View of Wellington City

View of Wellington City
Date
ca 1886
Reference
1/1-025535-G
Description

View from Wadestown, looking southeast across Thorndon and Wellington harbour, toward Oriental Bay (on the left) and Wellington City. Bolton Street Cemetery can be seen in the centre. An unidentified man stands in the foreground. Photograph taken by William Williams, circa 1886.

Note on back of file print reads: From neg bag- Wellington showing shipping from Tinakori Hill, from file 6/1/41 - mid 80s. (After 1885 - Lmabton Station moved north to final site. St Patricks College completed. Not later than 1887 - Post office burned down that year)

Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Part of
Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Photographs and papers / Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera
Format
1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Gelatin dry plate negative
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