Places

Date: 1905 to 1907

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

Reference: PA1-o-197

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1905 and 1907, covering a variety of topics. They include family photographs, both individual and group portraits, and Wellington houses (eg `Railway Whare', the house Godber and his family lived in, in Bay Street, Petone). One scene shows Godber's parents, Mary Ann and Charles Godber, with a large group of family members, including Albert Percy Godber, his wife Laura, and two children, Phyllis and William (p.21). On p. 13, Godber's wife Laura and two children are seen with an elderly couple, probably Laura's parents Charles Albert and Magdelina Clara Zinckgraf. Numbers of images show scenes associated with New Zealand Railways, including the Mataroa Railway Tunnel under construction, specific locomotives, signal stations, the railway station at Petone, and scenes at the Petone Railway Workshops. At the beginning of the album, several images show Godber and a team from the Petone Fire Brigade with medals they have won at fire-fighting practice competitions. A pocket at the front of the album holds two photographs, on of a new cutting on the road near Lowry Bay, and one of the `model of `D' class locomotive used in the Petone Peace Demonstration Procession' following the Boer War in 1902, signed `With A.P. Godber's compliments'. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 105 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 19.5 x 26.0 cm

Date: [Circa 1900s to 1910s]

From: Mercer, Robert, fl 1964 :Photographs and albums of Maori, New Zealand views, and illustrations

Reference: PA1-o-338

Description: Album of photographs taken in the Otago and Southland Regions, by unidentified photographers. All the locations are well identified. Some of the images are related to railways, including railway tunnels (e.g. The Caversham Tunnel when under construction circa 1909), and the Hunts Road Tunnel; the Clutha Railway Bridge; the Wingatui Signal Box; the Balclutha Railway Station, railway yards, and sales-yards; railway barns; D-class engine (New Zealand Railways steam-engine No. 355); the Owaka Express; and bush tramway tracks, one sawmill typical of small mills in the Catlins area. Many of the images are taken with an emphasis on atmosphere, including sunsets, stormy days on the coast near Dunedin, evening at Ocean Beach, storm clouds at Lawyer's Head, and "By beach and sand-hill". There are a large number of views of the Dunedin Botanic Gardens and the Winter Gardens, and the Dunedin Reservoir. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover, gold lines down spine and across corners; 19.5 x 26.5

Date: 1952

Reference: MapColl-832.4gme/[1952]/Acc.37178

Description: Drawn on a base map, the annotations depict the placement of the railway tunnel through the Rimutaka Range and names several stations and landmarks in the vicinity. On verso is date '24.9.52' and a printed note about the length of the tunnel. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, scale indeterminable, 17 x 30.6 cm.

Date: 1992

From: Clark, Laurence [Klarc], 1949- :New Zealand Herald; Cartoons, 11 June - 30 June 1992

Reference: H-012-012

Description: Shows a dole queue sign pointing to a tunnel, labelled Otahuhu Workshops, and dozens of footprints leading into the tunnel. Refers to the redundancies resulting from the closure of New Zealand Rail's Otahuhu workshops and to New Zealand Rail's decision to allow Kaikoura residents to use a rail tunnel because of a slip on the road Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph

Date: [Between 1901 and 1903]

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

Reference: PA1-q-100

Description: Album of photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1901 and 1903. South Island subjects include the Cape Foulwind Lighthouse and quarry, Westport railway yards and wharf, Reefton, and scenes of explosions in Lyttelton Harbour for Regatta Day, 1st January 1909, and a large number of people beside the Spit Volunteer Fire Brigade building. Scenes show the laying of foundation stones for the Petone Waterworks, and for the Baptist Church in Petone, both in 1903. There is also a view of the lecturn for St Augustine's Church in Petone, which was made by the Petone Railway Workshops. Several photographs show the Kelburn Cable Car, the cable car tunnel and the engine room, in 1903. Two photographs of a group of school children, the girls wearing white pinafores over dark coloured dresses. Some photographs relate to New Zealand railways, including specific locomotives, the Rimutaka Incline with the middle rail (part of the Fell System), railway tunnels, bush railways and railway workshops and yards; and some relate to Godber's interest and work in fire fighting. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 106 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 31.0 x 25.5 cm

Date: 1897 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-066

Description: Shows a train crossing a high valley line, with the tunnel mouth to the left. Trees, including tree ferns, surround the scene. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 165 x 230 (page size)

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-057

Description: A railway line winding around the edges of steep hills, with a train on the left and a tunnel at a lower point on the right entering a steep hill. bush. Probably a view from the track, looking at another part of the track and the tunnel ahead. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1897 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-003

Description: Shows a train travelling on a track through hills, either entering or exiting the Rimutaka Tunnel Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 165 x 230 (page size)

Date: [ca 1900-2008]

From: Ranger, Diana Rosemary, fl 1972-2009: Photographs taken by Murray and Stanley Vincent

Reference: PAColl-10028-3

Description: Photographs chiefly taken by Stanley Raymond Vincent (d 1991) and also his son Murray Francis Vincent (1944-2008). - Photographs by S R Vincent of the construction of the East Coast Railway (1937-1942). These feature the Waikura Tunnel, Tiki Whata Tunnel, Coast Tunnel, Kopuwhara Viaduct, Waipoa Bridge, [and Waratuha Tunnel] and illustrate bracing, lining, ventilation, electric lighting, and other construction techniques. Also shows unidentified workers, an anti-erosion technique, elevated tramway, steam engines, workers' camps (including at the south portal of the Waikura Tunnel) and the opening of the line on 3 Sep 1942 (with steam engines Ab' 710 and 750). Prints of unidentified railway yards [Gisborne?] and steam engine K900 are also included in collection. - Miscellaneous series show: the organ at Wellington Town Hall; Hamilton County Bluegrass Band anniversary concert group portraits; ships in the harbour (Straight Shipping), and trams; various family photos, including holidays (car and caravan), fishing, portraits, and unidentified houses; model steam boats at Pukekura Park (New Plymouth) and Taranaki Daily News steam train excursion (Inglewood to Midhurst). Also contains images showing a Fieldair Freight plane (ZK-BBJ) being loaded with fertilizer in Gisborne, Kihikihi Stores Ltd van and Murray Roberts & Co tyre distributors vehicle, Mount Aorangi and track at Buller Gorge, various [World War II?] images, including boats, fighter plane, and unidentified soldiers), an unidentified house, a sheep mustering scene, bullock train, and an early motorcar. Accompanying material - two sheets of paper with family history information Arrangement: Prints numbered 164 to 234 are in this box Quantity: 52 b&w original photographic print(s). 18 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: Between 1949 and 1952

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

Reference: PA1-o-004

Description: "Illustrating geological observations, Vol 4". Black & white photographs of geological aspects of NZ. Includes details of structure & stratigraphy in the Otaki formation at Forest Lakes Road near Manakau, Horowhenua; geomorphological and geological notes on the Paremata area, Porirua Harbour, shoreline features on the eastern side of Wellington Harbour; features of Turakina, Waitotara and Castlecliff; NZ Geological Survey Staff Conference, Invercargill (April 25-May 6, 1950) with trips to Mataura Valley, Otamita River Valley, Bluff, Waiau River; visit to the Otaihanga tertiary outlier; features of the Wellington fault and escarpments (several images taken at different periods between 1949 and 1952); features of the Brocken Range and Kaiwhata Valley, East Wairarapa; geological notes on the Bay of Plenty area (December 7-14, 1950), including the causeway over the Waimapu Estuary at Tauranga, Mount Maunganui, Whakatane, Pohutaroa Rock; The Royal Society of NZ Science Congress, Christchurch (May 14-24, 1951), including an image of those attending the congress, with names (p 27); geological excursion to the Manawatu Gorge (November 24-25 1951); features of Rimutaka railway tunnels (Feb 1952); features of the south-east Wairarapa including Dry River and Ruakokopatuna Valleys, Eastern Palliser Bay and the Putangirua Pinnacles; NZ Geological Survey Staff Conference, Wellington (30 April-7 May 1952), with group photo of those attending, with names (p 41).

Date: 1860

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-0037-279

Description: Includes newspaper article, printed in 1944, on the tunnel survey.

Date: 1897 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-002

Description: A tunnel mouth amidst steep hills, partially cleared of bush. A train is either entering or exiting the tunnel Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 165 x 230 (page size)

Date: 1896 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-047

Description: Shows a train travelling towards the Rimutaka tunnel through the hills Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Rimutaka Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

Date: 1865

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Otago Harbour. ca 1865]

Reference: E-016-2-028

Description: Looking across water towards Otago Heads, with high cliffs. A jetty is on the left, with a yacht moored beyond it. Attribution: does not appear to be the work of W M Hodgkins, the owner of the sketchbook. Neither the style of drawing, nor the handwriting match his The tunnel referred to is likely to be the Port Chalmers rail tunnel completed in the mid-1870s. The view may be from the tunnel entrance, above Port Chalmers Other Titles - Tunnel Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil, not fully legible Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 86 x 152 mm (page size)

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-055

Description: A railway line with a fence to one side, above a landslide, a tunnel entering a steep hill. Rocks and bush. Probably a view from the train, looking at another part of the track and the tunnel ahead. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1883

From: [Moreton, Samuel Horatio], 1845?-1921 :Tasmania and New Zealand sketch book, 1883-1896

Reference: E-175-f-030

Description: View close to Waikmakariri Gorge Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 132 x 213 mm

Date: 1956-1960

From: Moohan, Michael, 1899-1967: Photographs relating to Member of Parliament Michael Moohan

Reference: PAColl-10065

Description: Contains loose prints and clippings from albums detailing Moohan's work as a government minister, 1956-1960. Photographic prints feature international travel, including the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference, Warsaw, Poland (Aug 1959), Moohan's trip to the United States of America (1956 - see prints no 9, 10, 15), and a dam construction site [Middle East or North Africa?]. New Zealand images include ministerial visits to post offices, unidentified factories, and offices. Also contains a number of formal portraits of Moohan and a picture of a Road Services bus. Identified figures are listed in the names field. Newspaper clippings concern the government's budget, Labour Party MPs tour of Otago industrial concerns (Fur Dressers and Dyers, New Zealand), Moohan's visit with Governor James F Byrnes of the United States (in South Carolina's The State newspaper, 1956), and leader of the opposition Arnold Henry Nordmeyer's visit to New Plymouth. Identified photographers include The Dominion, The Evening Post, Sports and General Press Agency (London), Photocraft (Petone), and Taranaki Daily News. Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints and newspaper clippings Transfers: Other - Loose prints transferred from albums, including PA1-o-1798 and PA1-o-1800..

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: APG-0153-1/2-G

Description: Fell engine and train exiting Siberia Tunnel on the Rimutaka Incline. High fences as windbreaks are on both sides of the railway line, with a young boy (possibly William Godber) sitting on the fence in right foreground. Photograph taken ca 1910 by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass plate negative

Date: [1880s]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025761-G

Description: Looking out at Thorndon, Wellington, from inside the number 1 railway tunnel, in Kaiwharawhara, on the Manawatu line. Taken by William Williams in the 1880s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Circa 1927

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

Reference: APG-0977-a-1/2-G

Description: View of the tunnel under the cliffs near Waitati, on the South Island Main Trunk Line. The photographer, Albert Percy Godber, is standing on a ledge beside the tunnel. Photographed circa 1917. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches