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Date: [ca 1910s]

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

Reference: 1/2-000783-G

Description: Road bridge over the Waipa River at Otorohanga, circa 1910s. Photograph taken by William A. Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Traffic bridge over Waipa River. Otorohanga. No. 54 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [ca 1910s]

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

Reference: 1/2-000972-G

Description: Road bridge over the Waipa River at Otorohanga, circa 1910s. Photograph taken by William A. Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Bridge, Otorohanga. [No.] 1718 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [ca 1910s]

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

Reference: 1/2-000780-G

Description: Red Bridge over the Waipa River, Otorohanga, Waikato, on State Highway 3. Photograph taken circa 1910s by William A. Price. Other - The same bridge featured in 1/2-006197. Source of descriptive information - Bridge identified by Library client. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Waipa Bridge. Otorohanga. [No.] 252 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: 1/2-001589-G

Description: Ngaruawahia, showing the junction of Waipa and Waikato Rivers. The Waipa bridge is visible. Photograph taken circa 1910 by William A Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Waipa & Waikato junction. Ngaruawahia. 2400 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [1914?]

From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-006197-G

Description: Bridge over the Waipa River, Otorohanga, Waikato. Photograph taken (1914?) by Frederick George Radcliffe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1917

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

Reference: APG-0475-1/2-G

Description: Damaged bridge over the Waipa River, at Ngaruawahia. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1917. Dated from other images in the Godber album at Pa1-q-102. There are photographs of people and horses being transported across the Waipa River on a punt, pulled by winch, because the bridge was unable to be crossed having collapsed in 1916. Source of descriptive information, client wrote to say bridge collapsed 20 December 1916 and temporary ferry service used for over ten months after. Inscriptions: Album page - Damaged bridge over Waipa River. Ngaruawahia. The bridge collapsed on 20 December 1916, for over 10 months afterwards a temporary ferry service carried traffic from one bank to the other. See 'Pack horse to jet : the story of Waingaro from 1968 / by Geoffrey Seavill' and 'Raglan County hills and sea : a centennial history 1876-1976' for further information. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches Processing information: Previously our description said 'There are photographs of people and horses being transported across the Waipa River on a punt, pulled by winch, presumably because the bridge was unable to be crossed.'

Date: Between 1915 and 1926

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

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Sherriff, D J, active 1901-1931

Reference: PA1-q-102

Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Albert Percy Godber, relating to his family, his work and his interests. Family photographs include portraits of his wife (Laura) and two children (William and Phyllis), and scenes of their home in Whiteman's Valley Road, Silverstream; views of the Hutt Valley including large numbers of cars travelling to Trentham Racecourse, and the Hutt River. Another group of images relate to a holiday at the Mendip Hills Homestead in Canterbury, with scenes of farm life, including haymaking, merino sheep, and farm buildings. During their stay in the South Island Godber also took photographs of Dunedin (including the Ross Reservoir, Otago Boys' High School, Seacliff Mental Hospital, the 1926 Dunedin Exhibition, and the Hillside Railway Workshops); Invercargill (including the Invercargill Railway Workshops); Stewart Island, Moeraki, Tuatapere, Waiau River, Oamaru and Port Chalmers. Various railway stations in Canterbury and Otago, the Burnside Iron Mills, and the Rosslyn Mills. Godber was a volunteer fireman with the Petone Fire Brigade with the album including views of the building, groups of firemen, fire engines and other fire fighting equipment, and a building in Petone damaged by fire. In his work with New Zealand Railways, mainly at the Petone Railway Workshops, he took interior photographs of various buildings, including the Machine Shop and finishing benches, the engine room, lathes, boilers, and fitting shops. He also took photographs of many of the steam engines that were built and worked on at the workshops. One scene shows a group of men watching a fight. Many images show his interest in logging railways, particularly in the Piha, Karekare, Anawhata area. Scenes of logging camps, various methods of transporting logs including bullock teams, logging trains, and dams created and then tripped to send logs down by river, and timber mills. Other topics covered in Godber's photographs are scenes at Maori marae and meeting houses, with some of the people identified; Maori carving and rafter designs; beekeeping, and gold mining. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber album 109 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 38.0 x 26.5 cm (257 p.)