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Godber album 3
- Date
- Between 1915 and 1916
- Reference
- PA1-o-195
- Description
Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1915 and 1916. Many of the images show various aspects of logging in Piha and Karekare. Views include the Piha Tramway, bush railway inclines, scenes of lumbermen cutting down kauri trees and cross-cutting felled trees, transportation of logs by bullock teams and horse-drawn rail wagons, the Piha timber camp and mill and men at everyday activities in camp buildings and in their workmen's huts.
Other sections of the album show views of Petone, and Godber's family (his wife, Laura Godber, and two children, Phyllis and William (Bill)); views of the central North Island; farming in the Mendip Hills (Canterbury); and views of Trentham.
Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 101
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 26 x 30 cm
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 26 x 30 cm
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UnknownTimber mill interior showing kauri log being processed
Date: [ca 1915]
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-o-195-31-2
Description: Timber mill interior showing two men breaking down a kauri log. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in about 1915. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Breaking down a kauri log Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15.5 x 10.7 cm
Kauri logs in bush
Date: ca 1915-1916
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-o-195-15-3
Description: Kauri logs on a slide in the bush. Taken by Albert Percy Godber circa 1915-1916, probably in Piha. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Kauri logs Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Bullocks hauling a log out of the bush
Date: [ca 1915]
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-o-195-17-1
Description: Bullocks hauling a log out of the bush, Piha district. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in about 1915. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15.4 x 11 cm
House at 2 Patrick Street, Petone
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-o-195-20-2
Description: House at 2 Patrick Street, Petone. A man and a woman stand outside. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. This Workers Dwelling Act house was designed by William Gray Young and built in 1906. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
View of the Glen Esk Dam, Piha District
Date: [ca 1915]
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-o-195-15-1
Description: Close up view of the wooden structure of the Glen Esk Dam which includes the structure supporting the flood gate. A man with an axe over his shoulder stands above the flood gate. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in about 1915. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver geltin print, 13.7 x 8.8 cm