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Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA7-51-10

Description: View of the Buller River and Gorge. Photograph taken by James Ring. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Buller Gorge. N.Z. 440 J.R. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 138 x 204 mm

Date: 1903

By: New Zealand Geological Survey; Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PAColl-4818

Description: Images of the construction of a coal mining railroad and its early use including the hydraulic brake for the no. 1 incline, the 17-span viaduct, the changing flat where tubs are transferred to the no.2 incline, tunnel mouths etc. Two of the photographers are identified as James Ring (1/4-015594) and Henry Thomas Lock (1/4-015598). Identified by a researcher as Paparoa Coal Company mine at Roa, above Blackball. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-15590 to 15599, 15629 to 15634, 15638 to 15640, 1/1-07745 to 07748, 07751 to 07752. Quantity: 25 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1890s]

From: Holm, J C :Photographs of Greymouth flood, ca 1890s

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA7-51-19

Description: Elevated view overlooking Greymouth during a flood showing the railway station and areas near the waterfront under water. The Royal Hotel can be seen in the middle distance. The barquentine `Rio' is in the far distance berthed alongside the quay. One of a series of photographs taken by James Ring during the flood (in late 1890s or as late as 1905) Same image at PA7-51-20 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 145 x 205 mm

Date: 1907

From: Groshinski, Brian :Photographs of the Victoria Ladies Cricket Team and Julius Schadick

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PAColl-0817-1

Description: Photograph of the thirteen members of the Victoria Ladies Cricket Team with the umpire J Taylor. The names are (left to right): back row - M Schadick, N Thomas, A Hale, N Gembetzky (emergency), B McDonald; middle row - A Phelan, M McKay, E Schadick (captain), B Black, J McKay; front row - E Mitchell, F Stitt, M Williams (emergency). Photographer was James Ring. Inscriptions: Mount recto - above image - Defeated St Marys Grey LCC at Westport by 9 wickets and 4 runs, Feb 18th 1907 but were defeated by St Mary's at Greymouth by 25 runs, April 4th 1907.; Mount verso - top centre - Miss Emma Schadick, Peel Street, Westport Tuesday 7/5/07 Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-104079 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1911

From: Staffan, Jan, fl 1997-2007 :Photographs

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PAColl-9092

Description: Photograph of the Holy Trinity Church choir posed outside the Greymouth church, taken 1911 by James Ring. The choirmaster was Charles Staffan. Accompanying material - Photocopy of collection listing in section back file Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Protd 17.8.11 Ring Photo. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.5 x 20.2 cm, on mount 22.4 x 27.8 cm Provenance: Donated by Jan Staffan, Wellington, 2007 Transfers: Collection as a whole received by Turnbull Collections Librarian. Unpublished material transferred to Photographic Archive..

Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]

From: Hamilton Public Library :Photographs of New Zealand

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA7-59-18-2

Description: View of the tunnel on the Buller Gorge Road. A house can be glimpsed on the other side of the tunnel. Photograph taken by James Ring. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - [First part unreadable] Buller. 1004 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 21.5 x 29 cm on album page

Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA7-51-08

Description: Shows a group of men standing on a pontoon on the banks of the Buller River near Lyell. Their horse and carriage is on the road waiting to be ferried across the river. Photograph taken by James Ring in 1880s-1890s Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Lyell punt on the Buller, NZ. 438 J.R. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 140 x 205 mm

Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-013

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by various photographers including the Burton Brothers, Tyree Brothers, James Ring, Josiah Martin, and Henry Thomas Lock. Includes images of flooding in Blenheim, and a wire cable tram across the Taramakau River (West Coast). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red cloth bound folio album, 415 x 300 mm

Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]

From: Hamilton Public Library :Photographs of New Zealand

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA7-59-17-2

Description: Photograph of the river from the Buller Gorge road. Photograph taken by James Ring. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Buller Gorge N.Z. 1005.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Ring Photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 21 x 29 cm on album page

Date: 1905-1930

By: McDonald, Munro L B, active 1993; Daily telegraph (Napier, N.Z.); Frank Duncan and Company; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PAColl-2986

Description: All Blacks, Sydney; stage coach, Otira River; Masterton telephone exchange, Armistice Day 1918; Amy Johnson in Australia; Auckland Exhibition Inscriptions: [Two of postcards have messages on verso; other photoprints are identified on verso] Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 folder(s) envelope contains collection. Physical Description: 3 postcards, 155x208mm photoprint, 121x72mm photoprint, 2 210x252mm photocopies Provenance: Found amongst accumulation in Munro McDonald's office

Date: 1891-1900s

From: Zachariah (Zak), Joseph 1863-1965 :Photographs

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939; Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: PAColl-0043-1

Description: Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1890s]

From: Holm, J C :Photographs of Greymouth flood, ca 1890s

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA7-51-20

Description: Elevated view overlooking Greymouth during a flood showing the railway station and areas near the waterfront under water. The Royal Hotel can be seen in the middle distance. The barquentine `Rio' is in the far distance berthed alongside the quay. One of a series of photographs taken by James Ring during the flood (late 1890s or as late as 1905) Same image at PA7-51-19 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 145 x 205 mm

Date: [1905]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA7-51-04

Description: Photograph taken during the Greymouth flood showing people on Mawhera Quay opposite the Gilmer Hotel. Floodwaters have submerged the adjacent street and water laps at the front of hotels and shops along the quay. An unidentified sailing ship and paddlesteamer are tied up at the wharf. One of a series of photographs taken of the flood by James Ring Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 153 x 205 mm

Date: [ca 1907-1933]

By: Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; Mascotte Studio; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-1888

Description: Photograph album of shipping movements and shipwrecks at Greymouth, compiled by an unidentified person. Also contains one image of a wreck at Westport. Photographs taken between circa 1907 and 1933 by mainly unidentified photographers. West Coast photographer James Ring, L A Inkster, and Mascotte Studio are identified. Most of the ships are named. - Album contains images of ships wrecked crossing the Greymouth Bar. Also ship movements with mainly steam ships, but also some sailing vessels and the tug boat 'Westland', arriving in and departing from Greymouth as well as docked at the wharf. Photographs of note include a series of images of the wreck of the SS 'Ngahere' (1924), including rescue effort with rocket firing line to the wreck, crew in lifebelts waiting to be rescued, and two images of the wreck photographed from the air; the crew of the SS 'Perth' abandoning ship in a lifeboat; series of the wreck of the 'Kotuku', including rescue cradle between the boat and the land, the wreck being pounded by heavy seas and breaking up, and, later, the remains being blown up; the SS 'Kaituna' docked at Greymouth Wharf with the Grey River in flood; series of images of the wreck of the SS 'Lauderdale', including Captain Clarke coming ashore in a rescue cradle and the vessel breaking up; series of images of the wreck of the SS 'Kaponga' including shortly after the ship struck the North Tip, with hatches up to dump cargo, being driven against the North Tip, and breaking up; circa 11 ships docked at Greymouth Wharf in 1928; coal being loaded onto the SS 'Ngakuta'; and people inspecting the wreck of the 'Tavanui' at low tide at Westport. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Cardboard cover with light grey reptilian texture embossed with word 'Photographs' in gold and tied with string, 13.4 x 21.4 cm Provenance: Purchase, 2014. Album had been in the possession of Dr Rod McLeod, now deceased. He was the founder of the Queensland Maritime Museum, and a surgeon.

Date: ca 1880-1910

From: McArthurs Auction :Photographs of early drawings and paintings of Taranaki, and photographs of Hawke's Bay, Greymouth and others

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PAColl-4472

Description: A house with a small verandah and two women and two men outside (in Mauriceville according to the negative register); a pre-1931 map of the Hawke's Bay Region from Porongahau to Wairoa; Mauriceville school picnic ca 1909; and a large crowd outside Gilmer's Hotel in Greymouth listening to an address being given by a man on the balcony early 1880s (taken by James Ring). Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Individual negative yet to be described.

Date: 1890s-1970s

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

By: Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; Inksters Ltd; Quinn, Joseph, -1998; Ring & Inkster (Firm); Ring, James, 1856-1939; Sidney Riley Studios

Reference: PAColl-9680

Description: Photographs from the Ring & Inkster Studio taken from the 1890s to the 1970s relating to floods and slips, and dredges in the Greymouth area. Views of Greymouth include: aerial view of the town, circa 1950s; Mawhera Quay after a flood, circa 1890s; Gilmer's Corner after a flood, circa 1890s; aerial view of subdivision, circa 1970s. Group photographs include: group of women in the 1950s [possibly a reunion]; school photograph of girls attending a convent school, 1937; wedding group taken in Sydney, Australia, by Sidney Riley Studio, circa 1923; family group seated outdoors on a large rock, circa 1920; Grey County Councillors, circa 1912; Inangahua Silver Band taken in Greymouth during band competitions, 1975. Blackball aerial tramway (or ropeway) crossing the Grey River on large pylons, seen from the foot of Coats' Terrace, circa 1900s [this tramway began operation in 1893, and was replaced by rail in 1910]. Views of landscape and countryside include: two panoramas of the Punakaiki River, 1927; panorama of Nine Mile coast road, 1927; two panoramas of a landscape featuring nikau palms and damaged bush, 1927; panoramic view of Punakaiki, 1927; two panoramas of Ten Mile on coastal road, 1927; and a country race track and surrounding countryside, circa 1970s. Accompanying material - An inventory of shipping, Greymouth by the Inksters Ltd. Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]

From: Hamilton Public Library :Photographs of New Zealand

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA7-59-17-1

Description: Photograph showing the road passing through a tunnel in the rock face in the vicinity of Redman's Bar, Buller Gorge. Photograph taken by James Ring. Other - Similar view but not identical to PA7-51-14 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Redman's Bar. Buller Gorge N.Z. 1001. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 21 x 28.5 cm on album page

Date: 1930-1950

From: Elworthy, A C :Photographs of early aviation and mountaineering

By: Elworthy, Anthony C, active 1984; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PAColl-0075-1

Description: Photographs, taken by Anthony C Elworthy, chiefly of aeroplanes and general aviation in the 1930s, especially of a De Havilland Dragonfly but also including images of a Pan Am Boeing Clipper, Gloster Meteor, Hawker Tomtit, Bristol FZB and of a Percival Vega Gull. Also includes 1 photograph of aeroplanes at the Canterbury Aero Club. Also includes images of aeroplanes at Nandi, Fiji, circa 1940.. Also, photographs of World War II shipping, including prints relating to the ships Rangatira, Awatea, Aquitane and Aquitania. Also includes photographs of the Maadi Tank School during World War II and 1 of 5 members of 26 Battalion, D Company at Alamein in July 1942. Also, photographs of tame deer in Haast; mountaineering (including images of the Elworthy family) and aerial photographs of Sydney Harbour. Also, 7 photographs by James Ring, including 1 of Jacksons Accomodation House on Christchurch Road, 1 of Archer's punt on the Inangahua River, 1 of Hawkes Crag, 1 of sluicing at Humphrey's Gully, 1 of the Otira Accomodation House, 1 of the Otira Hotel, and 1 titled `Lake Pearson, Looking toward Cragieburn'. Quantity: 160 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]

From: Hamilton Public Library :Photographs of New Zealand

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA7-59-18-1

Description: View of the Buller River and Gorge at a point on the road above the river known as Hawks Crag (formerly known as Hawks Craig). There is a horse and carriage on the road. Photograph taken by James Ring. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Hawks Craig, Buller Gorge, N.Z. 1990 [rest unreadable] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 21.5 x 29 cm on album page

Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA7-51-14

Description: Photograph showing the road passing through a tunnel in the rock face in the vicinity of Redman's Bar, Buller Gorge. Photograph taken by James Ring. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Redman's Bar Buller Gorge N.Z. 458 J.R. Similar view but not identical to PA7-59-17-1 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 104 x 205 mm