Places

Date: [Between 1930 and 1934]

By: New Zealand Railways; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm); Mitchell, Lindsay, active 1930-1942

Reference: PA1-f-058

Description: Album of publicity photographs including designs for advertisements for use in the new Zealand Railway Magazine; designs for posters for use in Railways Ticket Offices and one for a large neon lighting sign "Suggested `Claude Neon' Display for New Zealand Railway Publicity Department, Wellington. `Travel by train'". One photograph is entitled "`Post' corner 1880. Now site of King's Chambers". A number of images show a [Labour Day?] parade of marching people, and floats some of which are advertising NZ Railways holiday destinations, with slogans reading `Come to Rotorua', `Come to Waitomo', `Come to The Chateau Tongariro'. There are designs of title pages for the New Zealand Railways Magazine; a view of a commemorative key with a sheaf of corn on the handle in a presentation box; and designs for a programme of events surround the laying of the foundation stone for the new Government Railway Station, Wellington, N.Z. by HRH the Duke of Gloucester, December 17th 1934. These are followed by photographs taken during the Duke's tour of New Zealand, including crowd scenes in Wellington, Maori celebrations of welcome at Ngaruawahia, and scenes in the Rotorua thermal area. There are a few individual and group portraits of the management and administrative staff of New Zealand Railways, most unidentified. Most of the images relate to the 1930s, but there are a few copies of earlier photographs. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, maroon spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C4'; 42 x 59 cm

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: [ca 1973-1974]

From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs

Reference: PA12-8663

Description: Photographs relating to the Hannah Playhouse include - Photographs of the site which include views of Cambridge Terrace, the Taj Mahal, lower Courtenay Place, the bus terminus in Courtenay Place, and the Hannah Playhouse under construction and completed. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1970-1973

From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs

Reference: PAColl-9938-11

Description: Photographs, bromides and documents relating to the Hannah Playhouse, Wellington. Includes - Photographs recording the construction of the theatre. Bromides of plans and perspective drawings. Brief and specifications for the project dated 1 July 1970. Article on the theatre by Helmut Einhorn. Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: All of these items were originally in an album. They were removed because the plastic enclosures had become degraded and sticky, and were bonding with the prints. Everything has been kept in the sequence that they were in, when the album was received by the Library..

Date: 1890 - 1910

By: Fletcher, Frances Ann, 1846-1935

Reference: A-123-027

Description: Shows Armagh Street bridge over Avon River from Cambridge Terrace, with two cabbage trees in foreground and other exotic trees. Cathedral spire on left, rooftops of central city buildings, including United Service Hotel building and Post Office tower centre right, and Port Hills with Castle Rock beyond. Photographs of Armagh Street Bridge show wrought ironwork rather than solid stone in the top section. United Service Hotel building was under construction in 1885 and was completed about 1886. Post Office Tower did not have its clock in 1879, but this was in place in mid-1880s. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 223 x 288 mm