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Godber album 10
- Date
- Between 1915 and 1926
- By
- Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Sherriff, D J, active 1901-1931
- Reference
- PA1-q-102
- Description
Album of photographs chiefly taken by Albert Percy Godber, relating to his family, his work and his interests.
Family photographs include portraits of his wife (Laura) and two children (William and Phyllis), and scenes of their home in Whiteman's Valley Road, Silverstream; views of the Hutt Valley including large numbers of cars travelling to Trentham Racecourse, and the Hutt River. Another group of images relate to a holiday at the Mendip Hills Homestead in Canterbury, with scenes of farm life, including haymaking, merino sheep, and farm buildings.
During their stay in the South Island Godber also took photographs of Dunedin (including the Ross Reservoir, Otago Boys' High School, Seacliff Mental Hospital, the 1926 Dunedin Exhibition, and the Hillside Railway Workshops); Invercargill (including the Invercargill Railway Workshops); Stewart Island, Moeraki, Tuatapere, Waiau River, Oamaru and Port Chalmers. Various railway stations in Canterbury and Otago, the Burnside Iron Mills, and the Rosslyn Mills.
Godber was a volunteer fireman with the Petone Fire Brigade with the album including views of the building, groups of firemen, fire engines and other fire fighting equipment, and a building in Petone damaged by fire.
In his work with New Zealand Railways, mainly at the Petone Railway Workshops, he took interior photographs of various buildings, including the Machine Shop and finishing benches, the engine room, lathes, boilers, and fitting shops. He also took photographs of many of the steam engines that were built and worked on at the workshops. One scene shows a group of men watching a fight.
Many images show his interest in logging railways, particularly in the Piha, Karekare, Anawhata area. Scenes of logging camps, various methods of transporting logs including bullock teams, logging trains, and dams created and then tripped to send logs down by river, and timber mills.
Other topics covered in Godber's photographs are scenes at Maori marae and meeting houses, with some of the people identified; Maori carving and rafter designs; beekeeping, and gold mining.
Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber album 109
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 38.0 x 26.5 cm (257 p.)
- Additional description
Please take particular care when handling. There are a number of photos with the edges rolled/damaged (mainly nearest spine of album).
Alternative form available: Glass negatives or copy negatives are available for most of the images in this album.
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Album with brown buckram cover; 38.0 x 26.5 cm (257 p.)
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A large kauri log, Piha district
Date: ca 1917
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
By: Knutzen, Hans Peter, 1863-1949
Reference: PA1-q-102-069-1
Description: Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - A large kauri log; H P Knutzen, photo. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
S S Millington & family, Piha
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-q-102-070-4
Coal bins and screens at the Pukemiro Coal Mine, Waikato
Date: between 1915-1926
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-q-102-061-1
Description: Coal being transported at the Pukemiro Coal Mine, Waikato. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, between 1915 and 1926. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Coal bins & screens. Pukemiro mine. Waikato. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
Entrance to the Pukemiro Coal Mine, Waikato
Date: between 1915-1926
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-q-102-061-3
Description: Entrance to the Pukemiro Coal Mine, Waikato. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, between 1915 and 1926. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Entrance to Pukemiro Mines, Waikato Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
The Taringamotu Express at Oruaiwi, circa 1922
Date: Circa 1922
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-q-102-160-3
Description: The Taringamotu Express at Oruaiwi with a load of sawn timber, stopped at a timber mill. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber. Inscriptions: Album page - Taringamotu Xpress at Oraiwi [i.e. Oruaiwi]. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 157 x 108 mm
Frankton Junction railway yards.
Date: 1915
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-q-102-024-1
Description: Frankton Junction railway yards in 1915. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, filed in his album Vol 109, p 24 (PA1-q-102). Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Frankton Junction. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 155 x 110 mm, mounted to album page
Taumata, Korokoro, home of Hapi Love
Date: [ca 1920]
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-q-102-053-1
Description: 'Taumata', at Korokoro, the home of Hapi Love, photographed ca 1920 by Albert Percy Godber. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - A modern Maori residence. Hapi Love. Koro Koro Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 110 x 155 mm mounted on album page
End view of bridge at Ongaroto
Date: Ca February 1923
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-q-102-181-2
Description: End view of bridge carrying the Taupo Totara Timber Company line over the Waikato River at Ongaroto. Photograph taken ca February 1923 by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 15.3 x 10.9 cm mounted on album page
Puru ki te Tuhua meeting house, Taumarunui
Date: 1921
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-q-102-166-2
Description: Puru ke te Tuhua meeting house, Taumarunui, photographed in 1921 by Albert Percy Godber. Identified and dated from "Carved Maori Houses" by William J Phillips (Wellington, Government Printer, 1955) p 136. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 10.9 x 15.7 cm
Carved wooden influenza epidemic memorial, Te Koura Marae
Date: [ca 1922]
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-q-102-163-2
Description: Photograph taken circa 1922 by Albert Percy Godber. Shows a wooden carved memorial at Te Koura Marae, erected in memory of those of died in the 1918 influenza epidemic. Image was previously incorrectly described as being a memorial to Māori soldiers at Waimiha, this information relates to a different photograph. In 2023, was identified as a memorial to Māori victims of the influenza epidemic. Sources: Ian Pool, 'Death rates and life expectancy - Māori epidemiological transition', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/26595/monument-to-flu-victims (accessed 26 July 2023). 'Māori and the flu, 1918–19', URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/influenza-pandemic-1918/maori-and-the-flu, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 1-Jul-2020. Title supplied by Library. Photograph dated from other images in album. Inscriptions: Album page - Carved cenotaph at Te Koura Pa, in memory of influenza epidemic. The memorial was designed and carved by Tene Waitere of Ngāti Tarāwhai. He also did a similar cenotaph at Te Ihingarangi Marae, Waimiha. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.8 x 11.1 cm Processing information: Location of carving updated from Waimiha to Te Koura Marae following information provided by C&S Publications, Taumarunui. Description updated 26 July 2023 following information from a researcher.