Pauatahanui and Wellington

This collection contains the contents of two albums.

First album group relates to Pauatahanui, Porirua. Includes - Unidentified house. Grave stone of Len Walker who died in 1897 aged 100 years. View of St Adan's Anglican Church. View of St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church. Views of an overgrown cemetery.

Second album is mostly views of the Government centre and environs, Wellington. Most of this material dates from the late 1940s to the early 1950s and includes - The wooden Government building (now Law School). The Centotaph. Turnbull House (then the Alexander Turnbull Library). Wellington Railway Station. Bowen House. Magistrates Court. Bowen Street. Lambton Quay. Bunny Street. Molesworth Street. Government Printing Office. Parliament buildings and grounds. The old High Court building. Brick store on Waterloo Quay (now apartments). Hotel Waterloo. Defence Department building, Bunny Street (demolished about 1994).

Other Wellington photographs taken by the Evening Post in November 1964 include a view of Manners Street, and two photographs of Wellington traffic.

There is one photograph of houses and gardens in Regent Street, Newtown, dated 9 August 1962. This is part of a group of views of a site for Wellington City Council housing taken before demolition for that project began.

Earlier photographs include - View of Kaikoura, ca 1910. Houses in Auckland, Christchurch, and the Stratford area, 1890s-1910. Taylor-Stace house, Pauatahanui. Photograph of a drawing of a coach outside an inn in Christchurch, 1866. Unidentified derelict cobb built house in overgrown garden. Views of the bridge of an unidentified ship. Barrett's Hotel, Wellington, by Samuel Brees, ca 1842.

Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s).

Processing information: All of these prints were originally in an album. They were removed because the plastic enclosures had become degraded and sticky, and were bonding with the prints. The photographs have been kept in the sequence that they were in, when the album was received by the Library.