Waipiata

Date: 1992-1995, 1997-1998, date unknown

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11647

Description: Transparencies of 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. Dates and photographer name are often but not always annotated. Title supplied by Library. Many slides are not dated. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in an upright slide container with two rows of slide drawers, comprising 10 slide drawers in total. Slides were arranged in the container largely alphabetically either by bridge or river name, or location name, and possibly also by type of bridge. Slides were physically arranged from top to bottom and across both rows. The container was labelled as follows: "Concrete 1 - 5 | Stone Arch 6 - 7 | Steel Arch 8 also Brick | Stone Arch Concrete Arch 2 - pt 5 | Concrete Girder pt 5-6". 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.

Date: [1960s], 1992-1994, 1996, 2000, 2005

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11651

Description: Transparencies of 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. Dates and photographer name are often but not always annotated. Title supplied by Library. One slide is annotated with "1960s". Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in an upright slide container with two rows of slide drawers, comprising 10 slide drawers in total. Slides were arranged in the container largely alphabetically either by bridge or river name, or location name, and possibly also by type of bridge. Slides were physically arranged from top to bottom and across both rows. The container was labelled as follows: "Concrete 1 - 5 | Stone Arch 6 - 7 | Steel Arch 8 also Brick | Stone Arch Concrete Arch 2 - pt 5 | Concrete Girder pt 5-6". 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.

Date: 1993-1996, 1999-2000

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11657

Description: Transparencies of 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. 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 2 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.

Date: 1888

From: Orchiston, Warwick, active 2016: Papers

Reference: MSX-9516

Description: Diary written in 1888 relating to a sheep farm, with gold diggings, known as Run 204, 'Sowburn', or Hamilton(s) Station, at Hamiltons near Waipiata, Central Otago. Diary records farming activities, weather patterns, swaggers looking for casual work, and wool stock. Persons mentioned frequently in the diary were Barclay, Johnson, Pearson, Mathias, and Mr and Mrs Turnbull. The farm known as Run 204, 'Sowburn' or Hamilton(s) Station was owned by Captain James Hamilton. The original town, Hamiltons, was gone by the early 1900s. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Letts's Australian Office Diary and Almanac 1888, cloth-bound with green cover, 215 pages, 19.5 cm x 12 cm. Provenance: He found the diary about 1963 in an old homestead near Waipiata. Processing information: One loose torn page has been enclosed in acid free paper and replaced in the back of the book where it was found during processing.

Date: 1900-1942 - 9 May 1994

From: Beattie family: Autograph and postcard albums

By: Beattie, Jessie Thomson, 1884-1947

Reference: MSX-9661

Description: Autograph album of Jessie Thomson Beattie with entries dated from 1900 to 1942. Entries in the album include personal messages, poetry, and quotations mostly of religious themes and sources, including a transliteration of a Chinese doxology and bible quotations, and examples of Chinese, Indian, Tamil, and Ceylonese scripts. Some pages decorated with mounted postage stamps. Sketches include a pair of birds, dated 23 May 1911, sailing boats, dated 1920, watercolour and pencil harbour scene with sailing and row boats, signed Horn, dated 1901, watercolour of people at the seaside with sailing vessels and a windmill, signed I Gresham, dated 1912, and a pen drawing of a bagpiper. Includes a pencil and ink on laid paper sketch with the caption "Bird Island lighthouse St Vincent". Also enclosed is a manuscript letter from Marie Mair to Margaret Beattie, dated 9 May 1994, with details of the provenance and custodial history of the album. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 volume(s) with some loose items. Physical Description: Bound autograph album with "Album" in gilt lettering on front cover, 10 x 15 cm; ink and pencil sketch on laid paper; printed quote; and a manuscript letter.

Date: [ca 1924-1951]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946; Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970; Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Bierre, Eric W, 1899-; Green & Hahn (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-201

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1924-1951. North Island scenes - Aerial view of Hokianga Harbour, 1949 (Whites 5115); road through Waitakere Ranges, 1938; Waipoua Forest; mustering sheep on East Coast; Humphries Castle (well-known rock formation on slopes of Mount Taranaki); Wanganui River (at meeting place of three provinces); Lake Taupo; Wellington Railway Station taken a night; mustering sheep in Wairoa Valley; Maori village at Waihi near Tokaanu, 1930; cattle crossing river in Waiotahi Gorge, 1946; Treaty House and grounds at Waitangi; Kohokohu in Hokianga Harbour, 1931; Whitianga, 1932 & Whitianga beach and camping grounds, 1951; Jersey calves, Taranaki; elevated view of Seatoun, Wellington looking north-east; Featherston Street looking towards Lambton Quay (Prudential Assurance Co & Commercial Bank of Australia buildings), 1938. South Island scenes - Spring time blossom along banks of Avon River; Greymouth Borough Council office (in house formerly owned by Dennhy family), 1950; Mt Zora and Landsborough River; women artists painting autumn colours near Bridge of Remembrance, Christchurch, 1940s; Christchchurch Airport, 1953 (Whites 32581); Lyttelton School (taken 1874); Patearoa & Minaret Station Central Otago, 1939 & 1942; leisure craft at Diamond Harbour, 1937; Mr Oldfield and sheepdogs on Lewis Pass Road; erosion at Middle Dome, north of Lumsden, 1949; camp at Bruce Bay, Westland, 1939; convoy of battleships at Greymouth during vice-regal visit, 1925; Westport coal industry; Buller Gorge; Mount Cook from Red Lake; aerial view of Waiou River, North Canterbury, 1934; Waimakariri River in flood (taken from just above Rakaia Gorge Bridge), Nov 1928; Waipiata Sanatorium, 1924; municipal chambers at Westport, 1947; bridge over Karamea River (Thelma Kent); Lake Ohau, 1951; Tasman Glacier from Ball Hutt, 1949; members of Hutt Valley Tramping Club on Olivine ice plateau; public works camp at Weheka (near Fox Glacier), 1936.. Photographers include: E C Lackland, Auckland; W Hall Raine; Thelma Kent; T W Collins; Whites Aviation; W G Weigel; A V Bowden; A Inkster; J D S Roberts; D V Apperley; Eric W Bierre; L Wallace; Green & Hahn; etc Quantity: 65 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 19-20 June 2013 - 19 Jun 2013 - 20 Jun 2013

By: Goodall, Gladys Mary, 1908-2015; Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-

Reference: OHColl-1078-1

Description: Interview with photographer and centenarian Gladys Mary Goodall, QSM, conducted in Fendalton, Christchurch in four sessions over two days, from 19-20 June 2013. Goodall discusses her family life during the depression, becoming a nurse, taking up photography, and her experiences travelling around New Zealand as a photographer. She discusses her process of taking photographs, working with light, aerial photography, and explains the stories behind some of her iconic images. Sponsored by - Project commisioned by the Alexander Turnbull Library and National Library of New Zealand Public Programmes Abstracted by - Hugo Manson Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s) Microsoft Word file. 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.19 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Search dates: 1908 - 2013

Date: 29 Apr 1956

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-41493-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28287-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28285-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28286-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate