Totara Flat

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: 1926 to 1931

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-235

Description: Album of photographs, chiefly taken by Sir Thomas Hunter. Many of the images are of tramping, camping and climbing holidays with friends and family, both in the North Island (Lake Waikaremoana, the far north, and in the Ruapehu and Taupo Districts), and the South Island (Greenstone River, gold sluicing and gold panning at Moonlight, Queenstown and Wanaka). Most scenes state the location, but very few people are identified, and then only by Christian name. Photographs were taken overseas on a trip to London via Panama, and to New Zealand via San Francisco, May-September 1931. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled `Photographs'; 18 x 29 cm

Date: 22 Jun 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-46689

Description: Aerial photograph showing Dudley's Crossing, Totara Flat, from North, taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic negative

Date: 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-13420-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 2002-2004

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000282

Description: Photographs of Totara Flat School Reunion, West Coast Region. Envelope of negatives relating to Cave Creek tragedy received 17 Nov 08 (Deposit record D26488) Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Education (Totara Flat School(Decades))" and "Education (Totara Flat School (Reunion Day))" Quantity: 134 digital photograph(s).

Date: 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-13421-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 2004

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000281

Description: Photographs of Totara Flat School, West Coast Region. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Education (Totara Flat School)" Quantity: 93 digital photograph(s).

Date: 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-13424-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-13423-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-13422-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28441-F

Description: Aerial view of Totara Flat, photographed by Whites Aviation in May 1951. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-13425-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-13426-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate