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Holmes, Robert West, 1856-1936 :Railway construction album
Date: [ca 1880s-1910s]
By: Holmes, Robert West, 1856-1936
Reference: PA1-o-1544
Description: Album compiled by civil engineer Robert West Holmes or a family member, ca 1880s-1910s. Shows North Island Main Trunk Railway works at Poro-o-tarao, Waiteti Viaduct, Huiroa Saddle, camp near Piriaka, Sew Hoy Dredge on Shotover River in 1890. Includes named portraits of railway engineers, family and friends in New Zealand and England. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 205 x 175 mm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009
School children travelling by train, and guard, Buller district
Date: 1945
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-001336-F
Description: Unidentified school girls from Seddonville, and others, travelling by train in the Buller district. A railway guard stands alongside. Photograph taken by John Pascoe in 1945. Photographer's caption reads: "Some of these children spend up to six hours a day travelling between their homes and their high school. After the addition of railcars to the line would remove this hardship [sic]" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative