Album relating particularly to New Zealand hydro-electric power stations

Photographs, particularly of hydroelectric power stations in New Zealand, taken between 1929-1933 by William Sidney Thomson.

Hydro scheme images feature: construction, unidentifided workers, and work camp housing at the Waitaki Hydro-Electric Scheme (1930); construction of the Coffer Dam, including draught tubes and turbines; Arapeti Dam and surrounding forest; interior and exterior shots of the completed Mangahao Power Station (1933) with one unidentified worker and partially submerged trees; houses, tents, roads, drafting room at district office, and surge chamber at Mangaore-Waikaremoana Power System, Shannon, with W B King identified and Thomson at work; and the power station at Lake Coleridge. Also contains images of steam power station at Otira as well as railway images from the area (tunnel, locomotive).

Holiday photographs show Thomson with [friends? colleagues?]. These images show hiking, skiing, hunting, and river scenes, with Arthur's Pass, Cass, and the Isle of Skye, Scotland, featured. Other locations include Dead Mans Creek, Canterbury College Biological Station, and Christchurch's Cathedral Square and Port Lyttelton (1933). Identified figures are Rob Mc Farquhar and Milne Watson. Gordon H is shown in his robes with this Masters of Science and suburban images show Matapouri Crescent and Elmira Avenue in Palmerston North (1933).

Arrangement: Letter from donor, written 30 June 2013, reads: "Enclosed are originals of the photographs taken by my father, W S Thomson, of the New Zealand power stations. The pages (now numbered) are in the order in which they came in the album"

Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Physical Description: Cardboard photograph album pages with silver gelatin photoprints