Industrial buildings - New Zealand - West Coast Region
The West Coast, volcanoes, and a house by the sea.
Date: 1990s
From: Macnamara, Galvan, 1941-2004 :Family photographs, travels in the USA, friends and collegues, and the work of New Zealand artists
Reference: PAColl-8714-08
Description: Photographs of the white herons; Kahikatia forest on the West Coast; West Coast landscape views across foothills and coastal plain to the sea; industrial ruins which include stone walls and abandoned machinary; a blechnum fern in the bush. Photographs of an unidentified house in a setting of coastal native forest full of nikau palms; views of the sea and forest covered cliffs seen from the garden of the house. Views of the volcanic plateau and mounts Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu. Sequence of photographs showing a cactus in flower. Quantity: 57 colour original photographic print(s).
Waiuta
Date: [ca 1930s]
From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis
Reference: PAColl-4796-16
Description: Waiuta township looking south east. Beyond is the poppet head over the Blackwater Mine's south shaft, with the bowling green (built upon waste rock from the mine's workings). The man standing on the left is Joseph Divis. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s. Source of descriptive information - Notes about bowling green, the south shaft and the dates it operated - from Library client. Of the south shaft, the four large buildings below the chimney are (from left) blacksmith's shop. Compressor shop. Boiler shop. Winding room. (Information supplied by Derek French in 1968.) South shaft was 563m vertical, to a point about 100m below sea level. Mining was carried out there from 1906 to 1936 when operations became centered upon the deeper Prohibition shaft a short distance north. (Information from Library client) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm
Brunner, showing coking ovens
Date: [ca 1910]
From: West Coast Historical and Mechanical Society : Photographs
Reference: 1/2-091702-F
Description: Brunner, circa 1910, with coking ovens in the right foreground. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Information that the structures in the right foreground were coking ovens was supplied by a Library client on 3 October 2007. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
View of Waiuta township looking west
Date: [ca 1930s]
From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis
Reference: PAColl-4796-21
Description: View of Waiuta township looking west. In the centre middle distance are the buildings associated with the Blackwater Mine's south shaft (also called "Poppit Head"). In front of this can be seen the pile of quartz waste before the bowling green and club house were built on it. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm
Buildings associated with the north shaft, Blackwater Mine, Waiuta
Date: [ca late 1930s]
From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis
Reference: PAColl-4796-13
Description: Buildings associated with the north shaft of the Blackwater Mine, Waiuta, looking north, West Coast, New Zealand. The winding room is on the right. Photographed by Joseph Divis circa late 1930s. According to Derek French north shaft was also called \"Pro\" which was short for \"Prohibition.\" This was an electrically driven plant which was commissioned in April 1936 and operated until July 1951. Shaft below headframe at left was reputedly New Zealand's deepest, plumbed 879 metres to a point approximately 300m below sea level. Source of descriptive information - Date and historical note (relating to the electrically driven plant, dates, and plumbing level) from Library client. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm
View of Waiuta township and the south shaft
Date: [ca 1930s]
From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis
Reference: PAColl-4796-22
Description: View of Waiuta township, West Coast, New Zealand . Middle distance right is the bowling club and green. Middle distance left are the tower and other buildings associated with the Blackwater Mine's south shaft (also called "Poppet Head"). Below the south shaft buildings is the store, and right foreground is the Post Office. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm
View of Waiuta township and the south shaft
Date: [ca 1930s]
From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis
Reference: PAColl-4796-15
Description: View of Waiuta township looking south west. The bowling club and green can be seen forground right, and on the left can be seen the tower and buildings associated with the Blackwater Mine's south shaft. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm
View of Waiuta township and the south shaft
Date: [ca 1930s]
From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis
Reference: PAColl-4796-14
Description: View of Waiuta township. The bowling club and green can be seen forground right, and on the left can be seen the tower associated with the Blackwater Mine's south shaft. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm
Snowy River Battery south of Waiuta
Date: [ca 1930s]
From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis
Reference: PAColl-4796-28
Description: Photograph looking down on the buildings of the Snowy River gold mining battery at Waiuta on the West Coast. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.7 x 16.7 cm
Buildings associated with the south shaft, Blackwater Mine, Waiuta
Date: [before 1917]
From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis
Reference: PAColl-4796-12
Description: Buildings associated with the south shaft of the Blackwater Mine, Waiuta, West Coast, New Zealand. Photographed by Joseph Divis before 1917. Source of descriptive information - Dated by Library client who states that the semi-permanent open headframe was replaced in 1916 with the much larger, covered-in structure seen in later photographs. According to Derek French this was the first south shaft and associated buildings when the shaft was being sunk. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm
Gold battery at the north shaft, Waiuta, West Coast
Date: [ca 1939]
From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis
Reference: PAColl-4796-19
Description: Gold battery at the north shaft of the Blackwater Mine looking south, Waiuta, West Coast. Photographed by Joseph Divis circa 1939. This was the new plant opened in 1939. The long rising building houses a conveyor belt carrying gold bearing quartz to be processed (information from Derek French, 1968). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.9 x 21.6 cm