Gold miners - New Zealand - Otago Region

Date: [ca 1870s-1880s]

From: Scott, Mrs :Original and mounted photographic prints

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-46

Description: View of Chinese miners working in area on the banks of the Tokomairiro River. In the immediate foreground is a railway line. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril in 1870s-1880s Photograph No 72 in Deveril Collection. Title: "Chinamen gold mining by the side of the South Tokomairiro River, Otago, NZ." Another copy of the print at PA7-46-19 Inscriptions: Verso - bottom centre - 72 (crossed). 12 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 25.5 x 35.5 cm

Date: 1863 - 1870

By: Powell, David, active 1860s; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Fletcher Challenge Ltd

Reference: C-112-042-b

Description: Shows the town's main street, with horse hitched outside hotel, a wagon going away along the street, Staite Bros Molyneux Store, an American flag hanging limp on a flagpole in the distance. There is a blacksmith's forge at right, a wagon resting on the road at left. Accompanied by an information text sheet, by Marian Minson. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This facsimile reproduction of an original watercolour in the Fletcher Challenge Collection, Auckland, was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust in association with Fletcher Challenge Ltd, 1987.; Recto - bottom right - Edition limited to 3000 copies. Dunstan Hotel built 1863. Molyneux is the old name for the Clutha River. Dated in the 1860s because trees were flourishing by 1970. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 250 x 450 mm, on sheet 400 x 600 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright.

Date: [1991]

By: Ng, James (Dr), 1936-

Reference: MS-Papers-10718

Description: Comprises biogrpahical essays and list of references re Alexander Don and Benjamin Wong Tape, lecture on Chinese goldseekers in New Zealand and leprosy among the Chinese in New Zealand Source of title - Supplied Dr Ng is an historian of Chinese immigration and culture in New Zealand Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Dr James Ng, Dunedin, Sep 1991

Date: 1863

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Nairn, Francis Edward, 1819?-1910

Reference: E-372-f-017-2

Description: Four men climbing a narrow path amongst rocky mountains, carrying picks, shovels, billys, tents and other baggage. Possibly a scene in Central Otago. After a drawing by Francis Nairn Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 43, November 1863, p.505 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving

Date: 1811-[ca 1894], 1933

Reference: MS-Papers-1907

Description: Two memoranda books include details of expenses for building a cottage, a bakers oven in 1862, rents received (1865-1866), accounts for family's shoes (1867), journey to Hokitika 19-30 October 1865 and recipes There is also a miners right issued to George Innes, Tuapeka (September 1861) and a manuscript of business notes (1860-1866) which includes costing of material in construction of brick house, Cashel Street (1863) and record of work done There is also a copy of Wellington Girls College Reporter, Jubilee number (May 1933) George Innes was a builder who lived at various times in Hokitika, Otago and Christchurch. He arrived at Lyttelton on the Fatima in December 1851. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 pieces, 3 volumes, 2 loose papers). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter

Date: 1862

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

By: Thomas, W, active 1856-1862

Reference: E-106-f-013-1

Description: View of the diggings and miners' tents. Published in illustrated London news, 1862. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 200 x 240 mm

Date: 1863 - 1870

By: Powell, David, active 1860s; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Fletcher Challenge Ltd

Reference: C-112-042-a

Description: Shows the town's main street, with horse hitched outside hotel, a wagon going away along the street, Staite Bros Molyneux Store, an American flag hanging limp on a flagpole in the distance. There is a blacksmith's forge at right, a wagon resting on the road at left. Accompanied by an information text sheet, by Marian Minson. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This facsimile reproduction of an original watercolour in the Fletcher Challenge Collection, Auckland, was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust in association with Fletcher Challenge Ltd, 1987.; Recto - bottom right - Edition limited to 3000 copies. Dunstan Hotel built 1863. Molyneux is the old name for the Clutha River. Dated in the 1860s because trees were flourishing by 1970. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 250 x 450 mm, on sheet 400 x 600 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright.

Date: 1863

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

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Nairn, Charles James, 1823-1894

Reference: E-106-f-041-1

Description: Shows three prospectors looking down from a rocky ledge high above the Molyneux (Clutha) River. The settlement of Teviot can be seen in the distance. Wood engraving after the style of C J Nairn. Includes accompanying text. Other Titles - Sketches from the New Zealand gold fields Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Vol 43, Nov 1863, p 504 (after Nairn) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 150 x 240 mm

Date: 1862 - 1864

By: Harrisson, Charles, active 1863

Reference: A-236-032

Description: A view looking down onto the Clutha River, at Coal Point (now Clyde) with Old Man Range in the background. Miners are working claims on both banks of the river, with houses and tents constructed above the claims. Many men are panning for gold at the river's edge. There is a small figure in a rowboat in the centre of the river Other Titles - Molyneux River Clutha Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing on card : pencil ; image 192 x 214 mm on sheet 245 x 250 mm Transfers: For attribution and provenance see catalogue record for A-236-023.

Date: [1970-1977]

By: Owen, Alwyn, 1926-

Reference: MS-Papers-9907

Description: Comprises series of scripts and transcripts of interviews for programme on Arawata Bill for Open Country and includes memories by Mrs Dalley and Mrs Forbes, Fergie and Mrs Heffernan, Jim Bourke interviewed by George Taylor, interviews with Miss Rosey Grant, Jack Cron interviewed by George Taylor, Mrs M, Mr Murray Gunn (Hollyford) and Gilbert Koch (Glenorchy), Mr Swale and Dolly, Bill Beattie, Roy Joseph Elliot of Bridge Hill, Messrs McEwan and Swale, Colin McEwan and W Clingin Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts with corrections Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the NZBC, Wellington, per Mr A T Owen, Aug 1974

From: Ng, James (Dr), 1936- : Papers on the Chinese in New Zealand

Reference: MS-Papers-4167-1

Description: Contains (i) Introduction (ii) the Chinese response to Christian proselytism (iii) Biographies of New Zealand-Chinese goldseekers in Otago and Southland (Otago University Extension Programme 1986) (iv) Burial customs of the New Zealand Chinese (Otago Daily Times, 3 May 1986) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopies) and printed matter

Date: 1995

From: Ted Gilberd Literary Trust : Essay competitions

Reference: MS-Papers-5757-15

Description: Story of Jacob Crow, from his birth in Cumberland to Joseph and Mary Crow (nee Jenkinson), early years in Whitehaven, marriage to Jane Leavens, immigration to Otago on the `Forfarshire' in 1879, arrival of his wife Jane & 3 children in 1881, employment as an iron miner, gold miner, race builder and quarryman, years living at Bannockburn, death of Jane and remarriage to Mrs Jane Reid Hodgson (nee Bell), and lives of his two daughters. Includes pedigree chart showing antecedents of Jacob Crow and Jane Leavens; map of Cumberland; map of Central Otago; photographs of the Crow family, ca 1879-1930s Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1867

From: Illustrated London news :Various scenes of early New Zealand published in the Illustrated London News. 1860s

By: Fox, A, active 1860s

Reference: B-070-013

Description: View of the Arrow River gold diggings and miners' camp in Otago. Engraved from a sketch by Mr A Fox. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 201 x 350 mm

Date: 1980 - 1989

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

Reference: Plans-2007-030-0686

Description: Shows the layout of former Chinese mining huts at a site in Cromwell, probably at the Goldfields Mining Centre in the Kawarau Gorge. The location is indicated by the name Melmore Terrace at the far right, and a sign to the direction of Cromwell Bridge. Collected by architect Martin Hill as part of Project 787. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, 460 x 860 mm.

Date: 8 Apr 1862-26 Sep 1863

By: Jones family

Reference: MS-Papers-6249

Description: English translation of letters written in Welsh from David Jones to his family while in Otago. He discusses family matters and comments on his mining activities and on the isolation and cold of the Otago gold fields in the Winter. David Jones, a Welshman, worked on the gold fields of Victoria from 1857-1891. He briefly crossed to the Otago gold fields to work during 1862-1863 and then returned to Victoria. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)

Date: 23-25 Sep 1933

By: Adams, Joseph Langton, 1935-; Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966

Reference: PAColl-9760

Description: Photographs of Rose Olive Langton, her sister Violet May Langton, and future husband Gordon Adams, and others, at Camp Creek on Lindis River, 23 September 1933. The photographs show panning for gold, and washing clothes, as well as a posed group portrait in the miners' camp (see Historical Notes). Included together with the photographs are captions describing the people in the scene and what they are doing. Source of title - Title supplied by Library During the depression of the 1930s, the New Zealand government subsidised unemployed workers who were willing to mine for gold in the hostile climate of the Lindis Pass area. The workers lived in a tent camp above Camp Creek. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Provenance: Donated by Joseph Adams, Kaiapoi, 2010 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MSDL-1188 : Adams, Joseph Langton, 1935- : My Story.

Date: Aug 1990

By: Ng, James (Dr), 1936-

Reference: MS-Papers-10553

Description: Copy of talk given by Ng at Lawrence on Chinese goldminers; and draft essay on Charles Sew Hoy submitted to `Dictionary of New Zealand biography' (1990) Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See TAPUHI for further papers of Dr Ng Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (computer printout) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Dr J Ng, Dunedin, 1990

Date: [1950-1960]

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-4/09

Description: Manuscript of `Good Oh, Joe'; `The Keys'; `The Housegirl'; `Bully Hayes' and `Bully Hayes II'; `Bully Hayes III' ; `What Happened to the Endeavour' ; `Whaling on the East Coast'; `Chinese on Otago Goldfields'; `Thoughts on a Buggy Lamp II' and `Counting sheep'. The story 'Whaling on the East Coast' includes some loan words in Maori for whaling terms. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca1874-1910

By: Evening star (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-6514

Description: 9 photographs of the fruit packing and gold mining in Otago Region, and other views of the region. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives are housed at 1/4-009941 to 009949. Quantity: 9 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass copy negatives

Date: [ca 1874]

From: Scott, Mrs :Original and mounted photographic prints

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-04

Description: View from a hillside looking across at site for gold mining operations. There is an elevated railway track in the middle distance and dwellings on the hillside above the site. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril ca 1870s Source of information - Description of image supplied by Museum of NZ Te Papa Tongarewa Other - Duplicate at PA7-45-10 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 26.5 x 35.4 cm