Places

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: 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: 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: ca 1880

Reference: PA2-2798

Description: Shows the Strand, Tauranga. One of the buildings is identified as Horne & Reid. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1874

From: Lloyd, F (Mrs), fl 1970 :Photographs including images of Tauranga and Arthur Burrows

Reference: 1/2-037827-F

Description: Scene at Ohinemutu overlooking whare and houses. Shows thermal pools on the left. The group on the right includes Edwards, Leveridge and Morrison. Photograph taken in 1874 by an unidentified photographer. Other - Note on back of file print reads: "...On right of picture, unident Maori, Edwards, Leveridge, Morrison & -? Source of descriptive information - File print Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1940 - 1839

From: New Zealand. Internal Affairs Department :Making New Zealand; pictorial surveys of a century. Wellington, Department of Internal Affairs, 1940.

By: Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873

Reference: PUBL-0098-01-05-15

Description: Shows two Maori seated on the ground by a curved road outside the Te Papa Mission Station in Tauranga. Alternative title was the title of the original sketch by Rev Richard Taylor, held at the Auckland Institute and Museum (Sketchbook PS 2) (ATL copy negative 1/2-C-013113) Other Titles - The Rev. A N Brown's raupo house at Papa mission, March 1839 Extended Title - From "Making New Zealand", New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs, 1940. Volume 1, no 5, page 15. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print.

Date: [between ca 1880 and 1886]

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

Reference: PAColl-8484

Description: Photograph of a guide paddling a waka into shore on Lake Rotomahana, with Mount Tarawera in the background, taken by the Burton Brothers between circa 1880 and the eruption of Tarawera in 1886. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 893 ROTOMAHANA / BURTON BROS. DUNEDIN Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 18.6 x 15 cm

Date: 1864

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

Reference: E-349-105/106

Description: Shows several labelled ships in the harbour. The Sandfly (at right) is a paddlesteamer. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil 100 x 320 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1868

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-038

Description: A geyser steaming in the middle distance, two travellers or tourists in foreground, a broad plain in the background Other Titles - Whakarewarewa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 233 x 313 mm

Date: 1899

From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-4249-06

Description: Waka kereru (a traditional Maori trap consisting of a water trough set with noose, used to snare wood pigeons and tui) in a tree at Ruatahuna. Image taken in 1899 by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 139 x 104

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-116-018

Description: View from the shore looking across Lake Tikitapu (Blue Lake). In the foreground are a tent with a seated figure outside, three horses, a Maori and a European man. Two tall tree ferns are on the right Other Titles - Tiki Tapu Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C D B 1874. Also hand-written label in ink in the hand of the artist, on card attached to backing board: Tiki Tapu or the Blue Lake near Roto Kakahi. Label cut from earlier backing board Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white, 249 x 357 mm (sight) Provenance: A note on the back, now discarded, indicated that the work was earlier put up for auction at the International Art Centre in May 1982. Art auction records indicate that a work with the same title was sold at Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 2 November 1981, lot 280 for AU $1,600.

Date: [ca 1874]

By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA7-48-09

Description: Photograph of Tamakekapua, the meeting house at Ohinemutu, taken by George Valentine circa 1874 Previously incorrectly attributed to Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826?-1881. Corrected July 2016 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Title Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 29 cm on card 23.5 x 29 cm. On verso PA7-48-08

Date: 1890 - 1900

From: Franklyn, F :[Drawings of New Zealand scenes] / F Franklyn [ca 1900?]

By: Franklyn, F, active 1890-93

Reference: A-141-031

Description: Shows houses at the thermal village of Whakarewarewa, with steam rising amongst them, and hills in the background. Disbound from original sketchbook [[18] leaves ; 230 x 280 mm), inscribed: F Franklyn. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 134 x 193 mm.

Date: 1883

By: Leahy, James Eugene, active 1883-1901

Reference: MapColl-832.1ecd/[1883?]/Acc.1797

Description: Map indicating boundaries of Maori lands and territories in the Hauraki Plains area extending to Thames and as far south as Tauranga Harbour. Includes the following Iwi references:- Uruopou lands now belonging to Ngatipaoa, Waitaha lands, Te Hakaipuku or Ngatikea land, Ngaiwi lands, Ngati Te Rauhea lands, Ngatihuarere territory, Lands of Ngatirotawa, Ngati Paeko, Ngati Tutea, Ngati Hotu, Ngatihako territory, Ngamarama lands. Some Maori placenames are hand-written on a printed, commercial map of what was then the Auckland district. Title supplied by cataloguer. Jas. E.L. believed to be James E. Leahy, fl. 1883-1896 Base map: Auckland, sheet 3. Wellington, N.Z.: General Survey Office, 1883. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 47.9 x 58.3 cm.

Date: 1893

From: Various artists :[Selection of newspaper supplements; illustrations by Kennett Watkins, Thomas Ryan, L W Wilson and Charles Goldie. Published by Brett for the 'Weekly news' and the 'New Zealand graphic'. ca 1900-1936]

By: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927; New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works

Reference: A-385-019

Description: Shows a general view of Lake Rotorua with Ohinemutu settlement, steaming vents and St Faith's Church in the foreground, and Mokoia Island in the distance. Photographic copy of the same view held at A-176-010 Other Titles - Lithographed Extended Title - From the New Zealand Graphic Christmas number 1893, page 5. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 212 x 330 mm.

Date: 1880s-1920s

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-017646-G

Description: Aerial view of the Tauranga harbour area, taken in the 1880s-1920s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: 1891

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Watercolours and sketches of a visit to Te Kooti, Urewera country. 1891].

Reference: B-159-009-1

Description: Includes view of the dwellings of Te Whaiti, on an area on the left. The river winds over the plain on the right, with wooded hills in the distance and further right. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on sheet, 253 x 372 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2002.

Date: 1891

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Watercolours and sketches of a visit to Te Kooti, Urewera country. 1891].

Reference: B-159-008-1

Description: Shows a river in the foreground, with a plain and rugged rocky mountains including Tawhiuau in the background. The location may be somewhere near Murupara. Similar to image at E-965-02 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on sheet, 253 x 372 mm.

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: [between ca 1880 and 1886]

From: Crompton-Smith, Annie Marian, 1901-1996:Photographs of New Zealand scenes

Reference: PAColl-4072-03

Description: Photograph overlooking Lake Rotomahana, taken before the eruption of Mt Tarawera in 1886, by an unidentified photographer. Other - Back of file print notes inscription: `Hape-o-Toroa Hill / Rotomahana as it was' Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 21 x 16.1 cm