Huts - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1884

By: Williams, William, 1858-1949

Reference: E-278-q-099

Description: Postcard with a photo-mechanical reproduction of a photograph, taken by William Williams in 1884. It shows Okiwi Brown seated at the door of his thatch-roofed hut at Rona Bay. His Maori wife Nan can be seen on the other side of the door. The two men standing near Brown are F W Devereux and T H Wyatt. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-lithograph, 64 x 110 mm on card

Date: ca1910-ca1929

By: Jansen, Elwyn George, 1904-1979; Jansen, Nancy, active 1940s-2000s

Reference: PAColl-6174

Description: Photographs relating to the Jensen family, especially to E G (Paddy) Jensen. There is also a portrait of the Presbyterian medical missionary, Dr Owen Lamont Eaton, who was shot in China in 1939. Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1927 and 1965]

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

Reference: PA1-o-113

Description: Album includes photographs, chiefly taken by Gerald Rainsford Craddock, from black and white photographs taken in the 1920s to coloured snapshots taken in the 1960s. Subjects range from scout camps and tramps in New Zealand, to views of military aircraft and scenic views of India, Egypt and Libya taken circa 1940-1943 while he was serving with R.A.F. squadrons. Later coloured snapshots show holiday scenes. The photographs are interspersed with postcards. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mottled red and black cover, black corners and spine, 24 x 34 cm

Date: 1852

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Ralph, Thomas Shearman (Dr), 1813-1891

Reference: A-215-017

Description: View from Te Aro Flat, probably from the bottom of Mount Victoria, looking towards Wellington. A small hut at the water's edge nearby, swampy ground and the Waitangi Stream in the foreground, fencing marking Te Aro Pa, European houses beyond, cliffs marking the beginning of Lambton Quay with houses running its length at the waterfront, the sloping line of The Terrace, with several houses running up the hill in the left background and ships moored in the harbour. One of two copies at A-215-017 and A-215-018. One copy is an untouched proof, the other has pencil pencil additions of mosque, basilica, buildings on hills and wharf Another copy in Pearse, J Album (ATL) p. 34. This copy is not able to be issued Inscriptions: Signed: E N : T S Ralph Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 194 x 294 mm on sheet 245 x 295 mm

Date: 1928-1929, 1941-1948

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Dudgeon, Ellis, 1905-1979; Hildreth, F H, active 1947; Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-161

Description: Photographs published in NZ Free Lance, 1928 and 1940s. Also miscellaneous manuscript material relating to army recruits at Papakura Military Camp, schedule for Easter & Anzac Day production of the Free Lance, BOAC, Totara Flats hut (clipping), and letter from Mrs J G Blair re photograph she had of a `boxing' cat (dated 11 Dec 1948). Includes: Visit of Lord & Lady Freyberg to Ngaruawahia, 1947; several official British WWII photographs; woman in a cart pulled by a goat taking part in a Goat Race in Sydney, 1928 (also 1929); large poplar on J Jackson's farm at Clyde; children on beach at Queenstown; textile design (King's Navee), 1949; crippled children being taught to swim by instructor J Bruid at Tepid Baths. Portraits of Leo Wright, 1941; Mrs Anganui Thomas Birch of Taheke, 1947 Photographers include: F H Hildreth of Kaitaia; Ellis Dudgeon; J D S Roberts, and others Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1849

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-006-4

Description: A night scene showing two men seated in front of a camp fire, a temporary wooden shelter behind them Extended Title - From: Mantell, W B D. Scrapbook, p. 6 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 80 x 110 mm

Date: 1911

By: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918; Daniell, Charles Edward, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-188

Description: Views of the Mangatarera Stream and Mount Holdsworth opens a record of a climb to the summit of Holdsworth. The party consists of six women and about five men. There are views of the stream and the swing bridge leading to the Holdsworth track; several shots of the Mountain House with the climbing party arranged along the veranda, and Mr McGregor's party who had arrived on horseback to fix the water tank; the climbing party grouped in the bush on the way up the mountain and on the open alpine ridges; a surveyors tent in the alpine tussock; the party eating beside the Holdsworth Trig; views of the Tararua Ranges from the summit of Mount Holdsworth. Interspersed among the main image groups are photographs of a trip to Rotorua. This involved a group of people in two motor cars. There are images of the Hamurana Stream and Springs at Rotorua, and of children diving for pennies at Whakarewarewa. Views of mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe, the Mangaehuehu Stream, the Crater Lake and the crater on Ngauruhoe, and mountaineers crossing the ice field on Ruapehu and climbing Ngauruhoe. There is a view of Matterhorn Peak the name of which was changed to Girdlestone Peak in 1922. Two images of a surveyors' camp in the Waimarino Bush. The Tern Arch and Little Hawke's Crag on the Buller Gorge road. A view of Lake Tarawerea from the top of Mount Tarawera. The final photograph is a view along the beach to Pencarrow Head, Wellington. Pasted inside the front cover is a cutting from `The Weekly News', Wednesday, December 26, 1945, entitled `New Zealand's highest memorial' by JWG, describing the renaming in 1922, of Matterhorn Peak (Tongariro National Park) to Girdlestone Peak in honour of Hubert Earle Girdlestone after he was killed in action in August 1918. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - To Mr and Mrs Daniell with kindest recollections from a very old friend, Hugh Girdlestone, March 1911 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brownish green cover, 25 x 20 cm Provenance: The album had been presented to Daniell in March 1911 by Hubert Girdlestone.

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-229-044

Description: The entrance from Evans Bay, Wellington Harbour, to the tunnel built by J. C. Crawford to drain Burnham Water, a lake in the centre of Miramar Peninsula. The entrance to the tunnel is cut into a cliff and supporting beams are built around the opening. A small hut stands to the right of the tunnel and a path winds over the hill-top to the right. Rocks, flax bushes and a small cabbage tree are distinguishable in the foreground and there is a small rowboat tied to a stake at the water's edge, in the centre foreground. Hataitai or Whataitai was the earlier name for Miramar Peninsula The preliminary sketch for this sepia watercolour is a pencil work held at A-229-023, with an almost identical title. Other Titles - Miramar Peninsula Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & sepia wash on paper 134 x 195 mm

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-229-030

Description: View from the south end of Evans' Bay, (close to the site of today's airport) looking along Miramar Peninsula, past a small hut and the entrance to the tunnel dug by J. C. Crawford to drain Burnham Water (a former lake in the centre of Miramar Peninsula), along steep cliffs to the north. There is almost no beach below the cliffs, since the beach area was lifted by the 1856 earthquake. The hills of Roseneath and of Wadestown and Ngaio are visible in the distance. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 135 x 195 mm

Date: 1870s

By: Cox, Horace A, active 1883

Reference: PA1-o-110

Description: New Zealand scenery photographed circa 1870s. Views include the Pink and White Terraces and Lake Rotomahana; a digger's hut in the Tararua Range; Mercury Bay; carriers changing horses in Oripi bush; a group of Maori holding a runanga at an unidentified meeting house; two views of the new road being created between Lake Coleridge and Hokitika. Inscriptions: Album page - Horace A Cox, from his old schoolfellow Harry [?], Lyttelton, New Zealand, 9 July 1883 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cover with gold outline, 22.5 x 31 cm Provenance: Presented to Horace A Cox on 9 July 1883.

Date: 1894-1897

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-078

Description: Family photographs of the William Hughes Field family, their home in Everton Terrace, Wellington, with views of Wellington and the harbour taken from various streets nearby. One group of images taken from Kelburn Park in February 1897 show the ship (with an escorting flotilla) in which Lord Glasgow was leaving New Zealand after his term as Governor of New Zealand. A few images show scenes in Christchurch. The yacht `Sunbeam' (privately owned by Lord Brassey) is shown in Wellington Harbour in a number of views. Several photographs shows areas on the outskirts of Wellington. Views fom Pukerua of the hills to the north and Kapiti Island; Otaihanga (with one of a Maori family at their home); Upper Hutt, showing Mr and Mrs Sarjeant's backyard, Mr and Mrs Barber's orchard, and two views of a farm owned by Mr [Martin?]; the coast at Island Bay, and fishermen and their huts at Island Bay. Signature of William Hughes Field is found inside the front cover `W. Hughes Field. 1895' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Grey album with black corners and spine, entitled `Photographs. W.H. Field. Index'; 29.0 x 24.5 cm

Date: [1860s-1950s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-002

Description: Views of the Orongorongo River, Otago, Milford and early Wellington made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. They include photographs of early artwork, street scenes, shipping, government buildings, mountains, lakes, rivers and people engaged in outdoor activities such as tramping and hunting. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1954-1966

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6445

Description: Trip to Mercury Bay and Great Mercury Island, and trip to the Tauherenikau Valley. Views of Great Mercury Island include Landing Bay. Views of the coastline. The campsite. Peachgrove Bay. The island's interior. Tauherenikau trip includes the valley below Cone Hut. Mount Reeves and the Tauherenikau River. View from the top of the puffer. Tauherenikau Hut. Cone Hut. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-2065

Description: Photograph album titled 'The Tararua Track - Woodside to Otaki' containing black and white photographic prints, primarily showing male figures outside huts on the Tararua range. Some of the album pages are captioned: "up Mt Reeves"; "spring below Reeves"; "Top of Reeves"; "over Reeves"; "Tauherenikau"; "Tau"; "Alpha Hut"; and "Alpha above Bush". Also includes photographs of rivers, hilltops, and mountain ranges. No figures have been identified. Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 57 black and white photographic prints.. Physical Description: String-bound album with grey pages and a green cover, 25 x 17.5 cm. Provenance: Originally donated to the Library by the estate of Sir Thomas Hunter in 1953. In 2021 the album was found in the Tararua Tramping Club's archive amongst their lantern slide collection and returned to the Library on 21 January 2022. It is not known how or when the album left the Library's possession.

Date: 1852

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Ralph, Thomas Shearman (Dr), 1813-1891

Reference: A-215-018

Description: View from Te Aro Flat, probably from the bottom of Mount Victoria, looking towards Wellington. A small hut at the water's edge nearby, swampy ground and the Waitangi Stream in the foreground, fencing marking Te Aro Pa, European houses beyond, cliffs marking the beginning of Lambton Quay with houses running its length at the waterfront, the sloping line of The Terrace, with several houses running up the hill in the left background and ships moored in the harbour. This copy has been heavily annotated with various people, soldiers (including a group in the act of firing), large buildings, including at least two with domes, buildings on the skyline, etc. An untouched proof copy of this lithograph is held at A-215-017 Another copy, an etching, in Pearse, J Album (ATL) p. 34 (E-455-f-034-2 hand-coloured). This copy is not issuable Inscriptions: Signed: E N : T S Ralph Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 194 x 294 mm on sheet 245 x 295 mm

Date: [circa 1950s]

From: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.): Photographs

By: Cockcroft, Richard John, 1931-2005

Reference: PAColl-0811-09-27

Description: Dwelling (tramping hut?) in the Orongorongo Range, Wellington, (architect: (D?) Cockroft). Hut constructed in the 1950s?. Image taken by an unidentified photographer (in the 1950s?). Inscriptions: Verso - Typical NZ residence Orongorongo Archt: D Cockcroft Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: June 1915

Reference: PA5-0147

Description: Trentham Camp showing rows of huts and tents, taken June 1915 Verso contains letter from T Redmond to Mary Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph 87 x 139 mm

Date: [ca 21 March 1983]

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

Reference: EP/1983/0976-F

Description: Members of the Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club load up with building materials for the construction of Smith Creek Shelter, Tararua Ranges. In the foreground a man and woman are holding a bag of cement. The woman is carrying a pack with a concrete block at the top. Photographed circa 21 March 1983 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1954-1961

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6529

Description: Views of Lake Waikaremoana, and the Papakirito falls (October 1958). Tramp up Mount Moehau in the Moehau Ranges, Coromandel State forest Park (May 1961). Tramp to mount Matthews in the Rimutaka Ranges above the Orongorongo River (1954). Building the Dobsons Hut, Tararua Ranges (1954). Old homestead near Homewood, Wairarapa (1957). Castlepoint (1954). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: 1893 - 1894

From: Various artists :[Twelve sketchbooks, by Mary Grace Caroline Lysaght (3), Emily Muriel Lysaght (4), and another Lysaght family member (5). 1890-1903]

By: Lysaght, Emily Muriel, 1875-1971

Reference: E-887

Description: Includes miscellaneous figure and building sketches and landscape scenes at: Otaki, [Huts] near Waikanae Nov 1894, White pine Urenui. Note inside front cover with artist's name, Wellington New Zealand, and date January 7th 1893. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Sketchbook, fawn buckram hardbound, 137 x 190 mm.