Alexandra Barracks (Wellington, N.Z.)

Date: [ca 1930], 1946-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-175

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, ca 1946-1959 Kapiti coastline (including view looking north from Paekakariki); Lower Hutt - St James' Church; council buildings; Riddiford Baths; library; St Stephen's Presbyterian Church; aerial view of southern end of Lower Hutt (over Moera); elevated view of Naenae (showing Rata Street School in foreground). Rimutaka Hill Road; Kaitoke, 1948 (shows swing bridge); filtration plant site (Hutt River) re Kaitoke Waterworks construction; bridge at Pakutatahi; Akatarawa Valley road (with Morris Minor at roadside); house in Akatarawa Valley; Hutt Valley Pony Club members with their ponys on Akatarawa Road; Kapiti coast looking north from Paekakariki. Middle Run, Gladstone in Wairarapa - Daffodils in paddocks at Middle Run (owned by Mrs W H Booth), and view of homestead Elevated view of Miramar looking south-west; Lambton Quay with Kirkcaldie & Stains on left; Pigeon Park; Wellington Botanic Garden and tulip beds; view from Mount Victoria looking towards the Basin Reserve, Mount Cook and Brooklyn, with houses in Mount Victoria in foreground (taken ca 1930). Demonstration house at Karori designed and built by The Architectural Centre, 1949 Quantity: 44 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1929-1933]

From: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984: Slides, negatives, photographs, letters and printed material

Reference: PA1-q-593

Description: Wellington City (panoramic views), the new Cenotaph, the demolition of the Alexandra Barracks (Mount Cook Prison), Admiral Byrd on his way to the Antarctic (second expedition-1933/1934), Wellington College rebuilt, Rongotai airport, National Bank of New Zealand Building, and the Diomede at Clyde Quay Wharf Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Transfers: 38 loose prints moved to Library reference PAColl-0639-56..

Date: ca 1928

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

Reference: EP-0895-1/2-G

Date: 1930

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

Reference: EP-3860-1/2-G

Description: Alexandra Barracks, Mount Cook, Wellington. Photograph taken 1930 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [ca 1928]

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

Reference: EP-3878-1/2-G

Description: Alexandra Barracks, Mount Cook, Wellington. Photograph taken circa 1928 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1930

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

Reference: EP-3856-1/2-G

Description: Alexandra Barracks, Mount Cook, Wellington. Photograph taken 1930 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1930

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

Reference: EP-3859-1/2-G

Description: Alexandra Barracks, Mount Cook, Wellington. Photograph taken 1930 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: ca 1928

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

Reference: EP-0899-1/2-G

Date: 1888

By: Drew, T, active 1888

Reference: A-303-019

Description: Shows a view from the lower slopes of Brooklyn of the Mount Cook / Te Aro area, with part of the Basin Reserve to the left, the Mount Cook prison on the hilltop, the prison brickworks behind it, the Alexandra Barracks, and other buildings. Mount Victoria is in the background The chimney on the left was part of the prison brickworks, immediately behind the Mount Cook Prison and now approximately on the site of Wellington High School. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, on sheet 130 x 209 mm, stuck to card.

Date: ca 1913

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

Reference: 1/1-019679-G

Description: Men and horses alongside the Alexandra Barracks, Mount Cook, Wellington, circa 1913. Photograph taken from Buckle Street by Sydney Charles Smith. Note on back of file print reads "possibly 'scabs' brought into work during 1913 strike". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: between 1882 and 1931

From: McInnes, R :Negatives of the waterslide and the dam behind it at Days Bay, and Mount Cook prison

Reference: 1/2-066816-G

Description: Scene in Mount Cook, Wellington, taken between 1882 and 1931 from Tasman Street, showing Mount Cook Prison/Alexandra Barracks (top, to left). Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1914

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

Reference: 1/2-049064-G

Description: Soldiers outside military barracks on Buckle Street, Wellington, in 1914, during the Waterfront Strike. Taranaki Street is in the foreground. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1930

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

Reference: EP-3857-1/2-G

Description: Interior of the Alexandra Barracks, Mount Cook, Wellington, 1930. Photographer unidentified. Note on back of file print reads "This photo was published in the Evening Post, 27 Mar, 1930." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1913

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

Reference: 1/2-048784-G

Description: Photograph of Special Police horses at Alexandra Barracks, Mount Cook, Wellington, during the 1913 Waterfront Strike, taken 1913 by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [ca 1928]

Reference: PAColl-8235

Description: Photograph looking over Rugby Street from Mount Victoria, towards Tasman Street, showing the grounds of the Basin Reserve on the right, and the old Mt Cook prison with Alexandra barracks on the hill behind. School boys walk in the street. Photograph taken circa 1928, by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20.3 x 14.5 cm

Date: [ca 1929]

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

Reference: EP-3276-1/2-G

Description: View of the Alexandra Barracks, Mount Cook, Wellington shortly before it was demolished in 1929. Photographed for the Evening Post newspaper. From box containing EP-3260 to 3277 Designed in the 1880s, and originally built as a central prision for the Wellington Province. It was intended to have five radiating wings like the one shown here, but the rest of the structure was never built. The building was never used as a prision, and in about 1906 it was handed over to the army and became the Alexandra Barracks Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative