A bay adjacent to Pepin Island between Ataata Point and Fall Cove approximately 16 km northeast of Nelson City. It was at this bay that the Eastern Extension Cable Company established the eastern terminal of the first telegraph cable between NZ and Australia, opened on 21 Febrary 1876.
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Date:
[ca 1895-1910]
By:
Brusewitz, Henry Elis Leopold, 1855-1922
Ref:
PA7-57-16
Description:
Photograph of a group of people at Cable Bay. They are standing and sitting near the water's edge. In the immediate foreground is a rowboat. In the backgroun...
Date:
1882 - 1980
By:
Gully, John, 1819-1888
Ref:
C-085-109
Description:
Shows canoes, and Maori in the foreground, Cable Bay (Nelson) in the background
Original watercolour in Bishop Suter Art Gallery, Nelson, measures 370 x 65...
Date:
1882 - 1980
By:
Gully, John, 1819-1888
Ref:
C-085-109-a
Description:
Shows canoes, and Maori in the foreground, Cable Bay (Nelson) in the background
Other Titles - Pa
Quantity: 2 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: P...
Date:
[1895-1916]
By:
Allan, John Calder, 1879-1963
Ref:
PAColl-8518
Description:
Photographs taken at Cable Bay, Nelson, ca 1895-1916, showing chiefly employees.
Quantity: 6 album(s).
Date:
[1900s]
By:
Brookes, L V, active 1962
Ref:
PA1-o-070
Description:
Album of photographs relating to the Cable Bay Station, including group portraits of the post & telegraph staff, staff quarters, the telegraph instrument roo...
Date:
Ca 1890s
From:
Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
Ref:
10x8-0399-G
Description:
Other Titles - Tyree No. 1385
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Date:
ca 1890s
From:
Donne, Anne, fl 1975 :Photographs mainly of Richard John Seddon in New Zealand and the Pacific
By:
Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Tyree Brothers (Firm)
Ref:
PAColl-3329-01
Description:
Photographs of: a group of people gathered to watch sports on the Queen's Birthday in Tonga including Seddon; a view of the coast at Cape Foulwind; a letter...
Date:
[1865, 1900-1905]
By:
Macey, William Henry, -1931; J H Bethune and Company Ltd
Ref:
PA1-o-1231
Description:
Album of views of Picton (including visit of Governor Ranfurly and New Year celebrations); Waimakariri, Broken River (including a workmens's camp) and Otaram...
Date:
1890s
From:
Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection
By:
Kitch, George B D, active 1880s-1915
Ref:
PA1-q-263
Description:
Photographs of the ship HMS Ringdove, her crew, and various ports of call in New Zealand, Australia, Chatham Islands, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), and Cook Island...
From:
Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
By:
Tyree Brothers (Firm)
Ref:
PA7-23-25
Description:
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Date:
February 28th 1893
From:
Leask, Gordon Glassford, 1914-2006 :Photographs
By:
Brusewitz, Henry Elis Leopold, 1855-1922
Ref:
PA1-o-259
Description:
Photograph album of views of Nelson, taken by Henry Brusewitz in the early 1890s, presented to Mrs Johnson in 1893.
One view shows the confluence of the Rodi...
Date:
[Between 1899 and 1902]
By:
Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946
Ref:
PA1-o-293
Description:
Album of photographs probably taken by George W Barltrop (who was at one time president of the Nelson Camera Club), between 1899 and 1902.
Scenes include gro...
Date:
1908-1915
From:
Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs
Ref:
PA1-o-1551
Description:
Photographs relating to Mr R V Kay. Includes photographs of snow storm at Nelson College, Easter 1911 with Gilbert Coombe and family, Auckland Express train,...
Date:
2000 - 2009
Ref:
Eph-A-ARTS-2000s-01/03
Description:
Three postcards showing models against rocky or stony backgrounds, wearing bodypaint. Titles are:
"Anna", Motueka River, N.Z. (Aotearoa)
"Anke & Andrea", One...
Date:
1989
By:
Millwood Press; Gully, John, 1819-1888
Ref:
C-086-1989-01-a
Description:
Reproductions on a calendar of twelve watercolours by John Gully from the Alexander Turnbull Library and the Bishop Suter Art Gallery: The great Tasman Glaci...
Date:
1989
By:
Millwood Press; Gully, John, 1819-1888
Ref:
C-086-1989-01
Description:
Reproductions on a calendar of twelve watercolours by John Gully from the Alexander Turnbull Library and the Bishop Suter Art Gallery: The great Tasman Glaci...
Date:
1888
By:
Gully, John, 1819-1888
Ref:
A-274-071
Description:
Scene shows a figure in a canoe passing by a bushy headland. In the distance at the left is a group of buildings with a hill behind them.
Cable Bay was the ...
Date:
[ca 1900]
From:
Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
Ref:
1/1-000949-G
Description:
Overlooking the settlement at Cable Bay, Nelson, circa 1900. Shows houses and gardens in the foreground with the Bay behind. Photograph taken by the Tyree St...
Date:
[Between 1863 and 1888]
From:
Bloch, Theodor Thorlacius, 1844-1935 :Photographs of New Zealand
Ref:
PA1-q-034
Description:
Views of New Zealand, interspersed with views of Australia and Denmark. The New Zealand images are chiefly of the Nelson and Tasman regions, including the Ma...
Date:
[ca 1900]
From:
Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
Ref:
1/1-000948-G
Description:
Cable Bay, circa 1900, photographed by the Tyree Studio.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Glass negative
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