Te Wairoa

Date: [after 10 Jun 1886]

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

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-41-25

Description: Photograph of the desolated area on the shores of Lake Tarawera where the village of Moura had been before the eruption of Mount Tarawera. Photograph taken by Alfred Burton shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera. Identical image at PA7-39-30. Same image held by Te Papa [C.010747]. View online. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title on negative - The site of the destoyed village of Moura, Tarawera, NZ. 890; Recto - bottom right - On negative - F.A.C. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.8 x 20.2 cm

Date: 1832

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: G-402

Description: A portrait of the seated figure of Tohitapu, with long hair and beard. Inscribed on verso: 'Tohitapu from sketch by Rev. H. Williams. Carved and coloured wooden frame is from church at Te Wairoa which was buried by the eruption of Tarawera in 1886'. Tohitapu feasted on the body of Marion du Fresne. Frame: in a frame carved with Maori designs A copy of an original drawing in Auckland Museum Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pencil drawing, 215 x 165 mm Provenance: Unknown

Date: [Before 10 Jun 1886]

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

Reference: PA7-37-14

Description: Photograph of McRae's Hotel, Te Wairoa taken by the Burton Brothers before the eruption of Mount Tarawera on 10 Jun 1886. In the foreground are two small Maori boys and areas fenced off for the growing of vegetables. The area in the immediate foreground has one wall constructed from blocks of earth while the other sides of the fenced enclosure are made from wooden stakes. Identical image at PAColl-7344-89 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3848 - Wairoa. Burton Bros, Dunedin; Mount recto - beneath image - Pans with 4082 (written in ink) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14 x 20.2 cm on mount 22.8 x 29.3 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: PA7-41-17

Description: Photograph of whare and the meeting house partly covered with volcanic ash. Photograph taken by F A Coxhead shortly after the eruption in 1886. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Wairoa (Destroyed), N.Z. 894 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.8 x 20 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: PA7-41-05

Description: View of the lake in the distance and devastation to the landscape in the immediate foreground. Photograph taken by Frank Arnold Coxhead shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera on 10 Jun 1886. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Tarawera Lake from Wairoa, NZ. 871; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - F.A.C. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.5 x 21 cm

Date: 1886

By: Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PAColl-7232

Description: Photographs of the Haszard family, parents and six children, outside their house before the eruption, the ruins of their house after it, and the ruins of McRae's Hotel. Photographs taken by Charles Spencer. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [After 10 Jun 1886]

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

Reference: PA7-39-25

Description: Photograph of McRae's Hotel, Te Wairoa taken by Alfred Burton shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera, 10 Jun 1886. Shows the hotel on the left, Sophie's whare, and (on far right) a two-storey building. In the foreground are four men standing on a pile of volcanic ash. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4127 - Wairoa - after eruption June 10 1886. Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.4 x 20 cm on mount 22.8 x 29 cm

Date: [Before 10 Jun 1886]

From: Mercer, Robert, fl 1964 :Photographs and albums of Maori, New Zealand views, and illustrations

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

Reference: PA7-37-13

Description: Photograph of an unidentified group of Maori in front of the Hinemihi meeting house at Te Wairoa taken prior to the eruption of Mount Tarawera. Photograph taken by Burton Bros, before 10 Jun 1886. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3846 - Runanga House (Hinemihi), Wairoa. Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.5 x 20 cm on mount 23 x 29.3 cm Provenance: Source/donor - Donated by Robert Mercer, 7 Apr 1964

Date: 1884

From: Harper, Laura 1833-1887 :Laura Harper's sketchbook. No. 10 1884

Reference: E-376-012

Description: A view of MacRae's Hotel and houses in Te Wairoa, surrounded by trees, with a range of hills in the background Other Titles - Te Wairoa Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - MacRae's Hotel, Wairoa Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 140 x 230 mm. (page size)

Date: [after 10 June 1886]

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

Reference: PA7-38-06

Description: Maori guide Sophia's whare at Te Wairoa. The roof and sides are covered in mud and volcanic ash. Photograph taken by Burton Brothers, shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera on 10 Jun 1886. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4129 - Sophia's whare - Wairoa, after eruption June 10 86. Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.7 x 20.2 cm on mount 22.8 x 29 cm

Date: [Between 1930 and 1941]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-207

Description: Album of photographs (mainly landscapes) taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1930 and 1941. The album is divided into sections (not in chronological order), many relating to camping holidays with an unidentified companion. Areas covered included a Christmas holiday trip in 1937 to the East Coast and thermal regions around Tikitere and Waimangu, the Morere nikau forest, Mount Maunganui beach, Hongi's track, the buried village at Te Wairoa, and Rotorua. A North Auckland trip in December 1938 included camping as far north as Paihia, Russell and Waitangi, the Waitangi Falls, the Waipoua Kauri Forest and Trounson's Kauri Park, also Auckland, the Kaingaroa Plains and Waiouru Valley. Areas of erosion were noted, and mangrove swamps. An Anniversary Day trip (22-23 January 1939) took Salmon to the Putangirua Pinnacles in the Wairarapa; and in September 1941 he went to the Hawke's Bay area. In 1945 he went on a North Island Expedition working on malaria control, with ?Bissett, and William John Phillipps. February 20-27 1939 was a trip across the Napier-Taupo Road, and included a number of images of the silt and desolation caused by a great flood in the Esk Valley in 1938. In 1936 Salmon went on a geological trip to the Rotorua area, and at Orakei Korako he was particularly interested in "sinter formations" (thermal deposits of silica, of which the Pink and White Terraces were examples). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

Date: 1909

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: PAColl-4291

Description: Photographs of Sunday Island, Kermadec Islands; Maori man in the bush, captioned on the reverse as "Smith's old guide - Tarawera"; Lake Rotomahana; Percy Smith in front of ash beds denuded by rain; Smith and his guide in front of other ash beds; and a general view of the denuding caused by rain on ash beds. Photographer was Dr Tenperi(?) Anderson. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Mr Crompton Smith, 1954

Date: ca 1886

Reference: 1/4-002924

Description: Captain Way's house buried shortly after the eruption. Photograph taken by Burton Bros ca 1886. There is a further note on the file print "Same print by Tuttle & Co for Simpson & Co labelled as Old Church, Wairoa. See Nairn Album II p.6" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1886

By: Didsbury, George, 1839-1893; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-q-065

Description: Chiefly photographs of the aftermath of the Tarawera eruption in 1886, many taken by Charles Spencer. Images include Dr Hector's party; views of mud-covered country; damage to buildings at the village of Te Wairoa; Henry Lundius and J C Blythe standing outside the hen-house in which several survivors took refuge; and views of the new lake formed after the eruption. Several views show the area before the eruption. The last two photographs in the album show the Manawatu Gorge bridge under construction, and the engine room at the Government Printing Office in Wellington. Physical Description: Album bound in blue buckram; "Didsbury. Tarawera Eruption 1886" lettered on spine; 28.5 x 20 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available for this album.

Date: [After 10 Jun 1886]

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

Reference: PA7-39-31

Description: Photograph of the carved meeting house partially buried by volcanic ash. Taken by Alfred Burton shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera, 10 Jun 1886. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4095 - Runanga house - Wairoa - after eruption June 10 86. Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.2 x 20 cm on mount 22.8 x 29 cm

Date: [1880s]

From: Saxby, Stephen Hector, 1907- :Photograph albums

By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-q-212

Description: Photographs taken during the 1880s, chiefly by George Valentine, and Charles Spencer, both of whom visited Mount Tarawera before and after the eruption of June 1886. Inserted in a pocket at the front of the album are images cut from the paper "Newsview", June 1949, showing historic photographs of the eruption, and another double-page from the Weekly News (June 6, 1951) on the "65th Anniversary of the Mount Tarawera catastrophe". The latter article notes that mud, estimated at 75 ft in depth, covered a vast area. The album includes images taken before the eruption, and shows the same areas irreparable damaged. Many show the Pink and White Terraces, the village of Te Wairoa, and the massive rift in the mountain; also a group led by Sir James Hector to study the aftermath and changes wrought by the eruption. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, impressed design in dark brown; 31 x 27 cm

Date: [1880s]

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

Reference: PAColl-7483

Description: Photographs of the Rotomahana area taken in the 1880s by the Burton Brothers. Includes: Old Maori church at Te Wairoa; a girl in front of a whare at Te Ariki on Lake Tarawera; Maori at the Te Ariki settlement; the White Terraces; the Pink Terraces including the umbrella buttress; and a view of Lake Rotomahana. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004617 to 004628 Quantity: 12 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives Provenance: No donor or provenance information available for this collection.

Date: 1907-1908

By: Phillips, Jillian, 1950-

Reference: PA1-q-1069

Description: Photograph album of Wellington and trips around the North Island. Includes views of the opening of Victoria Bowling Club, bowling matches and other bowling clubs in the North Island, the contruction of the Grafton Bridge, Rotorua geysers, Te Wairoa buried village, and Dominion Day celebrations at Newtown Park, Wellington, Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 310 x 260 mm Provenance: Photograph album was compiled by Jill Phillips' great-grandfather.

Date: [188-?]

From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-o-1724

Description: Photograph album of scenic views of New Zealand taken ca 1880s by Frank Arnold Coxhead. Includes hunting group with shotgun and game birds (humorously posed in wheelbarrow); Mt Sefton and Mueller Glacier, including ice bridge, ice cave, and mountaineers; Te Wairoa after Tarawera eruption; Ohinemutu, including carved gateway; Maori bathing in hot pool, lake Rotorua; St Clair beach, Dunedin; Dunedin from Roslyn; Christchurch from Cathedral; White Terrace, including Coffee Cups; Pink Terrace; Lake Wakatipu; Gabriels Gully sluicing claim; Arthurs Point Bridge; Shotover River. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - [Cover] New Zealand Scenery F.A. Coxhead Photo. Dunedin. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with leather spine and corners, 21 x 29 cm

Date: [after 10 June 1886]

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

Reference: PA7-38-08

Description: View of McRae's Hotel and village of Te Wairoa taken shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera. Shows the area covered in volcanic ash and damage done to the trees and other vegetation. Photograph taken by Burton Brothers, after 10 June 1886. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4082 - Wairoa after eruption June 10 86.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14 x 19.5 cm on mount 22.8 x 29 cm