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The Ruamahanga River in flood, Wairarapa - Photograph taken by Graeme Ayson
Date: 10 August 1961
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP-Science-Meteorology-Floods to 1966-01
Description: The Kahutara Dairy Factory on a bend in the Ruamahanga River surounded by flood water from the river. Photographed by Graeme Ayson in August 1961 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.3 x 13.4
Piha creek in flood
Date: [ca 1916]
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-1175-1/2-F
Description: Piha creek in flood, a railway line crossing the creek, and sawn timber stacked on the far side of the creek. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, circa 1916. Note on back of file print reads "Copy neg from Godber album 101 [PA1-o-195], p 43. Was no 1/2-29272] This film negative was taken from an original print in Godber Album Vol 101, p 43 (PA1-o-195) For another view of this scene see APG-1174-1/2-F Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 17.25 x 11.75 cm
Floodwaters passing a dairy, Silverstream, Upper Hutt - Photograph taken by Ray Pigney
Date: 1977-1980
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Pigney, Ray, active 1988
Reference: EP-Science-Meteorology-Floods 1977-1980-05
Description: Floodwaters flowing past a dairy in Silverstream, Upper Hutt. Doug Rice is standing in the Doorway watching the water. Photographed by Ray Pigney sometime between 1977 and 1980. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 25.3 x 16.6 cm
Flood-damaged bridge on Pelorus River
Date: [190-?]
From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific
Reference: 1/1-039438-G
Description: Pelorus river, showing bridge damaged in flood. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top centre - Pelorus River, showing where the bridge washed off cylinders. The flood ... rose 45ft at this point. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Waikato River in flood, at Ngaruawahia, ca 1910
Date: Ca 1910
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-001609-G
Description: View of the Waikato River in flood along the Waikato Esplanade, with houses visible behind a row of trees, and the Ngaruawahia Rowing Club building partially inundated. Photograph taken by William Archer Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Waikato River in flood. Ngaruawahia. 54 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches
Piha Creek in flood showing a timber yard
Date: [ca 1915-1916]
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-1174-1/2-G
Description: Piha Creek in flood showing a timber yard in the background. On the right is the yard's office building with two people and a horse nearby. A railway track runs across the creek. Taken by Albert Percy Godber circa 1915-1916. This image is a film negative taken from the original print in Godber Album Vol 101, p43 (Pa1-o-105), with the inscription "Piha Creek in flood" For another view of this scene see APG-1175-1/2-F Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Piha Creek in flood Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 17.25 x 11.75 cm
Miramar in flood, Wellington
Date: 22 Aug 1929
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: PAColl-7796-54
Description: View of flooding in the Wellington suburb of Miramar, showing flood waters around houses and filling a street. People stand on top of a ditch dug in front of a house. A truck drives down the street. Photograph taken on 22 Aug 1929, by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Floods at Miramar; Verso - centre - 22/8/29; Verso - centre - "Evening Post" Photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20 x 15.5 cm
Part 1 of a 2 part panorama showing a ford over the Waiohine River, Greytown
Date: [ca 1875]
By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908
Reference: 1/1-000793-F
Description: Part 1 of a 2 part panorama showing a ford over the Waiohine River and two horse drawn carriages. Pieces of driftwood in the foreground may be the debris from a flood which occured on December 12-13 1875. Trees, a power pole and a house are also visible. Photograph taken by James Bragge. Panorana published in `Bragge's Wellington and the Wairarapa: images of a city and its provinces from he 1860's to the 1890's as recorded by photographer James Bragge 1833-1908' by William Main, 1974, pages 50-51. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Flooding at Foxton
Date: [190-?]
From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific
Reference: 1/1-039342-G
Description: Flooding at Foxton. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Flooding outside the shop of Duncan McLean, Greymouth
Date: ca 1907
Reference: 1/2-044532-F
Description: Looking along the flooded streets of Greymouth. On the right, a group of people are outside the store of ironmonger, Duncan McLean. In the centre there are two people in a horse and cart. Taken circa 1907. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Suspension bridge over Hutt River floodwaters, Maoribank, Upper Hutt - Photograph taken...
Date: [ca 30 Aug 1932]
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
By: Beavis, W, active 1932
Reference: PAColl-7796-91
Description: Suspension bridge over Hutt River floodwaters, Maoribank, Upper Hutt, photographed circa 30 August 1932 by W Beavis. Looks over the bridge towards the flooded plains beyond. Other - Photograph published in the Evening Post 30 August 1932 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.6 x 20.3 cm
Cobb and Co's coach crossing the Waimakariri River during a flood
Date: 1875
From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection
Reference: MNZ-0643-1/4-F
Description: Cobb and Co's coach crossing the Waimakariri River in flood. Engraving made from a drawing by Thomas Samuel Cousins for "The Illustrated New Zealand Herald" of 1875 From the caption in Making New Zealand: "The ferry man with a lifebelt is showing the way, as the fords shift in every flood...the river at the spot referred to consists of a number of steams, which in bad weather are sometimes quite impassable" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Raven Street in flood, Kaiapoi N.Z.
Date: 9 May 1923
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: Pan-0310-F
Description: Panoramic view of Raven Street, Kaiapoi, in flood, on the 9th of May, 1923. Shows houses and other buildings, with a horse and cart in the centre. Photograph taken in 1923 by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Raven Street in flood Kaiapoi N Z Showing north branch of the Waimak 9.5.23; Marginal notes on negative - on brown tape - Kaiapoi flood Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.5 x 113.3 cm
Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, d 1955? : Photograph of flooding in a Greymouth street
Date: [late 1940s]
By: Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955
Reference: PAColl-8255
Description: Photograph of flooding in a Greymouth street. Shows a car, and two boys on bicycles, travelling through flood waters. Photograph taken in the late 1940s by L A Inkster. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.3 x 20.7 cm
Sheep on a flooded Wairarapa farm
Date: [ca 4 September 1961]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1961/2851
Description: Sheep clustered on the highest ground on a flooded Wairarapa farm. Photographed ca 4 September 1961 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 5.7 x 5.7 cm Finding Aids: Print available in Turnbull Library Pictures Evening Post illustrations files at EP-Science-Meteorology-Floods to 1966 (15/1).
[Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline], 1850?-1935 :Mokoia Beach after great flood in Tongahoe....
Date: 1880 - 1920
From: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850?-1936? :[Sketchbook of Wellington and the Mokoia area. 1880-1920?]
Reference: E-634-035/036
Description: A sketch view along the coastline at Mokoia, showing the cliffs along the water's edge, and driftwood or logs strewn along the beach. Other Titles - Tangahoe Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour sketch, on double page spread 178 x 504 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Mary Watt, Wellington, through the family of the artist, in 2004.
Flooding at Foxton
Date: [190-?]
From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific
Reference: 1/1-039344-G
Description: Flooding at Foxton. Shows railway line and buildings, and steamer at wharf. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Creamery building partly submerged by flood water, Waikanae
Date: 1923
Reference: 1/2-150350-F
Description: A creamery building partly submerged by flood waters from the Waikanae River. Taken in 1926. Inscriptions: Waikanae river on the rampage. The creamery is undermined. Where country [words unreadable] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Erosion damage caused by flooding, Wanganui
Date: 1926
From: Tesla Studios :Negatives of Wanganui and district taken by Alfred Martin, Frank Denton and Mark Lampe (Tesla Studios)
Reference: 1/1-017515-G
Description: View of an eroded riverbank alongside Putiki Drive? in Wanganui, caused by flood waters and the rising level of the Whanganui River. Shows fallen fences and a broken walkway in front of the Royal Hotel. Photograph taken in 1926 by F J Denton. Other - Back of file print notes Royal Hotel now the Red Lion Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Flooding around the Imperial Hotel, Greymouth
Date: ca 1906
Reference: 1/2-044530-F
Description: A view of the flooding around the Imperial Hotel in Greymouth showing two men and a woman standing on the second floor balcony. Down below on the street is a man on a horse. In the background is a ship on the harbour. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).