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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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South Island scenes

Date: 1926-1951

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Collins, L, active 1940; Denton, Frank James, 1869-1963; Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980; Stewart and White Ltd

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-144

Description: Photographs taken for publication in NZ Free Lance between 1926 and 1950. Includes: Aerial and other photographs of towns in Otago, West Coast and Marlborough regions (places entered in Place Field). Other subjects include - war memorial at Green Island, Dunedin, 1926; Moeraki boulders; St Luke's Church, Oamaru; establishment of Invermay Agricultural Centre; remains of whaler's hut taken from Long Lookout Hill near mouth of Lake Forsyth; YMCA party at Tennyson Inlet; rock formations at Wai-nui Beach (near Pohara); Punakaiki pancake rocks; gold dredge at Gillespie's Beach; hut in Haast Valley (A V Bowden, photographer); Clutha River Gold Dredging Company's new dredge at Alexandra; Bendigo Hotel, Alexandra; raspberry pickers at Upper Riccarton, 1951; etc. Photographers include: L Collins, Christchurch; Thelma Kent; F J Denton, Oamaru; J D S Roberts; A V Bowden; W Hall Raine; Taylor of Dunedin; V C Browne, Christchurch; M Grant, Christchurch; Whites Aviation; Stewart & White Ltd, Auckland; H O Barker, Winton. Quantity: 63 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Transparencies of Lake Mapourika, Little Waitaha and Greymouth

Date: August 1959, August 1960, 1962

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7417

Description: Transparencies of Lake Mapourika, 1962; Little Waitaha, August 1959; and aerial views of Greymouth, August 1960, taken by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

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Greymouth buildings, scenes and personalities

Date: 1930s-1950s

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

Reference: PAColl-9543-01

Description: Greymouth buildings, scenes and personalities. Photographs taken 1930s-1950s, mostly by Inkster studio, but other photographers included. Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s).

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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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Ships and shipping

Date: [ca 1900-1955]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-099

Description: Photographs of New Zealand and overseas ships, many made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1900s-1950s. New Zealand related images include: Pen & ink drawing of S S Indralema; Port Napier at Wellington; Port Hobart; Marere (later sunk by a submarine); James Cook loaded with timber for Australia at Tauranga; Matthew Flinders at Greymouth; Oronsay on fire; several interior views of an Orient-Pacific liner. Also: Austral; schooner Huia berthed; auxillary scow Kahu; Matai; Pahau (former minesweeper); coaster Koutunui; Wakakura (former minesweeper); Southern Cross (Melanesian Mission ship), 1949; Wellington Harbour ferry Muritai; Wellington Star on maiden voyage from England. Also: Melbourne Star; Palana berthed at Auckland; Fernmoor; cargo being discharged at Mechanics Bay, Auckland; Orsova; Orontes; Oronsay; Ormonda at Aotea Quay; S S Hinemoa (NZ Government lighthouse tender); Wellington Harbour Board pilot boat Uta; Wellington Harbour ferry Cobar, Apr 1951 Includes various photographs of overseas ships (names not added to Name field) Quantity: 28 album leaves with black & white photochemical prints; 1 album leaf with black & white original photographic prints; 1 ink drawing. Physical Description: Photochemical prints, and silver gelatin print

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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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Kaimata and Dobson electric power plants, Greymouth buildings

Date: [1930s-1950s]

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

Reference: PAColl-9543-11

Description: Photographs of construction and opening of Kaimata hydroelectric power station (opened 1932) and Dobson power station, and Greymouth buildings. Photographs taken 1930s-1950s by L A Inkster. The Kaimata power station was subsequently known as the Arnold power station, although the dam is still referred to as the Kaimata dam. Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Greymouth scenes, rugby football

Date: 1900s, 1950s

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

Reference: PAColl-9543-03

Description: Greymouth scenes, including floods, ship Mapourika, and departure of troops to South African War, taken ca 1900s by James Ring. West Coast rugby matches taken 1950s by L A Inkster. Quantity: 32 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Salmon album 12

Date: [Between 1940 and 1954]

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

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-208

Description: Album of photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1940 and 1954. The sequence of images is not chronological. Slip attached to spine reads: Trips - Bold Peak, 1943, Mt. Arthur tbld, Marlb. Sounds, Mt. Algidus, 1946, Honeymoon, 1948. 7th Pacific Sc. Congress. West Coast. The album opens with views taken on a trip to the West Coast in January 1954; followed by a West Coast museum trip, February 1940; a Neslson-Westhaven expedition, November 1952; John and Pam Salmon's honeymoon in the South Island in December 1948; and a trip to Mt. Algidus, February 1946. The next trips in the album were the Mt. Arthur tableland museum expedition, February 1946, and again in February 1948; the Bold Peak district, February 1943; trip around the Sounds on "The Alert", August 1948; air trip over the Sounds in April 1949; and then the South Pacific Science Congress, Auckland-Christchurch, February 1949. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

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Pearse, Ben, fl 1957: Views of Greymouth jubilees and other images

Date: [ca 1957]

By: Pearse, Ben, active 1957-1987

Reference: PAColl-6976

Description: Scenes of the jubilee of a convent school (possibly St Patrick's) and of Blaketown and its school in 1957. The convent reunion shows ex-pupils grouped by the year they attended the school, a dinner, a table of trophies etc. The Blaketown jubilee is marked by a procession of floats, the creation of a Miss Jubilee, a dinner etc. Also included are a two older copy negatives of Greymouth and scenes on the wharves with what may be a shipwreck and the grounded vessel the Abel Tasman. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059346 to 059428. Quantity: 2 container(s) of negatives. Physical Description: Film and glass negatives Transfers: File print at PAColl-4384. Processing information: Description updated 5 April 2023 following information provided by the donor.

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New Zealand Labour Party :[Ephemera, including election pamphlets and propaganda. 1950-...

Date: 1950 - 1959

By: New Zealand Labour Party

Reference: Eph-B-NZ-LABOUR-1950s

Description: Includes political campaign material for the New Zealand Labour Party. Includes pamphlets or fliers for Walter Nash (1951, 1954 and 1957), John B Mora (St Albans, 1951), Michael Moohan (Petone, 1951), Ernie Langford (Otaki, 1956), Jim Edwards (Napier, 1957), Joe Cotterill (Wanganui, 1957), Jim Bateman (Karori, 1954). Also includes a pink pamphlet for the Greymouth local body elections in 1950. Includes a typescript copy (1959) of Walter Nash's final election address broadcast 29 November 1957. Quantity: 3 folder(s) containing approximatedly 27 fliers and pamphlets. Physical Description: Offset prints on fliers and pamphlet, sizes varying up to 330 mm. Provenance: One item donated by Mrs Alexia Pickering, Wellington, in 2012; one by Bill Sheat, Wellington, in 2015.

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Sakkers, N :Three L A Inkster photographs of Greymouth railway station and wharf

Date: ca 1955

By: Sakkers, N, active 1995

Reference: PAColl-3210

Description: Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope. Physical Description: Two photoprints 160 x 210mm; one photoprint 160 x 158mm

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Argus Co building, Greymouth

Date: [ca 1953]

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

By: Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955

Reference: 1/2-180303-G

Description: Argus building, Greymouth, photographed by L A Inkster. Conservation number 824. Information from original envelope. Dated from cars in street. Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.5 inches

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Photographer unknown: The Minnie Bignell Collection

Date: [ca 1930s-1950s]

Reference: PAColl-6633

Description: Three negatives associated with Minnie Bignall's time at Greymouth District High School 1888-1893. The first is of the school buildings, the second is of a group of people eating at a table, and the third is of Minnie Bignall's standard certificate. The photographer is unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-032661 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 35mm strip with 3 images

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Hughson, W G :Photographs of coal mining in New Zealand

Date: 1930 - ca 1950

By: Hughson, W G, active 1930s-1950s; Robertson, I G, -1995

Reference: PA1-q-380

Description: 140 photographs providing a survey of coal mines mining processes and working conditions Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Bill Pearson's family, and early life to 1944

Date: 1890 - 1958

From: Pearson, William Harrison (Dr), 1922-2002: Photographs

By: Elmar Studios; Morgan's Photo Service; Phillips Candid Camera Service; Rose, John E, active 1939-1949

Reference: PAColl-1749-1

Description: Photographs documenting the life of William Harrison Pearson, from his childhood, until 1944. Also of his parents, aunts, brothers and sisters. Includes an early photo of his mother, Agnes McLean, and her sisters; the wedding of his parents; brothers and sister, and Bill as a young boy. (Many of these photographs are copies or original prints of images in PAColl-7160); the wedding of his brother Don and Eileen Pearson, 1954; his brother James McLean Pearson in uniform, with his son John in 1949, and other family in 1958. Pearson with the top ten in Standard 3 from Greymouth, 1930; Pearson at Beverly House, Christchurch, 1939, with fellow boarders, in the bath and having a first shave; Presbyterian Bible Class conference, Greymouth, 1939; his friend Margaret Still (formerly Bennett); family of D A J Rutherford and fellow boarders Arthur Knight and Noel Espie at 1 Queen Street, Dunedin, and Dunedin Training College students with Pearson during outings and at dances 1940 and 1941. Photographs taken at the dances show Pearson variously with Nita Crotty, Sheila Diehl, Cath Rawcliffe and Nancy MacKenzie. Burnham Camp with Ray Carr, 1942, and in 1945; with the dental section, RNZAF Omaka 1943 and Laucala Bay, Fiji, 1943 or 1944 Includes a set of prints from Madeleine Folme, Noumea, with captions in French, one dated 1938, of her and her husband Louis, soldiers on parade, view of Port Moselle, and on a picnic, a photograph from Paul Combier to William Pearson, and one of an unidentified house, possibly in France Quantity: 88 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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South Island prints one

Date: 1942-1956

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-2

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1942 to 1956. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Identified people are mountaineers A C Clough, Ron Biggs, and Ken Hall; publican Jack Ritchie; journalist H J E (Bert) Kane; Mrs P Koerstens; and bushmen Doug Macalister and Ron (Tiki) Brimmicombe. There is an unidentified solider and some portraits of unidentified children. Featured natural environments include Tatere Gorge, Lake Haupiri and surrounding area, and the Otira Gorge. Contains prints of individual buildings as well as broader views of towns. A number of wooden buildings are in a state of decay, but houses, churches, and other buildings are still in use. Further images (and series of images) of note include: the transportation by boat of a tractor at Milford sound and a Land Rover to Jackson's Bay; workers at the Kopara Sawmill; industry at Mussel Point; and locomotives, boilers, dredges, and other machinery relating to mining. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 75 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

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South Island prints two

Date: 1956-1958

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-3

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1956 to 1958. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Most prints relate to the West Coast Region, but also some images of Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago regions. Identified people are: Kopara Sawmill workers Bill Brown, Owen Jacobs, Morry Pullman, Hans Van Ruyven, Jimmy Birchfield, Doug Macalister, Joe Kavanagh, Neil McLean, Archy Fluerty, saw doctor John Henry Ord, Ted McGhie; licensee of Nelson Creek Hotel D Graham; Dorothy Debenham; Mick Bowie, and chief guide at Mt Cook Hermitage. Unidentified people include a female French tourist and some children. Featured natural environments include Karamea beach scenes, mining and sawmilling sites, and Buller Gorge. Featured town sequences include Reefton and Nelson's Creek houses and businesses, many of which are derelict. Further images (and series of images) of note include: a series of images of the Kopara Sawmill with forests, exterior felling scenes, lumber yard, processing of timber, and workers; spectators at a Cobden soccer match; crib-logging on the Wataroa River; various road works and maintainence scenes; locomotive at Ngahere sawmill site; images relating to various mining activities; church buildings; municipal buildings; and some mountaineering prints. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

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