IMAGE
View of the Big River Battery, Inangahua Co.
- Date
- [circa 1910s]
- 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
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Postcards, Dry plate glass negative, Orientation: Horizontal image
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