Dirt roads
Creator unknown :Photograph album page of views of Otira Gorge and Mount Cook
Date: [ca 1890s-1900s]
Reference: PAColl-9669
Description: An album page with views of Otira Gorge and Mount Cook. Shows horses pulling a carriage on the Christchurch and Hokitika Road in Otiria Gorge. Shows Mount Cook from the Hooker Glacier. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album leaf with 2 b&w original photographic prints. Physical Description: 41.5 x 31 cm mounted album page
1937 Studebaker automobile on West Coast road
Date: [1937-1940s]
From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn
Reference: PAColl-D-1319
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) hand-coloured. Physical Description: 58 x 41 cm
Lonsdale, Neil :[Driving on muddy roads. 1977]
Date: 1977
From: Various cartoonists :Cartoons from the New Zealand News, 1970s
Reference: A-297-285
Description: Two policmen speeding round a corner, spraying mud around with their car wheels Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper
Interview with Alan Graham Ferry
Date: 21 June 2007
From: Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) Engineering New Zealand oral history project
By: Fowke, Susan, 1944-2017; Ferry, Alan Graham, 1917-
Reference: OHInt-0965-11
Description: Interview with Alan Graham Ferry, conducted 21 June 2007. Interviewee discusses family history, childhood in Kaitaia, education, and his four year engineering cadetship with Fletcher Roberts in Dunedin. Served in the Pacific during World War Two. Discusses his professional career as a civil engineer for the Public Works Department, including work on Roxburgh Hydro scheme, Westport harbour during the Waterfront lockout 1951, and South Canterbury roads. Outlines his time on Colombo Plan projects: supervising the building of a dam in West Pakistan and being director of works in Western Samoa. Talks about his work for the Ministry of Works in Dunedin (particulary on the Abbotsford slip area), the National Roads Board in Wellington, and his research and publications on gravel roading. Abstracted by - Susan Fowke Quantity: 1 Interview(s). 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Physical Description: Audiotape cassettes, typescript papers Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-8410. Search dates: 2007
View of Rawene showing dirt road and houses with picket fences
Date: l909
By: Woodley, A K (Rev), active 20th century
Reference: 1/2-034929-F
Description: Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Smith, Hayden James, 1976- :Rough Roads. 25 June 2013
Date: 2013
From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0025456
Description: Shows a sport utility vehicle (SUV) in a driveway. The SUV has been badly damaged from flooding, rock falls, road construction, and more. Two men chat over a fence, with one saying to the car's owner, "I see you finally got your SUV off road over the weekend". The car's owner replies, "Nah, just been down to the shops and back!" Refers to rough road conditions following flooding in Otago. (Scoop, 20 June 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).