Te Ariki

Date: [Between 1868 and 1885?]

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

Reference: PA1-o-083

Description: Photograph album titled 'New Zealand land of loveliness'. Includes photographs of the Wairoa and Rotorua Districts, taken by the Burton Brothers of Dunedin. Other Titles - Land of loveliness Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Cloth cover entitled "Land of loveliness. New Zealand. Photographed by Burton Bros. Dunedin"

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: 1886

From: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890 :Scenic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PA7-54-02

Description: View from Te Ariki across Lake Tarawera, showing Mt Tarawera and Ruawahia in the background. Volcanic ash from the Tarawera eruption of 10 June 1886 covers the landscape. A man sculling a rowboat may be seen in the foreground. Photograph taken 1886 by George Dobson Valentine Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Mnts Tarawera and Ruawahia from Te Ariki. 129. G.V. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 18.8 x 29 cm

Date: 1886

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

By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA1-o-119

Description: Photographs taken after the Tarawera eruption in 1886 by members of Stephenson Percy Smith's survey team. Most of the images were taken by Charles Spencer, and some by George Dobson Valentine. Included are scenes of destruction at Te Wairoa, with McRae's Hotel, the old mill, the Mission Church, and a carved house. Members photographed include Charlie Turner (Charles Barker Turner), Ernest Feltus Adams, J C Blythe, Henry Lundius and W C [i.e. E C] Gold-Smith. Album includes a hand-printed index. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green linen cover with dark green leather spine and corners, with spine title "Photographs. Tarawera eruption 1886. Presented by M. Crompton Smith, Vol. 12". 26 x 31 cm.

Date: 1886

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Geare, Henry C, active 1886-1931

Reference: PA1-o-180

Description: Album containing photographs of the Mount Tarawera area before and after the eruption in 1886. Some of the images are signed "J M" (Josiah Martin), many showing the mountain after the eruption, with views of the great fissure, and probable locations of the Pink and White Terraces and Te Ariki Pa. At the beginning of the album there is an article from the Times (London), dated Friday, July 30, 1886, about the eruption and its probable effect on travellers to the area. This is followed by a letter to The Times from James Fergusson (previous Governor-General to New Zealand) who was writing to lessen the effects of dire warnings in The Times article. Following The Times article is a hand-written letter to `Henry C Geare, Esq., 67 Lincolns Inn Fields, London', sent from Auckland on 14 September 1886. (Signature indecipherable). Sketch maps of the Hot Lakes District are also included. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - Presented to the Library of the High Commissioner New Zealand, by Henry C Geare, 3/4 Clements Inn, Strand, Commissioner for Oaths for the Dominion of many years standing, 6 August 1931 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, black spine and corners; 24 x 31 cm

Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Finch, F, active 1878-1900; Iles, Arthur James, 1870-1943; Le Grice, Edward, 1881-1959; Malaghan, Patrick Thomas, -1938; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Ross, Charles S, active 1890s-1900s; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Valentine, James, -1880

Reference: PAColl-0959-40

Description: New Zealand scenes including thermal areas in the North Island, and river, mountain and roading scenes in the South Island, taken by various identified and unidentified photographers between about the 1880s and 1900s. Two photographers, Josiah Martin and Patrick Thomas Malaghan took most of the images. Other identified photographers include Edmund Wheeler, F. Finch, A.J. Iles, Charles Spencer, Edward Le Grice, J.V. (James Valentine), and Ross (Photographer, Invercargill). Several of the unidentified photographers are listed under their initials only, and include one with the initials T.S.M (or S.T.M. in a monogram), also A.A.B., R.G., Rooney, Luney (?), and L.M. A large number of those taken by Patrick Malaghan show Skippers Road and the Shotover River, with Pinchers Bluff, Huttons Cutting, Hell's Gate, and Skippers Creek. Thermal areas in the North Island show the Pink and White Terraces before the 1886 eruption of mount Tarawera, and also a number taken after the eruption, including the remnants of Te Ariki Pa. A large number also show various geysers, mud pools and hot springs. One method of crossing rivers is shown with the Hooker Wire Bridge (or Hooker Cage) and a "chair" travelling across a wire in Skippers over the Shotover River. Note on this box reads: "1st Ball Hut print" (no. 33); and "J. Martin "Mt Cook"" (no. 66). Most of the places identified are listed above. Other Titles - Old P.O.P. Quantity: 154 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: [1880s to 1890s]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Tyree Brothers (Firm); Bulpin, I, active 1974

Reference: PA1-o-078

Description: General views of New Zealand taken in the 1880s and 1890s by various photographers including James Ring, Frederick George Radcliffe, Charles Spencer and the Tyree Brothers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Tan coloured album, 24 x 31 cm Provenance: Donated by I Bulpin, Surbiton, England, 1974

Date: 4-5 Mar 1847

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0671A-05

Description: Letter asking after Warena's health and to see what actions arose from a meeting near Rotorua Quantity: 1 piece (2 pages on 1 leaf).

Date: [1880s]

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-o-334

Description: According to the inscription inside the front cover (by an unidentified person), the date is firmly established as 1884, however the album has a number of photographs of the Tarawera area, both before and after the volcanic eruption in 1886. These include views of the White Terraces, one of which has a group of Maori cooking food in the hot pools; a carved house at Te Wairoa, showing interior and exterior before the eruption, and the exterior afterwards; a group of Maori at Te Ariki (one of the places most devastated in the eruption with the loss of many lives. This image has the inscription `Natives of te Ariki first to be killed by eruption'); views of Mount Tarawera covered in mud and ash; and the Old Mill, destroyed in the eruption. Many of the images have the signature initials J.M. (Josiah Martin), and a few have the initials F.A.C (Frank Arnold Coxhead) who may have taken them, but which may just have been printed by him. The last few views are in Tasmania, including Burnie - Emu Bay, and the Guide Falls, near Burnie. Inscriptions: Album page - `Ex libris Brent Gration-Maxfield. 1967'; Album page - `New Zealand. 1884. An early series of 46 4to sepia photographs of New Zealand views. The date, 1884, is firmly established by the letter opposite [attached to album page. Unsigned and undated], which refers to both the album and G.A. Sala's visit in 1884 (see the D.N.B.) to New Zealand to gather information for his book "The land of the golden fleece" which was published in 1885' Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover, leather corners and spine; 25.5 x 22.5 cm

Date: [1880s]

From: Burton Brothers, 1868-1898 (Firm, Dunedin) : Photographs of the Rotomahana area

Reference: 1/2-004619-F

Description: Young Maori girl at Te Ariki Pa. Shows her standing alongside a vegetable garden and a whare. Photograph taken in the 1880s by the Burton Brothers. Other Titles - At Te Ariki Lake Tarawera Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3868 - At Te Ariki - Lake Tarawera; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Burton Bros Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1886

By: McKean, H, active 1886; Kinder, John, 1819-1903

Reference: A-036-013

Description: An extensive view of the flat-topped Tarawera Mountain and its surrounding hills, shortly after the eruption of June 1886. Original Kinder watercolour, 1866, sold at Cordy's 24 Sept, 1970. Now in the collection of the Robert McDougall Art Gallery, (Christchurch Art Gallery). See catalogue of the Robert McDougall Art Gallery for illustration The Library's earlier cataloguing for this item had it under the artist J. H. McKean; however McKean has redrawn Kinder's watercolour in preparation for engraving for publication A published version of this drawing appeared as the frontispiece to Hutton, F. W. Report on the Tarawera volcanic district, Wellington, 1887. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - H McLean 1866 [?]. Also below work lower left J. Kinder D. D. del; below work centre, title in ink, Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink on buff paper, glued to white paper, 126 x 232 mm

Date: [before 1886]

From: McLean album

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

Reference: PA1-q-153-04

Description: Photograph of Te Ariki Pa, taken by the Burton Brothers prior to the Tarawera eruption that destroyed the Maori village in 1886. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - beneath image - Ariki Maori Village 162 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.2 x 20.1 cm, mounted on album page

Date: [pre 1886]

From: Lloyd, F (Mrs), fl 1970 :Photographs including images of Tauranga and Arthur Burrows

Reference: 1/2-037815-F

Description: (Family?) group outside Tamahana's kainga (village), Te Ariki. Photograph taken prior to the Tarawera eruption of 1886. This village was buried beneath 40 feet of mud and ashes during the eruption mentioned above. (Information from back of file print) From Reeds Place Names Index (Alexander Turnbull Library): "Te Ariki - This village was called PIRIPAI by the missionary natives[sic], this being the Maori equivalent of the biblical PHILIPPI" Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Te Ariki. Head. Of. Lake. Tarawera. 74 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1886

From: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890 :Scenic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PA7-54-01

Description: View from Te Ariki across Lake Tarawera, showing Mt Tarawera and Ruawahia in the background. Volcanic ash from the Tarawera eruption of 10 June 1886 covers the landscape. A man sculling a rowboat may be seen in the foreground. Photograph taken in October 1886 by George Dobson Valentine Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Mts Tarawera and Ruawahia from Te Ariki. 129. G.V. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 18.8 x 29 cm

Date: [ca 1870s]

From: Scheltus, Hermanus Willem, 1951- : Photographs, chiefly of Wairakei geysers, Maketu Pā, and the Pink and White Terraces at Rotomahana

Reference: 1/2-139861-F

Description: Scene at Te Ariki, Rotorua district, showing a Maori group on the shores of Lake Tarawera, with Te Ariki Pa in the background. Photograph taken circa 1870s by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: On original item, beneath photograph - Te Ariki destroyed 10th June 1886 by a volcanic eruption of Mount Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1849

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

Reference: E-296-q-015-1

Description: Shows a sketch of the pa at Lake Tarawera, with two whare, two drying platforms, and a palisade. Two figures are in the foreground, one standing and one squatting. Other Titles - Lake Tarawera Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and wash, 50 x 80 mm.