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Hydro station at Maraetai
Date: [30 Apr 1951]
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: 114/287/11-G
Description: Construction of the hydro-electric power station at Maraetai in the Waikato. Photograph taken 30 Apr 1951 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres
Construction of western access road
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
Petone Railway Workshops engine erecting shop, locomotive construction shed, in 1910.
Date: 1910
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-0403-1/2-G
Description: Locomotives in the construction shed at the Petone railway workshop. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1910. Original print at Pa1-q-103 (Godber album Vol 110, p 85) Inscriptions: Album page - Engine Erecting Shop. Petone Shops. 1910. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches
Tip truck working on the approach to the Western Hutt Road Bridge circa 1937
Date: 1937
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-1499-1/4-G
Description: View of a tip truck working on the approach to the Western Hutt Road Bridge. Photographed by A P Godber circa 1937. Dated from the Godber Index (TL 6/1/15), filed in Photographic Archives, in the 1/4 plate section, under B. Bridge. Silverstream. 1937. Western Hutt Road. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom centre - Making approach to Western Hutt Road Bridge An original print of this image is in Godber Album Vol 100, p 55 (PA1-o-194) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches
Steam locomotive "J" 118 at the Petone Railway Workshops. The side of the cab. 1924
Date: 1924
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-1701-1/2-G
Description: View of the side of the cab of steam locomotive "J" 118 (2-6-0 type) at the Petone Railway Workshops. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1924. Information from Godber's index held in Photographic Archives (under Box 78. Loco J118. Petone shops. 1924. Side of cab.) "J" 118 was built by Neilson (maker's no. 2463/79), went into service in July 1880, and was written off in December 1932. See "Register of New Zealand Railways steam locomotives, 1863-1971" by W G Lloyd. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches
[Smith, William Mein] 1799-1869 :[A road through bush; probably the Hutt Valley during ...
Date: 1840 - 1850
Reference: B-009-013
Description: Two men resting beside a narrow road newly cleared through native bush, including a tall tree fern, with a river to the left. Could possibly be the Karori or Porirua areas, but more likely to show the making of the road between Petone and Taita Gorge in 1842, overseen by the artist, who was then Chief Surveyor. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print in 1972 - see C-028-036. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 315 x 228 mm
School house at Ohakune; Pipiriki-Tokaanu coach outside the Post Office at Ohakune; and...
Date: [ca 1900]
From: Child, Edward George, 1860-1949 :Photographs of the Ohingaiti district
Reference: 1/4-016540-G
Description: School house at Ohakune; Pipiriki-Tokaanu coach outside the Post Office at Ohakune; Makatote viaduct under constuction. Photographs taken circa 1900. Photographer(s) unidentified. Other - These photographs, published in an unidentified publication, were copied by Edward George Child between circa 1892-1910. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Interior of the machine shop at the Petone Railway Workshops, 1924
Date: 1924
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-1699-1/2-G
Description: Interior view of the machine shop at the Petone Railway Workshops. The photographer, Albert Percy Godber, is standing by a lathe on the left; a second man is unidentified. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1924. Information from Godber's index held in Photographic Archives (under Box 78. Machine shop. Petone shops. 1924. A P Godber by lathe on left.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches
Hydroelectric station at Roxburgh under construction
Date: 1955
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-6203-23
Description: Hydroelectric station at Roxburgh under construction, circa 14 September, 1955. Photographer unidentified. Caption on back of file print reads "Former River-bed. Men, lower centre, are working in the "gullet", where the river formerly ran. Now it passes through a diversion cut on the far side of the dam. Left foreground is the power-house inside which can be seen one of the turbines. Right foreground and in centre of the picture are some of the penstocks which feed water to the turbines, and beyound are the ridges of the spillways." Note on back of file print reads "Published 14 September 1955, page 27." Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
Rimutaka Road, showing improvements, circa 1924.
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
Road making, Tokomaru Bay freezing works at Waima
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
Creator unknown :Road construction workers, Sanson
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
A view of the Waitaki dam during construction
Date: 1932
From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection
Reference: MNZ-1797-1/4-F
Description: A view of the Waitaki hydro dam during construction. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1932 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Paynter, Bill, 1949- :UnCERtainty. Closer Economic Relations. 23 April 1982.
Date: 1982
From: Various artists :Collection of newspaper clippings, photocopies and bromides of cartoons by various cartoonists
Reference: A-312-3-002
Description: Shows a bridge under construction with scaffolding and tools scattered around. The two sides of the bridge (Australia and New Zealand) do not quite meet and there is a gap in the middle. Over the gap is a large table (Closer Economic Relations) where Muldoon and Malcolm Fraser are talking. Muldoon is slamming his fist down on the table. Refers to relations between New Zealand and Australia. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.
Road bridge under construction over the Manawatu River in the Manawatu Gorge at the Woo...
Date: 1931
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-1787-1/2-G
Description: Road bridge under construction across the Manawatu River in the Manawatu Gorge at the Woodville end. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1931. Identification of subject and location from Godber's own index at TL 6/1/15 (filed in Photographic Archives), in the 1/2 plate sequence under: B. Bridge. (2). Woodville end. 1931. Over Manawatu River in Gorge. Box 122. See also negative at APG-1792-1/2 for another image of the bridge. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches
Glenside, Wellington, including the Wellington-Manawatu railway line and construction o...
Date: Nov 1930
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: 1/2-026823-F
Description: Glenside, Wellington, November 1930, looking over the construction works for the Tawa Deviation of the North Island Main Trunk. Looking across to the Wellington-Manawatu line, which the deviation would replace: smoke from a Wellington-bound steam train on that line is clearly visible in the top left of the photo. Middleton Rd is on the right, the north portal of NIMT tunnel no. 2 concealed by a tree in the centre, and on the left is a construction tramway along the course of Rowells Rd.. Photograph taken by an Evening Post photographer. Formerly labelled as Tawa; correction and additional information supplied by a researcher. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Haughton & McKeon, architects :Maternity annexe to Wards 21 & 22, Wellington Hospital. ...
Date: 1946
From: Haughton & McKeon, architects :Maternity annexe to Wards 21 & 22, Wellington Hospital. May-June 1946.
Reference: Plans-97-011-286
Description: Shows site plan with Riddiford Street at the bottom and Regina Terrace to the right, the driveway in towards the modern carpark to the left and the then existing buildings, along with several other buildings no longer present Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed cotton, 530 x 746 mm
Railway track for the Rimutaka tunnel line
Date: [between 1952-1955]
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: PAColl-8557-52
Description: Railway track for the Rimutaka tunnel line. Shows the first 350 ft length being transported into the tunnel. Photograph taken by an unidentified staff photographer for the 'Evening Post'. Source of descriptive information - Notes on print. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 11.4 x 16.7 cm
Traction engines at Coalgate railway station
Date: 29 October 1913
From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives
Reference: 1/1-008122-G
Description: Traction engines and a truck at the railway station at Coalgate. The vehicles were engaged in the construction of the Lake Coleridge hydro-electric power station, which began in 1911 and was completed in November 1914. Photograph taken by a staff photograph of The Press. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.
Governor General and party at Pukerua Bay
Date: 1937
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: 1/4-048827-G
Description: The Viceregal party leaving their cars to examine the newly constructed northern coastal highway at the point where it descends from Pukerua Bay to the beach line Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).