Places

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: 1860 - 1869

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-178

Description: Sketch map showing rivers, mountains, passes, and Lake Brunner. Scale: ten miles to an inch. On Verso: Notes in ink; list of names in pencil Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, 310 x 380 mm

Date: [Circa 1900s]

By: York Studio (Wellington N.Z.); Beattie, John Watt, 1859-1930; Muir & Moodie (Firm); New Zealand. Tourism Department; Dutch, F W, active 1900-1906; Bateman, J K, active 1945

Reference: PA1-o-035

Description: Album of views of Hobart, Australia, and of the North and South Islands of New Zealand. Taken by a number of different photographers, some unidentified, but those identified include the York Studio (Christchurch), John Watt Beattie (Tasmania), Muir and Moodie (Dunedin), and the New Zealand Tourist Department. The New Zealand images range from Lakes Te Anau and Manapouri in the south, to the Rotorua area in the north. Inscriptions: Album page - "Presented to the New Zealand Government by J.K. Bateman, Esq., 12 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1, 10 October 1945" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Donated by J K Bateman, London

Date: 1860 - 1865

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-126

Description: 360 degree panoramic view. Geographical features named (left to right): Gorge of Inangahua; Buller hills (NW); a space of Paparoha omitted; Omeka Flat; Inangahua; south of Buller; gorge of Kawerau; small river; high snowy mountain; gorge of Waitu. Other Titles - Sketch of Mr Rochforts panoramic from the Inanghahua. Round. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, on pages glued together to make sheet 97 x 1620 mm

Date: [ca 1938]

From: Junge, Norman Earl, 1916-1989 :Negatives and photographs of Reefton and Inangahua districts

Reference: 1/4-022988-F

Description: Men in bathing suits, Inangahua River region, circa 1938. From left: George Dollan, unknown, Garth Richards, and Frank Buckingham. Photograph taken by Norman E Junge, circa 1938. Note on back of file print reads "Swimmers from Inangahua River, Reefton..." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [Between 1903 and 1906]

By: Mair, John Thomas, 1876-1959; New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts

Reference: PA1-o-321

Description: Album of scenic photographs, chiefly taken by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department, with views of the North Island and South Island. North Island scenes include a number of tourist views of Maori, showing carved meeting houses; a group performing a haka; two women demonstrating the hongi; a young woman wearing a feather cloak, hei tiki and huia feathers, and holding a mere; a group of young boys in a haka pose; a woman smoking a pipe; a group of children bathing in a hot pool at Ohinemutu; and Mr. Nelson's carved house at Whakarewarewa. Other North Island scenes show Mount Taranaki, the Auckland wharves, Lake Waikaremoana, and a man fishing at the Ohau Channel, Rotorua. South Island views cover Lakes Wakatipu, Manapouri and Te Anau; the Tasman Glacier; peaks in the Southern Alps; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; a team of four horses with a laden Cobb & Co coach on a ferry, crossing the Mangahua [i.e. Inangahua] River, the Lyell River Bridge and Hawks Crag, all in the Buller Gorge. The last few images are exterior and interior views of the Dunedin Railway Station soon after it was finished in 1906. Inscriptions: Album page - John T. Mair, Wellington, New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured black cover, entitled `Photographs' lettered in gold; 26.0 x 31.5 cm

From: Consolidated Gold Fields of New Zealand Ltd. Gore Porter Plans Collection.

Reference: MapColl-CGF/JB007

Description: Handrawn topographical sketch map showing Snowy Creek area near Mt Gore. Indicates rivers, creeks, mines, tracks, and "McInroes farm". Compass indicates North. Title taken from item Inscriptions: Verso - top right - Sketch up Snowy Creek T W[illiam?] Quantity: 1 map(s) Location Plan. Physical Description: Pencil and ink on cartridge Paper 75 cm x 56 cm

Date: 1959-2007

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-4

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1959 to 2007. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Identified people are: Senior Sergeant George Christopher Donnelly of Hokitika police; Ivy Harper and Bert Birchfield; Mike Armstrong and Jim Daken; Mary and Heather Cornwell; Charleston coal mine operator Neil Mouat; Mack Heinz; Tex Smith; Mike Armstrong; Henry Heveldt and M Bennett of Nolan's Mill; Garth Graham; meat shooters Mike Bennett and Kevin Blythell; John 'Opo' Angus, the Eggling brothers; helicopter pilot Ben Morris and Les's wife Mary Cleveland; and Johnny Hewer, Claire Easterbrook and Liam Easterbrook in front of the Neils Beach school house. Featured natural environments include the hot springs at Welcome Flat and the Karangarua Valley, River, Ranges, and the view from the Sefton bivouac, Ocean Beach, and Neils Beach, including car wrecks at the rubbish dump. Other images (and series of images) of note include scenes from the Kumara races; environmental damage (slips and road works at Milford Tunnel, Inangahua River road, and Haast and Jackson's Bay area; open face coal mining at Charleston; deer hunting, largely based in Mussel Point; Central Otago Hotels (Cardrona, White Horse, and Vulcan); Post Offices and boxes (St Bathan's, Outram, Ophir, and Dunedin) and a Pacific Films crew on Fox Glacier. Also includes images of James Heveldt's grave (Jackson's Bay), Peregrine Vinyard, a new house in Bannockburn, a girl in a Westport ice cream parlour, women in a Carter's Sawmill shop, a Hokitika cake stall, and various shop fronts and signage in Dunedin, Gore, and on the West Coast. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 80 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: ca 1920

Reference: 1/2-002773-F

Description: Postcard of the Inangahua Bridge in the Buller Gorge. The support of a previous bridge can be seen next to it. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [Circa 1900s]

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: PA1-o-500

Description: Photographs, mostly showing the West Coast of the South Island, with some showing parts of Southland, taken by the New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department circa 1900s. Most are landscapes, but some show people in the distance, including horse-drawn coaches in the Buller Gorge and Bealey Gorge; Archer's punt on the Inagahua River; two men standing outside the Malte Brun Hut; climbers on the various glaciers; and people in rowing boats on Lake Kaniere. Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm

Date: [1910s?]

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

Reference: 1/2-001902-G

Description: View of Reefton, with the Inangahua River visible behind the town. Photograph taken by William Archer Price Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Reefton. N.Z. No. 355.E Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1880s]

Reference: 1/2-018200-F

Description: Globe/Progress stamper battery, West Coast, circa 1910. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date estimated by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: [193-?]

Reference: 1/1-004433-G

Description: Photograph of the township of Blacks Point, by the Inangahua River, Buller district, West Coast. Photograph taken circa 1920s. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28434-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28437-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 1890s

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

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: 1/1-027157-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: ca 1910

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10x8-0620-G

Description: View of the Inangahua River crossing, showing a coach about to board the punt to cross, taken ca 1910 by the Tyree studio of Nelson. Other Titles - Tyree No. 5163 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Inangahua Punt, Tyree Photo, Nelson, 5163 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8 x 10 inches

Date: 1872

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-066

Description: Shows men unloading barrels and other large packages from a boat which is pulled up on the river bank. Two horses close to the packages on the near bank. Christy (Christian Mindermann, a German) ran the river boat for many years and kept an accommodation house and store. A scene on the West bank of the Ingangahua River about a mile upstream of Inangahua Landing. The place depicted was known at the time of depiction as Emmanuel's Flat. 'Cristy' was Mr Christian Mindermann, who kept an accommodation house and store at Inangahua Junction and was its first postmaster. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 254 x 365 mm Processing information: This watercolour was catalogued with a suggested date of 1865, until a record of William Fox's visit to Inangahua Landing in late February 1872 was found in the Grey River Argus.

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28436-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: [1910s?]

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

Reference: 1/2-001903-G

Description: View of Reefton, with the Inangahua River running alongside the town on the left. Photograph taken by William Archer Price Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Reefton. N.Z. No. 354.E Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches