Dillmanstown

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA7-20-01

Description: Same as PAColl-8654 [?] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1959-2007

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

Reference: PAColl-10131-4

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1959 to 2007. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Identified people are: Senior Sergeant George Christopher Donnelly of Hokitika police; Ivy Harper and Bert Birchfield; Mike Armstrong and Jim Daken; Mary and Heather Cornwell; Charleston coal mine operator Neil Mouat; Mack Heinz; Tex Smith; Mike Armstrong; Henry Heveldt and M Bennett of Nolan's Mill; Garth Graham; meat shooters Mike Bennett and Kevin Blythell; John 'Opo' Angus, the Eggling brothers; helicopter pilot Ben Morris and Les's wife Mary Cleveland; and Johnny Hewer, Claire Easterbrook and Liam Easterbrook in front of the Neils Beach school house. Featured natural environments include the hot springs at Welcome Flat and the Karangarua Valley, River, Ranges, and the view from the Sefton bivouac, Ocean Beach, and Neils Beach, including car wrecks at the rubbish dump. Other images (and series of images) of note include scenes from the Kumara races; environmental damage (slips and road works at Milford Tunnel, Inangahua River road, and Haast and Jackson's Bay area; open face coal mining at Charleston; deer hunting, largely based in Mussel Point; Central Otago Hotels (Cardrona, White Horse, and Vulcan); Post Offices and boxes (St Bathan's, Outram, Ophir, and Dunedin) and a Pacific Films crew on Fox Glacier. Also includes images of James Heveldt's grave (Jackson's Bay), Peregrine Vinyard, a new house in Bannockburn, a girl in a Westport ice cream parlour, women in a Carter's Sawmill shop, a Hokitika cake stall, and various shop fronts and signage in Dunedin, Gore, and on the West Coast. 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: 80 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1880-1889

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

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-q-116

Description: Album compiled by Arthur Lagden Haylock, containing views of Lyttelton, Christchurch, Wellington, Nelson, New Plymouth, Tauranga, Ohinemutu, Mangarewa Gorge, Pink & White Terraces, Napier, Timaru, Porters Pass, Castle Hill (West Coast Road), Craigieburn, Waimakariri River, Arthur's Pass, Otira Gorge, Otira, Jacksons, Taipo River, Mount Alexander, Dillmanstown, Hokitika, and Greymouth. Also includes photographs of ships Annie Bow, Ganymede, and City of Perth and Benvenue stranded at Timaru in 1882. Photographs taken 1880s, by James Ring, Burton Brothers, Wheeler & Sons (including prints made by Wheeler from the negatives of D L Mundy) and others. Other Titles - Ramblings through New Zealand. By A.L. Haylock Quantity: 1 album(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Brown album with gold borders, entitled `Ramblings through New Zealand. By A.L. Haycock', lettered in gold; 36.5 x 31.5 cm

Date: [1880s to 1890s]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Tyree Brothers (Firm); Bulpin, I, active 1974

Reference: PA1-o-078

Description: General views of New Zealand taken in the 1880s and 1890s by various photographers including James Ring, Frederick George Radcliffe, Charles Spencer and the Tyree Brothers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Tan coloured album, 24 x 31 cm Provenance: Donated by I Bulpin, Surbiton, England, 1974

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 1881]

From: Perkins, J (Mr), fl 1967 :Photograph album and loose prints

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Perkins, William Herbert, -1927; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-415

Description: Photographs of Greymouth, Grey River, Brunnerton, Ahaura, Reefton, Waimakariri, Lake Pearson, Lake Brunner, Dillmanstown, Milford Sound, Franz Josef Glacier, Ross, and the thermal areas of central North Island. The photographers represented include William Herbert Perkins, James Ring and the Burton Brothers. There is one interior view of a quartz-crushing battery at Reefton. Pages 55, 57 and 58 have portraits of women (and one man) in "Fancy Fair" costumes Inscriptions: Album page - "William Perkins. Greymouth. 1884" Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon covers, darker corners and spine; "Album" lettered in gold on spine; 23.5 x 30.0 cm

Date: [date unknown, circa 1900?]

Reference: 1/2-025545-F

Description: Gold water races, and the town of Dillmanstown. Date unknown, circa 1900?. Photograph taken by Joseph Zachariah. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Heinz, William Frederick, 1899-1976: Photographs and negatives of gold mining and other facets of the West Coast

Reference: 1/2-044213-F

Description: Dillmanstown, West Coast, circa 1890. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date from copy of same photograph held at PAColl-0372. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film 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: [188-?]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PAColl-8654

Description: Photograph of gold sluicing at Dillman Town, West Coast. Shows jets of water directed at a rocky hillside. Photograph taken circa 1880s by James Ring. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Sluicing at Dillman Town No221 JR Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 13.8 x 20.3 cm

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: 1970

From: Nathan, Simon, 1943-: Photographs of the Kermadec Islands, Antarctica, Inangahua, Mount Ngauruhoe, and various New Zealand locations

Reference: PA12-4383-14

Description: Remains of Callaghan's dredge (active in the 1930s) in its dredge pond. At Callaghans near Dillmanstown. Title supplied by photographer. Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Mounted colour slide.

Date: 1942-1956

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

Reference: PAColl-10131-2

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1942 to 1956. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Identified people are mountaineers A C Clough, Ron Biggs, and Ken Hall; publican Jack Ritchie; journalist H J E (Bert) Kane; Mrs P Koerstens; and bushmen Doug Macalister and Ron (Tiki) Brimmicombe. There is an unidentified solider and some portraits of unidentified children. Featured natural environments include Tatere Gorge, Lake Haupiri and surrounding area, and the Otira Gorge. Contains prints of individual buildings as well as broader views of towns. A number of wooden buildings are in a state of decay, but houses, churches, and other buildings are still in use. Further images (and series of images) of note include: the transportation by boat of a tractor at Milford sound and a Land Rover to Jackson's Bay; workers at the Kopara Sawmill; industry at Mussel Point; and locomotives, boilers, dredges, and other machinery relating to mining. 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: 75 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints