Places

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 8

By: Buller Progress League

Reference: PAColl-6075-51

Description: George Morgan Powell's sluicing and elevating claim at Nine Mile Beach, north of Charleston, taken ca 1900 by an unidentified photographer. Hydraulic elevator on left. Powell adapted the hydraulic elevator using a suction elevating principle. It was used for working the auriferous sand more efficiently. Source of descriptive information - Information regarding Powell and his hydraulic elevator from Library client, June 2007 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925; Harnett & Company

Reference: A-104-025-a

Description: Shows ship and paddlesteamer at the wharf at Hokitika during the gold-rush. There are horses and carts on the wharf to the left and the houses and shops of the town can be seen in the background. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 210 x 300 mm

Date: [192-?]

Reference: PAColl-9028

Description: Photograph of a gold mining area at St Bathans, Otago, circa 1920s. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on backing board of print. Date estimated by catalguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 14.5 x 19.8 cm

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-533

Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm

Date: 1914

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

Reference: 1/2-001825-G

Description: View over the Talisman Battery at Karangahake township in 1914. Photograph taken by William A Price? or by [?] Polland? Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Talisman Battery. Karangahake. Polland Series. Protd 12.5.14. No 3290 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.5 inches

Date: [189-?]

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 1/1-000966-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1870

From: Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs from an album of Ross and the Franz Joseph Glacier

Reference: 1/2-004648-F

Description: Township of Ross, West Coast, in 1870, with the north east side of Aylmer Street in the foreground, and an alluvial gold mine behind. View includes the Dunedin Hotel. Photographer unidentified. Other - Notes on back of file print include "Morning Star Claim" Other - Similar view at 1/2-017897 Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1869

By: Fraser, I T B, active 1863-1890s; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: A-196-014

Description: Looking across a river towards mountains. A small Maori canoe is on the river, with flax, cabbage trees and other bush on both sides Originally catalogued by the Library as being painted by J B Fraser, a possible interpretation of the artist's monogram. The annotations on the back were believed to be signed by surveyor Malcolm Fraser, from a reading of the illegible first name. However the writing, and style of drawing and painting match those of Captain I T B Fraser, artist of a group of sketches of the war in Waikato about 1864, Library reference number E-571-q. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - signed with initials in a monogram and date in red brushpoint, on a rock, lower left. Also verso, in pencil: Title: Between Cashels Station and Shortland, Thames Goldfields, about 23 miles up the Ohinemuri River by water: after you leave the bend by a place called Purri Purri you will see the same on the right. Hard going up the Ohinemuri River. New Zealand. [signed, first word illegibly] Fraser Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 154 x 243 mm

Date: 1862 - 1864

By: Harrisson, Charles, active 1863

Reference: A-236-030

Description: Looking down onto the site of modern Clyde with the Clutha River in the background and snow-covered Prospect Hill above it to the right. Scattered houses and tents lie across the flat land For attribution and provenance see catalogue record for A-236-023 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing on card : pencil ; image 106 x 203 mm on sheet 140 x 225 mm

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: [ca 1900]

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

Reference: 1/2-055919-F

Description: Man operating gold-saving tables at Nine Mile beach, circa 1900. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Information on gold-saving tables supplied by Les Wright. Gold bearing sand shovelled into hopper at the top. Water washes sand over the tables where the fine grains of gold in the sand would be caught in matting or copper coated with mercury. 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 1864

Reference: 1/1-000594-F

Description: The Bank of New Zealand and gold office at Charlestown, Maori Point, Otago. Standing in front are, from left to right: Sgt Neill, a miner, a boy, George Mico Ross - the manager, Greensheilds, a miner, unknown, Anderson, Clerk of the Court, a miner. This agency of the Bank of New Zealand was opened by George Mico Ross in 1863. (Information from back of file print.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1864 - 1866

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-002

Description: Shows two men in the centre foreground, one sitting against a fallen tree trunk, one crouched with hand to face. Behind them, at right a man raises an axe to cut a tree trunk, a fuel-gatherer carries a bundle of greenery and wood, and a man accompanies two pack-donkeys at left. Two men attend to a cooking-fire. In the background is a row of tents, shacks, a washing-line and a general store. In the right distance, masts of two sailing ships are visible in the port. Date assigned with reference to dated picture of Hokitika Beach by same artist. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 177 x 240 mm. (rectangular with rounded corners).

Date: 1888

By: Murray, J P, active 1880-1890s

Reference: G-561

Description: Shows a mining camp in the Pelorus Sound-Havelock area, with tents, men cooking over a fire, a cart etc., beside the Pelorus River. There are felled trees on the flat and on the surrounding hills. Two men are cooking over a fire in the foreground Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 310 x 430 mm

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 1900s]

From: Photographs relating to gold mining, chiefly at Waihi

Reference: 1/2-019295-G

Description: The Junction battery at Waihi, circa 1900s. Taken by unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: 1865

From: Punch in Canterbury. Vol 1 no 1 (Apr 8 1865) - Vol 1 no 20 (August 19 1865?) [Christchurch, 1865]

Reference: PUBL-0078-002

Description: A street scene of 'Cashall Street' with crowds of prosperous citizens, carriages coming and going, and businesses thriving. A play on words for Cashel Street, Christchurch and a reference to access to the gold rush on the West Coast. The cartoon appears on the opposite page to another titled 'Winter - Christchurch with NO road to the West Coast' set in 'Cashless street'and showing bankruptcies and other disasters for Christchurch. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving

Date: 2001

From: Tremain, Garrick 1941-:61 cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times between 10 October and 24 December, 2001.

Reference: H-661-058

Description: Shows two police officers securing the Waihi land slip site. They are surprised when an Afghanistan man, possibly Osama bin Laden, walks out of the land slip hole. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy A4 size

Date: [between 1900-1930]

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

Reference: PAColl-3057-1-07

Description: Scene at Blackwater, Inangahua County. A group of four Chinese goldminers are sluicing for gold with a ground sluice. There is a wooden dwelling behind the working area, with bush-covered hills in the background. Photograph taken by William Archer Price between 1900 and 1930. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Ground sluicing. Blackwater. No. 1225B. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 11.1 x 16.7 cm