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Hydro station at Maraetai

Date: [30 Apr 1951]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/287/11-G

Description: Construction of the hydro-electric power station at Maraetai in the Waikato. Photograph taken 30 Apr 1951 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres

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Tree house sleepout at Coromandel

Date: [1984 or 1985]

From: Thompson, Paul David, 1951- : Photographic negatives, transparencies and prints, also papers

Reference: PA12-5644-13

Description: Tree house sleepout attached to bach at Coromandel, photographed in late 1984 or early 1985 by Paul Thompson. Publication note - Published in: Paul Thompson, The bach (Wellington: Government Printer, 1985) p24 Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparency 35mm

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Congregational Church at Raglan, July 1910 - Photograph taken by Gilmour Brothers

Date: 1 July 1910

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Gilmour Brothers (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-001014-G

Description: View of the Congregational Church at Raglan. Taken 1 July 1910 by 'G Bros.', Gilmour Brothers of Raglan. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Congregational Church. Raglan N.Z. 110; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - G.Bros. Protd. 1.7.10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

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Great South Road, Ngaruawahia, looking South, 1910 - Photograph taken by G & C Ltd

Date: 1 August 1910

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Green & Colebrook (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-000176-G

Description: Great South Road, the main street through Ngaruawahia, looking South. On the left an unidentified hotel is partially visible, with the business premises of Green & Colebrook beyond. A number of people are on the street outside the hotel. Photographed by G & C Ltd (Probably Green & Colebrook, merchants, with a branch in Ngaruawahia) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Main Street looking South. Ngaruawahia. 115; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - G & C Ltd. Protd 1.8.10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

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Monument to Tuaiwa Ngatipare at Patikirau, near Raglan, 1910 - Photograph taken by Gilm...

Date: 1 August 1910

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Gilmour Brothers (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-001056-G

Description: Monument dedicated to Tuaiwa Ngatipare, who died 29 January 1909, aged 43, at Raglan. It is a large monument with a winged figure on a pedestal surrounded by an iron fence. There is a door into the monument beneath the inscription. Taken 1 August 1910 by 'G Bros', probably Gilmour Brothers of Raglan. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Tuaiwa's monument, Raglan N.Z. 338.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - G. Bros Protd 1.8.10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

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General view of Otorohanga township

Date: [Between 1900 and 1930]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000778-G

Description: General view of Otorohanga. Photograph taken by William Archer Price Other - Note on back of file print reads "See 1/2-000779 for overlapping view". Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Otorohanga township. [No.] 251 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

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Rev Benjamin Yates Ashwell's mission school at Taupiri

Date: 1859

From: Koch, Augustus Carl Ferdinand, 1834-1901: Photograph album of Bruno Hamel images of Government Scientific Exploring Expedition conducted by Dr Ferdinand Hochstetter

Reference: PA1-o-207-06

Description: Rev Benjamin Yates Ashwell's mission school at Taupiri, photographed in 1859 by Bruno Hamel. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Rev Ashwell Taupiri Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.9 x 20.3 cm mounted on album page

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Martin, Albin, 1813-1888 :[The meeting of J C Firth with Te Kooti. 1870]

Date: 1876

By: Martin, Albin, 1812?-1888; Gordon, Mona Clifton, 1899-1977

Reference: G-496

Description: An extensive hilly landscape in the Waikato near Matamata with Firth in the centre by his horse, surrounded by large numbers of Maori. A monument to Tamihana Tarapipipi Te Waharoa is on the right not far from the Wairiri waterfall on the far right. The meeting took place in 1870 The painting was reviewed in the Daily Southern Cross, 8 June 1876, p.3: The artist has faithfully depicted the interview, and the beautiful landscape amidst which it took place. The chief personages, the armed band, Thompson's monument, the distant woods of Matamata and the grand mountain chain, with the magnificent waterfall of Wairiri, and the noble peak of Te Aroha mountain in the distance, are well placed on the canvas, and when finished, promise to complete a picture interesting for its historic facts and scenic beauty'. Exhibited: Auckland Institute and Museum, 1876; Albin Martin (curator, Roger Blackley, Auckland Art Gallery), Auckland Art Gallery, Waikato Museum of Art and History, National Library of New Zealand, and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 12 August 1988 to 30 April 1989. See: Blackley, Roger. "Albin Martin" (Auckland City Art Gallery, 1988) p.60 'While on his Matamata estate in Janury 1870, Firth heard ... Te Kooti Rikirangi was in the mountains opposite. Firth's "friendly natives" fled to the Waikato settlements, while his sons were sent to Cambridge. The next day, Firth met Te Kooti at Tamihana's monument, accompanied by two chiefs and an interpreter. Te Kooti told him "he was weary of fighting and that if Government would let him alone he would fight no more", but that he would never surrender.' Other Titles - Josiah Clifton Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 496 x 742 mm (sight) Provenance: Estate of Mona Clifton Gordon, granddaughter of J C Firth. On loan to Waikato Art Museum from the time of Mrs Gordon's death in the mid 1970s until 1992.

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Waipa Hotel and Jesmond Street, Ngaruawahia, 1910 - Photograph taken by Robert Stanley ...

Date: 1 August 1910

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Fleming, Robert Stanley, active 1910-1915

Reference: 1/2-001603-G

Description: View of the Waipa Hotel (proprietor S. Draffin), and Jesmond Street, Ngaruawahia. Photographed by R.S.F. (probably Robert Stanley Fleming, storekeeper of the Novelty Depot). The business premises of the Novelty Depot are visible centre right, behind a horse and cart. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Jesmond St. Ngaruawahia. 24.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - R.S.F. Protd 1.8.10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

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Winete Paranihi & Kuini at Papakai, King Country

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Ingle, M A (Mr), fl 1967 :Photographs

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

Reference: PA7-37-09

Description: Photograph of a Maori woman seated on the ground wearing a flax cloak. Standing beside her is a Maori man wearing a full-length tag cloak. The couple are posing outside in an area surrounded by flax bushes. Photographed by Burton Bros, ca 1880s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3794 - Winete Paranihi & Kuini - Papakai, King Country. Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.5 x 20.2 cm on mount 22.5 x 29 cm

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General view of Pukekohe

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001337-G

Description: View of Pukekohe looking across an intersection, to a fenced area and newly planted (fenced) trees towards the railway yards in the middle distance and Pukekohe township beyond. The Pukekohe Hotel (with name on the roof) is on the left. Photograph taken ca 1910 by William Archer Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Pukekohe. 2601D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

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Mussel Rocks (Te Kaha Point), near Raglan - Photograph taken by Gilmour Brothers

Date: 1 Aug 1910

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Gilmour Brothers (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-000941-G

Description: On the beach at Mussel Rocks (in the vicinity of Raglan) 1 August, 1910, photographed by the Gilmour Brothers. Woody Head is in the distance. The man on horseback and with a packhorse is unidentified. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Woody Head from Mussel Rocks Raglan NZ 259; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - G Bros Protd 1.8.10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

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Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :Rangiawhia. [March, 1864].

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Sketchbook of English and New Zealand scenes] 1860 - 1864

Reference: E-349-060

Description: Shows St Paul's Anglican Church (right) and the Catholic church (left) at Rangiaohia. Blewitt's Redoubt is in the centre, with military tents behind protective fencing. The view is flanked by trees on both sides, and the artist has drawn another tree horizontally across the top of the page. St Paul's Church, built about 1853, is still standing in modern Te Awamutu. It was used as a refuge by the local people during the fighting nearby in 1864 Other Titles - Rangiaohia Rangiaowhia Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Rangiawhia Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 100 x 160 mm.

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Artist unknown :Natives assembled to celebrate the Lord's Supper at Orona, Taupo, New Z...

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Selwyn, George Augustus (Bishop), 1809-1878

Reference: PUBL-0180-1845-084

Description: Two ministers of religion at Lake Taupo, each standing in a small tent, with a large canoe behind them, its centre draped in a white cloth, holding the communion bread and wine. In the foreground a crowed of Maori are seated. The drawing may be the work of G. A. Selwyn, since there is an ink version of this drawing in a letter to his mother dated Wellington, Sept 13 1842 (Manuscripts and Archives Section of the Library) Extended Title - From: The ecclesiologist. Vol. 4. No. 2. March 1845, between pages 84 and 85 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 75 x 91 mm

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Waka with vice-regal party on board, Waikato River, Ngaruawhaia

Date: [ca 1950]

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-033064-F

Description: Waka with vice-regal party (Sir Bernard and Lady Freyberg ?) on board, Waikato River, Ngaruawhaia, circa 1950. Photograph taken circa 1950 for the National Publicity Studios. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date estimated by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

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Beehives at the government-run apiary at Ruakura, 1921.

Date: 1921

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1847-1/2-G

Description: Beehives in a field at the government-run apiary at Ruakura. The field is surrounded by trees, photographed by Albert Percy Godber, 1921. Identified from Godber's own index filed in Photographic Archives at TL 6/1/15, in the 1/2 plate sequence, under B. Bee farm. Govt. Ruakura. 1921. Box 64. An original print from this negative is in Godber Album Vol 109, p 143 (PA1-q-102) with the inscription \"Government Apiary. Ruakura\" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

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Royal Tour party in Aranui Cave, Waitomo - Photograph taken by Edward Percival Christensen

Date: 31 December 1953

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Christensen, Edward Percival, 1907-1982

Reference: 1/2-042224-F

Description: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip inside Aranui Cave, Waitomo, with chief guide Mr G Sear. Photographed on 31st December 1953 by Edward Percival Christensen. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

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Artist unknown :Photographs in the "King Country" of New Zealand. The Illustrated Londo...

Date: 1887

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: A-433-005

Description: Nine scenes in one engraving showing: 1. "Shooting" a native; an anxious moment [a European photographer photographs apprehensive Maori] 2. Terrified they take to their heels [photographed subjects take fright] 3. Reciprocity [a Maori girl looks back through the lens at the photographer] 4. Our mode of progression over rocks and shallows [A waka is steered through rocks by punters on board and guides in the water] 5. Taitua our helmsman in full dress [Maori man wears European hat and jacket and grass skirt] 6. The largest whare in the settlement [A Maori indicates a small hut to two European travellers] 7. Tangarakau, a hundred miles up the Wanganui River [Scenic view of the river in a narrow area] 8. Mouton [Moutoa] Island, the scene of battle between friendly and hostile natives 9. Ngatai, chief of the Ngatiawa Tribe, our host at Taumarunui [Head and shoulders frontal portrait of a bearded Maori] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on page 397 x 297 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, May 2010.

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Children in hot springs at Tokaanu

Date: between 1910-1930

From: Babbage, Charles Whitmore, -1923 :Negatives of family scenes and Wanganui views

Reference: 1/1-013335-G

Description: Hot springs at Tokaanu, photographed by Charles Whitmore Babbage between 1910-1930. Shows three unidentified children in a naturally formed pool surrounded by tussock and other low lying plants. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

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Wesleyan Church at Ngaruawahia, 1910 - Photograph taken by G & C Ltd

Date: 1 August 1910

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Green & Colebrook (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-000174-G

Description: View of the Wesleyan Church at Ngaruawahia. Photographed by G & C Ltd (Probably Green & Colebrook, merchants, with a branch in Ngaruawahia) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Wesleyan Church. Ngaruawahia. 118; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - G & C Ltd. Protd 1.8.10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

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