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Date: 1884 - 1886

By: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922; Harper, Laura, 1833-1887; Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975

Reference: E-377

Description: Contains sketches from a visit to Rotorua 1884 to 1886. Also includes sketches of Lake Tarawera, Ohinemutu, Green Lake, Blue Lake, Wairoa, Picton, Auckland, Mount Egmont. Also contains some sketches possibly by Laura Harper. Mount Tarawera erupted in 1886. Inscriptions: Pages are numbered at top left, and title is given below image. See shelf list for details of works attributed to Laura Harper.(Nos. 10,19,20,27,36,37,39-43,45,50.) Laura (Taylor) Harper was a sister of Mary Catherine (Taylor) Medley, and died in 1887. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 29 pencil, and 20 pencil & watercolour works, in sketchbook 135 x 220 mm.

Date: 1884

By: Harper, Laura, 1833-1887; Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975

Reference: E-376

Description: Scenes around Whangarei, Auckland, Rotorua, Waikato river, Mt Taranaki and Ruapehu. Artist appears to have travelled with her sister Mary Medley, whose sketchbook of very similar views is held at E-377 See shelf-list for titles Inscriptions: Album page - "Laura Harper's sketchbook, given to me by Aunt Mary - Cranleigh" Laura Harper and Mary Medley were daughters of the Rev Richard Taylor Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 36 pencil, 4 pencil & watercolour in sketchbook page size 140 x 232 mm Provenance: The donor was the artist's grandson.

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: [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