Windmills - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1847

Reference: A-023-015

Description: Also shows Molesworth's windmill and Aglionby Arms in position to which it was moved some time in 1850's. Fort Richmond had been pulled down by 1860. Formerly attributed to William Swainson; attribution is now based on close similiarity to privately owned signed work, and on George Swainson's known use of white chalk highlights. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, wash and white chalk, 170 x 240 mm

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-041/043

Description: Shows views in the Hutt Valley and Wellington. At the top, a view in Petone with Moreings Creek, a bridge and two horsemen in the foreground, houses in the distance. In the centre, a large cabbage tree leaning out over the Hutt River, with two Maori men standing on the bank, waving to the occupants of two canoes in the water. Francis Molesworth's farm is in the background. At the bottom, a view looking east along the waterfront at Te Aro, with the Exchange Building (with a false classical front) and Ridgway and Guyton's jetty, a boat hauled up in front of the building and other buildings along the waterfront in the distance. Hoggard and Simmond's windmill can be seen in the distance at the foot of Mount Victoria Other Titles - Petone Other Titles - Moreings Creek Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2156-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed wooden farmhouse on the left. Return verandah, decorative detail at the top of verandah posts, iron roof. Windmill behind the house on the right. An open touring car is on the road on the far left [number plate: WN-1949]. An unidentified man and small boy on a tricycle are on the lawn in front of the house on the left. A hedge in the centre of the image separates the house from farmland at a lower level on the right, while the road on the right is at a slightly higher level. Hills in the background. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Battle Hill - Horokiwi Valley. 1923; Marginal notes on negative - [Name indecipherable. Possibly Batt? Back? Coff? Goff?] Pahuatanui [i.e. Pauatahanui]; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] N. Peake Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 111.1 cm

Date: 1845 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-001/002

Description: Brees with his theodolite and sketchbook, his dog and several other surveyors in a camp in a clearing in Porirua Bush. Brees is sketching a Maori family. Below the main image is a vignette of the Hutt River, with Molesworth's farm and windmill. Molesworth and Ludlam's windmill was not built until 1845, Brees' last year in Wellington, giving a date to the lower view The windmill in shown in 'Mr Molesworth's farm at the Hutt' was not built until 1845, in partnership with Ludlam Extended Title - From: Brees, S. C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams, 1847. Title plate, plate 1 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-064-2

Description: Looking north up the Hutt Valley with snow marked on the Rimutaka Range in the background. Cleared forest, with tree stumps, three houses and a windmill are in the foreground The mill may be that of Molesworth and Ludlam, built 1845 Dating: the date March 1853 is suggested because two drawings of the Hutt on the following page (E-455-f-065-1 and E-455-f-065-2) are dated March 1853. They are both pencil and on identical buff-coloured paper Other Titles - Rimutaka Inscriptions: Album page - bottom centre - Title in ink; also title in pencil on reverse of the drawing Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and Chinese white on buff paper, 181 x 245 mm

By: Richards, Edward Smallwood, 1834-1917; Marriott, James Henry, 1799?-1886

Reference: A-104-029

Description: A view from across the road (Post Office Square and Jervois Quay) of the buildings and the wharf area by Queen's Wharf, opposite Post Office Square. Several ships moored at the wharf. Several men and women, a man on horseback and a horse and cart in the space outside the wharf, and other smaller figure along the wharf Paper not watermarked Other similar engraved letterheads from this period were either commissioned or engraved by J. H. Marriott, who ran a stationer's shop in Wellington Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on sheet, 65 x 86 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-050/052

Description: Views of Wellington between 1842 and 1845. The top view shows Mount Victoria from the area of Courtenay Palace, with Simmonds' and Hoggard's windmill and two other buildings, a track in the foreground, and a cleared area and one house on the slopes of the hill. The central view shows a Maori man looking through a rock archway, with timber bracing at the top, the sea beyond. The view is close to Pukerua Bay. The lowest view shows a canoe in the foreground and the palidsades of Paremata Pa on the shores of the Paremata inlet, with a European house in the background Other Titles - Paremata, Porirua Other Titles - Paripari Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261

Date: 1987

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1987/7120-F

Description: View of the Kelburn cable car, showing Salamanca Road, Wellington, in the foreground, taken soon after the cable car weas opened in 1902, by an unknown photographer. A windmill may be seen in the centre. Original photograph circa 1902 (copy negative made 1987) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate copy negative, 35mm

Date: 1845 - 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Hutchison, Alan James Hanna, 1905-2000

Reference: A-259-038

Description: Brees with his theodolite and sketchbook, his dog and several other surveyors in a camp in a clearing in Porirua Bush. Brees is sketching a Maori family. Below the main image is a vignette of the Hutt River, with Molesworth's farm and windmill. Molesworth and Ludlam's windmill was not built until 1845, Brees' last year in Wellington, giving a date to the lower view. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet, 365 x 261 mm.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Tully, Dorothy, 1895-1971

Reference: A-034-029

Description: The bridge and fort viewed from the north, a windmill to the right and a bare tree in the foreground. The bridge is the second Hutt bridge, built after the first one was destroyed in the 1848 earthquake. The second bridge was destroyed in the 1855 earthquake. Compare a very similar drawing by G. F. Swainson, Fort Richmond and the second Hutt Bridge. Swainson was almost certainly copying W. M. Smith's drawing. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 160 mm x 240 mm

Date: 1843 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: B-031-005

Description: Shows the windmill, looking south towards Mount Cook (with the barracks on top in the distance), Brooklyn hills and Te Aro from the foot of Mount Victoria where Oriental Bay Road begins. There is a sandy beach in the left foreground, with a man sifting sand or shells, probably for construction. The man is being watched by three children. Bullock carts are visible at the foot of the windmill and there are several other buildings close to it. There are two hens in the yard close to a house in the right foreground, and a square wooden construction in the right foreground, possibly a small lime-kiln. The windmill, or flourmill, was built in March 1843 at the foot of Marjoribanks Street and Kent Terrace junction, the present site of the Embassy Theatre. It was the only open-structured mill in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 181 x 370 mm

Date: 1852

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-034-1

Description: Two small Maori figures standing on a road, probably Tory Street or nearby, with the harbour in the background, flax on either side of the road. On the right can be seen a windmill (probably Simmonds' and Hoggard's flourmill) and the lower slopes of Mount Victoria Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 105 x 135 mm

Date: 1854

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-030-2

Description: A panoramic view in two sections. The upper view looks towards Miramar and Eastbourne, the lower shows Oriental Bay and Mount Victoria, with Simmonds and Hoggard's windmill visible at the foot of Mount Victoria and with the Duke of Portland at anchor. In the foreground are two Maori canoes Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & ink, 198 x 338 mm

Date: 1900s

From: Rowe, Reginald Keith, 1906-: Negatives of Wellington, Otaki, Wanganui and other districts

Reference: 1/1-003768-G

Description: View looking down Kelburn cable Car, showing residence of Martin Kennedy in Glasgow Terrace in background. The windmill in the foreground was imported by E W Mills & Co, and arrived on the ship Freeman on 11 November 1898. It was sold to the Kelburne Tram Co. on 29 September 1901. The photographer was an employee of E W Mills & Co., before they amalgamated with Briscoe's to form Briscoe Mills.. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [1903]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Municipal-Cable car-01

Description: View of the Kelburn cable car track, Wellington, New Zealand, showing the bridges across Salamanca Road and Rawhiti Terrace. Houses and a windmill above Salamanca Road, and trees at the top of the Botanic Garden can be seen. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1903. Date established as engineer's house at the top of the incline is built (March 1903), but leveling the ground for the kiosk has not yet begun (1904). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned gelatin silver print 15.7 x 20.8 cm, on mount

Date: 1845 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: PUBL-0020-01

Description: Brees with his theodolite and sketchbook, his dog and several other surveyors in a camp in a clearing in Porirua Bush. Brees is sketching a Maori family. Below the main image is a vignette of the Hutt River, with Molesworth's farm and windmill. Molesworth and Ludlam's windmill was not built until 1845, Brees' last year in Wellington, giving a date to the lower view Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engravings on sheet 365 x 261

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Wall, Frank J, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1797-F

Description: Panoramic view of Mahaki homestead, a large two-storeyed wooden farmhouse with return bull-nosed verandahs. Windmill behind house on the right. Drive up from centre curving by entrance. Paths down through garden with flower beds, arbours and lawns leading down to a paved tennis court. Sheep grazing in a paddock beyond fencing around the tennis court. Flat farmland and a long line of shelter trees across the image in the middle distance. Workmen's cottages and flax mill factory behind trees to the left of the house. Peep of river between trees centre left in middle distance. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Source of descriptive information - Internet article on Mahaki Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Frank Wall. Martinborough. 2 B&W. 1 oils; Marginal notes on negative - 1 1 1 1 1 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 103.2 cm

Date: [Between 1923 and 1926]

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Lees, William B, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-0173-F

Description: Large two-storied house with tiled roof and covered with creeper. Water tank and windmill at rear and possibly greenhouses. Photograph taken probably in Heretaunga, Hutt Valley, in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - left of image - "Lees Heretaunga " Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 107.2 cm