Dry docks - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: Between 1910s and 1930s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-f-002

Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.

Date: 1932

By: Wellington Harbour Board

Reference: Eph-A-HARBOUR-Wellington-1932-01

Description: Pamphlet showing an end elevation of the floating dock, a locality plan of Wellington Harbour, a description of the dock with dimensions, a photograph of the dock entering the harbour from England on 28 December 1931, and a photograph of the RMS "Ruahine" in the dock. The front cover shows the bow of the inter-island ferry steamer "Rangatira" on the dock. There is a list of charges for using the dock. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on pamphlet, 225 x 285 mm, folded to 225 x 95 mm.

Date: 1905 to 1907

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

Reference: PA1-o-197

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1905 and 1907, covering a variety of topics. They include family photographs, both individual and group portraits, and Wellington houses (eg `Railway Whare', the house Godber and his family lived in, in Bay Street, Petone). One scene shows Godber's parents, Mary Ann and Charles Godber, with a large group of family members, including Albert Percy Godber, his wife Laura, and two children, Phyllis and William (p.21). On p. 13, Godber's wife Laura and two children are seen with an elderly couple, probably Laura's parents Charles Albert and Magdelina Clara Zinckgraf. Numbers of images show scenes associated with New Zealand Railways, including the Mataroa Railway Tunnel under construction, specific locomotives, signal stations, the railway station at Petone, and scenes at the Petone Railway Workshops. At the beginning of the album, several images show Godber and a team from the Petone Fire Brigade with medals they have won at fire-fighting practice competitions. A pocket at the front of the album holds two photographs, on of a new cutting on the road near Lowry Bay, and one of the `model of `D' class locomotive used in the Petone Peace Demonstration Procession' following the Boer War in 1902, signed `With A.P. Godber's compliments'. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 105 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 19.5 x 26.0 cm

Date: 1982

From: Einhorn, Helmut, 1911-1988 :[Preparatory sketches for Wellington kaleidoscope, for Ester. 1979-1985]

Reference: B-181-009

Description: Shows a sailboat named "Lady Kay, Nelson", elevated in a dry dock, probably in Wellington Harbour. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 295 x 230 mm. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-1779.

Date: [Between 1890s and 1900s]

From: Hamerton, N & G (Misses), fl 1967 :Photograph albums of Wellington scenes

Reference: PA1-o-540

Description: Album of photographs of early Wellington, circa 1880s to 1890s. One view shows the wreck of the Oliver Lang at Kaiwharawhara. Other views of ships show the RMS Ruapehu on arrival in Wellington; the ship Pleione in port, and the Opawa on the patent slip at Evans Bay. Other views in the album include one of the tram track on the way to Oriental Bay; Te Aro (1883); Wellington from Bolton Street; Government House and Offices; a view from "Gaol Hill" (near the Te Aro Prison at the junction of The Terrace and Abel Smith Street); a tram run by the Wellington Tramway Company in front of Government Buildings; the corner of Featherston Street and Lambton Quay with the Union Bank of Australia and Johnny Martin's fountain; the tombstone of Mete Kingi Paetahi at Whanganui; the memorial to Te Wharepouri at Ngauranga; the Karori Reservoir; and a view of the mouth of the Hutt River from the eastern hills. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cloth cover, entitled "Sketched by the sun"; 17.5 x 21.5 cm

Date: [Between 1955 and 1961]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-209

Description: Album of photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon, including many contacts from 35 mm film, chiefly related to Wellington Camera Club outings. Others relating to photographic outings relate to the Photographic Society of New Zealand, Palmerston North regional meetings in October and November 1956. Many of the photographs show his interest in different lights and shapes, and he often gives details of lenses and filters used. Examples are winter light and shade at the Massey Memorial, a ploughed field near Palmerston North, the new entrance foyer and stairs when the Easterfield Science Block opened at Victoria University of Wellington in June 1959, still life images, flowers, cloud formations, ripples on sand, and light and shade along the Wellington Wharves. One scientific trip is shown, the Torlesse trip, in December 1959. Places and subjects photographed are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album in brown Super-Cobra binder file; 30 x 24 cm

Date: [Circa 1932]

By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984

Reference: PA1-f-131

Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Roland James Searle, circa 1930s. The first subject is the opening of the Wellington Citizens' War Memorial (Cenotaph), and includes a programme of the dedication and handing over on Sunday 17th April, 1932 (p 001-012). That is followed by the consecration ceremony for the National War Memorial and War Memorial Carillon (again with a copy of the programme), held on Anzac Day, April 25th, 1932 (p 015-023). Pages 029-033 show the arrival of the Wellington Jubilee Dock in 1931, the floating dock which was towed from England by two Dutch tugboats. The next sequence is entitled "The Express pulls out - Thorndon", and follows the Express to Wanganui where views show a river-boat trip up the Whanganui River (p 037-056), and include a map of historical areas on the river compiled by Annabell & Marchant, surveyors of Wanganui (p 055). The train trip is continued in the next section, and includes an illustrated diagram of the Raurimu Spiral, then arrival at the new Beach Road Auckland Railway Station. Photographs of Auckland include the Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland University, Grafton Bridge, a sailing ship at the wharves, and the Auckland Zoo. Further North there are scenes of ploughing, a mine entrance, rock formations at Waro, and the Taheke Falls; before travelling to Rotorua and the surrounding thermal regions. A number of images were taken at Whakarewarewa, including photos of Paul Thomas and his wife, along with scenes showing women washing clothes in hot pools, a woman with a baby on her back holding a rope with a food basket cooking in the pool, children in a hot pool, and men at work carving. Paul Thomas wrote to thank Searle for sending him copies of photographs (p 101, written on May 1st 1932). Later photographs again with the train often in view show timber felling and milling, and views of the Arapuni hydroelectic power station. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured grey cloth cover, entitled "Snapshots"; 28.5 x 39.0 cm

Date: [1930s]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-057

Description: Album of photographs of scenes, advertisements and posters advertising rail and ferry travel in New Zealand. The advertisements were used in The New Zealand Railways Magazine, and the posters were displayed at Railways Ticket Offices. The posters, and advertisements using "Mr Goodseat" were part of their campaign to show the advantages of travel by rail. The artist for many of these signed himself 'Matthews'. Scenic photographs also show some aspects of life in New Zealand, including a series on the flax industry with harvesting, drying and processing the fibres. Another group shows a farm, including a house made of corrugated iron, with sacking covering the windows; land clearing and ploughing with horses, draining the land, and a pile of harvested kumara; and several photographs of a man panning for gold, and inspecting pieces of rock with a magnifying glass; a group of men on horseback with dogs setting out on a hunt, and a cage full of pheasants before being released for the shoot. Pages 78-81 show activities associated with the mail service. They include people buying stamps in a post office, men sorting mail, large bags prepared for out-of-town delivery (some bags being delivered to the inter-island ferry for transport to the South Island). From there they show postmen emerging from the Chief Post Office with their satchels ready for local delivery, with the final scenes of delivery into a household letterbox, and one of a woman being handed her mail at the door. There are a number of much earlier photographs in the album, including pictures of Major Ropata, Sir Donald McLean, John Webster and F E Maning, and one of Te Aro in 1857. Advertisements included "Buy New Zealand made goods, for the children's sake. Cut these cords. Unemployment"; an advertisement for Hannah's footwear using a photograph of The Mystery train" (advertising a trip to Paraparaumu Beach, and another to Ohau). Several photographs show large groups of people who travelled on the Mystery Train, picnicking at the beach at Paraparaumu, boiling up a huge billy, and a child in a backpack on her father's back). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C3"; 39 x 56 cm

Date: January 1970

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

Reference: EP/1970/0355-F

Description: US Coast Guard icebreaker `Edisto' in the floating dock, Wellington. On her deck is a rubber-wheeled chock crane driven there to lift the ship's rudder stock for repairs. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 26 January 1970. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1893

From: Various artists :[Watercolour and pencil drawings by members of the Lysaght and Stowe families. ca 1870-1930]

By: Lysaght, Emily Muriel, 1875-1971

Reference: B-190-077

Description: A view of the Patent Slipway at Evans Bay, Wellington. A road runs around the bay towards the front of the image (Evans Bay Parade). The hills surrounding the bay are framed by a sky of pink, yellow and blue Other Titles - Lyall Bay Inscriptions: Backing board verso - top left - EM Stowe / Lyall Bay 1893 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on artist's paper, 125 x 175 mm (sight)

Date: [ca 1948]-1971

From: Coburn, Iris Alma, 1909-1995: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1839

Description: The album begins with the wedding of Iris Payne to Harry Coburn at an unidentified Wellington church in about 1948. There are a few photographs of the reception which include the bride, the groom, the cake, guests, and the bride's mother and father. One group of three photographs are of the bride with her mother, Florence Edith Payne. The next group of photographs relate to holidays taken by Iris and Harry Coburn from the late 1940s to about the mid 1950s. In the earlier part of the sequence they owned a late 1930s Austin car. Later this was replaced by a Standard 8 or Standard 10 dating from about 1954. The holidays covered many of the standard new Zealand tourist destinations in the north and south islands and Stewart Island. Many of the photographs show Iris and Harry with friends and family, sometimes picnicing on holiday, or visiting en route. Babies and other children often feature in these groups. A group of colour prints date from 1962, 1964, and 1966. There are some scenic views, but most show groups of people. One shows Iris with a hugh red gladiolus bloom. Three photographs at the end of the album show Iris, Harry, and Florence in a group of people looking over the damaged ship `Wanganella' in the floating dock in Wellington, probably in 1947. Loose prints have the same range of subjects as most of the rest of the album. Among them is one colour print dated 1971 showing Iris standing at a gate decorated with a variety of wheels. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: From 1911 to 1949

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

Reference: PA1-o-007

Description: Black & white photographs of the Wellington area, Vol 1 (images 1-240), taken by G L Adkin between 1911 and 1949. Earlier images include the house Fern Hill (at 324 The Terrace), and views from the house; Kelburn Cable Car tunnel, and view of the cable car from Kelburn Park; Wellington Botanic Garden; inner city views of Willis St., Lambton Quay (1913); Lyall Bay, Kilbirnie isthmus, Wellington Heads, Oriental Bay (1913); Harbour and city; swimming carnival at Island Bay; city from Mt Cook trig station (1918); panorama of Thorndon with Pipitea Point reclamation from the Nth end of Barnard St (1923); interior view of the Wellington City Corporation Trams Shed at Newtown; Kemp Point Powerhouse, Evans Bay; Miramar Gas Works (1923); Wider views of the city with Tinakori Ridge from Roseneath, Oriental Bay, Lyall Bay (1926); loading the Maheno (1926). Laying Foundation Stone of new railway station by the Duke of Gloucester, showing steel frame of the building under construction (17 December 1934). Views around the city in 1936, including Worser Bay, Breaker Bay, Dorset Point, Queens Drive, the city (panorama from Karepa St, Brooklyn); "wilds of Wellington" Mitchelltown, Highbury, Taitville, and Kelburn (from Karepa St); snow on hills and at Mt Kaukau (2 August 1936). Centennial Exhibition (6 March 1940). Views around the bays in 1948, Lyall Bay, Evans Bay, Kilbirnie, Eastbourne, Days Bay, Lowry Bay. Comparative views from Mt Alfred (1 taken in 1948, the other in 1905). Pamir sailing ship at Aotea Quay (December 1948); railway yards; Kaiwharawhara Gorge (1948); and the first visit of the Solent flying boat Ararangi to Evans Bay, October 1949.

Date: [1931]

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

Reference: EP-2578-1/2-G

Description: Construction of wharf at Thorndon, Wellington, to form a mooring for the Jubilee Floating Dock. Photograph taken 1931 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: [1931]

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

Reference: EP-2586-1/2-G

Description: Construction of wharf at Thorndon, Wellington, to form a mooring for the Jubilee Floating Dock. Photograph taken 1931 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: [1931]

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

Reference: EP-2600-1/2-G

Description: Construction of wharf at Thorndon, Wellington, to form a mooring for the Jubilee Floating Dock. Photograph taken 1931 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: [1931]

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

Reference: EP-2603-1/2-G

Description: Construction of wharf at Thorndon, Wellington, to form a mooring for the Jubilee Floating Dock. Photograph taken 1931 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: [1931]

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

Reference: EP-2577-1/2-G

Description: Construction of wharf at Thorndon, Wellington, to form a mooring for the Jubilee Floating Dock. Photograph taken 1931 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: [1931]

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

Reference: EP-2602-1/2-G

Description: Construction of wharf at Thorndon, Wellington, to form a mooring for the Jubilee Floating Dock. Photograph taken 1931 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: [1931]

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

Reference: EP-2592-1/2-G

Description: Construction of wharf at Thorndon, Wellington, to form a mooring for the Jubilee Floating Dock. Photograph taken 1931 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: [1931]

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

Reference: EP-2598-1/2-G

Description: Construction of wharf at Thorndon, Wellington, to form a mooring for the Jubilee Floating Dock. Photograph taken 1931 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