Turner, J, active 1880-1890

Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

By: Erskine & Whitmore (Firm); Coxhead & Le Sueur (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: PA1-o-151

Description: Views of New Zealand collected by Invercargill firm Erskine & Whitmore. Scenes taken by various photographers including Hart, Campbell & Co., and Coxhead & Le Sueur. Several views show Queenstown under floods in 1878; others of the Queenstown-Lakes Region, Waitati, Gore and Dunedin in the South Island. In the North Island, one shows a large picnic party travelling in three horse-drawn coaches, stopped at Ngauranga; many show a range of steam locomotives including J Class, K Class, F43, E22, H Class and A Class, in the Upper Hutt area, the Wairarapa, and on the Rimutaka line. Several at the end of the album show the effects of a major slip which blocked the mouth of the Summit Tunnel at the top of the Rimutaka Incline. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Erkine & Whitmore Inscriptions: Album page - `A choice collection of New Zealand views carefully selected from the best artists'. Erskine & Whitmore, Invercargill Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, 24.5 x 35.0 cm Provenance: Part of Alexander H Turnbull's collection

Date: between 1880-1890

By: Williams, William, 1858-1949

Reference: 1/2-004665-F

Description: Scene at the summit of the Rimutaka incline, with S class steam locomotive number 6, two wagon loads of wood, and two passenger carriages. Railway workers, including Guard J Turner and M Cronin, stand alongside. Railway cottages line the tracks. A stack of railway track is in the foreground. Photograph taken by William Williams between 1880 and 1890. Identical (original?) image at negative number 1/2-025480-G. Note on back of file print says that 1/2-025480 is the better neg. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: between 1880-1890

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025480-G

Description: Scene at the summit of the Rimutaka incline, with S class steam locomotive number 6, two wagon loads of wood, and two passenger carriages. Railway workers, including Guard J Turner and M Cronin, stand alongside. Railway cottages line the tracks. A stack of railway track is in the foreground. Photograph taken by William Williams between 1880 and 1890. Identical (copy?) image at negative number 1/2-004665-F. Note on back of file print says that 1/1-025480 is the best neg. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative