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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: 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: [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: Between 1948 and 1949

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

Reference: PA1-o-003

Description: "Illustrating geological observations, Vol 3". Black & white photographs of geological and geomorphological aspects of New Zealand. Includes images taken on a second visit to the Rotorua area (Oct 4-12 1948), showing lakes, thermal areas, mountain rifts and other geological formations. A boring plant testing the ground on the line of the proposed Rimutaka Tunnel; views of The Terrace, Wellington showing the office building of the New Zealand Geological Survey at 156 The Terrace; Mangaroa Basin plain; Hutt River valley; the Wellington fault scarp along Grant Road; the geology of the Paekakariki area of coastal lowland; the new Wellington City number 2 water supply tunnel from the upper Hutt River (14 Jan 1949). Also shows images taken when attending the Seventh Pacific Science Congress held in New Zealand, January-February 1949, including views of Auckland; "Birchlands" (home of Sir Frank Mappin, Mt Eden, where the Congress garden party was held); Mount Mangere; Auckland Ferry Wharf; an excursion in the Wellington area for the Congress to Baring Head & Orongorongo. Water supply in Paraparaumu, March 25 1949; Visit to East Wairarapa beyond Martinborough (a Victoria University excursion led by Dr A R Lillie and R A Couper), showing Dr Lillie, John Marwick, Thomas Ludovic Grant-Taylor); Castlepoint & the Matapihi Trig Station on the Ruamahanga River, April 14-17, 1949; inland pumice deposit at Waitarere Beach (11 Oct 1949); official inspection of the lower course of the Otaki River (21 Oct 1949) showing the Otaki Railway Bridge with piles beneath the piers exposed by erosion; coast of the Miramar Peninsula.

Date: 1907-1909

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-915

Description: Most of the images relate to a survey team (or teams) operating in the hill country west of the main road between Raetihi and National Park, centred in the area around Ruatiti. The two names in the album for the area are the Ruatiti Block which includes the Ruatiti Stream and the Manganuioteao River, and the Riariaki Block and trig immediatly to the north. There are images of team members, camp life (ie storing food, cutting hair, living quarters, rod fishing, and swimming), groups out on the job (ie cutting trees, making survey pegs, moving through the bush with packs and equipment, on horse back, returning from the hunt, packing in supplies, making observations, and constructing the Maungaroa trig station), and views of the native forest, and rivers. Interspersed among these photographs are others which include social occasions such as farewelling a survey team member, a motoring trip associated with a large house called "Pihautea," an amateur instrumental group, a cricket game in Nelson, and a group in Albert park Auckland. There is a farmyard with woman, hens and horses, a buggie fording the Mangaturuturu Stream, views of Island Bay, Mount and Lake Tarawera, the Makatote bridge, and the Ohakune Railway Station Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [188-]

From: Edwin family :Photographs

By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA1-q-229

Description: Photographs taken by George Valentine during the 1880s. All the views appear to be taken in the vicinity of Lake Tarawera and Lake Tikitapu. Most of the views show various angles of both the Pink and the White Terraces, before and after the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886, and the bush at lake Tikitapu, before and after the eruption. Two views show a waterfall and creek which George Valentine calls the Waitakeri Falls, and Waitakeri Creek. These names are no longer shown on maps of the area, so the creek and waterfall may have been smothered during the eruption. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album, lacks cover, photographs glued to card; 28 x 36 cm

Date: 26 Apr 1993

From: Women in Welfare Work Oral History Project.

By: Waaka, Kuru, 1924-

Reference: OHInt-0086/03

Description: Kuru Waaka talks about his mother, Ani Pareraututu Waaka, born 29 April 1874 and twelve years old at the time of the Tarawera eruption. Describes offers of help made to the survivors and their acceptance of an offer from the Ngati Maru people of Thames. Notes they lived in Thames for about ten years, making a living off kauri gum, before returning to Whakarewarewa and Tuhourangi who were a subtribe of Arawa. Ani married Te Rohu Waaka, also from Tarawera, who became a minister. Kuru Waaka talks about his twelve brothers and sisters, all born at the Whakarewarewa meeting house, between 1892 and 1924. Recalls the deaths of many from tuberculosis and describes himself as the youngest of the family. Describes Ani Waaka's role in starting off organisations in the village which saw to the welfare of the people. Describes how money paid by tourists into a trust fund was used to pay the rates and to improve housing. Talks about her awareness of the importance of the tourist industry economically, particularly during the Depression. Discusses her role in the Health League, later the Maori Women's Welfare League, of which she was the first President. Mentions Janet Fraser and Nurse Cameron. Recalls her involvement in the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the Komiti Wahine and the Arawa Maori Trust Board. Talks about his sister, Nini Naera, a mission worker attached to the mission house at Ruatoki who had also been a teacher at Te Wai Pounamu Maori Girls College. Describes her importance in the Maori Women's Welfare League. Mentions Rangi Royal, the first Maori welfare officer in the Arawa district. Venue - Rotorua : 1993 Interviewer(s) - Penny Ehrhardt Venue - Whakarewarewa Village Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006385; OHC-006386 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1482.

Date: [ca 1985-ca 2004]

From: Nunns, Richard, 1945-2021: Collection

Reference: PAColl-9112-2

Description: Photographs - many showing Richard Nunns - mainly from the early years (1990s) of the revival of interest in taonga puoro. Includes photographs of old instruments from unidentified museum collections and photographs of modern reproductions of instruments including: porutu, pukaea, pakuru, putorino, putatara, hue, nguru, ku, tokere, potaka, roria, koauau, karanga, porotiti and gemshorns. Shows instruments made from different materials: bones of animals - dog (kuri), chamois), birds (moa, toroa), men (koiwi tangata); teeth (whale); wood; argillite (pakohe); shell. Also shows kete for instruments, woven from kiekie and other plants. Also includes photographs from the significant hui held in 1991 at Hinerupe marae in Te Araroa where Hirini Melbourne drew together players and makers who would lead the revival of traditional music. Further includes photographs from a wananga at Motu-o-Tinirau in Lake Rotorua, and from a gathering on the rim of a crater of Tarawera. during a Haumanu collective wānanga at Rotorua in 2004. Quantity: 101 colour original photographic print(s). 18 b&w original photographic print(s).

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: 1901

By: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937; Crompton-Smith, Annie Marian, 1877-1965

Reference: D-007-002

Description: Testimonial presented to Stephenson Percy Smith, founder of the Polynesian Society, on his retirement from the position of Surveyor-General and Secretary for Crown Lands, in 1901. The painted testimonial features a list of the names of the officers of the District Lands and Survey branches, and vignettes showing a Māori chief, the landing place of Tainui at Kawhia, Mount Tarawera after the eruption of 1886, and a surveyor's camp and settlement 'at the Kermadecs'. In addition there is a view of the Southern Alps, a Taranaki scene, a surveyors' camp, road-making through dense bush, a pastoral scene with a farmhouse in the distance, a section of kauri forest, and a mining scene at Thames (Grahamstown Goldfield) with working mines, mine machinery and houses. The whole is surrounded and divided into sections by painted Maori carvings, with kowhai, a theodolite, a tree-fern, native clematis, a nikau palm and flax. Title supplied by Library. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - G. N. Sturtevant fecit MCMI Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 604 x 905 mm.

Date: [Circa 1900s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-303

Description: New Zealand views, probably taken by George William Barltrop, circa 1900s. Most of the images seem to have been taken on a tour of the North Island, particularly in the Rotorua area, with views of the Rotorua Sanatorium grounds, geysers and mud pools. Views of Ohinemutu, including an interior view of St Faith's Anglican Church, women basket weaving, Tamatekapua Meeting House, and the Queen Victoria memorial. The area near Mt Tarawera, showing the eruption rift from the 1886 eruption, the ruins of McRae's Hotel and Sophie's Whare, and Lake Rotomahana. Views of Thames, including gold mining equipment; the Okere Falls and hydroelectric works; the Tarukenga Railway Station, and Bean Rock Lighthouse. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, entitled `Photographs'; 18.5 x 24.5 cm