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Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921 :Okarita, a digging township... [Hokitika, Harnett,...
Date: 1868 - 1870
By: Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925
Reference: A-104-049-a
Description: Shows the small digging township on the south end of the Okarito Lagoon, on the West Coast. In the right foreground, small boats are pulled up on the shore beside a house and a fishing net hanging to dry. A coastal bluff and a steamship at sea can be seen in the right distance. See Ellis, E M. Early prints of N.Z. 1642-1875. Christchurch, 1977. p. 192-193. From a sketch by W M Cooper; lith by Schmidt. Other Titles - Okarito Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 220 x 300 mm
Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921 :Okarita, Mount Cook bearing south. Litho[graphed] ...
Date: 1868 - 1870
By: Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925
Reference: A-104-049-b
Description: Shows the small digging township on the south end of the Okarito Lagoon, on the West Coast. In the right foreground, small boats are pulled up on the shore beside a house and a fishing net hanging to dry. A coastal bluff and a steamship at sea can be seen in the right distance. Title from label on verso. See Ellis, E M. Early prints of N.Z. 1642-1875. Christchurch, 1977. p. 192-193. From a sketch by W M Cooper; lith by Schmidt. Other Titles - Okarito Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 220 x 300 mm
[Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :Gabriels Gully from the Blue Spur. [1872]
Date: 1872
From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Sumner, Lyttelton, Central Otago, Lake Wakatipu, Kawarau Gorge, Oamaru, Dunedin, Clutha River. 1870 to 1873]
Reference: E-016-4-064
Description: Looking down into a valley with faint indications of tents, buildings, and fences or chutes Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, page size 88 x 153 mm.
Hobhouse family papers :Photographs of Nelson district
Date: 1870s
By: Hobhouse family; Tyree Brothers (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-5788
Description: Photographs (some prints from Tyree collection) show views of Nelson, Bishopdale, gold sluicing, Clifton Motupipi, sluicing hose crossing a valley, scenes in Golden Bay, Bishop's School Nelson, St Michael's Waimea West, Wanganui ca 1876, SW suburbs of Nelson 1889, St Alban's Church Appleby, Brightwater Church, Maitai River, Bishopdale 1888, Settler's hut. Quantity: 32 b&w original photographic print(s).
Wheeler and son album 1
Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]
By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)
Reference: PA1-o-532
Description: Views of New Zealand taken by E Wheeler & Son, circa 1870s to 1880s Most of the views are identified, either on the photograph itself, or in hand-written captions below; places shown are listed above. One image has caption "Flax cutting" on the photograph which shows a man standing be a group of cabbage trees, with a house? or possibly a mill with a water wheel in the background behind the trees, while the hand-written caption reads "Valley scene, Hokianga". Other Titles - New Zealand views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover (damaged), entitled "New Zealand Views" in gold lettering; 25.5 x 32.5 cm
[Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :Tent of rocks & thatch in Tuapeka Rd about 8 mile...
Date: 1870
From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Sumner, Lyttelton, Central Otago, Lake Wakatipu, Kawarau Gorge, Oamaru, Dunedin, Clutha River. 1870 to 1873]
Reference: E-016-4-002
Description: A hut built with rock walls and a thatched roof, backed up against a schist cliff, with low hills and a rider on a road in the background. To the right, a separate drawing of a rock formation in a semi-human shape The site appears to be approximately at modern Gorge Creek, south of Alexandra The hut is likely to be one built by a gold-miner Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, page size 88 x 153 mm.
Photographer unknown :Log & nikau hut, gold-diggers, Westport. From the Dyson Album, Al...
Date: 1987 - 1870 - 1879
From: [Pioneer shelter series] [picture] - Christchurch, N Z, Gateway Pictures, [1987?]
By: Gateway Pictures
Reference: B-123-028
Description: Shows two gold-diggers standing outside their hut, with a dog. The photograph was taken in the 1870s. Accompanied by an explanatory sheet. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, sepia, 310 x 450 mm
Annan, Enid Laura, 1903-1996 : Clyde, Dunstan of the early sixties
Date: 1973
By: Annan, Enid Laura, 1903-1996
Reference: MS-Papers-1562
Description: Text of talk to accompany historic walk through Dunstan, gold mining town in Central Otago in 1860s Quantity: 1 folder(s) (9 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript
Correspondence
Date: Jan-Jun 1872
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-065
Description: Letter from Hall's Lincoln electors calling for a public meeting; hand-drawn map sent by Thomas Russell showing Thames goldfield mines Quantity: 1 folder(s). Map showing gold mines - Tookey, Golden Crown and Caledonian
Billmanson, Ivan Frederick, d 1872 : Papers
Date: 1850-1873
By: Billmanson, Ivan Frederick, -1872
Reference: Micro-MS-0103
Description: Billmanson's correspondence with his family from 1850 to 1872, largely in Swedish, as a seaman based in Liverpool 1850-1857, as farm labourer, teacher and goldminer in Australia until 1867, and as a goldminer on the West Coast 1867-1872; diary 1864-1869; includes a ledger (1864-1871); correspondence with Australasian goldminers; a commonplace book; estate papers; and photographs Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Negative microfilm only
Proceedings of native meeting held at Thames on 11th and 12th of December 1874
Date: 11-12 Dec 1874
Reference: MS-Papers-2520
Description: Account of a meeting held at Thames on 11 and 12 Dec to discuss payment for the Ohinemuri goldfield. The meeting was attended by Sir Donald McLean, James MacKay, Edward Walter Puckey and chiefs and members of the Ngati Maru, Ngati Tamatera, Ngati Whanaunga and Ngati Paoa tribes. Source of title - Transcribed Authorship of the document is unknown Quantity: 1 folder(s) (28 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: No details about the provenance of the document are available other than that it was found under a pile of newspapers in a cupboard in a house at Te Anau in about 1975. How it came to be there could not be established at that time.
Hales, George B, fl 1875-1887 : Papers
Date: 1875-1887
By: Hales, George B, active 1875-1887
Reference: qMS-0905
Description: Comprises letters from Tonga and Samoa (1875); from New Zealand describing the South Island and Westland (1885 and 1886); from Western Australia and South Australia (1886 and 1887); describes voyage from Wellington to Derby, Western Australia in SS `Triumph' and trip thence to the Kimberley diggings with New Zealand horses and drays, with extract of diary (17 Aug 1886-1 Jan 1887) Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (199 leaves). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs and mss (photocopies) (35 cm; brown hinged lid box)
[Thomas, E. A. C.] b. 1825 :Table land [Mount Arthur] Diggers hut... . March 1879.
Date: 1879
From: Thomas, E A C, 1825- :[Album of a visit to the Motueka area and North Canterbury]
By: Thomas, E A C, 1825-
Reference: E-305-q-033
Description: An abandoned gold-miner's hut on the slopes of Mount Arthur Other Titles - Birkett Extended Title - .... Birket, the man spent a whole winter with his little son on this plain snowed up with 8ft snow often. 3900 ft above sea level on the way to the stalactite caves. We visited it March 1879 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 150 x 226 mm on sheet 297 x 226 mm
Photographs from the West Coast Album by Tensfeld
Date: ca 1866-1872
By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882
Reference: PAColl-7634
Description: A flume bridge for gold mining near Ross ca 1870s; the first bridge between Blaketown and Greymouth ca 1870s; and Charleston ca 1866-1872. Photographer was John Tensfeld and the images were captioned West Coast Album in the bottom left of each image. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-008043, 008047 and 008048 Quantity: 3 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives
Stewart, Peter, 1832-1918 : Life of Peter Stewart
Date: [1918]
By: Stewart, Peter, 1831?-1918
Reference: MS-Papers-7046
Description: Comprises `Life of Peter Stewart' in which Stewart describes his family and early life beginning with `From memory. Notes from old time' and continuing until his arrival in Australia in 1854 and New Zealand in 1861. In both countries he went gold mining; additional reminiscences give information about purchasing land in the Manawatu and he summarises some of his activities and involvement in local matters until 1874. Details of his birth and death are supplied. Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-1467 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript
Russell, John 1832-1918? : Reminiscences
Date: 1832-1877, 1912
By: Russell, John, 1832-1918?
Reference: MS-1837
Description: Reminiscences apparently written by Russell at the age of 80 Source of title - Transcribed Russell came from Australia in 1854 in the Tory, returning there in 1855; he later settled in Canterbury where he owned and managed a number of sheep stations Quantity: 1 volume(s) (61 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27cm, yellow buckram)
Photographer unknown: Two views of gold mining in Otago
Date: ca 1870
Reference: PAColl-6524
Description: Two views of gold mining in Otago both showing the railway passing the mine. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-010036 to 010037 Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s).
[Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :The Cornish Cos claim, Cromwell [1873]
Date: 1873
From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Sumner, Lyttelton, Central Otago, Lake Wakatipu, Kawarau Gorge, Oamaru, Dunedin, Clutha River. 1870 to 1873]
Reference: E-016-4-070
Description: Two men on a steep path in rugged mountains, one swinging a mallet, the other wielding a pike. The men are likely to be goldminers, possibly from Cornwall See also 'The wire bridge near Cromwell to the Cornishmens Claim' E-016-5-040 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, page size 88 x 153 mm.
Fry, James Arthur Barrett, b 1850 : Reminiscences of James Arthur Barrett Fry
Date: 1850-1876, 1918?
By: Fry, James Arthur Barrett, 1850-
Reference: Micro-MS-0856
Description: Cover James' birth, childhood in London, the voyage to New Zealand on the `African' in 1861, his work on the `Southern Cross' newspaper in Auckland, impressions of Dunedin and New Zealand in general, his employment as a shearer, station hand, miner, gardener and carter in NSW and Victoria 1865-1876. Includes sketch maps detailing his travels in Australia and an undated photograph of farm labourers. Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - Micro-MS-0860 includes his shipboard diary kept on the `African' James Fry was born in England. In 1861 the Fry family emigrated to New Zealand settling in Auckland, then Dunedin, where James' father became a storekeeper on the goldfields. In 1865 the family moved to Melbourne. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Physical Description: Mss and typescript Finding Aids: Detailed index at front.
State Library of Victoria :Photographs of Nelson and gold mining
Date: [187-?]
Reference: PAColl-4452
Description: Three copies of original photographs held by the State Library of Victoria. A panorama of Nelson from the Saltwater Bridge with Hounsell's and Lucas's to the left and the cathedral on the right; a view looking out to the harbour with the cathedral on the left; and a view of a gold mining settlement identified as being in the Nelson area by the State Library and consisting of a group of wooden buildings in the foreground with huts scattered on the hill behind. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 3 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Copy prints