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Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :"They've cancelled the order mate". Evening Post. 14 Ju...

Date: 1982

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-136-037

Description: Shows a truck loaded with barrels of moth balls driving towards the construction site of the Clyde Dam. Two workers are halting the truck. Refers to Social Credit's decision to support future empowering legislation to complete construction of the dam, after months of on-again off-again decisions by the government. Extended Title - Clyde High Dam Site Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone, 450 x 320 mm.

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Houses being built at Buckley Road, Southgate, Wellington

Date: 1957

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1957/0556-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5. 6.5 cm

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Tremain, Garrick 1941-:61 cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times between 10 Octobe...

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-661-001/061

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 61 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size

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Building site at Wellington Public Hospital, Newtown, Wellington, with Ward 20 behind

Date: 20 Aug 1974

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

Reference: EP/1974/6113-F

Description: Building site at Wellington Public Hospital, Newtown, Wellington, with Ward 20, for orthapedic patients, behind. Photographs taken circa 20 August 1974 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Ward 20 was evacuated on the 19th of August because heavy rain on the excavations may have reduced foundation support. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

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Smith, Alfred Alexander, 1918- :Photographs of construction of National Film Unit, Aval...

Date: [Between 1975 and 1978]

By: Smith, Alfred Alexander, 1918-2010

Reference: PA-Group-00319

Description: Photographs of the construction of the National Film Unit, Avalon, Lower Hutt, taken by Alfred A Smith. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 51 colour original negative(s) strips with 313 images. Physical Description: Colour film photonegatives Provenance: Donated by Mr Alfred Smith, Lower Hutt, in 2008

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Christchurch City Council :Your chance to build back smarter. Before you do anything, m...

Date: 2012

By: Christchurch (N.Z.). City Council

Reference: Eph-C-EARTHQUAKE-Christchurch-2012-01

Description: Sheet gives advice on how to build a house based on economy and environmental principles, with specific advice on positioning on the land for best solar energy use, views, drainage, shelter. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on sheet 297 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated by Kathy Palmer, National Library Christchurch, in 2012.

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Gibbons, Marco and Margaret (Mr and Mrs): Photographs of construction sites, particular...

Date: [ca 1929-1950s]

By: Gibbons, Marco Raymond, 1931-; Gibbons, Margaret Jean, active 1957-2013; Richards, Robert Samuel, active 1951

Reference: PAColl-10119

Description: Photographs of construction sites taken between about 1929 and the 1950s particularly hydroelectric schemes. Workers on these sites included Raymond Tasman Gibbons and/or his son Marco (Kiwi) Gibbons who were employed as carpenters by Williamson Constructions. Comprises: Two large prints of an unidentified site in Otago during the depression taken for the New Zealand Herald. Truck on an unidentified building site, about 1930s Workforce group portrait taken at Lake Pukaki, Mackenzie district, circa 1948, by Green and Hahn Photography Ltd of Christchurch. Lake Pukaki spillway site about 1948, photograph by R S Richards. Building site in New Plymouth in about 1954, possibly the post office. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s) (including two prints attached with tape). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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C, J S :[Ohinemutu. Lake Rotorua (Hot Lakes, N.Z.)] J S C 1885.

Date: 1885

Reference: B-062-007

Description: Shows the shore of Lake Rotorua with European and Maori settlement, grazing pigs and steam rising from various spots. In the foreground, a Maori woman is wading into the water, with another paddling a canoe laden with flax kits. On the small peninsula in the background, the palisades of an earlier sunken pa can be seen, along with part of the current pa, its palisades and buildings. Along the foreshore are European houses and hotels, including the Lake Hotel on the shore. Other structures are in the process of being built.. The peninsula does not feature the first St Faith's Church, prominent in most views of Ohinemutu. The church was cosecrated in 1885, the year this work was done, suggesting that the watercolour was completed early in the year Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - monogram J over S inside C and the date 1885. Title probably taken from a former inscription on a backing, now removed Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 13.1 x 18.5 ins Provenance: Unknown. Probably purchased 1960s

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Houses being built at Buckley Road, Southgate, Wellington

Date: 1957

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1957/0554-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5. 6.5 cm

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Houses being built at Buckley Road, Southgate, Wellington

Date: 1957

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1957/0555-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5. 6.5 cm

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Robert and Steve Reriti at work on the Te Aroha Association sports pavillion - Photogra...

Date: 30 March 1994

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

By: Pigney, Ray, active 1988

Reference: EP/1994/0914-F

Description: Cousins Robert and Steve Reriti at work on the site of the Te Aroha Association sports pavillion, Te Whiti Park, Waiwhetu, Lower Hutt. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ray Pigney on the 30th of March 1994. Robert and Steve were hired for this job under Taskforce Green Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler film negative, 35mm

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Beard family on holiday, and various buildings

Date: 1971-1984

From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs

Reference: PA12-8762

Description: Includes - Beard family on a camping holiday, Akatarawa, 1971. Hostel buildings owned by the Otaki and Porirua Trusts Board. Empty land, but a site relating to the Government Printing Office operations, Masterton, 1981. Public Service Society (PSIS) Building, Bannister Street, Masterton, 1981. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies.

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Downstage Theatre under construction

Date: 20 June 1972

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

Reference: EP/1972/3017

Description: Downstage Theatre on the corner of Courtenay Place and Cambridge Terrace, Wellington, under construction. The building is surrounded by scaffolding and the roof is yet to be clad. Photographed 20 June 1972 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

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Various architects :Wellington Regional Council. Te Marua Water Treatment Station. [Job...

Date: 1978 - 1985

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

Reference: Plans-2009-082-4097-091/110

Description: Plans by Wellington Regional Council, and Beca Carter Hollings & Ferner include site sections, details of the pipe chamber, sections and contour maps showing excavations, bulk filling and earthworks. Also includes one sheet showing the upper level floor plan and north elevation of the control building. Quantity: 20 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, sizes varying up to 590 x 840 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.

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Further photographs

Date: [ca 1960s-1970s]

From: Brierley Investments: Records

Reference: PAColl-9567

Description: Photographs of New Zealand Farmers Cooperative Association of Canterbury retail shops in Christchurch, 1960s-1970s. Includes photographs which show posters promoting the change to the decimal currency system. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 52 b&w original photographic print(s). 13 colour original photographic print(s).

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Porirua East, showing a shopping centre under construction and state housing

Date: ca 19 Sep 1973

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

Reference: EP/1973/4155-F

Description: Porirua East circa 19 September 1973, showing a shopping centre under construction and state housing behind. Photograph taken by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

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Site being prepared for the Dominion Museum, Mount Cook, Wellington

Date: 1933

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-084816-G

Description: Looking down on the site being prepared for the Dominion Museum building, Mount Cook, Wellington. Shows workmen with a horse-drwn cart. Also shows houses in the surrounding area, and Tasman Street on the left. Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington in 1933. Source of descriptive information - From file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

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Photographs relating to the construction of state houses in Naenae, Lower Hutt

Date: Feb 1947

From: Lewis, Lorrie Lionel, 1917-2001 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9980

Description: Album pages of photographic prints relating to the construction of state houses in Naenae, February 1947. Photographs taken and collected by Lorrie Lionel Lewis, a builder who worked for a contractor named Morgan. (Note: Mr Lewis is shown on PAColl-9980-2, wearing a beret) The images shows the houses under construction, the builders at work and the builders at a work picnic/sports event. Quantity: 4 album pages with 62 b/w prints. Physical Description: Four black album pages with silver gelatin prints

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Tractor working on a state housing building site in Christchurch

Date: ca 1950

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/1-007818-F

Description: Caterpillar D8 tractor and Le Tourneau 12 yd carryall working on a state housing building site in Christchurch. Photograph taken circa 1950s by an unidentified photographer for the National Publicity Studios. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

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View from Houghton Bay Road of outhouses at a housing construction site on Buckley Road...

Date: 1957

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1957/0306b-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

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