Places

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

Date: ca 1880

Reference: PAColl-7406

Description: Photographs of Auckland including: looking across the harbour to Devonport; the Rakaia in Caliope dock; the Scotch church; looking down College Hill; Victoria Street looking across Queen Street to Albert Park showing businesses in the area such as Sharland & Co and R White boot shop; Mount Eden; the Supreme Court; the flagpole and cannons at the top of Albert Park looking out over the harbour; two views of Karangahape Road showing shops, carriages and carts; the first St Matthew's Church; St Paul's Church on Symonds Street; the public hospital showing the tennis court in front and the screens on the balconies; houses on Franklin Road, Ponsonby; the Railway Station with advertising for the New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd and Arthur Cleave & Co; Ponsonby Road with a church on the left and J Clarke, undertakers, on the right; Ponsonby Road with a bakers and butchers on the right; the Synagogue on Princes Street; looking north along Queen Street with the DSC building on the right; a ship in dry-dock at the wharves; Hobson Street with St Matthew's Church on the right; and four views of the wharves including one showing the ferry. Photographs of Lyttelton: two elevated views to the harbour one with a church in the centre and the other with an artist painting the view at an easel; the railway lines at the wharves; and three men next to coal carts being loaded with coal from a ship at the wharves. Described on the reverse of the file prints as "copy negatives taken from faded prints". Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004172 to 004200 Quantity: 30 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1960-1962

From: West Coast Miners' Unions : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1071-070

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca 1910

By: Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?

Reference: PAColl-3341

Description: Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca1940

From: Lewers, Neville Robert, 1913- :Photographic negatives, transparencies and prints

Reference: PAColl-6180-03

Description: Quantity: 77 b&w original photographic print(s).

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

Date: [1902-1922]

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

Reference: PA4-0259

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a coal train in the West Coast, taken by Isaac Henry Bowen Jeffares ca 1900-1922. Inscriptions: Backing board verso - bottom left - Presented to The Alexander Turnbull Library by E D N Miller, 1978 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: [1920s?]

From: Kenrick, Evelyn Helen, 1907-1991 : Photographs of New Zealand scenery

Reference: PA1-o-250

Description: Scenic views of the West Coast Region of the South Island, except one of the reservoir at Marton, in the Rangitikei area. Photographs taken by an unidentified photographer The view of Granity shows a railway line emerging from a mine, with coal trucks on the incline. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, entitled `Photographs'; 21 x 27 cm

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

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-12-46

Description: Photograph of the Rosamond and other ships tied up at the wharves. There are coal trucks on the railway lines waiting to be unloaded. Photograph taken by W H W Davis in 1880s. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]

From: New Zealand Centre for Photography :Photographs

By: Hoy, Douglas George, 1937-1992

Reference: PAColl-9528-2

Description: Photographs of railway scenes taken by Douglas George Hoy. Includes photographs of Wellington Harbour Board buildings and vessels, United Kingdom trip in 1980, and photographs of friends, pets and various artistic photographs. Accompanying material - Negative index Quantity: 65 b&w original photographic print(s). 11 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1937-1941

From: Orchiston, Bruce Elwyn, 1914-2005 :Photographs of New Zealand slums

Reference: PAColl-6013-5

Description: Photographs of state housing projects at Orakei, unidentified state houses, and coal mining (probably in the Denniston area) taken 1937-1938 by the Department of Housing Construction, and photographs of substandard housing in inner city Wellington, taken ca 1941 by Bruce Orchiston. Also included are two photographs of housing in the United States of America. Quantity: 27 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1911

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0441-1/2-G

Description: Steam locomotive and driver. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1911. Similar image (APG-1389-1/2-F) with original print at Pa1-q-103 (Godber album, Vol 110, p 114), with caption "Built by Orenstein & Keppel (Ger). Used by Coal Co. in north. Later in Whangarei, Portland Cement - now preserved at Matakohe". Coal company and place from caption above. Built by Orenstein & Koppel, Germany (no. 1411). Used by the Northern Colliery Co., Waro. Later taken to Whangarei for use by Portland Cement, and then preserved at Matakohe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1910

From: [Postcards of the Wesport and Buller area, collected by William Robert Jones. 1900-1970s]

By: G Parkhouse (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Jones-03

Description: Photograph on postcard shows a general view of the mining town of Millerton, with a view along the Millerton Incline rail track carrying coal trucks. There is a large hall in the right background. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph on postcard, 89 x 139 mm.

Date: ca 1903

From: Suggate, Richard Patrick, 1922-2016 :Photographs of West Coast coal mining

Reference: 1/1-007752-G

Description: Scene inside a West Coast coal mine showing a horse which is ready to pull a wagon of coal. Two miners lean on the wagon while a third holds the horse. Taken circa 1903. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [1944 or 1945]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-001357-F

Description: A Q class railway wagon carrying coal to the Westport wharf. Photograph taken in Westport in 1944 or 1945, by John Dobree Pascoe. Other - Pascoe's caption, from the Photographic Archive file at 6/1/30, for the first of the set of photographs at 1/4-001340 to 001364, reads: "To the end of 1943, some 28,000,000 tons of coal have been produced by mines in the Buller district. This series of photographs shows some of the transport methods and problems." Caption - Pascoe's caption for this image in Photographic Archive file 6/1/30 reads: "A "Q" class railway wagon, used for carrying coal to the Westport wharf. Further photographs show the use of this wagon." Source of descriptive information - According to differing dates on file prints for 1/4-001221 and 001357, these images were taken in 1944 or 1944 Relationship complexity - Same wagon shown at 1/4-001221 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1911

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0722-1/2-G

Description: Coal wagons on the incline of the Northern Colliery Company tramway, at Waro. Photographed during heavy rain by Albert Percy Godber in 1911. An original print is in Godber Album Vol 110, p 114 (Pa1-q-103) Inscriptions: Album page - The Incline. Northern Colliery Co. Waro. 28" gauge. Taken during heavy rain from cab of loco shewn below [i.e. in image APG-0441-1/2] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1925

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1054-1/2-G

Description: Coal being loaded from coal mine wagons through chutes onto railway wagons at Saddle Hill, Dunedin. Taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1925. Original print in album PA1-q-102, p 225. Inscriptions: Album page - Loading coal. Saddle Hill. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

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

Date: 1911

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1387-1/2-F

Description: Steam locomotive built in Germany, belonging to the Northern Colliery Company, Waro. Two men are standing in the cab, while a young boy and another man are standing beside the engine. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1911. This image is a film copy negative taken from the original print in Godber Album Vol 110, p 115 (PA1-q-103). Similar image (at APG-0441-1/2-G) with original print at Pa1-q-103 (Godber album, Vol 110, p 114), with caption "Built by Orenstein & Keppel (Ger). Used by Coal Co. in north. Later in Whangarei, Portland Cement - now preserved at Matakohe". Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - German locomotive at Northern Colliery Co. Waro. Gauge 20 inches Built by Orenstein & Koppel, Germany (no. 1411). Used by the Northern Colliery Co., Waro. Later taken to Whangarei for use by Portland Cement, and then preserved at Matakohe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 16.25 x 11.75 cm