Bridges - New Zealand - Manawatū-Whanganui Region

Date: Between 1910-1913

By: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm)

Reference: PA5-0310

Description: A view of Wanganui, showing the bridge, taken from Durie Hill and published by A D Willis, Wanganui, NZ. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 87 x 135 mm

Date: ca 1930s

Reference: PAColl-4636

Description: Photographs of: a new bridge over the railway line at Turakina in the middle distance with the river bridge and the railway bridge also visible; the bridge over the river at Turakina; men shovelling stone from a river bank on to carts running on rails over the river to the highway; jig line of Oreore metalling plant - a man standing at the bottom of inclined rails; a winch and steam traction engine in use on the construction of Turakina bridge; men standing on the new bridge over the railway line at Turakina; and a man standing on the new Turakina river bridge with part of the old one next to it. Photographer unidentified. All have the same photographic developer's stamp on the reverse but they may relate to PAColl-7364. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Prints at PAColl-5932-34 to PAColl-5932-37.

Date: 1905

By: Ibbetson, George Richard Harbord, 1851?-1917

Reference: Plans-80-1116

Description: End elevation, details of junction of lower chord Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: Geo. R H Ibbetson 12/5/05 and traced from original in Roads and Bridges, Dept Customs Bridges July 1909. Timber in bridge appeared to be totara. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on dressed linen

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PA5-0146

Description: Fitzherbert Bridge, Palmerston North, taken by Muir & Moodie between 1910-1913. Verso addressed to Miss Spilman, ... Christchurch Recto has message written beneath image: Dear Olive ... Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 87 x 138 mm

Date: 1880s

From: Three albums of New Zealand views

Reference: PA1-o-983

Description: Views of New Zealand, comprising Mt Egmont from New Plymouth Domain, Napier, bullock team hauling wool at Cheviot, Wellington, Manawatu Gorge bridge, Manawatu Gorge, Rimutaka railway, Mount Alexander, Otira Gorge, Lyttelton breakwater, Armagh Street bridge in Christchurch, and Christchurch Cathedral. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-532

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by E Wheeler & Son, circa 1870s to 1880s Most of the views are identified, either on the photograph itself, or in hand-written captions below; places shown are listed above. One image has caption "Flax cutting" on the photograph which shows a man standing be a group of cabbage trees, with a house? or possibly a mill with a water wheel in the background behind the trees, while the hand-written caption reads "Valley scene, Hokianga". Other Titles - New Zealand views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover (damaged), entitled "New Zealand Views" in gold lettering; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1957

Reference: 1/2-055241-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1905 to 1907

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-197

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1905 and 1907, covering a variety of topics. They include family photographs, both individual and group portraits, and Wellington houses (eg `Railway Whare', the house Godber and his family lived in, in Bay Street, Petone). One scene shows Godber's parents, Mary Ann and Charles Godber, with a large group of family members, including Albert Percy Godber, his wife Laura, and two children, Phyllis and William (p.21). On p. 13, Godber's wife Laura and two children are seen with an elderly couple, probably Laura's parents Charles Albert and Magdelina Clara Zinckgraf. Numbers of images show scenes associated with New Zealand Railways, including the Mataroa Railway Tunnel under construction, specific locomotives, signal stations, the railway station at Petone, and scenes at the Petone Railway Workshops. At the beginning of the album, several images show Godber and a team from the Petone Fire Brigade with medals they have won at fire-fighting practice competitions. A pocket at the front of the album holds two photographs, on of a new cutting on the road near Lowry Bay, and one of the `model of `D' class locomotive used in the Petone Peace Demonstration Procession' following the Boer War in 1902, signed `With A.P. Godber's compliments'. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 105 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 19.5 x 26.0 cm

Date: 1895

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook of Mary C. Medley nee Taylor...1895. No. 14.

Reference: E-379-016

Description: Shows Oroua Bridge, near Feilding Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Oroua Bridge near Feilding Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 130 x 225 mm (page size)

Date: 1892

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.

Reference: E-373-015

Description: A fenced road with native bush on both sides, including flax and cabbage trees. A stream (or another road?) passes underneath it (or joins it?) from the right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook 130 x 180 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..

Date: 1905

By: Weekly press (Newspaper); New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: C-065-017

Description: Shows railway line, bridge over the gorge, a man driving a carriage and cart and another man riding a horse Same as C-065-017-a The man depicted driving the horse and cart is Woodville sawmiller, Henry Thomas Ware. The first Ballance Bridge is still under construction. The photograph was taken for the Department of Tourism. A copy of the photograph illustrates 'The way we were' (Manawatu / Wairarapa edition) published 1994. Extended Title - Supplement to: New Zealand Illustrated, the Christmas no. of the Weekly Press, 1905 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photo print, 293 x 369 mm

Date: 1870 - 1875

By: L'Univers illustre (Periodical); Wilson, Joseph Vivian, 1894-1978

Reference: A-018-008

Description: View across river, Rutland Stockade on hill behind. Newspaper illustration, accompanied by cutting with explanatory text. Published in 'L'Univers illustré', 2 November 1872, p. 704. Date inscribed in pencil. Other Titles - New Zealand; the bridge at Wanganui [translation] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 137 x 212 mm

Date: 1886

By: Didsbury, George, 1839-1893; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-q-065

Description: Chiefly photographs of the aftermath of the Tarawera eruption in 1886, many taken by Charles Spencer. Images include Dr Hector's party; views of mud-covered country; damage to buildings at the village of Te Wairoa; Henry Lundius and J C Blythe standing outside the hen-house in which several survivors took refuge; and views of the new lake formed after the eruption. Several views show the area before the eruption. The last two photographs in the album show the Manawatu Gorge bridge under construction, and the engine room at the Government Printing Office in Wellington. Physical Description: Album bound in blue buckram; "Didsbury. Tarawera Eruption 1886" lettered on spine; 28.5 x 20 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available for this album.

Date: 1890

From: [Star Lithographic Works] :Wanganui [and] Queen Street wharf, Auckland. [Auckland, Star Lithographic Works, 1890]

By: Star Lithographic Works

Reference: A-109-056

Description: View of Wanganui from across the river, with the main bridge diagonally across the picture plane Extended Title - From: The New Zealand Jubilee and Exhibition Chronicle, 1890 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 91 x 143 mm

Date: 1892 - 1893

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.

Reference: E-373-013

Description: Looking along the Whanganui River on its south bank towards a bridge and houses on both sides of the river. A paddle-steamer is in the river and two people are walking along the road at the base of a cliff to the left. The area in the left background is likely to be Putiki, where the artist grew up Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook 130 x 180 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..

Date: ca 1900s-1920s

By: Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-0598

Description: Postcards of Main Street, Eltham with the Coronation Hotel on the right; the estuary at Invercargill with children in the sea next to some sailing boats, a boy with a bicycle, and women sitting on the sand; the traffic bridge over the Manawatu Gorge; the Pink Terraces with a rowing boat with tourists at the foot (captioned as the lost Pink Terraces therefore postcard produced after 1886); trams on George Street, Dunedin with shops in the background; and a group of children pretending to do a haka. Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1878

Reference: A-019-014

Description: Looking down onto the bridge, river and city from a hill beyond the south bank of the river Extended Title - Published in: Buller, J. Forty years in New Zealand. London: 1878, op p.36, where in the preface he acknowledges `For the use of many of the engravings I am indebted to.. Sir Julius Vogel...' Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 90 x 140 mm

Date: [1900-1902]

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: 73-128-114

Description: Identified persons entered under Name; also includes letter from Hutt County Council regarding difficulty of collecting rates from Maori land owners, letters re Rimutaka deviation survey, proposed line from Kakarika to Sandon, propsed Ngatiawa Bridge, establishment of school at Akatarawa, transfer of land for a church at Porirua, the Ohau Forest Reserve, lease of education reserve at Ohau letter from [?] Hudson, Levin, re land purchased by his wife and other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1905

By: Ibbetson, George Richard Harbord, 1851?-1917

Reference: Plans-80-1117

Description: End elevation cross section and details of block and transom lower chord. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: Geo. R H Ibbetson Feby 1905. Copied from original in Roads and Bridges, Dept Lands and Survey - Customs bldgs. J S Porteous July 1909 Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on dressed linen

Date: [ca 1890-1950]

From: Smytheman, V :Photographs from World War II and an album of New Zealand scenes

By: Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970

Reference: PAColl-0531-1

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand including a number of the glass houses and parks of Wanganui and New Plymouth. There are also an old photograph of W Stack's Hotel in Hastings with men and horses outside (in poor condition); a woman in what may be a 1930 Chrysler Plymouth with another snow away from the tyres; the gravestone of Julius von Haast; Queen's Wharf, Wellington showing a recently returned troop transport ship; an orchestra performing at the 1907 Christchurch exhibition; men of the No. 19 Platoon with a car at the summit of the Rimutakas; postcard from P B Davis to Mr A French showing a group of First World War soldiers with the message that they are about to leave for France; and six children at the base of a large Maori carving with a bell attached at Ohinemutu. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-053380 Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s).