Places

Date: 1895

From: F W Niven & Co. :View of Wellington N Z [ca 1895] from Hill Street, Thorndon. F W Niven & Co. [lith] Ballarat, [Victoria, ca 1895]

Reference: D-002-008-004

Description: Lower left panel shows vignettes of the premises of the following companies: St John's Presbyterian Church, Wellington. Rev James Paterson, minister. Shows an exterior view of the church H J Freeman, watch and clock maker, jeweller, &c. Repairing agent for the Waterbury Watch Company. 16 Manners Street, Wellington. Shows an exterior view of the shop F J Pinny's Musical Instrument Depot. Try the celebrated Worcester and Smith organs. 7 Manners Street, Wellington. Shows the street facade of this shop Trinity Wesleyan Church, Newtown. This picture presented by W S Cobham Extended Title - Lower left panel from their "View of Wellington, N.Z., from Hill Street, Thorndon" [ca 1895] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 300 x 275 mm.

Date: 1895

From: F W Niven & Co. :View of Wellington N Z [ca 1895] from Hill Street, Thorndon. F W Niven & Co. [lith] Ballarat, [Victoria, ca 1895]

Reference: D-002-008-003

Description: Top right panel shows vignettes of the premises of the following companies: E T Taylor and Company, Dunedin ale and stout bottlers. Wine and spirit merchants. Beehive bottling stores, Courtenay Place, Wellington. Shows the exterior of the two-storeyed Courtenay Place building, and the interior of the bottling department. S Luke and Sons. Sole makers of the celebrated Cornish Cooking Ranges; ship builders, iron and brass founders, engineers and boilermakers, Te Aro Foundry, Manners Street, Wellington. Shows the exterior of the two-storeyed Manners Street premises, and a bird's eye view of the ship-building yard and foundry. New Zealand Insurance Company. Wellington Branch, corner of Lambton Quay and Grey Street. William I Bolam, manager. Shows an illustration of the wedge-shped two-storey building. Extended Title - Top right panel from their "View of Wellington, N.Z., from Hill Street, Thorndon" [ca 1895] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 305 x 395 mm.

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-025-009

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. 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. This 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. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil. This is not in Heaphy's hand. It has been taken from the title of the matching lithograph Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 442 x 620 mm on sheet 518 x 698 mm Provenance: Purchased in London in 1915 by Alexander Turnbull Library along with 114 other New Zealand Company drawings

Date: 1914

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1911-1919]

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1914-01-04

Description: The letters M, N, O and P of an illustrated alphabet advertising Martin a wallpaper supplier, Neave's food for babies, "Our" bootmaker J Goer, and Palliser Pharmacy. Extended Title - From, The rhyming trades alphabet, Wellington, 1914. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of booklet.. Physical Description: Offset print on page 247 x 187 mm.

Date: 1842

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

By: Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: PUBL-0011-16-3

Description: Right-hand third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows Maori group sitting near flagpole at left, smoking long pipes, other Maori figures and three thatched buildings on the foreshore. On centre foreshore is Messrs Ridgways and Co's wharf and stores. At right is Willis Street with the Southern Cross Hotel and further back the Ship Hotel. On the other side of the bay are the Customhouse Office, Post Office, Waitt's Wharf and stores, John Wade's store, the Exchange, and Rhodes's Wharf and store. Willis and Co's store is in the left background near Te Aro Pa. In the distance are Mount Albert and Mount Cook. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Te Aro Flat; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - bottom right - Day & Haghe, Lithrs to the Queen Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 453 mm.

Date: [ca 1857]

From: Government House Collection : Prints of Te Aro flat, Lambton Quay, Parliament Building, Government Buildings, Post Office and Governor's residence

Reference: PAColl-D-0008

Description: Te Aro Flat, Wellington, ca 1857. View looking south-east along Manners Street and Courtenay Place with Mount Victoria in the background and the harbour on the left. Shows Rhodes Wharf and residence on the far left; the arched roof of Kebbell's Mill, middle ground, centre; te Aro Pa with swamps, beyond the mill. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Title on print gives an incorrect date. The Grand Opera House was later built on the site of Kebbell's Mill. Photograph was taken after the 1855 Wellington earthquake. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Building with arched roof is Kebbell's Floor Mill, now the site of the Grand Opera House, and Te Aro Pah beyond.; Recto - beneath image - Te Aro Flat - 1846; Recto - beneath image - Manners Street is shown connecting with track now Courtenay Place Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 37.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: ca 1869

By: Hayton, (Mr), active 1983

Reference: 1/2-135964

Description: View from The Terrace, looking across Te Aro, toward Mount Victoria, circa 1869. In the foreground are Willis Street, Perrett's Corner, the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel and the building that was to be site of St Mary of the Angels on Boulcott Street. On Manners Street, which runs through the middle of the picture, is the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Te Aro 1869 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Copy negative from loaned print

Date: [ca 1870s]

From: Monro, John Stuart (Dr), 1888-1971 :Photographs of Wellington and Nelson

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA7-48-10

Description: View of Te Aro from a vantage point above Boulcott and Willis streets, looking south-east along Manners Street towards Mount Victoria. The Methodist Church can be seen on the right. The Duke of Edinburgh Hotel is on the corner of Manners and Wills streets. In the foreground is a timber yard, St Mary of the Angels Church, and several houses with glass conservatories in Boulcott Street. Photograph taken by D L Mundy after the Criterion Hotel changed its name to the Duke of Edinburgh in the 1870s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 19.3 x 23.5 cm

Date: 1852

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-007-011

Description: View from the lower slopes between Brooklyn and Mount Cook, with cows, a herdsman and his dog on the road in the foreground. On the right lie the swamps of Te Aro, with Te Aro Pa visible along the foreshore, along with scattered houses. To the left of the pa area, the road passing diagonally across the plain is probably Cuba Street. The most prominent building on the foreshore is either the Maori or the Wesleyan Chapel in Manners St. The cliff at the water's edge to the left is Clay Point with Plimmer's Ark visible moored in the water at its base. On the far left in the plain area, the large church building is St Peter's, Willis St. Thorndon is in the background to the left, with Pipitea Point (now Thorndon Quay) and Kumutoto Spit (now Midland Park) both visible. The preliminary watercolour for this work is located at C-007-007 with title 'Te Aro and Thorndon, 1852'. It is dated 1852 and lacks the cows, herdsman and dog of C-007-0011, but shows more of the swamps of Te Aro, with Waitangi Creek meandering through them. The building details are less clear in the preliminary work. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print, 1975 as part of the Colonial Wellington Series. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C D Barraud Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 349 x 508 mm

Date: ca 1869

By: Palliser, E (Mrs), active 1959

Reference: 1/2-008242-F

Description: View from The Terrace, looking across Te Aro, toward Mount Victoria, circa 1869. In the foreground are Willis Street, Perrett's Corner, the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel and St Mary's School on Boulcott Street. On Manners Street, which runs through the middle of the picture, is the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Te Aro 1868 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Copy negative from donated print

Date: 1845 - 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-449-012

Description: View from the top of the Terrace looking down over Te Aro Flat with Mount Victoria in the distance. Manners Street can clearly be seen in the bottom left of the picture, leading to the Wesleyan Chapel on the right-hand side of the road. Wellington Harbour can be seen on the left of the view, with ships dotted in the harbour The reference to 'Captain Sharpe' should correctly be Captain Sharp. Captain Charles Kingsford Sharp owned a house at the top of The Terrace, Wellington, where Salamanca Road joins The Terrace Extended Title - From Brees, S. C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand. London, 1847. Panorama plate Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 110 x 310 mm on sheet 125 x 440 mm

Date: 15 June - 8 Nov 2012

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000831

Description: Comprises street scenes of historic buildings, shops, pedestrians, traffic taken in Wellington region, Queenstown, Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa, Auckland taken between 15 June and 8 November 2012 by Dylan Owen. Includes views of Bay Road, Onepu Road, Kilbirnie, bars, shops and eateries on Courtney Place, Cosmic shop on Cuba mall, Featherston Street, people at bustop on Manners Street, apartments on Tory Street, cafe tables outdoors on Ghunzee Street, Upper Cuba Street, Victoria Street, Wellington City, houses on Waterhouse Drive, Brooklyn, shops on Rintoul Street, Beramphore, Riddiford Street, Newtown, Metlink yellow bus at pedestrian crossing on Karori Road, Karori. Includes views of Hastings Street, Napier, Heretaunga Street, West Hastings. Includes views of High Street, Railway Avenue, Lower Hutt, George apartments and shops on Jackson Street, Petone, shops and electorate office of MP Chris Hipkins at Taita shopping centre, mother and boy on scooter on Randwick Road, Moera. Includes views of Parnell Village shops on Parnell Road, Parnell, Camp Street and Shotover Street, Queenstown, and High Street, North Carterton, and Ridgeway Street, Whanganui. Arrangement: Files delivered to library within a folder called "AAA Street Views July - Dec 2012 d" Quantity: 43 digital photograph(s).

Date: 1883

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Photographs and papers

Reference: 1/2-140304-G

Description: Looking south east over Wellington City in 1883, including Te Aro and Mt Victoria. Shows Manners Street, Courtenay Place and Majoribanks Street. A sign advertising the business of A Rickman, importer and manufacturer of boots and shoes, is visible in the centre. Photograph taken by William Williams. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).