Places

Date: [ca 1880s-1920s]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-008349-G

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: [ca 1880s-1920s]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-008350-G

Description: Photograph of a crane lifting a hopper filled with coal off one of several Q class hopper wagons, Westport wharf, taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch. There is a glimpse of the ship alongside waiting to have the coal loaded, and a second crane, railway tracks, and buildings in the background. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: ca 1880s

Reference: 1/4-009033-F

Description: View of Palmerston Street, Westport showing the court house and the Bank of New South Wales. Photographer unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1879

By: Tyrrell, J, active 1879; Westport times (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-D-ENERGY-1879-01

Description: An arrangement of text with decorative border. Relates to a sample of coal forwarded to the Sydney Exhibition through the general managers at Westport, from a seam at Coalbrookdale, a property owned by the Westport Colliery Company. Explains how the coal will be recovered. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Letterpress on card 627 x 505 mm.

Date: 1880 - 1889

By: Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?

Reference: PA2-2068

Description: Inscriptions: Verso - In pencil: Westport wharf Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1872

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-067

Description: View from beach to mountain, with the town of Westport in the middle distance. Buildings include two churches Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 255 x 365 mm

Date: [ca1872]

Reference: 1/2-003052-F

Description: Photograph of Gladstone Street, Westport, West Coast Region, showing shops and a bank. Photographed by an unidentified photographer in about 1872. Other - Identified as Westport and Gladstone Street by Les Wright December 2007. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: ca 1880s

Reference: 1/2-049208-G

Description: Unidentified street, and row of businesses, in Westport, circa 1880s. Whyte & Pirie drapery, in Westport House, is on the left. Photographer unidentified. Note on back of file print reads: "Before the flood". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: ca 1880s

Reference: 1/4-015411

Description: Men on a wharf, with boats and trees alongside, circa 1880s. Location, and photographer, unknown. Previously identified as Westport Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1870

From: Moloney, Daniel Laurence 1875-1949 :Carte de visites and photographs relating to mining on the West Coast

Reference: 1/2-154558-F

Description: Row of butchers at a stockyard sale at South Spit in Westport, 1870. Shows J Colvin, J Suisted, G Lamplough, R McFarlane, J Brown, J Powell and E Drennan. Also shows John Munro as the auctioneer, at right. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1885

From: Lovell-Smith, Edgar McLeod, 1875-1950 :Photographs

By: Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?

Reference: PA2-1009

Description: Inscriptions: Verso - Gladstone St Westport Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1899

From: The Weekly Press, 1865-1928. Christchurch

By: Heinz, William Frederick, 1899-1976

Reference: PUBL-0104-001

Description: W Nahr's Westport Brewery, with horse and cart carrying barrels alongside. Photographer unidentified.

Date: 1885

From: Lovell-Smith, Edgar McLeod, 1875-1950 :Photographs

By: Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?

Reference: PA2-1013

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

Date: 1864 - 1866

By: Nairn, Francis Edward, 1819?-1910

Reference: A-236-012

Description: A coach pulled by two horses on a road with a bush background. The phrase W. Newman is possibly a reference to a coaching firm; by 1865 William Newman (father of Henry and Thomas Newman) had begun transporting provisions for goldminers at Wakamarina and Canvastown, although a West Coast location is not mentioned in DNZB vol 2, page 353. A-236-011, -012 and -013 are all on the same sheet of paper Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on tissue paper, 91 x 118 mm (irregular) Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Nairn family collection, MS Papers 326..

Date: [ca 1870s]

Reference: 1/2-003049-F

Description: Photograph of the Waterman's Arms, Westport, taken ca 1870s by an unknown photographer. A group of men are sitting and standing outside the hotel with the proprietor, G T Craddock, nearest the door and his daughter Maria standing in the doorway. A caged bird is hanging on the wall outside. In the doorway of the cottage next to the hotel are William Phillips and Mrs Pollock. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1873]

Reference: 1/2-C-022364-F

Description: Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [after 28 Oct 1868]

Reference: 1/2-010975-F

Description: Gladstone Street, Westport, after a flood on 28 October 1868. Timbers, doors, and window frames, are from flood damaged buildings across the street. View shows Turner Watchmakers (owned by James A M Turner), Hugh Neil's Glasgow Bakery (with Mrs Neil and children outside), G Nicol's Boatman's Arms bar, a tobacconist's shop, a stock salesman's office, the Bank of New Zealand melting house with gold office and banking chambers. Source of descriptive information: Bruce Macdonald, Westport - struggle for survival : an illustrated history (Christchurch [N.Z.] : Cadsonbury, 2000), p 24. Tramlines in foreground went to Orowaiti. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [189-?]

Reference: 1/2-003051-F

Description: Photograph of a group of people standing outside James Gibson's Miner's Rest hotel, taken ca early 1890s by an unidentified photographer. Shows a horse and cart in front of the building. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1885

From: Lovell-Smith, Edgar McLeod, 1875-1950 :Photographs

By: Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?

Reference: PA2-1015

Description: Inscriptions: Verso - Charlie Scott Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1899

By: Atkin, Walter, 1848-1911

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-CONCERT-1899-01

Description: Maori Concert Programme - cover: Haka, poi and tangi, Greyport (n.d.) Dated from pencil note at centre right. No Westport newspapers available to check, but Grey River Argus for 5-9 October 1899, page 3, announces their appearances in Greymouth earlier in the month. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Printed by Walter Atkin, Palmerston Street, Westport.; Recto - centre right - (In pencil): 500 / 17/10/[99?] Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress 225 x 142 mm.