Photographs of the Arapuni dam, the Catlins and other views

Date
[ca 1890-1927]
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.

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France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs
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5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted, 4 b&w original photographic print(s) loose, Photographs
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Arapuni hydro-electric power plant, dam in foreground

Date: ca 1929

From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-0348-01

Description: Scene at the Arapuni hydro-electric power plant, circa 1929. Shows the dam in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Album page - above image - Arapuni dam Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.9 x 20.1 cm, on album page

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Waikato River at Arapuni

Date: ca 1929

From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-0348-02

Description: Waikato River at Arapuni, circa 1929, photographed during the construction of the Arapuni hydro-electric power plant. The buried forest exposed by the river diversion is just visible upper left. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Album page - above image - Where new channel of Waikato joins old Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14 x 18.8 cm, on album page

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