Places

Date: [ca 1940-1950]

Reference: PAColl-6906

Description: 8 images of hotels including one of Porirua Hotel in the distance beyond a scattering of houses, a small church and a Shell station. Three are of a bad tram accident at the corner of Webb Street and Taranaki Street where a Thorndon tram went right through the premises adjacent to the Napier-Wellington Transport Co Ltd. Police and passers-by are looking on and workmen are trying to clear the debris. The last image is of what may be a nurses' hostel at Wellington Hospital. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-045211 to 045222 Quantity: 10 b&w original negative(s) glass. 2 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1860 - 1880

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :Album. [1860s?]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: E-297-018

Description: St John's Presbyterian Church, Willis Street in the foreground, viewed from behind and above, and the view looking down Dixon Street towards Mount Victoria. Te Aro Hotel and Jameson's Cooperative Store are clearly identified on opposite corners of Willis and Dixon Streets. Photograph numbered554 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph 135 x 205 mm glued to album page 177 x 225 mm

Date: ca 1880s-1890s

From: Christie, Hettie Florence, 1902-1988 :Photographs and album of New Zealand scenes

By: Christie, Hettie Florence, 1902-1988; Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Pulman (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4290

Description: Photographs of: Maori children on the bank of the lake with the houses of Ohinemutu behind them (taken by F A Coxhead); the shipwreck of the SS Wairarapa on the cliffs of Great Barrier Island 28th October 1894 (taken by F Pulman); two of an unnamed shipwreck (taken by H T Lock so possibly near Westport); an open boat on George Sound with seven men and women on board, the women doing the rowing (taken by F A Coxhead); Parkvale Road in Karori with old wooden buildings on the right and four boys playing in the street; view looking west along Oriental Bay with a row of large houses on the left (one with a conservatory) and a heavily laden cart on the street (taken by Wrigglesworth & Binns); view looking south down Customhouse Quay and Willis Street from the tower of the Post Office showing the NZ Loan and Mercantile Agency Co Ltd and other commercial buildings; and a view of the front of Christchurch Cathedral with a tram and horses and carts near it (taken by F A Coxhead). Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-016632, 019743, 071699, 071721, 071722. 1/2-018865 is a copy negative from the same image as one in this collection. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1841-ca1930

From: Zoe Martin-Carter: Photographs of Wellington and the Centennial Exhibition

By: Shore Bennett, Beverley Doris, 1928-; Martin-Carter, Zoe, 1870-1947

Reference: PA1-f-171

Description: views of Wellington and many of its principal buildings from settlement in 1840 to about the mid 1940s Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1976

By: Irving, Wilhelmina G, active 1930s-1970s

Reference: B-023-046/054

Description: Contents: Old houses in Ascot Terrace, Plimmer House, Willis St, Bolton Street Cemetery, Wellington; "Charnwood", Lower Hutt and Cottleville Tce Wellington; a house named Woodside and a further old house wooden house with a turret, probably in Wellington The drawing of Cottleville Tce is further reproduced on the folder; the same picture also appears in the group numbered by the Library B-023-042/045 and received by the Library in 1977. Both groups are within the same folder. From original ink drawings signed: "W.G. Irving" Edition: 190/240 Quantity: 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) 1 folder. Physical Description: Photolithographs, b&w 431 x 352 mm ; ill 432 x 355 mm

Date: [ca 1860s-1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6886

Description: 22 images: 18 are copy negatives of images in books of Old Wellington in the 1860s many of which are captioned; two are of people milling around in front of the Cathedral in Christchurch; one is of the ship Marama ca 1920s; and one is probably an original negative of two older children and a baby in a garden. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044160 to 044181 Quantity: 22 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate copy negatives

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: 1991-1993

From: Robinson, Peter Franklin, active 1970-2017: Colour slides of Wellington City and suburbs, and railways images

Reference: PAColl-2992

Description: Slides of Waiouru, and Wellington streets, buildings and events. Includes an image of a building labelled as the Stoddart Building. Inscriptions: Mount recto - [each slide is identified in blue ballpoint on plastic slide mounts] Quantity: 46 colour original transparency/ies. 2 container(s) plastic slide containers containing slides in one envelope. Physical Description: 35mm colour slides

Date: 1841 - 1843

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: E-106-f-047-3

Description: View from Clay Point hill above the junction of modern Willis St and Lambton Quay. The beach in the foreground is lower Willis Street, while upper Willis Street passes up the rise on the far right. The beach in the background is modern Mercer and Wakefield Streets. Cows, goats, two Maori canoes, a couple on horseback and Bethune & Hunter's Stores are in the foreground, with a jetty and sailing ships in the harbour. Further jetties and public and private buildings are in the background on Te Aro Flat. The most prominent building along the waterfront, with a Grecian-style frontage, is the Exchange Building. Mounts Cook, Albert and Victoria are indicated in the skyline above their relevant peaks. From water-colour by Charles Heaphy; engraver unknown. For a key to the identity of individual buildings, see negative 15576 1/2. T. M. Hocken's 'Key plan of Heaphy's View of a part of the town of Wellington ... 1885'. The original for this key is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection. A watercolour was the original for the lithograph of the same title, published in London in 1842. There were also later prints from the same stone produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See reference number C-026-002 for copies of the lithograph. Reproduced by the Library in 1963 as one of the Queen's Prints, along with its companion view `Thorndon Flat and part of the city of Wellington, 1841' and Heaphy's `View of Nelson Haven', also dating from 1841. Very similar image at copy negative 1/2-005440 Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Vol 2 II, p 206 [1843 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 95 x 155 mm

Date: ca 1992

By: Hedley, Mark, active 1975-1992

Reference: PAColl-3436

Description: Quantity: 20 b&w original negative(s) (being 35mm strips comprising 118 images).

Date: [1860s-1950s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-002

Description: Views of the Orongorongo River, Otago, Milford and early Wellington made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. They include photographs of early artwork, street scenes, shipping, government buildings, mountains, lakes, rivers and people engaged in outdoor activities such as tramping and hunting. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1842 - 1845

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-047/049

Description: Views of Wellington between 1842 and 1845. The top view shows the house of William Wakefield (the site of the Beehive) looking up The Terrace beyond. The central view is of Captain Daniell's sawmill on the Kaiwharawhara stream. A bullock cart is carrying logs to the right, several men are resting in the foreground, there are piles of tree trunks in the foreground, and tall bush in the background. The lowest view shows the bank on the corner of Willis Street and Manners Street with soldiers marching by, from the barracks next door to the bank. Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261

Date: [ca 1860-ca 1902]

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PAColl-10423

Description: Three photographic prints of images taken in Wellington by photographer James Bragge between circa 1860 and circa 1902. A wide view overlooking Thorndon, Wellington City, taken from The Terrace circa 1870. It shows the city buildings, including St Mary's Cathedral, Government House, Old St Pauls's Church, domestic houses, and early reclaimation work on the harbour's edge. On extreme lower right of frame, two women walking on a path are visible. A view taken of four men posing on Swinburne's Wharf, Wellington. Visible in the background are wooden buildings on the shoreline and some moored sailing vessels at the wharves. Print is captioned "Swinbourne Wharf Willis St". A view of colonial wooden buildings lining Lambton Quay, with a horse and cart on the Quay beside the shoreline. In the foreground is a pile of planks; and to left of frame is a large wooden building. Print is captioned "Lambton Quay showing back of the Central Club". Also includes a card matt with an embossed photographers stamp pasted on to it reading "James Bragge Portrait & Landscape Photographer Wellington N Z". Record title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera card matt. Physical Description: Black and white albumen prints, mounted on card which has been trimmed, two prints are captioned by hand in ink; and a card matt Provenance: Private purchase, 2015. No further provenance information known. Processing information: The prints came to the Library with card mounts which were a later addition to the prints. One card mount was retained as it has the photographer's stamp attached. The other mounts were discarded as they were not of an archival housing standard.

Date: [ca 1930s-ca 1940s]

From: Creator unknown: Display boards of photographs showing people and scenes in the Wellington region

Reference: PAColl-D-1436

Description: Display board with montages of photographic prints on both sides. Images show people and scenes taken circa 1930s-circa 1940s, mainly in the Wellington city area, but also in the wider Wellington region. The board may have been created by the Evening Post. One side shows scenes at listed locations: - Lake in the Botanical Gardens - Picnic place at Moonshine - Rock garden in Riddiford Park, Lower Hutt - Waiwhetu Stream, Lower Hutt - Oriental Bay Parade - Entrance to Khandallah Domain - Oriental Bay beach - Riddiford Park, Lower Hutt - Botanical Gardens and city from Northland heights - Houses of Parliament - Upper reaches of the Hutt River - Days Bay beach - Spring flowers in the Botanical Gardens Other side shows crowded city street scenes with people, cars and trams. Also many close-ups of women and children pedestrians. Exact locations not listed but all appear to be in Wellington city. Willis Street and James Smith's Corner are included. Quantity: 1 display board, with 21 b&w original prints on one side, and 13 b&w original prints on the other. Physical Description: Mount, 68.4 cm x 50.9 cm, with photographic prints attached. Prints vary in size.

Date: [ca 1900-ca 1915]

By: Manz, Herman Otto, 1860-1962; Manz, Arthur Herbert, 1917-

Reference: PAColl-10108

Description: Photographs taken by Herman Otto Manz circa 1910s with his Thornton-Pickard camera, chiefly of scenes in the Wellington area but including one of Auckland Hospital. The prints are sulphur toned. Includes portraits of the Government Life Insurance building on Customhouse Quay, Days Bay Pavilion and water chute at Williams Park, Wellington Public Post Office illuminated for the coronation of King George V, Wellington Library building, Chaffers dock, Bank of New Zealand building on the corner of Lambton Quay and Featherston Street, Queen Victoria statue on Cambridge Terrace, and Seddon memorial at Bolton Street Cemetery. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints, sulphur toned Provenance: Donor is the son of Herman Manz.

Date: 1887 - 1888

From: Hoare, E A, fl 1887-1888 :Drawings, watercolour sketches, photographs and notes of E A Hoare, Artiste, on board 'S S Tongariro'. December 1887 to March 1888

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: E-955-f-042

Description: A view down Nairn Street towards upper Willis Street, with Thorndon in the distance. St Peter's on Willis Street is identified by its spire. The Terrace rises up along the hill to the left. The harbour and western hills can be seen in the distance. A gaslight street lamp is in the immediate foreground on the left Burton Brothers catalogue number 2298 See also A-109-009 for a wood engraving print of a similar scene Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 140 x 195 mm, on sketchbook page 255 x 370 mm

Date: [ca 1895-1932]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

By: Manning, Charles Henry, 1848-1895; Taylor, T E, active 1899

Reference: PAColl-8788-2

Description: Photographs taken and collected by Louis John Daroux, between 1890s-1930s. This set includes Wellington street scenes and city views, circa 1900s; photographs taken at Trentham Military Camp circa 1914; New Zealand scenic and harbour views; miscellaneous photographs including three taken or collected in Australia, Germany, and the Pacific Islands; and portraits. Wellington scenes include: the unveiling ceremony for statue of John Ballance in Parliament grounds, April 1897; group portrait of armed militia outside Alexandra Barracks, Mount Cook; Queen Victoria statue in Post Office Square; men laying cable for electric trams in Courtenay Place ca 1905; interior of tram sheds; funeral procession for Mr Andrews, (who died of exposure while deer stalking near Martinborough) in Rugby Street 1904; intersection of Willis and Manners streets; a two-part panorama of Lambton Harbour and city buildings circa 1906; an elevated view of Lambton area; a view from Tinakori Hill across houses in Thorndon towards Wellington Harbour; two buildings on Customhouse Quay; ship HMS Powerful in Wellington Harbour in February 1906, showing the ship's company on the forward bow; schooner Rongo after capsizing in 1906. Photographs taken at Trentham Military Camp, circa 1914, include group portraits of Petone Naval Artillery Volunteers (who have joined the 8th Contingent), Petone Military Brass Band and unidentified soldiers. One scene shows men waiting in a queue to be interviewed for cooking jobs. There is also a view of hospital buildings and a broad elevated view of the camp. Other New Zealand scenic views include: the Rangitikei River at Mangaweka, showing mudstone (papa rock) cliffs; ships docked in front of Hawke's Bay Farmer Association Co-operative Ltd building at Port Ahuriri, Napier; a woman and child on a promenade planted with pine trees [Marine Parade, Napier?]; breakwater and railyards at Castlecliff, Whanganui; an elevated view of Upper Hutt township; a broad view of Akaroa township in 1895; a coastal scene showing a radar station and ship near rocks (location unidentified); a fire at a building (location unidentified); views of a public garden (location unidentified); ship 'Doto' at [Nelson?] wharves; a mounted image of a town [Queenstown?] during heavy snowfall; an unidentified man sitting by lakefront with paddle steamer on lake, probably Queenstown; two views of Fiordland. Miscellaneous buildings include: Anderson's Private Hotel (location unidentified), R Smyth, General Blacksmith (location unidentified); Robertson Brothers Woolworks, Nelson; exterior view of a municipal building (location unidentified) housing a public library and business premises (legible signage identifies Barleyman Land Agents, Madame de Launay, and solicitors R Spence). Miscellaneous images include: a table piled with floral tributes, probably in a church; a dining room strung with garlands; a church interior in the Pacific Islands; a postcard depicting Lombard's Bridge, Hamburg, Germany, and one of 'The Dog on the Tucker Box' pioneer's monument at Gundagai, New South Wales ca 1932. Also men wearing ceremonial regalia, possibly Masonic aprons, queuing in an unidentified street; three small girls outside Islay Cottage (location unidentified); a postcard of two small naked girls in a river, published by A G Steglitz in 1904; a crowd outside the assembly rooms at Mangaweka in 1905 awaiting the government land ballot. Portraits include groups of men from various professional and recreational organisations, depicting members of [Masterton?] fire brigade; stewards and officials from Masterton racing club [1903?]; forgery workers, blacksmiths and moulders from government workshops at Petone, and employees of New Zealand Railways. Portraits of women include a group of maternity nurses holding infants; an unidentified Maori woman wearing a cloak, sitting outdoors; three women, possibly sisters; and an unidentified woman feeding young deer. Portraits of children include one of a school group from New Plymouth convent school and one of school cadets [Foxton?]. Quantity: 98 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1970, Aug 1983

From: Newman, Mary, active 2014 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10213

Description: Comprises black and white views of Takapuna shopping streets, Anzac Street and Hurstmere Road, showing cars, trucks, a few pedestrians and the Mutual Insurance building. Taken ca 1970 by unknown photographer(s). Also includes colour views of the Nuclear Horror Show protest march against the presence of the American nuclear warship USS 'Texas' in Wellington Harbour. Taken on 11 or 12 March 1983 by unknown photographer(s). Views show large paper-mache street theatre puppets designed by Debra Bustin. Protestors hold placards, peace signs and banners from 'Peace Squadron', Public Service Association Hutt Valley Section, Wtgn Women for Peace, and the Wellington Waterside Workers Union. Quantity: 21 colour original photographic print(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints, dye coupler prints

Date: 1890-1920

By: Preston, Alan Herbert, 1932-2004; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm); Frisco Photographic Company

Reference: PAColl-3234

Description: Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope. Physical Description: Various formats and types including cabinet cards, albumen prints, cartes de visite and mounted prints

Date: ca 1868-1890

Reference: PAColl-6529

Description: Three prints of two views of Wellington: two of Willis Street with the Criterion Hotel to the right and the wharves on the left, and one of Worser Bay showing a few houses. These are copy prints made from the original negatives some time around the 1920s. All three images have been removed from the same album at some point as they have the same green paper residue on the reverse. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints