Places

Date: 1914

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001825-G

Description: View over the Talisman Battery at Karangahake township in 1914. Photograph taken by William A Price? or by [?] Polland? Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Talisman Battery. Karangahake. Polland Series. Protd 12.5.14. No 3290 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.5 inches

Date: 1910

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001810-G

Description: View of the main street in the gold-mining township of Waiuta. Shows houses surrounded by picket fences on both sides of the street. Photograph taken by William A Price in 1910. The building on the left was incorporated into the Empire Hotel in 1915. Source of descriptive information - Date, and information about the building incorporated into the Empire Hotel, provided by Library client, 2007 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Waiutu. Main Street. 465E Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [1910s]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001891-G

Description: View of the Energetic Mine near Inangahua, part of the Wealth of Nations Mine Ltd. Photograph taken by William Archer Price Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Energetic Mine. [No.] 529.E. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [between 1910-1930]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001558-G

Description: View of the Thames Hauraki Company's pumping plant. Photograph taken in early 1900s by William A Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Thames Hauraki Pump & level shaft. NZ. 1453D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [circa 1910s]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000560-G

Description: View of the Big River Battery at the gold mining settlement called Big River in the Buller District. The battery is left of centre. An aerial tramway delivering quartz from the mine to the battery is above. Buildings immediately left of the battery building are a blacksmith's shop and workshop. The small building in line with the battery is the assay room. There is a cyanide plant at left, with sands from the battery awaiting cyanide treatment in the foreground. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, ca 1910s. Source of descriptive information - Details about this photograph from Library client, 2007 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Big River. Battery. [No.] 672E Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001894-G

Description: View of the Globe Hill Mine near Inangahua. Shows the Progress, or 'B', shaft. Photograph taken by William Archer Price circa 1910. Identification of, and information about, the Progress, or 'B', shaft, is from Library client, 2007 The Progress, or 'B', shaft was sunk by the London based Consolidated Goldfields of NZ after they took over and amalgamated the Globe and Progress mines in 1896. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Globe Hill. [No.] 294E Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001545-G

Description: View from the Goods Wharf (Thames Wharf; Burke Street Wharf) looking towards the buildings on the waterfront and mining area at Moanataiari. A & G Price foundry can be seen in the middle distance. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - View from Thames Wharf. 1411. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [1910s]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000019-G

Description: View of the Energetic Mine near Inangahua, part of the Wealth of Nations Mine Ltd. Photograph taken by William Archer Price Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Energetic Mine. [No.] 636.E. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [circa 1910s]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000559-G

Description: View of the Big River Battery at the gold mining settlement called Big River in the Buller District. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, ca 1910s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Big River. Battery. [No.] 671E Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [1910s]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001896-G

Description: View of the quartz (gold) mining township of Progess Junction at the foot of Globe Hill, Inangahua County. Photograph taken circa 1910s by William Archer Price Other - Formerly identified as Globe Hill. Source of descriptive information - Progress Junction identified by Library client, 2007 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Globe Hill. [No.] 267E Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001741-G

Description: Scene at Waiuta, Inangahua County, which was centred on the Blackwater gold mine. Shows two rows of miners' huts, probably prefabricated. Each of them has a front door, one window, a small verandah in front, and a chimney. Photograph taken by William Archer Price circa 1910. Formerly identified as Blackwater. Confusion arosed because Waiuta was centred upon the Blackwater gold mine, and was sometimes referred to as Upper Blackwater. The 'Red Huts' were built circa 1908 by Blackwater Mines Ltd for single workers, and were sold as farm huts etc when the mine, and town, closed in 1951. Source of descriptive information - Information about Waiuta, Blackwater, and 'Red Huts' from Library Client, 2007 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Miners' huts. Blackwater. No. 408.E Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [between 1910-1930]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001557-G

Description: View of the Thames Hauraki Company's pumping plant. Photograph taken in early 1900s by William A Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Thames Hauraki Pumping Plant. NZ 1400D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [1910s]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001812-G

Description: View of the Wealth Battery near Inangahua. Photograph taken by William Archer Price Other - Other: Note on back of file print reads "Wealth Battery, someone thinks this is "Progress"." Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Wealth Battery. No. 396.E Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [1910s]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001813-G

Description: View of the Waiuta Battery near Inangahua. Photograph taken by William Archer Price Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Waiuta Battery. No. 431.E Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1914

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001826-G

Description: View over the Crown Mine Battery (of the New Zealand Crown Mines Co.) at Karangahake township in 1914. Photograph taken by William A Price? or by [?] Polland? Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Crown Battery. Karangahake. Polland Series. Protd 12.5.14. No 20?2 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.5 inches

Date: [ca 1918]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000566-G

Description: Gold extraction works at Paeroa, circa 1918. Photograph taken by F.E.F. (probably Fred E Flatt, stationer, at Paeroa in 1918). Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Gold extraction works. Paeroa; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - F.E.F. Series. 3685 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001168-G

Description: General view of Thames looking south taken from the vicinity of the Moanataiari Spur showing batteries in the foreground and water races in the middle distance. Photograph taken by William A Price. Scope of descriptive information: Thames, the first 100 years / William A Kelly, 1968 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Thames. 1387D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001895-G

Description: View of the Globe Hill Mine near Inangahua, photographed by William Archer Price circa 1910. Shows the old Globe shaft. The old Globe shaft became known as the Progress Mines Ltd 'A' shaft after Consolidated Goldfields of NZ took over and combined the Globe and Progesss mines in 1896. It was about 200m from the Progress or 'B' shaft seen in 1/2-001894. The old underground mines were being opencast by Oceana Gold Ltd in 2007. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Identification of Globe shaft, and Historical Notes, from Library client, 2007 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Globe Hill. [No.] 292E Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001555-G

Description: View of the Waiotahi Gold Mine and battery, looking north with the sea on the left. Photograph taken by William A Price. Scope of descriptive information: Thames, the first 100 years / William A Kelly, 1968 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Waiotahi G.M. Thames. NZ. 1454D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001740-G

Description: Scene at Waiuta, Inangahua County, which was centred on the Blackwater gold mine. Looks up at a row of miners' huts, probably prefabricated. Each of them has a front door, one window, a small verandah in front, and a chimney, with a water tank on the side away from the fireplace. Photograph taken by William Archer Price circa 1910. Source of descriptive information - Huts originally identified as being at Blackwater. Waiuta was centred upon the Blackwater Mine and was sometimes referred to as Upper Blackwater. Library Client has identified them as being four miles away at Waiuta (April 2000). See also `Waiuta' by Gerald Morris page 13. Source of descriptive information - Information about 'Red Huts' from Library client, 2007 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Miners' huts. Blackwater. No. 407.E The 'Red Huts' were built circa 1908 by Blackwater Mines Ltd for single workers, and were sold as farm huts etc when the mine, and town, closed in 1951. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative