Northland (region)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Item
A very large lump of gum found in these diggings by Peter Dean; weight 200 lbs, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7062
Scope and Contents
Kauri Gumfields: North Island: New Zealand. [Showing man in a suit standing by lump of gum].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bay of Islands, Victoria [sic] where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed by the native chiefs, 1870
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089A/1
Scope and Contents
242 x 184 mm. A view looking across a field with farm buildings at the right of the picture and the Bay, studded with islands beyond. The Treaty of Waitangi was signed by Captain William Hobson (on the British Government's behalf) and a gathering of Maori chiefs, on February 6, 1840, establishing Crown Sovereignty (with 'extreme reluctance') over the already widely settled islands of New Zealand.
Dates:
1870
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Breaking the gum to see the quality off the find, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7055
Scope and Contents
[Two men in broad rimmed hats].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Croatian Gum Diggers cleaning a new drain through the swamps: some spearing for gum, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7053
Scope and Contents
North Island: New Zealand. [Croatians were digging gum in far north of North Island, at Kauri Gumfields near Dargaville. Gum is alluvial clay].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Croatian Gum Diggers ready to start on the days work. Kauri Gumfields, near Dargaville: north of Auckland, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7050
Scope and Contents
[No print]. [Missing].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Digging holes with a swamp knife after the spear has shown gum, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7054
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 7006-7085 (originally there were 100). Added numbers: 6891-6917; spoiled: 7034, 7035, 7051, 7052, 7066; not used: 7012 and 7074.Subjects covered in the album are:New Zealand: Dunedin; journey to Southern Alps: Burke's Pass, Lake Tekapo, Lake Pukaki, Mount Cook, Tasman Glacier, Hochstetter; Balmoral: sheep shearing; Timaru; Christchurch: Lincoln Agricultural College: Domain Fete and general; Wellington: from sea;...
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hokianga - Phormian Tenax - or flax rope-making, 1870
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089A/7
Scope and Contents
244 x 184 mm. A view showing a small rope-making factory. At the right, men can be seen winding and spinning long lengths of flax into ropes, while behind them the stripped flax is drying on lines. Other workers are standing outside the shed where the flax is prepared. At the left of the picture, at roof level, can be seen the last few feet of a water race. The wheel itself is out of the picture. Hokianga lies on the west coast of the North Auckland peninsula. Phorium Tenax (named by...
Dates:
1870
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kauri Forest on the Northern Wairoa River, 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 340/1
Scope and Contents
A print of a watercolour of 1840 showing pit sawing of timber, published by The Friends of the Turnbull Library.
Dates:
1952
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kauri Gumfield : near Auckland : New Zealand, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7063
Scope and Contents
The 200 lb piece of gum. [Showing ? Peter Dean standing beside his lump of gum].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kauri Gumfield : near Auckland : New Zealand, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7064
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. General view of the Gum diggers camp. [Showing wooden huts among scrubland].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kauri Gumfield : near Auckland : New Zealand, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7065
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. The Gum Diggers Camp. [View inside camp with group of men standing about near huts].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kauri Gumfield : near Auckland : New Zealand, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7067
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. Croatian Gum Diggers in cabin: four brothers and wife of the eldest.
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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North Island : New Zealand, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7068
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. Morning Times Clydesdale Stallion on large estate at Aroa near Dargaville. [Stallion standing in paddock with wooden fencing].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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North Island: New Zealand, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7069
Scope and Contents
Bees on the same estate. [Showing hives among long grass on slope with young girls standing by].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
North Island : New Zealand, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7070
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. The Boom at Aroa Wharf.
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
North Island : New Zealand, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7071
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. Kahekiatia (white pine logs) at Aroa. [Logs by railway tracks on wharf with wooden sheds in background].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Norwegian Sailing Ship loading timber at Aroa for Liverpool : New Zealand, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7072
Scope and Contents
[Ship moored along wharf].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
On the Gum Swamp, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7058
Scope and Contents
[No print]. [Missing].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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On the Gum Swamp, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7059
Scope and Contents
[Three men spearing the swamp].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Scraping the gum, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7060
Scope and Contents
[Six men gathered round pile of gum lumps].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
Scraping the gum, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7061
Scope and Contents
[Four men round heap of gum lumps].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Sharing up: Croatian Gum Diggers drawing lots for the divided portion of the days harvest., 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7056
Scope and Contents
[No print]. [Missing].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Admiral, (Captain Pearce ) turning his ship at Aroa wharf, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7073
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. [Steam ship].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Gum Digger coming home from work. Croatian type, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7057
Scope and Contents
[No print]. [Missing].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).