Moanataiari Valley

Date: 1867-1868

From: Cooke, I V :Photographs of New Zealand and Australia

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-045

Description: Photographs taken in 1867 and 1868 by Daniel Louis Mundy. Collection comprises: moa skeletons on display in the Canterbury Museum, Maori man sitting in front of a flax plant in the Hokianga, a black pine forest in Westland, miners' whares at Tararu creek in the Thames goldfield, Punch Bowl Falls, Otira Gorge, fern trees at Governor's Bay, waterfall at Waihi at the head of lake Taupo, tramway at Moanataiari in the Thames goldfield, bush at German Bay (Akaroa), Waitohi creek in the Thames goldfield, Onoke (Hokianga), kauri forest at Wairere Stream (Hokianga), Wild Missouri and Russell's batteries at Tararu Creek, waterfalls at Banks Peninsula and Otira Gorge. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album bound in green morrocco, with gold tooling, 41.2 x 30.2 cm

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001545-G

Description: View from the Goods Wharf (Thames Wharf; Burke Street Wharf) looking towards the buildings on the waterfront and mining area at Moanataiari. A & G Price foundry can be seen in the middle distance. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - View from Thames Wharf. 1411. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [188-?]

From: Sherring, W W :Photographs of gold mining near Thames and view of the Wairarapa Plains

Reference: PAColl-7395-2

Description: Caledonian gold mine and settlement in the Moanataiari Valley, circa 1880s. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Thames Gold Field; Mount recto - beneath image - 55 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 9.9 x 18.4 cm, on mount 12 x 18.5 cm

Date: 1868

From: Ellings, E E (Mr), fl 1976: Photographs of Thames

Reference: 1/2-065407-F

Description: View of Moanataiari Creek, Thames, showing the chimney of the Caledonian Claim up the Valley in the background, and buildings in the settlement along the shore of the Firth of Thames (including the Prince Alfred Hotel, the Melbourne Boarding House, and the butcher W L File). Photograph taken 1868 by Henry Frith. The negatives at ½-065407-F, ½-065408-F, and ½-065409-F fit together to form a panorama. Note on back of file print states `Mudflats in foreground have since been reclaimed'. Location also identified as Beach Rd, Shortland (now Thames). Prince Alfred Hotel on corner Coromandel St. The chimney previously identified as the Moanataiari Battery corrected to Caledonian Claim after contact from a researcher, 6 March 2021. See also 1/2-020789 The mudflats in the foreground have since been reclaimed. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Sherring, W W :Photographs of gold mining near Thames and view of the Wairarapa Plains

Reference: 1/4-017445-F

Description: Gold mine of New Zealand Caledonian Gold Mine Ltd, at the entrance to Moanataiari Valley, circa 1880s. Tookey's shaft is visible. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1880]

From: Sherring, W W :Photographs of gold mining near Thames and view of the Wairarapa Plains

Reference: PAColl-7395-1

Description: Gold mining batteries, Moanataiari Valley, Thames, ca 1880. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Thames Gold Field; Mount recto - beneath image - 56 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 10.4 x 17.7 cm, on mount 12.4 x 18 cm