Cobb Dam (N.Z.)

Date: [ca 1940s-1950s]

By: Pearless, Reginald Lessel, 1887-1955; Pearless, Audrey, active 2014

Reference: PAColl-10303

Description: Photographs relating to the construction of the Cobb Dam, Tasman Region, taken circa 1940s-1950s by Mr Reginald Pearless, from Nelson, who worked as an an engineer on the dam. Images feature construction scenes on the banks of the Cobb River. Includes workers and others associated with the construction of the dam, workers' camps, machinery, bridges, a cable railway (which includes images of tracks being constructed and associated equipment, including a winding drum), trees, and mountains. Some images include captions including 'Old steam shovel from [?] and now at Takaka', 'Road to Power House', 'Pipe line', and 'July 2nd camp, Cobb River' (featuring Judy Pearless, daughter of Reginald Pearless, as identified by the donor). Some images include the river in flood, and also wider shots of the river valley. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 21 loose album pages with 46 b&w original prints. 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints Provenance: The prints formerly belonged to Audrey's husband Walter Lessel (Bill) Pearless but were photographed by Walter's father, Reginald Lessel Pearless.

Date: [ca 1960s-1970s]

From: Oborn, Leslie Eric, 1920-2011 : Photographs taken on field trips and holidays

Reference: PA12-8940

Description: Colour slides chiefly of dams and work sites taken by Leslie Eric Oborn ca 1964-1976. Features Aviemore Dam, Takaka/Cobb Hydro Dam, Maunganamu and Tokaanu tailrace, and an unidentified quarry (including people at work). Also includes images of gardens [Avon River?]. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour slides

Date: 1937-1946

From: Thompson, Eric Hardisty, 1922-2000 : Papers

Reference: 2001-008-003

Description: Letters from Thompson to his brothers David and Gordon (1937-1939) and to David (1940-1946) written from Tangfumias, Hwangyen District, China Inland Mission Boys' School, from Chefoo, Shanghai, Auckland, Wellington, Napier, PWD at Tuai, Hawke's Bay, Waiouru, Woodville, Feilding, and c/- ATIS based in New Guinea, and the Cobb Valley. He does not write about the military situation but of personal, political, economic and philosophical concerns. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: December 1968-December 1969

From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1209

Description: Colour proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other images related to electric power production in New Zealand. Includes images of Auckland Training School, and scenes of downtown Auckland at night showing buildings and street lights. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 53 proof sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding colour photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating colour prints ('COL').

Date: February-March 1976

From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1211

Description: Black and white proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other electric power production related images. Includes images of "Alastair Turner" with AGA thermovision (infrared thermal imaging camera) equipment, the control centre at Lake Te Anau, the village established to house construction workers for the building of Aviemore dam and power station, the Electricity Department's information centre at Twizel, the South Arm of Lake Manapouri, and Borland Lodge near Lake Monowai (formerly Pig Creek Hostel for power project workers, which became an outdoor adventure lodge run by a charitable trust). Most sheets are undated. Sheet 378 has no content Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 29 proof sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding black and white photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating black and white prints ('B&W').

Date: October 1974-August 1975

From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1210

Description: Black and white proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other electric power production related images. Includes images of a model of Huntly Power Station, signing of the contracts for the Huntly Power Station, celebrations of the 50th jubilee of the Mangahao power scheme, damaged transmission towers "after August 1 storm", people at a "Services Engineers' Conference", a Civil Defence exercise, "sites for Auckland no. 1" (possibly the proposed Auckland Thermal No. 1 power station), Christchurch Linemen's Training School, transmission lines at Wilton, Wellington, and an AGA Thermovision (infrared thermal imaging camera) in use at Haywards substation. Sheet numbers 337, 339, 340, 341 and 355 have no content. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 39 proof sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding black and white photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating black and white prints ('B&W').

Date: August 1972-March 1976

From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1224

Description: Colour proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other images related to electric power production in New Zealand. Images include the ceremony 'topping off' Rutherford House in Wellington (the Electricity Department's new Head Office building) with General Manager Eric Mackenzie and Minister of Electricity Les Gandar, Palmerston North Training Centre, a New Zealand Electricity Department notice about "The Rogue Bore" (at Wairakei thermal field), a site for the proposed 'Auckland no. 1' thermal power station, celebration of the Mangahao jubilee, system control at Islington substation, the Nelson office of the NZED, Benmore village, a Linemen Training School (location not specified), and scenes labelled "Meremere" that appear to be at Meremere school. Sheets 272 and 296 are annotated "Not used". Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 49 sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding colour photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating colour prints ('COL').

Date: July 1979-February 1980

From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1228

Description: Colour proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other images related to electric power production in New Zealand. Images include scenery outside Twizel and a kea possibly photographed near Deep Cove. Sheet number 506 not used. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 50 sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding colour photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating colour prints ('COL').

Date: September-November 1989

From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1244

Description: Colour proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other images related to electric power production in New Zealand. Includes images of interiors of Wairakei and Ohaaki power stations (including panoramic views), geothermal fields at Wairakei, Te Mihi, and Rotokawa, the old camp building at Cobb power station, Cobb "old identities" Wally Drummond and Jock Spence, "Ken Salmon with old syphon pipe" at Cobb, an old water wheel on a farm in Takaka (near Cobb) used for chaff cutting, celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Tuai power station, the mobile first aid unit at Tuai, a church and a waterfall on Lake Waikaremoana, and celebration of the 75th anniversary of Coleridge power station including "speakers Geoghan and Tyrell". Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 64 sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding colour photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating colour prints ('COL').

Date: December 1988-July 1989

From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1242

Description: Colour proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other images related to electric power production in New Zealand. Includes images of Christchurch Transpower personnel, Ohakuri village, and staff at Tuai power station, and fish-eye lens views of Wellington from Rutherford House. Many are aerial views. Sheet 1185 has the date "1982" on the identification sheet; however, the date on the back of the contact sheet is 1989. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 50 sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding colour photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating colour prints ('COL').

Date: 1942 - 1943

From: New Zealand Workers' Union :[Membership receipts and certificates of J A Sweeney, collected by Sonja Davies. 1941-1954].

Reference: Eph-A-LABOUR-Davies-1942-01

Description: Illustration on ticket shows two workers shaking hands, and the motto "Tatau tatau altogether". In the left background is a rural scene on a sheep station and in the right background is a cityscape. Down the right hand edge are three detachable ballot slips, A B and C, to be attached to ballots. The verso lists all the industries covered by the New Zealand Workers' Union. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on ticket 105 x 175 mm.

Date: 1955

Reference: 1/2-C-012120-F

Description: Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: Sept 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-47539-F

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

Date: Sept 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-47448-F

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

Date: Sept 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-47446-F

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

Date: Sept 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-47537-F

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

Date: Sept 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-47449-F

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

Date: Sept 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-47538-F

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

Date: Sept 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-47541-F

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

Date: Sept 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-47445-F

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