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West Coast Mining album
Date: [Circa 1880s to 1912]
By: Divis, Joseph, 1885-1967
Reference: PA1-o-531
Description: Very clear views of West Coast gold and coal mines (mainly in the Reefton subdivision), and mining towns, taken by unidentified photographers, except for one of "Wondrous Waiuta New Zealand" Jos. Divis Photo (p 27). Views on various roads include the Reefton to Blackspoint Road, Reefton to Westport Road, the Buller Gorge, the Maruia Road alongside the Inangahua River, Progress Road, and fording a river near Progress Mill. Images relating to mines include a winter picture of the old Wealth (of Nations) waterwheel covered in icicles; and gold batteries at various stages of development. Gold mines include the Progress Mine, Wealth of Nations Mine, Welcome Mine, the Mountain Battery at Boatman's Creek, the Blackwater Mine and the Globe Mine. Coal mines include views of Lanky's Creek Coal Mine, and the Lanky's Creek to Energetic coal tramway showing new bridges and coal miners. One photograph (p 9) shows several men "beach combing" for gold on the West Coast. There are a number of articles in The West Coast Times, Otago Witness and Otago Daily Times talking about the success or otherwise of seeking gold by this method in the 1860s to 1880s (see Papers Past paperspast.natlib.govt.nz, search under "beach combing" "west coast") Inscriptions: Album page - "To Messrs E & A Spencer with best wishes from D Turnbull, Reefton, N.Z., 13/10/1911, 2/6/1912" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark grey cover, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 19.0 x 27.5 cm
Ring, James, 1856-1939 :Buller Gorge, West Coast
Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]
By: Ring, James, 1856-1939
Reference: PA7-51-10
Description: View of the Buller River and Gorge. Photograph taken by James Ring. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Buller Gorge. N.Z. 440 J.R. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 138 x 204 mm
Ring, James, 1856-1939 :Lyell punt on the Buller River
Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]
By: Ring, James, 1856-1939
Reference: PA7-51-08
Description: Shows a group of men standing on a pontoon on the banks of the Buller River near Lyell. Their horse and carriage is on the road waiting to be ferried across the river. Photograph taken by James Ring in 1880s-1890s Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Lyell punt on the Buller, NZ. 438 J.R. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 140 x 205 mm
Bethune album
Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]
By: Ring, James, 1856-1939; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Tyree Brothers (Firm)
Reference: PA1-f-013
Description: Views of New Zealand taken by various photographers including the Burton Brothers, Tyree Brothers, James Ring, Josiah Martin, and Henry Thomas Lock. Includes images of flooding in Blenheim, and a wire cable tram across the Taramakau River (West Coast). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red cloth bound folio album, 415 x 300 mm
Buller River, Buller Gorge, West Coast - Photograph taken by James Ring
Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]
From: Hamilton Public Library :Photographs of New Zealand
By: Ring, James, 1856-1939
Reference: PA7-59-17-2
Description: Photograph of the river from the Buller Gorge road. Photograph taken by James Ring. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Buller Gorge N.Z. 1005.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Ring Photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 21 x 29 cm on album page
Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand :Assorted photographs
Date: [ca 1885-1945]
By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951
Reference: PAColl-0422
Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).
Hawks Crag, Buller Gorge - Photograph taken by James Ring
Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]
From: Hamilton Public Library :Photographs of New Zealand
By: Ring, James, 1856-1939
Reference: PA7-59-18-1
Description: View of the Buller River and Gorge at a point on the road above the river known as Hawks Crag (formerly known as Hawks Craig). There is a horse and carriage on the road. Photograph taken by James Ring. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Hawks Craig, Buller Gorge, N.Z. 1990 [rest unreadable] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 21.5 x 29 cm on album page
Creator unknown: Gold Dredges album
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
Roberts, George J :One hundred and eight photographs of the West Coast Region by photog...
Date: ca 1890
By: Roberts, George John, 1848-1910; Harper, Arthur Paul, 1865-1955; Cundy, Horace Gordon, 1907-1983
Reference: PAColl-3412
Description: Mostly photographs of scenic West Coast Region. Note that under Places only a handfull of the 108 photoprints have been indexed Inscriptions: All the photographs are identified on the back in pencil written in most cases in the same hand. Some of the negatives have reference numbers on the back in pencil. These may indicate that several sets of prints were made Quantity: 108 b&w original photographic print(s) in two boxes. Physical Description: Majority of photoprints approx 110 x 150mm (the few that are not are smaller)
Little Hawks Crag, Buller Gorge - Photograph taken by James Ring
Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]
From: Hamilton Public Library :Photographs of New Zealand
By: Ring, James, 1856-1939
Reference: PA7-59-15-2
Description: View of the Buller River and Gorge at a point on the road above the river known as Little Hawks Crag. Photograph taken by James Ring. Other Titles - Little Hawks Craig, Buller Gorge Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Little Hawks Craig, Buller Gorge [rest unreadable] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 21.5 x 29 cm on album page
Photographs of New Zealand scenery and family
Date: [ca 1880s-1910s]
From: Clark, Morton, fl 1900s :Photographs
By: Macey, William Henry, -1931; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-9525-1
Description: Photographs taken and collected by Morton Clark and family. Includes a landscape and views of Wellington, Nelson, Whakarewarewa, Akaroa, Buller Gorge, Cass, Otira, and Bealey Gorge during a journey. Also includes portrait photographs of family members taken in Blenheim and Wellington studios. Quantity: 66 b&w original photographic print(s).
Haylock album
Date: 1880-1889
From: Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898?-1980 :Photographs
By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Ring, James, 1856-1939
Reference: PA1-q-116
Description: Album compiled by Arthur Lagden Haylock, containing views of Lyttelton, Christchurch, Wellington, Nelson, New Plymouth, Tauranga, Ohinemutu, Mangarewa Gorge, Pink & White Terraces, Napier, Timaru, Porters Pass, Castle Hill (West Coast Road), Craigieburn, Waimakariri River, Arthur's Pass, Otira Gorge, Otira, Jacksons, Taipo River, Mount Alexander, Dillmanstown, Hokitika, and Greymouth. Also includes photographs of ships Annie Bow, Ganymede, and City of Perth and Benvenue stranded at Timaru in 1882. Photographs taken 1880s, by James Ring, Burton Brothers, Wheeler & Sons (including prints made by Wheeler from the negatives of D L Mundy) and others. Other Titles - Ramblings through New Zealand. By A.L. Haylock Quantity: 1 album(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Brown album with gold borders, entitled `Ramblings through New Zealand. By A.L. Haycock', lettered in gold; 36.5 x 31.5 cm
Wheeler and son album 2
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
Dredging for gold, Buller River
Date: ca 1890
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
Reference: 10x8-1028-G
Description: Dredging for gold, Buller River, circa 1890. On the dredge, from left: Jack Burgess, William Welsh, W H Whitlock, William McGaw, and Duncan Williamson. Annie and Mary Hunter, wearing aprons and hats, sit alongside. Photograph taken by the Tyree Studio. The same group are photographed at 10x8-0503 and 0504 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Dredging on the Buller Tyree Photo 1549 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Horse drawn coach after being ferried across the Buller River
Date: 1880-1890
From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts
Reference: 10x8-0619-G
Description: Horse drawn coach after being ferried across the Buller River. There are also two men on the ferry standing behind the coach with their horses. Photograph taken by the Tyree Brothers (firm) during the 1880s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Ferry, near Westport. Tyree photo Nelson. 5129 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Zachariah (Zak), Joseph 1863-1965 :Photographs
Date: ca 1880-1910
By: Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965; Zachariah, Irene Anita Clematis, active 1925-1965
Reference: PAColl-0043
Description: Three coloured postcards, one of a old Maori woman dozing outside a house (identified as Ceylon Wickliffe's Great Aunt), a Maori girl described as the Arawa Belle (identified as Marie McFarland), and some Maori children playing in the lake at Ohinemutu; the seven men of the executive of the New Zealand Harbour Boards Conference seated outside a building; three photographs of a Maori event in a park, probably in Wellington, with tents pitched and participants wearing kakahu over European dress; two women in traditional dress next to a wood carving, one is holding a hoe; a hut at Hawk's Crag on the Buller River; a loaded cart passing through Porter's Pass; Wellington wharves seen from Oriental Parade; the Buller River; a group of men gathered round a table to sign a document; view from Mount Cook towards Mount Victoria with what are possibly brickworks in the foreground; and photographs of four petitions submitted in Greymouth. Prints labelled Zak collection were taken by him. Arrangement: Prints at PAColl-0043. Also at PA4 and PA5 (see child records). Provenance: Irene C Zachariah was the widow of Joseph Zachariah who operated the Zak studio in Wellington.