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Date: [ca 1884]

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: MNZ-0051-1/2-F

Description: Engraving of Mount Ngauruhoe by moonlight dating from about 1884. Photographed by an unknown photographer ca 1940. Inscriptions: on page in the original publication - text: Tongariro in moonlight From `The King Country' by James Henry Kerry-Nicholls, page 197. This book was published in England in 1884. The photograph of the engraving was used in `Making New Zealand' in issue number 10 of volume one, `The Mountains,' page 14. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1885

From: Smith, Maurice Crompton, 1864-1953 :[Sketchbooks] 1883-1899, 1904-1943.

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: E-300-q-1-025

Description: A view of Mount Ngauruhoe from Tongariro Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 69 x 118 mm

Date: 1884 - 1886

From: Medley, Mary Catherine 1835- :Mary C. Medley's sketch book ; visit to Rotorua before Tarawera eruption [No.] 12. 1884-1886.

Reference: E-377-024

Description: Shows a red cart in a field with Pirongia mountain in the background Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Pirongia mountain Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 125 x 210 mm.

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Bailey, Conrad, fl 1980 : Photograph albums of New Zealand scenes, one including pressed ferns

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919

Reference: PA1-q-021

Description: Album of pressed ferns, most of which are used to frame images of New Zealand, but some pages consist solely of pressed ferns. The photographs show New Zealand scenes, and include two postcards of collages. One has the legend "Maoridom" and at the base "The old order changeth" with a photograph of Maori king Tawhiao, and various artifacts including taiaha, cloaks, and two preserved heads of Maori. The other shows portraits of a number of Maori men and women, and views of Parihaka and Ohinemutu. Among the views of new Zealand scenery are images of the White Terraces in eruption, the Pink Terraces, Manawatu Gorge, Dunedin, Queen Street (Auckland), Lake Ada, and Tois Tois [sic] Island on the Clinton River, Lake Te Anau. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red cloth-bound album, with gold lettering "New Zealand ferns and scenery"

Date: [Between 1868 and 1890s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-q-085

Description: Album of photographs. Most of the views of Canterbury and Thames were taken by Daniel Mundy, between 1868 and 1872. New Zealand scenes are mostly taken by Daniel Mundy, and include many landscapes; a few taken in Christchurch City; several show the Raukapuka Station and Raukapuka Bush, near Geraldine; several taken in and around the Thames Goldfields, at Moanatiri Valley and Te Puhi Flat, with one view of the workings of `The Wild Missouri. Quartz crusher. Thames'. A section of the album shows parts of England, including a number of Glastonbury Abbey and St Joseph's Chapel, Wells, Mitford and Mitford Castle, and Pang bourne [i.e. Pangbourne]. Near the end of the album is an obituary and lithograph of William Charles Wentworth (1790-1872) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cover with gold decorations entitled `Scrap album', 28.5 x 24.5 cm

Date: 1885

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: E-964-q-006

Description: A view of a bush-covered mountain, probably Karioi, Raglan. In the foreground is a path, surrounded by flax, tree ferns, pohutukawa (or rata) in flower, and other bush Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on wove paper, 210 x 280 mm (image)

Date: 1887

By: Marchant, John William Allman, 1841-1920

Reference: B-193-009

Description: Shows snow-laden Tongariro, Ngauruhoe and foothills, from the Waimarama Plain. Cabbage trees feature right front of the painting Other Titles - Ngauruhoe Other Titles - Waimarama Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - 1887 [in ink]; Recto - bottom right - J.W.A.M. [artist's initials in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: watercolour, black and white, 129 x 322 mm, on paper 160 x 460 mm

Date: 1887

By: Marchant, John William Allman, 1841-1920

Reference: B-193-010

Description: Shows snow-laden peaks of Mounts Tongariro, Ngauruhoe, Ruapehu and Hauhungatahi, from a hill above the Taringamotu Riber. Cabbage trees feature centre front of the painting, with poplars in the distance Other Titles - Ngauruhoe Other Titles - Taringamotu Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J.W.A.Marchant 1887 [in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: watercolour, black and white, 160 x 340 mm, on paper 200 x 460 mm

Date: 1885-1886

By: Mason, George Edward (Rev), 1847-1928

Reference: PA1-f-253

Description: Album of photographs collected by Rev G E Mason on a trip around the world in 1885-1886. Comprises photographs of California, Tasmania, Sydney, Ceylon, Egypt and New Zealand. In 1884 the Bishop of Lichfield recieved a request from the bishops of Christchurch and Auckland, New Zealand, to send clergy to conduct missions in their dioceses. To this end he invited Rev G E Mason, and Rev Charles Bodington to do the job. The two clegymen left Liverpool for the United States on the 4th of July 1885, spent a summer in New Zealand, and returned to England in September 1886. (Info from "Round the Round World on a Church Mission," Rev G E Mason, Society for the promotion of Christian knowledge, London, 1892). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchase, 2005 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive.

Date: 1892 - 1897

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-029-022

Description: Shows a steaming conical mountain above bush. Other Titles - Formerly: Ngauruhoe from Whakapapiti? Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 229 x 140 mm.

Date: [ca 1870s-1890s]

From: Bridge family :Photograph albums

By: Anson Brothers (Firm); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Pulman (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-271

Description: Views of New Zealand, England, Australia and Canada, associated with family of Charles Joseph Bridge (d 1876), settler at Homebrook, near Lake Ellesmere; and his son, Charles Hastings Bridge. Includes pressed flowers and leaves, a coloured sketch of a rowing boat on a river lined with willow trees. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Henry Hugh Chapman 1881; Henry Walter Bridge 1886 Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [1924-1931]

From: Hutchinson family : Papers relating to J C Hutchinson and H A Hutchinson

Reference: MS-Papers-10457-2

Description: Exercisebook of articles on `The mountains of New Zealand' by `Old Top o' th' Towner' from `The express and advertiser' (1923); published articles on `New Zealand's great national park' by J C Hutchinson from the same newspaper (1923-1925) and corrected typescript drafts of articles and letters to the editor Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1896 - 1898

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-029-021

Description: Shows a view of the mountain from beside a boulder-strewn stream. Other Titles - Previous title: Ruapehu from Whakapapaiti? Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 140 x 229 mm

Date: 1880 - 1889

From: Smith, Maurice Crompton, 1864-1953 :[Sketchbooks] 1883-1899, 1904-1943.

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: E-300-q-1-018-2

Description: Shows Mount Ruapehu and either Mount Tongariro or Mt Ngauruhoe Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 68 x 117 mm

Date: 1887

By: Stewart, John Tiffin, 1827-1913

Reference: D-019-049

Description: Shows a panoramic view of the Central Plateau with isolated cabbage trees in the foreground. From left to right the mountains are labelled as: Tongariro, Ngaruahoe [sic] 7480 ft, and Ruapehu 8880 ft. Other Titles - Tongariro, Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 162 x 890 mm, mounted on sheet 304 x 1025 mm.

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: C-007-005

Description: Shows a view looking southwest over Lake Taupo, with Ruapehu shown to the left of Ngauruhoe which has a plume of smoke coming from it. The right foreground shows bush and a small plateau on which cattle are grazing. There are cliffs on the lakeside in the left distance. Shows Motutaiko Island in the central distance. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 330 x 520 mm

Date: 1888

By: Cussen, William, 1849?-1901

Reference: MapColl-832.17cba/[1888]/Acc.35736

Description: Topographic map of the area from Ruapehu to the junction of the Wanganui and Whakapapa rivers to Lake Taupo and the Tauranga - Taupo Road, then following the Waikato River to the Moawhango River. Includes Moawhango (Erewhon) and Karioi and part of the North trunk railway line. All rivers and streams are named. Includes Lake Taupo, Lake Rotoaira and the Rangipo Desert with sites of two camps, one having a water supply. Named settlements are referred to a reference key. Includes the mountain range of Ruapehu, Ngaruhoe and Tongariro and a second range which includes Pihanga, Kakaramea and Kaharua, all with heights in feet. Roads and tracks are marked, some with distances from Tokaanu, referred to in a reference key. Hot baths and Blake's Hotel are marked at Tokaanu. A note states that Te Heuheu is buried at Waihi, and at a point further north L.M. Grace's house is marked. Two sites of campsites are marked, one with water, near the ran The inscription of 'G.B. Thomas Sr. 16-8-88' is written on the bottom left corner. 29.10.79 is written on the bottom right corner. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, coloured, 50.8 x 43.5 cm.

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-093

Description: Shows Tongariro north buttress with plume either from Ngauruhoe or Te Mari (probably the former) (Source of information: Professor Ron Keam) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 156 x 240 mm

Date: 1846

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-117-3

Description: Shows Ruapehu seen across intervening countryside and lower hills. Other Titles - Ruapehu Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, pen and ink, 80 x 150 mm.

Date: 1845

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-101-2

Description: Shows two tents beside a whare on the flat in the foreground, two small hills in the background framing Horohoro Mountain in the distance. R Springer in letter (AT 13/14/1, 20 August 1995), says: " ... the trig Horohoro, ... while just to the west of this is the Rahopakapaka Stream, almost certainly the scene of E-296-q-101-2, "Horahoro from our encampment at Raupaka River Nov 28, 1845". A sketch taken on an overland journey by Taylor with Donald McLean, towards Mokau, in late 1845 Other Titles - Horohoro Other Titles - Rahopakapaka Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, pen & ink, 90 x 150 mm.