Places

Date: 1864

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :South Island sketchbook 1864

Reference: E-174-038

Description: A rough sketch of Waitahuna valley and stream, with a hut, possibly a toilet, on the stream's left bank and piles of dirt from gold-mining. There is a bucket beside the stream by a large rock in the foreground. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawing 128 x 173 mm.

Date: 1872

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Sumner, Lyttelton, Central Otago, Lake Wakatipu, Kawarau Gorge, Oamaru, Dunedin, Clutha River. 1870 to 1873]

Reference: E-016-4-064

Description: Looking down into a valley with faint indications of tents, buildings, and fences or chutes Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, page size 88 x 153 mm.

Date: 1861-1900

Reference: PAColl-6675

Description: Photographs of Major Croker (first warden appointed to the Tuapeka Goldfields, 1861), Gabriel's Gully and Blue Spur. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1870

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Sumner, Lyttelton, Central Otago, Lake Wakatipu, Kawarau Gorge, Oamaru, Dunedin, Clutha River. 1870 to 1873]

Reference: E-016-4-002

Description: A hut built with rock walls and a thatched roof, backed up against a schist cliff, with low hills and a rider on a road in the background. To the right, a separate drawing of a rock formation in a semi-human shape The site appears to be approximately at modern Gorge Creek, south of Alexandra The hut is likely to be one built by a gold-miner Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, page size 88 x 153 mm.

Date: 1862

Reference: A-219-008

Description: Shows a waterfall between cliffs, 'Ferguson's River' joining the River Townsend (Townshend). The Wharfdale area was in Canterbury near Oxford, connected with gold prospecting. Inscriptions: Signed: Wm.S. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 220 x 290 mm Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts section, from 'McEnnis, 1937' [not traced], 12 April 1978.

Date: [19--]

Reference: PAColl-D-0673

Description: Aerial view of gold dredge tailings, possibly in West Coast Region. Southern Alps can be seen in the distance. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 402 x 505 mm mounted on card

Date: 1895

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] [ca 1865?]-1896

Reference: E-147-089

Description: Several mounted men accompanying a carriage on a broad track There is another version of this sketch in the same album, E-147-203; also a more finished version in pencil at A-182-119 Quantity: 1 drawing(s) pasted in. Physical Description: Pencil 114 x 185 mm

Date: ca 1900

Reference: 1/2-002561-F

Description: A captioned, stereoscopic image of a gold dredge in operation with water spilling down the chute at the junction of the Shotover and Moke Creeks near Queenstown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1925 - 1860 - 1866

Reference: A-138-038

Description: Shows main street and shops of goldfield town 18 miles south-east from Greymouth. Men standing around outside the shops, a horse and cart half-way along the main street, a dog in the foreground, hills in the background. The hotel in the right foreground is named Criterion Hotel, the shop in the left foreground Edward Ryan Wholesale ... Merchant. There is a railway line running down the centre of the street. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash drawing 152 x 241 mm Provenance: No provenance is given on the catalogue card for this item. However, the date of [1925] suggests that it was probably prepared as a book illustration.

Date: 1900 - 1901

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to miners and mining in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-MINING-1901-01

Description: A license signed by warden Duncan Macfarlane of the Westland mining district, granting Thomas Kelly of Awatuna Mine permission to use a water-race for 42 years. The water-race was one "commencing about one mile down the Waimea Creek from Pipers bridge and terminating at Licensee's claim on Auckland Beach, length about 3 1/2 miles. Ten heads of water authorised and to be diverted from point of commencement for mining purposes". The license was granted in exchange for one previously held (No 233 B9/255, dated 22.1.[18]68). Typescript addition dated 1922 assigns interest from John Thomas Kelly, Michael Edward Kelly, Lawrence Denis Kelly and Joseph Richard Kelly to the Awatuna Dredging Company Ltd. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and holograph on sheet 345 x 432 mm, folded to 432 x 172 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in May 2010.

Date: 2011

Reference: Eph-A-GOLD-2011-01

Description: Composite booklet with the programmes for both the Dunedin and the Gabriel's Gully celebrations, with historical notes and photographs about each. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 24 pages, 212 x 150 mm. Provenance: Donated by Jocelyn Chalmers, Wellington, in 2011.

Date: 1901

From: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937: Testimonial presented to Stephenson Percy Smith, Surveyor-General and Secretary for Crown Lands

Reference: D-007-002-15

Description: Mining machinery in the foreground with smoking chimneys and factory buildings, and the streets and houses of a township, with the sea beyond in the distance. The town shown is Thames with the Grahamstown goldfield and mine in the foreground. Compare E-068-017-2, Archibald Duddington Willis' sample Christmas card, 1886, title 'Grahamstown goldfield, Thames' for identification of the area Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 138 x 83 mm

Date: ca 1870

Reference: PAColl-6524

Description: Two views of gold mining in Otago both showing the railway passing the mine. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-010036 to 010037 Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1873

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Sumner, Lyttelton, Central Otago, Lake Wakatipu, Kawarau Gorge, Oamaru, Dunedin, Clutha River. 1870 to 1873]

Reference: E-016-4-070

Description: Two men on a steep path in rugged mountains, one swinging a mallet, the other wielding a pike. The men are likely to be goldminers, possibly from Cornwall See also 'The wire bridge near Cromwell to the Cornishmens Claim' E-016-5-040 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, page size 88 x 153 mm.

Date: 1890 - 1899

Reference: A-192-005

Description: Shows two trampers, possibly gold prospectors or surveyors in the Range south of Te Puke Other Titles - Mangorewa River Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 204 x 127 mm

Date: [187-?]

Reference: PAColl-4452

Description: Three copies of original photographs held by the State Library of Victoria. A panorama of Nelson from the Saltwater Bridge with Hounsell's and Lucas's to the left and the cathedral on the right; a view looking out to the harbour with the cathedral on the left; and a view of a gold mining settlement identified as being in the Nelson area by the State Library and consisting of a group of wooden buildings in the foreground with huts scattered on the hill behind. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 3 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Copy prints

Date: 1892 - 1893

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks] 1890-1893

Reference: E-315-q-6-032

Description: On the page, a court official seated at a table, watched by another man. Glued to the page, two studies of a gold-miner with horse laden with his swag, and a shovel; also a separate study of a man reading a newspaper Quantity: 4 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, page size 151 x 251 mm.

Date: ca 1880-1910

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: PAColl-3064-1

Description: Rocks Road, Nelson looking south; a waterfall falling down large boulders; a carriage and pair of horses passing Windy Point in Buller Gorge; Garraty's Point, Cape Foulwind; Matai Bank, Nelson showing willow trees; school children, some bare foot, with their teacher outside their school; school girls with their teachers outside their school; Wakefield Cricket Club, part of Nelson Cricket Association, in their team uniform ca 1894; studio group portrait of a rugby team; two of the six members of the Nelson Water Polo Club (the seventh is shown in photograph); six girls in theatrical costume holding ribbons; men transporting wood across the Aorere River by punt for Collingwood Gold Fields Ltd; the sixteen members of the Takaka Races Committee; the staff of Nelson College in April 1901 - G T Palmer, F Milner, E J Parr, J Drummond, T A H Wing, W S Littlejohn; an unidentified man; two of unidentified groups of men; a clergyman and four other men under a tree; and an unidentified family group. Quantity: 20 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: 1868 - 1870

Reference: A-036-024

Description: Flat-topped mountains in the background, bush and swampy ground with flax near a river in the foreground. Probably the work of a goldminer Grahamstown was the earlier name for Thames Other Titles - Grahamstown Inscriptions: Verso - title in ink; also recto, bottom left, artist's monogram in red watercolour (indecipherable, but the last initial is a P) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 162 x 257 mm

Date: 1880

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

Reference: A-182-045

Description: A rough mountain hut, made of stone, with thatched roof and stone chimney, its front propped up with branches. To the left is meat hanging from a gallows and to the right two men on horseback have reached the top of a mountain track in front of the hut. In the background the mountains around Lake Wakatipu and part of the Lake can be seen. The central mountain peak is also shown, unfinished, on the reverse of the paper Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 144 x 252 mm