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Photographs of the Arapuni dam, the Catlins and other views
Date: [ca 1890-1927]
From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); France, J W, active 1890s
Reference: PAColl-0348
Description: Mounted photographs by the Burton Brothers of the junction of Eden and Tees Streets, Oamaru showing St Luke's Church, shops, tram lines and part of the Council Chambers; looking down on the wharves of Port Chalmers with the Presbyterian Church in the right foreground; and the Kakahi Falls, near Tawhata on the Whanganui River. Two smaller mounted photographs of a river in the Catlins District. Three pages from a photograph album holding five photographs of the building of the Arapuni Dam on the Waikato River including the buried forest exposed by the Waikato River diversion. Three loose prints by J W France of an early settlers' cottage made of ponga with a turf roof and with the family outside; a group of six workmen standing on the road they were building with long handled shovels and a boy and a dog in front of them; and the funeral procession of Sir John MacKenzie in 1901 led by a pipe band up the main road in Oamaru working. Finally a loose print of the bridge over the Waiho River. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-68928 to 1/2-068934. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.
Slope Point Mail Service cart, with broken axel, Fortrose, Southland
Date: [189-?]
From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection
Reference: MNZ-2096
Description: Photograph of the Slope Point Mail Service cart, delayed by a broken axel on a rutted road in Fortrose, Southland, circa 1890s. Photographer unidentified. Publication note - Published in Making New Zealand (Wellington [N.Z.] : New Zealand Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1940) Vol 2, No 19, page 14. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 14.8 x 10.1 cm, on mount Provenance: Photograph from Post and Telegraph Department for the Department of Internal Affairs' publication 'Making New Zealand' (1939-1940).