Places

Date: 1891

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Dalton, active 1891

Reference: A-434-039

Description: Shows a montage of six vignettes, their captions listed at the bottom of the page: 1. The Big Stone Claim at the Mahakipawa Goldfields 2. Maori chief's wife sleeping outside the hut 3. Portrait of a Maori woman 4. The Cullensville diggings, Mahakipawa 5. The dam in the Wakamarina 6. The Rai Falls, Pelorus River Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving on page, 408 x 290 mm Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, in 2010.

Date: [Circa 1880s to 1912]

By: Divis, Joseph, 1885-1967

Reference: PA1-o-531

Description: Very clear views of West Coast gold and coal mines (mainly in the Reefton subdivision), and mining towns, taken by unidentified photographers, except for one of "Wondrous Waiuta New Zealand" Jos. Divis Photo (p 27). Views on various roads include the Reefton to Blackspoint Road, Reefton to Westport Road, the Buller Gorge, the Maruia Road alongside the Inangahua River, Progress Road, and fording a river near Progress Mill. Images relating to mines include a winter picture of the old Wealth (of Nations) waterwheel covered in icicles; and gold batteries at various stages of development. Gold mines include the Progress Mine, Wealth of Nations Mine, Welcome Mine, the Mountain Battery at Boatman's Creek, the Blackwater Mine and the Globe Mine. Coal mines include views of Lanky's Creek Coal Mine, and the Lanky's Creek to Energetic coal tramway showing new bridges and coal miners. One photograph (p 9) shows several men "beach combing" for gold on the West Coast. There are a number of articles in The West Coast Times, Otago Witness and Otago Daily Times talking about the success or otherwise of seeking gold by this method in the 1860s to 1880s (see Papers Past paperspast.natlib.govt.nz, search under "beach combing" "west coast") Inscriptions: Album page - "To Messrs E & A Spencer with best wishes from D Turnbull, Reefton, N.Z., 13/10/1911, 2/6/1912" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark grey cover, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 19.0 x 27.5 cm

Date: 1863 - 1870

By: Powell, David, active 1860s; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Fletcher Challenge Ltd

Reference: C-112-042-b

Description: Shows the town's main street, with horse hitched outside hotel, a wagon going away along the street, Staite Bros Molyneux Store, an American flag hanging limp on a flagpole in the distance. There is a blacksmith's forge at right, a wagon resting on the road at left. Accompanied by an information text sheet, by Marian Minson. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This facsimile reproduction of an original watercolour in the Fletcher Challenge Collection, Auckland, was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust in association with Fletcher Challenge Ltd, 1987.; Recto - bottom right - Edition limited to 3000 copies. Dunstan Hotel built 1863. Molyneux is the old name for the Clutha River. Dated in the 1860s because trees were flourishing by 1970. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 250 x 450 mm, on sheet 400 x 600 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright.

Date: 1987 - 1870 - 1879

From: [Pioneer shelter series] [picture] - Christchurch, N Z, Gateway Pictures, [1987?]

By: Gateway Pictures

Reference: B-123-028

Description: Shows two gold-diggers standing outside their hut, with a dog. The photograph was taken in the 1870s. Accompanied by an explanatory sheet. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, sepia, 310 x 450 mm

Date: 1863

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Nairn, Francis Edward, 1819?-1910

Reference: E-372-f-017-2

Description: Four men climbing a narrow path amongst rocky mountains, carrying picks, shovels, billys, tents and other baggage. Possibly a scene in Central Otago. After a drawing by Francis Nairn Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 43, November 1863, p.505 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving

Date: 1863 - 1870

By: Powell, David, active 1860s; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Fletcher Challenge Ltd

Reference: C-112-042-a

Description: Shows the town's main street, with horse hitched outside hotel, a wagon going away along the street, Staite Bros Molyneux Store, an American flag hanging limp on a flagpole in the distance. There is a blacksmith's forge at right, a wagon resting on the road at left. Accompanied by an information text sheet, by Marian Minson. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This facsimile reproduction of an original watercolour in the Fletcher Challenge Collection, Auckland, was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust in association with Fletcher Challenge Ltd, 1987.; Recto - bottom right - Edition limited to 3000 copies. Dunstan Hotel built 1863. Molyneux is the old name for the Clutha River. Dated in the 1860s because trees were flourishing by 1970. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 250 x 450 mm, on sheet 400 x 600 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright.

Date: 1852 - 1853

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905

Reference: E-106-f-049-2

Description: Scene showing five miners working on a stream bed cradling with a `long Tom', a cradle and shovels. There are low banks behind the men covered with dense native bush including tree ferns. A tent is on a bank above the stream. Engraving by E Evans from painting by Charles Heaphy. Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Vol 23, no 465. Dec 3 1853, p 465 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 150 x 230 mm

Date: 1863

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Nairn, Charles James, 1823-1894

Reference: E-106-f-041-1

Description: Shows three prospectors looking down from a rocky ledge high above the Molyneux (Clutha) River. The settlement of Teviot can be seen in the distance. Wood engraving after the style of C J Nairn. Includes accompanying text. Other Titles - Sketches from the New Zealand gold fields Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Vol 43, Nov 1863, p 504 (after Nairn) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 150 x 240 mm

Date: [1900s-1960s]

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-31

Description: Collection comprises street scenes; shipping and shipwrecks at Greymouth and other places; railway bridges; visits of parliamentarians Richard Seddon and Michael Joseph Savage; croquet; schoolboy rugby; fancy dress; waterfall; floods; Lyell: and pancake rocks, Punakiaki. Photographs taken 1900s-1960s by James Ring and L A Inkster, Greymouth. Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1862 - 1864

By: Harrisson, Charles, active 1863

Reference: A-236-032

Description: A view looking down onto the Clutha River, at Coal Point (now Clyde) with Old Man Range in the background. Miners are working claims on both banks of the river, with houses and tents constructed above the claims. Many men are panning for gold at the river's edge. There is a small figure in a rowboat in the centre of the river Other Titles - Molyneux River Clutha Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing on card : pencil ; image 192 x 214 mm on sheet 245 x 250 mm Transfers: For attribution and provenance see catalogue record for A-236-023.

Date: 1867

From: Illustrated London news :Various scenes of early New Zealand published in the Illustrated London News. 1860s

By: Fox, A, active 1860s

Reference: B-070-013

Description: View of the Arrow River gold diggings and miners' camp in Otago. Engraved from a sketch by Mr A Fox. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 201 x 350 mm

Date: 1980 - 1989

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

Reference: Plans-2007-030-0686

Description: Shows the layout of former Chinese mining huts at a site in Cromwell, probably at the Goldfields Mining Centre in the Kawarau Gorge. The location is indicated by the name Melmore Terrace at the far right, and a sign to the direction of Cromwell Bridge. Collected by architect Martin Hill as part of Project 787. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, 460 x 860 mm.

Date: [ca 1890s-1940s]

By: Vine, H R, active 1939

Reference: PAColl-6604

Description: The collection covers mining buildings; interior machinery including the use of scales and smelting; miners both at work and posed for the camera; panning for gold; mine railways and the carts used on them; general views of the area; and other houses and buildings in the area. Also included are the building of the power house for the Talisman Gold Mining Company in Karangahake, a gold mine battery possibly in Karangahake, and a coach pulled by five horses possibly in the Karangahake district. The dating is from the vehicles in some of the images and the geographical area is from information in the negative accession register. Photographer possibly H R Vine. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015702, 015704 to 015711 and 015713 to 015774; 1/2-023583 to 023585 Quantity: 68 b&w original negative(s) film. 3 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass negatives

Date: 1987 - 1890 - 1899

From: [Pioneer shelter series] [picture] - Christchurch, N Z, Gateway Pictures, [1987?]

By: Tyree, Frederick, 1867-1924; Gateway Pictures

Reference: B-123-030-a

Description: Shows a group of goldminers in the 1890s, outside their wood and corrugated iron huts. Accompanied by an explanatory sheet. Other Titles - Slaty Creek Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, sepia, 310 x 450 mm

Date: 1849-1937

By: Hay family

Reference: MS-Papers-3779

Description: Collection consists of the papers of William Edward Hay; his wife, Mary Hay; his mother, also Mary Hay and his second son, Charles William Hay. Source of title - Supplied title William Edward and his wife, Mary Hay (nee Tindall) emigrated to Christchurch on the `Mermaid' in 1864. After eighteen months without steady work they moved to Hokitika where William tried his luck at the gold-diggings before taking up a permanent position with the `West Coast Times'. Late in 1871, the family moved to Melbourne but less than a year later they were back in New Zealand living in Dunedin, where William set up in business as a cabinet maker. In 1877, William's mother, Mary and eldest son, Benjamin, a dentist, came out to New Zealand. Shortly afterwards, William shifted to Auckland where he worked on the staff of the `Evening Post'. Quantity: 21 folder(s). 0.21 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss and printed matter Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: 23-25 Sep 1933

By: Adams, Joseph Langton, 1935-; Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966

Reference: PAColl-9760

Description: Photographs of Rose Olive Langton, her sister Violet May Langton, and future husband Gordon Adams, and others, at Camp Creek on Lindis River, 23 September 1933. The photographs show panning for gold, and washing clothes, as well as a posed group portrait in the miners' camp (see Historical Notes). Included together with the photographs are captions describing the people in the scene and what they are doing. Source of title - Title supplied by Library During the depression of the 1930s, the New Zealand government subsidised unemployed workers who were willing to mine for gold in the hostile climate of the Lindis Pass area. The workers lived in a tent camp above Camp Creek. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Provenance: Donated by Joseph Adams, Kaiapoi, 2010 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MSDL-1188 : Adams, Joseph Langton, 1935- : My Story.

Date: ca 1880s

Reference: PAColl-7407

Description: A print and a copy negative from an original print of gold miners sluicing in Kumara. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-004345 and 004346 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca1874-1910

By: Evening star (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-6514

Description: 9 photographs of the fruit packing and gold mining in Otago Region, and other views of the region. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives are housed at 1/4-009941 to 009949. Quantity: 9 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass copy negatives

Date: [ca 1874]

From: Scott, Mrs :Original and mounted photographic prints

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-04

Description: View from a hillside looking across at site for gold mining operations. There is an elevated railway track in the middle distance and dwellings on the hillside above the site. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril ca 1870s Source of information - Description of image supplied by Museum of NZ Te Papa Tongarewa Other - Duplicate at PA7-45-10 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 26.5 x 35.4 cm

Date: [ca 1874]

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-02

Description: View of gold miners and mining operations at Blue Spur, Gabriel's Gully. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril in 1870s-1880s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 24 x 35.4 cm