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Date: Circa 1901

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

Reference: 1/4-038951-G

Description: "Ub" 335; a Ub class steam locomotive, type 4-6-0, built by Baldwin. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber circa 1901 at Timaru. \"Ub\" 335 was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia (maker's no 18581/01), entered service on the 20th of June 1901 and was written off in June 1953. (Information from the 'Register of New Zealand Steam Locomotives 1863-1971' by W G Lloyd, 1974.) See also 'Cavalcade of New Zealand locomotives' by A N Palmer & W W Stewart. Date and location identified from Godber's own index at TL 6/1/15, 1/4 plate sequence, under L. Loco Ub 335. Timaru. 1901. Box 5. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: [Between early 1900s to 1910s?]

By: Meldrum, Jessie Irene McCallum, 1896-1986

Reference: PA1-o-337

Description: Photographs of the Hutt Valley railway line, some of which has been constructed. Some of the scenes seem to show the route the line will take, with a number of panoramic views of country areas in the valley, some older photographs of Upper Hutt township, a panoramic views of Lower Hutt and Petone taken from the Belmont Hills, and scenes at the Upper Hutt Railway Station. Two photographs show New Zealand Railways steam engine No. 197 at Upper Hutt Railway Station Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, entitled `Album', lettered in black with surrounding decoration; 17.5 x 21.5 cm

Date: 1922

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

Reference: 1/4-038958-G

Description: "M" 90; an M class steam locomotive, type 0-6-0T. This image is a glass copy negative made by Albert Percy Godber from his own original print in an album. Godber's son William Albert Godber is standing on the far right. There is another inscription above this image which relates to another photograph in the Godber album. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - centre right - W.A.G. Napier. 1922 "M" 90 was originally built as 0-6-0T type by Hunslet (maker's no 141/75), went into service in December 1875. It was modified to the 2-4-4T type in 1890 at the Addington Workshops, and was written off in October 1928. (Information from the 'Register of New Zealand Steam Locomotives 1863-1971' by W G Lloyd, 1974.) See also 'Cavalcade of New Zealand locomotives' by A N Palmer & W W Stewart. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: circa 1890-1910

From: Shaw, G W :Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna

By: Wilson, Alex R, active 1900s; Shaw, Helen M G, active 1976

Reference: PA1-q-269

Description: Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna. William M Wilson was born in Glasgow in 1868, coming to New Zealand when 8 years of age. He was apprenticed to John Fitchett, coach builder in Wellington, then with other firms including Rouse & Hurrell. He was employed by Wilfred Woolf in Eketahuna in 1894, and subsequently bought his business, and entered the firm of Kibblewhite and Wilson. See Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Wellington Provincial District, Eketahuna. Includes dwellings; carriages; group outings and portraits; 1 of the Club Hotel of F D Pelling; 3 of the Ryan family at Tawa Flat; 1 of a house at Island Bay, 1 of a thatched whare at Plimmerton, a Ghuznee St boarding house; 2 relating to the Burnett family; 2 scenes in Manakau; 1 of D A Greenlees store; 2 of Rarotanga; 2 relating to the business of Lyon & Blair, steam printers and lithographers; 1 of a group outside a house in Eastbourne; 3 relating to the Manson family; 1 of a military camp in New Zealand in preparation for the South African War. Also includes a pocket on the inside back cover containing newspaper clippings, and a photocopy of a letter written by the donor Mrs Helen M G Shaw, which gives some information about the album. Inscriptions: Album page - Alex R Wilson, Central Terrace, Kelburne, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover; 28.5 x 20.5 cm

Date: 1905 to 1907

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

Reference: PA1-o-197

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1905 and 1907, covering a variety of topics. They include family photographs, both individual and group portraits, and Wellington houses (eg `Railway Whare', the house Godber and his family lived in, in Bay Street, Petone). One scene shows Godber's parents, Mary Ann and Charles Godber, with a large group of family members, including Albert Percy Godber, his wife Laura, and two children, Phyllis and William (p.21). On p. 13, Godber's wife Laura and two children are seen with an elderly couple, probably Laura's parents Charles Albert and Magdelina Clara Zinckgraf. Numbers of images show scenes associated with New Zealand Railways, including the Mataroa Railway Tunnel under construction, specific locomotives, signal stations, the railway station at Petone, and scenes at the Petone Railway Workshops. At the beginning of the album, several images show Godber and a team from the Petone Fire Brigade with medals they have won at fire-fighting practice competitions. A pocket at the front of the album holds two photographs, on of a new cutting on the road near Lowry Bay, and one of the `model of `D' class locomotive used in the Petone Peace Demonstration Procession' following the Boer War in 1902, signed `With A.P. Godber's compliments'. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 105 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 19.5 x 26.0 cm

Date: 1904

By: Buick & Young (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-MACHINERY-1904-01

Description: Shows portraits of the proprietors E R B Holben and W Kirk. Includes descriptions and illustrations of engines, boilers, cream vats, pulleys, pumps, milk cans, hoses, babcock testers, the "Neulyte" incandescent gas installation, electrical goods, cream coolers, butter printer and pounder, curd mills, rotary milk pumps, corn grinder, siphon well, turbine water-wheel, butter churns, the "Baltic" separator, "Melotte" separator, Reid's hand separator, woodworking tools, horticultural tools, "Aquarius" spray pump, side-delivery rake, Manitoba hay stacker, Thomas hay tedder, Noxon mowers and disc harrows, hoes, bone cutters, potato digger, grain grinder, pulper and slicer, Daniels Canadian incubator, O.K. washing machine, hay rake, steamship machinery, Wagner's testing glassware. Quantity: 1 sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Catalogue of 100 pages, 217 x 282 mm.

Date: [Circa 1932]

By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984

Reference: PA1-f-131

Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Roland James Searle, circa 1930s. The first subject is the opening of the Wellington Citizens' War Memorial (Cenotaph), and includes a programme of the dedication and handing over on Sunday 17th April, 1932 (p 001-012). That is followed by the consecration ceremony for the National War Memorial and War Memorial Carillon (again with a copy of the programme), held on Anzac Day, April 25th, 1932 (p 015-023). Pages 029-033 show the arrival of the Wellington Jubilee Dock in 1931, the floating dock which was towed from England by two Dutch tugboats. The next sequence is entitled "The Express pulls out - Thorndon", and follows the Express to Wanganui where views show a river-boat trip up the Whanganui River (p 037-056), and include a map of historical areas on the river compiled by Annabell & Marchant, surveyors of Wanganui (p 055). The train trip is continued in the next section, and includes an illustrated diagram of the Raurimu Spiral, then arrival at the new Beach Road Auckland Railway Station. Photographs of Auckland include the Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland University, Grafton Bridge, a sailing ship at the wharves, and the Auckland Zoo. Further North there are scenes of ploughing, a mine entrance, rock formations at Waro, and the Taheke Falls; before travelling to Rotorua and the surrounding thermal regions. A number of images were taken at Whakarewarewa, including photos of Paul Thomas and his wife, along with scenes showing women washing clothes in hot pools, a woman with a baby on her back holding a rope with a food basket cooking in the pool, children in a hot pool, and men at work carving. Paul Thomas wrote to thank Searle for sending him copies of photographs (p 101, written on May 1st 1932). Later photographs again with the train often in view show timber felling and milling, and views of the Arapuni hydroelectic power station. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured grey cloth cover, entitled "Snapshots"; 28.5 x 39.0 cm

Date: ca 1905

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

Reference: 1/4-039002-G

Description: E class locomotive, E 66, at the Petone Railway Workshops, with William Godber standing on the front. This image is a copy negative made from an original print taken by A P Godber. The original negative is at APG-0242-1/2. Note on back of file print reads: "E 66 ('Pearson's Dream'). At Petone. Used on Rimutaka Incline. William Godber in front. Designed by G A Pearson. Built Petone Workshops 1905." See A N Palmer & W W Stewart 'Cavalcade of New Zealand locomotives' Rev. ed. (Reed, 1965), p 83. Known as "Pearson's Dream", designed by G A Pearson, and built at the Petone Railway Workshops for use on the Rimutaka Incline, in 1905; written off in 1917. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: [Circa 1880s]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-f-036

Description: New Zealand scenery, chiefly in the Wellington region. Two photographs at the beginning have initials F.A.C (Frank Arnold Coxhead), possibly printed by Coxhead rather than photographed by him. Most of the images are labelled, but the photographers are mostly unidentified. Subjects and locations are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green watered-effect cover, with leather corners and spine, gold motifs, entitled `Photographs' in gold; 37.0 x 32.5 cm

Date: [Circa 1927]

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2037-F

Description: Panoramic view of the SS Mataroa moored at Pipitea Wharf, Wellington, circa 1927. Shed no. 35 is on the right. A steam engine towing a large goods van is on the wharf to the right of the ship. A small tugboat is drawn up alongside the Mataroa on the sea side. Cranes on the wharf. Oriental Bay and Mount Victoria are seen across Wellington Harbour in the distance on the left. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "S.S." Mataroa Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 102.6 cm

Date: 1 Jan 1990

From: Ranger, Diana Rosemary, fl 1972-2009: Photographs taken by Murray and Stanley Vincent

Reference: PA12-8882

Description: Colour transparencies of steam locomotive J1211 at Gisborne and steam locomotives F163 and W192 at the Wellington train yards (Coal Corp train excursion) in Jan 1990. Also tramping track at Lake Waikaremoana and various lake and bush views. Photographer either Murry or Stanley Vincent. Quantity: 1 colour copy transparency/ies strips with 12 images.

Date: After 1910

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

Reference: 1/4-038965-G

Description: "Wa" 165; a Wa class steam locomotive working on the Gisborne section of New Zealand Railways lines. Original photograph in the New Zealand Railways collection; this image is a glass copy negative made from an original print by Albert Percy Godber. This image is reproduced in "Cavalcade of New Zealand locomotives" by A N Palmer and W W Stewart (1965, p 59), with the inscription "`Wa' 165, working on the Gisborne Section. New Zealand Railways". "Wa" 165; a Wa class steam locomotive (2-6-2T type), was built by New Zealand Railways, Hillside Workshops (maker's no. 19/97), went into service in March 1898, transferred to the Gisborne section after 1910, was written off in May 1961, and preserved. See: "Register of New Zealand Railways steam locomotives, 1863-1971" by W G Lloyd; and "Cavalcade of New Zealand locomotives" by A N Palmer and W W Stewart. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top right - WA Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: Circa February 16 - 21, and April - May 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8789

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides has two sequences which are not in chronological order. (Information from his diary). Slides nos. 433-443 show areas of the North Island around the Dargaville and Whangarei area, including Maungatapere peak, the Wairua Gorge and Wairua Falls, the Whangaroa volcanic ridge and tree ferns, McLeod Bay and pampas grass, Whangarei from Memorial Hill, the Whangarei Falls, and Whangarei Heads. These were taken sometime between April and May 1959. Slides nos. 444-456 show parts of the South Island including Invercargill; Bluff, a lighthouse near Bluff; the Invermay Agricultural Centre on the Taieri Plains; Dunedin, Otago Harbour, Larnach Castle, and early steam engines on display in Dunedin; section of road between Dunedin and Christchurch taken from a bus. These were taken circa February 16-21 1959. Slides on this sheet are numbered 433-456 with no gaps. Arrangement: None of this sheet of slides were taken as part of a representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1911

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

Reference: APG-0441-1/2-G

Description: Steam locomotive and driver. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1911. Similar image (APG-1389-1/2-F) with original print at Pa1-q-103 (Godber album, Vol 110, p 114), with caption "Built by Orenstein & Keppel (Ger). Used by Coal Co. in north. Later in Whangarei, Portland Cement - now preserved at Matakohe". Coal company and place from caption above. Built by Orenstein & Koppel, Germany (no. 1411). Used by the Northern Colliery Co., Waro. Later taken to Whangarei for use by Portland Cement, and then preserved at Matakohe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: Between 1901 and 1902

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

Reference: APG-0727-1/2-G

Description: "Wd" Class steam locomotive, NZR 323, 2-6-4T type in the erecting shop awaiting the tanks. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber at the Petone Railway Workshops, ca 1901 or 1902. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Ready for the tanks. (Baldwin Locos.) "Wd" 323 was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia (maker's no. 18550/01), went into service in May 1901, and was written of in June 1933. See "Register of New Zealand Railways steam locomotives, 1863-1971" by W G Lloyd, and "Cavalcade of New Zealand locomotives" by A N Palmer & W W Stewart. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1909

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

Reference: APG-0397-1/2-G

Description: The Auckland to Wellington express, with an "A" Class locomotive, on the Raurimu Spiral. Photographed by A P Godber at 6.30am sometime during 1909. Original print at Pa1-q-103 (Godber Album vol 110, p 18) Inscriptions: Album page - Auckland-Wellington Xpress on the "Spiral" 6.30am. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1911

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

Reference: APG-0564-1/2-G

Description: Timber yards at Christie's Mill, Hikurangi. White pine logs spread out to dry, with a small geared steam engine centre left. Photograph taken by A P Godber. An original print is at PA1-q-103 (Godber album, Vol 110, p 118) Inscriptions: Album page - Fleet of white pine logs. Christie's Mill. Hikurangi. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1912

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

Reference: APG-0240-1/2-G

Description: E Class steam locomotive, no 66, "Pearson's Dream" with Albert Percy Godber at the driver's door. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber at the Petone Railway Workshops. Dated from similar image, information on back of file print APG-1401-1/2. This engine was built at the Petone Railway Workshops in 1905. It was designed by G A Pearson for use on the Rimutaka Incline. Because of faults in the mechanism it was modified with an outside exhaust, and an additional expansion dome, ca 1912; broken up in 1917. See "Register of New Zealand Railways steam locomotives, 1863-1971" by W G Lloyd; and for further information regarding this locomotive see PA1-q-101 (Godber album vol 108, page 16). See also "Cavalcade of New Zealand locomotives" by A N Palmer & W W Stewart. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 2009

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0012224

Description: Cartoon shows the the Kingston Flyer which is a vintage steam train operating in the South Island of New Zealand at the southern end of Lake Wakatipu. It uses 14 kilometres of preserved trackage that once formed a part of the Kingston Branch. Text reads that 'while hundreds of Australian queens fly in for Gay Ski Week......an old king is grounded. A signpost reads 'No toot toot...run out of loot,loot!' The 'queens' refers to the hundreds of gay men and women who will arrive from all over the world to celebrate the 7th year Annual Gay Ski Week NZ from 29 August to 6 September, 2009; and the 'king' to the Kingston Flyer, which has run into financial difficulties and although a highly popular heritage item for the tourism industry, will not be bailed out by the government who say it is 'just one of many companies suffering in the economic downturn'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s). Processing information: Subject headings updated in March 2024 as part of reparative description work.

Date: 1908

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

Reference: APG-0391-1/2-G

Description: "X" 439, and X class steam locomotive, type 4-8-2, photographed in 1908 by Albert Percy Godber at the Petone Railway Workshops. See print from this negative at PA1-q-103 (vol 110, page 6.) Inscriptions: Album page - "X" loco. "X" 439 was built as X class (compound) by New Zealand Railways at Addington (maker's no 94/08), went into service on the 9th of January 1909, was converted to X class (simple) in June 1947 and was written off on the 2nd of March 1957. (Information from the 'Register of New Zealand Railways Steam Locomotives 1863-1971' by W G Lloyd, 1974, page 62.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches