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Date: [ca 1880-1910]

From: Scenery Preservation Board :Scenic photographs of New Zealand

By: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Scenery Preservation Board

Reference: PAColl-0444-1

Description: Photographs of the following: a set of seven photographs by Collis and annotated by F P Corkill, land agent, re landholding around the Waiwhakaiho River; scenic views such as waterfalls, lakes, and the Pink and White Terraces; bridges with annotations re height etc; sixteen numbered photographs mounted two to a card of scenic views in the Taranaki Region, Rotorua and the far north (including ones of Taumaha Gorge, Taranaki and Lake Ora - location unidentified); a set of seven photographs of the Waipu Caves including Lot's wife, the anvil and the sugar loaf in Morrison's Cave; a clipping of St Paul's Cupola and a photograph of Kauri Gully, Northcote with annotations on resolutions passed re the establishment of reservations; a panorama in two photographs of Flagstaff Hill, Dunedin with annotations re a potential reserve; and two of a tramping party of three men and five boys resting at a waterfall. Includes a recent hand-written list of the photographs. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted prints

Date: 1860s-1949

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949; Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Johnston, Owen, active 1940-1987; New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: PA1-o-1038

Description: Contains photographs of a Maori group at Wanganui, Te Rangitahau of Waitahanui, inscription at Wairaka meeting house (Whakatane), Pohaturoa Rock (Whakatane), Tainui anchor stone at Mokau, Matahourua anchor stone at Dominion Museum, Tokomaru anchor stone at New Plymouth Museum, hui at Rangitukua (March 1945), Ngarimu hui at Ruatoria (1943), hui at Hiruharama (1945), Tahi hohepa at Otukou (1947), reception to Field-Marshall Montgomery at Ohinemutu (1947), Sir Apirana Ngata speaking at erection of Porourangi meeting house (Waiomatatini), scenes in Parihaka, and Sir Peter Buck at Te Araroa (March 1949). The photographers represented are W J Harding, A P Godber, Burton Brothers, Owen Johnston, and the New Zealand Railways Publicity Department. A number of images were provided by the Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Graphic drawing book 23 x 31 cm

Date: [1880s]

From: Kirk, Thomas William, 1856-1936: Photograph album

By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-138

Description: Photograph album of New Zealand and Pacific Island scenes. Most were taken by George Dobson Valentine, in the North Island of New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, and Tahiti; a few were taken by the Burton Brothers in the South Island. Within the New Zealand scenes there are a large number of views inside and out of the Waitomo Caves; and another group show the area around Lake Rotomahana with the Pink and White Terraces before and after the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera. Pages 88 to 150 are blank. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown cover, mottled brown corners and spine, with gold lettering on black panel on spine `Kirk. Prints of New Zealand'; a bookplate inside the front cover reads `Thomas William Kirk'; 35.0 x 26.5 cm

Date: between 1934 and 1935

Reference: PAColl-6619

Description: 46 images of the Duke of Gloucester's tour of New Zealand in 1934-5 including: nine of his visit to Rotorua including Maori kapa haka; one of veterans at the bridge of remembrance in Christchurch; one of him opening Tekapo bridge and another of the party at Tekapo House hotel; one of him in a crowd outside the railway station in Hokitika; one of him inspecting a parade of nurses; one of him visiting a traditional whare; two of him as a jockey at a race meeting; three of the felling of a kauri tree; seven of his stay at Longbeach sheep station, Ashburton County; and two of him at the Waitangi memorial. Photographer unidentified but possibly Hall Raine. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-019066 to 019078, 019082 to 019107, 019111, 019113, and 059505 to 059509 Quantity: 46 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: 1929

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to Rotorua as a tourist destination. 1890-1929]

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Rotorua-1929-01

Description: Promotes Rotorua's tourist attractions. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Offset print on both sides of brochure, 230 x 375 mm, folding to 203 x 95 mm.

Date: [ca 1873-1875]

By: Gaul, John, -1876; Lindt, John William, 1845-1926

Reference: PA1-q-330

Description: Includes views New Zealand, Pacific and Australia, including images of indigenous houses and plantations, and a series of 12 studio tableau portraits of Aboriginal Australians, taken by John William Lindt in 1873-1874. Kai Colo (Fijian people) - name for the people who live in the mountainous interior of Fiji. It's literal meaning is something like "mountaineer". This information was given by Dr Vicki Lukere (Luker), specialist in South Pacific history, Victoria University, 1997. A series of 12 studio tableau portraits of Aboriginal Australians by John Wiiliam Lindt, including three not found in this album, are at Library reference PA1-q-1317 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album. Provenance: Written comments in the album indicate that it might be associated with Commodore J Goodenough RN, who was appointed as a commissioner by the Crown to investigate the events that led to the annexation of Fiji. This album was compiled by an unidentified member of the Australian Division of the Royal Navy based at Sydney in the mid 1870s. The Australian Naval Station was responsible for policing the Pacific and supporting Britain's interests in the region. The one date associated with the album (1875) as well as some of the images, suggest that it was compiled soon after the cession of Fiji to the British Crown. The two ships associated with the album, HMS Blanche and HMS Pearl, were both stationed at Sydney and both were involved with events in Fiji before and during cession. HMS Pearl was Commodore Goodenough's flagship. He was the officer in charge of the Australian Naval Station at that time. He also played an important political role in the process of cession in Fiji. In the album he and his officers are shown swimming on Ovalau. The compiler of the album on the other hand, seems to have been personally associated with HMS Blanche. There are two pictures of this ship in the album as well as pictures of memorials erected by the captain and crew to one of their members. HMS Blanche had been active against the traffic in cheap labour in the South Pacific. In 1873 her paymaster, Lieutenant Nettleton, had acted as temporary British Consul in Fiji after the recall of E B March.

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: 1950 - 1960

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to Rotorua as a tourist destination. 1950-1959]

By: Rotorua Lake Services Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Rotorua-1950s-01

Description: Folded brochure with a colour photograph of passengers on the deck of the launch Wynona. Inside is text describing the island and the cruise, and showing a tourist group on the island. The back cover shows an aerial photograph of the island in Lake Rotorua. Quantity: 1 pamphlet. Physical Description: Photolithographs on pamphlet 161 x 210 mm, folded to 161 x 105 mm.

Date: 1921-1924

From: Hume, Keith Hamilton, fl 1974-1982 :Albums featuring Ohura and Rotoiti and timbermill

By: Auckland weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: PA1-o-232

Description: Views of the timber industry around Lake Rotoiti, Bay of Plenty Region; Includes scenes of the Rotoiti Timber Co.; timber transportation at Mourea (spelt Morea in album), and Lake Rotoiti; the Ohau Channel; Okataina (spelt Okatina in album); and Ngongotaha. Taken in the 1920s by John Martyn Hume and a staff photographer of the Auckland Weekly News. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cover, entitled `Photographs'; 18 x 30 cm

Date: 1842

By: Mathew, Felton, 1801-1847

Reference: A-220-002

Description: Coastal profiles of New Zealand coastlines Copied from pencil drawings Other Titles - North Island Inscriptions: Signed Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of survey drawings

Date: 1912

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to Rotorua as a tourist destination. 1890-1929]

By: Mackay, John, 1851-1937

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Rotorua-1912-02

Description: Booklet describes Rotorua town and vicinity, a round trip Rotorua-Tarawera-Rotomahana, red deer, Lake Okataina, Waiotapu, Orakei-Korako, Lake Taupo, Tongariro National Park, drives to Tauranga Maketu and Matata, the Uruwera Mountains and Lake Waikaremoana, Te Aroha Ohinemuri and Thames districts, the King-Country Caves. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 10 pages, 160 x 78 mm, with foldout map 252 x 158 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1975.

Date: 1842 - 1844

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: A-275-003

Description: A whare and trees in the left foreground, a canoe being rowed by three men on the lake in the centre and the White Terraces in the background, with clouds of steam above them. Probably one of the earliest depictions of the Terraces On the verso is a poem in the artist's hand, to his wife, Rangi Kawau (Rangi Koa), with marginal notes on the Maori words, in the hand of Edward Shortland. Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Title in ink in the artist's hand Compare two other version of this drawing by Merrett. One dating from 1842 is in the British Library's Grey Albums (Add. Ms 19953 f. 99, pl. 268) an ink and pencil drawing entitled 'Rotomahana, one of the Rotorua Lakes with a view of the hot springs and the ascent to it by natural steps of salyx'; also the Turnbull Library's A-089-008, an ink and wash sketch, almost identical to this one. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 160 x 249 mm

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: Between 1920 and 1929

Reference: PAColl-6479

Description: 5 scenes of the Kuramihirangi meeting house on the Te Rewarewa marae including details of the carving. Arrangement: Negatives housed at: 1/4-002743 to 002747 Quantity: 5 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1868

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-o-094

Description: Views of New Zealand chiefly taken by Daniel Mundy circa 1868, with some taken by Charles S Spencer. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Decorated tan coloured cover "Scraps", 25.5 x 33 cm Provenance: Alexander Turnbull Library donation slip on front page reads: "Scrapbook of old photos collected by Mr Mundy about 1868."

Date: 1949-1957

By: Brown, John Bruce, 1907-1989; Madle, Elizabeth, active 1998

Reference: PAColl-5880

Description: Land clearance and development projects during the 1950s. Photographs show examples of techniques and machinery used for bringing in land such as rolling and crushing scrub and using cattle to crush and clear lupins. Much of the land developed for agriculture during this period was pumice land. There is a slide sequence designed to show methods for establishing pasture on this particular soil type, and a number of other slides showing the finished product -- productive farms in the Rotorua area. Landblocks named in this collection are, Newstead Block, "Rushden" Waipukurau, Lynwood F. S., and Okahukura Block. Arrangement: Transparencies at PA12-1577 to 1581 Quantity: 127 b&w original photographic print(s). 105 transparencies. Provenance: Mrs Madle is daughter of Bruce Brown (1906-1990?) a former Deputy Director of Lands & Survey.

Date: [ca 1926]

By: Griffin, Norman, active 1926; Tararua Tramping Club

Reference: PA1-o-202

Description: Photographic record of a trip to Urewera and Lake Waikaremoana undertaken in the mid 1920s by Norman Griffin and party. The album was compiled by Norman Griffin, who was probably the photographer. Photographs include views of Maori life in the area, including groups of unidentified people. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Relationship complexity - Records of a trip by Norman Griffin to Urewera and Lake Waikaremoana are held at MS-Papers-1858-219 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown cloth-bound album 19 x 26 cm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Tararua Tramping Club : Records (MS-Group-0545).

By: Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975

Reference: A-227-104/104-1

Description: Looking over rooftops, with a poplar tree to the left, towards the harbour Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 285 mm

Date: ca 1880s

By: Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PAColl-7271

Description: Photographs of the Rotomahana Terraces prior to the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera. 1/2-058357 to 058358 Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-058357 to 058358 Quantity: 2 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1927

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to Rotorua as a tourist destination. 1890-1929]

By: New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts; Skinner, William Alexander George, 1865-1939

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Rotorua-1927-01

Description: Booklet promoting the Rotorua Baths and evaluating their waters: the acid sulphur baths including the Priest and the Postmaster; and the alkaline sulphur waters including the Rachel. Also discusses the mud baths, the Radium Bath, the Duchess Bath and the Blue Bath; the Aix and Vichy systems of douche massage; the dry massage and electrical treatment including Dr Schnee's electric multipolar bath, the Bergonie apparatus, electric-light bath, Greville hot-air baths and diathermy. Another section discusses the drinking of water - Rachel water and water brought from the springs at Te Aroha. There is a page on the Sanatorium, a list of fees for all the health treatments, and a timetable of bathing hours. The front cover shows a photograph of the Bath House, Rotorua. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, each 124 x 150 mm.