Oturehua
Notebooks listing site visits and photographs
Date: 1974-1987
From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage
Reference: MS-Papers-12224-1
Description: Comprises seven notebooks. One is undated and contains research notes about Canterbury and Wellington Province bridges, Glenmark Station, and Martha Mine. Two loose pages also have notes about bridges. The other notebooks are dated 1974-1978, 1976-1978, 1978-1983, 1979-1983, 1982, and 1984-1987. Most have lists of places visited and dates on their inside front covers. One notebook includes notes on sites in the United States of America and England. The notebook for 1979-1983 contains notes from "Directors' meetings" from 1979 and possibly was used later for recording site visits as all the vists are dated from 1981 onwards. The notebook for 1984-1987 contains some entries in the back that document a trip in the manner of a diary. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Notebooks of various sizes, with cardboard or plastic covers, either stapled or spiral bound. Processing information: The place names noted in the inside front covers of the notebooks have been listed in this record. Other geographic names and specific building and structure names have not been listed.
Railway bridges
Date: 1992-1996, 1998-1999
From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage
Reference: PA12-11616
Description: Transparencies of railway bridges in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (bridge or viaduct name, and/or river/stream name, and/or road name) and location (town, city, or area). Dates and photographer name are often but not always annotated. Title transcribed from item. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, metal case, alphabetically for the first 5 rows. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.
Railway bridges
Date: 1986, 1992-1995, 1997
From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage
Reference: PA12-11617
Description: Transparencies of railway bridges in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (bridge or viaduct name, and/or river/stream name, and/or road name) and location (town, city, or area). Dates and photographer name are often but not always annotated. Title transcribed from item. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, metal case, alphabetically for the first 5 rows. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.
Industrial
Date: 1974-1976, 1979-1980, 1997
From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage
Reference: PA12-11664
Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Some slides are not dated. Arrangement: The first of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.
Industrial
Date: 1974-1975, 1980-1981, 1997, date unknown
From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage
Reference: PA12-11674
Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Some slides are not dated. Arrangement: The second of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.
Industrial
Date: 1974-1975, 1977, 1979-1980, 1982
From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage
Reference: PA12-11670
Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Some slides are not dated. Arrangement: The second of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.
Mountaineering and mountain landscapes
Date: 1934-1946
From: Cowan, James Robson, 1918-2006: Collection
Reference: PAColl-10756-12
Description: Black and white photographic prints documenting tramping and mountaineering expeditions and New Zealand mountain landscapes, mostly from the period circa 1934 to 1946, taken by Roy Cowan and possibly other unidentified photographers. Most prints have some caption information annotated verso. Includes photographs of hills around Wellington and Upper Hutt, cliffs in Titahi Bay, and coastal features in Island Bay, dated 1938 to 1939. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 87 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black and white photographic prints.
Tyrell, Norman, d 1994 : Negatives
Date: 1949-1958
By: Tyrell, Norman, -1994; Hayward, Margaret Jane, 1940-
Reference: PA-Group-00367
Description: Photographs of holiday excursions and job sites taken ca 1949-1958 by railway engineer Norman Tyrell. Covers hydro-electric dams and their construction, bridges and their construction, the construction of a septic tank at Palmerston, cities, ports, Auckland Zoo, tramping and mountains and scenic New Zealand. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives in registers at F 71104 1/4 - F 71731 1/4 Photographs taken by Norman Tyrell, railway engineer, d 1994 Quantity: 627 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4779 to PA-Group-00367 in 2009.