Whakaari / White Island

Date: 1923-1950

From: Cockcroft, Thomas, 1900-1977:Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11889-8

Description: Includes the bulletin, 'Birds! New Zealanders! Protect your native birds!' issued by the NZ Native Bird Protection Society (1925?), 'New Zealand birds', by W R B Oliver, NZ Bird notes bulletins (Dec 1943, Apr, Dec 1944, Oct 1947) and Notornis (July 1950). Also contains an article by Professor Dayton Stoner from the State University of Iowa entitled, 'A flightless New Zealand Bird' (1923) with an annotation from the author to J G Myer, and and a typescript from 21 August 1926 with information about White Island. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1844-1927]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-141

Description: A handwritten account by Heni Pore of her upbringing and involvement in the New Zealand wars including her part in the Waikato Wars, Gate Pa and the Battle of Orakau. The document appears to be in at least two parts [numbered sequences] but with some pages missing. Has a MS inscription on a page near the back which appears to be written much later by Heni Pore [Jane Foley] saying 'more rubbish to burn for you to burn'. Also an envelope labelled by Cowan 'Jane Foley's Life (Heni Pore) Wairoa fighting 1863'. Arrangement: 29 in original listing Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: n d

From: Rosser, Mabel, 1918-2013: Collection relating to childhood at White Island and Hokianga

Reference: MS-Papers-10277

Description: Includes reminiscences entitled Christmas on a desert island, together with correspondence, maps and newspaper clippings concerning the island Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 1923-1928

From: Panoramic photographs of New Zealand taken by R P Moore

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-264

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

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-532

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by E Wheeler & Son, circa 1870s to 1880s Most of the views are identified, either on the photograph itself, or in hand-written captions below; places shown are listed above. One image has caption "Flax cutting" on the photograph which shows a man standing be a group of cabbage trees, with a house? or possibly a mill with a water wheel in the background behind the trees, while the hand-written caption reads "Valley scene, Hokianga". Other Titles - New Zealand views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover (damaged), entitled "New Zealand Views" in gold lettering; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1927-1929

From: Rosser, Mabel, 1918-2013: Collection relating to childhood at White Island and Hokianga

By: Gilberd, Gatland, 1886-1970

Reference: 1/4-059937-F

Description: A steam bore on White Island, when White Island Products was in operation. Photograph taken between 1927-1929 by Gatland Gilberd. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative Transfers: File prints on shelf at PAColl-2668.

Date: 1870-1890

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

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Ring, James, 1856-1939; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-q-213

Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand and Pacific scenes, compiled ca 1870s-1880s. Includes views of Nelson. Bridge over the Waiau River near Hanmer. Hutt Valley (showing junction of Belmont Road), Manaia (showing Dr Hector, and oysters in foreground). James Hector's house `Ratanui,'near Petone, his family, and views from the house. Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu (showing flooding, acclimatisation ponds, and the road between Queenstown and Martin's Bay). Greymouth. Castle Hill. White Island. Mount Ruapehu. Otira Gorge. Arthur River. Milford Sound (with steamship Rotorua). Christchurch. Auckland (including a series of interior views of Kilbryde, the home of Sir John Logan Campbell). Cable car over Taramakau River. Hawks Crag. Brunnerton. Arnold river. Arthur's Pass. Buller River. Denniston (showing coal mines and incline). Mount Cook. Wellington (including views of the Botanic Garden). Lake Mapourika. Sutherland Falls. Tahiti. Wanganui. The Wainuiomata Reservoir. Napier. Photographers represented include W T L Travers (scenes on Waiau river), Hart, Campbell & Co (Queenstown and Wakatipu), James Ring (Greymouth, Castle Hill, and Buller), H T Lock (Hawks Crag and Denniston), Wheeler & Son (Christchurch), Connolly & Co (Wellington Botanic Garden) and Burton Brothers (Sutherland Falls). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded maroon cover, entitled "New Zealand ferns"; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: [Circa 1880s]

By: Phillips-Turner, Roland Glyndwr, 1902-1988; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: PA1-f-077

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken circa 1880s by various photographers including James Bragge and Josiah Martin. Photographs of the Manawatu Gorge were taken by James Bragge, some of which show the horse and carriage in which Bragge carried his equipment. There is one photograph of English explorer and adventurer Captain Speedy who spent many years in Abyssinia and other parts of Africa, and who came to New Zealand in 1864, where he fought with the Waikato Militia before returning overseas. He is shown wearing Abyssinian costume (p 15). Some photographs relate to the Haultain family, with a view of St John's College, of which Thomas Minet Haultain was a governor, anda view of Colonel Haultain and his family at their home in St Stephen's Avenue, Parnell, Auckland Inscriptions: Album page - "Frances Aplin Haultain, 14, August 1886"; Album page - "To I & E Phillips Turner, Easter 1905" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, brown leather corners and spine; 31 x 42 cm

Date: 1927-1929

From: Rosser, Mabel, 1918-2013: Collection relating to childhood at White Island and Hokianga

By: Gilberd, Gatland, 1886-1970

Reference: 1/4-059945-F

Description: The factory built by the White Island Products sulphur extraction enterprise on White Island. A Ford Model T truck may be seen at the right. Photograph taken between 1927-1929 by Gatland Gilberd. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative Transfers: File prints on shelf at PAColl-2668.

Date: Between 1910 and 1930

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

Reference: APG-1976-1/4-G

Description: View looking down on what appears to be clouds of gases on White Island, with bush on the hills in the distance. Photograph taken by A P Godber. This image is part of a sequence of photographs which all appear to show aspects of White Island. For other images in the sequence 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: Between 1910 and 1930

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

Reference: APG-1977-1/4-G

Description: A house surrounded by a fence, and tall trees with no undergrowth, with two smaller buildings to the left. Photograph taken by A P Godber, probably on White Island. Part of a sequence of images. 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: 1927-1929

From: Rosser, Mabel, 1918-2013: Collection relating to childhood at White Island and Hokianga

By: Gilberd, Gatland, 1886-1970

Reference: 1/4-059936-F

Description: Volcanic activity on White Island. Photograph taken between 1927-1929 by Gatland Gilberd. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative Transfers: File prints on shelf at PAColl-2668.

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: Between 1910 and 1930

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

Reference: APG-1978-1/4-G

Description: View of White Island. Photograph taken by A P Godber. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 397; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Protected 10/10/1914. N.Z. Sulphur Coy. 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: [187-?, 1911-1940s]

By: Birks, Lawrence, 1874-1924

Reference: PAColl-0890

Description: Two photographs of thermal activity at Whakarewarewa, one showing the Maori village in the background; people watching the Ngauruhoe eruption of 1926; looking over the thermal area at Waimangu; the crater of Wahanga in 1911 with Mount Edgecumbe in the distance taken by L Birks; men watching the volcano on White Island; the grounds of the Sanatorium at Rotorua; a crowd watching the Pohutu geyser at Whakarewarewa Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1927-1929

From: Rosser, Mabel, 1918-2013: Collection relating to childhood at White Island and Hokianga

By: Gilberd, Gatland, 1886-1970

Reference: 1/2-164161-F

Description: View through trees, showing sulphur miners' quarters. Photograph taken between 1927-1929 by Gatland Gilberd. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1927-1929

From: Rosser, Mabel, 1918-2013: Collection relating to childhood at White Island and Hokianga

By: Gilberd, Gatland, 1886-1970

Reference: 1/4-059950-F

Description: Volcanic activity on White Island. Photograph taken between 1927-1929 by Gatland Gilberd. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative Transfers: File prints on shelf at PAColl-2668.

Date: 1977

From: Gandar, Leslie Walter, 1919-1994 : Papers

Reference: 95-159-065/3

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available.

Date: 1940s

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

By: Oliver, Robin Langford, 1921-2001

Reference: PA1-o-010

Description: Album of black & white photographs, chiefly of geological formations, with some group photographs of members attending the 7th Pacific Science Congress in 1949. Several images by R L Oliver show an eruption on Mount Ruapehu, probably in 1945, with views of the tholoid in the crater, later views showing vents appearing, and finally the engulfment of the larger part of the tholoid by enlargement of the major vent. Other images include one of Tuna Bay delta in the Marlborough Sounds, shell-beds, group photographs of members of the geological section attending the Pacific Science Congress in 1949, and photographs of White island, including one aerial photograph.

Date: 1929, 1936

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-035

Description: Photographs of White Island, Bay of Plenty, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1929 and 1936. Includes photographs of workers at the sulpur mines, a pohutukawa forest and aerial photographs of the volcano. Quantity: 25 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints