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Arapuni and Waitaki Hydro Schemes
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).
Evans, I :Photographs of Rotorua and Nelson
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
Photographs of the Arapuni dam, the Catlins and other views
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.
Photographs of New Zealand and Wanganui Hospital
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).
Travels of a Country Library Service Bookvan; Waikato trips, 1970s
Date: 1974, 1978
From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation
Reference: PA1-o-848
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).
Adkin album 11
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).
Transparencies relating to energy infrastructure, rivers, and a quarry site
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
Transparency slides of New Zealand scenes
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
Tyrell, Norman, d 1994 : Negatives
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.
Clyde Dam and lake, Otago - Photograph taken by Phil Reid
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
Postcards of Auckland and the Centennial Exhibition, Wellington
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.
Photographs of power schemes on the Waikato River
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).
View of the lower valley of the Arapeti Stream
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.
Clyde Dam under construction, Clutha River, New Zealand
Date: [ca 1985]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP-Energy-Hydro Electricity, Clyde Dam-09
Description: Cranes at work on the construction of the Clyde hydro dam, Clutha River, New Zealand. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1985. Not an Evening Post photograph, and as there is no date stamp on the back of the print, it may not have been published in the newspaper. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 25.4 x 20.2 cm
Roxburgh hydro-electric development - Photograph taken by K V Bigwood
Date: Sep 1953
From: Tourist and Publicity
By: Bigwood, Kenneth Valentine, 1920-1992
Reference: 1/2-030243-F
Description: Roxburgh hydroelectric development, Otago. Clutha River in foreground. Photograph taken in September 1953 for the National Publicity Studios by K V Bigwood. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.
View of the Benmore Hydro project, New Zealand
Date: 15 March 1969
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-68478-F
Description: The Benmore Hydro dam, power house, Lake Benmore, and the surrounding countryside. Photograph taken 15 March 1969 by Leo White. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13.8 x 13.4 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder blue 25, Benmore Hydro.
Tekapo hydro-electric power scheme, New Zealand
Date: April 1947
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-06684-F
Description: View of work site, Tekapo hydro-electric power scheme, New Zealand. As well as the construction site, accomodation huts and stores depots can also be seen. Photograph taken April 1947 by Leo White. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13.2 x 11 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder blue 218, Lake Tekapo.
Lake Tekapo and the surrounding countryside, New Zealand
Date: 19 March 1959
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-49595-F
Description: View of Lake Tekapo and the surrounding countryside. In the forground can be seen the Tekapo power house and a stretch of the Tekapo River. Photograph taken 19 March 1959 by Leo White. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13.8 x 13.4 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder blue 218, Lake Tekapo.
View of the Benmore Hydro project, New Zealand
Date: 19 March 1959
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-49622-F
Description: View of the site camp and other depots for the Benmore Hydro project. The Waitaki River can also be seen winding through the hills and the Southern Alps in the distance. Photograph taken 19 March 1959 by Leo White. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13.8 x 13.4 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder blue 25, Benmore Hydro.
View of Clyde Dam site from the top of a crane - Photograph taken by David Wethey
Date: 11 September 1984
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Wethey, John, active 1984
Reference: EP-Energy-Hydro Electricity, Clyde Dam-04
Description: View of the Clyde Dam site from the top of the 80 metre Kroll crane. Photographed by Otago Daily Times staff photographer David Wethey in September 1984. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 25.4 x 20.2 cm