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Odlin's Mill in the Akatarawa Divide, Wellington

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Elder, N L :Photographs relating to Waimohoe Station

Reference: PAColl-0464-02

Description: View of men at work at Odlin's timber mill in the Akatarawa Divide, Lower Hutt. Photograph taken circa 1910 by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Odlins Mill, Akatarawa Divide Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Probably glossy collodion print, 10.8 x 6.4 cm

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Waikaia Forest, Southland

Date: November 1956

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-42630-F

Description: View of Waikaia Forest, Southland, taken November 1956 by Whites Aviation Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 4 x 5 inches Finding Aids: Print available in Whites Aviation green folder 87, Southland County C.

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William Miller Kinvig driving a converted tractor on a logging railway

Date: 1930

By: Andrews, C (Mr), active 1975

Reference: 1/2-059940-F

Description: William Miller Kinvig driving a converted tractor on a logging railway in 1930, probably at Otaki Forks, Waitatapia Stream. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

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Bush tramway showing wooden rails, at Akatarawa, Price's Bush, circa 1903

Date: 1903

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

Reference: APG-1359-1/2-F

Description: Bush tramway line through Price's Bush in the Akatarawa Valley, showing the wooden rails. An unidentified man is sitting on the rails, on a bend in the line which is surrounded by native bush. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber circa 1903. This image is a film negative taken by Godber. Price's Bush was an area owned and milled by Thomas Price (1838-1906), who owned milling operations in Lower Hutt and Petone. Identification of place and date from Godber Acquisitions Register (Photographic Archives) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 17.25 x 11.25 cm

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Waiuta township looking south west

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis

Reference: PAColl-4796-09

Description: Waiuta township looking south west. Post office is lower centre left. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm

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Native bush on Great Barrier Island

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: 1/2-000128-G

Description: View of bush including nikau palms growing in the interior on Great Barrier Island. A man with a long white beard is standing on a felled tree trunk in the middle foreground. Photographed by William Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Native bush. Gt. Barrier. No 1121D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

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Scott, Thomas, 1947- :Waitangi Day, 1840. "One day my son, all of this will be ... thei...

Date: 1988

From: Scott, Thomas 1947- :[18 newsclippings of cartoons published in the Evening Post from January to February 1988.]

Reference: H-733-061

Description: A Maori father, his small son on his shoulders, standing in a native forest and looking out towards a sailing ship in a harbour. The man is telling his son that Pakeha will take over the land Original held at C-181-018. Quantity: 1 newsclippings. Physical Description: Newsclipping

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Motueka River

Date: ca 1885

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10x8-1033-G

Description: Motueka River, and bush alongside, photographed by the Tyree Studio circa 1885. Group in centre, with horse and cart, unidentified. Man left of centre, also unidentified. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Motueka River Tyree Photo 1355 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

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Waiuta

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis

Reference: PAColl-4796-16

Description: Waiuta township looking south east. Beyond is the poppet head over the Blackwater Mine's south shaft, with the bowling green (built upon waste rock from the mine's workings). The man standing on the left is Joseph Divis. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s. Source of descriptive information - Notes about bowling green, the south shaft and the dates it operated - from Library client. Of the south shaft, the four large buildings below the chimney are (from left) blacksmith's shop. Compressor shop. Boiler shop. Winding room. (Information supplied by Derek French in 1968.) South shaft was 563m vertical, to a point about 100m below sea level. Mining was carried out there from 1906 to 1936 when operations became centered upon the deeper Prohibition shaft a short distance north. (Information from Library client) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm

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Track on Mt Egmont, in the Dawson Falls area - Photograph taken by Harry Graham

Date: ca 1914

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

By: Graham, Harry, active 1914

Reference: 1/2-000033-G

Description: Photograph of a bush track in the Dawson Falls area of Mount Egmont, circa 1914. Photograph taken by H Graham, caretaker at Dawson Falls (see H. Graham, Kaponga, in Wise's Post Office Directory, 1914) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Track. Dawson Falls. H Graham Photo. No. 2795 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

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Aniwaniwa Falls, Lake Waikaremoana - Photograph taken by John William McDougall

Date: 1910

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

By: McDougall, John William, active 1905-1914

Reference: 1/2-000484-G

Description: View of the Aniwaniwa Falls at Lake Waikaremoana, 1910. Photograph probably taken by John William McDougall (editor of the Daily Telegraph in Napier between 1905 and 1914.) Other - Photographer identified from Wise's Post Office Directory between 1905 and 1914, the only McDougall living anywhere near Lake Waikaremoana.A researcher has found a photograph by 'HH McDougall' who also lived in Napier at this time, so may possibly be the photographer. He was the son of John William McDougall. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Aniwaniwa Falls. Waikaremoana. No. 1916; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - McDougall Protected 7.3.10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

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Liardet, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn, 1799-1878 :View from Mt Pukekawa of the embuchure ...

Date: 1869 - 1901

By: Liardet, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn, 1799-1878; Anderson, Nora, active 1901; Hogg, Neville William (Dr), 1927-2007; Sisarich, Warren, active 1980s-1990s

Reference: C-126-006

Description: Extensive view framed by tree ferns and flax in the foreground, looking down unto a small river winding through cultivated fields and scattered houses, with the kainga mentioned in the title presumably the cluster of buildings to the right. There is a ridge of low hills beyond the near river valley then the extensive plain of the Waihou River, formerly called the Thames, with mountains in the distance The original watercolour by Liardet is at C-137-005. The Thames River, named by Captain Cook, is now known by its original Maori name as the Waihou River. The "Kawaeranga" River is the Kauaerangi. Mt Pukekawa does not appear to be a name used in the area depicted any longer - the closest Pukekawa is some 50 kilometres to the west on the far side of the Waikato River. On the verso is a pencil and faint watercolour drawing of a pair of pink dancing shoes and a fan. Other Titles - Embouchure, Kauaerangi River, Waihou River Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title, both artists' names and dates, in brown brushpoint in cursive calligraphic style.; Verso - "Mrs Anderson Coromandel sc" plus framing instructions dating from the 1960s. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, on sheet 315 x 467 mm. Provenance: Owned by Warren Sisarich, 1960s. Sold at Dunbar Sloanes, Wellington, to Dr Neville Hogg of Dargarville.

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A kauri tree which has just been felled.

Date: Circa 1917

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

Reference: APG-1222-1/2-G

Description: A kauri tree which has just been felled, in the Piha area, photographed by Albert Percy Godber. A print of this negative is in Godber Album Vol 109, p 73 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - A fallen giant. (Kauri) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

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Timber transportation, Pukemako bush, east of Mangapehi, Waikato

Date: 1935

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

Reference: PAColl-8550-11

Description: Forestry workers with timber transportation equipment in the Pukemako bush, 13 miles east of Mangapehi, Waikato. Shows several men standing on a log on a railway system through the trees, and another man on a 1934 Caterpillar diesel 75 tractor with a winch on the back. Photograph taken in 1935 by an unidentified photographer. Publication note - Department of Internal Affairs. 1939. `Making New Zealand' 1(9): 28 For further information regarding the tractor in this photograph see Ken Anderson, Servicing Caterpillar : the story of the Taumarunui branch of Gough Gough & Hamer (Taumarunui [N.Z.] : C & S Publications, 2000). The tractor was on an eight month contract that started in January 1935. Caterpillar dealers Gough Gough and Hamer contracted to sawmillers Ellis and Burnand Ltd, to demonstrate the advantage of using tractors in the bush. Ellis and Burnand purchased the machine at the start of 1936 and used it at Ongarue until 1943 when it went back to Mangapehi. It was eventually scrapped in the early 1950s. Source of descriptive information - Information regarding the date, location, and tractor from Library client - June 2007 Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Original caption: Left - Modern methods of transport in timber milling at Mangapehi, Taranaki.; Verso - centre - Photo I-69 / Reduce: 6" x 4 1/2 "; Verso - bottom centre - Timber Milling, Mangapehi, NZ; Verso - bottom right - Govt Tourist Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.5 x 20.3 cm Provenance: Photograph from the Government Tourist Department for the Department of Internal Affairs' publication `Making New Zealand' (1939-40). Processing information: Formerly filed in Turnbull Library Pictures at: 634. Timber industry. Transport. Rail.

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White pine trees between Stratford and Taumarunui

Date: 1922

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-1-097

Description: Photo of several white pine trees photographed in 1922 by Robert E Wells. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Class 5. Bush Scene. "Forest Giants".; Verso - centre - The last of a large forest of white-pine trees on the road from Stratford to Taumaranui. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 11.2 x 5.8 cm

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View of Waiuta township looking south

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis

Reference: PAColl-4796-23

Description: View of Waiuta township looking south. Middle distance centre is the Anglican church. To the left of the church on the rise is the hospital. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm

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Kirkwood, Henry William 1854-1925 :Road near Pelorus Sound. [189-?]

Date: 1890 - 1900

By: Kirkwood, Henry William, 1854-1925; McKenzie, Joan Christie, 1918-1995; Rawson, Joan Whiteley, 1910-1992

Reference: G-234

Description: Shows road in foreground leading off into distance, with bushcovered hill in right background. On the road a cowherd follows three cows walking away to background. Dated 1890s on the basis that Kirwood exhibited with the NZ Academy of Fine Arts from 1889 to 1895. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - HWK (in red paint); Verso - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 oil(s) framed.. Physical Description: Oil, 222 x 150 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Miss Joan Whitely Rawson.

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The Wharepapa River and the lower Rimutaka Range

Date: [ca 1913]

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-913-03-4

Description: View of a shallow valley with areas of native forest, and the Wharepapa River flowing through it. In the background are mountains of the southern Rimutaka Range. Photographed by Hubert Earle Girdlestone in about 1913. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - The Wharepapa Stream and the lower Rimutaka Ranges Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 13 x 7.3 cm

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View of Waiuta township, West Coast, New Zealand

Date: 1906

From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis

Reference: PAColl-4796-26

Description: View of Waiuta Township. Dirt road with people on it and on bank below it. Group of people in distance on the right standing in front of a two gabled building. Photographed by Joseph Divis in 1909. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm

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Williams, T R G :Scene at Nireaha, near Eketahuna

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Morrison, Rosina Tarepa Buckman, 1923-2005: Photographs relating to Rosina Buckman

By: Williams, T R G, active 1900s

Reference: PAColl-0041-05-01

Description: Bush scene and bush railway track at Nireaha, near Eketahuna. Taken by T R G Williams circa 1900. Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - Scene at Nireaha near Eketahuna; Mat recto - beneath image - T R G Williams, photographer, Pahiatua, N.Z.; mat verso - top centre - To Miss Ethel M Buckman Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 106 x 147 mm on mount 202 x 254 mm

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