Places

Date: 1974

From: Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976]

By: Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978

Reference: Eph-C-CABOT-Music-1974-01

Description: Arrangement of text, with central illustration of an African woman with neck rings, earrings and protruding tongue. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 417 x 280 mm.

Date: 1913-1914, 1917-1919, 1942 [transcribed 2007]

By: Simpson, Andrew, active 2007

Reference: MSDL-0248

Description: Comprises transcriptions of note pad jottings by Percy Cecil Brockett during 1917. Also comprises transcriptions of letters relating to the Brockett family. Partial transcriptions of letters located at MS-Papers-2406. Accompanying material - Accompanied by biographical notes on Brockett family Arrangement: The transcriptions are arranged by five sections by author. First section is notes by Percy Brockett (1 Dec 1917-8 Jan 1918). Second is transcribed letters by Percy to his brother Fred and sister-in-law Marg (18 Nov 1917-11 Feb 1919). Third is letters by Charles Frederick Brockett to his son Percy (5 May-9 Jun 1913). Fourth is letters by Archie Brockett to his brother Percy (14 Aug-24 Sep 1914). Fifth is a letter by Rev N F E Robertshawe to Percy (10 Nov 1942). Quantity: 192 kilobyte(s). 1 Electronic document(s). Provenance: Donor is a descendant of Brockett family

Date: 1975

From: Radcliffe, Graham Tuaraki, b 1943 :Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-023512-F

Description: Wellington Harbour seen from the vicinity of Maupuia/Miramar, in 1975. Shows Point Jerningham and the suburb of Roseneath in the centre. Photograph taken by Graham Tuaraki Radcliffe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1934

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

Reference: 1/2-047757-G

Description: Wellington, 1934, circa August-October, showing Dominion Museum under construction, and the Carillon. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [Between 1930-1937]

From: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955 :Negatives of New Zealand towns and scenery, and Fiji

Reference: 1/1-018123-G

Description: Overlooking Wellington city wharves and harbour. Photograph taken between 1930-1937, by William Hall Raine. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Negative not yet sighted

Date: 7 October 1969

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Politics-Commissions-Local Government-04

Description: Map showing new boundaries for Wellington City, Lower Hutt City, Porirua City, Upper Hutt City, and Kapiti Borough. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1969. This photograph relates to a new area scheme. The map was used by the Commission when visiting affected local bodies. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 28.4 x 21 cm

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-533

Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm

Date: n d

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1019

Description: Letters about attempted negotiations with King Tawhiao, a request for clothes, a report on fighting with Hauhau at Wairoa, and a draft advertisement for a governess for Maori children in Wellington Language - All documents are in Maori Quantity: 1 folder(s). Processing information: Former identifier, MS-Papers 32B:152

Date: 1957

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 1/2-177203-F

Description: Unidentified male artist supporting a framed landscape painting of a small wooden church among dense trees. Photograph taken in 1957 by Morrie Hill. The photograph has been taken in the old National Art Gallery, Buckle Street, Wellington Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 2004

Reference: Eph-E-MUSIC-Popular-2004-06

Description: Shows an illustration of a band with trumpet and guitar, seen in silhouette beside a palm tree. There are hibiscus flowers at the top left and the lower edge. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph on poster 850 x 640 mm. Provenance: Donated by Sticky Fingers Ltd in 2004.

Date: [ca 1945]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-001911-F

Description: Looking south west over Wellington City, circa 1945. Shows the suburb of Mount Victoria, the southern end of Te Aro flat, the Basin Reserve, National Museum and surrounding area. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [1920s?]

By: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PAColl-D-0804

Description: Anzac Day parade at the Basin Resrve, Wellington. Buildings and houses in Mount Victoria can be seen in the background. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith, possibly in 1920s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 7 May 1858

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0682A-13

Description: Report of meeting with contemporary english translation Quantity: 1 piece (2 pages on 1 leaf).

Date: [Between 1910 and 1930]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000525-G

Description: View across Wellington, taken from Kelburn, with the houses along The Terrace in the middle distance. The wharves and ships in the harbour are in the middle distance. Somes Island can be seen on the left in the far distance. Oriental Bay is on the right. Photograph taken between 1910 and 1930 by William Archer Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Wellington. NZ. 601 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

Reference: 1/1-022238-G

Description: Ngaio, or possibly Karori, Wellington, circa 1910. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1895

By: Ross, Samuel G, active 1890s

Reference: E-341-f

Description: Scenes of St Paul's pro-cathedral, Bishop's Court, Government House, Queen's wharf and Lake Manapouri. Surrounded by native vegetation including nikau, toetoe, tree fern, flax, a cabbage tree, rata, clematis paniculata and ferns. There are also taiaha and tewhatewha (Maori weapons) used as backgrounds to two of the inserts. Image of Lake Manapouri inaccurately shows a nikau and cabbage tree, neither of which occur naturally in southern Fiordland Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour in bound format, dark green watered silk front endpaper, inlaid ornamental wood cover-folder in kauri, 450 x 360 mm

Date: [ca 28 Feb 1990]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1990/0736-F

Description: Tony Wareham and Joe Diamond, members of the New Zealand police, returning to New Zealand after serving with the United Nations peacekeeping force in Namibia. Includes Ruth Diamond and Felicity Wareham. Photograph taken at an unidentified location, probably Wellington. Published in the Evening Post newspaper 28 February 1990. Photographer unidentified, probably an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1927 - 1920 - 1928

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Kh/1927?/Acc.14607

Description: Cadastral map, unfinished, of the Cashmere Estate from Ranui Terrace to Onslow Road adjoining the Main Hutt Road. The completed part of the map includes numbered sections with acreages and boundary measurements. Streets are named, Deed Plan numbers are noted. Additions to this map include values in pounds sterling and dates between 1920 to 1928. Khandallah substation is named, Centennial Park and the Village Area School. A gully is marked. A pencilled note refers to land given to the Wellington City Council in exchange for roads and other considerations. The incomplete part of the map includes un-named roads and un-numbered sections, some with approximate measurements. Two areas of land, with acreages, are noted as 'useless for building'. A right of way is marked. Written on reverse: Cashmere Est. Title supplied by cataloguer from information on verso Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink on dressed linen, 78.6 x 75.7 cm.

Date: 1985

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1985/4361/11A-F

Description: Aerial view of the Terminal buildings and runway, Wellington Airport. Photographed for the Evening Post newspaper by an unknown photographer in 1985 The related article was published in the Evening Post 1 October 1985 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: ca1878

From: James Smith Ltd :Photographs of personnel, activities and shops

Reference: PAColl-3332-11-3

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).