Includes the sanatorium, spa, playing greens, and gardens developed as a tourist resort from the 1880s.
Te Aroha Domain
Photographs of Te Aroha
Date: ca 1915-1920
By: Arnold, John Bernard, active 1920s
Reference: PAColl-7318
Description: Photographs of: tennis courts and shops including A O Jones, draper; four general views of the town from the mountain; the waterfall; the entrance to the domain; Bald Spur Track on Te Aroha Mountain; No 8 Spring and No 1 Bathhouse; No 2 bathhouse and no 15 spring; bathhouse and spring in the Domain; Hinemoa Hotel; Cadman Baths; the Domain from Bald Spur Track; and Te Aroha Mountain. Photographer was Arnold. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003342 to 003357 Quantity: 16 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives
Sharp, Barbara, fl 2003 :Photographs taken and collected by the family of Kathleen Dye
Date: ca 1900-ca 1915, 1930s, 1960s
By: Dye, Kathleen, active 1930s; Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940; Goodall, Gladys Mary, 1908-2015; Sharp, Barbara, active 2003
Reference: PAColl-7713
Description: Photographs of the Rodney district, Russell, Waitangi, Te Kuiti, Te Aroha, Wanganui, Hunua Falls, skiing in Tongariro National Park, Rotorua, Nelson, and army groups. Kathleen Dye was the donor's mother. The family lived north of Auckland, in the Kaukapakapa - Warkworth area. Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcard. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Barbara Sharp, Levin, in August 2003.
Finch, O (Mrs), fl 1958 :Photograph album
Date: [1890s?]
By: Finch, Olive, 1883-1984; Cowdell, Joseph Tuffley, -1907; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hawley & Company; Iles, Arthur James, 1870-1943; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Verrall, John Miles, 1849-1921; Wilson, George Washington, 1823-1893
Reference: PA1-o-172
Description: Photograph album containing views of the South Island, including Christchurch, Diamond Lake, Otira Gorge, Bluff, Skippers Gorge, Waiau River and Hanmer. North Island views include views of Mount Tarawera after the eruption in June 1886, and views of the Pink and White Terraces before they were destroyed in the eruption. Other views show Napier, showing the first ship to berth at the new breakwater, SS Flora, on 22nd October 1895; Marine Parade in Napier; street views in Gisborne and Whangarei; Parihaka; and the Rotorua, Wairakei area with the Huka Falls, Aratiatia Rapids, and the Waimangu Geyser. Photographs taken circa 1890s, by some unidentified photographers, but many by named photographers, including Arthur James Iles (Thames), E Wheeler & Son (Christchurch), Hawley & Co (Napier). All named photographers are listed in the name sequence. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, with ornate gold decoration on spine, 25.5 x 32.5 cm
Salmon album 12
Date: [Between 1940 and 1954]
From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints
By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999
Reference: PA1-q-208
Description: Album of photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1940 and 1954. The sequence of images is not chronological. Slip attached to spine reads: Trips - Bold Peak, 1943, Mt. Arthur tbld, Marlb. Sounds, Mt. Algidus, 1946, Honeymoon, 1948. 7th Pacific Sc. Congress. West Coast. The album opens with views taken on a trip to the West Coast in January 1954; followed by a West Coast museum trip, February 1940; a Neslson-Westhaven expedition, November 1952; John and Pam Salmon's honeymoon in the South Island in December 1948; and a trip to Mt. Algidus, February 1946. The next trips in the album were the Mt. Arthur tableland museum expedition, February 1946, and again in February 1948; the Bold Peak district, February 1943; trip around the Sounds on "The Alert", August 1948; air trip over the Sounds in April 1949; and then the South Pacific Science Congress, Auckland-Christchurch, February 1949. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm
'Hot Springs Domain' Te Aroha, N.Z. 1924
Date: 1924
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: Pan-2377-F
Description: Panoramic view looking across several playing fields separated by paths and fences. There is a thatched & rustic wood gazebo in the corner of a fenced field with four tennis courts, other courts beyond on the left. There are bathhouses on a slight rise above the tennis courts and other large buildings further to the left. Another building above a playing field on the right. Several houses further up a hill on the far right. Lawns and gardens along the paths. Shops and commercial buildings along a road on the far left. Steep tree-clad hill in the centre and right background. Township on the far left middle distance. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: 'Hot Spring's Domain' te-Aroha. N.Z. 1924. No. 113; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Hot springs Te Aroha. 113 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 119.5 cm
Te Aroha New Zealand; the beauty spa of mountain & river [Envelope. 1938]
Date: 1938
From: [Ephemera on tourism and tourist attractions and facilities in the Waikato Region. 1920-1960s].
Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Waikato-1938-01
Description: Unused envelope showing an illustration in dark blue ink, of Te Aroha's mineral springs, bath houses and domain, and a circular vignette "On the Waihou River" showing a canopied boat carrying passengers on the river. Cabbage trees and tree ferns feature in these illustrations. The back of the envelope shows a circular illustration of a map of New Zealand, inside a border with the words "Peace on Earth, Goodwill toward men". Publication date suggested by vendor. Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s) envelope. Physical Description: Relief print on envelope, 91 x 147 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Complete Stamp Company, Auckland, 14 December 2015, lot 669.
A trip in New Zealand, Hawaii, California, and the South Pacific
Date: 1930
From: Gibbens, Ken :Photographs of New Zealand, Australia, California, Hawaii, Samoa and Fiji
By: Gibbens, Ken, active 1920s-
Reference: PA1-o-836
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Godber album 11
Date: [1908-1912]
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PA1-q-103
Description: Photographs, chiefly taken by Albert Percy Godber, including family portraits, areas where he lived, Petone and the Petone Fire Brigade, railways, the Hutt Valley, Wellington, and areas in the upper North Island. The family photographs show his immediate family (his wife Laura (nee Zinckgraf), and children William Albert and Phyllis Mary); groups including his father and mother Charles and Mary Ann Godber, his brother Harry Leonard and wife Annie and their daughter Constance Alice, and Laura's brother Charles Albert Zinckgraf. Godber was a fireman with the Petone Fire Brigade, and there are photographs of groups of firemen and fire fighting equipment, and displays of methods of fire fighting. Associated with Godber's work with New Zealand Railways, and particularly at the Petone Railway Workshops, there are views of various workshop buildings, groups of railway workers; one of M J Mack (General Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand); images of damage to rolling stock after railway accidents; trains; the Raurimu Spiral; railway viaducts; logging railways; and railway stations. Photographs taken in the northern part of the North Island include coal mines, rock formations, hot springs at Te Aroha and Kamo; Whangarei and the Wairua Falls; suburbs of Auckland including Newmarket, Remuera, Parnell, Onehunga, and Ellerslie Race Course. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 110 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram covers; 30.0 x 23.5 cm
Cadman thermal bathhouse, Te Aroha Domain
From: Photographs of Te Aroha
Reference: 1/2-003354-F
Description: Cadman thermal bathhouse, Te Aroha Domain. Photograph taken by Arnold. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Cadman Baths. Te Aroha Domain Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Gazebo around mineral water fountain in the Domain, Te Aroha
Date: [191-?]
From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-006352-G
Description: View of a man and two children in the summer house, a wooden gazebo with a thatched roof, at the `No. 15' mineral spring in the Government Tourist Domain at Te Aroha. A hand pump for providing drinking water is in the centre, with a sign above it that reads: `The public are warned against removing mineral water in bulk or using it at the spring for other than drinking purposes / by order'. Photograph taken circa 1910s, by Frederick George Radcliffe. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Spring No. 15. Te Aroha. F. G. R. 5427 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) Glass negative. Physical Description: Glass negative
View of the Domain at Te Aroha, with playing fields and the Cadman Bath House.
Date: 1909
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-0552-1/2-G
Description: View of the Te Aroha Hot Springs Domain, with playing fields in the foreground and the Cadman Bathhouse behind. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, in 1909. An original print of a very similar image is in Godber Album PA1-q-103, p 17. Inscriptions: Album page - Te Aroha Sanatorium. A fine place. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches
Bath houses in the Te Aroha Domain - Photograph taken by W T Wilson
Date: [ca 14 Dec 1912]
From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives
By: Wilson, William Thompson, 1882-1917
Reference: PAColl-4950-1-01
Description: Thermal bath houses, numbered 2 and 3, at Te Aroha Domain, photographed circa 14 December 1912 by W T Wilson. A cold swimming bath is on the right. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 2122 Te Aroha No 2 & 3 Baths; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - W T Wilson Prot 14.12.12 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.5 x 21.5 cm
Cadman thermal bathhouse, Te Aroha Domain
From: Waihi Arts Centre & Museum: Photographs of Waihi
Reference: 1/2-171768-G
Description: Cadman thermal bathhouse, Te Aroha Domain. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Te Aroha
Date: ca 1883-1884
From: Williams, Charles Athol, 1899-1990 : Photographs of Te Aute Station, Mangakuri Station, the Williams family, and Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey during World War I
Reference: 1/2-061591-F
Description: Te Aroha, circa 1883-1884. The office of the Domain hot springs is in the right foreground. A church sits on a hill above. Photographer unidentified. Note on back of file print reads: "This photograph pre-dates the library and the dr's rooms of 1884. Probably taken 1883 or early 1884." Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
The Domain, Te Aroha, showing the Cadman thermal bathhouse
From: Photographs of Te Aroha
Reference: 1/2-003347-F
Description: The entrance to the Domain at Te Aroha. Shows a Model T Ford in the foreground and the Cadman thermal bathhouse. Photograph taken by Arnold. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Entrance to Domain. Te Aro Arnold Photo Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Cadman Bathhouse at the Domain, Te Aroha
Reference: 1/2-040321-F
Description: Cadman Bathhouse, at the Domain, Te Aroha. Inscriptions: bottom centre - Cadman Bathhouse, Te Aroha Hot Springs Domain, North Island, New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Bath-houses in the Domain, Te Aroha
Date: ca 1914
From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-006939-G
Description: Bath-houses in the Domain, Te Aroha. Taken by Frederick George Radcliffe circa 1914. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
The Domain, Te Aroha
Reference: 1/2-092982-F
Description: The Domain, at Te Aroha, showing the Cadman thermal bathhouse in the centre. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Croquet lawns and the Cadman thermal bathhouse, Te Aroha Domain
From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-006943-G
Description: Croquet lawns and the Cadman thermal bathhouse, Te Aroha Domain. Photograph taken by Frederick George Radcliffe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Two women seated on rocks in front of a thatched summer-house containing a drinking fou...
Date: 1921
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-1837-1/2-G
Description: Two women seated in front of a thatched roof summer house which contains a drinking fountain. There is a pond filled with water lilies in the foreground, and flax bushes around the edge of the pond. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1921. Identified from Godber's own index filed in Photographic Archives at TL 6/1/15, in the 1/2 plate sequence, under Te Aroha Domain. Te Aroha. 1921. Shews fountain for drinking. Box 64. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches