Viaducts - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: [Circa 1910s?]

By: New Zealand. Government Tourist Bureau

Reference: PA1-o-473

Description: Photographs of the South Island taken by various photographers, mostly unidentified, circa 1910s Other Titles - New Zealand photographs - South Island Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "New Zealand photographs. South Island" in gold lettering; 26 x 32 cm

Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Hart, Campbell & Company; New Zealand Railways; Ring, James, 1856-1939; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-f-025

Description: Album of photographs collected by Albert Percy Godber which related to his interests. Photographers include Daniel Manders Beere, William Thomas Locke Travers and James Ring. Scenes in Australia include Adelaide waterworks, Currency Creek, the Murray River Bridge, the Thorndon Park Reservoir, and Port Adelaide River road & rail bridge. New Zealand scenes are chiefly in the South island, many relating to early railway construction, particularly areas involved in working on the Dunedin to Balclutha railway along the Waimakariri River, and around the Purakanui Cliffs. Of particular interest throughout the album are the construction and design of railway features such as bridges, viaducts and tunnels. North Island railway scenes include the Rimutaka Incline, the bend known as `Siberia', the Summit, and Pakuratahi. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 4 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 42 x 33 cm

Date: 1925

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Rutherford, Godfrey Oliver, 1882-1963

Reference: Pan-1745-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across the Waiau River. Viaduct on the far left. Large two-storeyed farmhouse to the right of the viaduct. Views of braided river, paddocks (one with a haystack), trees. High steep hills across the background. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - View on the Waiau River, North Canterbury, N.Z. No. 582; Marginal notes on negative - G.O. Rutherford. "Lochiel" Culverden. 3 in oils. Title "On the Waiau River. Nth Cant. 1925"; Marginal notes on negative - 3 3 3 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 109.5 cm

Date: 1906, 1939

By: Mountjoy, Heather, active 1998

Reference: PAColl-5875

Description: Negatives showing the ceremony marking the opening of the railway station and bridge at Staircase Gully in 1906, and panoramic prints showing personnel and general camp layout at volunteers camp, Hopu Hopu, 10 October 1939. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4 83532 F - 1/4 83539 F. Quantity: 9 b&w original negative(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s) panoramas.

Date: 1909

By: Stratford, P (Miss), active 1987

Reference: PA1-q-227

Description: Album of railway photographs relating to the construction of the New Zealand Midland Railway in the South Island, circa 1909, probably presented to James Stratford at the end of his year working as wages clerk for the Public Works Department at Springfield. One photograph is entitled "Return of the "Poleseekers"", showing the return of the Nimrod from the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, green spine, entitled "Sunny Memories" in black lettering; 32 x 28 cm

Date: [Circa 1860s-1940s]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Beken, Charles Albert, 1859-1944; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Tomlinson, Francis Ernest, 1864-1944; Williams, William, 1858-1949

Reference: PAColl-0959-05

Description: Scenic photographs of Cass & Craigieburn, Midland Railway, Waimakariri Gorge taken between circa 1860s and 1940s by various unidentified and identified photographers. Photograph (no. 13) shows the hut owned by the Canterbury Coleege Mountain Biological Station; photograph (no. 25) of the old Benmore Station (no. 25) was taken by D L Lundy circa 1860s, and view (no. 26) shows the same site much later with fully grown macrocarpa trees, and the house in poorer condition; the views of the Midland Railway Line including when under construction, with the line, tunnels, and viaducts seen over a number of years were possibly taken by William Williams who was a photographer and who worked for the Railways Department; other images were probably taken by Charles Beken including one of "the meeting of the Arthur's Pass tunnel headings" with two men and a woman beside the dark opening. Quantity: 44 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: between 1905-1912

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-009687-G

Description: Anderson's viaduct over Patterson's Creek, Otarama, photographed by Steffano Francis Webb circa 1905-1912. Shows one end of the large wooden viaduct which appears to be under repair. Three boys stand next to a railing. The viaduct was built by Anderson's Ltd, a Christchurch engineering firm on contract to the NZ Midland Railway Company. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Anderson's Bridge Patterson's Creek Otarama Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: Between 1880 and 1889

Reference: 1/4-002888-F

Description: G class locomotive on Waitohi viaduct over Essen's valley, south of Picton. First G Class was built in 1873. The photograph was taken by the Burton Brothers ca 1880. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1898-1903

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 2

Reference: PAColl-5584-17

Description: Steam tram travelling over the viaduct on the beach at Sumner, Christchurch. On the left is Cave Rock and behind, Whitewash head (at the terminal of Scarborough spur). Note on back of file print reads: "Dated by Christchurch City Council Engineers 1898-1903. Lifeboat in cave at left 1898-1903. Absence of large house on hill - pre 1906" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca 1890s

By: New Zealand. Department of Labour

Reference: 1/2-055148-F

Description: Concreting abutment and workers, Staircase viaduct, at the Springfield end of the Midland railway line, Canterbury, circa 1890s. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1926

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1733-1/2-G

Description: View of the railway viaduct across Staircase Gully, with the mouth of a tunnel visible top left. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1926. Information from Godber's index held in Photographic Archives (under Box 14. 94. Staircase Gully. 1926. Viaduct.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [1880s?]

Reference: 1/2-104361-F

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

Date: 1926

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1686-1/2-G

Description: View of a railway viaduct over Patterson's Creek, Kowai Bush, Selwyn District. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1926. Information from Godber's index held in Photographic Archives (under 97. Patterson's Creek viaduct. Kowhai Bush. 1926) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches