Manganuioteao Viaduct (N.Z.)

Date: Between 1910s and 1930s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-f-002

Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.

Date: [Chiefly between 1912 and 1914]

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

Reference: PA1-o-198

Description: Album of photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1912 and 1914. Images include Godber's family, a few of identified people (names listed in the name file), and many with no identification. One image of a group of fitters and turners apprentices at the Petone Railway Workshops, taken in 1913, has all the apprentices named (listed in the full record for Godber negative, APG-0457-1/2) Views of the old Central Fire Station at Petone, and the new Petone Fire Brigade Station; the aftermath of a huge fire at Cooks' Cooperage (on January 14, 1914); and a locomotive which had rolled. Local Petone scenes include the Petone Council Chambers and town clock, and a number of houses in the area, including the home of Godber's friend Tom Mather; Korokoro bush, and the Korokoro Reservoir. Away from the Wellington area, Godber photographed a number of houses in Clonbern Road area; the Makatote Viaduct and the Manganui-o-te-Ao Viaduct. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 107 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 25 x 32 cm

Date: 1959, 1964-1965, 1980

From: Cobeldick, Mary, 1948- : Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PA12-11608

Description: Slides taken by Mary Spence and Ian Gladstone Spence in the 1950s and 1960s. The slides are annotated with locations and dates. Images of Lower Hutt including; the Hutt Valley from above, St Paul's Anglican Church and vicarage, at meeting house at Waiwhetū Marae, and a commercial image of a train on the Rimutaka Incline. Auckland images including; the Auckland Harbour Bridge under construction, a Scout Jamboree, and a street view of Henderson, all taken January 1959. Other North Island images including; Buildings, scout leaders, and a map at scouting headquarters Tatum Park, Meremere coal power station at Mercer, Manganuiateao Viaduct in the Ruapehu District and a commercial image of a smoking Mount Ngaruhoe. One image showing of a sign for Ngatangiia Passage, Rarotonga, taken July 1980. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 15 March 1913

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

Reference: APG-0454-1/2-G

Description: The Old Coach Road winding through bush country, with a bridge over a small river. Photograph taken from the Manganuiateao Viaduct, by Albert Percy Godber. Original print at Pa1-o-198 (Godber album, Vol 107, p 20) Inscriptions: Album page - Old Coach Road. N.I.M.T.Rly. Taken from Makatote Viaduct. 15/3/13. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

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

Reference: APG-1492-1/4-G

Description: Passenger train, the Daylight Express, crossing the Manganui-a-te-Ao Viaduct. There is a road bridge in the foreground. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. A note on the back of the file print reads "Godber Album 100 p 18". This original print was not on that page nor elsewhere in the volume; not located (Feb 2003) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1921

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

Reference: APG-1844-1/2-G

Description: Manganui a te Ao railway viaduct which crosses the Manganui a te Ao River on the North Island Main Trunk Line. A smaller road bridge is visible below, possibly across a stream called Sulphur Creek. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber, circa 1921. Identified from Godber's own index filed in Photographic Archives at TL 6/1/15, in the 1/2 plate sequence, under B. Bridge. Main Trunk. 1921. Sulphur Creek. Box 64. Identified also from comparison with other images of the Manganui o te Ao Viaduct. Sulphur Creek is not listed in any New Zealand maps or gazettes, but Sulphur Bridge is mentioned on File Print at 385. Railways. Bridges. Manganui-o-te-Ao Viaduct (1/2-000199-G), with inscription by the photographer (Price Collection): \"Sulphur Bridge. Main Trunk. 757B\" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 15 March 1913

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

Reference: APG-0452-1/2-G

Description: Goods train with steam locomotive crossing the Manganui-a-te-Ao Viaduct. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, 15/3/13. Original print at Pa1-o-198 (Godber album, Vol 107, p 21) Inscriptions: Album page - Manganui-a-te-Ao. Viaduct. N.I.M.T.Rly. Height 130 ft, length 250 ft. 15/3/13/ Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches