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Date: [ca 1930-1933]

From: Divis, Joseph, 1885-1967: Photographs of New Zealand gold mining

Reference: PAColl-9540-3

Description: Views of Waihi, the open cast gold mines, and the mine buildings. Otira Railway station. Photographs of nurses. Portraits of women. Gardens. Joseph Divis on his trip overseas includes - Czechoslavakia. Japan. New York. Panama Canal. Joseph Divis and other people on board ships. In some cases there are prints on both sides of the mount. Quantity: 61 b&w original photographic print(s) stereographs.

Date: 1972

By: Sharpe, Alfred, 1836-1908; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-009-b

Description: Shows goldminers and bush encampment with Firth of Thames in the distance From original watercolour in the Auckland City Art Gallery Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 385 x 545 mm on sheet 515 x 630 mm

Date: [circa 1905 to 1912]

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: PA1-o-498

Description: Photographs of a range of industries in New Zealand, possibly related to the Christchurch International Exhibition in 1906-1907. Industries include animal related products including wool, from fellmongery to transportation and finally weaving; meat works, including the slaughter house, the mutton cooling room, shipping fozen mutton, the beef cooling room; butter, at the Hautapu Butter Factory, showing butter in the factory, and delivering butter at Ngaruawahia Railway Station; the Waikato Bacon Factory, and pig carcases. Other industries include flax, with scenes showing a flax mill, carting flax to the mill, stripping, washing and drying flax, and also grading hemp and loading bales of it at Auckland wharves; kauri timber industry, from felling the trees, hauling logs by bullock, floating logs over the Wairoa Falls, sorting timber at the mill booms, timber mill on the Wairoa River, and a million feet of sawn timber at the mill. The latter part of the album shows scenes of gold dredging on the Buller Gorge, hydraulic gold-mining at Ross, Westland; coal mining at Brunner; kauri gum diggers and a warehouse storing kauri gum; and finally views of the Sugar Refinery in Auckland, and a warehouse filled with sacks of sugar. Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, leather corners and spine, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm

Date: [ca 1933-1959]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Watherston, R A, active 1956

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-202

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1933-1959. Various photograph of Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu - Soldiers memorial; camping grounds; Queenstown School; Queenstown Post Office; main street; Scott Memorial in Queenstown Park; town centre, 1933; several elevated views; Queenstown Gardens; Kawarau Dam, 1949; aqua-skiing on the lake; Earnslaw; loading wool at Greenstone Bay, 1950. Franz Josef Glacier; mountaineers cutting steps on the glacier; Arrow Basin; Kaniere gold dredge at Kumara, 1959; St Mary's Church, New Plymouth; Mrs W Reid of Runanga surf casting at Crows Bay, West Coast; hay making near Waikari, North Canterbury; Honeymoon Bay in Tasman Bay. Sheep mustering on high country run of A W Gard, Mt Bell Station (near Kurow); photo of musterers (all named on back) and property owned by Gard. Photographs sent to New Free Lance with accompanying letter by R S Watherston of Springhills, 1956 Also Balclutha; Milton; Woodbank Church; Russell, car ferry at Paihia; Mr Barker's stud at Wanaka; bridge over Molyneux River; Roman Catholic Church at Tokaanu; Wanganui river boat; rock formations at Palliser Bay; yachts of man-made lake Lake Whakamarino, 1947; Cascade Saddle; Mount Egmont lighthouse; Pukekura Park; tree growing amongst rocks on Dunstan Range; Taihape Plunket Rooms; elevated view of Nelson; haymaking near Dagarville; Marion Camp, Homer Tunnel; Northland express passing down main street of Kawakawa, 1947; Centennial Memorial, Wanganui; A & P Show, Taranaki; Dobson; Victoria Park, Waimate; main street of Levin, 1930; Midhurst Co-operative Dairy Factory; St Bathans, 1947. Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1972

By: Sharpe, Alfred, 1836-1908; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-009

Description: Shows goldminers and bush encampment with Firth of Thames in the distance From original watercolour in the Auckland City Art Gallery Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolith. 385 x 545 mm on sheet 515 x 630 mm

Date: 1900 - 1928

By: Chappell, George A, active 1900-1928?

Reference: PAColl-3076

Description: Includes stereographs Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-023589 to 023684 and 120000 to 120223. Prints at PAColl-3076-1. Quantity: 316 b&w original negative(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1852 - 1979

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-041

Description: Prospectus for Anthony Murray-Oliver's folio-sized volume of Charles Heaphy's paintings, including a full-sized reproduction of a watercolour from the collection of the British Library, 'Committee at Pata Pata [Coromandel], 1852, showing a large gathering of Maori and some Pakeha in the foreground, among houses and tents, with canoes pulled up at the fore, yachts in the harbour and two ranges of hills in the background, shortly after the discovery of gold in the Coromandel. The gathering was to finalise the sale of the Coromandel gold fields. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 260 x 333 mm, on one of four pages

Date: 1972

By: Sharpe, Alfred, 1836-1908; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-009-a

Description: Shows goldminers and bush encampment with Firth of Thames in the distance From original watercolour in the Auckland City Art Gallery Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolith. 385 x 545 mm on sheet 515 x 630 mm

Date: 1982 - 1897

By: International Art Centre (Auckland)

Reference: C-117-017

Description: Township with woodstock gold mining company buildings, bridge over the Waitawheta, horse-drawn cart on rails in foreground (cf. his [Battery buildings of the Woodstock gold mining co.] (C-030-015) From original watercolour signed and dated lower right: C Aubrey, 1897 (file print of original filed under title: [Karangahake township] Edition: 83/650 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured ; image 382 x 603 mm on sheet 480 x 660 mm

Date: 1901

From: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937: Testimonial presented to Stephenson Percy Smith, Surveyor-General and Secretary for Crown Lands

Reference: D-007-002-15

Description: Mining machinery in the foreground with smoking chimneys and factory buildings, and the streets and houses of a township, with the sea beyond in the distance. The town shown is Thames with the Grahamstown goldfield and mine in the foreground. Compare E-068-017-2, Archibald Duddington Willis' sample Christmas card, 1886, title 'Grahamstown goldfield, Thames' for identification of the area Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 138 x 83 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: 1982 - 1897

By: International Art Centre (Auckland)

Reference: C-117-017-a

Description: Township with woodstock gold mining company buildings, bridge over the Waitawheta, horse-drawn cart on rails in foreground (cf. his [Battery buildings of the Woodstock gold mining co.] (C-030-015) From original watercolour signed and dated lower right: C Aubrey, 1897 (file print of original filed under title: [Karangahake township] Edition: 83/650 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured ; image 382 x 603 mm on sheet 480 x 660 mm

Date: [ca 1953-1970]

From: Edwards, Muriel, 1907-1981: Slides taken around New Zealand

By: Kiwi Colour Slides; Wawman, D, active 1950s-1960s

Reference: PA12-10642

Description: Commercial slides collected by Muriel Edwards, ca 1950s-1960s. Publishers include Tomoslide (Waitomo Hotel)s, Alpine Slides by Kelvin Photo Service (Queenstown), Hanimount, and Kiwi Colour Slides. D Wawman is named as a photographer. Include images of limestone formations in the Waitomo Caves, the Macetown Tractor Trail Ride, Whakatane, Pohutu Terrace, Lake Taupo and Lake Te Anau. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: [ca 1955-1969]

From: Conley, Peter Vaizey, 1924-2000 :Transparency slides of New Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-8869

Description: Colour transparency slides of North Island scenes, taken ca mid to late 1950s and 1960s by Peter Vaizey Conley. All are unidentified but the photographer describes this set as 'Marsden Point', 'Kerikeri', Wellington trip', 'Auckland', and 'Fairmont'. Contains: Several views of energy-generating complexes, including Marsden Point oil refinery, and a large dam. Two exterior views of the Leopard Inn, Marine Parade, Napier. One photograph of a sign at Karangahake gold camp. Two waterfront scenes, probably Auckland, showing large ships docked at wharfs, and a small seaplane. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: [ca 1890s]

Reference: PAColl-0883

Description: Photograph of the Crown Battery, Karangahake, circa 1900s, taken by an unidentified photographer. View from across the river with the Karangahake mountain in the background. A man on a horse is in the foreground. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1998

By: New Zealand geographic (Periodical)

Reference: Eph-D-HISTORY-1998-01

Description: A montage of images and a map of the Coromandel Peninsula. Photographs and images include: Bill Birch meeting protestors against mining, James Cook, Charles Heaphy, magistrate James Mackay, Sydney Parkinson's view of an arched rock in Mercury Bay, Barry Brickell the potter, the Brian Boru Hotel, gold mines, trams, kauri logs, the "Endeavour" in Mercury Bay, a gold panner. Issued with "New Zealand geographic" no. 39 (July-September 1998). Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 810 x 563 mm. Provenance: Acquired from the publisher in 1998.

Date: [ca 1880s-1900s]

By: McEachen, John Allan, 1844?-1920; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-q-105

Description: Gold dredges, gold sluicing, and machinery associated with gold mining in the South Island. Includes a few photographs taken in Australia, particularly the Pioneer Tin Mine in Tasmania. Inserted in a pocket in the front of the album are 19 loose prints, chiefly showing various claims in the North Island, some of which are taken by H J Locke. Also named in these images are the Saxon Mine and Ivanhoe Mine. Pinafore Claim was located at Waiotahi, Thames. Cambria Claim was a gold mine located in Thames. Gold King Dredge was on the Clutha River near Roxburgh circa 1899. Title supplied by Library. Date range estimated partly on dates that dredges were known to be operating. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-062522 to 062553, and also includes those in the vicinity of 1/2-062625 and 1/2-062630 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Mottled black exercise book, entitled `Photographs. Dredges. Sluicing. Machinery. New Zealand. Australia'; 35 x 23 cm Provenance: Purchased from American Book Service, 1975

Date: [ca 1910-1925]

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Winkelmann, Henry, 1860-1931

Reference: PAColl-0603

Description: Postcards of New Zealand scenes mostly in Waikato and Northland, including the new Awanui Wireless Station at Kaitaia; a steam locomotive on the railway bridge next to Victoria Battery; the interior of Union Battery; view of Whakatane with Regan's Commercial Hotel on the left and a billiards hall at the end of the street; a view over Port Chalmers; Mount Ruapehu covered in snow; a steam ship docking at the wharf at Tauranga; a steam ship pulling away from the wharves at Whangarei; view over Dargaville from Mount Wesley; view down Victoria Street, Dargaville looking towards the railway station; view over Kaitaia from the hotel; sheep mustered next to the Kaeo River; the road and rail bridges over the Waikato River in Hamilton; the Hauraki Pumping Plant in Thames; the extension works at Waihi Grand Junction Battery; the steam ship Clansman at the wharf at Mangonui; the Mokau Coal Mines on the Mokau River with boats moored at the jetty; the school and church at Mangonui; the Topeheihei Falls near Morrinsville; a crowd of people outside the mountain house with Mount Taranaki in the background; Marine Parade, Napier looking north; view over Petone towards Somes Island showing the carriage works and the mill next to the jetty; Glaxo factory at Matamata; a viaduct near Te Kuiti; a train on the Rimutaka Incline; and three views from the Northern Steam Ship Company's annual summer cruise of Port Fitzroy, Whangaroa, and Doubtless Bay. Quantity: 50 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1982 - 1868

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: C-117-018

Description: A partly wooded glen, cottages, with men engaged in unmechanised mining activities From an original watercolour, probably painted ca 1868 ; cf his [gold mining near Kopu] in the collection of the Alexander Turnbull Library (C-052-009) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, coloured ; image 382 x 603 mm on sheet 480 x 660 mm

Date: 1900s

Reference: PAColl-5615

Description: Views of gold batteries in Waihi, by an unknown photographer. The Grand Junction Battery is featured in a number of images. Arrangement: Negatives catalogued at 1/2-179954 to 180008-G Quantity: 55 b&w original negative(s).