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Date: [Early 1880s?]

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Taber, Isaiah West, 1830-1912

Reference: PA1-q-153

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken by various photographers, circa early 1880s. Images include several Maori groups, Maori kainga, meeting houses, carving; a large number of views of mud pools, geysers, hot springs, and in particular views of the Pink and White Terraces before the Tarawera eruption in 1886. Other views show areas of the South Island, including Dunedin City, Oamaru, Christchurch; and the North island including Auckland, Thames District (a number showing aspects of gold mining in the area). The last photograph, of the R.M.S.S. Zealandia was taken by Taber Photo, San Francisco. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with grey blue cover, black corners and spine edged with gold; 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Date: 1868

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096133-G

Description: View of Shortland, showing the New Caledonia Hotel, photographed in 1868 by Daniel Manders Beere. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 67 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: 1869

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

Reference: E-106-f-025-2

Description: Elevated view of the township of Shortland looking north. Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, v 55, Sept 25, 1869, p300 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, 160 x 240 mm

Date: 11 May-16 Jun 1847

By: Gisborne, William, 1825-1898

Reference: qMS-0844

Description: Gisborne and Petre went by sea to Coromandel and then by land, first up to Thames and travelling up the river, passing through pa, including Opita, then to Matamata, Tauranga, Rotorua, Lake Tarawera and Lake Rotomahana. They returned to Auckland by way of the Waikato River, passing through Maungatautari and Waipa. The journal includes interesting descriptions of Maori life and Gisborne meet the Revs Brown, Spencer, Chapman and Ashville [sic] and various prominent Maori. Variations in title - Binder's title: Gisborne journal The journal is loose in a cover with a typescript and index in an envelope at the back Quantity: 1 volume(s) (38 pages, 30 leaves)). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript (32 cm, blue linen)

Date: 11-12 Dec 1874

Reference: MS-Papers-2520

Description: Account of a meeting held at Thames on 11 and 12 Dec to discuss payment for the Ohinemuri goldfield. The meeting was attended by Sir Donald McLean, James MacKay, Edward Walter Puckey and chiefs and members of the Ngati Maru, Ngati Tamatera, Ngati Whanaunga and Ngati Paoa tribes. Source of title - Transcribed Authorship of the document is unknown Quantity: 1 folder(s) (28 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: No details about the provenance of the document are available other than that it was found under a pile of newspapers in a cupboard in a house at Te Anau in about 1975. How it came to be there could not be established at that time.

Date: 1870 - 1880

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-029-070

Description: Shows the Firth of Thames, looking down from a hillside on to Shortland. Location identified by Shirley Maddock in March 1985. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 254 x 355 mm

Date: 1868 - 1870

Reference: A-036-024

Description: Flat-topped mountains in the background, bush and swampy ground with flax near a river in the foreground. Probably the work of a goldminer Grahamstown was the earlier name for Thames Other Titles - Grahamstown Inscriptions: Verso - title in ink; also recto, bottom left, artist's monogram in red watercolour (indecipherable, but the last initial is a P) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 162 x 257 mm

Date: 1852 - 1867

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/4/5-Acc.38871

Description: Identifies first discovery of gold in New Zealand 1852 and first discovery of gold in Thames, 1867. Also shows coal mines - MacDonald, Rotowaro, Pukemiro, Wilton and Martha coal mines. Base map - Department of Lands and Survey 1937 Quantity: 1 map(s) with ms annotations. Physical Description: Ink and colour on cream paper. Scale [ca. 1:1 000 000] 72.8 x 96 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1870 - 1880

By: Higginson, Harry Pasley, 1838-1900; Tricks, Sarah, active 1999

Reference: A-307-061/067

Description: Includes: Thames Water Supply; cross sections of proposed head works. New Zealand Railways. Rock cutting. Auckland Railways [and] Otago Railways. Picton and Blenheim Railway. Waitohi Bridge. [Details]. Invercargill and Mataura Railway. Bridge over Mataura River. [Plan and details]. Proposed station, Dunedin. [Site plan]. Points and crossings. [Details]. Auckland and Mercer Railway. Auckland Station. [Site plan]. Originals are slightly larger than these copies. Quantity: 7 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour laser photocopies, sizes varying from 212 x 297 mm to 255 x 420 mm.

Date: 1869-1870

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7888-112

Description: Letters from George B Walker to Alfred Helps. Describes life and work on the Thames goldfields. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1870s

By: Cox, Horace A, active 1883

Reference: PA1-o-110

Description: New Zealand scenery photographed circa 1870s. Views include the Pink and White Terraces and Lake Rotomahana; a digger's hut in the Tararua Range; Mercury Bay; carriers changing horses in Oripi bush; a group of Maori holding a runanga at an unidentified meeting house; two views of the new road being created between Lake Coleridge and Hokitika. Inscriptions: Album page - Horace A Cox, from his old schoolfellow Harry [?], Lyttelton, New Zealand, 9 July 1883 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cover with gold outline, 22.5 x 31 cm Provenance: Presented to Horace A Cox on 9 July 1883.

Date: 1880-1889

By: F Bradley & Company; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA1-o-497

Description: Album of photographs compiled ca 1880s, from print published by F Bradley & Co, of Christchurch. Comprises views of Shag Rock, Timaru, Christchurch, Bealey, Greymouth, Oamaru, Rangitata River bridge, Dunedin, Taupo, Waimakariri River bridge, Governor's Bay, Kaiapoi, Arthur's Pass, Kawau Island, Cheviot, Akaroa Harbour, Alfred Falls, the Pink Terrace, White Island, Otira Gorge, Pigeon Bay, gold mining at Thames, Nelson, Heathcote River, the cable car across the Taramakau River, Sumner, and Tamatekapua meeting house at Ohinemutu. Also included are carte de visite portraits of Maori. Among the photographers whose work is shown are Herbert Deveril and Daniel Louis Mundy. Each photograph has a printed inscription attached on the back of the page. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 25 x 32 cm

Date: 1869-1880

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2652

Description: Further papers and correspondence of William Mortimer Baines in Auckland from family and friends, mainly concerning his business interests and gold mining. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: [Between 1868 and 1890s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-q-085

Description: Album of photographs. Most of the views of Canterbury and Thames were taken by Daniel Mundy, between 1868 and 1872. New Zealand scenes are mostly taken by Daniel Mundy, and include many landscapes; a few taken in Christchurch City; several show the Raukapuka Station and Raukapuka Bush, near Geraldine; several taken in and around the Thames Goldfields, at Moanatiri Valley and Te Puhi Flat, with one view of the workings of `The Wild Missouri. Quartz crusher. Thames'. A section of the album shows parts of England, including a number of Glastonbury Abbey and St Joseph's Chapel, Wells, Mitford and Mitford Castle, and Pang bourne [i.e. Pangbourne]. Near the end of the album is an obituary and lithograph of William Charles Wentworth (1790-1872) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cover with gold decorations entitled `Scrap album', 28.5 x 24.5 cm

Date: 1889-1901

By: Brown, Thomas, active 1889-1901

Reference: MS-Papers-11848

Description: Comprises documents relating mainly to land purchases by Thomas Brown, purchased from various Maori vendors. Includes correspondence, statements and receipts from Brown's solicitors, Wynyard and Purchas, of Auckland. Some of the land documents also relate to Francis McCormick of Tararu. The Maori vendors include Raika Whakarongotai, Hera Puna, Mare Teretu and Wirihana Watene relating to land sold from the 'Pure' (aka 'Te Pure') Block, near the Waihou River. Also includes agreements relating to the Te Kopua Block. Language - Some receipts written in Maori Language - Most of the documents are in English Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Nadia Webster, Porirua, June 2014

Date: 1850, 1875-1909

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2653

Description: Further papers and correspondence of William Mortimer Baines in Auckland from family and friends, mainly concerning his business interests in land, timber and gold mining. Includes shipboard diary of his voyage to New Zealand in the Sir Edward Paget in 1850, reminiscences, a notebook and other papers. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: [1871]

By: Carleton, Hugh Francis, 1810-1890

Reference: MS-Papers-7101

Description: Title continues:`... narrative of facts connected therewith and consideration of the law thereon', published in Auckland (1871). The pamphlet has Hugh Carleton's name on it and is heavily annotated by him. The item is a petition by Lundon, formerly of Mongonui, and Whitaker of Auckland regarding a goldfield in Thames and involving land under the Lands Court at Kauaeranga Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (one piece). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter with holograph annotations

Date: 1840-1867

By: Luce, John Proctor, 1827-1869

Reference: Micro-MS-0932

Description: The microfilm comprises six journals (1852-1867), copy of typescript letter (1840) and `Pilgrimage to Jerusalem' by Luce (7-13 Oct 1841) The journals are described as private journals; vols 1-4 covering 1852 to 1863 and Luce's service including Portsmouth, Karatch Bay, Malta, Cape Coast, Sierra Leone and Dahomey Luce writes of his service in New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific in volumes 5 and 6. Volume 5 (1864-1866) includes an index of contents, notes and clippings and detailed descriptions of the `Esk' being at Auckland, going to Tauranga, the East Coast and Poverty Bay, Wellington, New Hebrides, Fiji and Sydney, with descriptions of cattle trade, a journey to Wanganui. Also includes lists of letters written and sent, and received, readable books in the ship's library and of `Officers and dates of dining with me'. Volume 6 (1866-1867), which is described as a very rough notebook, includes a photograph of Luce (1865) and clippings and covers the `Esk' being in Auckland, Thames, Norfolk Island, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Fiji, Tonga and the Friendly Islands. Includes description of a trip round and up the Waikato River and a cruise from Thames to Wellington. Source of title - Supplied Luce served with the Royal Navy from 1840; these journals cover the period 1852 to 1867 and include time served on the `Esk' in New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: The Back file includes a printout of the contents of the microfilm. Provenance: Originals presented to the Royal Anthropolgical Institute in Sep 1970 by Luce's great-grandson, John Reid; this copy was made for the library. Photograph of Luce at beginning of volume 6

Date: 1841-1890

By: Allom, Albert James, 1825-1909

Reference: qMS-0061

Description: Describes in detail Allom's career as a surveyor for the New Zealand Company in Wellington, then as a settler in the Wairarapa, his return to England and employment as private secretary to E G Wakefield, then to several colonial governors, before becoming Genreal Manager of the Great Barrier Island Company and his return to New Zealand; he describes life on the Thames goldfields as a storekeeper, and later his work as an official in the Auckland Provincial Government Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (24 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (35cm, brown buckram)

Date: 1867-1868

By: Thornton, Daniel Bateman, 1825-1881

Reference: MS-Papers-3956

Description: Comprises copies of letter sent by Daniel to relatives in St Petersburg, Russia, where the Thornton family ran a milling business. Also included are letters to relatives in England and an acquaintance in Sydney, and a letter dated 19 February 1868 addressed to Major Hay at Te Tapui re land matters. Letters refer to the dull state of business and politics in Auckland, the Thames gold rush, Daniel's purchase of land from the Waikato Maori and family matters. Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Genealogical information supplied by the donor The Thornton family emigrated to New Zealand in 1856, settling in Auckland. Daniel started a cornmilling business, Thornton, Smith and Firth, with his brother-in-law, Josiah Firth. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (18 items). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr M M Thornton, England, 1986