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Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913 :[Golden Crown Stamper Battery , Golden Crown Street,...
Date: 1867 - 1870
By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913
Reference: C-174-003
Description: Shows the stamper battery established on the Golden Crown claim in Thames, about 1868. Features a single-storey building with a tall chimney. Other smaller buildings, likely to be miners' dwellings, and roadways are established on the hills behind. A flagpole bearing two flags stands to the right side of the painting. The scene is dotted with figures, all male Gold was first discovered in Thames in 1867. Thames soon had 693 stamper batteries pounding quartz rock as part the gold extraction process and by the 1880s, logging had also been established in the area Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - JC Hoyte / 18[?] [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 375 x 545 mm Provenance: Sold to Fletcher's at Webbs, 3 April 2001
Settlement at Porootarao
Date: 1886
From: Goldie, Mr : Three negatives
Reference: 1/2-021476-F
Description: Settlement at the northern end of the railway tunnel at Porootarao, 1886. Photographer unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
[Artist unknown] :[View of Thames. ca 1870]
Date: 1867 - 1880
Reference: C-030-002
Description: Shows a view of a coastal settlement spread along the water's edge, backed by bush-clad hills, and seen from the water. Thames, originally named Shortland, was established in 1867 as a goldmining town, but had grown to the size shown here by 1870. The buildings depicted are likely to include miners' houses, hotels and stamper batteries Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 770 mm (trimmed)
Settlement of Tairua and surrounding area
Date: [1880s]
From: Young, L R, fl 1972 :Photographs, including ones of Great Barrier Island and the timber industry
Reference: PAColl-5521-23
Description: The settlement of Tairua showing a group of dwellings on the waterfront. Ferns are visible in the bottom left corner. Taken in the 1880s by Walker. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic print