Accident victims
Scenes at Tangiwai rail disaster
Date: 23-24 December 1953
From: Peacock, Morice Gladstone, 1916-1995 : Negatives, prints, register and minute book from 20th Century Photography studio, Taumarunui
Reference: MP-0059
Description: Photographs taken at the scene of the railway disaster at Tangiwai on Christmas Eve, 1953. Images of the train wreck and the rescue effort. Photographs taken by Morrie Peacock of 20th Century Photography (N.Z.) Limited. Original prints from these negatives are at PAColl-4975-1-01 On Christmas Eve, 1953, a surge of water, ice, volcanic ash and boulders from the crater lake of Mount Ruapehu carried away most of the Tangiwai railway bridge across the Whangaehu River. As a result, the engine, tender, and six carriages of the Wellington-to-Auckland night express plunged into the flooded river. Quantity: 37 b&w original negative(s). 22 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strips with 43 images.
Photographs relating to protests against ACC
Date: 2002-2004
From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast
Reference: PADL-000363
Description: Photographs of protests against ACC for its treatment of accident victims. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Protests" Quantity: 22 digital photograph(s).