Places

Date: Circa 1928

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

Reference: APG-1011-1/2-G

Description: View of a bridge over the Otara River near Opotiki, circa 1928. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1908

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

Reference: 1/2-001465-G

Description: View of the bridge at Mourea where it crosses the Ohau Channel which connects Lake Rotorua with Lake Rotoiti. St Mary's Church is just visible behind trees on the leftbank. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, Jan 1908. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Protd. W.A.P. 10.1.08; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Ohau Channel. Rotorua. 1348 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1905

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Pringle, Thomas, 1858-1931

Reference: 1/1-003702-G

Description: Group of children at Whakarewarewa, performing for pennies from tourists. Taken in 1905 by Thomas Pringle. Other Titles - Throw penny, pakeha! Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 604 Throw penny, Pakeha!; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Protected Thos Pringle Wellington N Z 1.10.05 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1907

From: Hislop, Harold Stevens, d 1933 :Photograph albums

By: Hislop, Harold Stevens, 1865-1933

Reference: PA1-o-229-31

Description: Left hand photograph (PA1-o-229-31-1) "Waimangu Geyser, throwing to height of 1500 feet" Right hand photograph (PA1-o-229-31-2) "Wairoa Geyser, Whaka[rewarewa], throwing 760 feet" Photographed by Harold Stevens Hislop in 1907 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Two silver gelatin prints photographic mounted on an album page 290 x 225 mm (page size)

Date: [Between 1873 and 1877]

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-45-28

Description: Looking along The Strand, Tauranga, from Monmouth redoubt. Photograph taken between 1873 and 1877 by Herbert Deveril. Includes the Town Wharf. The two storied building is the Tauranga Hotel. To the right of the hotel are the Bank of New Zealand and the Tauranga Store. Brain's boatbuilding yard is in the bottom left hand corner. The Native Hostelry is at bottom right, the long building with a verandah. To the right of the hotel are the Bank of New Zealand and the Tauranga Store. Other - Other prints of this image are at PA7-45-27 and PA7-45-29. Source of descriptive information - Dated between 1873 and 1877 due to the following: The photographer Deveril arrived in New Zealand in 1873, and the Victoria Wharf, not pictured, was built in 1877 (see Neil G Hanson, History of Tauranga harbour & port ([Tauranga, N.Z. : Port of Tauranga Ltd.], 1997) p 14. Buildings identified by Library client. Inscriptions: Mount verso - centre - Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand - The Parade Relationship complexity - Watercolour by Gouldsmith of a similar view, in 1886, is in the Drawings, Paintings and Prints collection. See Reference number B-038-018. The Town Wharf was built in 1871. (see Neil G Hanson, History of Tauranga harbour & port ([Tauranga, N.Z. : Port of Tauranga Ltd.], 1997) p 14 The Native Hostelry was burnt down, but later replaced. (Information from Library client) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 264 x 359 mm on same size mount

Date: 1923

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-048752-G

Description: Malfroy Geyser alongside the Rotorua Bowling Club, 1923. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Milfroy [sic] Geyser & [unreadable] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1908]

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

Reference: 1/2-001113-G

Description: View of the Wahiao meeting house (completely refurbished by 1910) and near by shops including the Whakarewarewa Store with `Capstan' advertising sign on the front. Photograph taken by William Archer Price ca 1908. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1909

Reference: 1/2-080806-F

Description: Percy Smith with ash beds uncovered by rain at Rotomahana, 1909. Photograph taken by T Anderson. Note on back of file print reads: Rotomahana - denudation of ash beds by rain in 1909. Percy Smith in foreground. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: February 1923

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

Reference: APG-1269-1/2-G

Description: View of Mamaku township, photographed by Albert Percy Godber in February 1923. Original print in Godber Album Vol 109, p 187 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - Mamuku [i.e. Mamaku] township. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Henry, Annie (Sister) : Photographs owned by Sister Annie Henry

Reference: 1/2-030921-F

Description: Te-Whai-a-Te-Motu meeting house at Mataatua, and group alongside. Sister Annie Henry stands in the centre, wearing a feather cloak. Photograph taken circa 1920s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca mid to late 1910s]

By: Stewart, (Mr?), active 1897?

Reference: PAColl-0740

Description: The tour guide Rangi (Rangitiaria Dennan) with a straw hut behind her at Rotorua. Also with her are Mr and Mrs Gunn with Mrs Gunn's parents, Mr and Mrs King (formerly Konig before they emigrated to New Zealand from Germany). Photograph taken circa 1920s by (Stewart?), Rotorua. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Print 152mm x 107mm on mount 233mm x 202mm

From: Hamilton Public Library :Photographs of New Zealand

By: Bartlett, Robert Henry, 1842-1911

Reference: PAColl-4390-08-1

Description: Looking along a track in the Tikitapu Bush. A horse drawn carriage is in the distance. A man sits on the right. Taken by Robert Henry Bartlett. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Tikitapu Bush 147; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Bartlett. Auckland Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1920s]

Reference: 1/2-040305-G

Description: Photograph of Maori women preparing potatoes, Rotorua. Photograph taken circa 1920s by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: bottom left - 5. Maoris Preparing Food, Rotorua, N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: ca 1914

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003053-G

Description: Rotorua Post and Telegraph Office on the corner of Haupapa and Fenton Streets, circa 1914, photographed by an unidentified photographer for the Auckland Star newspaper. Shows a two storied, half timbered building with a clock tower. Two plane trees are alongside. A man with a bicycle, probably a postman, stands outside. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 3923 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1880 - 1900

Reference: PA3-0367

Description: A card showing images from Opotiki in memory of Carl Sylvius Volker. Comprises: `Rev Volkner's house', `Rev Volkner's church', Memorial gravestone of Rev Volkner, `The Gallows Tree', 'Stern-post of war canoe', Baler, 'Head-gear of war canoe', and photograph of Opotiki Inscriptions: Recto - Memories of a martyr Carl Sylvius Volkner born in Kassel, Germany, trained as a missionary and was one of several missionaries sent to New Zealand by the North German Missionary Society. He arrived in New Zealand August 1849 and initially worked in Taranaki with fellow German Protestant missionaries before offering his services to the Church Missionary Society (1852). He took charge of the CMS mision station at Opotiki (August 1861). Despite hostilities and ignoring warnings he remained at Opotiki until 1865, when he was taken prisoner , charged with being a spy and was taken to a willow tree and hanged. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1912

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

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Rotorua-1912-01-cover

Description: Shows two illustrations by Thomas Ryan, one of a Maori warrior dancing and brandishing a taiaha, and the other of a view of Ohinemutu and Lake Rotorua. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on brochure, 156 x 214 mm.

Date: Jan 1908

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

Reference: 1/2-001929-G

Description: Photograph of two elderly men, Kiharoa Akuhata (left) and elder brother Eruera te Uremutu, sitting side by side on chairs outside a carved house at Ohinemutu. On the far left is a stone with the words `Ko Tauwhitu Mei 1 1894' on it. Photograph taken by William Arthur Price on 10 Jan 1908. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Carved Maori House. Ohinemutu. Rotorua. 1299.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - W.A.P. 10.1.08 William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [190-?]

Reference: PAColl-9046

Description: Photograph of Royal Mail carriages, Rotorua, circa 190-? Shows the dispatch of 60 territorials to all parts of the Bay of Plenty. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on item. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15.3 x 20.7 cm

Date: ca 1917

From: Henry, Annie (Sister) : Photographs owned by Sister Annie Henry

Reference: 1/2-030806-F

Description: Pupils of Ruatahuna Presbyterian Mission School, showing Charley August, Taiapo Rawiri, Paul August and Hikawera Te Kurapa. Photographed circa 1917 by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [ca 1908]

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

Reference: 1/2-001446-G

Description: Hamurana Stream and freshwater springs. A group of sightseers are congregated near a large tent set up to offer refreshments to sightseers visiting the freshwater springs at Hamurana Stream. Photograph taken by William Archer Price ca 1908 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Refreshment tent. Hamurana Stream. Rotorua. 1594. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches