Albert Percy Godber

 Motor road roller working on the Mangaroa to Kaitoke road, ca. 1924

  

 Native bush on the Korokoro track, ca. 1908

  

 Scene at a dairy farm, 1906

  

 View of Hongi's Track. Two women are seated in the left foreground (the one on the left wearing a hat is the photographer's wife Laura Godber). Two unidentified men are seated beneath a very tall tree, and there is a car (possibly a Buick) with chauffeur waiting in the middle distance. 1929

 

View of a Chevrolet car parked at Elbow Bend on the Mount Cargill to Waitati Road, with a man and a woman standing alongside. The man is identified as F? Perry, probably with Mrs Perry, ca. 1926

 

Albert Percy Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Albert Percy Godber

 Locomotive boiler in the Petone Railway Workshops, 

with William Albert Godber sitting on top, ca. 1906

  

 Rangiuru house, 63 Hutt Road, 1911

  

 Steam railway locomotive "Sandfly" travelling along a trestle bridge on the Karekare beach tramway. Three men on a wagon behind the engine are named as Knutzen, Millington, Austin, 1915

  

 Three people standing by a car at Thompson's Bush (Mud Creek), 

Invercargill. Standing on the left are Laura Godber and Phyllis Godber, 

and the man on the right is identified as Frank Bonifant, ca. 1926

  

Tearooms and sanatorium at Kamo Springs, 1911

  

Albert Percy Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Albert Percy Godber

An unidentified young girl with a toy pram filled with dolls, early 1900s

  

Group at bush ball, in the hall at the Piha Mill, 1915-16

  

Laura Godber and her daughter Phyllis Mary Godber 

seated on a lawn, Petone, New Zealand, 1912

  

Laura, Phyllis and William Godber, 1908

  

Pit pony pulling a wagon from a coal mine, ca. 1920s

  

Albert Percy Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Albert Percy Godber

 A Hudson motor car being photographed, ca. 1926

  

 A wooden slab hut with a cloth roof, photographed in the bush with Albert Percy Godber standing outside, at the doorway, holding a bucket, Kitenui Knob in the background, 1915-16

  

 Bridge over a stream, set amongst native bush at Anawhata. The manager of the Piha Sawmil, Hans Peter Knutzen, is standing on the bridge. Half-way up the tree in the centre right of the image is a sack, under which is a nest of bees. 1917

 

 Bungalow with verandah and paling fence, ca. 1911

  

Kauri gum climbers at work near Anawhata, 1915-16

 

Albert Percy Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Albert Percy Godber

 Hans Peter Knutzen sitting on the verandah of his home, Piha, 1915-16

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 Two men 'tripping' the Anawhata dam, Piha district, 

to allow logs to flow through, ca. 1916

  

 Two women and a baby seated alongside the driver of a 

two-horse buggy at Mendip Hills, Hurunui District, 1917

  

 View of the Moonshine Bridge over the Hutt River. Two young women 

with bicycles are standing at the near end of the bridge, ca. 1920

   

View of Whiteman's Valley Road in 1921. The photographer's wife 

and daughter, Laura and Phyllis Godber, stand in the foreground

 

Albert Percy Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Albert Percy Godber

 Albert Percy Godber boating on the Waihou River at Te Aroha, in 1917

  

 Four people with a car parked at the Summit on the Rimutaka Road, 1924

  

 Group outside the fire damaged soap factory of Allender & Co, Petone, 21 January 1906

  

 Men camping near the Waipapa River, 1918

  

Men in a scow being towed by two horses, on the Waipapa River, near Rangiahua, 1918

Albert Percy Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Albert Percy Godber

 A shelter in the bush and timber workers boiling a billy nearby, Piha, 1915-16

  

 Car crossing a road bridge across the Mangahao River, near Mangahao, ca. 1930s

  

 Four people with a car, motoring near Whangarei, 1923

  

 Group with car, Christmas Day, on the Waikanae 

to Akatarawa Road, Wellington region, 1923

  

 Man transporting logs with horses and railway in the Akatarawa Bush, Hutt Valley, 1912-16

  

 Picnic group, possibly a wedding party, at Belmont, 1909

  

 Scarfing a kauri tree preparatory to sawing, near Piha, 1915-16

  

View of the Arapuni Dam under construction, ca. 1928

Albert Percy Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Albert Percy Godber

Group of men with their dogs, around a camp fire. The man second from left holds a wild piglet in his lap. On the Mendip Hills sheep farm, 1917

  

 Native bush with a rustic bridge over the Korokoro Stream, and 

a group standing on and below the bridge, 26 December 1912

  

 Native bush with tree ferns, a stream, and two men 

visible in right foreground, at Korokoro

  

 The old homestead at Taioma; a cob cottage with 

thatched roof, in a state of disrepair, ca. 1926

  

 The Whangarei Falls, 1911

  

 Two women and a man beside the rapids below the Wairua Falls, 1911

  

 Two women and a man picnicking beside the Wairua Falls, 1911

  

 View of bush on Stewart Island, with Albert Percy Godber and a woman 

(possibly his daughter Phyllis) standing in the centre, ca. 1925

  

 View of the bridge in the Manuka Gorge, on the Lawrence to Milton Road. A woman (either the photographer's wife Laura, or his daughter Phyllis) is standing on the bridge, 1926

  

Albert Percy Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Albert Percy Godber

Four people with a car on the Akatarawa Road, 1923

  

Group of men at rest, playing cards on the grass 

under a tree, on the Mendip Hills sheep farm, 1917

  

Hutt Railway Workshops, Woburn. The pattern shop, 1929

  

Native bush near Anawhata, with the photographer sitting on a kauri log, 1915-16

  

Native bush with a rustic bridge, and two children standing 

in the stream below, at Korokoro, 27 December 1910

  

The last load of hay, at Mendip Hills sheep farm, Hurunui District, 1917

  

The rocks, Huriawa, near Karitane, showing rock formation 

at the water's edge. Laura Godber standing in centre foreground, ca. 1925

  

Three Maori girls, at Rangiahua, 1918

  

View of Hindon railway bridge, across the Taieri River, ca. 1926

  

View of the Whangarei River (now known as the Hatea River), 1911

 

Albert Percy Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand