Places

Date: 1929 - 1939

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799/A/[1939?]/Acc.14588

Description: Cadastral map of Mount Victoria from Patterson Street to Oriental Bay, Wellington, showing streets, property boundaries, some section numbers, and deposited plan numbers. A few sections are named, such as Doctors Common, McIntyre. Outlines the Town Belt. Written on recto: Mount Victoria Title from recto and cataloguer Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink, part coloured, on diazo photoprint on dressed linen, scale indeterminable, 69 x 107.5 cm

Date: [ca 1928]

By: Mayne, Elsie Florence, 1909-1996

Reference: PA1-o-1768

Description: Photograph album documenting a trip to New Zealand in circa 1928 made by Mrs Elsie Florence Mayne (nee Cannan) of Australia and her husband Allan Mayne. Comprises photographs likely to have been taken by Mrs or Mr Mayne, also postcards, and tourist photographs. Album probably compiled by Mrs Mayne. Images comprise scenes taken around New Zealand. North Island locations include Auckland, Rotorua and Taupo districts, the Wanganui River, and Wellington. South Island locations include Blenheim, Nelson, Christchurch city, and the West Coast region, including Franz Josef Glacier. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Soft-covered photograph album, entitled 'Portraiture'; 18 x 25.5 cm, containing 65 images Provenance: Ms Shepherd is the niece of Mrs Elsie Mayne.

Date: [ca 1900-1929]

Reference: PAColl-6911

Description: 8 miscellaneous images: 5 aerial views of Wellington, including Hataitai before the building of the Mount Victoria tunnel, the Botanic Gardens with Karori in the distance, inland from Point Jerningham, and the railway lines and Thorndon; two of the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) greeting Maori performers; and a studio portrati of an elderly couple, the man holding an intricately carved walking stick. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048897 to 048904 Quantity: 8 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: ca 1890s-1920s

From: Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church :Photographs of the Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church

By: Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: PAColl-0396

Description: Photographs of people associated with the Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church and the church itself: group of five smartly dressed young men with buttonholes, one of them Maori; the Kent Terrace church on the corner of Pirie Street; a minister, probably Rev Elliott, with a group of young woman in a garden; Rev Baird with a rugby team; two of C S Falconer with different rugby teams, one in their strip and one from 1919 in their street clothes; a group photograph of nine men including Rev Elliott in a top hat; and a photograph captioned "The Minister and Office-Bearers of the Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church, 1915" with the following names - S McDowall, A Milne, R Johnson, J W Jack, H Horlor, H R Tolley, J C McDowall, A J McEldowney, W Miller, J S Dunnett, J S Elliott MD, G B Gould, J H Barton, G V R Fraser, W Craig, J Bingham, W H Godier (Organist), T Graham, R Scott, Sister Elizabeth (Deaconess), D Robertson, Rev J K Elliott BA DD, W M Hannay, W H Houl, J H Nancarrow, A W McGregor, E C Jack, J Tamblyn MA, C S Falconer, M Fraser, L Allen. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-077762 to 077765 Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1929

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

Reference: 1/2-046001-G

Description: View of Oriental Bay, showing houses in Mount Victoria, people walking along Oriental Parade and a crowd gathered around the original band rotunda. Photographed by Sydney Charles Smith in 1929. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

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).