Places

Date: [3 May 1951]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/291/12-G

Description: Construction on the new western access road, from Blackbridge Road to Wilton Road. Photograph taken 3 May 1951 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres

Date: 1924

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

Reference: APG-1306-1/2-G

Description: Improvements to the Rimutaka Road showing the old road to the left, with a new cutting straightening the route. A Ford motor car is rounding the bend. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1924. A print of this image is in Godber album Vol 109, p 209 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - Improvements to Rimutaka Road. Old road on left. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1910-1930]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000277-G

Description: Road making using horses under construction at northern end of Waima, near the Tokomaru Bay freezing works. Photograph possibly taken by Oates Bros of Tokomaru Bay in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Making road. Freezing works. Tokomaru Bay. No O.B. 120 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1946

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-046246-G

Description: A view of Paremata, taken in 1946 from the opposite side of the road bridge, showing a small sandy beach, and some yachts and dinghies. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1927

From: Neill, W T :Negatives and prints of tramping in the Tararuas.

Reference: 1/4-021186-F

Description: Truck, with passengers on the back, on the Mangaroa Hill Road, Upper Hutt. Shows the vehicle on an unsealed road, facing the camera. Photograph taken in 1927 by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [Between 1910 and 1930]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000514-G

Description: View of Lambton Harbour taken from Oriental Parade looking north-east towards Petone with Somes Island visisble in the distance. A fishing boat [?] is heading out to sea. Two women and a boy are standing on the rocks on the foreshore in the foreground on the left. Several people are on the roadway, one riding a bicycle. Photograph taken between 1910 and 1930 by William Archer Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Oriental Bay. Wellington. 616 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [between ca 1920s and 1940s?]

Reference: PAColl-8241

Description: Photograph showing road construction workers standing in a row with shovels, used for levelling piles of gravel that have been poured from the back of a truck on a road over a bridge in Sanson, near Palmerston North. Photograph taken between circa 1920s and the 1940s?, by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Sanson Palmerston North Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20.6 x 15 cm

Date: [late 1930s]

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-091738-F

Description: View down a gravel road with Zeila Wells, wife of the photographer, standing beside a car, photographed by Robert E Wells, probably in the late 1930s. Caption - Mangamahu Rd: Zeila and car on Rd - white pine bush [from photographer's negative register] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [ca 1940]

From: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946 :Prints and negatives of New Zealand wildlife and scenery

Reference: 1/2-009937-F

Description: Photograph of a car on an unidentified road, Punakaiki, circa 1940. Shows a car facing the camera, parked on the road. Photograph taken by Thelma Rene Kent. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: Date unknown, ca 1910?

Reference: 1/2-056908-F

Description: Covered carriage advertising Smith Bros of Owaka, in mud on the main road to Houipapa, during winter. Date unknown (circa 1910?). Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1923

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

Reference: APG-1696-1/2-G

Description: Four people with a car (possibly Chevrolet), the hood up, parked outside a two-storied house at Kaitoke. The photographer's wife, Laura Godber, is sitting in the back seat on the left. There is an unidentified man standing on the left of the car, a woman next to Laura Godber in the back seat, and a young girl standing on the running board on the right. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1923. Information from Godber's index held in Photographic Archives (under Box 74. House. Kaitoke. 1923. Car in front) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [between Feb-March 1913]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-q-003-18-2

Description: Taradale Road embankment and Tutaekuri River (foreground), Hawke's Bay. Ahuriri Lagoon and mud-flats in the distance. Photograph taken by George Leslie Adkin between February and March 1916. Source of descriptive information - Inscription in album, and image. Date from display dates at PA1-q-003. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - The Taradale Road embankment showing Ahuriri Lagoon and mud-flats in distance. The Tutaekuri River in the foreground. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 10.9 x 13.1 cm, on album page

Date: 1976

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :[Original cartoons published in the Auckland star, 1976].

Reference: A-347-008

Description: Shows a man browsing a rack of books in a bookshop. The titles are: Is there life after death? Flying saucers, Latest report on rapid transit, Visitors from space, Ghosts, The unknown, Will-o'-the wisps. Refers to the fact that a planned rapid transit scheme seems very unlikely to eventuate. Other Titles - Supernatural and psychic phenomena Inscriptions: Recto - top left - BROMHEAD Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on sheet, 162 x 228 mm, stuck to board (title stuck to board separately)

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001801-G

Description: Warkworth, showing houses, roads and trees. The river is in the immediate foreground. Photograph taken by William A Price from a hill overlooking the river and township, in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Warkworth. 1387. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.4 inches

Date: [ca 1930s?]

Reference: 1/2-082124-F

Description: Disused road in the Otira Gorge, circa 1930s?. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1 August 1910

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Green & Colebrook (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-001594-G

Description: View along the Great South Road, the main street through Ngaruawahia, looking south. The railway line in to the right, and there is a row of shops centre left. Photograph taken by G & C Ltd (Probably Green & Colebrook, merchants, with a branch in Ngaruawahia) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Main street looking south. Ngaruawahia. 114; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - G & C Ltd. Protd 1.8.10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: between 1919-1920

From: New Zealand Geological Survey : Photographs of the Whangarei district

Reference: 1/4-002645-F

Description: Horse drawn carriage and Good-bye Corner, Ngunguru. Taken by an unidentified photographer, between 1919-1920. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1918

From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-006936-G

Description: Halfway house on the road between Tauranga and Rotorua, near Ngawaro. Photograph taken by Frederick George Radcliffe. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Halfway House. Tauranga-Rotorua Road. F.G.R. 6164.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 303 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1890 - 1900

By: Kirkwood, Henry William, 1854-1925; McKenzie, Joan Christie, 1918-1995; Rawson, Joan Whiteley, 1910-1992

Reference: G-234

Description: Shows road in foreground leading off into distance, with bushcovered hill in right background. On the road a cowherd follows three cows walking away to background. Dated 1890s on the basis that Kirwood exhibited with the NZ Academy of Fine Arts from 1889 to 1895. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - HWK (in red paint); Verso - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 oil(s) framed.. Physical Description: Oil, 222 x 150 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Miss Joan Whitely Rawson.

Date: 1908 - 1912

By: Hackworth, James Brooks, 1853-1933; Hackworth, Ethel Winifred, 1888-1975

Reference: A-075-002

Description: View looking south from Owhiro Bay towards Sinclair Head, with a road at the water's edge, a four-horse team ready to haul a dray and a man shovelling shingle onto the dray. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 228 x 291 mm