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Date: [1960s-1970s]

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

Reference: PAColl-9543-19

Description: Photographs of West Coast scenes. Includes historical parade ca 1960s, building of fountain ca 1960, Strongman mine, grave stone of L A Inkster, and young man in wheelchair being given flight in light aircraft. Photographs taken 1960s-1970s by L A Inkster studio. Quantity: 83 b&w original photographic print(s). 17 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1967

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

Reference: PAColl-9543-51

Description: Photographs relating to the Strongman Mine disaster of 1967, taken by Joseph Quinn Includes photographs of the rescue effort and funerals and graves. The associated negatives include photographs of the commission of inquiry and MBE medal awards Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheets. 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Photographic prints, negative envelopes

Date: 1907-1970

By: United Mine Workers' Union of New Zealand

Reference: MS-Group-0407

Description: Minute books, correspondence and miscellaneous papers from several West Coast mines; includes awards, West Coast Trades Council minutes, agreements, papers relating to the Westland Labour Representation Committee. Labour Party reports, photographs of the ship Awatea Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 box(es) (24 folders). 3 volume(s). 0.80 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter, photographs Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Provenance: Possibly collected in the 1970s by Ray Grover Includes material originating with James Begg Kent, a former MP for Westland, and photographs and a ship's specification, which were originally owned by the Union Steam Ship Company Transfers: To Book Collections - Various pamphlets, agreements, rule books and constitutions - To Drawings & Prints Collection - 6 Chinese coins.

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: 1 September 1909

From: Campbell, Eve, fl 1976 :Stereographs

By: Schaef, Arthur Waldemar, 1867-1940

Reference: PA4-0722

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Kihnikau Coal Mine, Whangarei, taken by A W Schaef, 1909. Printed as a Supplement to the `Weekly Graphic' and New Zealand Mail', 1st September, 1909. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Kihnikau Coal Mine, Whangarei; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Recto - left of image - Photograph by A W Schaef; Recto - top centre - Printed as a Supplement to the "Weekly Graphic and New Zealand Mail." September 1, 1909. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by Mrs E Campbell, July 1976

Date: [1920s-1950s]

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

Reference: PAColl-9543-22

Description: Photographs of West Coast scenes, personalities, comprising: Visits to West Coast of Duke of Gloucester (1934-1935), Sir Willoughby Norrie (1952-1957), and Viscount Galway (1935-1941). Galway was visiting the Coalbrookdale mine at Denniston. Horse racing meetings Teams competing in West Coast Indoor Basketball Association competition, 1955 Hockey team Lawn bowls clubs Tennis clubs School groups Photographs taken 1920s-1950s by James Ring and L A Inkster of Greymouth Quantity: 78 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1967

By: Patterson, John Kenneth, 1914-2005

Reference: MapColl-834.1gbc/1967/Acc.31194

Description: Plans from the Strongman Mine Committee of Inquiry, 1967, from the chairman, lawyer and senior magistrate Mr Patterson. Index of miners' working places at the time of the accident. List names of those on day shift and night shift. Identifies position of persons killed in the mine on the plan, their names and the injuries they died from. Identifies structural elements of the mine, for example stoppings, air crossings, goaf areas, elevations, falls. Plan shows where at least nineteen people died. Removed from donor's study after the sale of his house Quantity: 2 map(s). 1.90 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 56.8 x 77.5 cm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Plans of Strongman Mine, 1967.

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: 1906

Reference: PA5-0290

Description: A scene at Denniston, taken 1906 Verso has note Denniston 1906 (Hainings ? Hotel on left) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 88 x 138 mm

Date: 1945-1961

By: Blackball District Coal Miners' Union

Reference: qMS-0237-0238

Description: Full minutes of monthly meetings; contains some sets of accounts. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript (34cm, ½ brown suede leather)

Date: 1942-1946

From: West Coast Miners' Unions : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1071-108

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

By: Ralph, Sadie, active 1992

Reference: PAColl-2526

Description: One carte de visite of Margaret Riley Ralph Schlinker, developer of Ralph's coal mines Huntly. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-172158 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1913, 1920-1932

By: Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd

Reference: MS-Papers-5041

Description: Prospecti, draft annual reports, mining and geological survey reports, and newspaper cuttings relevant to a number of gold and coal mining companies Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres.

Date: 1951-1953

From: West Coast Miners' Unions : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1071-116

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donated by Mr Hardy Browning

Date: [1900-1932], [1970s]

By: Hughes, John Bernard, active 1940-1993

Reference: MS-Group-1116

Description: Scrapbook of clippings relating to West Coast union and mining activities including reports from the Warden's Court, the Trades and Labour Council, government negotiations, the Westport Coal Company, the Arbitration Court, fatalities, stikes, etc The compiler of the scrapbook is unknown Letter from donor accompanies loose material from volume at MS-Papers-7511 Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr J B Hughes, Westport, May 1993

Date: 2003

By: Friends of the Hill Society

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-2003-02

Description: Calendar featuring historic group photographs and landscapes around the Denniston Hill area. The cover shows various portraits of the Mullan brothers. Other photographs are of a view across Denniston, Denniston School 1931, miners at Taipo, the 1921 rugby team, a strike at Burnett's Face 1932, the Denniston Brass Band at Burnett's Face 1945/46, Earl Marr and Pat Webster driving horses, miners at the end of a shift at Coalbrookdale, wash day at Burnett's Face, Chapman's house at the "Camp" under snow, engine room at the Denniston Power House. Quantity: 1 calendar (plus duplicate). Physical Description: Photolithographs on calendar pages, each 425 x 300 mm.

Date: 1987

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-362-160/191

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 31 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary.

Date: 1866, 1911

From: New Zealand. Department of Mines : Mining manuscripts

Reference: MS-Papers-10012-1

Description: Copy of deed issued by Nelson Coal Mining Company to Cornelius Gavin Casey, John Thomas Morgan, John Joseph Goller, William Hunter Parkyn and Charles Taylor, with photographs of the Brunner Coal Mine on the banks of the Grey River (1866); and excerpts from bulletin re history of the Brunner Mine, 1847-1893 (1911) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript and photographs

Date: 1938

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/4/16-Acc.38882

Description: Identifies coal fields in the North Island of New Zealand 1938 Base map - New Zealand Geological Survey Quantity: 1 map(s) with ms annotations. Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream paper. Scale indeterminable. 63.5 x 48.8 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1998

From: [Calendars for the year 1998, of approximately A3 size. 1997].

By: Friends of the Hill Society

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1998-01

Description: Shows early scenes from the history of Denniston. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (calendar). Physical Description: Photolithographs on sheets, 422 x 297 mm (spiral bound) Provenance: Donated by the publisher in 1998.