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Wheeler and son album 2
Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]
By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)
Reference: PA1-o-533
Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm
Artist unknown :[Farewell address to Mr Seddon from Kumara]. 1895.
Date: 1895
From: Various artists :[Addresses presented to R. J. Seddon and Mrs Seddon. 1891-ca.1906]
Reference: D-005-023
Description: Farewell from Kumara, Stafford, Larrikins, Waimea, Callaghans, Christchurch Road, Westbrook, Cape Terrace and Dillmans. Signed by representatives from these areas. Other Titles - To the Hon. R. J. Seddon. Premier of New Zealand. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Kumara, Westland, N.Z. / February 28th 1895.; Recto - top centre - To / The Hon. R. J. Seddon./ Premier of New Zealand.; Recto - bottom centre - (Signatures): T.V. Byrne. Mayor/G.R. Rudkin. Town Clerk, Kumara. /D. McConnon/ T. Moynihan, Dillmans. / W. Morris / M. Fahey, Larrikins. / F. Henne/ J.F. Byrne, Stafford / M. McInerney/Wm. Harcourt / M. Fitzgerald, Christchurch Road. / W.S. Hanna / P. Tansey, Cape Terrace. / J. McWhirter / J. Dolph, Waimea. / G. Harcourt, Callaghans. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on vegetable parchment(?) stuck to fabric 605 x 449 mm.
Richard Seddon addressing a crowd at Kumara
Date: ca 1877
Reference: 1/2-044653-F
Description: Richard John Seddon addressing a crowd outside the Adelphi Theatre in Kumara. In 1877 Seddon was elected the town's first mayor. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).
Cyclists outside the Empire Hotel, Kumara, West Coast
Date: [189-?]
From: Heinz, William Frederick, 1899-1976: Photographs and negatives of gold mining and other facets of the West Coast
Reference: 1/2-044219b-f
Description: Cyclists outside the Empire Hotel, Kumara, West Coast, circa 1890s. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date estimated by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Kumara, West Coast Region
Date: [189-?]
From: Young, T W :Photographs of various scenes
Reference: 1/2-065466-F
Description: Looking over the township of Kumara, West Coast Region, circa 1890s. View includes fluming for gold sluicing. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date estimated by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Jack and Rudolph Lousich collecting donations for their father Louis, in Kumara
Date: [ca 1897]
From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives
Reference: 1/2-049635-G
Description: Jack (right) and Rudolph Lousich collecting donations for their father Louis Lousich. The sign reads: 'Deserving Case. Be so kind as to patronise the blind man a widower with five children who lost his sight and right arm by an explosion of dynamite at Kumara. Smallest donation thankfully received.' Photograph taken ca 1897 in Kumara by Steffano Francis Webb. The accident occurred in May 1884 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass plate stereographic negative 12 x 16.4 cm
Wagon on Greymouth to Kumara wooden tramway in Taramakau bush
Date: between 1868-1898
From: Donne, Anne, fl 1975 :Photographs mainly of Richard John Seddon in New Zealand and the Pacific
Reference: PA7-31-06-2
Description: Show distant canvas covered wagon stopped on the Greymouth to Kumara wooden tramway running through Taramakau bush. Two passengers are visible leaning against the back of the bush tram, circa 1880s. Tram would have been horse drawn, but horse not visible. Photographer unidentified. Following the gold rush of 1876, a horse drawn wooden tramway was built between Greymouth and Kumara, Westland. The trip took three hours. Trams carried passengers and freight. Passengers had to cross the Taramakau River in a cage or flying fox suspended from a cable. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Tramway Teremakau bush Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 17.6 x 23.9 cm
The last horse tram, full of passengers, leaving Kumura for Teremakau to connect with t...
Date: 1893
Reference: 1/2-065470-F
Description: The last horse tram, full of passengers, leaving Kumura for Teremakau to connect with the Greymouth tram. Taken in 1893. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Artist unknown :[Address to Mr Seddon from Kumara Oddfellows]. February 1895.
Date: 1895
From: Various artists :[Addresses presented to R. J. Seddon and Mrs Seddon. 1891-ca.1906]
Reference: D-005-019
Description: Address regretting Seddon's departure from Kumara, with heading and names of signatories in red italics. Vegetable parchment is paper treated with sulphuric acid to resemble parchment. Other Titles - To the Hon. Richard John Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, Brother Oddfellow, and Fellow Citizen. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - To the / Hon. Richard John Seddon, / Premier of New Zealand, / Brother Oddfellow, and Fellow Citizen.; Recto - beneath image - Bro. J. Martyn P.C.M./ J. Stenhouse, N.C./ J. Palmer, T.P.C./ J. Davies, P.P.C.M./ Bro. T. Torrance C.M./ J. Lomden, V.C./ W. Raleigh P.S./ L. J. Spyer, P.P.C.M./ Kumara. Februar / 1895 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, black and red, on vegetable parchment 698 x 388 mm.(oval). Provenance: Probably arrived with Seddon papers, from Seddon family.