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Wellington City Archives is the business archive of the Wellington City Council. Our collections date from the 1840s to the present day.

 

Wellington City Archives acknowledges the mana and tangata whenua of this region/rohe and the connection they have to this whenua/land.

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Feature: Thomas Ward Maps/ Whakaaturanga Thomas Ward Mahere

1892 map sheet 33

 

     
Circa 1900 map sheet 33

 

  
Link to 1892 maps   Link to 1900 maps
 
 

Image Lucky Dip / Tou Waimarie Whakaahua

f. Zoo groundsHutt Roadh. Visit of Deputy Chief Constable of Gloucestershire (Mr Copping), Mayoral Receptionf. Mayor's room, boy presenting plaque to Mayor5 o' clock car from Government Station - the Island Bay workers car on Kent Terrace / Courtenay Place.Civic Centre ReconstructionPossibly Ngaio Gorge Road, KaiwharawharaYi Kwe Sze (Chinese bass singer)-receptionc. Drainage - Hutt Roada. No 42 Fox St, parking for flatsMobil Street Racek. Airport, drainage workc. Traffic, Rakau Roadd. Job 9880, Drainage Reserve Trunk Sewer RelayWellington Zoo, otterp. Ngauranga Gorge, excavation for harbour fillj. Display of Equipment, Waterworks yard, for inspection by Works CommitteePanoramas - Harbourp. Traffic, Cuba Stc. Photo of contour map and plansParks and Recreation - Dragon Dance Festivala. Footpaths: Karori Rd, Parkvale Rd, Raine St, West Coast Construction. Angus Ave-Armstrong Court Flats, Builders OVLf. Presentation, Traffic House, Traffic Safety Weeka. Traffic prosecution, intersection of Northland Rd-Glenmore StBackyard, Thorndon and Tinakori Road areasCopy: Abortion, Apartheid, Unions, Nuclear (posters, handouts, protests)Civic Centre ReconstructionSummer CitySummer City - Mardi Grasat. Opening, Civil Defence HQWellington Shipwrights Society, group photographMichael Fowler CentreWellington Zoo Programme and an Irish Visitor at a park or garden, c.1982Summer City 1984/85 colour transparency slidesb. Art GalleryInterior, Newtown Library building, opened 22 October 1957Elevated view of site of Colgate / Palmolive factory, before work beganCivic Centre ReconstructionNissan Mobilf. CopiesThorndon Quay, looking southAro Street, looking east.v. Flats and buildings; Views from Lombard Street pkg building and interior via. No 25 David CrescentAerial View of Wellington 1947, Kilbirnie, Exhibition Buildings, AerodromeRubbish tips, Houghton Bay, general viewsGroup photograph, Early Settlers Association, Dominion Dayd. Traffic, Cable Streetl. Zoou. Town Planning Appeal Board. School patrols. Wellington Club, The Terrace
 
 
 

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