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Date: [188-?]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025717-G

Description: Thorndon, and Wellington Harbour, photographed in the 1880s by William Williams. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [1880s]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025761-G

Description: Looking out at Thorndon, Wellington, from inside the number 1 railway tunnel, in Kaiwharawhara, on the Manawatu line. Taken by William Williams in the 1880s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1890s]

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10X8-0008-G

Description: Thorndon and Wellington Harbour from Tinakori Hill. Looks over houses, and railway yards, towards Point Jerningham and Point Halswell. Photograph taken by the Tyree Studio circa 1890s. Katherine Mansfield's birthplace is on the right (directly beneath a glasshouse roof) Railways reclamation completed in 1882 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1890 - 1840

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-HISTORY-Wellington-1890-01

Description: Shows the poem in a central panel, with inset views of Wellington in the borders: Wellington 1840; Wellington 1890; Arrival of the "Aurora" in Port Nicholson, January 1840; Thorndon 1840; Thorndon 1890; Wellington Wharf 1840; Wellington Wharf 1890. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving and letterpress, 487 x 321 mm.

Date: 2002

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DX-005-349

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 1949

By: MacDiarmid, Douglas Kerr, 1922-2020

Reference: A-135-011

Description: Cubist compostition, but with recognisable railway lines and city buildings and the houses on Mount Victoria in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - D. K. MacDiarmid.'49.; Verso - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Gouache, 280 x 380 mm

Date: [ca 1925]

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Fitzgerald, Thomas Henry, 1824-1888; New Zealand Company; New Zealand. General Assembly Library; Ward, Louis Ernest, 1866-1938

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/1840-1916/Acc.16123

Description: Comprised of three cadastral maps and one sketch of Port Nicholson, drawn by Louis Ward, copied from earlier surveyor maps. The main, central map shows the original sections sold by ballot in London by the New Zealand Company. Streets are named and sections numbered, with the owner's name. Subsequent owners, until approximately 1925 are written in brackets. The map also shows Native reserves and Te Aro Pa, Pipitea Pa, and Te Waikaka pa sites, and subsequent land reclamation around the harbour from Lambton and Clyde quays, to Queens and Pipitea wharves. Shows Government House; market, emigration and Roman Catholic reserves, and the proposed canal and basin reserve. This map is copied from Fitzgerald's survey map, and includes the names Lt Colonel WA McCleverty and W Wakefield (as principal agent to the New Zealand Company). The three inset maps are as follows: 'Sketch map from H G Mason's compilation (1893) of Port Nicholson. Louis Ward (del), scale indeterminable, 17.5 x 16.2 cm. Names several small wharves, between the Pipitea Pa, Te Aro Pa, Moena Pa, and Pa Ngakumu Kunui, and shows Native gardens and the Thorndon Baths. The second map, from "Grave yard Road on Thomson's map 1888 (Vol W4 p. 40)", scale indeterminable, 10 x 9 cm, and includes copy of signature of Sam Chas Brees, Principal Surveyor, June 1844, shows the Mount Street Cemetery, and the Catholic, Wesleyan and Presbyterian residences alongside each other on Clerical Road (McKenzie Terrace). The third map, from "Map showing reserves & Tod's claim, surveyed by S C Brees for the N.Z. Company June 1844,", 17.5 x 9.8 cm, from Pipitea Pa southwards to the Jewish Synagogue in Aurora Terrace, shows Church of England reserves, Pipitea Pa, Government House site, and Tod's claim, on the corner of Pipitea Street and Mulgrave Street. A small map segment to the right shows a small piece of Buckle Street showing the site of the Oddfellows Hall (number 17) and the Temperance Hall (18). Signed by Major Richmond. Written on catalogue card: These manuscript maps compiled from earlier manuscript maps, with added information; date of situation from internal evidence. All edges have been cropped for framing. 'True copy of plan attached to Crown grant 1848' Includes some pencilled words on map recto. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 4 map(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, 44.6 x 32.5 cm.

Date: 1856

By: Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874

Reference: A-090-013

Description: Wellington seen from Bolton Street cemetery with fenced graves in the foreground, the flagpole at Government House visible lower down the hill and the houses of Thorndon to the left. The view looks north across Wellington Harbour with Somes Island and the Hutt Valley and Tararua Range in the distance Another very similar view in an album by Chapman - 'Wellington burying ground' - is held by the Hawkes Bay Cultural Trust. A photographic copy is the Drawings & Prints files Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 160 x 250 mm

Date: 1893

By: New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works; New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal

Reference: D-001-005

Description: View from the lower end of the Terrace, looking down into the Aro Valley and Te Aro Flat and across towards Mount Victoria, Oriental Bay and the Miramar Peninsula. Part of the Thorndon end of the city can be seen on the left. Courtenay Place runs away from the viewer in the centre of the scene, with Marjoribanks Street moving up Mount Victoria. The gasometers on both sides of Courtenay Place show clearly. On the far right in the distance is Wellington College. Same as D-001-005-a, -b & -c and as a framed version at G-385 Extended Title - Supplement to the Christmas number of the New Zealand Graphic, 1893 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 360 x 940 on sheet 455 x 1015 mm

Date: 1849

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-070

Description: View from Hill Street area looking down onto the garden of Government House (now the site of the Beehive) with flagpole and sentry-box. Domett's house, which Collinson shared during his stay in Wellington, is in the left foreground. Mount Victoria is in the background and five ships and four smaller vessels are in the harbour, four of the ships identified. A faintly sketched horse is grazing in the foreground. This drawing forms an inexact panorama with A-292-071. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil with ink inscriptions Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1841

By: Wicksteed, John Tylston, 1806-1860

Reference: A-166-011

Description: Shows flat land in the foreground, Wakefield's house with flagstaff in the middle distance, and rising up the hill (modern Bowen Street area) a church spire amid trees, referred to in an accompanying letter as being the proposed site for St Paul's, although in fact this was not the site of the first St Paul's (Museum Street further down the hill), built 1844. The harbour can be seen to the left, along with the far end of Lambton Quay, a few houses and tents on Te Aro Flat and the track that became The Terrace winding up the hill Enclosed in letter from Wicksteed to Robert Few, Church Society of New Zealand, 30 Jan 1841. '...A reference to the map of Wellington and to the sketch sent herewith, will convey a tolerably correct idea of the place which I have resolved to propose to the Committee. It is the triangular piece of land (not numbered, being a public reserve) lying immediately under number 500 on the map, and above numbers 470, 371 and 472. A road or street bounds it on the north west and separates it from another public reserve, designed for a cemetery [later Bolton Street Cemetery]. In the sketch, the principal house with the flagstaff near it, is Colonel Wakefield's, and the spot on which a church spire is placed is that to which I have drawn your attention. It is almost first seen on turning the corner, as I may call it, on entering Lambton Harbour. I regret that the sketch is so slight, but it is faithful' (Ref. MS Papers 256) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 115 x 225 mm Transfers: transferred from MS Papers 256, April 1978..

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-037-3

Description: A moonlit view from Mount Cook, over Wellington and the harbour, looking north. Lambton Quay lies below along the foreshore with Pipitea Point in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 137 x 249 mm

Date: 1885

From: Dillberg, Gustaf, 1858-1934 :[New Zealand sketchbook. 1879-1887]

Reference: E-085-032/033

Description: Double-page spread looking south from Featherston Hill past the Thorndon railyards, towards the city. A panoramic view that includes Oriental Bay, Miramar Peninsula and Somes Island Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in pencil. Also top left 'upstairs window' in pencil. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 178 x 508 mm (page size).

Date: [ca 1929]

From: Just, F R: Two albums of photographs and captions relating to the Just family and 119 negatives taken by his father in the 1920s and 1930s of around Wellington and the Bell Bus Company

Reference: 1/2-071502-F

Description: Overlooking Thorndon and the harbour, Wellington, (from Wadestown?) circa 1929. Photograph taken by Mr Just. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1861

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: G-670

Description: Shows ships in harbour, houses, and a man driving cows on a hillside path at right. From Brooklyn looking across Te Aro and the harbour to the Hutt Valley. At left is a Maori wood-gatherer. Tree in left foreground has the creeper kie kie growing on it. A tree has been felled in centre foreground, and there is a cabbage tree at right. Upper Willis Street runs down to Clay Point, at the junction of the present Willis Street and Lambton Quay. Thorndon Flat lies beyond ending at Pipitea Point. Colour photolithograph of this original was reproduced for "The Barraud prints" published by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board in 1967. The photolithograph was entitled: "Wellington from Brooklyn - across Te Aro and Thorndon, 1861". Other Titles - Wellington from Brooklyn - across Te Aro and Thorndon, 1861 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud / NZ. 1861. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 443 x 1370 mm Processing information: Reframed in 1986. The original frame has been retained.

Date: 1888

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-014-013

Description: Shows a view looking towards Wellington Harbour from the lower northern slopes of Kelburn, with part of the Bolton Street Cemetery at the left, and three horses grazing in the right foreground. Beyond the cemetery is the Parliamentary Library, with the spire of St Mary's Hill Street at the far left. In the centre are the old Parliament Buildings, and the wooden Government Buildings are on the right. Old St Pauls is beyond the Parliamentary Library, the Terrace Congregational Church (corner Bowen Street and the Terrace) is in the centre, and St Andrews-on-the-Terrace is at the far right. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 440 x 750 mm.

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-019698-G

Description: Looking south east over Thorndon and Wellington Harbour, circa 1910. Tinakori Road is in the foreground. The `Amokura' is the white ship on the Harbour opposite the Dalgety's Stores building. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca 1886

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025535-G

Description: View from Wadestown, looking southeast across Thorndon and Wellington harbour, toward Oriental Bay (on the left) and Wellington City. Bolton Street Cemetery can be seen in the centre. An unidentified man stands in the foreground. Photograph taken by William Williams, circa 1886. Note on back of file print reads: From neg bag- Wellington showing shipping from Tinakori Hill, from file 6/1/41 - mid 80s. (After 1885 - Lmabton Station moved north to final site. St Patricks College completed. Not later than 1887 - Post office burned down that year) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: between 1962-1970

From: Winder, Duncan, 1919-1970: Architectural photographs

Reference: DW-0047-F

Description: Overlooking Wellington Harbour and Thorndon from Tinakori Hill, with the railway yards on the left. Photograph taken by Duncan Winder between 1962 and 1970. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1914

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-022941-G

Description: View of Wellington fron Tinakori Hill. Photographed by Sydney Charles Smith in about 1914 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Whole plate glass negative