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Date: 1924-1937

From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 :Photographs of Hydro schemes and the Murchison and Hawke's Bay earthquakes

Reference: PA1-q-769

Description: Opens with views of the site of the Arapuni Hydro scheme and the Paturuahine Gorge which was flooded to form Lake Arapuni. This is followed by images of the repairs to the one of the water channels that took place in 1932. The rest are photographs of the dam at various stages of construction, the dam completed, views of the new lake, water flowing over the spillway, and the Arapuni falls created below the dam Two views of Atiamuri show the Pohaturoa Rock in the background Ten images of Stewart's Claim, a location south of Okarito, show scenic views some with gold dredging equipment lying around, a beach and a river estuary on which is a barge loaded with pipes. Eight images record before and after effects of controlled blasting on a limestone bluff at Cobden Quarry, Greymouth, photographed on the 15th of January, 1932 The last section are views of the construction of the Waitaki Hydro, and the new Lake Waitaki. There are also several images of the Mokau Falls at Waikaremoana Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: Evans, I, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-1519

Description: Photographs taken on holiday in New Zealand by woman identified as I Evans. Comprises photographs of men, women and children from Tuhourangi and Arawa iwi, many in traditional costume; Model Village at Whakarewarewa; Ohinemutu Pa; Lake Rotorua; Guide Ruth, Ana Hato; Guide Rangi; Wairakei geysers; Rotomahana; buried forest; Arapuni; Hongi's Track; Lake Taupo; Wellington Harbour from Ngaio; tobacco growing at Riwaka; apple packing shed at Redwood's Valley, Nelson; Devils Boots, Collingwood; Government Buildings, Wellington; Wainui House, Nelson; houseboat, Whanganui River; self-portraity of photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 151 x 202 mm Provenance: Purchase, 2009

Date: [ca 1890-1927]

From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); France, J W, active 1890s

Reference: PAColl-0348

Description: Mounted photographs by the Burton Brothers of the junction of Eden and Tees Streets, Oamaru showing St Luke's Church, shops, tram lines and part of the Council Chambers; looking down on the wharves of Port Chalmers with the Presbyterian Church in the right foreground; and the Kakahi Falls, near Tawhata on the Whanganui River. Two smaller mounted photographs of a river in the Catlins District. Three pages from a photograph album holding five photographs of the building of the Arapuni Dam on the Waikato River including the buried forest exposed by the Waikato River diversion. Three loose prints by J W France of an early settlers' cottage made of ponga with a turf roof and with the family outside; a group of six workmen standing on the road they were building with long handled shovels and a boy and a dog in front of them; and the funeral procession of Sir John MacKenzie in 1901 led by a pipe band up the main road in Oamaru working. Finally a loose print of the bridge over the Waiho River. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-68928 to 1/2-068934. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.

Date: 1917-1971

From: Tiller, Eileen, active 1957-2014: Collection

Reference: PAColl-8687

Description: Photographs of Wairakei; the fossil forest at Curio Bay South Otago; Wanganui hospital and nurses (1917-1918); a re-enactment of Captain Cook's landing at Picton (1970); views of Wellington; Otaki River and Otaki Forks; Northland. Title supplied by the Library Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 81199 to 35mm, 81212. Slides at PA12-5487 to PA12-5488 Quantity: 25 b&w original photographic print(s). 14 colour original photographic print(s). 32 colour original transparency/ies. 15 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strips comprising 41 images. Provenance: Photograph of Wanganui Hospital, nurses etc. belonged to Annie Hansen who an aunt of Eileen Tiller. Annie Hansen was the daughter of Anders and Elizabeth (Bessie) Hansen. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Hanson family diaries (MS-Group-0887).

Date: 1974, 1978

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

Reference: PA1-o-848

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1921-1922

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-q-001

Description: Album (2), 1921-1922, Mangahao Hydro-electric scheme, images 59-122. Album showing the development of construction of the Mangahao Hydro-electric power scheme, with all aspects, including service roads, the sawmill supplying timber for buildings and other requirements of construction, work camps, the tunnels for water pipes. See also Album (1) 1916-1921, Tararuas & Mangahao Hydro-Electric construction, images 1-58 (at PA1-o-009).

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Werren, Douglas John 1930-2007: Transparency slides

Reference: PA12-11319

Description: Transparency slides taken by Doug Werren, circa 1950s to 1960s. Includes photographs of unidentified hydroelectric power stations, including under construction. Also photographs of [Wairakei?] geothermal power plant. A series of images show a river valley. One construction site [possibly for dam?] is in the vicinity of Mount Ruapehu (visible in the rear of one image in the series). Also includes two images of an unidentified site [quarry?]. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: [ca 1955-1969]

From: Conley, Peter Vaizey, 1924-2000 :Transparency slides of New Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-8869

Description: Colour transparency slides of North Island scenes, taken ca mid to late 1950s and 1960s by Peter Vaizey Conley. All are unidentified but the photographer describes this set as 'Marsden Point', 'Kerikeri', Wellington trip', 'Auckland', and 'Fairmont'. Contains: Several views of energy-generating complexes, including Marsden Point oil refinery, and a large dam. Two exterior views of the Leopard Inn, Marine Parade, Napier. One photograph of a sign at Karangahake gold camp. Two waterfront scenes, probably Auckland, showing large ships docked at wharfs, and a small seaplane. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1949-1958

By: Tyrell, Norman, -1994; Hayward, Margaret Jane, 1940-

Reference: PA-Group-00367

Description: Photographs of holiday excursions and job sites taken ca 1949-1958 by railway engineer Norman Tyrell. Covers hydro-electric dams and their construction, bridges and their construction, the construction of a septic tank at Palmerston, cities, ports, Auckland Zoo, tramping and mountains and scenic New Zealand. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives in registers at F 71104 1/4 - F 71731 1/4 Photographs taken by Norman Tyrell, railway engineer, d 1994 Quantity: 627 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4779 to PA-Group-00367 in 2009.

Date: 1980 - 1984

From: [Posters concerning the environment and environmental protection. 1980-1983].

Reference: Eph-C-ENVIRONMENT-1982-01

Description: Arrangement of white text on black background. Part of the poster exhibition "I protest" displayed in the Alexander Turnbull Library foyer Feb-April 1997. Dated and attributed because of similarity to small leaflet, dated by the Library as 1982. Opposition to the Clutha dams began in the late 1960s and continued until the early 1980s. Other Titles - Stop them now. Let the Clutha flow. Extended Title - $100's of millions will be spent on building unneeded dams on the Clutha. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 420 x 295 mm.

Date: 13 February 1993

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Reid, Philip John, 1954-

Reference: EP/1993/0590-F

Description: Clyde Dam, Otago, and surrounding countryside. Lake Dunstan is behind the dam. Photograph taken February 1993 by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid. This photograph accompanied news that approval had been given to raise the lake level to the third stage. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 2 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler film negative, 35mm

Date: 1914-1940

By: Hyde, M A (Mr), active 1999

Reference: PAColl-6078

Description: Views of Dunedin, Auckland, Wanganui River, NZ Centennial Exhibition and RMS Niagara. The views of Auckland include the General Post Office, the Grafton Bridge, Auckland hospital Grounds, and "Wonderland" ammusement park at the Auckland Exhibition of 1913/1914. There is a view of part of the Botanical Gardens, Dunedin, and a hydro electric power house. Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcard.

Date: 1946

By: Williams, Wendy, active 1998; Government Film Studios

Reference: PA1-o-998

Description: Pictorial survey of water resources, power stations, stations under construction, and sites of future power stations, on the Waikato River. Included are views of the distribution power lines, and control centres for the supply of power as well as some images of workers communities, houses and one school. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1949]

By: MacPherson, R, active 1949; Blockley, John, active 1995

Reference: PAColl-4915

Description: Quantity: 259 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: August 1986

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Energy-Hydro Electricity, Clyde Dam-10

Description: The Clyde Dam under construction, Clutha River, New Zealand. This view of the right side the dam shows, in the centre of the picture, the bottom ends of the penstocks leading into the generating turbines. Photographed by an unknown photographer in August 1986. Published in the Evening Post 20 August 1986 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 24 x 15.8 cm

Date: 14 December 1988

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Energy-Hydro Electricity, Clyde Dam-03

Description: View of the Clyde power project from the right abutment. The diversion channel can be seen in the foreground. In the centre are the penstocks which convey water from the lake to the powerhouse. Photographed by an unknown photographer in December 1988. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.9 x 15.7 cm

Date: 6 January 1918

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-f-008-136

Description: View of the lower valley of the Arapeti Stream, the site of the storage dam for the Mangahao Hydro. Photographed by George Leslie Adkin 6 January 1918. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Fig 136. The basin-like lower valley of the Arapeti Stream - the site of one of the proposed storage reservoirs of the Mangahao Hydro-electric Scheme. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 10.5 x 15.2 cm, mounted on album page.

Date: 1965

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Energy-Hydro Electricity-Tongariro Hydro Scheme-01

Description: View down into a steep valley and the Moawhango River, now the site of the upper area of the Moawhango dam. On one side of the valley, and spanning the river can be seen walkways where men from the Ministry of Works used drilling equipment to test the rock structures of the site. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1965. This image was published in the Evening Post newspaper on the 8th of October, 1965 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1900

From: Artist unknown :[Seventeen watercolours by a passenger on the SS Kaikoura. ca 1900]

Reference: A-428-008

Description: Shows part of the Waihou River in the foreground, with a narrow bottleneck between cliff faces at the left. At the top right are "very early power lines from Horahora Station to Waihi" (according to accompanying recent caption) The accompanying caption slip says: "The 'bridge' is about 100m from the hotel and hot springs on the Waihou R. It is not a cave but is a large block of limestone fallen into the gorge". Inscriptions: (On accompanying caption card): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 167 x 218 mm.

Date: 4 May 1967

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-66959-F

Description: Aerial view of the Matahina township, powerhouse, dam and hydro lake on the Rangataiki River, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Photograph taken 4 May 1967 1958 by Leo White. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 14 x 12.4 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder Blue 259, Matahina Hydro.