Avoca Valley
View of railway incline, quarry and loading bin, Avoca, Canterbury
Date: [circa 1920s]
From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera
Reference: 1/4-095566-F
Description: Mt Torlesse Colleries operation at Avoca showing the load out bins and the incline. Photograph taken by Edgar Richard Williams Place and approximate date provided by a researcher. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Photographer identified by Curatorial Services Leader John Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative
St Andrew's Hill, the Heathcote, Horotane and Avoca Valleys and the Port Hills, Christc...
Date: 29 Nov 1949
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-23441-F
Description: Aerial view of St Andrew's Hill and the Heathcote, Horotane and Avoca Valleys, with the Port Hills in the background, Christchurch, taken 29 Nov 1949 by Whites Aviation. Source of descriptive information - Originally wrongly described as 'Sumner' by descriptive archivist working on digitisation project. Later correctly identified by Library client. Whites Aviation register describes the photograph as 'Port Hills'. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate