IMAGE
Godber album 12
- Date
- [Circa 1880s-1890s]
- Reference
- PA1-q-104
- Description
Images of the construction of the Midland Railway line in Canterbury, and surrounding areas, taken by an unidentified photographer.
Views include construction of the railway line, railway tunnels, bridges and viaducts, the use of flying foxes for transportation of men and equipment, and one image of a velocipede (like a railway jigger).
Life at the work-sites is shown with types of accomodation, including tents; work-sites under snow; and group portraits of the Midland Railway Rifle Club, and the New Zealand Midland Railway Football Club.
Several of the men, chiefly the engineers, are identified.
Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 111
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 32 x 28 cm
- 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, Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 32 x 28 cm
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