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Date: 1869

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

Reference: E-106-f-025-2

Description: Elevated view of the township of Shortland looking north. Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, v 55, Sept 25, 1869, p300 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, 160 x 240 mm

Date: 1870 - 1880

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-029-070

Description: Shows the Firth of Thames, looking down from a hillside on to Shortland. Location identified by Shirley Maddock in March 1985. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 254 x 355 mm

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Crombie, George, active 1900

Reference: PA4-0551

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Thames, showing `Queen of Beauty' mine, taken by Geo Crombie, ca 1900. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Thames showing `Queen of Beauty' Mine; Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Backing board recto - left of image - Photograph by Geo Crombie Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1869

From: Illustrated London news :Various scenes of early New Zealand published in the Illustrated London News. 1860s

Reference: B-070-015-2

Description: Elevated view of the township of Shortland looking north. Extended Title - From Illustrated London news, V 55, Sept 25 1869, p 300 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, stuck to page 215 x 275 mm

Date: 1860 - 1875

From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]

Reference: E-043-q-070

Description: Elevated view of the township of Shortland looking north. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, stuck to page 215 x 275 mm

Date: [ca 1860s-1890s]

By: Ellings, E E (Mr), active 1976; Frith, Henry Albert, -1912

Reference: PAColl-6072

Description: Photographs of Thames, taken circa 1870s. Some photographs identified as being taken by Henry Frith. Photographer/s of other images not identified. Photographer and likely dates identified by researcher June 2020. Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-065400 to 065421 Quantity: 22 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1869

From: Illustrated London news :Various scenes of early New Zealand published in the Illustrated London News. 1860s

Reference: B-070-004

Description: Elevated view of the township of Shortland looking north. Extended Title - From Illustrated London news, V 55, Sept 25 1869, p 300 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, stuck to page 215 x 275 mm

Date: 1867 - 1870

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: C-174-003

Description: Shows the stamper battery established on the Golden Crown claim in Thames, about 1868. Features a single-storey building with a tall chimney. Other smaller buildings, likely to be miners' dwellings, and roadways are established on the hills behind. A flagpole bearing two flags stands to the right side of the painting. The scene is dotted with figures, all male Gold was first discovered in Thames in 1867. Thames soon had 693 stamper batteries pounding quartz rock as part the gold extraction process and by the 1880s, logging had also been established in the area Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - JC Hoyte / 18[?] [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 375 x 545 mm Provenance: Sold to Fletcher's at Webbs, 3 April 2001

Date: [ca 24 Jan 1932]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-8163-32

Description: View of Thames township taken from the base of the war memorial, showing the Thames river in the background. Photograph taken in January 1932, by an unidentified photographer for the Free Lance. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - 24/1/32 / Panoramic View / of Thames taken from the / base of the war memorial Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.7 x 16.6 cm

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1774-1/2-G

Description: Looking over Thames showing hosues and commercial buildings, with the wharf visible centre right. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer. Note in the Godber Accessions List "From Evening Post Collection" Part of a collection of images relating to the Thames area (from APG-1772-1/2 to APG-1779-1/2) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1884]

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

Reference: 1/2-065412-F

Description: Grahamstown, circa 1884, taken by an unidentified photographer. Pollen Street is bottom left. Note on back of file print reads: "Grahamstown, Thames. Pollen Street in bottom-left corner. Large building was erected about 1880 and used from 1903 to present (1977) as Allan Adams Ltd Clothing factory. On right are post office and courthouse, Queen Street. Top-right is Wesleyan Church (now site of School of Mines Museum) with Holdship's Wharf. Chimney of Holdship's Timber mill to left of church. On extreme mid-left, building may be Cornwall Arms Hotel, with church-like building behind it the Masonic Lodge (and library). On left is Karaka Creek. As Wesleyan Church was shifted in 1885, and Clothing Factory was buildt in 1880, photograph was eveidently taken between those dates, possibly 1884." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Cussen :Photographs of the Te Kuiti - Hamilton area

Reference: 1/2-045753-F

Description: Overlooking Thames township, circa 1900. Photograph probably taken by Lawrence Cussen. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1868

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096135-G

Description: Shortland (now known as Thames), photographed from the Hauraki Mission station in 1868 by Daniel Manders Beere. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - top left - 69 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: 1867 - 1880

Reference: C-030-002

Description: Shows a view of a coastal settlement spread along the water's edge, backed by bush-clad hills, and seen from the water. Thames, originally named Shortland, was established in 1867 as a goldmining town, but had grown to the size shown here by 1870. The buildings depicted are likely to include miners' houses, hotels and stamper batteries Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 770 mm (trimmed)

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: 1/2-001541-G

Description: Overlooking Thames township with Thames Central School in the foreground and the waterfront to the right. Photograph taken by William Price ca early 1910s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Thames. 1388 D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1773-1/2-G

Description: Looking over Thames with the Anglican church and the Thames County Chambers centre right. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer. Note in the Godber Accessions List "From Evening Post Collection" Part of a collection of images relating to the Thames area (from APG-1772-1/2 to APG-1779-1/2) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

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 1870]

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

Reference: 1/2-004108-F

Description: Elevated view of Grahamstown, circa 1870. George Bull's Battery can be seen in the foreground and the Post Office Hotel in the centre. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1867

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096132-G

Description: View from Hauraki Mission Station at Parawai, over the Kauaeranga River, towards Shortland (an area later known as Thames) photographed in 1867 by Daniel Manders Beere. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - top right - 66 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: [ca 1870]

Reference: 1/2-060669-F

Description: Overlooking Grahamstown, circa 1870. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).