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Date: 2001 - 2002

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-674-001/026

Description: Cartoons on political and social issues. Shows a destroyed bus (peace process) destroyed first by the Palestinian suicide bombers and them by Israeli war planes. Health spending priorities promote huge salaries for the CEO and a pittence for everyone else. Cartoon obituary to Sir Peter Blake. A dolphin weeps. Shows a flag at hslf-mast over the sea and a poem for Sir peter Blake. Peter Jackson, Director of Lord of the Rings dresses up for the New Zealand premiere. Debate in the Parliamentary Chamber on proposed changes referred to as the 'wipe the slate clean' Bill. Helen Clark hides from the anger of the grounded NZ Air Force capability. Children's perception of the difference in pay rises between MP's and teachers. Shows a tour guide explaining the virtues and down-side of New Zealand to a group of travel writers. Shows Bin Laden jumping the cue at the plastic surgery clinic. Shows MP's defending themselves at a press conference against charges of triple-dipping from public funds. Shows the men calling the tune on America's anti-terrorism campaign. Shows the leader of the National Party, Bill English asking Santa Claus for a Christmas present. Santa and his reindeer narrowly avoid being hit by airborne missiles. Shows an All Black selector recruiting new talent from a war zone. Shows Helen Clark and Jim Anderton clucking over their new baby (Air New Zealand), while Michael Cullen advises them not to get too attached as it'll be up for adoption as soon as it can stand on it's own feet. Winston Peters climbs up to his attic to dust off his 'super scare monger' suit. Slobadon Milosevich stands in the War Crimes Tribunal dock with his hands dripping in blood, he defys the authority of the court. A tribute to New zealand Criketerl, Chris Cairns as 'King of the Oval.' Shows Tranzrail passengers being shown a pick-axe they are to use in case of a derailment. Shows detainees at Guantanamo Bay being asked by their detainers if they have any complaints. They wear something like a gas mask so their answer is impossible to understand. Refers to anti-terrorism war and those captured by American-led forces. Shows politicicians as children engaged in petty squabbles as the election draws near. Comment on asylum seekers in Australia seeking help from the rest of the world. Shows Israeli troops in a armoured tank trying to force Yasser Arafat to end Palestinian violence. Shows an Australian teacher explaining to his students that only those arriving in Australia between 1840 and 2000 are 'fair dinkum Aussies'. National Party leader, Bill English dons a judges cloak, a hangman's noose and an executioners hood as he campaigns on a law and order platform. ACT leader, Richard Prebble outlines his stand on immigration policy. Quantity: 27 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1897 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-066

Description: Shows a train crossing a high valley line, with the tunnel mouth to the left. Trees, including tree ferns, surround the scene. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 165 x 230 (page size)

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-057

Description: A railway line winding around the edges of steep hills, with a train on the left and a tunnel at a lower point on the right entering a steep hill. bush. Probably a view from the track, looking at another part of the track and the tunnel ahead. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1967

From: Robinson, Peter Franklin, active 1970-2017: Colour slides of Wellington City and suburbs, and railways images

Reference: PA12-0071

Description: Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]

From: New Zealand Centre for Photography :Photographs

By: Hoy, Douglas George, 1937-1992

Reference: PAColl-9528-2

Description: Photographs of railway scenes taken by Douglas George Hoy. Includes photographs of Wellington Harbour Board buildings and vessels, United Kingdom trip in 1980, and photographs of friends, pets and various artistic photographs. Accompanying material - Negative index Quantity: 65 b&w original photographic print(s). 11 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1960s-1970s]

From: New Zealand Centre for Photography :Photographs

By: Hoy, Douglas George, 1937-1992

Reference: PAColl-9528-1

Description: Photographs of railway scenes taken by Douglas George Hoy Accompanying material - Negative index Quantity: 75 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1910s?

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

Reference: APG-0158-1/2-G

Description: View of a train rounding a bend as it descends the Rimutaka Incline, showing the special middle track required for the Fell system. Photograph by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: APG-0153-1/2-G

Description: Fell engine and train exiting Siberia Tunnel on the Rimutaka Incline. High fences as windbreaks are on both sides of the railway line, with a young boy (possibly William Godber) sitting on the fence in right foreground. Photograph taken ca 1910 by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass plate negative

Date: Between 1880s and 1890s

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

Reference: APG-1186-1/2-F

Description: View of trains at the Rimutaka Summit, the locomotive on the left is an "R" Class steam locomotive. Three small cottages are on the left of the railway tracks. Three passenger carriages are stopped, with a number of people standing at the doorways or leaning out windows, while a goods train with laden wagons is in the near centre. Another locomotive is pulling onto the station on the right, with a railway shed centre right. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer. This image is a film copy negative taken by Albert Percy Godber from an original print in Godber Album Vol 102, p 76 (PA1-f-025). Inscriptions: Album page - "Summit. Rimutakas". R loco. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 17.25 x 11.75 cm

Date: 1882

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: C-096-014

Description: Lake Wairarapa in the background, the railway line with a train (the Fell engine) in a cleared area, with hills and bush on either side. Inscriptions: Signed: John Gully, 1882 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 360 x 300 mm

Date: 1890

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Wilkie, Francis Howard, 1870-1945; Paterson, Nola Laura Noble, 1915-2008

Reference: C-030-030

Description: Shows the railway station and ancillary buildings, including railway cottages, the goods shed and the engine shed. Also shown are St Joseph's Catholic Church, the Provincial Hotel, P A Wilkie's second store (to the right of the hotel), and, to its left, Edward Wilkie's bakery and boarding-house Supplied title. Reproduced in: Kenneally, J M Upper Hutt, Wellington. 1980 (q993.1. KEN) with the following text (p.6). "The artist ... is known to have stayed with station-owners and at hotels and is believed to have left paintings of the district in lieu of board. While staying at Upper Hutt around 1890 he gave two paintings to Francis Howard Wilkie. One is a view of Upper Hutt and the other shows two bridges at the entrance to the Akatarawa Valley. The paintings have since passed to Mr Wilkie's daughter and son-in-law, Mr & Mrs J. H. G. Patterson of Totara Park, Upper Hutt. [Both watercolours in the Turnbull Library from the 1980s]. Shown in the painting of Upper Hutt are railway cottages, station building, goods shed and the engine shed. Also St Joseph's Catholic Church and the Provincial Hotel. On the right of the hotel is P. A. Wilkie's second store built about 1875 when the Fortune Lane community moved north to Upper Hutt to be near the railway station. The building at the left of the Provincial Hotel is Edward Wilkie's bakery and boardinghouse. Other copies: A second, almost identical version of this view was offered at International Art Centre, Auckland, 19 March 2008, lot 26. It was passed in. The only differences between the two works were in small details like the appearance of the cows and in the small group of trees in the left foreground. Both works were of the same dimensions Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 345 x 550 mm

Date: ca 2 Nov 1955

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984

Reference: PAColl-7171-71

Description: Fell engine and train leaving Cross Creek on the Rimutaka Incline. Photograph taken by Roland James Searle circa November 1955. Published in the New Zealand Free Lance, 2 November 1955, page 24 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.2 x 20 cm

Date: [ca 1926]

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

Reference: 1/2-047581-G

Description: Part 1 of a 2 part panorama of the Wellington suburb of Ngaio, showing houses and streets. A train is in the middle ground. Photograph taken ca 1926 by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1910s?

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

Reference: APG-0155-1/2-G

Description: View of the railway track designed for the Fell system on the Rimutaka Incline, with a train visible across a gully, ascending the hill. Photograph by Albert Percy Godber. Original print at Pa1-q-102 (Godber album, Vol 109, p 30) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1934

Reference: 1/2-027952-F

Description: Royal train ascending the Rimutaka Incline during the Duke of Gloucester's tour in 1934. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Between 1905 and 1907

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

Reference: APG-0735-1/2-G

Description: View of a goods traincarrying sheep, rounding a bend on the Rimutaka Line, near Upper Hutt. Photograph by Albert Percy Godber. An original print is in Godber Album Vol 105, p 20 (Pa1-o-197) Inscriptions: Album page - A sheep train near Upper Hutt. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1939]

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

By: Stewart, William Walter, 1898-1976

Reference: MNZ-2669

Description: Four engine train crossing the Rimutaka Ranges, taken circa 1939 by William Walter Stewart. Source of descriptive information - Notes on item. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16.3 x 20.9 cm Provenance: Photograph from William Walter Stewart for the Department of Internal Affairs' publication 'Making New Zealand' (1939-1940).

Date: 1910s?

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

Reference: APG-0152-1/2-G

Description: View from behind a train rounding a bend on the Rimutaka Incline, showing the special middle track required for the Fell system. Train with three steam engines. Photograph by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: between 1880-1890

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025480-G

Description: Scene at the summit of the Rimutaka incline, with S class steam locomotive number 6, two wagon loads of wood, and two passenger carriages. Railway workers, including Guard J Turner and M Cronin, stand alongside. Railway cottages line the tracks. A stack of railway track is in the foreground. Photograph taken by William Williams between 1880 and 1890. Identical (copy?) image at negative number 1/2-004665-F. Note on back of file print says that 1/1-025480 is the best neg. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1910s?

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

Reference: APG-0151-1/2-G

Description: View from above a train rounding a bend on the Rimutaka Incline, showing the special middle track required for the Fell system. Train with three steam engines, going away from the camera. Photograph by Albert Percy Godber. Original print at Pa1-q-102 (Godber album, Vol 109, p 3) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches