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West Coast scenes and activities

Date: [1960s-1970s]

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-19

Description: Photographs of West Coast scenes. Includes historical parade ca 1960s, building of fountain ca 1960, Strongman mine, grave stone of L A Inkster, and young man in wheelchair being given flight in light aircraft. Photographs taken 1960s-1970s by L A Inkster studio. Quantity: 83 b&w original photographic print(s). 17 colour original photographic print(s).

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Mount Tasman

Date: August 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1282

Description: Mount Tasman, from Cook River Flat, South Westland, with forest in foreground. Print with hand-applied colouring made from negative taken August 1955 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print with hand-applied colouring, mounted on board, 38 x 68 cm

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Salmon album 4

Date: [Between 1954 and 1968]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-200

Description: Album of photographs, some prints, some contacts from 35mm film, taken by Professor John Salmon in Wellington. Most of the images describe his use of different camera lenses and filters. Many of the scenes are taken from Professor Salmon's window at Victoria University of Wellington, showing different moods in different weather patterns. They include early morning, afternoon, and night views, northerly wind and southerly wind cloud patterns, including a southerly storm. He also has a large number of images of Wellington Harbour and wharves, again taken in different lights, showing ships, reflections and buildings. Other sequences show views of the Hutt Valley, Silverstream, and Glenmore Street in Wellington, many taken on misty early mornings. The last scenes are coloured photographs showing some of the decorations erected for the Royal visit of Queen Elizabeth II, in January 1954. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cream cover, Cobra ring binder; 30 x 24 cm

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Consolidated Gold Fields of New Zealand Ltd : Records

Date: 1896-1957

By: Consolidated Gold Fields of New Zealand Ltd

Reference: MS-Group-1132

Description: Records of the Company, consisting of reports, general and London correspondence, files on industrial relations and unions, legal documents, some minutes, mine manager reports and other papers. The records relate to both the Blackwater and the Consolidated mines, and there are some files on Progress and other subsidiary mining companies. Also included are the business and private correspondence and diaries of David Ziman. Source of title - Supplied The Consolidated Gold Fields of New Zealand Ltd, a quartzite-crushing gold extraction operation, was founded in 1896, in Reefton, by David Ziman from the purchase of the Globe, Progress, Wealth of Nations and Golden Fleece gold mining companies. Quantity: 28 box(es) (430 folders). 4 volume(s). 9.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Detailed listing available.. Plans of Blackwater Mine at 76-083-06/01

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Mainly photographs of the West Coast, New Zealand

Date: 1940-1950

From: Wellman, Harold William (Professor), 1909-1999: Photographs of geological survey work

Reference: PAColl-9649-3

Description: Photographs of the landforms of the West Coast of New Zealand taken by Harold Wellman between 1940 and 1950. Quantity: 85 b&w original photographic print(s) Mounted on album pages.

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Jacobsen, Charles Seigmond, fl 1875-1979 : Reminiscences

Date: [ca 1875-1959]

By: Jacobson, Charles Seigmond, active 1875-1959

Reference: Micro-MS-0226

Description: Jacobsen writes of his childhood in the Nelson area, his friends and acquaintances, working as a miner, the 1913 Waterfront strike, his World War I experiences as a Private with the 1st Canterbury Infantry Battalion, working as a commercial fisherman in the French Pass area in the 1930s, and his discovery of uranium in Buller Gorge Includes holograph reminiscences, and typed transcript Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive.

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Transparencies of Lake Matheson

Date: 1956

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7408

Description: Transparencies of Aoraki reflected in Lake Matheson, taken 1956 by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

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New Zealand places

Date: [ca 1933-1959]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Watherston, R A, active 1956

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-202

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1933-1959. Various photograph of Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu - Soldiers memorial; camping grounds; Queenstown School; Queenstown Post Office; main street; Scott Memorial in Queenstown Park; town centre, 1933; several elevated views; Queenstown Gardens; Kawarau Dam, 1949; aqua-skiing on the lake; Earnslaw; loading wool at Greenstone Bay, 1950. Franz Josef Glacier; mountaineers cutting steps on the glacier; Arrow Basin; Kaniere gold dredge at Kumara, 1959; St Mary's Church, New Plymouth; Mrs W Reid of Runanga surf casting at Crows Bay, West Coast; hay making near Waikari, North Canterbury; Honeymoon Bay in Tasman Bay. Sheep mustering on high country run of A W Gard, Mt Bell Station (near Kurow); photo of musterers (all named on back) and property owned by Gard. Photographs sent to New Free Lance with accompanying letter by R S Watherston of Springhills, 1956 Also Balclutha; Milton; Woodbank Church; Russell, car ferry at Paihia; Mr Barker's stud at Wanaka; bridge over Molyneux River; Roman Catholic Church at Tokaanu; Wanganui river boat; rock formations at Palliser Bay; yachts of man-made lake Lake Whakamarino, 1947; Cascade Saddle; Mount Egmont lighthouse; Pukekura Park; tree growing amongst rocks on Dunstan Range; Taihape Plunket Rooms; elevated view of Nelson; haymaking near Dagarville; Marion Camp, Homer Tunnel; Northland express passing down main street of Kawakawa, 1947; Centennial Memorial, Wanganui; A & P Show, Taranaki; Dobson; Victoria Park, Waimate; main street of Levin, 1930; Midhurst Co-operative Dairy Factory; St Bathans, 1947. Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Scrapbook

Date: [1903-1951]

From: Crabb, Pearl Unice Elizabeth, b 1903 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6158-1

Description: Scrapbook mostly comprising matters of personal interest including invitations, clippings on health, decorating, knitting and tennis, but also including itineraries of official visits, an obituary for Maui Pomare and similar items. Includes copy of Crabb's birth certificate and summary of her working career (at W), and `When I am dead' by H E Holland. Arrangement: Loose pages in MS-Papers-6158-2 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Brunner Mineworkers Union - Brunnerton minute book

Date: 1951-1953

From: West Coast Miners' Unions : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1071-116

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donated by Mr Hardy Browning

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Mount Tasman from Cook River Flat

Date: August 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1270

Description: Mount Tasman from Cook River Flat. Print with hand-applied colouring made from negative taken August 1955 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print with hand-applied colouring, mounted on board, 68 x 38 cm

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Bailey, Sue :Postcards of New Zealand from the collection of Professor Colin L Bailey

Date: ca1900-1956

By: Bailey, Colin Lennie, 1906-1997; Bailey, Sue, active 1998

Reference: PAColl-6025

Description: Views of Westport, Denniston, Blackball, Ngakawau, Millerton, Inangahua Junction, Seddonville, Dunedin, Gore, Milford Sound, Greymouth and Taupo Quantity: 10 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 12 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. Provenance: The late Professor C L Bailey, from the VUW Department of Education, collected photographs and other items relating to New Zealand history from members of the public.

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Transparencies of Lake Ianthe

Date: September 1958, August 1959

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7415

Description: Transparencies of Lake Ianthe, taken September 1958 and August 1959 by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

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Rugby football, West Coast vs South Africa

Date: 1937

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-10

Description: Rugby match between touring South African side (Springboks) and combined West Coast side. Photograph taken 1937, probably at Greymouth, by L A Inkster. Quantity: 34 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Scenes of Stewart Island, Westland, Southland and Nelson

Date: [ca 1940s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-003

Description: Photographs of Stewart Island, Westland, Southland and Nelson taken circa 1940s for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of road construction, towns, rivers, bridges, lakes, mountains and personalities. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Contribution book

Date: 1939-1957

From: Westland Painters' and Decorators' Industrial Union of Workers : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1135-3

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Newsclippings and broadsheet

Date: 1936-1951

From: Westland Gold Dredge and Alluvial Gold Mines Employees Industrial Union of Workers : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1119-31

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Outsize material from tertiary geology of sheets S23 and S24 (Westport)

Date: [1950]

From: Wellman, Harold William, 1909-1999 : Papers

Reference: MSI-Papers-7919-03

Description: Maps, diagrams, tables etc for completed work, `Tertiary geology of Westport, sheets S23 and S24', for a New Zealand Geological Survey bulletin Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Mount Tasman

Date: August 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1246

Description: Mount Tasman, from Cook River Flat, South Westland, with forest in foreground. Print with hand-applied colouring made from negative taken August 1955 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print with hand-applied colouring, mounted on board, 38 x 68 cm

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Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965 :Mt Bismark, Mt Roon + the Franz Josef Glacier. A series...

Date: 1951

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: A-384-001-1/6

Description: Shows a view of the Franz Josef Glacier, the sunlit mountains beyond, and trees silhouetted in the foreground. Similar to the image at A-379-031. Quantity: 6 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Woodcuts on sheets, 230 x 290 mm.

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