Harbours - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1914

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-914

Description: Opens with a group of men on a tramp into the valley of the Orongorongo River in the southern Rimutaka Ranges. Included are views of the river and surrounding mountains, in particular Mount Matthews which they climbed posing for a photograph at the Mt Matthews trig station. There are views in the native forest and one looking over the Wainuiomata Valley. One image shows a group of men standing on the Fernside Railway Station labled as the "Mt Hector Party". This probably relates to a group of photographs later in the album recording a tramp in the Taraua Ranges. A group of five photographs records a trip to the Dawson Falls on Mount Egmont. There are views of the road leading to the falls through native forest, the group sitting on a huge rock below the falls, and the falls themselves. The other images in this group show the party on the Mountain, and loaded onto a cart at Eltham. Two pages of views of Days Bay, Lower Hutt, showing individual houses, Croyden School, and coastal scenes. A surveying trip to Kapiti Island. Views of the western cliff face of the island, the caretaker's house and surroundings, a tame deer, nautilus shells, and H E Girdlestone standing beside an 8 inch micrometer on a tripod. Views of the Volcanic Plateau showing Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro and the surrounding plains. The departure of the Main Expeditionary Force from Wellington during the First World War. The focus of these images is on the transports moored at the wharves, and the two escorting warships, the Japanese "Ibuki" and the British H M S "Minotaur", in the harbour. A group of women playing golf on the Waiwhetu golf links Family and friends at Eastbourne. Trip to the West Coast and the glaciers. Views of the main road south of Ross passing through heavy native forest, the Franz Josef Glacier and people climbing its ice fields, Mount Tasman, the Toaroha Rapids, and the Fox Glacier. There are also views of the Pelorus River and Bridge, the Buller Gorge, the Buller River, and the bridge on the road between Lyell and Inangahua. A general view of Greymouth where the party stayed with friends whoes two children were photographed driving peddle cars. A southern crossing of the Tararua Ranges. The route was by way of Mount Reeves, then down into the Tauherenikau River valley, along the river, then up to Mount Alpha and along the ridges to Hector and out again along the Waiotauru River to Otaki Forks. There are two photographs of members of the tramping party, as well as general views of the ranges, the rivers, a mountain tarn, and the Waihoanga Bridge. A visit to the Army training camp at Trentham. Photographs of individual soldiers and groups of soldiers and visitors. Three views of a man on horseback and a dog in the Manganuiateo River. Three images of surveyors making observations at a trig station using an 8 inch micrometer. Views of the Southern Alps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Between 1954 and 1968]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-200

Description: Album of photographs, some prints, some contacts from 35mm film, taken by Professor John Salmon in Wellington. Most of the images describe his use of different camera lenses and filters. Many of the scenes are taken from Professor Salmon's window at Victoria University of Wellington, showing different moods in different weather patterns. They include early morning, afternoon, and night views, northerly wind and southerly wind cloud patterns, including a southerly storm. He also has a large number of images of Wellington Harbour and wharves, again taken in different lights, showing ships, reflections and buildings. Other sequences show views of the Hutt Valley, Silverstream, and Glenmore Street in Wellington, many taken on misty early mornings. The last scenes are coloured photographs showing some of the decorations erected for the Royal visit of Queen Elizabeth II, in January 1954. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cream cover, Cobra ring binder; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1841 - 1842

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; C Hullmandel (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: C-026-001-c

Description: View from the corner of Willis Street and Lambton Quay looking along the length of Lambton Quay. See also key to this view at C-026-001 First plate, 1st issue, hand-coloured Library holds original watercolour on which this print is based at C-025-010, title: Thorndon flat and part of the city of Wellington ... April 1841 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, two-tone, handcoloured, 366 x 524 mm

Date: 1893

By: New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works; New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal

Reference: D-001-005-a

Description: See D-001-005 for details Same as D-001-005, -005-b & -005-c and a framed copy at G-385. The copy at D-001-005 has been digitised Extended Title - Supplement to the Christmas number of the New Zealand Graphic, 1893 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 360 x 940 on sheet 455 x 1015 mm

Date: 1923

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-379-049

Description: Shows a view over foreground bush down towards city buildings and ships in Wellington Harbour. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 230 x 292 mm.

Date: 1854 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-080-1

Description: A Maori canoe in the sea in the foreground, a house by the beach on part of Brown's (Mayhew's) Island on the left and rocks and Hiko's Island on the right. The name Hiko's Island is no longer in use Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 100 x 215 mm

Date: 1864

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: C-007-010

Description: Shows two rather elegantly dressed figures on a stretch of road at the right foreground. The road skirts around a small bluff, and is separated from the water by a gently sloping rocky face. In the distance is the future site of Wellington City. On the water in the middle distance are a steamer and a sailboat. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 314 x 520 mm

Date: 1932

By: Wellington Harbour Board

Reference: Eph-A-HARBOUR-Wellington-1932-01

Description: Pamphlet showing an end elevation of the floating dock, a locality plan of Wellington Harbour, a description of the dock with dimensions, a photograph of the dock entering the harbour from England on 28 December 1931, and a photograph of the RMS "Ruahine" in the dock. The front cover shows the bow of the inter-island ferry steamer "Rangatira" on the dock. There is a list of charges for using the dock. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on pamphlet, 225 x 285 mm, folded to 225 x 95 mm.

Date: 2 May 1970

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

Reference: EP/1978/1611-F

Description: Cranes on Glasgow Wharf, Wellington, New Zealand. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 2 May 1978. (From Evening Post caption) The growth in container traffic and greater use of shipboard gear is making cranes like these redundant. The cranes which can only unload conventional cargo, have been idle for several months. Decisions on their ultimate future will not be made for some time as the Harbour Board still requires some capacity for unloading conventional cargo. The number of conventional cranes operated by the board has fallen to 22. The cranes in the photograph came into operation 15 years ago at an individual cost of $60,000 - only a fraction of the cost of the board's new container crane which will be about $3,600,000. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 2006

From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]

By: Mathie, Heather Catherine, 1971-

Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-2006-01

Description: Shows reproductions of photographs supplied by the Alexander Turnbull Library, featuring scenes from Wellington, Wellington Harbour, Queens Wharf, Lambton Quay, Mt Victoria Tunnel, Rongotai Airport, tramway workers at Kilbirnie workshops, anti-submarine boom from Eastbourne to Ward Island, derailed tram in Kilbirnie. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on calendar. Physical Description: Photolithographs on openings of calendar, each page 210 x 298 mm. Provenance: Donated by Heather Mathie, Wellington, in 2006.

Date: 1890 - 1949

From: Various artists :[Thirty-nine watercolours, the collection and/or work of Maurice Crompton Smith. 1890-1940s].

Reference: A-372-005

Description: Shows distant hills seen over the harbour water. Artist may be Maurice Crompton Smith. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 130 x 179 mm.

Date: 1967

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook]. July 1967-January 1968.

Reference: E-472-f-005

Description: View of the harbour and Somes Island as seen from hills in vicinity of Broadmeadows. In the foreground is a building and stockyards? Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink 270 x 375 mm

Date: [ca 1866-1868]

From: Tait, Ethna Bessie J, fl 1960 :Photographs of early Wellington

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-43-09

Description: View of the intersection of Thorndon Quay and Mulgrave Street, Thorndon, Wellington with the harbour and a row boat in the foreground photographed by W H W Davis. From left to right are: Clents & Dawson, grocers and general storekeepers; painting and paperhanging shop; Warcup's bootmaking business; J Greaves, plumber and glazier; Thistle Inn. St Paul's Pro-Cathedral is on the right. Relationship complexity - Original negative at 10x8-2087-G Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.6 x 18.2 cm on mount 25.2 x 30.2 cm

Date: 1908 - 1909

From: [Postcard album of cards collected by Bessie Cornish. 1905-1920].

Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-12-075

Description: Shows a view of the Hutt Road with the railway beside it, and an overhead bridge, across which the New Plymouth train is steaming. Wellington is in the distance, with the harbour at the left. Published by Fergusson Limited, and printed in Sydney. Sepia series. Exhibited in 'Petone Days; Photographs by Percy Godber 1900-1920 (Exhibition)' Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard in album.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 89 x 138 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs B L M August in 1976.

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039485-G

Description: Warship, Wellington Harbour. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: Evans, I, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-1519

Description: Photographs taken on holiday in New Zealand by woman identified as I Evans. Comprises photographs of men, women and children from Tuhourangi and Arawa iwi, many in traditional costume; Model Village at Whakarewarewa; Ohinemutu Pa; Lake Rotorua; Guide Ruth, Ana Hato; Guide Rangi; Wairakei geysers; Rotomahana; buried forest; Arapuni; Hongi's Track; Lake Taupo; Wellington Harbour from Ngaio; tobacco growing at Riwaka; apple packing shed at Redwood's Valley, Nelson; Devils Boots, Collingwood; Government Buildings, Wellington; Wainui House, Nelson; houseboat, Whanganui River; self-portraity of photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 151 x 202 mm Provenance: Purchase, 2009

Date: [ca 1880]

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

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-12-24

Description: View of the Government Building and Supreme Court on Lambton Quay, and ships in Wellington Harbour taken from the Bolton Street Cemetery by W H W Davis in 1880s. Government House is on the left and St-Andrews-on-the-Terrace on the right. In the immediate foreground are headstones (inscriptions unable to be deciphered). Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1960 - 1965

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973 :Old homes & sheds, farms made by pioneers in Norsewood. [1950s-1964].

By: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973

Reference: E-029-q-073

Description: View of Evans Bay Road (Parade) lined with telegraph posts, looking east towards the Hutt Valley in the far distance. Evans Bay and the harbour are on the right. In the immediate foreground is the foreshore with a dinghy upturned at the water's edge and further away a boatshed with a red roof. A ship is in the distance heading to the entrance to the harbour. Other Titles - Evans Bay Parade Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour and gum arabic, 245 x 315 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist available.. Provenance: Donated by Mrs J. Brenkley in 1964.

Date: 1909

By: Buck, William Seldon, 1846-1919

Reference: MapColl-832.47964gbbd/1909/Acc.22978

Description: Cadastral map of the area from Urukahika Stream which acts as a boundary, to Porirua Harbour. Numbered sections include owners' names and acreages but exclude acreages of the road running along the edge of all properties. The public road is marked as 50 links wide. Names include Raiha Puaha, P. & H. Te Hiko, Matenga Te Hiko, Tere Maihi, Amiria. Pencilled additions indicated that some sections belonged to other owners than those named. Other Titles - Plan of part Te Kenepuru, Porirua, Belmont Survey District, Block 1 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and watercolour on dressed linen, coloured, scale [1:3 960], 22.6 x 37.9 cm.

Date: 2004

By: Memelink, Alfred, 1961-

Reference: A-377-001-a/017-a

Description: Includes cards with the following titles: Lighthouse [Cinema], Petone, Beach Street Te Papa Plaza Ascot Street Harbour tugs Auckland [yachts on harbour] Chaffers Marina Wellington Island Bay Evans Bay Kelburn [cable car] City to the sea Along Oriental Bay Above Oriental Bay Blair Street Wellington Arrival Wellington Summer at Kapiti Aro Street Wellington Twilight Petone foreshore Quantity: 17 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on cards, 111 x 159 mm, matted to 205 x 256 mm.