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Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918 :My arrival at Whareama River...'You'll have to swi...

Date: 1867

From: Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918 :Illustrations of New Zealand 1865?-1867

Reference: E-370-008-2

Description: The artist on the back of a horse hired at Masterton to visit Whareama (near Castlepoint) on the bank of the Whareama River, in conversation with two men on the opposite bank. The other men are telling Hawkins that he will need to make a lengthy detour in order to cross the river safely. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 98 x 205 mm

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Photographer unknown: Life savers, girl guides, an Ashburton street and other scenes

Date: [ca 1920-1945]

Reference: PAColl-6962

Description: 15 images including: three of young men practising life saving skills in the sea with a rope on a winch; two of girl guides helping at a kindergarten; two of East Street, Ashburton showing the different businesses parked cars and trees opposite; a car broken down in the middle of a ford; flooding on the road to the Harihari Hotel, with cattle being driven along it; a timber camp of five tents in the bush; a house at Kennedy's Bush on Banks Peninsula ca 1920; decorated boats on the Avon River with crowds on the banks watching and Ward & Co factory in the background; Cashel Street ca 1920 busy with trafic and pedestrians; and the Free Lance offices on The Terrace, Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059480 to 059494 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s) film. 12 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

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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).

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Part 2 of a 2 part panorama showing a ford over the Waiohine River, Greytown

Date: [ca 1875]

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: 1/1-000794-F

Description: Part 2 of a 2 part panorama showing a ford over the Waiohine River with the settlement of Greytown in the background. Pieces of driftwood in the middle ground may be the debris from a flood which occured on December 12-13 1875. 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).

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