Places

Date: [Between 1954 and 1968]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-200

Description: Album of photographs, some prints, some contacts from 35mm film, taken by Professor John Salmon in Wellington. Most of the images describe his use of different camera lenses and filters. Many of the scenes are taken from Professor Salmon's window at Victoria University of Wellington, showing different moods in different weather patterns. They include early morning, afternoon, and night views, northerly wind and southerly wind cloud patterns, including a southerly storm. He also has a large number of images of Wellington Harbour and wharves, again taken in different lights, showing ships, reflections and buildings. Other sequences show views of the Hutt Valley, Silverstream, and Glenmore Street in Wellington, many taken on misty early mornings. The last scenes are coloured photographs showing some of the decorations erected for the Royal visit of Queen Elizabeth II, in January 1954. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cream cover, Cobra ring binder; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1954

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

Reference: Plans-2006-058-197

Description: Shows a view of piers along the Auckland waterfront, with city buildings in the background. Text at the side reads: The waterfront / The coming together of water & land / Noise & bustle of the floor plane - the sombre quietness of buildings above road level. / Quiet rhythm of the piers supporting the movement plane. / Quiet sparkle of water - calmness Original file numbering was: 004.06.02.011 Quantity: 1 plan(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing, 390 x 560 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: [Between 1955 and 1961]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-209

Description: Album of photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon, including many contacts from 35 mm film, chiefly related to Wellington Camera Club outings. Others relating to photographic outings relate to the Photographic Society of New Zealand, Palmerston North regional meetings in October and November 1956. Many of the photographs show his interest in different lights and shapes, and he often gives details of lenses and filters used. Examples are winter light and shade at the Massey Memorial, a ploughed field near Palmerston North, the new entrance foyer and stairs when the Easterfield Science Block opened at Victoria University of Wellington in June 1959, still life images, flowers, cloud formations, ripples on sand, and light and shade along the Wellington Wharves. One scientific trip is shown, the Torlesse trip, in December 1959. Places and subjects photographed are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album in brown Super-Cobra binder file; 30 x 24 cm

Date: [Between 1927 and 1955]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-206

Description: Photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1927 and 1955, mostly in the Wellington Region. Some are art photographs, including still life images of carvings, cloisonne ware and porcelain, and some are tinted. One sequence shows the Dominion Museum and Art Gallery, both interior and exterior views. Some were taken in April 1936 before the building was furnished; others were taken later in 1936 and 1937, including the Kauri Hall, the Sculpture Hall, the Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Academy Gallery, the Maori Hall, and the entrance vestibule. Civic events are shown in illuminations at the Government Buildings for the King George V Silver Jubilee on 12th May 1935; the Carillon tower floodlit for for the coronation of King George VI; and night photographs of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in 1940, including the Australian and British pavilions. Wellington is shown in views from various hills and rooftops. Specific trips and occasions include a Waikaremoana trip in 1930; the Victoria University College Natural History Society trip to Butterfly Creek in 1933; a Camera Club outing near Mangaroa Hill in 1938; and celebrating Xmas in Auckland in 1952. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super-Cobra binder file; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1955-1965

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 : Papers

Reference: 75-241-084

Description: Notes for the book `Haast is in south Westland', about the special settlement at Jacksons Bay which failed largely because of the absence of a wharf. Includes a radio script by Pascoe `They went the unknown ways - the special settlers of Jacksons Bay'. Other Titles - The Haast is in south Westland Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1951 - 1959

From: [Tovey, Arthur Gordon], 1901-1974 :[Nine pencil landscape drawings. 1950s].

Reference: C-105-024

Description: Shows a group of three trres in the left foreground, with a jetty behind them. There is a small sailboat anchored off the shore, and a row of houses on the far shore under a steep hill slope. This is a preliminary drawing for oil painting done in the 1950s (See Carol Henderson's "A blaze of colour" (Christchurch, 1998), page 217). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on cream paper, 395 x 502 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist's daughter, Carol Henderson, in 2001. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A2001-115.

Date: 1957, April 1960

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7737

Description: Transparencies of aerial views of Auckland Wharves and Auckland Harbour Bridge, taken 1957 and April 1960 by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: [ca 1890-1950]

From: Smytheman, V :Photographs from World War II and an album of New Zealand scenes

By: Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970

Reference: PAColl-0531-1

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand including a number of the glass houses and parks of Wanganui and New Plymouth. There are also an old photograph of W Stack's Hotel in Hastings with men and horses outside (in poor condition); a woman in what may be a 1930 Chrysler Plymouth with another snow away from the tyres; the gravestone of Julius von Haast; Queen's Wharf, Wellington showing a recently returned troop transport ship; an orchestra performing at the 1907 Christchurch exhibition; men of the No. 19 Platoon with a car at the summit of the Rimutakas; postcard from P B Davis to Mr A French showing a group of First World War soldiers with the message that they are about to leave for France; and six children at the base of a large Maori carving with a bell attached at Ohinemutu. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-053380 Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1957]

By: Pearse, Ben, active 1957-1987

Reference: PAColl-6976

Description: Scenes of the jubilee of a convent school (possibly St Patrick's) and of Blaketown and its school in 1957. The convent reunion shows ex-pupils grouped by the year they attended the school, a dinner, a table of trophies etc. The Blaketown jubilee is marked by a procession of floats, the creation of a Miss Jubilee, a dinner etc. Also included are a two older copy negatives of Greymouth and scenes on the wharves with what may be a shipwreck and the grounded vessel the Abel Tasman. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059346 to 059428. Quantity: 2 container(s) of negatives. Physical Description: Film and glass negatives Transfers: File print at PAColl-4384. Processing information: Description updated 5 April 2023 following information provided by the donor.

Date: ca 1955

By: Sakkers, N, active 1995

Reference: PAColl-3210

Description: Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope. Physical Description: Two photoprints 160 x 210mm; one photoprint 160 x 158mm

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: [ca 1943-1955]

From: Wilkinson, James Douglas, 1926-2014: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-7271-44

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1950]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-148-004

Description: Scene at the wharf Tauranga, photographed ca 1950 by William Hall Raine of Wellington. Inscriptions: Verso - top left - On the foreshore at Tauranga.; Verso - centre - W Hall Raine Photography, 132 Willis Street, Wellington NZ. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 168 x 215 mm

Date: Probably March 24 - 25 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8792

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides was probably taken earlier than those on some of the preceding sheets (information from his diary). This sheet contains images of Wellington, including Wellington Airport; views from Mount Victoria; around the Wellington coast including shore with marram grass and black-backed gulls; the Petone Settlers' Memorial; Marine Parade around Miramar, with the Monowai sailing through Wellington Heads; buildings in the city including Parliament Buildings, Government Buildings, Wakefield House at 90 The Terrace, used by the Founders Club; and an old two-storeyed wooden house on the Terrace; the Corinthic loading various goods at Wellington Wharves; Lambton Quay; Cable Car terminal and views of Wellington; and the Carter Observatory. Slides on this sheet are numbered 505-528, with a gap for no. 506. Arrangement: Image no. 506 (showing the view from Mount Victoria in Wellington) was taken as part of Williams' representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1959-1972

From: Simpson, Ralph Annand, 1908-1994 : Papers relating to New Zealand ports and harbours

Reference: MS-Papers-11505-03

Description: Papers include an application and submission to the New Zealand Ports Authority, chart of channel soundings and copies of Lyttelton Harbour Board publications including Portside Other - Original file MCS ARC AG01 S01 F03 T01-T12 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1956-1970

From: Simpson, Ralph Annand, 1908-1994 : Papers relating to New Zealand ports and harbours

Reference: MS-Papers-11505-07

Description: Papers include a report on littoral shift and wave problems at Timaru Harbour, by Haudraulics Research Station, England, Feb 1970, Timaru Harbour Board publication on Meat Loading Facilities and Waterfront Industry Commission chart on Bluff Port. Other - NZCS ARC AG01 S01 F07 T01 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1958-1958

From: Simpson, Ralph Annand, 1908-1994 : Papers relating to New Zealand ports and harbours

Reference: MS-Papers-11505-06

Description: Papers include Report on Picton Harbour by L P Turner, Assistant Secretary for Marine Department, 7 August 1958, plans of Cook Strait Ferry Terminals proposals by Ian MaCallan & Co. Other - Original file ARC AG01 S01 F06 T01 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1959-1972

From: Simpson, Ralph Annand, 1908-1994 : Papers relating to New Zealand ports and harbours

Reference: MS-Papers-11505-15

Description: Papers include reports, conference papers and investigations for several harbour boards in New Zealand. Also contains photographs of Devonport Naval Base and Lake Coleridge Hydro-electric Power Station Other - original file - NZCS ARC AG01 S01 F15 T01 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1955-1969]

From: Conley, Peter Vaizey, 1924-2000 :Transparency slides of New Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-8864

Description: Colour transparency slides of New Zealand scenes, taken ca mid to late 1950s and 1960s by Peter Vaizey Conley. This set are taken in the North Island, chiefly coastal views. All are unidentified but the photographer has described this set as 'Picton to Days Bay', 'Muritai [Road, Lower Hutt?] to Wellington Airport', 'Hamilton to Ngaruawahia', 'Waihi Gorge to Tauranga', 'Whakatane to Rotorua', 'Russell to Bay of Islands,' 'Wairoa', and 'North Auckland to Ohope'. Includes: Views of a harbour, taken onboard a ship, possibly showing the Cook Strait and Malborough Sounds from the inter-island ferry. There are several views of an unidentified bay, possibly Days Bay, Eastbourne. Two slides of geothermal activity, Wairekei, Taupo District. Miscellaneous images show an unidentified woman, sitting on the bonnet of a Volkswagen motorcar, and standing on volcanic rock formations at an unidentified ocean bay. One shows a Ford [Zodiac?] motorcar parked outside a house. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

By: Crane, Marion Edith, 1915-1997

Reference: PA-Group-00805

Description: Transparency slides of shipping on the Whanganui River and in Wellington Harbour, taken ca 1950s-1950s, by Mrs M E Crane of Wanganui. A number of the vessels are identified. Source of descriptive information - Creator's name and date taken from original boxes, all of which were labelled 'Ships [or Shipping] 1.6.62' and one included the name and address 'Mrs M E Crane, c/- M.O.W., Box 423, Wanganui, NZ'. According to the donor, the photographer was the mother of a friend of his, but he did not know her name. He knew that she worked for the Waterfront Industry Commission in Wanganui. Quantity: 82 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm Provenance: The slides had belonged to the mother of a friend of the donor's. The name Mrs M E Crane was taken from one of the original transparency processing boxes. The donor knew that the creator of the collection had worked for Waterfront Industry Commission in Wanganui.