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Hancock, H J :Photographs of Hauraki Plains drainage scheme
Date: 1910-1915
By: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985
Reference: PAColl-0370
Description: Set of photographs of drainage operations on the Hauraki Plains. Spoil from the canal and ditch construction was used as foundation for roads so road construction is also shown. The photographs include two men hay harvesting in front of a small house, a man in a flax field, a dredge at work, the labourers' camp, boats moored at a jetty in Ngatea. Some of the photographs are captioned. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Copy photographic prints Provenance: Given to J H Christie by Dennis Hancock, the grandson of H J Hancock who created the collection.
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
Creator unknown: Gold Dredges album
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
Southern Lakes and mountains, and some North Island views
Date: [Between 1885 and 1919]
From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Muir & Moodie (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-0959-15
Description: Views of the Southern Lakes District, interspersed with a few scenes in the North Island taken by the Burton Brothers and Muir & Moodie between about 1885 and 1919. Most of the places mentioned are listed above. Image no. 63 shows a party of men and women at Sandfly Point (Milford Sound) showing some of the women wearing veils over their hats for protection from sandflies; image no. 79 "Phantom canoe as seen on Lake Tarawera" is an artist's impression of the phantom canoe which appeared to a group of tourists on Lake Tarawera on May 31st prior to the eruption of Mount Tarawera on June 10th 1886 and which was considered to be a bad omen; image no. 82 shows a collage "No. 1. Maori Land. The portraits are originals - taken from life"; image no. 094 shows a close-up view of the "wire tram" over the Taramakau River; no. 095 shows a logging tramway in the Taupaki Kauri Bush belonging to Matthew Henry Roe, while no. 120 shows his Kauri Point Sawmill, with the paddle steamer "Oregon" in the background; no. 096 shows a self-acting tramway incline at Wairongomai used for gold extraction; nos 104 and 105 show gold dredges, "the Dunedin Gold Dredge" and "Sew Hoy's Dredge". Quantity: 122 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Some items retouched with white, showing snow-covered peaks. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".
Priestman steam dredge, Hauraki Plains
Date: ca 1904-1910
Reference: 1/2-103438-F
Description: A Priestman steam dredge working in the Hauraki Plains. Taken circa 1904-1910. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Scene alongside the Ohinemuri River, near Paeroa, with a goldmining dredge
Date: Circa 1916
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-0705-1/2-G
Description: Scene alongside the Ohinemuri River, near Paeroa, with a goldmining dredge. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, circa 1916. An original print is in Godber Album Vol 109, p 36 (Pa1-q-102). Dated from other images in this album. Inscriptions: Album page - Dredging on the Ohinemuri River. Paeroa. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches
Dredging the Ohinemuri River, near Paeroa
Date: ca 1915
From: Bunyard, A :Negatives and photographs including views of the Talisman Mine and Ngatea Butter factory
Reference: 1/4-023517-F
Description: A drainage dredge near Paeroa clearing drains to prevent flooding from the Ohinemuri River, circa 1915. Taken by unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Walsh album 1
Date: 1882-1890
From: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914 :Photograph albums
By: Foy Brothers (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Pulman (Firm); Scowen, Charles T, active 1870s-1890s
Reference: PA1-q-255
Description: Album of views in Auckland, Thames, Coromandel and Papanui (all New Zealand), Norfolk Island, Egypt (including the Suez Canal), Aden, Bombay, Ceylon (including Colombo), Victoria (including Ballarat, Geelong and Melbourne), Kilkenny, Paris, Bordeaux and London. The photographs were collected by Philip Walsh, and include photographic copies by Josiah Martin of paintings by Walsh himself. The photographers include Josiah Martin (Auckland), Foy Brothers (Thames), Pulman (Auckland), and Charles T Scowen (Colombo). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown leather bound album, impressed with black and gold pattern; 35 x 27 cm