Tapawera

Date: 1949

From: Nelson Provincial Progress League :Photograph album of images relating to the Nelson-Glenhope railway, 1949

By: Nelson Provincial Progress League; Wood, Geoffrey Cameron, 1920-1995

Reference: PA1-o-363

Description: Album compiled by the Railway Action Committee of the Nelson Provincial Progress League to illustrate the need for there to be action over the neglected Nelson to Glenhope railway Part one shows scenes of railway decay; part two is scenes on the "borrowed" line from Glenhope to Gowanbridge; the third part shows areas where hydro-electric schemes and supplies of timber for power would enable the railway line to be fully built and developed. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album 18 x 23 cm blue board covers, entitled "A wasting asset. New Zealand's oldest railway. Views not suitable for tourist publications" Provenance: The letters accompanying the album indicate that it was sent to the Prime Minister by the Mayor of Nelson, J A Harley, on behalf of the Railway Action Committee. Presumably the PM's Department passed it on to the National Library (and from them to Turnbull).

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Nelson Provincial Museum: Collection

Reference: PA12-1783

Description: Slides taken around Nelson and Tasman regions, taken by unknown photographer/s, in the 1960s. Images are of various landscapes in the area, mostly of beaches and rivers. Two photographs are annotated to reflect the location they were taken. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

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.

Date: 1926-1957

By: Sabiston, Edward Alfred Robert, 1906-1975

Reference: ATL-Group-00521

Description: Collection of photographic prints relating to Tapawera Territorial Army Camp dated 1926-1927, and a letter dated 11 November 1945 with accompanying banknotes from the period 1929-1957. Title supplied by Library. Related photographic material at PAColl-0261, and ephemera at Eph-A-WAR-WII-Sabiston. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing a letter and six banknotes. 17 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black and white photographic prints, holograph letter, and various banknotes. Provenance: Graeme Sabiston is the son of Edward Sabiston, whose brother was Leslie Arthur Sabiston.

Date: 1962-1972

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

Reference: PAColl-8765-16

Description: Photographs taken during a climbing expedition in March 1972. This trip was a crossing of the Southern Alps from Rangitata to Whataroa. John Pascoe's trip over the New Haast Pass road in January 1966 with his daughters, Anna and Jane, and Ian Gilmore. Views of Milford sound taken during a trip there in 1972. A record of a holiday picking raspberries in January 1962, at Tapawera in the hills behind Nelson. Quantity: 103 b&w original photographic print(s). 9 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1988

From: Exhibition prints from Post Office Documentary Project

Reference: PAColl-D-0939

Description: Photograph of the illuminated frontage of the Tapawera Post Office. A large wreath has been placed in front of the mail slot. There is a public telephone box to the left. Taken by an unidentified photographer at 9.40 pm. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 140 x 215 mm (visible print) with mount

Date: Apr 1914

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: 1/1-011270-G

Description: Group of eight unidentified New Zealand soldiers, in uniform, outside a tent at a military camp in Tapawera in April 1914. Photograph taken by Frank Nelson Jones. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Camp at Tapawera Apl 1914 Tent 15. 9 Takaka F N Jones 12 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1914

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: 1/2-025749-G

Description: New Zealand soldiers at a military camp at Tapawera, Tasman region, 1914. Some are peeling potatoes. Photograph taken by Frederick Nelson Jones of Nelson. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1914

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: 1/1-009955-G

Description: Church service/parade at a 10th Nelson Mounted Rifles camp in Tapawera, in 1914. Photograph taken by Frederick Nelson Jones. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1914

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: 1/2-028879-G

Description: Soldiers, including mess orderlies, at camp in Tapawera in 1914. Photograph taken by Frederick Nelson Jones. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative