Draft:Albert Percy Godber

• Comment: Still fails notability guidelines. All that you've demonstrated is that his pictures are in two libraries, one of which is a national library which typically are pretty indiscriminate. We also do not know if his photographs are kept in these libraries because of his artistry as a photographer, or because the photos themselves are stored as a primary source and record of historical places/items. Sulfurboy (talk) 02:19, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

• Comment: Fails WP:NARTIST his photographs being held in one collection is not enough. Sulfurboy (talk) 03:32, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

• Comment: This is so poorly written for an editor, particularly someone who has previously created a large number of articles, it needs a major copy-edit before it is re-submitted. At the moment it is a collection of random statements, cobbled together to appear like an article. If I didn't know better I would have said the author has an extremely poor command of the English language and that maybe English was actually not their primary language. Dan arndt (talk) 07:15, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

• Comment: Subject fails WP:NARTIST and I don't see a case for WP:GNG. Chris Troutman (talk) 18:05, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

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A. P. Godber should redirect here

Self-portrait

Albert Percy Godber (November 21, 1873 – March 10, 1949) was a railway official and amateur photographer in New Zealand. The Museum of New Zealand has several of his photographs in their collection. The Alexander Turnbull Library also has a collection of his work. He worked as a fireman in Petone, New Zealand.

He photographed trains and railway infrastructure, bridges, monuments, landscapes, waterways, early automobiles, as well as Maori sites such as meeting houses and carvings. His photographs also include logging operations and dams as well as an aerial photograph of a railway station.

His photographs also depict his family, their residences, and period dress. Some of his photographs show him engaged in Maori style carvings. He also imitated Maori rafter patterns in watercolor paintings

Charles and Mary Ann Godber were his parents and lived at 168 Clyde Street in Island Bay. Albert Godber and his wife Laura Mary Godber lived at 23 Bay Street. They also had property in Silverstream with an apiary. They had a daughter Phyllis and a son William (Bill) Albert. The couple also lived in Hillside. In 1905 they had a house in Wellington. In Dunedin their address was 9 Baker Street. Cecil Hartwig was their son-in-law and had Godber's grandsons Norman and Colin Hartwig.

His photographs of the timber industry include a "climax locomotive hauling logs over the Mangatukutuku Viaduct near Ongarue. He also photographed trains, bridges, flax workers, bakers, viaducts, a lorry, a coal mine, butter factory, streets, cars, and Te Kuiti. His 1916 photograph of Maori rafter patterns was used to illustrate Augustus Hamilton's 1972 book on Maori art.

He died in Lower Hutt.

The Petone Library held a discussion of his work in 2018.

Photographs

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  With his wife Laura circa 1906
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  Godber wearing medals and standing by a table with his trophies
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  Rock formation near Puketeraki
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  Deputy Superintendent Fireman Godber
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  On the Waihou River
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  With daughter Phyllis and wife Laura
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  A hut with Kitenui Knob in background
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  On a footbridge over the Taruheru River
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  With wife and daughter in front of their home in Dunedin
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  Godber's house on Whiteman's Valley Road in Silverstream