Places

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: [ca 1920s]

By: Evans, I, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-1519

Description: Photographs taken on holiday in New Zealand by woman identified as I Evans. Comprises photographs of men, women and children from Tuhourangi and Arawa iwi, many in traditional costume; Model Village at Whakarewarewa; Ohinemutu Pa; Lake Rotorua; Guide Ruth, Ana Hato; Guide Rangi; Wairakei geysers; Rotomahana; buried forest; Arapuni; Hongi's Track; Lake Taupo; Wellington Harbour from Ngaio; tobacco growing at Riwaka; apple packing shed at Redwood's Valley, Nelson; Devils Boots, Collingwood; Government Buildings, Wellington; Wainui House, Nelson; houseboat, Whanganui River; self-portraity of photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 151 x 202 mm Provenance: Purchase, 2009

Date: 1980

Reference: Eph-C-GRAPHIC-ARTS-1980

Description: Includes: John Bailey. Wall drawings. Peter Webb Galleries, Auckland. 21 April - 17 May 1980. Edith Collier in retrospect. Proof for catalogue cover by Sarjeant Gallery. Edith Collier in retrospect. Sarjeant Gallery, 15 January - 2 March 1980 then to tour New Zealand. Poster proof. Howie Cooke. Still life for sailors; an exhibition from Tahiti, at Outreach, No 1 Ponsonby Road, 25 October - 4 November [1980s] Environmental art: David Waterman [and] Tery Archer. NZ Students Arts Council 1980, Artists on Campus. With the support of Resene Paints Ltd. Claudia Pond Eyley. New decade paintings and drawings. 2 June - 13 June 1980. Barry Lett Galleries, 41 Victoria Street West, Auckland. In search of Shunkei Jijima; an exposition by Stephen Foster. Taj Gallery, Oct 26th - Nov 14th [1980] Paul Hartigan. "Tattoo classiques", preview 5-7, 21 July - 1 August 1980 at Denis Cohn Gallery, 3 Darby Street, Auckland 1. Rangi of Rotorua exhibition. Rotorua Art Gallery, 24 March -27 April 1980 (shows portrait sketch by Christopher Perkins) (2 copies) Self portrait snaps. Schoolhouse, 101 Federal Street Auckland. 21 July - 1 August 1980. Quantity: 10 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters.. Physical Description: Photolithographs, on sheets, sizes varying around 430 x 300 mm.

Date: 1935 - 1950

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to Rotorua as a tourist destination. 1940-1949]

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Rotorua-1940s-02

Description: Wallet of twelve concertina-folded photographs of Rotorua showing the Bath House, the Municipal Buildings, Fairy Springs, Pohutu Geyser, Boiling mud, Guide Rangi, Maori babies, entrance to Whaka[rewarewa], Ohinemutu from Hospital Hill, Poi dancers, "Tama-te-Kapua" carved house, and the entrance to the Government Grounds. Dated 1940s, as the Municipal buildings were newly built in 1940 when the Rotorua Library moved in there. No corroborating documentation in Wises directories 1930-1950s. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph strip 445 x 145 mm, folded into wallet envelope 85 x 145 mm. Provenance: Donated by Michael Clements, Wellington, in 2011.

Date: 1957

By: Risberg, Vera, 1906-1975

Reference: A-092-022

Description: Half-length portrait of Rotorua Maori guide Rangi reproduced from a painting signed in ink below image 'Vera Risberg' and dated 1957. At the head of the picture are the words 'Souvenir copy' Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, image 329 x 246 mm mounted on board Provenance: Collection of Walter Nash

Date: 1920 - 1935

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to Rotorua as a tourist destination. 1930-1939]

By: Pratt & Company Ltd; Aldridge, Rachel Mooring, active 1934

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Rotorua-1934-01

Description: Booklet of postcard-sized colour photographs showing: Maori churches & Victoria Memorial, Ohinemutu, Rotorua, N.Z. Guide Rangi, Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, NZ Guide Ruth, Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, NZ Huka Falls, Wairaki, N.Z. Among the geysers at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, NZ Prince's Gate, Sanatorium Grounds, Rotorua, NZ Thermal springs at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, NZ Interior Maori church, Ohinemutu, Rotorua NZ Steaming cliffs, Lake Rotomahana, Rotorua, NZ Geyser at Waiotapu, NZ Maori kitchen, Rotorua; E Le Grice photo. Green, Blue and Rotorua Lakes, NZ Pohutu Geyser, Rotorua, NZ Sanatorium Grounds, Rotorua, NZ Sanatorium, Rotorua, NZ You like haka, Rotorua, NZ On Hingi's Track, Roto Iti, N.Z> The Twins & Inferno, Tikitere Boiling mud, Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, NZ Waimangu, Rotorua, NZ Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 20 pages, 107 x 158 mm. Provenance: The donor had collected the material during a visit to New Zealand in 1934.

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

Date: [1860-1880s, ca 1920s]

From: Myers, Judith, fl 1990-2008 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9331

Description: Photographs, comprising: Composite photograph of members of the New Zealand House of Representatives, 1860, and view of parliament building, Auckland Portrait of Sir James Prendergast, ca 1886 Postcards of Rotorua scenes: young boys, Guide Martha and Guide Rangi possibly taken in the 1920s. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1980

From: [Posters advertising exhibitions of graphic arts and two-dimensional artworks. 1980]

By: Rotorua Art Gallery; Perkins, Christopher Edward, 1891-1968

Reference: Eph-C-GRAPHIC-ARTS-1980-01

Description: Shows a reproduction of a 1933 charcoal drawing of Guide Rangi by Christopher Perkins. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on poster 515 x 320 mm.

Date: ca 1860s-1960s

By: Larsen, Malcolm Richmond, 1923-1985

Reference: PAColl-4451

Description: Photographs of: outside the same meeting house - a circle of women seated performing the action song ti rakau with others in the background; a man holding a taiaha and performing a pukana next to the amo; Guide Rangi in a kakahu seated next to the amo; a group of eight women, a man and a boy with the whole meeting house visible; and a close-up of Guide Rangi. Photographer unidentified. Copy prints of cartes-de-visite of various Rangitira: two duplicates captioned Hori Keru, Hori Kingi and Te Ua all three in parts of military uniforms; a head only portrait of Te Hapuku; Ihaka Whaanga seated; and Kopu seated wearing a uniform. Photographers unidentified. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Jan 1931, 28 Dec 1934-2 Feb 1935, 27 Dec 1935-17 Jan 1936

From: Johnston, Phyllis, 1904-1998: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1896

Description: Photograph album formerly belonging to Phyllis Johnston. Contains images taken during three holidays in New Zealand. Compiler of albums, and photographer(s), are unidentified. Album is extensively captioned though few people are identified. - Motoring trip of North Island in January 1931, following family on a camping trip in a A-Model Ford. Route, as suggested by image order in album, goes via Hastings, Wairoa, Lake Waikaremoana, Morere, Gisborne, Opotiki, Ohope, Whakatane, Rotorua, Whakarewarewa, Tauranga, Waihi, Thames, Mercury Bay, Tui Glen, Waiwera, Waipu, Whangarei, Bay of Islands, Mount Messenger and Dawson Falls. Images feature camp grounds and sites, car with tent awning erected and with gear packed alongside, picnicking scenes, motoring scenes, and tourist sights on route. Images and sites of note are: Tongoio Falls; Aniwaniwa Falls; road between Gisborne and Opotiki including ford, adjacent ranges and valleys, bush, and coastal views; Whakatane War Memorial; Road between Whakatane and Rotorua, including bush, Lake Rotoma, Hongi's Track, and Tikitere geothermal area; Whakarewarewa, including tourist group with Guide Rangi, Maori children bathing, and Frog Pond; Tauranga Harbour and railway bridge; gorge between Waihi and Thames; bullocks hauling Kauri logs south of Coromandel; 'Rotten Row' cabins at Waipu; Christ Church, bay and sea shore, and view of town from the flagstaff, Russell; cream being delivered by row boat in Bay of Islands; Zane Grey Camp, Otehei Bay; car on barge crossing between Russell and Paihia (including car transfer to shore); Williams Memorial Church, Paihia; and Waitangi Falls. Miss B G Kirk appears in a number of images (identified in one). - Road trip to South Island in 1934-1935 features images of Christchurch, Dunedin, and Oamaru. Christchurch images include views of Cashmere, Lyttelton, the road to and picnicking at Governors Bay, Sumner, Opawa, picnic ground 'Kauriki' (and poplar avenue in area), Christchurch Botanical Gardens (including Rose Garden), Avon River, Christchurch Art Gallery (interior and exterior shots), Canterbury College (School of Art, cloisters and observatory), Scott's memorial fountain, Victoria Lake, Beaths Department Store rooftop garden, stone house at Cracroft Wilson estate, and various social scenes including 'Thor' at an easel, a family portrait (Mr and Mrs Wilson with Thor, Lance, and Helen), and an unidentified tennis party. Dunedin images include Knox College, Winter Gardens, child Maklin Duncan of Elgin Road, and Mrs Hosking, some of her children, and her father Mr White. Oamaru images show the cityscape, Basilica, and Oamaru Gardens (fountain, duck pond, swans). Also includes a copy of a studio portrait of Winnie M Munro and Mr and Mrs Munro on their balcony. - Anakiwa, Queen Charlotte Sound, and Blenheim summer holiday (1935-1936) pictures feature the natural sights of the Marlborough Sounds area as well as family holiday snaps of holiday activities such as social events, picnics, fishing, bush walks, and day trips. Images of note include: Anakiwa Homestead (with interior and exterior shots); Anakiwa beach, wharf area, and views of Tiri Moana, Kenepuru, Mahau, and Pelorous Sounds taken on a bush walk; Picton including 'Betty and The Youth' at Picton War Memorial, view from the water, and view from across Shakespeare Bay; various boat rides (including on the 'Alcedo') and a small bus; group photograph of those at the New Year's Eve Ball at Anakiwa including people in costume; Mrs McDougall, Miss Ray Cuff, and Mrs Raine dressed as Three Blind Mice; Havelock main street and wharf; Pelorous River (including bridge and rapids); Bay of Many Coves; Ship Cove (including Captain Cook Memorial); ice cream eating; Blenheim War Memorial; the plane 'Karoro' at Woodbourne Aerodrome and Rongotai Airport; and an aerial view of Marlborough taken on route from Woodbourne with Wellington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cardboard album tied with leather string, 20 x 24 cm

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Fijn, Jan (John) Reinder, 1910-2003 :Transparencies, particularly relating to the royal visit to Waitangi in 1963, and to Maori

Reference: PA12-10654

Description: Colour slide photographs taken by John Reinder Fijn in a number of Maori communities and at tourist site, circa 1960s. Contains images of cows being mustered along gravel and sealed road by men on horses with huntaways and other dogs at Waipiro Bay as well as one image of a girl riding a grey horse in the same area. Images of Guide Rangi at Whakarewarewa (one with tourist group) as well as two unidentified guides, a Catholic tangihanga at Jerusalem, and of Turangawaewae Marae are also included. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour phototransparencies

Date: 1930 - 1939

By: Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers)

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-1930s-02

Description: Photographic postcard shows Guide Rangi wearing a cloak, headband and flax skirt, standing with bare feet beside a hot pool at Whakarewarewa. She has autographed the card at top left: "Arohanui, Guide Rangi". The verso shows a printed illustrative image of a tree fern, and states that the card was printed in England, and published by Tanner Bros Ltd, Wellington NZ, as postcard number 2896. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photograph on postcard, 135 x 87 mm, with relief printing on verso Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, in May 2014.

Date: 1955-1971

By: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002

Reference: PA-Group-00375

Description: Wellington, openings of Parliament, politicians, Governors General, show personalities, Antarctic teams, police, army, visiting diplomats and heads of state, ship visits, memorials, RNZAF, fighter planes and fighter plane training, rugby and rugby players and selectors, film censorship, conferences, agricultural air shows, artists, royalty, manufacturing industries, models and fashion parades, New Zealand Players, etc Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 35mm-18037 to 18703, 120-0881 to 0959, 1/4-071736 to 072044, 1/2-177020 to 177461. Quantity: 1483 b&w original negative(s) 78 120 strips comprising 158 images, 666 35mm strips comprising 1,976 images, 308 1/4 plate negs, 441 1/2 plate negs. Total images 2,883. Finding Aids: Library generated negative registers provide a good access point to this collection. The negatives are listed within subject groupings.. Processing information: Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4814 to PA-Group-00375 in 2009.

Date: 1950

From: [Programmes and other ephemera relating to Maori concerts, festivals and entertainment. 1950-1969].

By: Larsen's Tours Ltd; Chalmers, Barry Lionel, 1950-2009; Grubb, Dora Grace, 1909-1992

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-CONCERT-1950-02

Description: A programme for a Maori concert performance featuring powhiri, love ditties, poi dances, action songs, haka, Maori games, poetry (patere), waiata, combination poi, toutou (war dance). There is a photographic portrait of Guide Rangi in the centre of the programme side. Soloists and named performers are: Wiremu Keepa, Ani Patiti, Kere Ratema, Hep Waretini. The non-programme side advertises Larsen's bus tours of the North Island, with an illustration of a bus and of a hostess with a microphone. There is also an illustration of a carved wooden figure, a woman performing with poi, and a cloaked man performing with a taiaha. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on folded pamphlet.. Physical Description: Photolithographs on both sides of sheet 202 x 340 mm, folded to 135 x 85 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Barry Chalmers, Wellington, in 2005. Previously owned by Mr Chalmers' aunt, Mrs Dora Grace Grubb (1909-1992).

Date: [Circa 1930]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-050

Description: Photographs of large groups of people taken on tours run by New Zealand Railways, using rail and road transport. The album covers various trips taken by large groups of unidentified people, mostly in the North Island, and only as far south as Tokaanu and the Whanganui River. They travelled by rail, by road and by ferry. Very few of the photographs have captions, but several are labelled "Commerce trip", and include images of farming, ploughing, stock sales yards, and a large group of men picnicking around a hangi (p. 14). There are a few South Island views, including Lincoln College and Akaroa Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, red spine, entitled "Tours Book B1"; 36.5 x 49.5 cm

Date: ca1938-ca1943

From: Lewers, Neville Robert, 1913- :Photographic negatives, transparencies and prints

Reference: PAColl-6180-06

Description: A saw mill in operation; dredge gold mining on the West Coast; nurses and clients of a Plunket service in Christchurch in 1943; a toll bridge and the Wellington/Porirua motorway at the Tawa junction. There are also photographs relating to the Rev Taylor and Waimate North, and a portrait of Guide Rangi. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1927]-[ca 1943]

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927; Goldie, Charles Frederick, 1870-1947

Reference: PA1-f-124

Description: Album of newspaper and magazine cuttings, photographs, and prints of paintings in colour and black & white, mostly of Maori subjects, with some images of geographically interesting sites in New Zealand, including Mount Tongariro, Lake Waikaremoana, and the Waimangu Crater. The Maori material includes prints of paintings by Goldie, and prints of paintings of Maori by T. Ryan, some of which are copies of works by Goldie. There is a print of a painting by T. Ryan, showing Tomika Te Mutu, painting done from an original sketch by Horatio Gordon Robley. There are many publicity photographs of Maori, showing clothing, particularly cloaks, and showing various activities in Maori pa, including weaving, firelighting, poi dances, and waka poi. Also includes images of Maori waka on the Waikato River; 2 pages of Maori rock carvings, found in a cave shelter on the Kaingaroa Plains in 1926, and one on Maori god-sticks (Pou whakapakoko).

Date: [1930-1934]

By: Bledisloe, Charles Bathurst, Viscount, 1867-1958

Reference: PA1-f-015

Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific taken 1930-1934 by Lord Bledisloe, comprising views of Government House (Wellington), Queen Charlotte Sound, Treaty House (Waitangi), Kawau Island, Whanganui River, Pipiriki,Jerusalem, Galatea, Ranana, Ruatahuna, Whakarewarewa, North Cape, Deep Creek (Nelson), Lake Waikaremoana, Mt Ngauruhoe, Lake Rotoroa (Nelson), Franz Joseph Glacier and environs, Rarotonga, Pago Pago, and Tongatapu. Also included are portraits of Mita Taupopoki, Honi Te Heu Heu, Guide Rangi, and Lord & Lady Bledisloe; a Cutty Sark seaplane of the New Zealand Permanent Air Force, the interior of a Ringatu meeting house at Ruatahuna, Maori groups, swordfish and trout fishing, and a scheelite mine at Deep Creek. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: The album was presented by Lord Bledisloe to the Duke of Gloucester in Christmas 1934, during his visit to New Zealand.

Date: 1958 to 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

By: Kiwi Colour Slides; Dominion Museum (N.Z.)

Reference: PA12-8809

Description: Transparency slides of New Zealand selected by Mr Williams as a representative collection to be used in a series of lectures on his return to England. This group includes both slides Mr Williams took himself, and slides he purchased. This sheet shows aspects of the thermal areas at Whakarewarewa and Waimangu, and scenes of Maori life. These include a group using a hot pool for cooking, a group of poi dancers, women weaving flax, a Maori carver at work with a group of tourists watching, a Maori warrior at the gate of a pa, and a group of women and children wearing a variety of Maori cloaks. The next set are from the Tarawera area, and include views of the Frying Pan Lake, Gibraltar Rock; three images copied from publications, one showing the White Terraces, and two showing the effects of the Tarawera eruption in 1886; a launch for hire on Lake Tarawera; and the entrance to the buried village at Te Wairoa. The last two views show the beach near Gisborne looking south, and looking down over Gisborne township from a hill. The slides are not in his original numerical sequence, and are selected by subject relating to particular talks. Arrangement: These slides were selected by Mr Williams from his original sequence to create a representative collection of New Zealand images which he used in illustrated lectures on his return to England. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm