Locks (Hydraulic engineering)

Date: 1914-1915

From: Brocklebank, Norris Athol, 1904-1988 :Albums of scenes of New Zealand, and one album of shipboard life and views of Canada and England

Reference: PA1-q-051

Description: Photographs and postcards from a trip taken by Norris Athol Brocklebank to Canada and the United Kingdom, 1914-1915. Images at the beginning and end of the album are taken on board ships, the Makura en route to Canada, and the Rimutaka, returning to New Zealand. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown suede cover with painted illustration of the head of a Canadian Indian wearing a feathered headdress. Album labelled "Snap shot album", and on the back cover "Winnipeg, Canada", 29.5 x 34.5 cm

Date: ca 1862

By: Prout, Victor Albert, 1835-1877

Reference: PA1-f-128

Description: Photographs of the Thames River, England in two sequences consisting of forty photographs altogether, taken by Victor Albert Prout who was active in the 1860s. There is an index for the first 20 scenes "First series" (before page 1), and an index for the second 20 scenes "Second series" (before page [21]). Album published by Virtue and Company, London. Victor Albert Prout, a British photographer, was cited as the photographer of the images in this album by the Photograph Archive of George Eastman House, USA. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, leather corners and spine, entitled `Photographs of the Thames, from London to Oxford'; 29.0 x 38.5 cm

Date: [Between 1907 and 1910]

Reference: PA1-o-093

Description: Photograph album of Canadian scenes. Most of the images are linked with the agricultural college "Macdonald College", part of McGill University. Images show the university buildings, including classrooms and student accomodation; agricultural scenes including dairying, tapping for maple syrup, culture of plants in greenhouses; and scenes of student life, including theatre and sports (many scenes of ice hockey, and one image of an ice yacht). There is also a section on Newfoundland, with life on land, ships and fishing, and reindeer herding. Album includes two loose images from a later date, of two men who had been among the first students at Macdonald College meeting outside the gates of the college circa 1960. The two students are named as C M Spencer, and W H Brittain (Vice-Principal of Macdonald College from 1934-1955). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black imitation skin cover, 24 x 32 cm Provenance: Donated by Canadian High Commission

Date: 1914-1915

By: Maunsell, Henry Beresford, 1890?-1958

Reference: PA1-o-336

Description: Photograph album relating to Henry Beresford Maunsell's service during World War I, with the NZ Army 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles Regiment in Egypt. Many of the military personnel are identified, a few with later dates added noting when some of the men photographed in the album were killed in action. The first part of the album shows soldiers leaving on board HMNZ troopship 'Orari' 14 October 1914, the trip through Hobart, Colombo, Aden, Port Said until disembarkation in Alexandria December 1914. Many scenes show the shipboard stabling for horses used by Mounted Rifle troops; others show various ships they passed on the way. The latter part shows various military scenes in Egypt, including The New Zealand Corps camp near Cairo; swimming horses crossing the Nile; Red Cross Vauxhall ambulance; groups of soldiers riding camels; horse lines; and a line of horses at drinking troughs. There are a few images of soldiers at tourist sites, and some of Egyptians. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Maunsell album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover; 25.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: [ca 1885-1945]

By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PAColl-0422

Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1940

From: Abbott, Leonard A, 1923-2007 :Sketches of a voyage to New Zealand, May 1940 [Facsimile of the New Zealand section of a sketchbook]

Reference: E-819-006

Description: Shows a view across a lake to hills on the far shore. Other Titles - 23 April 1940 Extended Title - From his 'Sketches of a voyage to New Zealand, May 1940', page [6] Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, 180 x 283 mm.

Date: 1917-1918

From: Hurst, Percy Cecil, 1884-1960: Photographs and album relating to World War One

Reference: PA1-o-2014

Description: Photographs collected by Percy Cecil Hurst during his service in World War One, 1917-1918, and compiled in an album by his wife Margery Hurst in 1918. Photographer(s) unidentified. Most images relate to the voyage from Wellington to Britain on board the troopship 'Ulimaroa' with the 34th Reinforcements. Photographs featuring the Panama Canal, in particular locks and related machinery. Other views taken from on board the ship identify coastal barracks near New York, Hampton Roads, Balboa, and Pedro Miguel. Also photographed are soldiers seated on deck, an alarm parade, and other military transport ships travelling in convoy, Hurst appears in a number of shipboard photographs including wearing light-coloured clothing with a dark belt (standing between Lieutenant Gow and Lieutenant Peace), in a photograph of the gun crew where he is the only one wearing a lemon squeezer hat, and wearing a life jacket with the text "FRONT. ADULT OR CHILD'S LIFEJACKET". Also identified are Lieutenant Cock, Lieutenant De Maus, Captain Anderson, Chef Officer Jones, Lieutenant Blomfield, Lieutenant Toon, Lieutenant Crawford, Lieutenant Peat, and Captain Ward. Album also contains a photograph of a Wellington wharf as the ship departs, views of Liverpool and the River Mersey, and two photographs of Ewshot Camp, England, 1918. Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Margery Hurst. Nelson 1918. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 60 b&w original photographic prints. Physical Description: Off-white card photograph album with "Photographs" embossed on cover in maroon, 17.3 x 25 cm

Date: 1940

From: Abbott, Leonard A, 1923-2007 :Sketches of a voyage to New Zealand, May 1940 [Facsimile of the New Zealand section of a sketchbook]

Reference: E-819-005

Description: Shows a view looking straight up the canal from a lower to a higher lock. There is a ship in the lock two higher than the viewer. Other Titles - 23 April 1940 Extended Title - From his 'Sketches of a voyage to New Zealand, May 1940', page [5] Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, 283 x 180 mm.

Date: 1940

From: Creator unknown: Photographs of North African scenes during World War II

Reference: PA1-o-1565

Description: Photographs of military troopships and naval vessels (including Ramilees, Strathaird), soldiers recreation and entertainment, Mersa Matruh in Easter 1940, soldiers playing tenniquoits, military vehicles in the desert, Egyptian antiquities, races at Heliopolis in 1940, Tood? Sporting Club in Helipolis. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 230 x 310 mm

By: Brabazon, Hercules Brabazon, 1821-1906; Field, George Alexander Hughes, 1905-1992

Reference: A-151-022

Description: Shows a lock on a canal, with a horse. Supplied title. Possibly by H Brabazon Brabazon. Mounted Inscriptions: Verso - "B.B' [these initials on back of companion piece, once mounted with this work). "H.[?] Brabazon" Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on card, 185 x 270 mm

Date: June 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8799

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') return voyage from New Zealand to England on the Corinthic. The first 14 images show aspects of the Panama Canal including the Mireflores Locks, Pedro Miguel Docks, the Culebra (or Gaillard) Cut, Gamboa and the Gatun Locks. The last 10 slides show arrival in Curacao, and views of Willemstad. These show the wharves, Dutch facades on houses along the waterfront and in a small square, a market, the inner harbour, and views of huge oil tanks and an oil installation. Slides on this sheet are numbered 675-698. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1912

From: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926 :[European sketchbook, 1912-1913; English and Scottish scenes]

Reference: E-066-q-2-039

Description: A view across the Thames towards Iffley Lock and associated buildings, among trees, at Oxford Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook, page size 127 x 179 mm

Date: 1940-1983

From: Creator unknown: Photographs of North African scenes during World War II

Reference: PA1-o-1566

Description: Photographs of the troopship Strathaird, 1942 wedding to a unnamed French woman in Egypt, daughter Ann Ellen (born circa 1945 in Egypt), son Richard, arrival back to Wellington in 1948, residences in La Marsa, Benghazi and Tripoli 1947-1952,, daughter Ann winning a beauty pageant in Tripoli 1952, training camps in New Zealand, desert warfare in Egypt, Baghdad Villa at Claridge in 1960, family bathing at Eastbourne Beach in 1983. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 220 x 310 mm

Date: [1914-1919]

From: Malone family :Photographs relating to William George Malone

Reference: PADL-000400

Description: Scanned negatives of Egypt and other unknown locations. Includes images of people farewelling troops, soldiers, troopships, Sundowner boat in a lock, a girl watching rolled barrels, and a vegetable garden. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Negatives 11_1_2_3_4_5 (11.4)" Quantity: 9 electronic scan(s) of negatives.

Date: 30 August 1919

From: Kingsford, Frederic, 1890-1965 :Photograph album of views of England, Ireland, voyage to New Zealand after World War I

Reference: PA1-o-934-72

Description: Album page of four photographs taken from the deck of the troop transport `Tainui' while passing through the Gatun locks of the Panama canal. Top left image - Entering the Gatun locks at 7am 30 August 1919. Top right image - View of the US Army barracks taken while in the lock. Bottom left image - In the lock at the level of Lake Gatun looking back towards Colon and the Atlantic ocean. View of the lock gates opening to let the ship into Lake Gatun 8am, 30 August 1919. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Top left image; Tainui entering Gatun Lock: 7am. 30/8/19. Top right image; Quarters of garrison of American troops. (Taken from deck while in lock) Bottom left image; At the lake level: looking back to Colon and the Atlantic. Bottom right image; The lock gates opening to let us through into Gatum Lake: 8am. Note emergency dam on right; adjustable electrically in 30 seconds or by hand in 5 minutes. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1876

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-008-008

Description: A view along a river towards an arched bridge, with a lock beyond that. Tall trees on both sides and arching over the bridge Other Titles - Hertfordshire, England Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 251 x 351 mm

Date: [1914-1919]

From: Malone family :Photographs relating to William George Malone

Reference: PADL-000397

Description: Photograph of two boys and a man walking along a lock on a canal at a unknown location. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Negatives 11_1_2_3_4 (11.1)" Quantity: 1 electronic scan(s) of negative.

Date: [Circa 1916]

By: Stevenson, Audrey, active 1976

Reference: PA1-o-479

Description: Photographs relating to New Zealand soldiers during the First World War. The first views show soldiers on troopships leaving Gallipoli, then scenes in Mudros (Greece). Hospital ships at Alexandria; Ismailia, including the station and many street scenes; passing through a lock; house boats; German pontoons for crossing the canal; a contest of wits on a slippery log; loading camels for Ferry Post; "Weldon trestles" at Moascar; horse lines; shifting camp; and the C.R.E (Colonel Pridham); and the photographer/creator of the album "at Mudros after Gallipoli". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 16.5 x 12 cm

Date: [ca 1915-1919]

From: Grant, Thomas Alexander Brandon, 1894?-1966: Photograph albums relating to Grant's service in the New Zealand Medical Corps during World War I

Reference: PADL-000922

Description: Digital copy of a photograph album containing 48 black and white prints relating to the service of Thomas Alexander Grant on the Hospital Ship No. 2 'Marama' during World War One. Most images taken by Grant between 1915 and circa 1919. Some images are inscribed 'Photo T. Scott'. Locations are in Greece, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, Pitcairn Island and Panama. - Views taken on board include: wounded on deck, men working the laundry press, 'light case' wounded from the Somme 1916, a burial at sea, and catching a shark. - Views taken from the side of the ship include: sunsets over the Red Sea and off Pitcairn Island, youths diving from canoes for coins off Sierra Leone, wharf buildings on fire at Port Chalmers, hospital ship 'Aquitania', loading wounded on stretchers at Stavros 1916, army camp and boats on Suez Canal, transport ships, wharves and 'Balmoral Castle' transport ship at Cape Town, hospital ship HMNS 'Lanfranc', Port Said, a navy despatch boat in the Solent, Pedro Miguel lock, Panama Canal, an electrical coaling plant and loading the ship coal bunkers at Colon, and crowds welcoming the ship at Balboa wharf. - Views taken on land include: a metal hospital operating trolley, a captured Bulgarian light aeroplane at Salonika April 1916, bullocks and horse carriage in Colombo, swimming at Durban beach, and damaged buildings in Dublin after the Easter Rising 1916. - Views inscribed 'Photo T. Scott' show a rowboat coming alongside the ship, a group of men posing with a lifebuoy 'TSS Marama Dunedin'. Also includes view of Table Mountain from the sea off Cape Town inscribed 'Table Bay'. Inscriptions: Front end leaf page is inscribed '3/1319 Sergt Alex Grant NZMC'. Quantity: 28 digital image(s).