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MR Ward's Map: Victorian Wellington Street by Street

by Elizabeth Cox
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781991309068
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Massey University
  • Publisher Imprint: Massey University
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 560
  • Original Price: USD 80.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 2450 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Historical Geography

In 1891, a remarkable map of Wellington was made by surveyor Thomas Ward. It recorded the footprint of every building, from Thorndon in the north and across the teeming, inner-city slums of Te Aro to Berhampore in the south. Updated regularly over the next 10 years, it detailed hotels, theatres, oyster saloons, brothels, shops, stables, Parliament, the remnants of Maori kainga, the Town Belt, the prisons, the 'lunatic asylum', the hospital and much more, in detail so particular that it went right down to the level of the street lights. Luxuriously packaged with a cloth case and fold-out jacket, Mr Ward's Map uses this giant map and historic images to tell marvellous stories about a vital capital city, its neighbourhoods and its people at the turn of the twentieth century.

Elizabeth Cox is a Wellington historian who specialises in New Zealand social and architectural history. Her 2022 book Making Space: A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture, published by Massey University
Press, made a major contribution to the field of New Zealand architectural history. She received a President's Award from Te Kahui Waihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects for her efforts on behalf of New Zealand architecture in the same year. She has worked as the content lead for Te Ara Encyclopedia for Manatu Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage, and for Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga and the National Trust in the United Kingdom. Her first book, A Friend Indeed: The Saving of Old St Paul's, was published in 2018. She runs a heritage consultancy business exploring the history of New Zealand's heritage buildings.

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