New Zealand School Dental Service. Children's Dental Clinic

Children's Dental Clinic (Willis Street, Wellington, N.Z.)

Government Architect J T Mair designed the building in 1937 and construction began the following year. It was opened in 1940. In 2004 it was converted into apartments. Located in Willis Street, Wellington.

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Gooch Mitchell & Macdiarmid :Dental clinic Upper Willis Street Wellington. Job 1938. 1989.

Date: 1989

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd

Reference: Plans-2002-058-D-13-001/011

Description: Includes floor plans, site plan and landscaping for the dental clinic's conversion into apartments. Quantity: 11 plan(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on tracing paper, 420 x 595 mm.

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General Election polling booth at the Children's Dental Clinic, Willis Street, Wellington

Date: 25 November 1972

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

Reference: EP/1972/5618-F

Description: General Election polling booth at the Children's Dental Clinic, Willis Street, Wellington, photographed 25 November 1972 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

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Adkin album 19

Date: 1950 to 1957

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-014

Description: Adkin album. Wellington (2), nos. 241-441. Views of Wellington taken between 1950 and 1957. Includes harbour swim event at Evans Bay, 26 February 1950; speedboat contests at Evans Bay, 4 March 1950; Patent slip and the Union Steam Ship Co's wharf at Evans Bay; tulip Sunday at the Wellington Botanic Garden (15 October 1950); Evans Bay Yacht Club yard in use as a temporary base for Solent flying boats with the Ararangi at a mooring; various views of reclamation undertaken by TEAL for their flying boat service at Evans Bay, and flying boats. Many of the images in this album are linked with Evans Bay, as Adkin was living at 424 Evans Bay Parade in the 1950s, several images showing the house. Views of Wellington from the Mount Victoria lookout and from the Tinakori Ridge Radio Station, in 1952; the old Robert Hannah residence in Boulcott Street; views of the inner city including the upper end of Ghuznee St., Upper Willis St., the Children's Dental Clinic. Image no. 313 shows a house at 214 Upper Willis Street (known as Restwyn), taken in Feb 1953, while image no. 434 shows the same site in January 1957 after the house had been demolished. Numbers of images show preparations and decorations for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. There are many photographs of preparation for extending the airport at Rongotai, showing Moa Point Hill in course of destruction to provide spoil for reclamation, and also Rongotai Ridge, with one view of a house being moved from the ridge, also showing development of the breakwater at Moa Point, all taken betwen 1953 and 1957. A 1954 image shows an extension to the Town Hall under construction for municipal offices in December 1953; the Hinemoa at No. 1 Ferry Wharf; preparations and decorations for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in December 1953, including decorations at the Railway Station, Defence Stores Building in Featherston St., Kirkcaldie & Stains, James Smiths Corner, DIC, and the GPO. Image taken in March 1956 shows a house with turret on the corner of Upper Willis St and Aro St (a house which was shown in CD Barraud's painting of 1877). Views of yachting in the harbour, Ward Island, and the Eastbourne seawall. Outcast yacht is pictured.

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Railways album 13

Date: [1939-1940]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-062

Description: Album of publicity photographs produced for New Zealand Railways by unidentified photographers. Many of the images are related to a series of articles produced in the new Zealand Railways Magazine between January 1939 and June 1940, written by O N Gillespie, with the overall title "Buy New Zealand goods and build new Zealand. New Zealand Industries series". In this album topics covered are glass manufacture and toys, novelties and woodworking. Many photographs show the beginning of work related to World War II, with a large number of views of New Zealand military parades in Wellington; views at Wellington wharves of the troopship the Empress of Canada; and scenes at the Wellington Railway station. Other views show various training activities of the Home Guard, including fire-fighting and medical training. Two pages of nine images show different views of the Oerlikon automatic gun (p 46-47), and there is one of a range finder (p 51). On Page 5, there is a three-part panorama of the Hutt Valley from Wainuiomata Road. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, red spine, entitled `Miscellaneous 8'; 41 x 61 cm

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Morris, Flora, 1911-1988 : Papers relating to school dental nurse training

Date: [1933-1934], 1983

By: Morris, Flora, 1911-1988

Reference: MSY-5943-5952

Description: Comprises volumes of lecture note covering materia medica, operative dentistry, dental pathology, physiology, dental anatomy, history of dentistry, the use and care of equipment, histology and file of miscellaneous papers Source of title - Supplied by Library Accompanying material - Brief biographical information of Flora Morris Quantity: 10 volume(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Two photographs, one of Morris as a graduate, the other a group of dental nurses.

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Willis Street - Numbers 201-335

Date: 1988-1993

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

Reference: 2007-116-176

Description: File comprises Archive of Wellington Architecture research forms. Some forms include newspaper cuttings. Selected names indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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General Election polling booth at the Children's Dental Clinic, Willis Street, Wellington

Date: 25 November 1972

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

Reference: EP/1972/5618/7-F

Description: General Election polling booth at the Children's Dental Clinic, Willis Street, Wellington, photographed 25 November 1972 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) individual image on negative strip.

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Interior of the Children's Dental Clinic, Willis Street, Wellington

Date: ca 1950s

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/1-010430-F

Description: Interior of the Children's Dental Clinic, Willis Street, Wellington. Shows rows of dental nurses attending to their patients. Lights hang from the ceiling. A row of windows is on the left. Photographer unidentified. See also MNZ-1099-1/4 for a similar image Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 6994 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

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Patients waiting room, Dominion Training School for Dental Nurses, Wellington - Photogr...

Date: Mar 1952

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Christensen, Edward Percival, 1907-1982

Reference: 1/2-033383-F

Description: Patients waiting room, Dominion Training School for Dental Nurses, Wellington. Shows children and adults, including a dental nurses playing with toys and reading. Photograph taken by Edward Percival Christensen for the National Publicity Studios in March 1952. A26503 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

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Children's Dental Clinic, Willis Street, Wellington - Photograph taken by Mr McNeely

Date: 1963

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-030253-F

Description: Children's Dental Clinic, Willis Street, Wellington, (designed by J T Mair) photographed for the National Publicity Studios in 1963 by Mr McNeely. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

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Upper Willis Street, Wellington, New Zealand

Date: 5 February 1953

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-014-312

Description: View of upper Willis Street, Wellington, looking north. On the left can be seen houses and the building that housed The School Dental Service's children's dental clinic. Three cars are parked on the street, and a line of poles carrying electric wires can be seen on the right side of the image. Photographed by George Leslie Adkin on the 5th of February 1953. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 10.6 x 6 cm

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Te Aro School under demolition to make way for the Children's Dental Clinic, Willis Str...

Date: ca 10 Nov 1933

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

Reference: PAColl-7796-15

Description: Te Aro School under demolition to make way for the Children's Dental Clinic, Willis Street, Wellington. Shows a two storied wooden building. Photograph taken by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer circa 10 November 1933. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.6 x 20.3 cm

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Dental nurse with a patient at the Children's Dental Clinic, Wellington - Photograph ta...

Date: Sep 1954

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Christensen, Edward Percival, 1907-1982

Reference: 1/2-033382-F

Description: Unidentified dental nurse and her patient at the Children's Dental Clinic in Willis Street, Wellington, in September 1954. Shows a young woman, in uniform, holding a long handled dental mirror, standing alongside an unidentified boy in the dentist's chair. They both hold a toy horse. Other dental nurses are in the background. Photograph taken for the National Publicity Studios by Edward Christensen. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - right of image - A36966 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

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Interior view of the Children's Dental Clinic, Wellington

Date: 1940

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

Reference: EP-Health-Hospitals-Dental-01

Description: View of the interior of the main clinic of the Children's Dental Clinic, Willis Street, Wellington. Photographed by an Evening post staff photographer in 1940. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.7 x 14.5 cm

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Interior of the Children's Dental Clinic, Willis Street, Wellington

Date: ca 1950s

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: MNZ-1099-1/4-F

Description: Interior of the Children's Dental Clinic, Willis Street, Wellington, circa 1950s. Shows rows of dental nurses attending to their patients. Lights hang from the ceiling. A row of windows is on the left. Photographer unidentified. Not published in 'Making New Zealand' See also 1/1-010430 for a similar image Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Provenance: Item lent by the (Health Department?) to the Department of Internal Affairs for publication in 'Making New Zealand' in 1939.