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[Williams, William], 1858-1949: [Postcard]. Scene at Brown's Bay. Evening Post `Old Wel...

Date: 1884

By: Williams, William, 1858-1949

Reference: E-278-q-099

Description: Postcard with a photo-mechanical reproduction of a photograph, taken by William Williams in 1884. It shows Okiwi Brown seated at the door of his thatch-roofed hut at Rona Bay. His Maori wife Nan can be seen on the other side of the door. The two men standing near Brown are F W Devereux and T H Wyatt. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-lithograph, 64 x 110 mm on card

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Photograph of a view of Oriental Bay, Wellington

Date: [1880s]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-11-13

Description: View looking north-east along Oriental Parade from Oriental Terrace and towards Roseneath. Photograph taken by W H R Davis in 1880s Relationship complexity - The original negative from which this print was made is at 1/2-230685-G. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s).

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Photographs of people and events

Date: 1983-1985

From: Hames, Jenny :Negatives and photographs

Reference: PAColl-5811-1

Description: Greek Week in Wellington, reading recovery teachers and pupils, Sir Graham and Lady Latimer, piano teacher Judith Clark, Wellington City buses, Author Fiona Kidman, Kristelle Plimmer bringer of gorilla grams, the Heng family from Cambodia, Children's author Lynley Dodd, teacher and students at Kimi Ora school Wellington, Election night 1984 including Bob Jones, artist Janet Paul, editor Margaret Moony, Buskers on Wellington's streets. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

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[Music programmes and fliers for concerts in 1880].

Date: 1880

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-1880

Description: Includes programmes featuring: St Andrew's Church Cambridge. Concert in aid of the building fund. 18 August 1880. Programme. St Peter's Church. Special service. Selection from Handel's grand oratorio "The Messiah". Organist and conductor Mr Angelo Forrest. Programme / flier. Camilla Urso. Programmes for concerts. Theatre Royal Wellington. 15 May 1880, and 16 May 1880. Quantity: 3 programmes or flyers.. Physical Description: Printed programmes or flyers, up to octavo size, some illustrated.

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Field album 20

Date: [1880s-1900s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-o-167

Description: Family photographs, chiefly taken by William Hughes Field. Many of the views are unidentified, as are many of the portraits and group portraits. Some family members are identified, and a few taken in Botany Bay, Sydney, show Richard John Seddon and James Carroll speaking at a function. One image is a reproduction of a cartoon by William Hodgkins entitled `Mark Twain at the City hall Dunedin, on original sin (The watermelon story) ... A sketch from the stalls by W M Hodgkins' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green covers, 24 x 31 cm

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Hunter, Norman Mitchell, b 1859 :Rocks - Wellington and Harbour. 13/9/[18]82.

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-067-2

Description: A view of Wellington Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Wellington and Harbour 13/9/82 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 89 x 237 mm

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Coxhead, Frank Arnold b. 1851 :Te Aro, Wellington [1870s?] / F. A. C.

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

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Ships Pleione and Hurunui at Railway Wharf, Wellington

Date: [Jan or Feb 1886]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-12-45

Description: Duplicate of PA7-12-44 Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

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Reffin, J H (Mrs), fl 1974 :Photographs relating to the Edmonds family and fire brigades

Date: 1880 - 1920

By: Reffin, Joyce Hazel, 1918-1987; De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925

Reference: PAColl-4629

Description: Photographs of men on a fire truck outside the Thorndon Fire Station ca 1919, a montage of the six staff of No.3 Station (Thorndon), the engine of the Wellington Harbour Board fire brigade, 'SS Airedale', 'Margaret Ann', Captain Edmonds' house at Port Chalmers, George Edmonds, Wellington Central Fire Station. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

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View of the Government Buildings, Wellington

Date: [ca 1880]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-12-24

Description: View of the Government Building and Supreme Court on Lambton Quay, and ships in Wellington Harbour taken from the Bolton Street Cemetery by W H W Davis in 1880s. Government House is on the left and St-Andrews-on-the-Terrace on the right. In the immediate foreground are headstones (inscriptions unable to be deciphered). Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

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[Programmes and fliers relating to plays and dramatic performances in New Zealand. 1887].

Date: 1887

Reference: Eph-B-DRAMA-1887

Description: Includes: Bland Holt. "The world!", by Paul Merritt, Henry Pettitt & Augustus Harris. Princess Theatre Dunedin. First time since 1882 [1887]. Programme (dated from an open letter from a mayoral candidate William Dawson, in the margins of page 2) Willamson Garner and Musgrove present the Royal Comedy Company in "Betsy!" by F C Bernand. New Opera House Wellington. [1887?] Programme. Williamson Garner and Musgrove present "Human nature", by Henry Pettitt and Augustus Harris. Opera House Wellington. 26 December 1887. Programme. Williamson Garner & Musgrove Royal Comedy Company. "The magistrate", by Pinero. In Wellington for the first time. [February 1887?].To be followed by "Hasel Kirke" by Steel Mackaye; "Betsy", by F C Burnand, and the charming comedies "Nita's first", and "Written in sand". Wellington Opera House, 1887? Programme Mr George Leitch assisted by Mr H C Sidney and Miss Alice Norton in "Harbour lights", by G R Sims and Henry Pettitt. New Opera House Wellington. Monday November 21st [1887?]. Programme. Wybert Reeve and his very popular Comedy Company. Farewell return to Wellington for a short season. "Impulse". Opera House Wellington [January 1887]. Programme. (Also advertises concert by Signor Carmini Morley). Quantity: 6 programmes. Physical Description: Letterpress items, varying sizes up to quarto. Provenance: One programme donated in 2002 by Paul Orsman, Holmes estate.

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Carterton Rugby Football Club's team photographs, Wairarapa, New Zealand

Date: 1889-1911

From: Carterton Rugby Football Club :Photographs of teams from the Rovers, Dalefield, Carterton Druids, and Carterton rugby football clubs

Reference: PAColl-7074-01

Description: Group photographs of the Carterton Rugby Club's rugby football teams. Carterton District, Wairarapa, New Zealand Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s).

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[Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Tararua Range. [1880s or 1890s?]

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-051

Description: A small house in a cleared landscape in the foreground, with foothills and the Tararua Range in the background. The view is likely to be from the western Wairarapa area The same house is shown in the preceding view in the sketchbook. (E-346-2-049) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

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Ferguson, A P (Mrs), fl 1967 :Photographs of military forces, Wellington and the member...

Date: [188-?-190-?]

By: Ferguson, A P (Mrs), active 1967

Reference: PAColl-0045

Description: Photographs of military forces, Wellington and members of the Wellington Kennel Club, taken ca 1880s-1900. Photographs of members of B, D and F Battery of an artillery regiment taken at the Military Tournament at Hutt Race Course on 9th November 1891. They are standing or kneeling with their swords and their insignia can be seen on their arms. Portrait of the 1st New Zealand Contingent, taken November 1899 by Feeney Photo. Two men in naval uniform and one possibly in a mounted rifles uniform outside a tent ca 1890s. The names given are Campbell and Bell (naval) and Moorhouse. Men of an artillery regiment at the Military Tournament at Hutt Race Course in 1891 next to a wheeled gun. The names given are: Brown, Grise(?), Perrin, Burn, Tuckey, Howe, Tineman(?), Johnston, Jeffreys. The Education Board Offices on Mercer Street of which the Technical School occupied the second storey ca 1889 with a number of people in the yard outside. View along looking south along Lambton Quay with shops on the right including E Barber. House on sub-division 29-31 in Northland, Wellington ca 1878 View of the Wellington Club on The Terrace. Photograph of Government House, taken 1890 Photograph of NZ Loan & Mercantile Agency, Wellington Photograph of Anglican Cathedral, Christchurch Photograph of Cook & Co, land agents, Wellington Source of title - Title supplied by Library For other photographs of artillery regiments at the Military Tournament see PAColl-0731 Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

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Album of New Zealand views

Date: 1880s

From: Three albums of New Zealand views

Reference: PA1-o-983

Description: Views of New Zealand, comprising Mt Egmont from New Plymouth Domain, Napier, bullock team hauling wool at Cheviot, Wellington, Manawatu Gorge bridge, Manawatu Gorge, Rimutaka railway, Mount Alexander, Otira Gorge, Lyttelton breakwater, Armagh Street bridge in Christchurch, and Christchurch Cathedral. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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J C Crawford album 1

Date: 1870s - 1880s

From: Crawford family :Photographs of James Coutts Crawford and family

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920

Reference: PA1-q-059

Description: Album of views of New Zealand and Europe. The New Zealand views were mostly taken by James Bragge, during the 1870s and 1880s, and were chiefly of the Wellington Region. One loose photograph inserted in the album shows the laying of the foundation stone at Scots College, Wellington, by Mr. Aitken, in April 1918. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, 37.5 x 29.2 mm

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Gear Meat Processing Company Ltd :[Five plans - 1889, 1914, 1920-1930s, 1977?].

Date: 1889 - 1914 - 1930 - 1939

By: Gear Meat Processing Ltd

Reference: Plans-2002-014-001/007

Description: Includes: 001. Gear Meat Co.y's works, Petone. [1889] (Ink drawing) 002. Gear Meat Company's works, Petone, 1914 (Blueprint) (Same as Plans-82-0093, but better preserved) 003. The Gear Meat Co. Ltd Petone. Plan of works. [1920s?] 004. Gear Meat Processing Co Ltd. [Plan. 1930s?] 005. Gear Meat Co Ltd. General plant layout. DRG no 38-0-400 [1977?] (Same as Plans-82-0092) 006. Gear Meat Coys Works Petone / Frank J Hibell, insurance surveyor. [19--?] 007. Gear Meat Coys Works Petone. [19--?] Quantity: 7 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo, blueprint and ink plans, sizes varying. Transfers: From Cartographic Collection - Transferred from Cartographic Collection in 2002 and June 2003..

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Photographs of New Zealand scenes

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).

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Yachting in the channel at Somes Island

Date: 18 December 1887

From: Halse, Frederick James, 1863-1936 : Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/2-004064-G

Description: Yachts in the channel at Somes Island, including the yacht Rewa (on right), photographed on 18 December 1887 by Frederick James Halse of Wellington. Identified and dated from typescript index to negatives, housed at file TL 6/1/17. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches Processing information: Originally housed in Halse Collection box 2.

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Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936 :The cabbage trees, Lowry Bay. [18--]

Date: 1880 - 1898

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook

By: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936

Reference: E-208-q-005-2

Description: Newspaper cutting of a photograph taken by Wright of large cabbage trees growing on the hills behind Lowry Bay, Wellington. The photographer was probably H C C Wright. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 148 x 103 mm

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