Evening Post :Assorted photographs and negatives of Wellington, including photographs of the development of Rongotai airport, Royal Visits and Public Works projects

Date
1950s - 1960s, ca1930s
By
Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference
PAColl-0945
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Quantity: 170 b&w original photographic print(s) and. 12 b&w original photographic print(s) (mounted on card) and. 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera and. 4 b&w original negative(s) in three boxes.

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170 b&w original photographic print(s) and, 12 b&w original photographic print(s) (mounted on card) and, 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera and, 4 b&w original negative(s) in three boxes, Photographs
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Sports ground, Newtown Park, Wellington, looking north-east.

Date: 1970

From: Evening Post :Assorted photographs and negatives of Wellington, including photographs of the development of Rongotai airport, Royal Visits and Public Works projects

Reference: 1/4-018061-F

Description: View of the sports ground at Newtown Park showing the field ploughed up. This was either a regular renovation of the turf, or the early stages in the redevelopment of the park as an all weather athletics track and soccer field. Pines on north-eastern parts of the Town Belt can be seen in the background, as well as part of the suburb of Newtown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

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Newtown Park, Wellington, showing part of the new all weather athletics track.

Date: 1972

From: Evening Post :Assorted photographs and negatives of Wellington, including photographs of the development of Rongotai airport, Royal Visits and Public Works projects

Reference: 1/4-020339-F

Description: As well as the western part of the athletics track, part of the soccer ground can also be seen on the left of the image. On the right the lower stages of the new grandstand can be seen under construction. Old pines from the 1880 planting are on the left background, while on the right are two City Council apartment blocks, one finished and one under construction. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

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Evening Post :Assorted photographs of Wellington, including photographs of the developm...

From: Evening Post :Assorted photographs and negatives of Wellington, including photographs of the development of Rongotai airport, Royal Visits and Public Works projects

Reference: PAColl-0945-1

Description: Quantity: 170 b&w original photographic print(s) and. 12 b&w original photographic print(s) (mounted on card) and. 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera in three boxes.

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Evening Post :4 negatives including images of sports players and New Zealand Electorial...

Date: 1971

From: Evening Post :Assorted photographs and negatives of Wellington, including photographs of the development of Rongotai airport, Royal Visits and Public Works projects

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: NegColl-247

Description: Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s).

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Lifting of girders during the construction of the Wellington Railway Station

Date: 1934

From: Evening Post :Assorted photographs and negatives of Wellington, including photographs of the development of Rongotai airport, Royal Visits and Public Works projects

Reference: 1/2-090785-F

Description: Lifting of girders by cranes during the construction of the Wellington Railway Station on its present site. Men can be seen straddling some girders, and others can be seen standing on the ground. Taken by an unknown 'Evening Post' photographer in 1934. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

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Photograph of a cave made for shelter by men working on the Korokoro Road

Date: 1933

From: Evening Post :Assorted photographs and negatives of Wellington, including photographs of the development of Rongotai airport, Royal Visits and Public Works projects

Reference: 1/2-C-024610-F

Description: View of a cave made for shelter by men working on the Korokoro Road. Photographed for the Evening Post news paper on the 6th of June 1933 by an unknown photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

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