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Jeffares album 2

Date: [Between 1900 and 1911]

From: Miller, E D N :Photographs by Isaac Jeffares, and of family

Reference: PA1-o-246

Description: Album of photographs taken by Isaac H B Jeffares, given to Miss W Ashley (Winifred Ashley, later Jeffares' wife). Most of the photographs are scenic, taken chiefly in the West Coast region; with two views of Wellington. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - `To Miss W. Ashley ... [9?]/6/11. I.H.B. Jeffares' (Inscription very indistinct, written in black ink on black paper) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, entitled `Photograph[ic?] souvenirs; 15.5 x 18.5 cm

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Greymouth coal yard

Date: [1902-1922]

From: Miller, E D N :Photographs by Isaac Jeffares, and of family

By: Jeffares, Isaac Henry Bowen, 1868-1936

Reference: PA4-0275

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Greymouth coal yard, taken by Isaac Henry Bowen Jeffares ca 1900-1922. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

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Ring album 1

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-435

Description: Photographs taken circa 1880s by James Ring, photographer based in Greymouth. Scenes in Greymouth and nearby include views of severe flooding (p 3-5, 7); loading ships at the wharf showing hydraulic cranes raising hoppers of coal, and rolling stock laden with coal for transportation. Three shipping photographs including the SS Gerda wrecked on the Greymouth Breakwater in June 1888; the SS Mawhera ashore on North Beach, Greymouth in 1886, and the SS Rosamond crossing the Greymouth Bar. Beyond Greymouth views include the Grey River, Rocky Island, Brunnerton and the Brunnerton Bridge, and the West Coast Road. Then views of Lake Brunner, Refuge Island and Mitchell Falls. The Teremakau [now Taramakau] River is next, one view showing the road bridge, and one showing the flying fox (wire bridge) leading over to the Teremakau Hotel. These are followed by scenes along the Otira Gorge, including Warnock's Nob, Westley's Creek (Wesley Creek), and Starvation Point, before reaching Porter's Pass, Broken River, Arthur's Pass and the Devil's Punch Bowl Falls. The last sequence show Grasmere Station, Castle Hill Station (with one view of snow gates) and Craigieburn Station; the town of Cass; Bealey, Bealey Hotel, and Bealey Gorge, Lake Pearson and Lake Mapourika. Other Titles - New Zealand Views, by James Ring, Greymouth, N. Z. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with quarterbound red cover, red leather corners and spine; entitled "New Zealand Views, by James Ring, Greymouth, N.Z."; 24 x 31 cm

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Photograph album compiled by William Herbert Perkins

Date: [ca 1881]

From: Perkins, J (Mr), fl 1967 :Photograph album and loose prints

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Perkins, William Herbert, -1927; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-415

Description: Photographs of Greymouth, Grey River, Brunnerton, Ahaura, Reefton, Waimakariri, Lake Pearson, Lake Brunner, Dillmanstown, Milford Sound, Franz Josef Glacier, Ross, and the thermal areas of central North Island. The photographers represented include William Herbert Perkins, James Ring and the Burton Brothers. There is one interior view of a quartz-crushing battery at Reefton. Pages 55, 57 and 58 have portraits of women (and one man) in "Fancy Fair" costumes Inscriptions: Album page - "William Perkins. Greymouth. 1884" Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon covers, darker corners and spine; "Album" lettered in gold on spine; 23.5 x 30.0 cm

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Wharf at Greymouth; loading coal - Photograph taken by L A Inkster

Date: [194-?]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955

Reference: PAColl-8602-01

Description: Wharf in Greymouth, with coal being loaded into a ship berthed on the left. On the right are rows of railway wagons filled with coal. Photograph taken circa 1940s by L A Inskster. Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of print. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - Copyright by L A Inkster Greymouth Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.4 x 20.8 cm

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Winkelmann, Henry, 1860-1931: Loading coal, Greymouth

Date: ca 1900s

By: Winkelmann, Henry, 1860-1931

Reference: 1/2-002719-F

Description: Postcard captioned "Loading coal, Greymouth" from the F T series, taken by H Winkelman. It shows wharves with railway lines alongside occupied by coal trucks. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

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