Places

Date: Between 1910s and 1930s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-f-002

Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.

Date: 1923-1928

From: Panoramic photographs of New Zealand taken by R P Moore

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-252

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1890-1931]

By: Anderson, Freda, active 1980s

Reference: PAColl-7302

Description: Postcards of New Zealand and Australia. Includes: Paihia showing the pier and a sign on a bathing hut for Mon Desir Guest House, with German writing and mention of Tracey's boarding house; the viaduct over the Makatote Gorge on the Main Trunk Railway; a ship moored at Lyttelton wharves; Town Hall and Wynyard Square, Sydney; and Government House from the Botanical Gardens, Melbourne. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Postcards

Date: 1906-1909

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-o-1227

Description: This album is an anthology of views of Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro from 1906 to 1909, and includes a climbing trip up Mount Egmont. Included are details of the mountains such as the Crater Lake, the crater on Mount Ngauruhoe, Ngauruhoe erupting Easter 1909, climbers on the Wangaehu and Mangaehuehu glaciers, views of snow fields and peaks near the summit of Ruapehu, climbing parties, and various lakes in the area. These include Tama Lakes, Lake Rotoaira, and the Blue and Green lakes on Tongariro. There are images of waterfalls on the Makatote River, the Whakapapanui Stream, the Mangawhero River, on a branch of the Mangatoetoenui Stream, and below the Wangaehu Glacier. There are also two views of Ruapehu Hut and views of Ruapehu from the locality of Rangataua, south west of the mountain, described in the album as "Rangataua Bush" and "Rangataua lake". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca1890-ca1906

Reference: PAColl-5704

Description: A group of people near the boat store on Enderby Island about 1900; John Ballance and others unveiling a monument to the Liberal MP for Timaru, Richard Turnbull; Richard Seddon and his party embarking on the Oswestry Grange, the ship on which he died: and scenic views of the Makatote Gorge and the Manganui A Te Ao River. Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1907-1909

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-915

Description: Most of the images relate to a survey team (or teams) operating in the hill country west of the main road between Raetihi and National Park, centred in the area around Ruatiti. The two names in the album for the area are the Ruatiti Block which includes the Ruatiti Stream and the Manganuioteao River, and the Riariaki Block and trig immediatly to the north. There are images of team members, camp life (ie storing food, cutting hair, living quarters, rod fishing, and swimming), groups out on the job (ie cutting trees, making survey pegs, moving through the bush with packs and equipment, on horse back, returning from the hunt, packing in supplies, making observations, and constructing the Maungaroa trig station), and views of the native forest, and rivers. Interspersed among these photographs are others which include social occasions such as farewelling a survey team member, a motoring trip associated with a large house called "Pihautea," an amateur instrumental group, a cricket game in Nelson, and a group in Albert park Auckland. There is a farmyard with woman, hens and horses, a buggie fording the Mangaturuturu Stream, views of Island Bay, Mount and Lake Tarawera, the Makatote bridge, and the Ohakune Railway Station Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1908-1910

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-o-1226

Description: There are three main groups of images in this album. The first is about a climb up Mount Tarawera in September 1908. It includes views of the craters and the rift resulting from the eruption, and views over the surrounding countryside from the summit including lakes Tarawera and Rotomahana. The party also did some sailing in a launch on the lakes before moving on to the Waimangu thermal area and Wakarewarewa. The second group feature railway viaducts being constructed on the main trunk line in May 1908. Those depicted are the Makatote Viaduct, the Hapuawhenua Viaduct, and the Taonui Viaduct. There are two photographs of the road bridge over the Makatote River, and two photographs of the party picnicing in the bush by the river. The third group relates to climbing Mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe over Easter 1909, and again over Easter 1910. There are views of Ngauruhoe erupting, the Mangaehuehu Glacier on Mount Ruapehu, the Crater Lake, the Ohinepango Spring, the party on both mountains, and a view Of Paretetaitonga Peak on Mount Ruapenu. Other images are photographic postcards one of which shows a group of Ohakune Boy Scouts on Mount Ruapehu (this group also includes four women). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1900]

Reference: PA4-1024

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Makatote Viaduct Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - The concrete piers, Makatote Viaduct; Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: [Circa 1906 to 1909]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, Charles Tenison, active 1906-1910

Reference: PA1-o-455

Description: Photographs taken by Charles Tenison Salmon about 1906 to 1909. Images include views of the Ohakune/Horopito Road, a Christmas camp in the bush at Ohakune, the volcanic eruption of Mount Ngauruhoe in April 1909, and views taken when traversing the Tongariro National Park. Some photographs show Charles and Marie Salmon in the bush, and one shows three climbers, Charles T. Salmon, Edward Phillips Turner and Hugh Girdlestone. Views on the Ohakune-Horopito Road show a team of horses pulling an empty dray, and one of a group of people waiting while their carriage crosses a ford on the Mangatoetoenui River. Other - Negatives are held of these images Inscriptions: Album page - Photographs taken by Charles T. Salmon, about 1906-1909 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 19.5 x 26.5 cm

Date: [ca 1930s], 1946-1959

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-168

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1946-1959 Views of Palmerston North showing The Square and Broadway; Manawatu River, Ballance Bridge over the Manawatu River; Ratana Temple at Raetihi; Ruapehu from south-west; Makatote Viaduct; Raurimu Spiral; Centennial Memorial at Feilding; Woodville. Pukekura Park, New Plymouth; Flax Flat (between Marton and Turakina); Ohakune; Mt Taranaki (Mt Egmont); country road near Porewa railway station (6 miles from Marton); unidentified rural scenes - [Whites Aviation (No F3337)], waterfall; trout fishing House of Mr J Cooper at Newman with topiary on front lawn (photographer W Hall Raine) Quantity: 45 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1910-1925]

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Winkelmann, Henry, 1860-1931

Reference: PAColl-0603

Description: Postcards of New Zealand scenes mostly in Waikato and Northland, including the new Awanui Wireless Station at Kaitaia; a steam locomotive on the railway bridge next to Victoria Battery; the interior of Union Battery; view of Whakatane with Regan's Commercial Hotel on the left and a billiards hall at the end of the street; a view over Port Chalmers; Mount Ruapehu covered in snow; a steam ship docking at the wharf at Tauranga; a steam ship pulling away from the wharves at Whangarei; view over Dargaville from Mount Wesley; view down Victoria Street, Dargaville looking towards the railway station; view over Kaitaia from the hotel; sheep mustered next to the Kaeo River; the road and rail bridges over the Waikato River in Hamilton; the Hauraki Pumping Plant in Thames; the extension works at Waihi Grand Junction Battery; the steam ship Clansman at the wharf at Mangonui; the Mokau Coal Mines on the Mokau River with boats moored at the jetty; the school and church at Mangonui; the Topeheihei Falls near Morrinsville; a crowd of people outside the mountain house with Mount Taranaki in the background; Marine Parade, Napier looking north; view over Petone towards Somes Island showing the carriage works and the mill next to the jetty; Glaxo factory at Matamata; a viaduct near Te Kuiti; a train on the Rimutaka Incline; and three views from the Northern Steam Ship Company's annual summer cruise of Port Fitzroy, Whangaroa, and Doubtless Bay. Quantity: 50 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [ca 1900]

Reference: PA4-0919

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Makatote Viaduct Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - The concrete piers, Makatote Viaduct; Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1850-1906

By: Rabey, Christopher, active 1999

Reference: PAColl-6080

Description: Towns and cities. The Makatote Viaduct and Wairoa Bridge. Arrowtown street and Hotel, and the Royal Hotel Riverton, both dating from 1850. Many are early photographs with business signs on shops and views of streets. The Wellington photographs dating from the 1880s show houses on Mount Vectoria and Te Ato Flat. Quantity: 24 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

By: Tibbutt, Alfred George, 1864-1930

Reference: PA5-0159

Description: Waterfall, near Makatote showing people on the bridge, taken by Alfred George Tibutt ca 1910-1913. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 87 x 138 mm

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Child, Edward George, 1860-1949 :Photographs of the Ohingaiti district

Reference: 1/4-016540-G

Description: School house at Ohakune; Pipiriki-Tokaanu coach outside the Post Office at Ohakune; Makatote viaduct under constuction. Photographs taken circa 1900. Photographer(s) unidentified. Other - These photographs, published in an unidentified publication, were copied by Edward George Child between circa 1892-1910. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 15 March 1913

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

Reference: APG-0451-1/2-G

Description: The Makatote Viaduct, photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. Original print at Pa1-o-198 (Godber album, Vol 107, p 20) Inscriptions: Album page - Makatote Viaduct. N.I.M.T.Rly. Height 257 ft, length 864 ft. 15/3/13. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [between 1907-8]

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

Reference: 1/2-007655-G

Description: Makatote viaduct, photographed by Frederick George Radcliffe between 1907 and 1908. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Makatote Viaduct. Main Trunk Line 1582 F G R Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1908

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-009767-G

Description: Railway viaduct at Makatote under construction in 1908. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: ca 1910

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 15

By: William Beattie & Company

Reference: PAColl-7081-09

Description: Makatote Viaduct and train, circa 1910. Mount Ruapehu is in the background. Photograph taken by William Beattie & Co. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - "The Great Makatote Viaduct showing Mount Ruapehu" N9000 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Postcard

Date: [ca 1908]

From: Child, Edward George, 1860-1949 :Photographs of the Ohingaiti district

By: Weekly press (Newspaper)

Reference: 1/4-016541-G

Description: Photographic copy of a page in an unidentified publication featuring a photograph of Makatote viaduct under construction, Ruapehu district, circa 1908, taken by The Weekly Press. Photographic copy made circa 1892 to 1910 by Edward George Child. Source of descriptive information - Notes on negative. Date estimated by cataloguer, taken from completion date of viaduct. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass dry plate negative