Edwards, W J, 1857-1930
Railways employee. Organized the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, and acted as Secretary to the Society from 1889 to 1908. Artist and botanist, and violinmaker. Wrote diaries 1874-1881 telling of voyage to New Zealand on the ship Waitangi in 1874, and later discussing railways in New Zealand, Pokeno, Auckland City and Ngaruawahia. Lived mostly in Auckland and the Waikato, but moved to Wellington, and died in Kelburn, 1930. (See New Zealand Biographies; Obit Ev Post 29 Jan 1930)
There are 17 related items to this topic
Date:
1902
From:
Rail and Maritime Transport Union Inc :Photographs of Railway Union groups and activities
Ref:
PAColl-D-0961
Description:
Delegates at the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand conference in Invercargill in 1902. All names indexed in Name Field
Quantity: 1 b&w ...
Date:
1898
From:
Rail and Maritime Transport Union Inc :Photographs of Railway Union groups and activities
Ref:
PAColl-D-0960
Description:
Delegates at the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand conference in Wellington in 1898. All names indexed in Name Field.
Quantity: 1 b&w o...
Date:
1891
From:
Rail and Maritime Transport Union Inc :Photographs of Railway Union groups and activities
Ref:
PAColl-D-0955
Description:
Delegates at the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand conference in Christchurch in 1891. All names entered in Name Field.
Quantity: 1 b...
Date:
1896
From:
Rail and Maritime Transport Union Inc :Photographs of Railway Union groups and activities
By:
Hanna, John Robert, 1850-1915
Ref:
PAColl-D-0957
Description:
Delegates at the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand conference in Auckland in 1896. Photograph taken in the studio of J R Hanna, 196 Quee...
Date:
1896
From:
Rail and Maritime Transport Union Inc :Photographs of Railway Union groups and activities
Ref:
PAColl-D-0958
Description:
Delegates at the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand conference in Auckland in 1896. Photograph taken in the studio of J R Hanna, 196 Quee...
Date:
1894
From:
Rail and Maritime Transport Union Inc :Photographs of Railway Union groups and activities
Ref:
PAColl-D-0956
Description:
Delegates at the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand conference in Palmerston North in 1894. All names indexed in Name Field
Inscription...
Date:
1874-1880
By:
Edwards, William James, 1857-1930
Ref:
MS-0714
Description:
Contains an account of voyage of the ship Waitangi to New Zealand 1874
Quantity: 1 volume(s) (252 numbered pages).
Physical Description: Holograph (20 cm;...
Date:
1874-1881
By:
Edwards, William James, 1857-1930
Ref:
MS-0712-0713
Description:
Quantity: 2 volume(s).
Physical Description: Holographs (various bindings, in phase boxes)
Includes diagrams
Date:
1897
From:
Rail and Maritime Transport Union Inc :Photographs of Railway Union groups and activities
Ref:
PAColl-D-0959
Description:
Delegates at the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand conference in Dunedin in 1897
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Date:
[ca 1900]
From:
Rail and Maritime Transport Union Inc :Photographs of Railway Union groups and activities
Ref:
PAColl-D-0995
Description:
William James Edwards, organiser and Secretary from 1889 to 1908 of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand. Photographed by an unknown p...
Date:
1908
By:
Apian-Bennewitz, Paul Otto, active 1892?
Ref:
MS-0097
Description:
Translation of Sections 41-49 of Apian-Bennwitz's `Die geige, der Geigenbau und die Bogenverfertigung'. Weimar, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, 1892
Quantity: 1 v...
Date:
1906
From:
Rail and Maritime Transport Union Inc :Photographs of Railway Union groups and activities
By:
Isaacs, Jacob Nathan, 1877-1962
Ref:
PAColl-D-0963
Description:
Delegates at the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand conference in Wellington in 1906 . Photograph taken by J N Isaacs, Victoria Studios, ...
Date:
[1900]
From:
Rail and Maritime Transport Union Inc :Photographs of Railway Union groups and activities
Ref:
PAColl-D-0973
Description:
Delegates at an Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand conference, very likely held in 1900. All names indexed in Name Field.
Name of photogr...
Date:
1905-1911
By:
Edwards, William James, 1857-1930
Ref:
MS-Papers-2944
Description:
Postcards have all a musical, and more particularly a violin, theme
Quantity: 1 folder(s) (17 cards). 0.01 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Holograph, ...
Date:
1906
From:
Rail and Maritime Transport Union Inc :Photographs of Railway Union groups and activities
By:
Isaacs, Jacob Nathan, 1877-1962
Ref:
PAColl-D-0964
Description:
Delegates at the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand conference in Wellington in 1906. Photograph taken by J N Isaacs, Victoria Studios, M...
Date:
1904
From:
Rail and Maritime Transport Union Inc :Photographs of Railway Union groups and activities
By:
Isaacs, Jacob Nathan, 1877-1962
Ref:
PAColl-D-0962
Description:
Delegates at the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand conference in Wellington in 1904. Photograph taken in the Manners Street, Wellington ...
By:
Edwards, William James, 1857-1930
Ref:
A-114-037
Description:
An unidentified Maori rangatira
Inscriptions: Signed: W J Edwards
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour 235 x 200 mm
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