Coaching (Transportation) - New Zealand - West Coast Region
Jackson family : Papers
Date: [1882]-1884, 1922-1932
By: Jackson family
Reference: MS-Papers-1299
Description: Diary kept by Thomas Jackson of Jacksons, Westland, ca 1882-1884, recording farming activities, weather, local visitors, swaggers and travellers. Three letters, 1922-1932, contain genealogical information and reminiscences Jacksons was a staging post for coaches travelling to and from the West Coast Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)
Album of trip to West Coast
Date: 1913
From: Hitchcock family: Collection
Reference: PA1-o-2025
Description: Album of photographs of a trip to the West Coast Region of New Zealand in 1913, taken by unidentified photographer (possibly Daisy Hitchcock). Captions inscribed on the photographs and sometimes on the album page. Images show landscapes, and women and men travelling by horse and carriage from Christchurch to Greymouth and around the West Coast and Southland Regions. Identified locations are Otira Gorge, Bealey River, Bligh Sound, Bowen Falls, George Sound, Hokitika Gorge, "McDonalds Inlet", Lake Kaniere and Hans Island, a suspension bridge over the Waiho River, Hokitika Gorge, Dorothy Creek, and Dorothy Falls. One image shows a child in a clearing in the bush near a punga house, he is identified as three year old "Jim". Inscription on the back of the back cover reads "d. Hitchcock May 1st 1913". Title provided by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 34 photographs. Physical Description: Brown card album bound with string, 16 x 26.5 cm, containing black and white photographs and annotations in ink.
New Zealand. School Publications Branch : Photographs of Otira Gorge and Hawks Craig
Date: ca 1880s
By: Ring, James, 1856-1939
Reference: PAColl-4652
Description: Photographs of horse-drawn coaches in Otira Gorge and Hawks Craig. Photographs taken by James Ring. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).
[Photographer unknown] :Coach, Broadway, Reefton, outside premises of H Kater, tinsmith
Date: [ca 1890s]
Reference: PAColl-D-0663
Description: Coach full of passengers travelling along Broadway, Reefton. Taken as it passed the premises of H Kater (tinsmith) and C M King Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 375 x 560 mm mounted
Richard John Seddon and coaching party, West Coast
Date: [Between 1900 and 1906]
From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn
Reference: 1/1-027025-G
Description: Richard John Seddon and party, photographed in the course of a coach trip in the West Coast, between 1900 and 1906, by James Ring of Greymouth. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches