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Date: 1939-1943

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-158

Description: Photographs of 1 New Zealand A Tank Battalion in training at Ohakune and Waiouru between 1939 and 1945 (A F V School). Includes Governor General's inspection Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Transfers: Photographs were transferred to NZ Army HQ on 26 February 1943 (see photocopy of envelope housed with collection)..

Date: 1906 - 1908

Reference: Eph-D-RAIL-1908-01

Description: Shows a tinted photograph of a small group of huts and tents amidst tall trees in a gully. The text beneath states: "Our picture shows a phase of the magnificent scenery which is to be met with along the route of the North island Main Trunk Railway, which links up the Cities of Auckland and Wellington, and is now practically completed. The numberless beautiful views and the impressive grandeur of many of the sights adjacent to the line should make one of the most popular routes for tourists in New Zealand, and the only thing to be regretted is that scenes such as that depicted above must vanish within a short space before the steady advance of the sturdy pioneer settler". Description of another copy at C-065-006, identifies one of the group shown, as Thomas Alexander Evans. Another fresher copy at C-065-006; from where comes the name of the publication with which this was published. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 430 x 560 mm.

Date: [1900s-1910s?]

From: Mercer, Robert, fl 1964 :Photographs and albums of Maori, New Zealand views, and illustrations

Reference: PA1-o-339

Description: Album of photographs taken by unidentified photographers, taken in central North Island, and Otago and Southland regions, circa 1900s and 1910s. Some of the images are related to railways, including North Island scenes of the first passenger trip on 14th February 1909, during which the train stopped on the Raurimu Spiral because of a lack of engine power to haul it; the railway station at Longburn; a locomotive owned by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company; various engines including one image showing a J Class locomotive and an A Class locomotive with the caption "Note the difference in 20 years". South Island trains are shown in the Catlins District, including the construction of the Catlins River Railway, the Houipapa Quarry on the Catlins River Extension, loading wagons in the Balclutha ballast pit, the viaduct across the Catlins River at Houipapa, the Clutha Railway Bridge, and the Houipapa terminus on the Catlins River Railway. The North Island scenic views include the areas around Lake Rotorua, the Government Sanatorium at Rotorua, Sophia's Whare, a group of Maori boys diving for pennies, Whakarewarewa, Okere and Ohakune. Scenic views in the South Island are mostly around Dunedin (including Telford's country house in the Balclutha District), Clutha River, Balclutha, and the Catlins, including flax swamps and flax mills in the Catlins District. Many of the images are taken with an emphasis on atmosphere, includingGathering storm", "Beside the winding river", "Outward bound", "A heavy pull" and "A calm day". Inscriptions: Album page - "Thus we remember many a sunny hour with bike and camera"-Inside back cover Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with very dark blue cover, black leather corners and spine; 22 x 29 cm

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: ca 1880s-1890s

Reference: 1/2-003126-F

Description: A house with out-buildings and huts around it and a sign saying "Mrs Fraser's Boarding House" with two women in the yard. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1958

Reference: Eph-B-RAIL-1958-Siddle

Description: Includes: North Island main trunk golden jubilee. Jubilee dinner and social evening ticket North Island main trunk golden jubilee dinner. Order of programme (2 copies) Main Trunk Golden Jubilee Committee. Newsletter 14 October 1958 (2 copies) Passenger tickets for the train trip between Taumarunui and Ohakune, 9 November 1958, and for the Jubilee dinner Donor's parents attended the Jubilee dinner; the invitation is made out to them. Quantity: 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 5 tickets. Physical Description: Mimeographs and letterpress, sizes varying

Date: [1991 or 1992]

From: Friar, Denis Ashwood, 1952- :Transparencies of public and private gardens in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-9864-1

Description: View of the newly restored Ohakune Railway Station with a steam train parked at the platform. Photographed by Denis Friar in 1991 or 1992. Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparency, 6 x 6 cm

Date: 1988-1989

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PA1-o-1703

Description: Begins with friends, Christmas 1988, and friends feature throughout the album. Also includes - A group on the lawn in front of Government House, Wellington. Interior views of no.13 Upland Road, Kelburn, Wellington. A trip to Ohakune featuring Maungarongo Marae and Tikarina Ringapoto meeting house. People at the Marae include weavers and a carver as the building was being enlarged and the addition decorated at the time. Other people include Jonathan Dennis, his mother and staff from the National Film archive. They are photographed in a group in front of the meeting house. Also pupils and Jonathan and associates with a group at Ruapehu College. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library Jonathan Dennis established the New Zealand Film Archive. One of the projects undertaken by the archive was the restoration of movie films made in the early 1920s during anthropological expeditions to the Whanganui River funded by the Dominion Museum. Jonathan and his staff were in Ohakune to show the newly restored films at Ruapehu College. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1937-1938

From: Orchiston, Bruce Elwyn, 1914-2005 :Photographs of New Zealand slums

Reference: PAColl-6013-2

Description: Photographs of state housing projects at Whakatane, Rotorua, Tauranga, Taihape, Te Kuiti, New Plymouth, Hawera, Patea, Wanganui, Napier and hastings; and substandard housing in Napier and Ohakune, taken 1937-1938 by the Department of Housing Construction. Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1962 - 1963

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-737

Description: Includes pencil sketches, with colour notes of trees; Raetihi May 20th 1962; pond with "blackish green water"; Taihape; Waiouru 24/8/62 (views of Ruapehu); [Ruapehu from] Ohakune end Feb 1963; foerground all warm dead grass About March 8th 1963; [Ruapehu] from Tom's verandah new snow March 14th 1963. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Croxley Li-Flat artist's sketch block, spiralbound with 11 leaves, each 190 x 275 mm.

Date: [1991 or 1992]

From: Friar, Denis Ashwood, 1952- :Transparencies of public and private gardens in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-9863-7

Description: View of the interior of the newly restored Ohakune Railway Station. Photographed by Denis Friar in 1991 or 1992. Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparency, 6 x 6 cm

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: [between 1908 and 1917]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-008882-G

Description: Ohakune's Main Street, with tramline and township, taken between 1908 and 1917 by an unidentified photographer. A row of shops is visible, including the Central Boot & Clothing Depot of E O Lightband and the auction mart of A T Vickers & Co. Main street is in the distance. The alarm, or fire, tower was built in 1908. The buildings in this street were destroyed by fire in 1917. 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 1916]

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

Reference: APG-1178-1/2-F

Description: Steam locomotive at the Powell Company sawmill, probably in Rangataua, or possibly Ohakune. Inscription in Godber Album Vol 101, p 44 (PA1-o-195) reads: Powell Coy. Timber tramway". However there is no Powell Company listed in Wise's Post office Directory (1914 and 1917) in Ohakune, but there is a "N Z Powell Wood Process Ltd" at Rangataua. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, circa 1916. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Powell Coy. Timber Tramway This film negative was taken from an original print in Godber Album Vol 101, p 44 (PA1-o-195) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 17.25 x 11.75 cm

Date: [ca 1910]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-008636-G

Description: Scene at a bridge in Ohakune showing wood being transported by horse and cart, from Gamman & Co sawmill. 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: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000638-G

Description: Looking across a small lake at Ohakune, with small clearings in a large stand of native bush behind. Photograph taken by William A Price, circa 1910. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - The lake. Ohakune 774B Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1909

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

Reference: APG-0381-1/2-G

Description: Climax locomotive 898 hauling logs in the bush near Ohakune, in 1909. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. An original print from this negative is at Pa1-q-103 (Godber Album Vol 110, p 21) Dated from other photographs taken in the same area in 1909. A film negative taken from the image in Godber's album is at APG-1371-1/2-F Inscriptions: Album page - Logging in the bush. Ohakune. 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-2053-1/2-G

Description: Horses transporting timber on a bush railway line near Gamman's Sawmill, Ohakune. The driver of the horse team is standing at the head of the log. Photographed 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 1906-1910]

From: Main Trunk Advisory Committee: Views of Gamman's Mill, Ohakune, and other photographs

Reference: 1/2-017098-F

Description: View looking across a stream and the site of the Main Trunk Railway line toward retail stores on a street in Ohakune. The shops include Central Boot and Clothing Depot, A T Vickers & Co and the chemist shop. Taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1906 to 1910. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - top centre - Ohakune Railway Station, N.I. Main Trunk Railway, N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) (copied from original print returned to owners). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1909

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

Reference: APG-0721-1/2-G

Description: Gamman's Mill at Ohakune, in 1909. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. An original print from this negative is at Pa1-q-103 (Godber Album Vol 110, p 22) Inscriptions: Album page - Gamman's sawmill. Ohakune. 1909. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches