Craters

Date: 16 February - 21 March 1958, 1960

From: Tomsett, Maurice William Henry :Colour slides of New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7766

Description: Phase 8 continued - 170. Cornwall Park, sheep grazing; 171. One Tree Hill Memorial, Sir John Logan Campbell (Early settler); 172-173. Overlooking Ellerslie, Penrose; 174. Onehunga, Manukau Harbour; 175. Memorial, Mt Hobson in background; 176. Royal Oak, Epsom, Memorial; 177. Volcanic crater below memorial; 178. Auckland airport. Three slides of views of Auckland in 1960. Includes views of the Winter Garden (Auckland Domain), and aerial views over the city Quantity: 12 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-386

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm

By: Watkins, Charles Henry Kennett, 1847-1933

Reference: A-252-006/007

Description: Two views of the crater of Ngauruhoe volcano Accompanied by a typed note written by Boke Johanssen of Dominion Antiques: 'According to Mr Alan Watkins, the son of Kennett Watkins, this watercolour was executed by his father in 1876 ...and is thus proof of probably the earliest successful ascent by a pakeha. ... This watercolour ... was found recently ... in a parcel in the possession of his son, having been mislead [mislaid] since the artist's death in 1932 [sic]' Other Titles - Aruuhoe = Ngauruhoe Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper

Date: 1891

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: E-965-f-12

Description: Blue Lake in foreground, with the Red Crater and Ngaruahoe both steaming in the background, with a snow-clad Mount Ruapehu beyond. The beginning of a pencil sketch of mountains on the reverse is titled "Ngaruahoe & Tongario from Rangipo desert". Other titles - Te Wai-whakaata-o-te-Rangihiroa. 25 April 1891 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - View from top of Tongariro April 25/91 [in pencil]; Recto - beneath image - Blue Lake - Te Wai Whakata o te Rangihiroa (Rangihiroa's mirror) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on loose insert,

Date: [ca 1940s-1950s]

By: Anderson, Cecil R, active 1940s; Ashburton Museum

Reference: PAColl-9442

Description: Photographs of Mount Ruapheu erupting, Pohutu Geyser, and aircraft, taken ca 1950s by Cecil R Anderson of Ashburton Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1844

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-021-3

Description: From the top of Mount Eden looking down into the crater with part of the town and harbour beyond On the reverse is 'Cascade Petone Road' C-103-021-7 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 125 x 170 mm

Date: Between 1910 and 1930

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1982-1/4-G

Description: View of White Island looking down into a sulphurous crater. Photograph taken by A P Godber. For other images in a sequence which all appear to show aspects of White Island see APG-1975-1/4 to APG-1983-1/4. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1934

By: Whites Aviation Ltd

Reference: PA7-53-21

Description: Close-up aerial view of the crater lake on Mount Ruapehu. Taken by Whites Aviation during winter of 1934 Negative No 3255 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 24 x 29 cm

Date: [after 10 Jun 1886]

From: Christie, Hettie Florence, 1902-1988 :Photographs and album of New Zealand scenes

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA7-41-13

Description: View of steam and gases rising from an area of volcanic ash. Photograph taken by F A Coxhead possibly shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera in Jun 1886. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Rotomahana crater, N.Z. 850; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - F.A.C. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.4 x 20.5 cm

Date: 1886

From: Hamilton Public Library :Photographs of New Zealand

By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA7-60-03

Description: View of Echo Lake [probably Lake Rotomahana] and the Hole in the Wall Crater. The rift through Mount Tarawera can be seen in the background and the countryside is covered with volcanic ash and mud. Photographed by George Dobson Valentine in 1886 Same image at PA7-27-02 (Copy negative 1/2-075692-F) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Echo Lake and Hole in the Wall Crater. Rotomahana. 140. G.V. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 19.5 x 29 cm on album page

Date: 1906

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Ruapehu eruption sketchbook. 1902-1908].

Reference: E-599-029/030

Description: A sketch showing onlooers at the crater lake two days after an eruption, with several descriptive annotations. A note at lower left says that the eruption took place on Thursday 15 March 1906, at 11.45 a.m. Notes indicate the peak Para te Taitonga at top right. At lower right a note says: "Deep holes caused through hot stones falling on ice, sulphur deposit around edges of holes". Other notes indicate: glacier and snow, ice, black deposit, solid ice cliffs, milky grey-blue water, steam amd yellow fumes, black hummocks of deposit 4-5 feet high, lake boiling. Other Titles - 17 March 1906 Extended Title - From his Ruapehu eruption sketchbook. 1902-1908, pages 29-30. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on double page spread in sketchbook, 135 x 346 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2002.

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-377-018

Description: Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Old? Crater & stream Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 125 x 210 mm.

Date: [After 10 Jun 1886]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-39-29

Description: Photograph of steam rising from the crater. Photograph taken by Alfred Burton shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera, 10 Jun 1886. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4120 - Rotomahana crater - after eruption June 10 86; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Burton Bros, Dunedin; Backing board recto - beneath image - Site of terraces Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.5 x 20 cm on mount 22.8 x 29 cm

Date: [1950s]

From: Birrell, Kenneth Stewart (Dr), b 1909 :Albums of photographs taken by Kenneth Stewart Birrell

Reference: PA1-q-031

Description: Views of New Zealand with particular interest in mountain scenery, both in the North Island and the South Island. They include numbers of images of chairlifts, skiing, rivers and springs, and thermal regions in the North Island. Most of the images are colour photos, taken by Dr Ken Birrell, during the 1950s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover labelled "Photographs", 250 x 300 mm

Date: 1886

From: Smith, Maurice Crompton, 1864-1953 : Tarawera eruption, 1886

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: PA1-o-121

Description: Views of Mount Tarawera, Lake Tarawera, the Black Crater in eruption, Echo Lake Crater, and the point where the great Waimangu Geyser burst forth some years later. [The geyser played between 1900 and 1904]. (See Wise's New Zealand guide). Some of the photographs were taken by Charles Spencer, one of the members of Stephenson Percy Smith's party which surveyed the area in 1886 after the Tarawera eruption; and some photographs were taken by Josiah Martin. The album includes a hand-printed index card. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green linen cover with dark green leather spine and corners, spine title "Photographs. Tarawera eruption 1886. Presented by M. Crompton Smith. Vol. 14." 26 x 31 cm

Date: 1894 - 1895 - 1899

From: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937 :[Collection of views of scenic areas of New Zealand. 1896-1900]

By: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937

Reference: E-141-q-015

Description: A view looking down into Mount Ruapehu's Crater Lake. The lake is nearly filled to the top Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Signed: G. N. Sturtevant Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 132 x 189 mm

Date: [1900-1910]

From: New Zealand News Ltd :Photographs from the Auckland Star

Reference: PA1-q-013

Description: Views around the Taupo Tongariro area, including Mounts Ngaruahoe and Tongariro, Huka Falls, Aratiatia Rapids, Lake Taupo and Wairakei. There is one image of the Maori interior of Tom Ryan's whare, one of the Terraces Hotel at Lake Taupo, and others of various buildings at the Spa Hotel (Taupo), including the interior of the dining room. This building was the meeting house Te Tiki o Tamamutu, purchased by John Joshua (proprietor of the Spa Hotel) for use as a smoking room and dining room for the hotel guests. Several images show unidentified Maori women in posed groups, or working with flax, and in one case a woman using a treadle sewing machine. An unidentified man is seen, in several images, fishing at pools below the Aratiatia Rapids. Photographs taken by Auckland Star photographers around the turn of the 19th-20th century. Relationship complexity - Most images are represented by original negatives donated to the Library by the Auckland Star in the 1950s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cloth bound album, labelled "This book must be returned to Mr H Brett's room"

Date: 1892

Reference: 1/2-010289-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851

Reference: C-082-035

Description: View of Borabora showing dwellings along the waterfront and volcanic crater in the background Redrawn by Chazal from original by Lejeune, & engraved by Tardieu for publication as plate 16 in Duperrey, L I Voyage... sur la Coquille... 1822... 1825... Histoire du voyage. Atlas (Paris, Arthur Bertrand, 1826) (fr910.4). Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, 240 x 320 mm on sheet 500 x 340 mm

Date: Circa 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2182-F

Description: Panoramic view from near the top of Mount Tarawera showing a portion of the crater in the left foreground. Two men and a dog are standing on a rocky slope in the centre foreground. Lakes in the centre middle distance. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - View from Tarawera showing portion of crater; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] View from Mt. Tarawera showing crater, via-200. Cloud [completion?] vigorus [vigorous?]; Marginal notes on negative - 165 straight out cloud 4; Marginal notes on negative - 4 4 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 110.6 cm