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Artist unknown :Scenes in New Zealand. Town of Shortland at the Thames gold-fields. [1869]
Date: 1869
From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]
Reference: E-106-f-025-2
Description: Elevated view of the township of Shortland looking north. Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, v 55, Sept 25, 1869, p300 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, 160 x 240 mm
[Artist unknown :Scenes in New Zealand. Town of Shortland at the Thames gold-fields. 1869]
Date: 1869
From: Illustrated London news :Various scenes of early New Zealand published in the Illustrated London News. 1860s
Reference: B-070-015-2
Description: Elevated view of the township of Shortland looking north. Extended Title - From Illustrated London news, V 55, Sept 25 1869, p 300 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, stuck to page 215 x 275 mm
Artist unknown :Scenes in New Zealand. Town of Shortland at the Thames gold-fields. See...
Date: 1860 - 1875
From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]
Reference: E-043-q-070
Description: Elevated view of the township of Shortland looking north. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, stuck to page 215 x 275 mm
Ellings, E E (Mr), fl 1976: Photographs of Thames
Date: [ca 1860s-1890s]
By: Ellings, E E (Mr), active 1976; Frith, Henry Albert, -1912
Reference: PAColl-6072
Description: Photographs of Thames, taken circa 1870s. Some photographs identified as being taken by Henry Frith. Photographer/s of other images not identified. Photographer and likely dates identified by researcher June 2020. Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-065400 to 065421 Quantity: 22 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives
[Artist unknown :Scenes in New Zealand. Town of Shortland at the Thames gold-fields. 1869]
Date: 1869
From: Illustrated London news :Various scenes of early New Zealand published in the Illustrated London News. 1860s
Reference: B-070-004
Description: Elevated view of the township of Shortland looking north. Extended Title - From Illustrated London news, V 55, Sept 25 1869, p 300 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, stuck to page 215 x 275 mm
Shortland, from Hauraki Mission Station
Date: 1868
From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia
Reference: 1/2-096135-G
Description: Shortland (now known as Thames), photographed from the Hauraki Mission station in 1868 by Daniel Manders Beere. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - top left - 69 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches
View from Hauraki Mission Station at Parawai, towards Shortland
Date: 1867
From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia
Reference: 1/2-096132-G
Description: View from Hauraki Mission Station at Parawai, over the Kauaeranga River, towards Shortland (an area later known as Thames) photographed in 1867 by Daniel Manders Beere. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - top right - 66 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches
[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)
Moanataiari Creek, Thames
Date: 1868
From: Ellings, E E (Mr), fl 1976: Photographs of Thames
Reference: 1/2-065407-F
Description: View of Moanataiari Creek, Thames, showing the chimney of the Caledonian Claim up the Valley in the background, and buildings in the settlement along the shore of the Firth of Thames (including the Prince Alfred Hotel, the Melbourne Boarding House, and the butcher W L File). Photograph taken 1868 by Henry Frith. The negatives at ½-065407-F, ½-065408-F, and ½-065409-F fit together to form a panorama. Note on back of file print states `Mudflats in foreground have since been reclaimed'. Location also identified as Beach Rd, Shortland (now Thames). Prince Alfred Hotel on corner Coromandel St. The chimney previously identified as the Moanataiari Battery corrected to Caledonian Claim after contact from a researcher, 6 March 2021. See also 1/2-020789 The mudflats in the foreground have since been reclaimed. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
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