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Waihi Arts Centre & Museum: Photographs of Waihi
- Date
- [ca 1890s-1920s]
- By
- Waihi Arts Centre & Museum
- Reference
- PAColl-2401
- Description
Comprises photographs taken of the Waihi area by various photographers circa 1890s to 1920s.
Negatives 1/2-150105-F to 1/2-150109-F were taken by Joseph Divis while he was living and working at the Martha Mine in the early 1920s.
Negatives were originally lent, later donated. For furthur information see information in envelope at PAColl-2401, Photographic Archive.
Title supplied by Library.
Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-091049 to 091081 (PH-LBII-023-7); 1/2-115662 to 115677 (PH-DBII-044-6); 1/2-116678 to 116723 (PH-LBII-046-1); 1/2-171767 to 171780 (PH-98-001).
Quantity: 14 b&w original negative(s).
Processing information: Descriptionchanged August 2022 following information from a researcher.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Format
- 14 b&w original negative(s), Negatives
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Scene at Waihi during the 1912 miners' strike
Date: 1912
From: Waihi Arts Centre & Museum: Photographs of Waihi
Reference: 1/2-048114-F
Description: Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
A crowd in Waihi during the 1912 miners' strike
Date: 1912
From: Waihi Arts Centre & Museum: Photographs of Waihi
Reference: 1/2-116678-F
Description: Two boys moving towards a crowd during the Waihi miners' strike of 1912. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Street scene at Waihi during the 1912 miners' strike
Date: 1912
From: Waihi Arts Centre & Museum: Photographs of Waihi
Reference: 1/2-048120-F
Description: Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Iron sulphate stalactites and stalagmites, Martha Mine, Waihi
Date: 1922
From: Waihi Arts Centre & Museum: Photographs of Waihi
By: Divis, Joseph, 1885-1967
Reference: 1/2-150108-F
Description: Photograph taken by Joseph Divis in 1922 showing men alongside iron sulphate stalactites and stalagmites at Martha Mine in Waihi. Note on back of file print reads "From back of original print : Waihi Mine. No 10 Level (Plan) 150 ft from South end of Edward Lode. stalactites & stalagmites of mostly Iron Sulphate - 2 to 3 years in forming. 1922." Photographer identified by a researcher July 2022. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Waihi, Waikato
Date: [191-?]
From: Waihi Arts Centre & Museum: Photographs of Waihi
Reference: 1/2-091078-F
Description: Waihi, Waikato, circa 1910s. Street scene. Includes the shops of Joseph Nathan, and J Hague Smith and Co. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Surf lifesaving club members with catamaran, Waihi Beach
Date: [ca 1918]
From: Waihi Arts Centre & Museum: Photographs of Waihi
Reference: 1/2-116696-F
Description: Photograph of a group of young men from the Waihi Beach surf lifesaving club performing a training exercise in the water with the club's catamaran, taken circa 1918 by an unidentified photographer. Waihi Beach was the first surf lifesaving club in Australasia to use a catamaran, which was built locally. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative
Miner and Workers Union Hall at Waihi, during the 1912 miners' strike
Date: 1912
From: Waihi Arts Centre & Museum: Photographs of Waihi
Reference: 1/2-021950-F
Description: Miner and Workers Union Hall at Waihi, during the 1912 miners' strike. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Note on back of file print reads: "During the night strike-breakers painted patriotic symbols it [the hall]. Next morning the strikers changed `God save the King' to `God save J B King' (the American International Workers of the World speaker who had been at Waihi and who had hurredly left NZ in August)." Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).
Crowd outside a butcher shop in Waihi, during the Waihi strike
Date: 1912
From: Waihi Arts Centre & Museum: Photographs of Waihi
Reference: 1/2-021957-F
Description: Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Coaches of C Short and Company, Waihi
Date: 1912
From: Waihi Arts Centre & Museum: Photographs of Waihi
Reference: 1/2-115665-F
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Police at Waihi during the 1912 miners' strike
Date: 1912
From: Waihi Arts Centre & Museum: Photographs of Waihi
Reference: 1/2-048126-F
Description: Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative