Flumes

Date: Ca 1890s

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10x8-0519B-G

Description: The flume for a sluicing clainm at Parapara, taken in the 1890s by the Tyree studio of Nelson. Other Titles - Tyree No. 5014 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8 x 10 inches

Date: ca1940

From: Lewers, Neville Robert, 1913- :Photographic negatives, transparencies and prints

Reference: PAColl-6180-03

Description: Quantity: 77 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1870s

Reference: PAColl-7479

Description: Francis Joseph (sic) Glacier near the outlet of the Wai-au River; tabular flume, Donolly Creek, Ross height 98 feet length 800 feet - a flume supported on poles above the creek; Aylmer Street, Ross showing the Junction Hotel, Dunedin Hotel, and Dr Bush's consulting rooms in front of the Morning Star mining claim; the viaduct from the creek at Ross height 167 feet; Bond Street, Ross with a church and what may be the Star Bakery in the foreground and along the street from the left, Provincial Hotel, J Manson & Co, Shamrock Hotel, Gay and Green Hall of Commerce, Bank of New Zealand(?), Post Office, Post Office Hotel, a wholesale wine merchants and the Camp Hotel; and the few buildings of Lagoon Town between Ross and Hokitika. Photographer unidentified. From the same unidentified album Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004615, 004646 to 004649 and 004654 Quantity: 6 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: [1860s to 1870s]

By: Tait, John, 1836-1907; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-530

Description: Photographs of the West Coast, with particular emphasis on bridges, gold mining activities, towns, and roads. Photographers mostly unidentified, but two definitely taken by John Tait (p 9-10), and one possibly taken by James Ring (p 20; identified from same photograph in different collection (PA7-51-05)). The bridges include Hungerfords Bridge and Thompson's Bridge, both over the Arahura River, and the Upper Bridge in the Otira Gorge. There is also a view of the Kaniere [i.e. Kanieri] punt for crossing the river. Views of gold mining and mining towns include the Hohonu Water Race Company's flume at Greenstone; the Great Western Company's fluming at Kaniere [i.e. Kanieri]; mining towns at Donoghues and Redman's; Ross; Goldsborough; the Kohinoor claim; and Napoleon Hill, Ahaura, showing various businesses along a narrow street including the Casino de Venise, Baillie Bootmaker, Scandinavian Hotel and the Victoria & Sydney Hotel. A number of views of Hokitika include the town from various angles; Dobson's Memorial (to roading engineer George Dobson who was murdered in 1866); the cemetery with a view of Archibald Bonar Junior's tombstone; the Old Post Office; the Hokitika Wharf; "cutting through the sandspit, Hokitika Bar, Sunday morning 1867"; and the Hokitika River with vessels ashore in 1866. Gold mining at the Kohinoor Claim at Redman's began about 1869. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album lacking cover; 27.5 x 24.0 cm

Date: 1945

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-001342-F

Description: Flume for coal, Cascade Creek, Buller, West Coast region, photographed in 1945 by John Pascoe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: ca 1880s

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10x8-0516-G

Description: Collingwood Gold Fields Company water race in the Quartz Ranges (probably Tasman Region). Photograph taken by the Tyree Studio between circa 1871 and circa 1920. Other Titles - Tyree No. 9035 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Water race bridge Quartz Ranges Collingwood Gold Fields Company Tyree Photo. 9635 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1866]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 12

Reference: PAColl-6348-40

Description: Fluming at the Jones Creek amalgamated water race crossing, circa 1866. Photographer unidentified. Scope notes from caption on back of file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic print 20.1 x 14.6 cm

Date: ca 1890s

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10x8-0559-G

Description: Old battery, Slaty Creek, Taitapu Gold Estate, circa 1890s, photographed by the Tyree Studio. Men unidentified. Other Titles - Tyree No. 8018 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Taitapu Gold Estate Fluming Old Battery Slaty Creek Tyree Photo 8018 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1867 - 1876

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: C-052-010

Description: Shows a narrow curved beach below a steep hilside sloping down from the right. Two prospectors, one with a pick, and one with a backpack, walk away along the sand beside the water. There is a rocky outcrop in the left foreground. On the hillside in the right foreground a flume descends as drainage from a mine. In the middle distance is a building with smoking chimney; this may function as part of the mining operations. On the hillside further away along the bay are several pitched tents of the miners' camp. A steep path descends from the slope above the building in the central distance. Location is possibly Shortland, showing the Firth of Thames in the left distance. The Shortland area was opened up in 1867. Hoyte moved from the Auckland area to Dunedin by 1876. Other Titles - gold miners Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 287 x 420 mm.

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: 1/2-044217-F

Description: View over the gold mining town of Dillmanstown showing houses, shops and flumes. The business of P McGrath, general storekeeper is centre right. Photograph taken by James Ring circa 1900. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Dillman Town. No 220. J R. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [189-?]

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10x8-0519-G

Description: Scene including fluming for a gold sluicing claim (possibly that of Parapara Hydraulic Sluicing and Mining Company) at Parapara, Collingwood, circa 1890s, photographed by the Tyree Studio. Source of descriptive information - Photographer's inscription on negative. Date estimated by cataloguer. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Fluming at Parapara, Collingwood Tyree Photo, Nelson 5014 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: ca 1900

From: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-020552-G

Description: Gold sluicing flume, Karangahake, circa 1900. Photograph taken by Henry Wright. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [189-?]

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10x8-0520-G

Description: Fluming for a gold sluicing claim (possibly that of Parapara Hydraulic Sluicing and Mining Company) at Parapara, Collingwood, circa 1890s, photographed by the Tyree Studio. Source of descriptive information - Photographer's inscription on negative. Date estimated by cataloguer. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Fluming at Parapara, Collingwood Tyree Photo, Nelson 5015 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898?-1980 :Photographs

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-q-116-46-2

Description: Looking over the gold mining town of Dillmanstown showing flumes in the foreground and the settlement on the centre left. Photograph taken by James Ring circa 1900. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Dillman Town. Shewing Fluming's. No 222. JR; Album page - beneath image - Dillmantown Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [189-?]

From: Young, T W :Photographs of various scenes

Reference: 1/2-065466-F

Description: Looking over the township of Kumara, West Coast Region, circa 1890s. View includes fluming for gold sluicing. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date estimated by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [Between 1886 and 1892]

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: 1/1-027026-G

Description: View of Dillmanstown, showing horse-drawn cart in foreground, general store of Patrick McGrath, and gold flumes in background. Photograph taken by James Ring of Greymouth in the late 1880s or early 1890s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches, with extensive losses

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Curry, Mrs : Photographs from album

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-053127-F

Description: View of wooden fluming of the Scandiavian Gold Mining Company, St Bathans, Otago goldfields, photographed by Muir and Moodie in about 1890. Source of descriptive information - Library client identified the company and the place, and identified a publication in which this photograph appeared. See the New Zealand Mines Record, Volume 5 1901-1902, 17 February 1902 facing page 308. This publication also names the photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: ca 1890s

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10x8-0562-G

Description: Scene at Slaty Creek Gorge, Taitapu Gold Estate, with fluming, circa 1890s. Men unidentified. Photograph taken by the Tyree Studio. Very similar image at 10x8-0563. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Taitapu Gold Estate Slaty Creek Gorge Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1889]

From: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-020661-G

Description: Henry Wright and miners with a toddler and dogs standing outside the `Lucky Hit' mine, near Karaka Creek, Thames. Photograph taken by Henry Wright, circa 1889. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: ca 1890s

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10x8-0561-G

Description: Fluming from Pennyweight town, Taitapu Gold Estate, circa 1890s. Photograph taken by the Tyree Studio. Men unidentified. Other Titles - Tyree No. 8020 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Taitapu Gold Estate Fluming from Pennyweight Tyree Photo 8020 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative