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Date: 2001 - 2002

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-674-001/026

Description: Cartoons on political and social issues. Shows a destroyed bus (peace process) destroyed first by the Palestinian suicide bombers and them by Israeli war planes. Health spending priorities promote huge salaries for the CEO and a pittence for everyone else. Cartoon obituary to Sir Peter Blake. A dolphin weeps. Shows a flag at hslf-mast over the sea and a poem for Sir peter Blake. Peter Jackson, Director of Lord of the Rings dresses up for the New Zealand premiere. Debate in the Parliamentary Chamber on proposed changes referred to as the 'wipe the slate clean' Bill. Helen Clark hides from the anger of the grounded NZ Air Force capability. Children's perception of the difference in pay rises between MP's and teachers. Shows a tour guide explaining the virtues and down-side of New Zealand to a group of travel writers. Shows Bin Laden jumping the cue at the plastic surgery clinic. Shows MP's defending themselves at a press conference against charges of triple-dipping from public funds. Shows the men calling the tune on America's anti-terrorism campaign. Shows the leader of the National Party, Bill English asking Santa Claus for a Christmas present. Santa and his reindeer narrowly avoid being hit by airborne missiles. Shows an All Black selector recruiting new talent from a war zone. Shows Helen Clark and Jim Anderton clucking over their new baby (Air New Zealand), while Michael Cullen advises them not to get too attached as it'll be up for adoption as soon as it can stand on it's own feet. Winston Peters climbs up to his attic to dust off his 'super scare monger' suit. Slobadon Milosevich stands in the War Crimes Tribunal dock with his hands dripping in blood, he defys the authority of the court. A tribute to New zealand Criketerl, Chris Cairns as 'King of the Oval.' Shows Tranzrail passengers being shown a pick-axe they are to use in case of a derailment. Shows detainees at Guantanamo Bay being asked by their detainers if they have any complaints. They wear something like a gas mask so their answer is impossible to understand. Refers to anti-terrorism war and those captured by American-led forces. Shows politicicians as children engaged in petty squabbles as the election draws near. Comment on asylum seekers in Australia seeking help from the rest of the world. Shows Israeli troops in a armoured tank trying to force Yasser Arafat to end Palestinian violence. Shows an Australian teacher explaining to his students that only those arriving in Australia between 1840 and 2000 are 'fair dinkum Aussies'. National Party leader, Bill English dons a judges cloak, a hangman's noose and an executioners hood as he campaigns on a law and order platform. ACT leader, Richard Prebble outlines his stand on immigration policy. Quantity: 27 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1897 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-066

Description: Shows a train crossing a high valley line, with the tunnel mouth to the left. Trees, including tree ferns, surround the scene. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 165 x 230 (page size)

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-057

Description: A railway line winding around the edges of steep hills, with a train on the left and a tunnel at a lower point on the right entering a steep hill. bush. Probably a view from the track, looking at another part of the track and the tunnel ahead. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: [1925]

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: 73-128-243

Description: Identified persons entered under Name; includes several letters from Field relating to rail services and Field's Express Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1967

From: Robinson, Peter Franklin, active 1970-2017: Colour slides of Wellington City and suburbs, and railways images

Reference: PA12-0071

Description: Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]

From: New Zealand Centre for Photography :Photographs

By: Hoy, Douglas George, 1937-1992

Reference: PAColl-9528-2

Description: Photographs of railway scenes taken by Douglas George Hoy. Includes photographs of Wellington Harbour Board buildings and vessels, United Kingdom trip in 1980, and photographs of friends, pets and various artistic photographs. Accompanying material - Negative index Quantity: 65 b&w original photographic print(s). 11 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1960s-1970s]

From: New Zealand Centre for Photography :Photographs

By: Hoy, Douglas George, 1937-1992

Reference: PAColl-9528-1

Description: Photographs of railway scenes taken by Douglas George Hoy Accompanying material - Negative index Quantity: 75 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: APG-0153-1/2-G

Description: Fell engine and train exiting Siberia Tunnel on the Rimutaka Incline. High fences as windbreaks are on both sides of the railway line, with a young boy (possibly William Godber) sitting on the fence in right foreground. Photograph taken ca 1910 by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass plate negative

Date: 1910s?

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

Reference: APG-0151-1/2-G

Description: View from above a train rounding a bend on the Rimutaka Incline, showing the special middle track required for the Fell system. Train with three steam engines, going away from the camera. Photograph by Albert Percy Godber. Original print at Pa1-q-102 (Godber album, Vol 109, p 3) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: between 1880-1890

By: Williams, William, 1858-1949

Reference: 1/2-004665-F

Description: Scene at the summit of the Rimutaka incline, with S class steam locomotive number 6, two wagon loads of wood, and two passenger carriages. Railway workers, including Guard J Turner and M Cronin, stand alongside. Railway cottages line the tracks. A stack of railway track is in the foreground. Photograph taken by William Williams between 1880 and 1890. Identical (original?) image at negative number 1/2-025480-G. Note on back of file print says that 1/2-025480 is the better neg. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1880 - 1890

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-004-008

Description: The Rimutaka Incline railway curving through bush-clad hills, with the train visible, two small buildings further down the track, a telegraph pole to the right and plains (or Lake Wairarapa) in the distance. Possibly the approach to Cross Creek Dated as 1880s because of the presence of the telegraph pole Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash on buff paper, 248 x 352 mm

Date: Circa 1922

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

Reference: APG-1250-1/2-F

Description: "L" 207 steam locomotive with mixed train at Greytown Railway Station, circa 1922. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. This film negative is a copy made by Godber from the page in the Godber Album Vol 109, p 165 (PA1-q-102), with the inscription "Greytown Railway Station" Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - bottom centre - Greytown Railway Station Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 17.25 x 11.75 cm

Date: 1910s?

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

Reference: APG-0157-1/2-G

Description: View of the back of a train rounding a bend on the Rimutaka Incline, showing the special middle track required for the Fell system. Train with two steam engines. Photograph by Albert Percy Godber. Original print at Pa1-q-102 (Godber album, Vol 109, p 3) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1886

From: New Zealand Railways: [Ephemera relating to railways, railway trains, rail timetables, rail travel in New Zealand. 1800s]

By: Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company Ltd; Simcox, Francis Selwyn, 1880-1967

Reference: Eph-A-RAIL-1886-01

Description: A menu and toast list produced for the occasion of a celebratory lunch. The toast list includes toasts by: The Premier, Mr W T L Travers, Sir Julius Vogel, Mr H D Bell, Mr J Plimmer, Mr G V Shannon, Mr T K McDonald, Mr E T Gillon, Mr D J Nathan. The front cover shows a steam train engine and coal carriage. The menu includes turkey, chicken, ducks, roast lamb, roast beef, aspic of potted head, chicken pies, veal and ham pies, beefsteak & oyster pies, giblet pies, boiled ham, boiled tongue, salads, mayonnaise of lobster; apple, gooseberry and rhubarb tarts, jellies, creams, charlotte russe, open tarts, meringues, fruit in season; champagne, sauterne, port, sherry, claret, etc. In pieces. Has been joined with adhesive tape. Exhibited in ‘Humble: the life of 100 small objects’, exhibition curated by Barbara Lyon, in the Turnbull Gallery, National Library of New Zealand, 27 August - 17 November 2017. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on card. Physical Description: Letterpress on light card, 115 x 76 mm.(folded) Provenance: Donated by Mr F S Simcox, 9 March 1955.

Date: Between 1905 and 1907?

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

Reference: APG-0734-1/2-G

Description: View of a goods train, with a "Wd" class locomotive, rounding a bend on the Rimutaka Line, near Upper Hutt. Photograph by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1930]

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

Reference: APG-0341-1/2-G

Description: Passenger train on the Rimutaka Range, showing the track used with the Fell system. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber circa 1930. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1910s?

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

Reference: APG-0342-1/2-G

Description: View from the back of a train with three steam engines rounding a bend descending the Rimutaka Incline. Photograph by Albert Percy Godber. Library client identified the train as descending the incline and gave supporting reasons for this, September 2910. When ascending the locomotives were spaced out along the train to balance the load and would be working very hard on the grade, so there would be lots of smoke and steam comming from them. When descending the locomotices were placed at the front of the train as shown in this photograph. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1882

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: C-096-014

Description: Lake Wairarapa in the background, the railway line with a train (the Fell engine) in a cleared area, with hills and bush on either side. Inscriptions: Signed: John Gully, 1882 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 360 x 300 mm

Date: 1890

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Wilkie, Francis Howard, 1870-1945; Paterson, Nola Laura Noble, 1915-2008

Reference: C-030-030

Description: Shows the railway station and ancillary buildings, including railway cottages, the goods shed and the engine shed. Also shown are St Joseph's Catholic Church, the Provincial Hotel, P A Wilkie's second store (to the right of the hotel), and, to its left, Edward Wilkie's bakery and boarding-house Supplied title. Reproduced in: Kenneally, J M Upper Hutt, Wellington. 1980 (q993.1. KEN) with the following text (p.6). "The artist ... is known to have stayed with station-owners and at hotels and is believed to have left paintings of the district in lieu of board. While staying at Upper Hutt around 1890 he gave two paintings to Francis Howard Wilkie. One is a view of Upper Hutt and the other shows two bridges at the entrance to the Akatarawa Valley. The paintings have since passed to Mr Wilkie's daughter and son-in-law, Mr & Mrs J. H. G. Patterson of Totara Park, Upper Hutt. [Both watercolours in the Turnbull Library from the 1980s]. Shown in the painting of Upper Hutt are railway cottages, station building, goods shed and the engine shed. Also St Joseph's Catholic Church and the Provincial Hotel. On the right of the hotel is P. A. Wilkie's second store built about 1875 when the Fortune Lane community moved north to Upper Hutt to be near the railway station. The building at the left of the Provincial Hotel is Edward Wilkie's bakery and boardinghouse. Other copies: A second, almost identical version of this view was offered at International Art Centre, Auckland, 19 March 2008, lot 26. It was passed in. The only differences between the two works were in small details like the appearance of the cows and in the small group of trees in the left foreground. Both works were of the same dimensions Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 345 x 550 mm

Date: ca 2 Nov 1955

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984

Reference: PAColl-7171-71

Description: Fell engine and train leaving Cross Creek on the Rimutaka Incline. Photograph taken by Roland James Searle circa November 1955. Published in the New Zealand Free Lance, 2 November 1955, page 24 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.2 x 20 cm