Landslides - New Zealand - West Coast Region
New Zealand scenery album 2
Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]
By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PA1-o-386
Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm
South Island prints three
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
Haast, West Coast
Date: [ca 1960s]
From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip
Reference: PA12-7027
Description: Photographs of Lake Wakatipu, the Frankton Arm, and the Haast area taken ca 1960s by John Ingle. Views include forest at Haast; ripples on Lake Wakatipu; Kawarau River Bridge; jet boat on the Frankton Arm; slip on the Haast Highway, with bulldozers at work and traffic held up by the slip; water race, and rimu trees at Kaniere; waterfall on the Haast road; Lake Wahapo; rata vine in the Haast Valley; Lake Mapourike; the Punakaiki Rocks and sea surging at one of the arches; mist and rain near Kaniere. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm
Photographs relating to floods and fires
Date: 1999-2005
From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast
Reference: PADL-000326
Description: Photographs relating to floods and fires in Greymouth. Includes flood, wind and erosion damage, and fire fighters fighting various fires. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Floods-Fires-etc" Quantity: 47 digital photograph(s).
View of the Maruia Road. A group of men are travelling with a laden four-horse drawn ca...
Date: [circa 1910s]
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-000554-G
Description: View of the Maruia Road, showing a shingle slide below the road. A group of men with a four-horse drawn cart are facing the camera, and there is another horse-drawn cart further along the winding road to the left. Behind the men is a huge slip-face, with loose shingle below the road. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, ca 1910s. Other - For a different view of this scene see 1/2-000553-G Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Maruia Raod. No. 1199E Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative
View of the Maruia Road. A man is leading a laden horse drawn cart with several men rid...
Date: [circa 1910s]
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-000553-G
Description: View of the Maruia Road, showing a shingle slide below the road. A man is leading a four-horse drawn laden cart, with a number of men riding on top. Two horsemen are following. Behind the men is a huge slip-face, with loose shingle below the road. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, ca 1910s. Other - For a different view of this scene see 1/2-000554-G showing the road winding up a hill Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Maruia Road. No. 1202E Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative
Photographs relating to history
Date: 2002-2004
From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast
Reference: PADL-000328
Description: Photographs relating to history in the West Coast Region. Includes the re-opening of the Brunner bridge, various memorials, and the opening of the Groom Bros Butchery replica store at Shantytown (the Open-air village museum). Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Historic" Quantity: 179 digital photograph(s).