Mount Cook Gaol (Wellington, N.Z.)

Date: 1928

Reference: PAColl-3128

Description: View looking south west from above Devon street over the Terrace Gaol (left) and Te Aro School (right). Mount Cook Gaol(left) and Wellington Technical College (right) are in the background. Photograph taken ca 1928 by an unknown photographer. Arrangement: Negative at 1/2-060264-F. Print on shelf at PAColl-3128-1. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1884

From: Various architects :[Plans for Wellington Post Office, prison and other buildings, by Charles Beatson and P M Burrows. 1870-1890s].

By: Burrows, Pierre Finch Martineau, 1842-1920

Reference: Plans-2003-061-001/011

Description: Includes plans of foundation, basement, ground floor, first floor, second floor and roof. Also includes three sheets of sections, and two sheets of elevations. Quantity: 11 plan(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying from 505 x 690 mm to 685 x 1025 mm.

Date: 1884

By: Burrows, Pierre Finch Martineau, 1842-1920

Reference: Plans-80-1191

Description: Shows a circular kitchen with four wings radiating off it, and two extra future wings. lThe wings include space for washrooms, stores, workshops and wardens' offices. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on sheet 510 x 682 mm.

Date: 1888

By: Drew, T, active 1888

Reference: A-303-019

Description: Shows a view from the lower slopes of Brooklyn of the Mount Cook / Te Aro area, with part of the Basin Reserve to the left, the Mount Cook prison on the hilltop, the prison brickworks behind it, the Alexandra Barracks, and other buildings. Mount Victoria is in the background The chimney on the left was part of the prison brickworks, immediately behind the Mount Cook Prison and now approximately on the site of Wellington High School. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, on sheet 130 x 209 mm, stuck to card.

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-020192-G

Description: Mount Cook Prison and surrounding area, Mount Cook, Wellington. Shows buildings on Buckle Street in the foreground. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith circa 1910. This later became the site of the Dominion Museum Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: between 1882 and 1931

From: McInnes, R :Negatives of the waterslide and the dam behind it at Days Bay, and Mount Cook prison

Reference: 1/2-066816-G

Description: Scene in Mount Cook, Wellington, taken between 1882 and 1931 from Tasman Street, showing Mount Cook Prison/Alexandra Barracks (top, to left). Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: between 1925-1931

Reference: 1/2-060715-F

Description: Wellington city, photographed by Robson & Boyer between 1925 and 1931, from the vicinity of Central Park, Brooklyn. Mount Cook Prison is visible right of centre. Inscriptions: Verso - Stamped in ink: Robson & Boyer Photo Courtenay Place Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1860-1914]

By: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944

Reference: PAColl-0341

Description: Photographs of various scenes: two of the convoy in Wellington Harbour in October 1914 (one from Field album VIII); the Field children outside a dilapidated house in Waikanae; a photographed captioned "mother and Peter" of two women, four children and a man in the mouth of Karori tunnel; a train passing through Te Aroha (Field album V); Auckland from the north shore (Field Album V); Sir George Grey's house at Momona Bay, Kawau (Field album IX); an excursion train meeting a river boat (Field Album XV); a house next to a small lake captioned New Plymouth (Field album IX); two of the visit by the Duke and Duchess of York in 1901 (one from Field Album VI); Mrs Edward and her mother on the verandah of their house in Khandallah; a post card of the station at Manakau; farm horses in harness eating at a trough (Field Album XV); Maori men, women and children around a meeting house for a tangi in Manaia, Coromandel - above the door is written Rahera Titia (Field Album V); Hot Springs Hotel beside the lake at Waiwera (Field Album V); looking down the Waimakariri from what is now Glacier Hotel at an old homestead and two of Mitre Peak and Milford Sound (stuck to the same piece of card Field Album IX); large two storey house (Field Album XVIII); and a panorama of Dunedin showing Rattray Street in the foreground and the wharves behind (Field Album VIII). Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-115913 to 115936 Quantity: 42 b&w original negative(s). 25 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1876-1878, 1881, 1935 nd

By: Garrett, Henry Beresford, 1818?-1886

Reference: qMS-0829

Description: 38 articles on various topics written by Garrett, the Maungatua bushranger while in gaol. The table of contents includes Napoleon, evolution, novels, Xmas and Judas, guilty or not guilty. Newsclippings of letters to the editor about Garrett and a letter from Andrew W Drummond of Mount Cook Prison to Dear Mr Frederics and labelled `Secret Correspondence' are with the volume. Source of title - Transcribed Garrett wrote these Quantity: 1 volume(s) (329 pages). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss and printed matter (30 cm, paper covered canvas in ¼ brown calf, brown linen case)