Thorndon

Date: 1920 - 1930

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Th/[ca.1925]/Acc.14623

Description: Cadastral, surveyed map of sections bounded by Hawkestone, Molesworth and Hill streets, including Golders Hill and Collina Terrace, Thorndon, Wellington. Includes section numbers, certificate of title numbers and some deposited plan numbers. Names of owners include: K L Smith & V M S Earp Thomas, Burns, Phillip & Co Ltd, D E A Bottomley, R J Collins Estate, J F Ginn, L J Seddon, E M Sutherland & W Thawley, J Twiss, Estate of E J Riddiford, W Freeman, G A A Anderson, R H Hankins, M K Litchfield, Crown, F M Chapman, S Riske, W P Sommerville, A Whittaker, H & R Hall, J R Foster, L & E Cohen. Written on reverse: Thorndon - Hill St, Molesworth St, Hawkestone St, Golder's Hill Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Blueprint on paper, scale indeterminable, 40.8 x 79.2 cm

Date: 1973 - 1893

From: [Various artists] :Three panoramas. Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1973.

By: Cockerell, E A, active 1890s

Reference: D-001-015

Description: View from the lower end of The Terrace, looking down into the Aro Valley and Te Aro Flat and across towards Mount Victoria, Oriental Bay and the Miramar Peninsula. Part of the Thorndon end of the city can be seen on the left. Courtenay Place runs away from the viewer in the centre of the scene, with Marjoribanks Street moving up Mount Victoria. The gasometers on both sides of Courtenay Place show clearly. On the far right is Wellington College Issued with descriptive text sheet. First published as a coloured chromolithograph in the Christmas issue of the Weekly graphic, 1893 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 261 x 745 mm on sheet 427 x 890 mm

Date: Nov-Dec 2000 - 26 Nov 2000 - 04 Dec 2000

By: Priestley, Dinah, 1938-

Reference: OHColl-0592

Description: Details the activites of the Thorndon Trust and Thorndon Historical Society and action taken by individuals in Tinakori Road and Glenbervie Terrace to stop the proposal to build the motorway extension in the 1960's. Includes information about Thorndon's old houses, the attempted action of developers, the Wellington City Council's protection scheme and action taken by the Thorndon Historical Society. Interviewees are Tony Burton, Shirley Smith, Neil Harrap, Valerie Scott, Robin Archibald, Aileen Finucane, Maxwell Wilkinson, Martin Hill and Adam James with sounds of Thorndon. Interviewer(s) - Dinah Priestley Quantity: 9 C60 cassette(s). 8 interview(s). 6 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available Summary notes provided. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Dinah Priestley

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-12-54

Description: View of the salt-water baths on the foreshore at Thorndon. Photograph taken from the front garden of a property overlooking the baths. A group of people are congregated beside the enclosed area of the baths. Various flags are flying from the high wooden fence enclosing the baths. Taken in 1870s-1880s by W H W Davis. Duplicate print at PA7-12-55 Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1999

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-587-001/021

Description: Political cartoons. Shows a redneck's nightmare, ownership of the Whanganui River is given to Maori who loaded it onto the back of a truck and took it away. Comment on executive golden handshakes and reduntant workers having to sign up for the dole. Shows violent offenders at Paremoremo Prison selecting soft movies like 'The Sound of Music'. In the middle of a power blackout the family try and read the latest power bill, it's gone up. The effect on the opposition of Jonah Lomu being left on the reserve bench. Statue of Liberty calls for the poor and huddled masses but says 'no' to New Zealand lamb. Comment on New Zealand's response to America's tariffs on New Zealand lamb. The common man comments on Bill English upstaging Jenny Shipley at the National Party Conference. Maori MP calls for quotas in the public sector that will ensure employment for ethnic minorities. Hospital hygeine is called into doubt. A politician trys to sell the idea of deregulating the Dairy Industry. A woman comments to her husband that it's a good thing young men eventually grow out of wanting more sex. He wistfully agrees. Obituary for JFK Jr. 1960-1999 Comment on youth alcohol consumption. Auckland Hospital try to reassure the public all babies are born equally there but not necessarily treated equally after that. Comment on Christine rankin's over the top refurbishment of the dept of work and income. Celebration of three New Zealand triumphs. Mike Moore gets top job at WTO, the All Blacks beat the Australians and the Black Caps cricket team beat the English at Lords. Paul Holmes promotes his autobiography. F-16 fighter planes are promoted by an Air Force Officer. The lowering of the drinking age is debated in Parliament. Boys try to come to terms with the news that girls are better pupils than boys. Quantity: 21 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 2 August 1974

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

Reference: EP/1974/4891-F

Description: The casket containing the body of Prime Minister Norman Kirk being carried up the steps of Parliament Buildings by senior Cabinet Ministers led by the acting Prime Minister Hugh Watt, and the Minister of Trade and Industry Warren Freer. Wallace Rowling can be seem behind Hugh Watt. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 2nd of August 1974. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: [1870s]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-12-22

Description: Photograph of Wellington showing Parliament Buildings, St Mary's Catholic Church and Government House, taken from the Bolton Street Cemetery in early 1870s by William Henry Whitmore Davis. The new chambers of the Legislative Council and the House of Representatives are under construction. St Mary's Cathedral spire is still in place (removed in 1885). In the immediate foreground are graves, one surrounded by a white picket fence. Duplicates of PA7-12-20 & PA7-12-21 Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 20 May 1910

By: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972; Hitchings, Helen Margaret St. Clare, 1920-2002

Reference: PA6-376

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1935 - 1945

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Th/[ca.1940]/Acc.14629

Description: Cadastral, surveyed map of sections bounded by Molesworth, Aitken, Mulgrave and Sydney Street East, with certificate of title numbers. Names of owners include: J Staples & Coy Ltd (Thistle Inn), NZ Trawlers, M E E Dimock, Haynes, NZ Breweries Wellington Hotel, Society of Railway Servants, NZ Locomotive Engineers, Sisson & East, H J Gibson, Crown, Dunn, Barton Ginger, estate of M P Cameron, Johnson Estate, Adams Estate, Railway Officers Association, Wellington Marine Institute. Includes some pencil annotations, including the names Crown, J L Macdonald. Some sections are highlighted in red. Written on reverse: Aitken, Mulgrave, Sydney, Molesworth streets. Thorndon Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Pencil, part coloured, on diazo photoprint on linen, scale indeterminable, 32.7 x 51.7 cm

Date: 21 Mar 1859

By: Townsend, Chauncy Henry, 1816-1888

Reference: MS-Papers-2694

Description: Sale of land in Tinakori Road, Thorndon (1 acre 32 perches) to Mr Kenny by Mr Chauncy Henry Townsend and Mrs Isabella Townsend on 21 March 1859 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 piece). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: ca 1860

Reference: 1/2-004356-F

Description: Looking north from Te Aro towards Thorndon with the Provinical Chambers on the left, St Paul's Church in the centre and Pipitea Point on the extreme right. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

From: Bowie, D :Panorama photographs of Wellington

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA6-444

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Three images forming one print, mounted on card

Date: 1 October 1996

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

By: Simcox, Craig, active 1983

Reference: EP/1996/2831-F

Description: Mr Tuhiakia Keepa, Mrs Mere Walker and other members of Whakatohea iwi at Parliament to witness the signing of a deed of settlement for land claims, photographed on 1 October 1996 by Evening Post staff photographer Craig Simcox. Whakatohea signed a deed of settlement on 1 October 1996 for claims stemming from the confiscation of tribal lands around Opotiki in the 1860s. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm

Date: August 1975-January 1977

From: Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd :Photographs relating to New Zealand architectural projects

Reference: PAColl-9842-19

Description: First part of a sequence of photographs recording the construction of the Australian High Commission Chancery building, Hobson Street, Wellington. This group dates from August 1975 to January 1977. Quantity: 70 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca1860-1989

From: Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7365

Description: Collection comprises: Photographs of Thorndon, including one of The Wedge, Glenbervie Terrace, taken in 1984 by Howard Allingham of Melbourne. Photographs of 81 Karori Road and old St Mark's Church, Clive, taken in 1989 by Margaret or W H Alington. Copy of print of Bellingham House. Royal Terrace, Dunedin, made on 23 July 1988 by W H Alington. Six carte de visite portraits Photograph of the bell being raised at Old St Pauls, Thorndon, Wellington Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s). 7 colour original photographic print(s). Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A2001-319 - From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-pps-7285-34 - Transfer from MS-Group-1061: Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-. Further Papers.

Date: 1920 - 1930

By: Wellington Harbour Board; Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/[ca.1925]/Acc.14574

Description: Cadastral, surveyed map showing the Wellington Harbour Board's leased land on reclaimed land between Waterloo Quay and Fryatt Quay, including Kings Wharf, Hinemoa and Cornwell Street and Aotea Quay, Wellington. Sections are numbered and show acreage and owner. The Board's properties on Cornwell Street are listed as leased to: J Hamilton, Murray Roberts & Company, Public Works Department, Wellington Harbour Board, Wright Stephenson & Company, City Corporation Electric Power Substation, Co-operative Dairy Producers Federation Company. Surrounding Wellington Harbour Buildings are also shown, including garages, sheds, carpenter shop and yard, as well as Post & Telegraph Department, Public Works yard, Marine Department, and New Zealand Railway land. Written on recto: WHB Waterloo Quay reclamation T. No 1195 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on blueprint, scale indeterminable, 32.8 x 66.7 cm

Date: 1841 - 1966

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; New Zealand Red Cross Society

Reference: C-058-001-c

Description: View looking north along the beachline (Lambton Quay) Proof sheet for Red Cross Christmas Card from original watercolour in the Library at C-025-010 Four copies on one sheet Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured offset photolithograph, 108 x 158 mm

Date: 1993

From: Slane, Christopher Houlton, 1957- :The Listener cartoons. 6 February - 11 December 1993

Reference: H-103-020

Description: Shows the Beehive and a tunnel beneath it. Men in 17th century costume are bringing barrels (MMP) into the tunnel. In the Beehive a voice is commenting on a ground swell of support for the government. Refers to Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0033-1/2-G

Description: Photograph in the style of a greetings card decorated with fern leaves, with a montage of images relating to railways, and in particular the Wellington railway line. Images include from top left: A Baldwin locomotive (Class Wa, 1901); Leaving Wellington (Manawatu Railway Company); Rounding Pipitea, Interior of the North Signal Cabin); Points rods and signals (Wellington); Thorndon Railway Station; Front of Royal engine; South Signal Cabin (Wellington); Thorndon Railway Yard; An American car. Photograph by Albert Percy Godber. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - centre - Glimpses on the railway. With the seasons greetings.; Photographer's title on negative - top left - A Baldwin locomotive.; Photographer's title on negative - top left - Leaving Wellington. Manawatu Rly Coy.; Photographer's title on negative - top right - Rounding Pipitea.; Photographer's title on negative - top right - Interior of signal cabin.; Photographer's title on negative - centre left - Points rods and signals.; Photographer's title on negative - centre - Thorndon Railway Station.; Photographer's title on negative - centre right - Front of Royal engine.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Signal cabin Wellington; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Thorndon Railway Yard.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - An American car. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

Reference: PAColl-6741

Description: Ten views of Wellington: two of a man sitting on a bench next to a cabbage tree, probably in Kelburn, looking out over the harbour; a tram car for Island Bay approaching the corner of Manners Street and Cuba Street; lorries and a tram car on Cuba Street; looking along Museum Street towards The Terrace with the parliament on the left and the Terrace Congregational Church on the corner of Bowen Street; a view over Wellington and the harbour towards Mount Victoria probably from Tinakori Hill; a man selling fruit from a cart on a street corner with pedestrians crossing the street; a view looking across the harbour towards Mount Victoria from a building on the water front; the Empire Motors Garage Ltd; and a view along Manners Street towards Mount Victoria including a tram for Lambton Station. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-029801 to 029809 and 029830 Quantity: 10 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives