Places

Date: 1887

By: Richmond, James Crowe, 1822-1898

Reference: A-245-025

Description: Shows a view looking northwards along the coast at Greymouth, along a narrow strip of sand, with a lagoon or estuary at the right. There are bush-covered hills in the distance, a flax bush in the right foreground, and three weathered tree trunks lying in the centre foreground. There was a certain amount of reclamation carried out at around or just after this date, lessening the expanse of water at the right. Other Titles - 1887 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Greymouth 1862; Recto - bottom right - J C Richmond Aug '87 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 230 x 370 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: [Between 1892 and 1905]

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: 1/1-027027-G

Description: The Union Hotel, Greymouth (John Shanahan, proprietor), with a rowboat in the flooded street in the foreground, photographed during a flood, by James Ring. Shanahan managed the Union Hotel from 1892 until 1905. Identified and dated from Wise's NZ Post Office Directories. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches, with extensive losses.

Date: 1887

From: Keats, C C :Photographs of Hokitika

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: 1/2-041520-F

Description: View of a Greymouth Street submerged by floodwaters, showing water rising to the windows of Sutherland's Hotel, and a group of people in a rowboat. Photograph taken in 1887 by James Ring. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - GREYMOUTH 91 J.R Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [189-?]

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

By: Poulton, H (Mr), active 1890s

Reference: PAColl-4608-01

Description: Photograph of Catholic school and convent in Greymouth, West Coast, taken ca 1890s by H Poulton Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Catholic Schools and Convent Greymouth, West Coast; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H. Poulton Photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 10.6 x 13.9 cm

Date: 1870

From: Lowe, John Henry, 1841-1906 :Photographs of Wellington, Westland, New Plymouth and Ohakune

Reference: 1/2-048036-F

Description: Greymouth, 1870. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [1870s]

By: Tait, Alexander, active 1870s

Reference: PA2-1753

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [189-?]

From: Holm, J C :Photographs of Greymouth flood, ca 1890s

Reference: 1/2-061724-F

Description: People at the wharf in Greymouth during a flood, showing floodwaters submerging the adjacent street; taken circa 1890s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1871

From: Greymouth Evening Star : Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: 1/2-050049-F

Description: View of flood waters and debris around various trade and store buildings in Greymouth, including the premises of the bootmaker (C Southam) and of the fruiterer. Men stand near piles of timber at the edge of the sea. Photograph taken in 1871 by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [Between 1898 and 1905]

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: 1/1-027049-G

Description: Group of cyclists passing the premises of Mrs S Beresford, Greymouth, photographed between 1898 and 1905 by James Ring Identified and dated from Wise's NZ Post Office Directories. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1860

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-051-1

Description: View looking south down the West Coast from the mouth of the Grey River. The coast and the Southern Alps can be seen with several peaks marked, including Kaimata. The highest peak is Mount Cook Title is inscribed in German. The Library has a photograph of a wood engraving from an unknown publication, based on this drawing. The wood engraving is titled 'The Southern Alps, view from the mouth of the River Grey, from sketches by Dr J Haast', negative MNZ-0299-1/4 Inscriptions: Recto - title and date in ink (in German); also recto, top right, a further title: Ansicht zu sudlichen Alpen um von dem nordlichen Ufer des Mawhere, 1 Juni 1860 [View of the Southern Alps from the north bank of the Mawhere] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on sheet, 110 x 405 mm.

Date: [ca 1880s]

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

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PAColl-6075-43

Description: Greymouth wharf, photographed by James Ring circa 1880s. The vessel closest to the camera is the Union Steam Ship Company's ship `Maori'. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Greymouth wharf and gorge NZ 359 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: [Jun 1888]

From: Christie, Hettie Florence, 1902-1988 :Photographs and album of New Zealand scenes

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA7-51-15

Description: Photograph showing the SS Gerda at the end of the wharf at Greymouth, and listing badly to one side in the heavy seas. A crowd of spectators are gathered on the wharf. Photograph taken by James Ring in 1888 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Wreck of S.S. Gerda 81 (Copyright) Ring's Photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 140 x 205 mm

Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]

From: Ring album 1

Reference: PA1-o-435-09

Description: Greymouth wharf, with railway wagons, photographed by James Ring circa 1880s-1890s. Source of descriptive information - Photographers inscription. Date approximated by cataloguer. Other Titles - The wharf Greymouth Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - The wharf Greymouth NZ 154 JR Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 13.4 x 20.2 cm, on album page

Date: 1865

From: West Coast Historical and Mechanical Society :Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: 1/2-060025-F

Description: Greymouth wharf, showing barges that brought coal down the Grey River from Brunnerton, 1896. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]

From: Ring album 1

Reference: PA1-o-435-02

Description: Greymouth wharf, with hydraulic crane, photographed by James Ring circa 1880s-1890s. Source of descriptive information - Photographers inscription. Date approximated by cataloguer. Other Titles - Loading with hydraulic cranes at Greymouth Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Loading with hydraulic cranes at Greymouth. 60.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Ring photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 13.4 x 20.2 cm, on album page

Date: 1897-1920

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: 1/1-027171-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1891

By: Greymouth evening star (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-C-CYCLE-1891-01

Description: An arrangement of text, in different typefaces. There were 5 events including a 4 1/2 mile race of cyclists versus horses, where the horses were changed every 1 1/2 miles. The starter was H C Fricker, esq; judges were H Calders and A Broad; Lap-keeper was E P Heaphy; and the Clerk of the Course was P Swingland. The rainbow background was produced by using a "rainbow roll" before the letter printing was done. Due to adverse conditions, this event had to be postponed twice and finally took place on 28 October, attracting a crowd of around 500. The club’s captain Mr J W Easson undertook the challenge of racing 4.5 miles against a horse, the horse being substituted every 1.5 miles. Until the last horse began, it seemed the cyclist was well in the lead but the new horse “cut down the distance hand over fist”. A sprightly report of the meeting on appeared in the Grey River Argus, 29 October 1891. Date pencilled on the back by the Library; otherwise not given. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on rainbow coloured paper.. Physical Description: Letterpress, on rainbow-coloured poster 448 x 281 mm.

Date: 1889

From: Wakefield, Edward 1845-1924 :New Zealand illustrated. The story of New Zealand and descriptions of its cities and towns by Edward Wakefield; also (by various writers) the natural wonders of New Zealand (past and present). Wanganui. A. D. Willis, 1889.

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PUBL-0019-07

Description: An extensive view of the town of Greymouth, looking towards the mouth of the Grey River. There are wide streets and rows of houses in the foreground, a few buildings with smoking chimneys along the river, and some steamers out to sea in the distance. The masts of some ships can be seen tied up at the side of the river. The far bank has some building, sparser than on the near side. Based on a photograph by J Ring, lithographed by W. Potts and published by A. D. Willis. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 167 x 388 mm

Date: 1879 - 1920

From: Ryall, Denis James, 1909-1982:Photographs ,including postcards, of Barrytown and members of the Ryall family

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA3-0199

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1872

By: Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921

Reference: A-389-001

Description: Shows two houses within their fenced sections, against a bush background. The house in the centre is a two-storeyed house with a verandah on two sides. Its garden path has two curved archways, and there is a small thatched garden hut in front of the house. There are two raised sloping structures, one near each arch. The house at the left has a single storey, with a verandah along the front. The bush-covered land rises to hills in the background. Previously attributed to William Anson McCleverty, and thought to show houses in the Hutt Valley. May show houses in Ross rather than Greymouth. Cooper lived in Ross for some years, although he also lived in Greymouth. Other Titles - Ross Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - WMC 1872 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 188 x 240 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.