henry Hume] d 1858 :[View from the top of the Paekakariki Hill Road, looking...
Date: 1848 or 1849
From: [Turnbull, Henry Hume] d 1858 :[New Zealand and Pacific sketchbook, 1848 to 1856]
By: Turnbull, Henry Hume, -1858
Reference: E-454-q-013
Description: An extensive view looking north, with the hill road winding down to the right and several tall trees on the slopes below the road. The north end of Kapiti is visible on the right Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil & sepia wash on sketchbook page 180 x 259 mm
Road in the Upper Hutt area in which a narrow stream is being boxed into a culvert for ...
Date: Circa 1930s
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-038927-G
Description: View of a road in the Upper Hutt area, possibly Silverstream. Four men are working on constructing a culvert for road widening. They are standing on a foot-bridge in front of a long clipped hedge. A gate leads into a garden and cabbage trees are visible amongst other trees. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber. For another view of the same area, with the butcher's van of T Russell & Sons parked on the small bridge which is no longer in view in this image, see 1/4-038926. This image is dated from 1/4-038926 as "T Russell & Sons" are listed in Wise's post Office Directory in the 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches