Hotel Cecil (Wellington, N.Z.)

Date: 1950

By: New Zealand. Embassy (United States)

Reference: PAColl-4551

Description: Two photographs of an ANZAC Day parade in Wellington in 1950. The first shows a military band and returned servicemen walking past the war memorial at the bottom of Bowen Street with spectators lining the streets. The second shows bands, including pipe bands, coming from the direction of the Hotel Cecil and Molesworth Street towards the memorial (which is not in the picture) also watched by spectators. The Artcraft Theatre can be seen on the right. Photographer unidentified. Photograph of people sun-bathing on Kaiteriteri beach ca 1950s with the printed caption "Kaitere Beach, Nelson, South Island, New Zealand". Photographer unidentified. A stamp on the reverse of the prints reads: To Be Returned To New Zealand Embassy 16 Observatory Circle N W, Washington 8, D C. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1920 - 1929

Reference: Eph-A-DINING-1920s

Description: Includes menus for: Auckland Racing Club stewards' room. Summer meeting, 1 January 1926. Menu Luncheon tendered to Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick L Field and Officers of the Special Service Squadron. Parliament House, Wellington, New Zealand, 28 April, 1924. Royal Colonial Institute. Canterbury Branch. Farewell dinner to His Excellency Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion of New Zealand. Christchurch, New Zealand, 18th October, 1924. New Zealand annual dinner, 22nd June 1925. Hotel Victoria London (With Sir James Allen, Rt Hon Earl Jellicoe, Rt Hon L C M S Avery, Rt Hon Earl of Liverpool, Rt Hon Earl of Ranfurly, Rt Hon Lord Islington). Luncheon in honour of Admiral R E Coontz and Officers of the United States Fleet given by the New Zealand Government. Town Hall, Wellington, 12 August 1925. New Zealand Restaurant. Wembley 1925. Menu Luncheon in honour of the visiting members of the Empire Press Union. Parliament House, Wellington, N.Z. 27th August 1925. British Empire dinner at the Dome, Brighton, on Monday 23rd May, 1927, to inaugurate Empire Shopping Week. Xmas, 1928. The Season's greetings and good wishes from Mr & Mrs W Beveridge. Occidental Hotel, Wellington, N.Z. Christmas menu. Wellington District Law Society. Complimentary dinner given by the Law Practitioners of the Wellington to the Hon M Myers, in honour of his appointment as Chief Justice of New Zealand. Hotel Cecil, Wellington, 18th May 1929. The Chateau, Tongariro National Park opening November 4th 1929. Menu. Quantity: 10 menus.. Physical Description: Letterpress on cards, sizes varying below 210 mm.

Date: 1950-1959

From: New Zealand Alliance : Records

Reference: 77-206-16/4

Description: Newspaper clippings arranged by subject H-I : Hops; hotels; India; industry; imports and licenses; Hotel Cecil (Wellington) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1989-1997

From: Shephard, Wayne, active 1990-2001: Papers relating to Wellington buildings

Reference: 2007-116-087

Description: File comprises Archive of Wellington Architecture research forms. Some forms include newspaper cuttings. Selected names indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1914-1925]

Reference: PAColl-6900

Description: 134 family photographs mostly taken in a back garden but with a few taken in next to a river and by the sea (possibly Island Bay). Two views are of Wellington streets and one shows a young man at a wireless telegraphy set. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-038504 to 038639, 038655 and 106036 to 106037 Quantity: 139 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives

Date: ca 1860-1914

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: PAColl-7388

Description: The shop front of Lyon & Blair, wholesale and retail manufacturing stationers, engravers, die sinkers, steam printers and lithographers, on Lambton Quay; looking towards The Terrace from the tower of the Post Office with Lambton Quay in the foreground and P Hayman & Co on the corner - taken by Burton Bros ca 1870s; looking up Lambton Quay from the corner of Willis Street with the original Bank of New Zealand on the right ca 1860s; a survey party outside Allan Dispensing Chemist with workmen laying drains in the road ca 1870; Wilson and Richardson, importers, A R Hislop, watchmakers and jewellers, and Barraud & Son, chemists ca 1880; looking south along Lambton Quay opposite the Government Buildings with trams, carts and pedestrians in the street and Quinton's Corner on the right ca 1914; Hotel Cecil on the corner of Mulgrave Street with the Government Printing Office opposite and an archway constructed for the Royal visit - taken by Burton Brothers 1901; corner of Lambton Quay and Featherston Street with the South British Insurance Company, the Bank of New South Wales and Whitcombe and Tombs on the left ca 1880s; looking towards Willis Street with many shops on the right including William Wiggins and J & W Lloyd, watchmakers - taken by Zak ca 1900; and the Oxford and Occidental Hotels on the two corners of Johnston Street and Lambton Quay taken by Burton Brothers ca 1880. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003809, 003811, 003816, 003820, 003826, 003829, 003832, 003838 Quantity: 8 b&w original negative(s). 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1970-1976]

From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 : Papers

Reference: 77-067-6/06

Description: Typescript copy of Lawlor's `Old Wellington hotels' and corrected script, `The Wets and the drys', reminiscences of the liquor laws and how they operated, which was taped 26 Mar 1973 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1901 - 1912 - 1962 - 1904 - 1913 - 1967

By: Wellington College (Wellington, N.Z.). Old Boys' Association; Gibson, R J, active 1998

Reference: Eph-A-SCHOOLS-WCOB

Description: Eighth annual dinner. Mandel's Empire Hotel, 28 November 1901. Menu / toast list /programme Ninth annual dinner. Hotel Cecil, 27 September 1902. Menu / toast list / programme Tenth annual dinner. Hotel Cecil, Wellington NZ, 26 September 1903. Menu / toast list / programme Eleventh annual dinner. Hotel Cecil, 24 September 1904. Menu / toast list / programme Nineteenth annual dinner. Hotel Winsor, Wellington, 18 June 1912. Menu and toast list Twentieth annual dinner. Godber's, Lambton Quay, 18 June 1913. Menu and toast list; and ticket Annual dinner st Student Union Dining Room, Victoria University of Wellington. 6 October 1962. Programme / menu; and ticket for B P Barstow; years at college 1941-1944 Launching dinner in connection with Old Boys Centennial Gift Fund. Student Union Building University of Wellington, 15 October 1966. Invitation Wellington College Old Boys' Centennial Appeal. Printed by Litho Productions Ltd Wellington [1967?] (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Pamphlets and fliers, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1945 - 1950

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :[Four early cartoons. ca 1945-1950].

Reference: C-132-899

Description: Left half of a cartoon in two sheets; other half at B-156-133. Shows fifteen panels of a car touring around the buildings of Wellington. The driver points out many named buildings. All are currently housing government departments. The named buildings include: Ford Building, Todd's Building, Hope-Gibbons, James Smith's, Prudential Insurance, T & G [Macarthy's?], Hamilton Chambers, State Fire Building, Stout Street Building, Public Trust Building, Hotel Cecil. Other Titles - There's the Ford Building Date estimated as post Second World War. Estimated as pre-1950 because Lodge had not yet established his habit of incorporating the date into his signature. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing 320 x 445 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Frank Mitchell in 2002. Previously owned by his brother V Leonard W Mitchell.

Date: 1937-1959

From: New Zealand Alliance : Records

Reference: 77-206-03/15

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2 Dec 1958

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1958/4125-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm

Date: 1928

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

Reference: 1/2-048956-G

Description: Anzac Day parade alongside Hotel Cecil, Lambton Quay, Wellington, 1928. The temporary cenotaph is on the left. Reliance Motor Company, with advertisments for Ansaldo Cars, is also on the left, on Molesworth Street. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1915

From: Dickie, John, 1869-1942 :Collection of postcards, prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-3037-1-01

Description: Farewell parade for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force 6th Reinforcements along Lambton Quay, Wellington, 1915. A brass band can be seen on the left. A crowd lines the streets. In the background (centre) is the Hotel Cecil. Source of descriptive information - date changed to 1915 , previously described as 1914 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - JD 64 Departure of 6th reinforcements Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1934

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

Reference: APG-2086-1/2-F

Description: View looking over the laying of the foundation stone of the Wellington Railway Station. There are crowds of people, some seated in a raised dais at the entrance to the station. The foundations are completed, and steel framework is under construction. The old Lambton Station is visible to the left, and behind that, is the Hotel Cecil. Molesworth Street runs up the hill to the left of the hotel. Photograph taken by A P Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 16.0 x 12.0 cm

Date: [ca 18 Jul 1963]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-8557-30

Description: The former Hotel Cecil, on the corner of Lambton Quay and Mulgrave Street, Wellington, prior to its demolition. Photograph taken circa 18 July 1963 by an unidentified staff photographer for the Evening Post. Other - Published in the Evening Post 18 July 1963 Caption - Evening Post caption reads: "The two northern blocks of the former Hotel Cecil that are to come down. The smaller block is on the extreme left." Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 12 x 18.2 cm

Date: [ca 1939-1945]

From: Burt, Gordon Onslow Hilbury, 1893-1968 :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-037119-F

Description: United States troops reading books and newspapers at the Hotel Cecil, Wellington, during World War II. Taken by Gordon H Burt ca 1939-1945. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: between 1942 and 1945

From: Burt, Gordon Onslow Hilbury, 1893-1968 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-015935-F

Description: United States servicemen at the milk bar run by the Red Cross, Hotel Cecil, Wellington. Photograph taken by Gordon H Burt between 1942 and 1945. Published in `New Zealand Yesterdays; A Look at our Recent Past' by Hamish Keith and William Main, 1984, page 278 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1930

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

Reference: 1/2-048967-G

Description: Procession of boy scouts and a crowd, corner of Molesworth Street and Lambton Quay, Wellington, at Archbishop Redwood's diamond jubilee in 1930. The Hotel Cecil is on the right. The Artcraft Theatre is on the left. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Burt, Gordon Onslow Hilbury, 1893-1968 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-015603-F

Description: The Hotel Cecil, on the corner of Lambton Quay and Mulgrave Street, Wellington, circa 1920s. Lambton Stores, grocer, the chemist of C H Perrett, and an unidentified fruit shop are in the foreground, on Lambton Quay. Photograph taken by Gordon H Burt. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [1940s]

From: Burt, Gordon Onslow Hilbury, 1893-1968 :Negatives

Reference: 1/4-018034-F

Description: The Hotel Cecil, Wellington, in the 1940s, with signs reading 'American Red Cross' and 'The Cecil Club' above the entrance. Uniformed soldiers can be seen leaving the premises. Another man in uniform is on the right. Two army jeeps are parked on the left. Taken by Gordon Burt. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).