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McGill, David : Photographs of "Ghost towns"
Date: 1978
Reference: PAColl-6989
Description: Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-068958 to 068968 and 069024 to 069057 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s).
[Ephemera and broadsheets relating to New Zealand gold prospecting, mining, sluicing, d...
Date: 1889 - 1939
By: Loney, George Henry, 1871-1957
Reference: Eph-D-GOLD-1880/1939
Description: Includes: 1889: Te Aroha and Ohinemuri News, 20 November 1889. The Te Aroha Silver and Gold Mining Company's reduction works (3 copies) 1919: The Westland Gold Prospecting Syndicate Limited. From "The Weekly Press", Christchurch NZ, May 28th 1919. 1934: Inangahua Goldminers. Industrial agreement, published and issued by the New Zealand Government Department of Labour. G H Loney, Government Printer Wellington, 1934 1936: Blackwater Gold-miners - Award. Published and isssued by the New Zealand Government Department of Labour. By authority G H Loney, Government Printer, Wellington, 150/11/36-15046 Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and photolithograph, on broadsheets and posters, sizes varying around 590 x 450 mm.
Chinese goldminers ground sluicing at Blackwater, West Coast
Date: [between 1900-1930]
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: PAColl-3057-1-07
Description: Scene at Blackwater, Inangahua County. A group of four Chinese goldminers are sluicing for gold with a ground sluice. There is a wooden dwelling behind the working area, with bush-covered hills in the background. Photograph taken by William Archer Price between 1900 and 1930. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Ground sluicing. Blackwater. No. 1225B. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 11.1 x 16.7 cm
Scene at Blackwater, West Coast
Date: [between 1900-1930]
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-000114-G
Description: Scene at Blackwater, Inangahua County, with small houses on the flat area in the foreground, and a hill covered with native bush behind. Photograph taken by William Archer Price between 1900 and 1930. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Blackwater. No. 1247B. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative
Dredge at Blackwater, West Coast
Date: [between 1900-1930]
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-001743-G
Description: Scene at Blackwater, Inangahua County, showing the Blackwater dredge, with native forest behind. Photograph taken by William Archer Price between 1900 and 1930. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Blackwater Dredge. No. 436.E Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative
Miners' huts at Blackwater, West Coast
Date: [between 1900-1930]
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-001742-G
Description: Scene at Blackwater, Inangahua County, with two rows of miners' huts, probably prefabricated. Viewed from the side, showing each one has a water tank, with a chimney on the far side. Photograph taken by William Archer Price between 1900 and 1930. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Miners' huts. Blackwater. No. 413.E Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative
Helen Booth - Janet Brown
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-091
Description: The essay gives an account of the life of Janet Lawson Brown who left her native Scotland as a young girl with her parents and other family members to immigrate to Australia. In 1865 she followed her fiance George May Bannan to New Zealand from Melbourne and married ten days later. They stayed in Auckland only a short time before going to the South Island where they opened a store at Little Grey Junction on the West Coast. The essay also traces the lives of Janet and George's children Quantity: 1 folder(s). 44 pages. Finding Aids: Published guide available. Photographs of Janet Lawson Bannan, George May Bannan, and Blackwater