Ward Island

Date: 1974

By: McCracken, Joan Mary, 1954-

Reference: 1/4-056718

Description: Photograph of John Atkinson on Ward Island with the family ketch "St Michael" in the background. Photographer was Joan McCracken. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negative

Date: 1903 - 1960

By: Lawrence, Harold George, 1909-1977

Reference: PAColl-5070

Description: Arrangement: Negative numbers 1/2-050179 to 050197 and 1/2-050219 to 050238 Quantity: 39 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1904-1916

From: Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1556

Description: Photographs relating to R V Kay and his family. Includes photographs of Pencarrow, Ward Island, Victoria University College, Hospital ship Maheno, Wellington views, Sybil Satchell and her mother Mrs Edith Satchell, Louis Vincent Kay and his wife, picnics, drilling at Nelson College, Huntley School in Marton, public buildings and botanical gardens in Wellington, Japanese warship at Clyde Quay Wharf during WWI, sailing with Clement Watson in Wellington Harbour, Waikanae views, Karori military camp, group portraits at 'Sunnybank', Huntley School group portraits, 'Moana Mara' homestead in Levin, Gladstone Road, holiday in Russell, Bay of Islands, and Public Trust picnic at Days Bay. relating to Satchell family. Includes photographs of family members, recreation by rivers, tug-of-war game, automobile travel, picnics, golf playing, pheasant hunters and friends. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 195 x 240 mm

Date: 1978

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

By: Wellington (N.Z. : Region). Regional Council; Lower Hutt (N.Z.). City Council

Reference: MapColl-WRC-2/1/11K-Acc.

Description: Shows Mokopuna and Sommes Islands; Ward Island and Horokiwi area. See Base map 1 (Lower Hutt City Council, 1977-1978) Quantity: 3 map(s) (On one sheet) with ms annotations. Physical Description: Ink on cream paper. Scales 1:12 000 and 1: 6000, 56 x 56 cm.

Date: 1920 - 1959

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-379-047

Description: Shows a view of Wellington Harbour from York Bay, looking towards Ward Island, Wellington City, and with Mount Tapuae-O-Uenuku of the Inland Kaikouras, in the distance. There are bushy trees in the centre foreground and cabbage trees at the left. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 252 x 357 mm.

Date: April 1952 to March 1957

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

Reference: PA1-o-005

Description: "Illustrating geological observations, Vol 5". Black & white images of geological aspects in NZ. Includes aspects of the traverse from the Rimutaka trig to the East portal of the Rimutaka Tunnel via Knobby Spur; Rimutaka Tunnel construction (23 Feb 1952); investigation of the cause of flooding of Ohau River at Levin (4 July 1952); Otaki Railway Bridge; Mangaroa Basin; geomorphic features of the east coast of Wellington Harbour; Gibb's Fault, Paraparaumu; Kapiti area, including Otaihanga outlier; geological data from the Hobson St gully, Thorndon, Wellington (May 1953); NZ Geological Survey Staff Conference (Nelson, 17-24 June 1953); Lyall Bay from Moa Point prior to construction of the breakwater for airport construction (July 1953); Wellington fault angles; geological tour of central Waikato District with W. Neill, including Pohora Cliffs, Mt Karangahake; Wellington City water-supply intake at Pakuratahi, Hutt Forks March 1954); piercing of the main Rimutaka Tunnel & first train through (23.4.1954); NZ Geological Survey Staff Conference, Auckland (17-24 May 1954) with group photo, all named; geological excursion to Hutt Valley & Porirua Harbour (Sept 1954); excursion to Opouawe River & White Rock, East Wairarapa, with group photo of Royal Society Geological Section members on the tour (all named); Marlborough Sounds, petrological investigation by Prof Charles Vitaliano, J J Reed, and G L Adkin; Charles Vitaliano's wife and children at Blenheim, 1955; Tongue Point via south coast of Wellington from Owhiro Bay; features of the Owhariu Fault & Colonial Knob; eastern shore of Wellington Harbour & Pencarrow Lagoons; discovery and description of features of the Seatoun Fault (Sept-Oct 1955); tour of North Island including Tokaanu, Hamilton, Raglan, Thames, New Plymouth (Dec 1955-Jan 1956); geomorphology of south Makara to the Lower Karori Stream Gorge; evidence of tectonic coastal uplift at Wellington; Tour fromWellington, New Plymouth, Hamilton,Taupo, Hunterville (Fev 1957); Waikanae River & Reikorangi Basin (March 1957)

Date: 1950-2000

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

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-108

Description: Photographs taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Contains images related to historic Wellington buildings including Wakefield House and Katherine Mansfield House. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders. Transfers: Two negatives from 12/3 Towns-W4ellington City-Buildings-Harbour Board, Reclamation maps, Wellington Waterfront now at Library references 1/2 239093-F, and 1/1-040206-F..

Date: 1950-2000

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

Reference: 1/2-239093-F

Description: Photographs taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Contains images related to historic Wellington buildings including Wakefield House and Katherine Mansfield House. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Transfers: Negative removed from PAColl-7327-1-108, 12/3 Towns-Wellington City-Buildings-Harbour Board, Reclamation maps, Wellington Waterfront..

Date: 1950-2000

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

Reference: 1/1-040206-F

Description: Photographs taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Contains images related to historic Wellington buildings including Wakefield House and Katherine Mansfield House. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Transfers: Negative removed from PAColl-7327-1-108, 12/3 Towns-Wellington City-Buildings-Harbour Board, Reclamation maps, Wellington Waterfront..

Date: 1892

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.

Reference: E-373-023

Description: View towards the entrance to Wellington Harbour, taking in Ward Island and part of the Miramar Peninsula. The rocks and foreshore of Lowry Bay are in the foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, in sketchbook, 130 x 360 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..

Date: 1893, [ca 1960s]

By: Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: PAColl-6648

Description: 22 photographs of the pages of the Peraki album of drawings owned by Brigadier Crawford. Scenes are mostly of Peraki but include the Wellington area. The album dates from 1893 but the photographs were taken in the 1960s.. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-021255 to 021276 Quantity: 22 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1839

By: Great Britain. Hydrographic Office

Reference: MapColl-832.47aj/[1839?]/Acc.24812

Description: Hydrographic map of Port Nicholson, Wellington Harbour, with limited soundings. Shows the shoreline shape, outlying rocks; the north settlement at Te Horo, the southern settlement, the 'Persecution Colony' at Petone, "Matico" (Matiu or Somes) Island, "Macaroa" (Makaro or Ward) Island; topographical sketches, suitable anchorages. Some bays and capes are named. Stamped 'Hydrog Office MY 40'. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom centre - Stamped 'Hydrog Office MY 40' See also map shelved at MapColl-832.47aj/1826/Acc.379 (Manuscript copy) Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, scale indeterminable, 46 x 30.4 cm.

Date: 1930 - 1939

From: Magill, Kenneth, 1910-2000 :[1. Eight pencil portraits and one hand study - drawings of members of the De Luxe Cinema Orchestra, Wellington [1936]; 2. Conductor and orchestra in Wellington Town Hall(?) ca 1936; 3. Two watercolours of Somes Island, and Ward Island from Eastbourne; 4. Three watercolour landscapes including one of the group of pines. [1930?]]

By: Magill, Kenneth Thomas, 1910-2000; Magill, Paul John, 1920-2005

Reference: A-351-035

Description: Shows a view over the roofs of Eastbourne to Ward Island in the middle distance. There is a corrugated iron water tank on the roof in the immediate foreground. Date suggested by the donor, the artist's brother. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on paper 253 x 179 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Paul Magill, in 2001.

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.

Date: 1950

By: Watt, Bruce, 1926-1985

Reference: PAColl-9121

Description: View looking south-east across Wellington Harbour from Point Gordon to Robinson Bay. Ward Island is at the extreme left, and Point Arthur is in the centre. Photograph taken 1950 by Bruce Watt. Source of title: Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned silver gelatin print 16.4 x 21.5 cm

Date: 1846

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: A-229-026

Description: View from the south east side of Miramar Peninsula across Wellington Harbour with a sailing ship in the foreground and Ward Island in the middle distance, the Orongorongo Range in the background. Other Titles - Wellington Harbour Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 134 x 195 mm

Date: 1923-1925

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-119/03

Description: Correspondence and papers re road signs, construction of bitumen roads, roading in general; May Morn Estate (Maymorn, Upper Hutt); list of registered plumbers, 1925 (NZ Gazette); New Zealand Counties' Association; New Zealand Forestry League Inc (Wellington Branch) re Ward Island; flax cutting rights (Paekakariki area); brochure re radium appeal to provide a Radium Department at Wellington Hospital; sale of surplus military stores; Days Bay toll-gate; and other miscellaneous papers Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 12 Dec 1947

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-11362-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 1848

By: Baker, Richard, 1810-1854

Reference: C-014-015

Description: Shows a view across the flowering gardens of Major Baker's house in Thorndon Quay, to Wellington Harbour, Somes Island, Ward Island, the Hutt Valley and the snow-capped Tararuas. The view is from the verandah two of whose posts divide the view. The Kaiwharawhara Hotel and a moored ship at Kaiwharawhara can be seen at the left. A small child in a dress holds picked flowers in his apron and offers some to a Maori man seated with a basket beside a flower bed. A Maori figure in a red cloak stands over the fence at the left, and another carries a load on her back at the right. There are three tall sailing ships in the harbour and three smaller craft including a waka carrying four figures, in the near left portion of the harbour. According to a note on the back of the work, the small child is Baker's eldest son Frederick Arnold Baker, born 30 December 1845. In 1848, Major Baker owned a two-storeyed building at Kaiwharawhara, and this may also be shown in the picture. (See Ward's "Early Wellington", page 150). Inscriptions: Backing board recto - centre - [Vie]w of Wellington [(Ne]w Zealand) Harbour from Major Richard Baker's verandah, painted by himself about 1848. The child in it was his eldest son Frederick Arnold Baker born 30 December 1845. Baker won prizes for "Bouquet flowers" and turnips, in the Wellington Horticultural Show, 22 January 1842. (See Winsome Shepherd "Wellington's heritage, plants, gardens and landscapes", Wellington 2000, pages 151-153) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 205 x 555 mm.

Date: 14 Oct 1965

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-65263-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate