Thorndon Esplanade

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-101

Description: A first edition of coloured postcards with views of Wellington and district, and the West Coast of New Zealand, circa 1900. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Postcards with paper cover, pages interfolded within an acid-free album, 30.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1881

By: Greenwood, Sarah, 1809?-1889; Watt, Muriel Mary, 1917-2005

Reference: B-156-021

Description: Shows a view of Wellington Harbour with Thorndon Quay or Esplanade, the year before the reclamation started. The square object along the pier at the end of the esplanade may be an early version of the Thorndon swimming baths, although the later turretted version was built out into the harbour from reclaimed land. The foreground shows lawns surrounded with trees, probably the garden at Tiakiwai, the home of the Stowe family. Sarah Greenwood, artist of this work, was the mother of Jane Stowe, owner with her husband Leonard, of Tiakiwai, on Stowe Hill, number 2 Tinakori Road Other Titles - Early Wellington from the garden of No 2 Tinakori Road Inscriptions: Backing board recto - top centre - [Title]; Recto - bottom centre - S.G. 1881 [partially covered by the mat and visible on the path, left of centre foreground] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 225 x 285 mm (sight)

Date: [ca 1905]

Reference: 1/2-026970-F

Description: Overlooking Thorndon, Wellington, circa 1905, showing Thorndon Esplanade (prior to reclamation), Thorndon Quay, and the railway yards. Signs advertising `Loan and Mercantile Stores' and `Dalgety's Stores' are visible. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1905]

Reference: PAColl-8833

Description: Looking south over the railway yards in Thorndon, Wellington, circa 1905. Thorndon Quay is on the right. Thorndon Esplanade and the Thorndon Baths are on the left. A small sign advertising Murray Roberts & Co Wool Store is visible in the centre. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Thorndon, Wellington, N.Z.; Verso - centre - Aunty Fanny Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photo-mechanical print

Date: 1900

Reference: 1/2-030966-F

Description: Thorndon Esplande, 1900, showing the Thorndon Baths to the left, the Promenade to Davis Street, the Jubilee Band Rotunda (1890) with its sheilds containing the names of subcribers. The Thorndon Railway Station is to the extreme right. Photographer unknown. Photograph taken by Louis E Ward's book "Early Wellington", page 307 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: 1/1-019977-G

Description: Thorndon, Wellington, photographed by Sydney Charles Smith in 1910. In the centre are the railway yards. Also visible are Thorndon Esplanade and Thorndon Baths. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1920

From: Wellington A=B=C guide to all suburban services; trains, trams, busses [sic], boats, etc. July 1920. Printed by the proprietors Harry H Tombs Ltd, their registered printing works, 22 Wingfield St., Wellington [1920]

By: Wellington Corporation Tramways

Reference: Eph-A-TRANSPORT-1920-01-020/021

Description: Page of tram section, shows the timetables for weekdays and Sundays, for Route no. 4 from Newtown to the Thorndon Esplanade, via Cuba Street and Lambton Quay. Extended Title - From Wellington A=B=C guide to all suburban services ... [1920], pages 20-21. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on pages of booklet, 105 x 140 mm.

From: Walker, A (Mr), fl 1968 :Postcards of New Zealand towns

By: Littleburys (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6639-001

Description: Thorndon Esplanade, Wellington, showing the swimming baths and two women walking. Postcard published by Littlebury's Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - Thorndon Esplanade and Baths, Wellington, New Zealand (Printed on postcard); Recto - bottom left - Littlebury's Series (Printed on postcard) Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1901-1904

By: Watt, George Thomas, 1871-1933

Reference: PA1-o-516

Description: Photographs of family and friends, and scenes in the Wellington area and Hawkes Bay, taken by George Thomas Watt People and places named are listed in the headings above. Two images show the Wellington Post Office in the daytime and night time, when decorated in celebration of the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. The night view shows the Post Office brightly lit with decoration. In the middle of the album is a group of 6 tourist-style photographs of young Maori women. One image shows the house owned by Thomas and Matilda Watt, at 172 Hastings Street, Napier. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, spine brown taped, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 22.5 x 28.5 cm

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Brusewitz, Henry Elis Leopold, b ca 1855 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-001004-G

Description: Overlooking houses in Thorndon, and Wellington Harbour, circa 1900. Grant Road is in the foreground. Thorndon Esplanade is visible, with the Thorndon Baths on the right. Photograph taken by Henry Elis Leopold Brusewitz. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 513 HBz Wellington Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: [ca 1905]

Reference: 1/2-021635-F

Description: Thorndon, Wellington, looking over Thorndon Esplanade and towards Pipitea Point, circa 1905. Shows the Thorndon Baths jutting out from the Point. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1900 - 1910

From: [Postcard album of cards collected by Joye Eggers / Taylor. 1905-1970s].

Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-6-028-1

Description: Shows a man and small child, and a women pushing a pram, walking along the Thorndon Esplanade, with the distinctive four-domed Thorndon Baths in the left background. There is a domed bandstand at the right. Displayed in "An ornament to the town; the band rotunda in New Zealand". Turnbull Gallery, 13 March - 2 June 2017 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 88 x 138 mm.

Date: ca 1910

Reference: 1/2-106870-F

Description: Thorndon Esplanade, Wellington, circa 1910. The Thorndon Baths are on the left. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative