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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

People bowling, Petone GreenWellpro [Graphic content warning - Meatworks]Copy: Abortion, Apartheid, Unions, Nuclear (posters, handouts, protests)g. Exterior of airport buildingsh. Copies of oil paintings and old photosa. 34 Garden Road, accessy. Safety Week, Traffic DeptSummer CityCity to Sea Bridge metalwork elementsa. Streetscape, elevated view of Mercer Streetd. Wainui dam pipelines in tunnel.c. Streetscape, Sefton Street, WadestownCopy photograph of sketch of girln. Traffic DepartmentSlip no 118 Curtis Ste. National Youth Orchestra, Town HallBotanic GardensFull Marx!b. Streetscapes, Te Aro FlatElevated view of Lambton Commercial areaCivic Centre ReconstructionPanorama of the Botanic Gardens, Wellingtone. Abattoirsf. Job 9230 Shell CoElevated view of Wellington, from Brooklyna. Truck no 634b. Jervois Quay, trafficLooking up Russell Terrace, Mansfield Street is on the left. A tram stop shelter is on the corner. Photograph of new asphaltic concrete surface, Russell Terrace, 1926Artists, Jacquie Baxter (J C Sturm) and Jacqui Fraser, City Art Gallerya. Collapsed walli. Salamanca Roadb. New Access, Houghton Bay TipCivic Centre ReconstructionCenotaph from Parliament Gatesd. Group, Electricity DepartmentSummer City - Holmes Judge Dance Showe. Pedestrian Subway, Miramarc. Rosalind Street, NgaioEvents in Wellingtonc. views of stairway access, collapsed bankNissan MobilWellington Town Hall - Main Auditoriumg. Pedestrian subway, Lambton Quay to Railway StationWellington City Council Bindery Staff, Central Public LibraryNissan Mobil 500Parks and Recreation - Summer City ProgrammesPhotograph of sketch of Edmund Anscombe's proposed Centennial Tower for the Centennial ExhibitionSummer Cityd. Elgin Sumper no 618p. Flats, Herbert Gardens-Dixon St. Civil Defence, Webb St
 
 
 

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