Places

Date: 1862 - 1864

By: Harrisson, Charles, active 1863

Reference: A-236-033

Description: Black's Rush (later named Ophir), with miners working claims in the Manuherikia River, an encampment above banks, a wagon waiting to cross the river by pontoon. In the foreground is a small hut with a chimney, a flag on top and miners. Two miners are wading across the river. The Raggedy Range is in the background, with a series of jagged rocks along its top Title inscribed in pencil For attribution and provenance see catalogue record for A-236-023 Other Titles - Ophir Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing card; pencil and grey wash ; image 153 x 203 mm on sheet 180 x 265 mm

Date: 1857-1872

Reference: MS-Papers-2809

Description: Includes: Act to amend the regulations for the sale or disposal of Crown Lands in the Province of Nelson (1862); papers relating to land purchase and miner's rights for Andrew Kerr, 1857-1862; land orders for immigrants who arrived at Auckland from Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope on the `Sir George Grey', May 1864 (Benjamin & Mrs Lanham, William & Rosalie Davies, James Davidson, Allen Marshall, William Morrison, William Bartlett, Robert Wilson, William Burton, William Daveny); papers relating to Captain John Holliday and land in Queen Charlotte Sound, 1868-1872. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter

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

Date: 1880

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

Reference: A-182-048

Description: A rail track with a man leaning against a small cart on the track, leading into the entrance to a tunnel in the mountains, at the Maryborough Mine, near Macetown. Huge rock pillars tower against the skyline Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 254 x 120 mm

Date: 1880

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

Reference: A-182-046

Description: A rough mountain track, rounding a corner with a man carrying his gun on his back. To left is Advance Peak Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 254 x 181 mm

Date: [ca 1870s]

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA7-48-07

Description: Photograph of a whare at Punga Flat, Tararu Range, near Thames taken by Daniel Louis Mundy, ca 1870s Same image as PA1-f-039, p 6 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 24.2 x 19.5 cm on card 30 x 23.5 cm

Date: 1880

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

Reference: A-182-047

Description: A precipitous narrow mountain track with two men on it, heading downwardsl. At the corner in a dangerous overhang Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 254 x 175 mm

Date: 1862 - 1864

By: Harrisson, Charles, active 1863

Reference: A-236-035

Description: A view looking down onto a river valley with miners' tents and houses and diggings. The houses rise onto the lower slopes of the opposite hill. A range of diggings with piled up spoil around each hole (known as 'paddocks') are shown in the central area, with men moving around the whole area Hogburn was the original name for Naseby 'Paddocks' dug out by gold miners measured 8 x 12 feet. The spoil around the edges was not allowed to spill into the next-door claim Other Titles - Naseby Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing 122 x 204 mm on sheet 140 x 225 mm Transfers: For attribution and provenance see catalogue record for A-236-023.

Date: 1895

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

Reference: E-147-029

Description: A young man or boy in a flat cap, working clothes and boots. He is walking. On a small sheet of paper pasted over a figure of a man in a clown's hat Quantity: 1 drawing(s) pasted over another pencil and crayon drawing. Physical Description: Pencil 114 x 185 mm

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10x8-0452-G

Description: Workers at an antimony mine, Endeavour Inlet, circa 1880s. Photograph taken by the Tyree Studio. Men unidentified. Other Titles - Tyree No. 1418 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Antimony mine Endeavour Inlet Tyree Photo 1418 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Whole plate glass negative

Date: 1868, 1871 etc

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-041

Description: Photographs of the North Island of New Zealand taken by Daniel Mundy during the 1860s to 1871. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in this album at p. 51) The Thames goldfields are shown in a number of images, including some with captions Shortland and Grahamstown (now part of Thames); the Moanataira [i.e. Moanatairi] wire tramway, with the Rainbow Hotel nearby; Hunt's claim (known as the Shotover Mine); the Missouri Battery; the Bank of New Zealand building at Grahamstown; and miners' huts. The timber industry is shown with kauri logs being transported by bullock teams and awaiting transport by water. Photographs associated with Maori include military outposts at Terewera (i.e. Tarawera) and Ormond; "Kawiti's Runanga, or court houses, now `tapu', Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 21); "limestone caves at Waiomeo [sic], Bay of Islands; the burial place of the Mangakahia tribe. Strictly tapu" (p. 22); "Group at Waimeo feast, Bay of Islands" (p. 20); "Native feast - or bone-scraping at the burial of the remains of several chiefs at Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 46); "Waipawa Valley, Poverty Bay, scene of the massacre by Te Kooti" (p. 47); "Here the moa feet impressions were found, Poverty Bay, Sept. 1871, D.L.M." (p. 51). There are two-image panoramas of the Thames goldfields and Napier. In this album they are not on following pages, but are separated. (Thames goldfields, Mundy numbers 121 & 120, here seen on pages 9 and 15); Napier (Mundy numbers 164 & 165, here seen on pages 50 and 52). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover, geometric pattern, gold decoration, entitled `New Zealand' in gold; 30.5 x 42.5 cm

Date: 1880

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

Reference: A-182-043

Description: A rough mountain track, with three men on horseback heading towards a peak and towards the Maryborough Mine, near Macetown, Central Otago Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 252 x 120 mm