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Date: 1947

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1876-1949 :[Drawings of Maori rafter patterns or kowhaiwhai] [1939?]-1947

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949; Palmer, Bruce, active 1950s

Reference: E-302-q-7-199/201

Description: Kowhaiwhai patterns in red and black. The identification of each is written above it. Signed at lower right by "B. Palmer". This may be Bruce Palmer, who was a correspondent with Jock McEwen in the 1940-50s. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - B Palmer / 1947 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on page of sketchbook. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 248 x 310 mm in sketchbook

Date: 1921

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

Reference: APG-0776-1/2-G

Description: Albert Percy Godber on the verandah of his home at Silverstream, Upper Hutt, alongside a Maori style wooden carving. The carving was probably made by Godber. Self portrait, circa 1921. Original print (Cropped) in Godber Album Vol 109, p 146 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - Te tangata ahau e matau ana ki te whakairo rakau. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: April 1931

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

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: APG-1790-1/2-G

Description: Side view of the fire engine at the newly established Silverstream Fire Brigade, with five firemen in full uniform with fire helmets, and two younger firemen, on the engine. Albert Percy Godber is standing behind the fire engine, 2nd from the left. On the side of fire station is a sign giving the various alarm signals for the 3 different districts in the area. The sign is headed "S.S.V.F.B. Fire alarms. Fire Bell. Main Road. Silverstream". Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1931. Photograph published in the Evening Post 29 April 1931, page 7 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: F. Fire Brigade (4). Silverstream. 1930. First motor. Box 122. See also negatives at APG-1788-1/2, APG-1789-1/2 and APG-1793-1/2 for other images of the Fire Brigade taken at the same time. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

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

Date: Circa 1932

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

Reference: APG-2055-1/2-G

Description: Albert Percy Godber working on a Maori carving, probably at his home in Silverstream. The carving has the following inscription "Te Karere. Tapu Paipera. Ta te mea he Kaikauwhau tenei ahau kia koutou mo te harinui meake puta mai ki te iwi katoa". Photograph taken by Godber circa 1932. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.0 x 3.0 inches

Date: [ca 1916-1918]

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

Reference: APG-0420-1/2-G

Description: Two men stand by the unusable remains of a kauri tree which has been logged. The man at the back is the photographer, Albert Percy Godber, and the man in front is S Millington. Photographed between 1916 and 1918, near Piha. Original print at PA1-o-195 (Godber album, vol 101, p 28) Inscriptions: Album page - Waste timber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

From: New Zealand. Department of Agriculture :Negatives

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: 1/1-007581-G

Description: Man feeding a flax stripper (at Makerua?), circa 1910. Photograph taken by (Albert Percy Godber?) Back of file print 677. Flax industry. G1439 1/4 reads: "Godber" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: ca 1901

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

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: APG-0018-1/2-G

Description: Petone Fire-Brigade Station, with firemen, photographed about 1901 by A P Godber. List of fire-men on back of original print which is interleaved in PA1-o-194, Godber II (Godber album 100, p 70): Back row from left: Br. Lewin, Fireman R Simms, Fireman W. Sibus, Fireman A. Silverwood, Br. F. Bray. Front row: Messenger W. Horne, Fireman A. Rose, Fireman J. Armstrong, For. E. Horne, Captain W. Austin, Secretary J. Gaynor, W. Shardlow?, and Fireman A P Godber. Original print at Pa1-o-194 (Godber II), Godber album 100 (interleaved at p 70). Br. F. Bray possibly identified as Thomas Francis Bray. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: Between 1900 and 1910

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

Reference: APG-0126-1/2-G

Description: Albert Percy Godber at his brass finishing lathe in the Petone railway workshops. A sign before him reads: `This is my busy day'. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. Original print in Godber album PA1-o-194, page 75 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1901

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

Reference: APG-0135-1/2-G

Description: A P Godber, the photographer, standing in front of the royal train carriage which was used during the Duke of Cornwall & York's 1901 visit. Photographed outside the Petone Railway Workshops by Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.4 x 4.75 inches

Date: 23 July 1941

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

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: APG-1450-1/4-G

Description: View of the cabinet which contained the roll of members for the Silverstream Fire Brigade, from its inception in 1930 to 1941, photographed by Albert Percy Godber. J Sittauer, member of the Fire Brigade, made the cabinet, while A P Godber did the paint designs on the cabinet, using Maori motifs. For another image of the roll of members see APG-1449-1/4 (File print: 42. Upper Hutt. Silverstream. Fire Brigade), without the cabinet. Information about the cabinet from an inscription on the back of an original print held in the front pocket of Godber Album Vol 101 (PA1-o-195) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1920s

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

Reference: APG-0768-1/2-G

Description: Albert Percy Godber standing in a field with a scythe for clearing the land on his property at Pinehaven, near Silverstream. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1926

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

Reference: APG-1729-1/2-G

Description: Purakanui Railway Station. The station-master and the photographer (Albert Percy Godber) are standing beside the building, there is a fenced vegetable patch on the right, and a gas lamp in the right foreground. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1926. Information from Godber's index held in Photographic Archives (under Box 14. 94. Purakaunui Station [i.e. Purakanui]. 1926.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: April 1931

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

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: APG-1793-1/2-G

Description: Side view of the fire engine at the newly established Silverstream Fire Brigade, with five firemen in full uniform with fire helmets, and two younger firemen, on the engine. Albert Percy Godber is standing behind the fire engine, 2nd from the left. On the side of fire station is a sign giving the various alarm signals for the 3 different districts in the area. The sign is headed "S.S.V.F.B. Fire alarms. Fire Bell. Main Road. Silverstream". 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: F. Fire Brigade (4). Silverstream. 1930. First motor. Box 122. See also negatives at APG-1788-1/2, APG-1789-1/2 and APG-1790-1/2 for other images of the Fire Brigade taken at the same time. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: Between 1915 and 1916

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

Reference: APG-0820-1/2-G

Description: Native bush near Anawhata, with the photographer sitting on a kauri log. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, between 1915 and 1916. An original print from this negative is at Pa1-q-102 (Godber album vol 109, p 7) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: Between 1938 and 1940

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

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: APG-1459-1/4-G

Description: Albert Percy Godber's grandson Colin Hartwig, sitting beneath a carved notice for the Te Teko Presbyterian Maori Mission. Carving done by A P Godber, and the photograph taken at Silverstream between 1937 and 1940 by Godber. There are two photographs, taken at the same time, one of which is dated 1938 in Godber Album Vol 100, p 82; and the other is dated 1940 (Godber Album Vol 100, p 42). Another date (1937) is given in Godber's index filed in Photographic Archives at TL 6/1/15 (1/4 plate. H. Hartwig, Colin & notice (2). Silverstream. 1937. Box 34. Maori Mission notice). An original print of this image is in Godber Album Vol 100, p 42 (PA1-o-194) Inscriptions: Album page - Grandson Colin. 1940 (in pencil below the image); Album page - Tama (in ink on margin of photograph) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1939 - 1947

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1876-1949 :[Drawings of Maori rafter patterns or kowhaiwhai] [1939?]-1947

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: E-302-q-1-001/002

Description: Mangopare - the pattern on the tahuhu of "Te Poho-o-Rawiri", a house erected at Kaiti, Gisborne, about 1849. "Pitau-a-manaia". The white represents the pattern. Ngutukura - a pattern once very popular in Poverty Bay. Modified by break in sweep of outer curve. White represents the pattern. Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 65 x 295 mm (each) in sketchbook

Date: 1939 - 1947

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1876-1949 :[Drawings of Maori rafter patterns or kowhaiwhai] [1939?]-1947

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: E-302-q-1-005/006

Description: Patiki - from a house at Muriwai, Poverty Bay. No. 6 is from the same house and may represent an older bolder patteren which has been duplicated over a medial line. Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 70 x 295 mm (each) in sketchbook

Date: [ca 1930s]

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

Reference: APG-0950-1/2-G

Description: Closeup view of the Uenuku-mai-rarotonga meeting house, Punawhakareia Marae, Rotoiti, with the photographer, Albert Percy Godber, seated beside a carved figure. Photograph taken by Godber, circa 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1917

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

Reference: APG-0160-1/2-G

Description: The photographer (A P Godber) standing by the Wab class locomotive (NZR no. 686), photographed at the Petone Railway Workshops in 1917. Note on back of file print reads: "A P Godber with Wab class loco 686, 1917. Formerly Ws type, different bogie". Original print in Pa1-q-102 (Godber album, Vol 109, p 21). Inscription in album reads: "Ws" type - later reclassified "Wab" with altered bogie. Wab 686. 1917. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches