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Grahamstown
Date: [ca 1870]
From: Sherring, W W :Photographs of gold mining near Thames and view of the Wairarapa Plains
Reference: 1/2-004108-F
Description: Elevated view of Grahamstown, circa 1870. George Bull's Battery can be seen in the foreground and the Post Office Hotel in the centre. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
[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)
Karangahake, Waikato
Date: [ca 1900]
Reference: 1/2-019708-F
Description: View of Karangahake, including the railway, G. M. Talisman Co. Mill, and the Main Road, circa 1900. Taken before the Tramway Hotel was destoyed by fire in 1906, by an unidentified photographer. From N.Z. Mines Reports, 1908, p.1. Sources: Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11974, 18 September 1906, Page 3. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WH19060918.2.29.3 Ian Parlane. " Dorothy and Helen Bagnall, Turua, 1929 Dorothy and Helen Bagnall, Turua, 1929 Contents ►Images Journal 42 Adeline and Phil McWatters Bus Driving Days - Fred Carbutt Directory Edward Ernest James Kitching Francis James Young - Obituary Girl Guide Jamboree Gordon Bruce Scott Hamish Wilson - Obituary Harry Staples - Obituary Hauraki Battalion Hotel Advertisements Local History Books Available Maori Artefacts in the Paeroa Museum Marion Darley - Obituary Memories of Working Underground Mother's Day - Local Connection Norman Ernest Schaare - Obituary Notes 1998 Paeroa College 40th Jubilee Advert Paeroa Hotels and Accommodation Premises Radio Broadcasting in Thames Valley - an Update Radio Hauraki Random History - Time Refreshment Services Paeroa Station Ronald Stuart Nicol - Obituary Te Aroha Domain and Springs The Good Old Days in our Paeroa The Karangahake Battery Updates on Previous Articles Journals Journal 1, June 1964 Journal 2, October 1964 Journal 3, April 1965 Journal 4, September 1965 Journal 5, May 1966 Journal 6, October 1966 Journal 7, May 1967 Title supplied by Library. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - centre left - Railway; Marginal notes on negative - bottom left - Talisman G.M. Co.: Mill.; Marginal notes on negative - bottom centre - Main Road Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Copy negative from N.Z. Mines Reports, 1908. p.1 Processing information: Date and description changed 13 March 2023 following information provided by a researcher.
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