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Hancock, H J :Photographs of Hauraki Plains drainage scheme
Date: 1910-1915
By: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985
Reference: PAColl-0370
Description: Set of photographs of drainage operations on the Hauraki Plains. Spoil from the canal and ditch construction was used as foundation for roads so road construction is also shown. The photographs include two men hay harvesting in front of a small house, a man in a flax field, a dredge at work, the labourers' camp, boats moored at a jetty in Ngatea. Some of the photographs are captioned. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Copy photographic prints Provenance: Given to J H Christie by Dennis Hancock, the grandson of H J Hancock who created the collection.
Newspaper clippings relating to bituminous paving for roads
Date: 1927-1929
From: Duncan, June (Mrs), fl 1997 :Photographs from the estates of Joseph and Frank Duncan
By: Duncan, June, active 1997
Reference: PA1-q-613
Description: Cuttings relate closely with albums PA1-q-611 and PA1-q-612. They contain information about Joseph and Frank Duncan's work with the Wellington City Council and later as road paving contractors. There is also a lot of comment on and debate about the new bituminous roads being laid down in the 1920s as well as descriptions of jobs and contracts undertaken by Wellington and some other local authorities in the Wellington Region and elsewhere in New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Gatrans Hill, Te Mata, near Raglan, 1910 - Photograph taken by Gilmour Brothers
Date: 1 July 1910
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
By: Gilmour Brothers (Firm)
Reference: 1/2-000233-G
Description: View of Gatrans Hill, with a winding road leading up to a group of small houses, 1 July 1910. Photograph taken by the Gilmour Brothers of Raglan. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Gatrans Hill, TeMata, N.Z. 138; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - G Bros. Protd 1.7.10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches
Department of Lands and Survey :Views of Chateau Tongariro and district
Date: Early 1950s
By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey
Reference: PAColl-6552
Description: 13 images (and 5 duplicate file prints) of Chateau Tongariro and the nearby roads. Includes the junction of state highways 47 and 48 with a chrysler parked at the side of the road, and one of the Tongariro National Park sign. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015096 to 015108 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives
Napier-Wairoa railway construction
Date: 1922 - 1923, 1931 - 1933
From: Smith, R Trevor :Photographs of railway and road construction
Reference: PA1-o-644
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).
Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs of the Wanganui-Horopito highway
Date: ca 1930s
Reference: PAColl-4636
Description: Photographs of: a new bridge over the railway line at Turakina in the middle distance with the river bridge and the railway bridge also visible; the bridge over the river at Turakina; men shovelling stone from a river bank on to carts running on rails over the river to the highway; jig line of Oreore metalling plant - a man standing at the bottom of inclined rails; a winch and steam traction engine in use on the construction of Turakina bridge; men standing on the new bridge over the railway line at Turakina; and a man standing on the new Turakina river bridge with part of the old one next to it. Photographer unidentified. All have the same photographic developer's stamp on the reverse but they may relate to PAColl-7364. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Prints at PAColl-5932-34 to PAColl-5932-37.
A trip to Kaikoura.
Date: April 1923
From: Loftus, Helen :Photographs of climbing Mt Tapuaenuku and a trip to Kaikoura
By: Gunn, George Alexander, 1895-1968
Reference: PA1-o-1218
Description: Record of a trip made by George Alexander Gunn and friends along the Kaikoura coast to Kaikoura and south to about Oaro. Photographed by George Alexander Gunn in April 1923 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Morrison, John M, fl 1883-1951 :Photographs of Takapuna and Milford
Date: [ca 1909-1925]
By: Morrison, John M, active 1883-1951
Reference: PAColl-6494
Description: Photographs of Takapuna and Milford. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-016625 to 016630, 1/2- 031823 and 101744 Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: Manuscript material now held at qMS-1398.. Processing information: The majority of the prints do not have negatives.
Paddy's Bend, Otira Gorge
Date: ca 1900
From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 18
Reference: PAColl-7581-02
Description: Photograph of Paddy's Bend on the road through Otira Gorge ca 1900. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Scenes of Stewart Island, Westland, Southland and Nelson
Date: [ca 1940s]
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-003
Description: Photographs of Stewart Island, Westland, Southland and Nelson taken circa 1940s for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of road construction, towns, rivers, bridges, lakes, mountains and personalities. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).
Carroll, A L K :stereoscope photographs of whale, digger and bulldozer
By: Carroll, A L K (Mrs), active 1988
Reference: PAColl-1118
Description: Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.
Photographs of Wellington and Seaview
Date: [ca 1869-ca 1900], [ca 1950s]
From: Wainuiomata Historical Society: Photographs
By: Richardson, Wal, active 1950
Reference: PAColl-7664
Description: Collection comprises: Photograph of road works in Ghuznee Street, Wellington, ca 1950s, by Pacific Photos, Courtney Place, Wellington. 3 photographs of Seaview, taken from the top of the Wainuiomata Hill in 1950 by Wal Richardson. Album leaf with 5 photographs of Wellington, ca 1860s-1900s, including preparations for visit of Duke of Edinburgh to Wellington, wedding of Ted and Amy Yates, portrait of a woman, Te Aroha Bathhouse and fire damage in Lambton Quay. Duke of Edinburgh visited New Zealand in 1869. Cadman Bathhouse opened in 1898. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 album leaf with 5 b&w original photographic prints. Provenance: Donated by Wainuiomata Historical Society, October 2002, through Mrs Vicky Alexander. The photographs were given to the society by the late Mrs Claire Burdan, whose husband was descended from Richard & Mary Prouse, and from the Dixon family, of the Dixon aerated water business. The photographs appear to have come from these families.
Ryvie (?), Miss L : Photographs
Date: [between 1858-1887]
Reference: PAColl-6114
Description: Comprises: Hutt Road in 1868; Queen's Wharf ca 1860s; Wellington circa 1887; Thorndon circa 1860s; St John's Presbyterian Church, Wellington, 1858. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/4-016071, 1/2-075008 and 1/2-091405 Quantity: 5 b&w copy photographic print(s).
Album of photographs depicting Joseph Gordon Coates and others on tours to various part...
Date: ca1922-ca1926
From: Barr, John Manson, 1904-1993 :Photographs of Joseph Gordon Coates
By: Coates, Marjorie Grace, 1892-1973
Reference: PA1-o-851
Description: Gordon Coates and his wife on tour. Most of these photographs relate to Coates' as MP and Minister of Public Works. Most of the events record the trials and tribulations of journeying to remote parts of New Zealand to open bridges, post offices, power plants etc. The album also records some of the social and recreational events associated with the tours. According to Gordon Coates' daughter, Mrs Sheila Pryde, this album belonged to Gordon Coates' wife Marjorie, who collected, and may have taken some of the snaps when she accompanied her husband travelling in various parts of New Zealand. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Hawes, R, fl 1971: Postcards of New Zealand scenes
Date: [190-?]
By: Hawes, R, active 1971; Muir & Moodie (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-0859
Description: Postcards of New Zealand scenes, including the road cut into the side of Otira Gorge; Mount Rolleston; Wet Jacket Arm; Mount Lyell above Lake Te Anau taken by Muir & Moodie; and Shepherd's Hut, Lake Heron Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 5 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photomechanical print postcards Provenance: Donated by R Hawes, 1971
Road and city commuter train, Khandallah, Wellington
Date: [ca 31 May 1969]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1969/2302-F
Description: Road and city commuter train in the suburb of Khandallah, Wellington, in 1931. Photographs taken circa 31 May 1969 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Fern Flat, on the Buller Road, church on the left
Date: Ca 1890s
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
Reference: 10x8-0611-G
Description: Other Titles - Tyree No. 1064 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
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.
New Zealand - Miscellaneous
Date: 1939-1940
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-215
Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1939-1940. Karangarua River bridge; Rakaia River bridge; market gardens in Heathcote Valley; Palmerston North library; Old English Fair held in Dunedin in aid of the patriotic funds; new Gisborne Intermediate School; Archbishop Julius Memorial stone; Auckland's Patriotic Queen Carnival; model of HMS Rodney; giant pipe cast by Public Works Department for pipeline at headworks of the mid-Canterbury irrigation scheme; Garden Place Hill earthworks at Hamilton; hop picking, Riwaka Valley; new friary built for the Brothers of St Francis at Hillsborough, Auckland; construction of tunnels and power house for hydro-electric works at Tuai, Waikaremoana; opening of Horowhenua College, Levin; demolition of wing at Nelson College; floating pontoon being lowered into position at Mechanics Bay; tram cars converted into homes. Construction of Centennial Drive, Kapiti Coast; new Hamiltion General Post Office; construction of Wellington Harbour Board cargo shed; opening of Catholic church at Georgetown, Invercargill; shoe-cleaner at Lincoln College; view of Waikanae Beach from Kaiti Hill, Gisborne; road works north of Gisborne; Railway Bus Terminus, Dunedin (opposite Queens Gardens); Dunedin Emergency Transport Organisation practising arm signals. Race-goers at Wellington Racing Club meeting, and at Canterbury Jockey Club & NZ Metropolitan Trotting Club meeting at Christchurch. Landslide at a Brighton farm; construction of the Pokeno-Paeroa line; laying of the foundation stone of building in Stout Street by Minister of Public Worls, Hon R Semple. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Napier-Wairoa railway construction
Date: 1927, 1929 - 1931
From: Smith, R Trevor :Photographs of railway and road construction
Reference: PA1-o-643
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).