Wellington Railway Station

Date: 1 December 1976

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

Reference: EP/1976/4366-F

Description: Hunger striker Vicki Currie with Amnesty Aroha pamphlets outside Wellington Railway Station in Bunny Street. Photograph taken 3 December 1976 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: c1930s

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PA7-21-03

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

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0033-1/2-G

Description: Photograph in the style of a greetings card decorated with fern leaves, with a montage of images relating to railways, and in particular the Wellington railway line. Images include from top left: A Baldwin locomotive (Class Wa, 1901); Leaving Wellington (Manawatu Railway Company); Rounding Pipitea, Interior of the North Signal Cabin); Points rods and signals (Wellington); Thorndon Railway Station; Front of Royal engine; South Signal Cabin (Wellington); Thorndon Railway Yard; An American car. Photograph by Albert Percy Godber. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - centre - Glimpses on the railway. With the seasons greetings.; Photographer's title on negative - top left - A Baldwin locomotive.; Photographer's title on negative - top left - Leaving Wellington. Manawatu Rly Coy.; Photographer's title on negative - top right - Rounding Pipitea.; Photographer's title on negative - top right - Interior of signal cabin.; Photographer's title on negative - centre left - Points rods and signals.; Photographer's title on negative - centre - Thorndon Railway Station.; Photographer's title on negative - centre right - Front of Royal engine.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Signal cabin Wellington; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Thorndon Railway Yard.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - An American car. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [ca 1860s-1870s]

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

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-11-04

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

Date: [ca 2 February 1974]

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

Reference: EP/1974/0509-F

Description: Taxi drivers David Yee and John Leonidas beside Yee's Chrysler Valiant Ranger XL at Wellington Railway Station. Photographs taken ca 2 February 1974 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: ca 1937

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/2-101163-G

Description: Shop selling magazines, books, cigarettes, and other items, at the Wellington Railway Station, circa June 1937. Shows the staff behind the counter. Photograph taken by William Hall Raine. The station opened in June 1937. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1952

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[39 copies of cartoons from 'Lodge looks at Wellington', Nevile Lodge, 1952]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; A H & A W Reed (Firm)

Reference: J-059-005

Description: The scene is the Wellington Railway Station where a man and his wife are standing in the deserted station beside their luggage. They are waiting to be met but their hosts have not arrived as the train has arrived on time, a most unexpected event. Exhibited in 'Lodge Laughs at Wellington: Celebrating the life and works of cartoonist Nevile Lodge' exhibition of cartoons By Nevile Lodge on Wellington topics over the period 1943-1988, curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive for the Wellington Museum of City and Sea, and exhibited at the Museum from 25 May to August 2004. Published in book 'Lodge Laughs at Wellington' by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive, 2004. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size laser copy on poster paper.

Date: 2000

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-

Reference: H-616-001/050

Description: 49 cartoons on political and social subjects published in the Otago Daily Times. Topics include the Olympic Games in Sydney, drugs in sport, rugby, women's hockey, corruption in sport (cricket), the falling value of New Zealand dollar, economic woes, the Government's 'Closing the Gaps' policy, superannuation, the dole, taxation and business, student loans, New Zealand's outwards migration, overstayers in New Zealand, televising of parliament, the political style of Helen Clark and of Marian Hobbs, the Coalition, parental leave, Jim Anderton's proposal for a 'Peoples' Bank', travel health scare, health issues and the Treaty of Waitangi, the proposed extension of the matrimonial property act to same sex partners, animal testing, prison sentences, railway crossing accidents and Transrail, Serbian elections, the United States Presidential election, conflict and bigotry in the Middle East, subdivision issues in Queenstown, and pets. corruption in sport (swimming) sexism in sport heavy use of commercials between television coverage of Olympic Games Helen Clark and Jenny Shipley fight for the attention of Australian Premier, Howard New Zealands monetary woes Labour Party and business relationship hindered by compliance costs Treaty of Waitangi considerations in hospital waiting list priorities, childrens role-models, blood clots durin air travel, MP's travel perks. Quantity: 49 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: A4 photocopies

Date: ca 1938-1940

By: McKenzie, Albert Lindsay, active 1940; McKenzie, Andrew E, active 1998

Reference: PA1-o-909

Description: Album of photographs taken by Albert Lyndsay McKenzie, showing Haywards substation, Centennial Exhibition, Union Airways aircraft at Rongotai airport, and views of war memorials, other monuments, some buildings and parks and gardens in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. There are also some scenic views of rivers and landscape, and one photograph of bee keepers at work on hives. Albert Lyndsay McKenzie, the father of the donor, was born in Christchurch. He started an apprenticeship as a process art engraver, which was interrupted by World War 2, and never completed. He returned to Christchurch after the war. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1936 - 1940

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to the tourism industry, travel agents and agencies. 1900-1949]

By: Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers); Hurst, Arthur Bendigo, 1890-1964

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Wellington-1938-01

Description: Coloured image of a man sweating as he pushes an open-top yellow car steered by his wife. The photograph strip inside the flap contains 12 views of: an aerial view of Wellington and harbour, Parliament Buildings, Citizens' War Memorial, Wellington from Mt Victoria, Botanical Gardens, City and Harbour, Carillon, Days Bay, National Museum and Art Gallery, Railway Station, Beach at Oriental Bay, Jubilee Floating Dock. Dated ca 1938, as the National Art Gallery was built in 1936. Quantity: 6 Other printed ephemera item(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph on card, with opening flap containing black and white photolithograph strip 455 x 63 mm, concertina-folded to 36 x 63 mm.

Date: [ca 1930s-1940s]

Reference: PAColl-6848

Description: 25 images including two of what is probably earthquake damage to buildings in Hawke's Bay following the 1931 earthquake; four of a gathering at a wool shed flying the union jack (location unknown); one of the war memorial in Cathedral Square, Christchurch; one of a small wooden church without a tower or steeple (location unknown); a general view of the town where the same church is located; two of a derailment; eight of various locomotives, steam, diesel and electric, including one of a railcar sitting at Wellington Railway Station and one of an electric locomotive and carriages at Paekakariki station; one of a line of buses at a rural depot with passengers waiting; two boys and a man next to their car; a boy crouching next to a man; and a landscape (location unknown). Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-029898 to 029903, 030017, 030035 to 030036, 030039, 030044 to 030050, 030997, 031000 to 031003, 031006, 031011 and 031015. Quantity: 25 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: ca 1950s

By: Calcinai, J M (Mrs), active 1972

Reference: PAColl-7382

Description: The Thorndon Quay facade of Wellington Railway Station with a bus parked on the left. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1910s-1950s]

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6866

Description: 152 views and portraits. They include: at least 22 of Picton and and the surrounding area showing boating in the harbour, people pic-nicking on the waterfront, people watching a rowing race, a speedboat called Pelorus Jack racing in the Sounds, and ferries coming in to the terminus; 10 images of the geothermal area around Wairakei inlcuding mud pools and geysers; nine images of a Studebaker Commander 6 either parked at scenic views or driving along country roads; eight images of men talking possibly at race meetings; six of the timber industry particularly the building of a timber boom; four aerial views of a liner coming into Auckland harbour; three views of groups of well-dressed men and women wearing what are possibly conference badges in an area decorated with bunting; three similar images of a large group of women photographed at Te Aro School near the Carillon also with conference badges; three general views of Wellington harbour; three images of the Spa Hotel, Taupo; two images of two women in bathing suits; two views of the railway station from The Terrace, Wellington; two views of a girl in Wellington Botanic Gardens; a scene on board the RMS Mononwai with a woman being photographed framed by the life belt; two of Aorangi; one of the ferry Cobar in Wellington Harbour; two of children riding on donkeys; two of the same elderly couple outside their house; two of young men on the boat Starlight; a group of what are probably sheep shearers outside their shed; Aotea Quay, Wellington; the yacht Ilex in Wellington harbour; children playing on swings; a large wooden gothic style house (location unknown); sheep droving; two women on a Bell Bus Company tour; various scenes on board ship including passengers watching an entertainer, a boxing match and a crossing the equator ceremony; a ship's officer climing down a rope ladder on the side of a ship; two of kauri trunks being transported on the Roxen, 1932; and a small child looking at an overturned carved wooden statue. The majority of the remaining images are of unidentified landscapes. Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-030982, 030983, 030985, 030992 to 030996, 030998, 031005, 031007 to 031010, 031012, 031013, 031016 to 031045, 031049, 031051 to 031059, 031154 to 031192, 031198 to 031203, 031205 to 031217, 031227 to 031248, 031737, 031739, 031740, 092294 to 092305 Quantity: 114 b&w original negative(s) film. 38 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1887 - 1897

By: Bourke, D A, active 1927-1970

Reference: Plans-80-2268

Description: Plan drawing of part of Thorndon Quay between the Railway Station yards and the section beyond Davis Street, showing the areas in which different groups were to gather to celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden or Diamond Jubilee. Estimates of numbers expected are given. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 430 x 550 mm Provenance: Donation: D A Bourke, 10 Mar 1970

Date: 1938

Reference: PA1-q-052

Description: Album chiefly shows members of a Lands & Survey team surveying boundaries etc, in the Chatham Islands, and in South Canterbury, circa 1938. Residents of the Chatham Islands, various locations in the islands and activities such as sheep transportation from the islands to Lyttelton and Wellington by ship are shown. Another sequence shows drainage and irrigation procedures in South Canterbury. The photographer is probably Russell Gladstone Dick, later the New Zealand Surveyor-General. Other - Source of descriptive information - Card inserted in album which reads "Ample evidence this is a 1938 Lands and Surveys team surveying boundaries etc ... The photographer is shown in photos 126, 127 and 112, and is probably Mr Dick, later NZ Surveyoe General ..." Signed "Rhys Richards". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark blue cloth-covered album, 35.5 x 22.5 cm

Date: [Chiefly between 1934 and 1947]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-194

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber, chiefly between 1934 and 1947, but including copies of some of his earlier photographs. Views include trips in the North and South Islands, and views of his home and family, especially in Whiteman's Valley Road and the area around Silverstream. Also various scenes of floods (Hutt River), and storm damage. Photographs associated with roads and railways include steam locomotives, tunnels, bridges and viaducts, some under construction. Among the trip photographs are views of Ngaruawahia, including King Koroki's house (opened in 1938) and the Maori Parliament House. Other views of Maori interest include meeting houses, rock paintings and wood carving. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 100 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 26.0 x 33.5 cm

Date: [1930s]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-057

Description: Album of photographs of scenes, advertisements and posters advertising rail and ferry travel in New Zealand. The advertisements were used in The New Zealand Railways Magazine, and the posters were displayed at Railways Ticket Offices. The posters, and advertisements using "Mr Goodseat" were part of their campaign to show the advantages of travel by rail. The artist for many of these signed himself 'Matthews'. Scenic photographs also show some aspects of life in New Zealand, including a series on the flax industry with harvesting, drying and processing the fibres. Another group shows a farm, including a house made of corrugated iron, with sacking covering the windows; land clearing and ploughing with horses, draining the land, and a pile of harvested kumara; and several photographs of a man panning for gold, and inspecting pieces of rock with a magnifying glass; a group of men on horseback with dogs setting out on a hunt, and a cage full of pheasants before being released for the shoot. Pages 78-81 show activities associated with the mail service. They include people buying stamps in a post office, men sorting mail, large bags prepared for out-of-town delivery (some bags being delivered to the inter-island ferry for transport to the South Island). From there they show postmen emerging from the Chief Post Office with their satchels ready for local delivery, with the final scenes of delivery into a household letterbox, and one of a woman being handed her mail at the door. There are a number of much earlier photographs in the album, including pictures of Major Ropata, Sir Donald McLean, John Webster and F E Maning, and one of Te Aro in 1857. Advertisements included "Buy New Zealand made goods, for the children's sake. Cut these cords. Unemployment"; an advertisement for Hannah's footwear using a photograph of The Mystery train" (advertising a trip to Paraparaumu Beach, and another to Ohau). Several photographs show large groups of people who travelled on the Mystery Train, picnicking at the beach at Paraparaumu, boiling up a huge billy, and a child in a backpack on her father's back). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C3"; 39 x 56 cm

Date: 1901

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd; Schmidt, William Shaw Diedrich, 1870-1968; Morice, Louisa Jane Spotswood, 1873-1957

Reference: A-216-007-a

Description: An invitation to Dr C G and Mrs Morice. In the centre top is the royal coat of arms. Left top is a view of Wellington Harbour with Lyttelton Harbour at the right top. Centre left are portraits of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra and centre right are portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall (later George V and Queen Mary). Bottom left is a cavalry soldier with the uniform worn for the South African war, his horse behind him, followed by a view of Auckland Harbour, the arms of New Zealand, a view of Port Chalmers and a Maori chief with Mount Taranaki behind him Extended Title - Supplement to Brett's Christmas Annual, Dec. 1, 1922 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph glued to card, 284 x 360 mm

Date: 1999

From: Kember, Ian :Photographs of Wellington City, events, and personalities

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-6924-03

Description: Aotea Quay Wellington showing surrounding buildings, the constuction of the WestpacTrust Stadium walkways, the station yards and platforms. Photographed by Ian Kember 10 january 1999 Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 37006 to 35mm, 37021 Quantity: 24 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1931

By: Palliser, E (Mrs), active 1959; Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-862

Description: Panoramic view of Wellington City, taken 1923 by R P Moore from the Wireless Station, located on Tinakori Hill, Wellington. See also PA6-859 and PA6-005. Title taken from item. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Panorama of Wellington, N.Z. from Wireless Stn 1923 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, 23.7 x 100.2 cm.