Places

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-386

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm

Date: [Before 10 Jun 1886]

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

Reference: PA7-37-14

Description: Photograph of McRae's Hotel, Te Wairoa taken by the Burton Brothers before the eruption of Mount Tarawera on 10 Jun 1886. In the foreground are two small Maori boys and areas fenced off for the growing of vegetables. The area in the immediate foreground has one wall constructed from blocks of earth while the other sides of the fenced enclosure are made from wooden stakes. Identical image at PAColl-7344-89 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3848 - Wairoa. Burton Bros, Dunedin; Mount recto - beneath image - Pans with 4082 (written in ink) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14 x 20.2 cm on mount 22.8 x 29.3 cm

Date: [After 10 Jun 1886]

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

Reference: PA7-39-25

Description: Photograph of McRae's Hotel, Te Wairoa taken by Alfred Burton shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera, 10 Jun 1886. Shows the hotel on the left, Sophie's whare, and (on far right) a two-storey building. In the foreground are four men standing on a pile of volcanic ash. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4127 - Wairoa - after eruption June 10 1886. Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.4 x 20 cm on mount 22.8 x 29 cm

Date: [Between 1868 and 1885?]

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

Reference: PA1-o-083

Description: Photograph album titled 'New Zealand land of loveliness'. Includes photographs of the Wairoa and Rotorua Districts, taken by the Burton Brothers of Dunedin. Other Titles - Land of loveliness Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Cloth cover entitled "Land of loveliness. New Zealand. Photographed by Burton Bros. Dunedin"

Date: [after 10 June 1886]

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

Reference: PA7-38-08

Description: View of McRae's Hotel and village of Te Wairoa taken shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera. Shows the area covered in volcanic ash and damage done to the trees and other vegetation. Photograph taken by Burton Brothers, after 10 June 1886. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4082 - Wairoa after eruption June 10 86.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14 x 19.5 cm on mount 22.8 x 29 cm

Date: [Between 1868 and 1898]

By: Long, W H (Mrs), active 1970; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Zangaki (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-146

Description: Album of photographs, most taken by the Burton Brothers in New Zealand, including a large number of Maori images, group portraits, identified men and women, pa, and storehouses. Scenes also taken by them in Tonga and Samoa. A number of images show scenes in England, including a group taken near Egremont in Cumbria, of ice on the Mersey River in 1895. There are a large number of copies of paintings of romantic scenes. Several photographs of the Suez Canal, and the Nile River, were taken by Greek photographers `Zangaki' Brothers Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with reddish brown cover, brown corners and spine with single raised cords; fleur de lys pattern stamped between cords; 33.5 x 27.0 cm

Date: [Before 10 Jun 1886]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 16

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-7344-89

Description: Two Maori children in the foreground of a view of McRae's Hotel, Te Wairoa in the distance. Photograph taken circa 1885 by the Burton Brothers and re-issued by Muir & Moodie. Identical image at PA7-37-14 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Circa 1870s and 1880s]

From: Nairn, Douglas, fl 1973 :Photographs of New Zealand and Fiji

By: (W N) Tuttle & Company; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Hart, Campbell & Company; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland)

Reference: PA1-o-359

Description: Photographs of New Zealand, taken by various photographers. Some are unidentified, but many are taken by the Burton Brothers, J V (James Valentine), Tuttle & Co, for Simpson & Co., and Hart, Campbell & Co. In the North Island, a large number of photographs show the area around Mount Tarawera before and after the volcanic eruption in 1886. There are a number showing the huge deposits of mud and ash which covered the area, with views of the landscape and of ruined buildings, followed by scenes of the Pink and White Terraces, before the eruption. On page 8, there is a view of Ranana (London), on the Wanganui River with the caption, "Maori village similar to those overwhelmed by the eruption". Other scenes in the North Island were taken in Auckland City, Ohinemutu, Rotokakahi, and Whakarewarewa, Ti Eke [i.e. Tieke] on the Wanganui River, and one of Wellington City taken from Mount Victoria. South Island views include many around the main lakes, including Wakatipu, Wanaka, Manapouri, Queenstown and Hawea; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; the Otira Gorge; Kawarau Gorge and Bridge; Oamaru; Port Chalmers; and Dunedin. Views of gold mining areas in Otago include excavation sluiced out by hydrants at St Bathans, and the miners' towns of Naseby with the river choked with tailings, and Nokomai. Portraits of Maori including Ana Rupene. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with marron leather binding covered with waxed brown-paper cover, entitled `New Zealand photographs, [E?] Nairn'; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1886

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

Reference: PA7-37-11

Description: Photograph of McRae's Hotel, Te Wairoa taken by Burton Bros shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera, 10 Jun 1886 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3837 - McRae's, Wairoa after eruption Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14 x 20 cm on mount 22.8 x 29 cm

Date: 1869-190-

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882

Reference: PAColl-2150

Description: Cityscapes; street scenes; historic buildings; landscapes; chronological tree of NZ history. Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.

Date: 1886

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

Reference: 1/2-020459-F

Description: McRae's Hotel, Te Wairoa, after the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera. Photograph taken by the Burton Brothers. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4061 - McRae's Hotel - Wairoa - Burton Bros Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1886]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 19

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

Reference: PAColl-7985-51

Description: Te Wairoa after the 1886 Tarawera eruption, photographed by the Burton Brothers. McRae's Hotel is in the centre. Other Titles - Wairoa after eruption June 10 86 Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4083 Wairoa after eruption June 10 86; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Burton Bros Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.1 x 19.5 cm

Date: [ca 1885]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-003332-F

Description: McRae's Hotel in Te Wairoa, photographed circa 1885 by Alfred Burton of the Burton Brothers. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3849 - Wairoa Hotel; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Muir & Moodie. Dunedin. Protd 1.8.03 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).