Albert Hotel (Wellington, N.Z.)

Date: ca 1910

Reference: 1/2-003843-F

Description: The junction of Willis Street with Boulcott and Manners Streets with the Albert and Duke of Edinburgh Hotels on opposite corners and a tram in the street. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [1970-1976]

From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 : Papers

Reference: 77-067-6/06

Description: Typescript copy of Lawlor's `Old Wellington hotels' and corrected script, `The Wets and the drys', reminiscences of the liquor laws and how they operated, which was taped 26 Mar 1973 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1975-1994

From: Shephard, Wayne, active 1990-2001: Papers relating to Wellington buildings

Reference: 2007-116-182

Description: Newspaper cuttings relating to Wellington buildings and local architecture. Includes articles on the Thistle Inn and the Old Identities Hotel. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 11 June 1928

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-0803-1/2-G

Description: Aftermath of an accident on the corner of Boulcott and Willis streets beside the Albert (or Old Identities) Hotel, taken by an unknown photographer for the Evening Post newspaper in 1928. Shows badly damamaged car and an un damamged taxi-car that was a witness to the accident. The photograph was taken by flashlight half an hour after the accident. From box containing EP-0794 to 0812 The Albert Hotel was demolished in May 1929 and the Hotel St George was built in its place Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative Processing information: Further information added to description on 20 June 2016 taken from the Evening Post article

Date: 1900

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 1/2-011618-G

Description: Old Identities (Albert) Hotel, on the corner of Boulcott and Willis Streets, Wellington. Each upper window is adorned with a sculptured head of an old identity. The statue on the skyline to the left is of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. Photograph taken by the Tyree Brothers circa 1900. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Willis St, Wellington. 513 Tyree, Pho, Nelson This building was erected and dedicated to the old identities by John Plimmer in 1879. It was demolished in 1929. Some of the scuptured heads are now held at Te Papa. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1992

From: Various artists :[Posters advertising performances by popular music groups, singers, musicians, and rock bands performing in New Zealand in 1992].

By: Pannell, Claire, active 1990-2000s

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-Popular-1992-06

Description: A montage image, of a robot monster created from parts including two stomachs anatomically depicted, insect jaws at chest level, a somewhat mechanical head with striped eyeballs, and wearing a check and polka-dot tie. Two figures upside down are superimposed at the top. Artist self-identified in 2012. The artist was a member of K-Tel Dancers. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 637 x 445 mm.

Date: [190-]

Reference: 1/2-028119-F

Description: Looking along Manners Street, Wellington, from the bottom of Boulcott Street. On the right is the Albert Hotel. On the corner of Manners Street and Willis Street, on the Perrets Corner site, is Turner's Chemist. Coming along Manners Street is a tram bound for Tinakori Road. In the foreground is a horse drawn carriage. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1928]

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

Reference: 1/2-047580-G

Description: View of Manners Street looking east taken from the corner of Boulcott and Willis Streets. Tram 156 on front left built between 1913 and 1925. Verandah on right (corner of Boulcott Street) is on the Albert Hotel which was demolished in 1930 to make way for the St George Hotel. A sign advertising C H Perret, chemist (of Perret's Corner) can be seen, and opposite, on the other corner of Willis and Manners streets, the facade of the Hotel St George. Photographed by Sydney Charles Smith circa 1928. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative