Location of the railways settlement (1878-1955) and the historic Cross Creek railway station on the Rimutaka Incline, Remutaka Range.
Cross Creek
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Erskine and Whitmore :Photograph album of New Zealand views
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
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Wheeler and son album 1
Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]
By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)
Reference: PA1-o-532
Description: Views of New Zealand taken by E Wheeler & Son, circa 1870s to 1880s Most of the views are identified, either on the photograph itself, or in hand-written captions below; places shown are listed above. One image has caption "Flax cutting" on the photograph which shows a man standing be a group of cabbage trees, with a house? or possibly a mill with a water wheel in the background behind the trees, while the hand-written caption reads "Valley scene, Hokianga". Other Titles - New Zealand views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover (damaged), entitled "New Zealand Views" in gold lettering; 25.5 x 32.5 cm
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Photographs of Jim Henderson, Pam Ormsby and Bernie Grice
Date: 1959-1969
From: Henderson, James Herbert, 1918-2005: Collection
By: Henderson, James Herbert, 1918-2005
Reference: PAColl-4335
Description: Bernie Grice (left) and Pam Ormsby holding "No Maoris no tour" banner in a demonstration to protest against the All Black tour of South Africa, 12 august 1959. Bernie Grice and Jim Henderson at Cross Creek, Wairarapa, while working for the NZBC in the mid 1960s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
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Photographs taken by Charles William Clift
Date: ca1855-ca1940
From: Nisbet, Eleanor M, fl 1980s-1990s :Photographs taken by Charles William Clift
By: Clift, Charles William, 1896-1984
Reference: PAColl-4889-1
Description: Clift and Jones family photographs. New Zealand towns and landscapes, in particular Wellington and Brooklyn. A record of the British aircraft carrier Indefatigable when it visited Wellington in November 1945. New Zealand houses and a very good wedding breakfast laid out in a private interior of the 1890s. There is a photograph of the Clift house in Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, and of a Christmas gathering at a house in Patanga Crescent associated with the Holm family of the Holm shipping line. Brooklyn and Makara churches and the interior of the Anglican cathedral in Dunedin Quantity: 1 container(s) photographic prints.
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Cross Creek, Featherston County
From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: 1/2-047697-G
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
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Patricia Elizabeth Reid - A Railway family
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-081
Description: The essay covers the period 1882-1941 and describes the lives of Elizabeth and Alexander Allan, their voyage to New Zealand in 1882 on the Loch Doon, their homes at Cross Creek on the Rimutaka Incline, and Upper Hutt. It describes the railway township of Cross Creek and the Fell railway system; the accident by which Alexander lost his life. The story continues with Elizabeth's life and those of her 10 children and their families especially Helen Includes a family tree Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published inventory available. Photographs of Alexander and Elizabeth, and Elizabeth and Amelia Burrell
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Contact prints from 10x12 negatives of scenes in the Wairarapa, Manawatu-Wanganui and T...
Date: ca 1880s
From: Creator of collection unknown :Contact prints from 10x12 negatives of scenes in the Wairarapa, Manawatu-Wanganui and Taranaki regions
By: Winzenberg, Albert Edward, 1865-1931; Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920
Reference: PAColl-3722-2
Description: Arrangement: In order by copy negative number - 1/2-11719-F to 1/2-11799-F (some missing). Quantity: 58 b&w original photographic print(s) in one box. Provenance: Contact prints made ca 1970s from contact prints no longer in existence
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Burton Brothers, 1868-1898 (Firm, Dunedin) :Photographs of the Rimutaka Incline
Date: [ca 1890s]
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PAColl-7324
Description: Photographs of the Rimutaka railway including a locomotive at Cross Creek, a locomotive and carriages at the summit with railway workers houses next to the track, a tunnel, and the part of the track called Siberia. Photographer was the Burton Bros. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003407 to 003411 and 003413 to 003414 Quantity: 7 b&w copy negative(s).
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Cross Creek School, Wairarapa
Date: September 1957
From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs
Reference: 1/4-129250-G
Description: Related index card reads: Transport. Wairarapa. Cross Creek School, September 1957. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: ¼ glass plate negative
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Demolished railway houses at Cross Creek
Date: September 1957
From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs
Reference: 1/4-129246-G
Description: Related index card reads: Transport. Wairarapa. Demolished railway houses at Cross Creek, September 1957. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: ¼ glass plate negative
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Framework remains of a building after demolition at Cross Creek, Wairarapa
Date: September 1957
From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs
Reference: 1/4-129242-F
Description: Related index card reads: Related index ard reads: Transport. Wairarapa, cross creek after demolition, September 1957. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative
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Engine sheds after demolition at Cross Creek, Wairarapa
Date: September 1957
From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs
Reference: 1/4-129243-F
Description: Related index card reads: Related index ard reads: Transport. Wairarapa, cross creek after demolition, September 1957. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative
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Demolished railway houses at Cross Creek
Date: September 1957
From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs
Reference: 1/4-129245-G
Description: Related index card reads: Transport. Wairarapa. Demolished railway houses at Cross Creek, September 1957. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: ¼ glass plate negative
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Toppled shed after demolition at Cross Creek, Wairarapa
Date: September 1957
From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs
Reference: 1/4-129241-G
Description: Related index card reads: Related index ard reads: Transport. Wairarapa, cross creek after demolition, September 1957. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative
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Rimutaka Line engine sheds after demolition at Cross Creek
Date: September 1957
From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs
Reference: 1/4-129240-G
Description: Related index card reads: Transport. Wairarapa. Engine sheds at Cross Creek after demolition, September 1957. [Stamp no.] 297. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: ¼ glass plate negative
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Rimutaka Line engine sheds after demolition at Cross Creek
Date: September 1957
From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs
Reference: 1/4-129239-G
Description: Related index card reads: Transport. Wairarapa. Rimutaka line engine sheds after demolition at Cross Creek. September 1957. [Stamp no.] 296. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: ¼ glass plate negative
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Mounted exhibition prints
Date: 1957-[ca 1970s], 2005
From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs
Reference: PAColl-10567-11
Description: Ten mounted exhibition prints taken and printed by Les Cleveland, 1957 to 1970s, and 2005. Some prints have captions on the rear of the print or on the rear of the mount that give the date the photograph was taken and printed, the location it was taken, and, in some cases, the price it was being sold for at exhibition. Some prints are stamped and/or signed. Includes vintage prints. Prints are: - "Judicial Outhouse, rear of Nelson Supreme Court, 1967." - "Sanson branch, Bank of NZ, 1957. Printed in 1957". - "Salvation Army, Palmerston North, 1957. Printed 1957". - "Strippers in Purple Onion Strip Tease Coffee Bar, Wellington, 1966." - Untitled diptych of nude woman (Mary Cleveland) on volcanic slope [Mount Ruapehu?], circa 1970. - "Bank of New Zealand, Wanganui, 1957. Printed 1957". - "Marae near Foxton, 1958. Printed 1958". - Untitled photograph of two young boys riding bicycles in Urewera, 1960. - "Royal Hotel, Featherston, 1959. Printed 1959". - "Cross Creek School, derelict, 1957. Printed in 2005". Information for identifying the date and the location of the images of two boys on tricycles and the mountain nudes is from prints of the same or similar images housed at PAColl-10567-07. Image of naked women in window identified from print reference number PAColl-10567-05-18. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints mounted on board
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Cross Creek School, Wairarapa
Date: September 1957
From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs
Reference: LCI-02-016
Description: Index card reads: Transport. Wairarapa. Cross Creek School, September 1957. Quantity: 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera handmade index card. Physical Description: Cardboard index card with attached proof print(s), 13 x 19cm
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Toppled shed after demolition at Cross Creek, Wairarapa
Date: September 1957
From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs
Reference: LCI-02-009
Description: Index card reads: Related index ard reads: Transport. Wairarapa, cross creek after demolition, September 1957. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera handmade index card. Physical Description: Cardboard index card with attached proof print(s), 13 x 19cm
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Rimutaka Line engine sheds after demolition at Cross Creek
Date: September 1957
From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs
Reference: LCI-02-008
Description: Index card reads: Transport. Wairarapa. Engine sheds at Cross Creek after demolition, September 1957. [Stamp no.] 297. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera handmade index card. Physical Description: Cardboard index card with attached proof print(s), 13 x 19cm