Nelson Creek

Date: 1935

By: Lovell-Smith, Edgar McLeod, 1875-1950

Reference: Eph-C-GOLD-1935-01

Description: Shows bird's-eye view of the area with roads, water-races, swamp, sandstone terraces, timber-covered hills, Lake Hochstetter, Nelson Creek, Gow's Creek, water race and pipe line. The shafts and hand workings are also shown, as are the Aldinga dredge workings. The other side of the pamphlet advises that there is a prospectus for the company, available on application. The values obtained from every shaft sunk, are described. There are recommendations from Mr J F McFadden, Director of the Westport School of Mines; Mr H Lowther, Manager of Lawson's Flat Gold Mining Co; and Mr Denis F Dennehy, Director of Golden Sands. The directors of the Greatr Western Company were to be: Mr Daniel Dennehy, Mr W S Richards, Mr R T Tosswill, Mr H L Bowker, Mr A McKellar, all of Christchurch. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on pamphlet. Physical Description: Photolithograph on pamphlet 280 x 440 mm.

Date: ca 1905

By: O'Connor, Shirley, active 1976

Reference: PAColl-4585

Description: Group photo of Magee family, Nelson Creek, Greymouth and a retouched portrait of Anne Isobella Magee. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1940-1943

From: GirlGuiding New Zealand : Records

Reference: 88-130-01/19

Description: Exercise book belonging to Brown Owl, F E Taylor, Nelson Creek, Greymouth, in which she recorded information about the various ceremonies, hints, games, songs, addresses of officers, first aid information, allocation of funds, cuttings, etc. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 15 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter

Date: 1956-1958

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-3

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1956 to 1958. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Most prints relate to the West Coast Region, but also some images of Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago regions. Identified people are: Kopara Sawmill workers Bill Brown, Owen Jacobs, Morry Pullman, Hans Van Ruyven, Jimmy Birchfield, Doug Macalister, Joe Kavanagh, Neil McLean, Archy Fluerty, saw doctor John Henry Ord, Ted McGhie; licensee of Nelson Creek Hotel D Graham; Dorothy Debenham; Mick Bowie, and chief guide at Mt Cook Hermitage. Unidentified people include a female French tourist and some children. Featured natural environments include Karamea beach scenes, mining and sawmilling sites, and Buller Gorge. Featured town sequences include Reefton and Nelson's Creek houses and businesses, many of which are derelict. Further images (and series of images) of note include: a series of images of the Kopara Sawmill with forests, exterior felling scenes, lumber yard, processing of timber, and workers; spectators at a Cobden soccer match; crib-logging on the Wataroa River; various road works and maintainence scenes; locomotive at Ngahere sawmill site; images relating to various mining activities; church buildings; municipal buildings; and some mountaineering prints. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1955

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: 1/4-129409-F

Description: Related index card reads: Bushwork. Doug Macalister (bushman of Haupiri) driving 4-N2 Army Bren carrier with armour removed and timber deck built on back. Owned by L. Cleveland and used by him to snig and carry mining timber from bush at Haupiri for sale to Blackball mine for use as pitprops. Road to Nelson Creek 1955. [Stamp no.] 33. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative

Date: 1955

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: 1/4-129410-F

Description: Related index card reads: Bushwork. Doug Macalister (bushman of Haupiri) driving 4-N2 Army Bren carrier with armour removed and timber deck built on back. Owned by L. Cleveland and used by him to snig and carry mining timber from bush at Haupiri for sale to Blackball mine for use as pitprops. Road to Nelson Creek 1955. [Stamp no.] 33. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative

Date: 1958

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: 1/4-129774-F

Description: Related index card reads: Constructions. Tunnel entrance to Swing bridge take-off across Nelson Creek, 1958 [Stamp no.] 204. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative

Date: 1958

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: 1/4-129773-F

Description: Related index card reads: Constructions. Tunnel entrance to Swing bridge take-off across Nelson Creek, 1958 [Stamp no.] 204. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative

Date: 1957

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: 1/4-129403-F

Description: Related index card reads: Hotels (Nelson Creek). Commercial Hotel, scenes in bar, 1957. A) Davy Graham, licensee. B) Harry Talbot (glass in hand) with Jack Talbot. C) Byron Hart, Christchurch (left), Davy Graham (right). (See also 11-241). (See over). D, e, f. [Stamp no.] 30. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative

Date: 1957

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: 1/4-129402-F

Description: Related index card reads: Hotels (Nelson Creek). Commercial Hotel, scenes in bar, 1957. A) Davy Graham, licensee. B) Harry Talbot (glass in hand) with Jack Talbot. C) Byron Hart, Christchurch (left), Davy Graham (right). (See also 11-241). (See over). D, e, f. [Stamp no.] 30. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative

Date: 1957

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: 1/4-129401-F

Description: Related index card reads: Hotels (Nelson Creek). Commercial Hotel, scenes in bar, 1957. A) Davy Graham, licensee. B) Harry Talbot (glass in hand) with Jack Talbot. C) Byron Hart, Christchurch (left), Davy Graham (right). (See also 11-241). (See over). D, e, f. [Stamp no.] 30. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative

Date: 1957

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: 1/4-129400-F

Description: Related index card reads: Hotels (Nelson Creek). Commercial Hotel, scenes in bar, 1957. A) Davy Graham, licensee. B) Harry Talbot (glass in hand) with Jack Talbot. C) Byron Hart, Christchurch (left), Davy Graham (right). (See also 11-241). (See over). D, e, f. [Stamp no.] 30. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative

Date: 1957

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: 1/4-129399-F

Description: Related index card reads: Hotels (Nelson Creek). Commercial Hotel, scenes in bar, 1957. A) Davy Graham, licensee. B) Harry Talbot (glass in hand) with Jack Talbot. C) Byron Hart, Christchurch (left), Davy Graham (right). (See also 11-241). (See over). D, e, f. [Stamp no.] 30. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative

Date: 1957

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: 1/4-129398-F

Description: Related index card reads: Hotels (Nelson Creek). Commercial Hotel, scenes in bar, 1957. A) Davy Graham, licensee. B) Harry Talbot (glass in hand) with Jack Talbot. C) Byron Hart, Christchurch (left), Davy Graham (right). (See also 11-241). (See over). D, e, f. [Stamp no.] 30. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative

Date: [ca 1880s], 1955--2000s

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10567-06

Description: Photographic prints mainly taken by Les Cleveland of North Island buildings and Nelson buildings, people, and scenes. Taken circa 1880s, 1955-1963, and 2000s. Printed circa 1970s to 2000s. A few images are stamped "Les Cleveland Photograph" and some are also signed. Photographs of Wairarapa buildings include Whiteman Matthews & Solicitors (Featherston), Trotman Brothers Builders and Funeral Directors (Greytown), the Greytown Volunteer Fire Brigade, Mickey Phelps’s cottage (Carterton), and Bobby Ming’s market garden near the Waiohine River. Other North Island photographs show the Public Relations Office (Palmerston North), Savage Club Hall (Whanganui), Mission House (North Waimate), and Catholic Church (Tokaanu). Neslon images show Enterprise Printing and a number of prints of a corrugated iron building, one of which is titled "Judicial Outhouse, near Supreme Court, Nelson". Also contains a photograph of the protest by Sonja Davies, Ruth Page, and other women on the tracks at the railway station at Kiwi. A portrait of Nelson photographer Rosaline Margaret Frank as a young woman, circa 1880s, is taken by an unidentified photographer. Also includes one print of a building at Nelson Creek, South Westland. Title supplied by Library. PAColl-10645-04 Arrangement: Prints arrived at Library in no discernible order. Quantity: 34 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photographic prints Transfers: Box two of five. See PAColl-10567-05, and PAColl-10567-07 to 09 for prints originally stored with these ones.. Processing information: Library staff arranged prints geographically and by subject where possible. The volume of prints required that they be housed in five separate boxes

Date: 1955

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: LCI-11-038

Description: Index card reads: Bushwork. Doug Macalister (bushman of Haupiri) driving 4-N2 Army Bren carrier with armour removed and timber deck built on back. Owned by L. Cleveland and used by him to snig and carry mining timber from bush at Haupiri for sale to Blackball mine for use as pitprops. Road to Nelson Creek 1955. [Stamp no.] 33. Quantity: 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera handmade index card. Physical Description: Cardboard index card with attached proof print(s), 13 x 19cm

Date: 1957

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: LCI-11-033

Description: Index card reads: Hotels (Nelson Creek). Commercial Hotel, scenes in bar, 1957. A) Davy Graham, licensee. B) Harry Talbot (glass in hand) with Jack Talbot. C) Byron Hart, Christchurch (left), Davy Graham (right). (See also 11-241). (See over). D, e, f. [Stamp no.] 30. Quantity: 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera handmade index card. Physical Description: Cardboard index card with attached proof print(s), 13 x 19cm

Date: 1880s

By: Perkins, William Herbert, -1927; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PAColl-5267

Description: Most record the bridges and flumes bringing the water-race from Lake Hochstetter to the Nelson Creek gold workings. Also Brook Street Valley Nelson and Sumner, Christchurch Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1880s-1900s]

By: McEachen, John Allan, 1844?-1920; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-q-105

Description: Gold dredges, gold sluicing, and machinery associated with gold mining in the South Island. Includes a few photographs taken in Australia, particularly the Pioneer Tin Mine in Tasmania. Inserted in a pocket in the front of the album are 19 loose prints, chiefly showing various claims in the North Island, some of which are taken by H J Locke. Also named in these images are the Saxon Mine and Ivanhoe Mine. Pinafore Claim was located at Waiotahi, Thames. Cambria Claim was a gold mine located in Thames. Gold King Dredge was on the Clutha River near Roxburgh circa 1899. Title supplied by Library. Date range estimated partly on dates that dredges were known to be operating. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-062522 to 062553, and also includes those in the vicinity of 1/2-062625 and 1/2-062630 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Mottled black exercise book, entitled `Photographs. Dredges. Sluicing. Machinery. New Zealand. Australia'; 35 x 23 cm Provenance: Purchased from American Book Service, 1975

Date: ca 1875; ca1920s

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939; State Library of Tasmania

Reference: PAColl-3362

Description: Quantity: 12 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (being postcards), and. 11 b&w original photographic print(s) (10 being postcards) in one envelope. Physical Description: James Ring photograph 158 x 214mm on 208 x 254mm mount. Postcards all approxiamately 90 x 140mm