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Date: [Early 1880s?]

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Taber, Isaiah West, 1830-1912

Reference: PA1-q-153

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken by various photographers, circa early 1880s. Images include several Maori groups, Maori kainga, meeting houses, carving; a large number of views of mud pools, geysers, hot springs, and in particular views of the Pink and White Terraces before the Tarawera eruption in 1886. Other views show areas of the South Island, including Dunedin City, Oamaru, Christchurch; and the North island including Auckland, Thames District (a number showing aspects of gold mining in the area). The last photograph, of the R.M.S.S. Zealandia was taken by Taber Photo, San Francisco. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with grey blue cover, black corners and spine edged with gold; 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Date: 1868

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

Reference: 1/2-096133-G

Description: View of Shortland, showing the New Caledonia Hotel, photographed in 1868 by Daniel Manders Beere. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 67 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: 1870s

By: Cox, Horace A, active 1883

Reference: PA1-o-110

Description: New Zealand scenery photographed circa 1870s. Views include the Pink and White Terraces and Lake Rotomahana; a digger's hut in the Tararua Range; Mercury Bay; carriers changing horses in Oripi bush; a group of Maori holding a runanga at an unidentified meeting house; two views of the new road being created between Lake Coleridge and Hokitika. Inscriptions: Album page - Horace A Cox, from his old schoolfellow Harry [?], Lyttelton, New Zealand, 9 July 1883 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cover with gold outline, 22.5 x 31 cm Provenance: Presented to Horace A Cox on 9 July 1883.

Date: 1880-1889

By: F Bradley & Company; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA1-o-497

Description: Album of photographs compiled ca 1880s, from print published by F Bradley & Co, of Christchurch. Comprises views of Shag Rock, Timaru, Christchurch, Bealey, Greymouth, Oamaru, Rangitata River bridge, Dunedin, Taupo, Waimakariri River bridge, Governor's Bay, Kaiapoi, Arthur's Pass, Kawau Island, Cheviot, Akaroa Harbour, Alfred Falls, the Pink Terrace, White Island, Otira Gorge, Pigeon Bay, gold mining at Thames, Nelson, Heathcote River, the cable car across the Taramakau River, Sumner, and Tamatekapua meeting house at Ohinemutu. Also included are carte de visite portraits of Maori. Among the photographers whose work is shown are Herbert Deveril and Daniel Louis Mundy. Each photograph has a printed inscription attached on the back of the page. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 25 x 32 cm

Date: [Between 1868 and 1890s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-q-085

Description: Album of photographs. Most of the views of Canterbury and Thames were taken by Daniel Mundy, between 1868 and 1872. New Zealand scenes are mostly taken by Daniel Mundy, and include many landscapes; a few taken in Christchurch City; several show the Raukapuka Station and Raukapuka Bush, near Geraldine; several taken in and around the Thames Goldfields, at Moanatiri Valley and Te Puhi Flat, with one view of the workings of `The Wild Missouri. Quartz crusher. Thames'. A section of the album shows parts of England, including a number of Glastonbury Abbey and St Joseph's Chapel, Wells, Mitford and Mitford Castle, and Pang bourne [i.e. Pangbourne]. Near the end of the album is an obituary and lithograph of William Charles Wentworth (1790-1872) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cover with gold decorations entitled `Scrap album', 28.5 x 24.5 cm

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

Date: [Between 1863 and 1872]

From: Holder, Miss: Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-f-030

Description: Album of undated photographs taken by Daniel Louis Mundy, owned by `Miss Holder' (her name printed facing page 1) Scenes are all of the North Island, in particular Bay of Islands, Thames, Rotorua, Taupo, Waikato and Napier. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black leather-bound album entitled `New Zealand views'; 30.5 x 42.0 cm

Date: 1880s

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-163

Description: Album of tourist photographs of the North Island from the 1880s, many taken by identified photographers including J M (Josiah Martin), the Burton Brothers, and Wheeler & Son. There are a number of images of Waiwera, including one of two whaleboats meeting a horse-drawn carriage transporting a group of people from a steamer to land. Photographs relating to Maori include views of Parihaka; Taipari's house at Thames; Ngati Maniapoto chief Wahanui at his house, Alexandra; a large group in a hot pool at Whakarewarewa; and one of Aporo and Ngareta at Wairoa. Inscriptions: Album page - "R I Morrish Esq. With best wishes from C A, and M I [Cox?], [Box?] Hill, Melbourne, June 10th, 1888" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with heavily embossed brown leather cover, entitled `Scrap album' in raised gold letters, with gold decoration; 29.5 x 23.5 cm

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: ca 1867-1880s

By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882

Reference: PAColl-7478

Description: Waterloo Quadrant, Auckland with the Supreme Court on the left; Eden Crescent, Auckland with the Supreme Court in the distance; elevaated view of Grahamstown looking towards the wharves with the Moanataiari Hotel in the foreground; a view of Shortland; view of Nelson looking across the harbour to the Post Office on the waterfront and the cathedral beyond; and the waterfront at Hokitika showing a bonded store on the left and a boat and a coil of rope in the foreground. Photographer was Tensfeld. The prints have the same format and two are duplicates of prints in the Tensfeld album PA1-o-493 but the provenance is otherwise unknown. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004560 to 004563 and 004777 (copy negatives from original prints) Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: [1870s-1880s]

By: Whinray, William James Longmire, 1885-1961; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-534

Description: Photograph album entitled 'Views of New Zealand' by E Wheeler and Son, taken circa 1870s and 1880s. Views include landscapes; city views; one of tree ferns with a digger's hut in the Thames gold diggings; sheep mustering at Waireka Station; a wool wagon from Cheviot Station in North Canterbury hauled by an ox team across a river ford; a bush scene at Teremakau (Taramakau); and a pataka (storehouse) at Taupo. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Views in New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album in folded concertina form with dark brown cover, black corners and spine, entitled "Views in New Zealand. E. Wheeler & Son"; 24.5 x 31.5 cm

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: [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: 1868

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

Reference: 1/2-096134-G

Description: House and garden of Wirope Hoterini Taipari, in Shortland (now known as Thames), photographed in 1868 by Daniel Manders Beere. Woman at right centre also appears in 1/2-096130 and 1/2-096138 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - top left - 68 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: 1868

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

Reference: 1/2-096138-G

Description: Gerald Butler Beere and family on veranda of house in Shortland, photographed in 1868 by Daniel Manders Beere. Woman seated at left also appears in 1/2-096130-G and 1/2-096134-G Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - top right - 73; Photographer's title on negative - George & family, Shortlands 1868 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: 1867

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

Reference: 1/2-096131-G

Description: The Hauraki Mission Station, Thames, photographed in 1867 by Daniel Manders Beere. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - top left - 65 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: 1868

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

By: Auckland punch (Periodical)

Reference: MNZ-0427-1/4-F

Description: Undated and unsigned cartoon published in an unidentified edition of 'Punch or the Auckland Charivari' dated 1868. Depicts commissioner James Mackay, also known as "The Thames Autocrat" addressing gold miners at Thames from a small stage: "Proceed good people with your buildings and improvments; continue to behave yourselves, and at the end of seven years I will raise everybody's rent." Published in 'Making New Zealand' Vol 1, No 8, page 21 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Provenance: Item from an issue of 'Punch or the Auckland Charivari', 1868, lent to the Department of Internal Affairs for publication in 'Making New Zealand' in 1939.

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: [ca 1873-1874]

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: 1/2-029171-F

Description: Hut made of ponga logs set amongst bush in Thames. Photograph taken by Daniel Louis Munday between 1873-1874. Note on back of file print reads: Possibly a Maori dwelling, gum diggers or gold diggers hut in Thames ca 1873-1874" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).