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Tourist Department album 2

Date: [circa 1905 to 1912]

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: PA1-o-498

Description: Photographs of a range of industries in New Zealand, possibly related to the Christchurch International Exhibition in 1906-1907. Industries include animal related products including wool, from fellmongery to transportation and finally weaving; meat works, including the slaughter house, the mutton cooling room, shipping fozen mutton, the beef cooling room; butter, at the Hautapu Butter Factory, showing butter in the factory, and delivering butter at Ngaruawahia Railway Station; the Waikato Bacon Factory, and pig carcases. Other industries include flax, with scenes showing a flax mill, carting flax to the mill, stripping, washing and drying flax, and also grading hemp and loading bales of it at Auckland wharves; kauri timber industry, from felling the trees, hauling logs by bullock, floating logs over the Wairoa Falls, sorting timber at the mill booms, timber mill on the Wairoa River, and a million feet of sawn timber at the mill. The latter part of the album shows scenes of gold dredging on the Buller Gorge, hydraulic gold-mining at Ross, Westland; coal mining at Brunner; kauri gum diggers and a warehouse storing kauri gum; and finally views of the Sugar Refinery in Auckland, and a warehouse filled with sacks of sugar. Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, leather corners and spine, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm

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The Creamery at Tuakau

Date: [between 1910 and 1930]

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

Reference: 1/2-001518-G

Description: Delivery carts lined up outside the creamery at Tuakau (situated at the railway end of the main street). Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Tuakau Creamery. 2109 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

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New Zealand Department of Labour album 5

Date: 1906-1907

From: New Zealand. Department of Labour :Photograph albums for the International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-1907

By: New Zealand. Department of Labour

Reference: PA1-o-371

Description: Views of various factories and businesses in the Auckland Region, taken circa 1906, by unidentified photographers. They include interior and exterior views, and employees. Other Titles - N.Z. Department of Labour Other Titles - Factories and workrooms, Auckland Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with tan leather cover, entitled `N.Z. Department of Labour. Factories and workrooms, Auckland. N.Z. International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-7'; 25.5 x 31.0 cm

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Travel in New Zealand

Date: Between 14 March and 12 April 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8788

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides includes a view of cows in trial harnesses at the Ruakura Agricultural Research Centre; the Anchor Butter factory at Te Awamutu (Te Awamutu Dairy Factory); the main street in Te Awamutu and the Riverina Hotel; the Waikato River from various angles; the Sand, Shingle, Metal works beside the Waikato River; two views of audience and participants at the Ngaruawahia Regatta; Queen Street in Auckland and views in the area including Auckland Harbour, Rangitoto, Devonport area, Panmure and Mount Wellington, and the crater on Mount Eden. Slides on this sheet are numbered 408-432 with gaps for those removed for lectures on New Zealand. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. 414, 420, 426-427) showing Main Street in Te Awamutu; looking down the Waikato River with the road bridge; Queen Street, Auckland and view of Rangitoto and Auckland Harbour. These were taken as part of a representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

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Creator unknown: Photographs taken by Enos Pegler

Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]

By: Pegler, Enos Silvanus Abijah, 1869-1938

Reference: PAColl-9374

Description: Photographs on various topics, taken by Enos Silvanus Pegler of Onehunga. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: Description enhanced 13 March 2023.

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The Creamery at Tuakau

Date: [between 1910 and 1930]

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

Reference: 1/2-001517-G

Description: Delivery carts lined up outside the creamery at Tuakau (situated at the railway end of the main street). An importing business is situated across the road on the left. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Tuakau Creamery. 2115 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

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Main street, Tuakau township

Date: [between 1910-1930]

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

Reference: 1/2-001523-G

Description: Main street of Tuakau township, photographed by William Archer Price between 1910 and 1930. Identifiable buildings on the left are the premises of Tapper Bros, the Tuakau Hotel, a fruiterer, and Clifton House. On the opposite side of the street is a drapery store, and the Creamery with delivery cart outside (in immediate foreground). Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Main street. Tuakau. 1520D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

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Inside a butter factory at Waitoa, near Te Aroha, 1921

Date: 1921

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

Reference: APG-1838-1/2-G

Description: Interior view of a butter factory at Waitoa, near Te Aroha. In the background are ready packaged boxes with the label saying Te Aroha. Two men are working at weighing and packing butter from a huge pile on a table. The men are wearing gumboots on the wet floor. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber, in 1921. Identified from Godber's own index filed in Photographic Archives at TL 6/1/15, in the 1/2 plate sequence, under B. Butter making. Waitoa. 1921. Near Te Aroha. Box 64. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

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Te Mata Butter Factory, near Raglan, 1910 - Photograph taken by Gilmour Brothers

Date: 1 August 1910

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

By: Gilmour Brothers (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-000523-G

Description: The Te Mata Co-operative Butter Factory, a wooden building with a corrugated iron water tank on the left. Taken 1 August 1910 by 'G Bros', (Gilmour Brothers) of Raglan. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Te Mata Butter Factory, Raglan N.Z. 303; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - G. Bros Protd 1.8.10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

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