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[Creator unknown] : Te Kooti's campaigns 1868-1871 [copy of ms map].
Date: 1868 - 1871
Reference: MapColl-832hkm/1868-71/Acc.5976
Description: Map showing the East Cape, Bay of Plenty, Tauranga, Northern Hawkes Bay and just south of Taupo. Shows Te Kooti's approximate route, and direction (arrows on line) and his engagements with the Hauhau people. Stops at certain pa are dated, some added text (before photocopy) e.g. "Final escape to King Country", "Visit to Takangamutu". Key stops included Opape, Tologa Bay, Turanga, Whakatane, Rotorua, Te Pourere, Puketapu. The linking areas for all these points was the Urewera country. Te Kooti was a Rongowhakaata leader, military leader, prophet, religious founder, pursued by colonial forces, eventually took refuge in the King Country where Te Kooti remained until pardoned in 1883. Language - Place names Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, linen backed, scale [1:700,000], 26 x 34 cm
O'Brien, George, 1821?-1888 :Ohinemutu, Lake Rotorua. [Postcard]. Otago Settlers' Museu...
Date: 1861 - 1875
From: O'Brien, George, 1821?-1888 :Paintings by George O'Brien reproduced on postcards. Otago Early Settlers' Museum Collection, Dunedin, New Zealand. [1970s]
Reference: E-278-q-064
Description: Reproduction of painting by O'Brien showing Lake House Hotel and garden in the foreground and St Faith's church in the background Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-lithograph, 96 x 137 mm
Research papers
Date: [1916-1934]
From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11310-75
Description: Assorted research papers, drafts and clippings about New Zealand history. Includes articles about Te Teko Pa, and George 'Rowley' Hill and drafts of 'The inspector: A police force vignette' and 'At the rising of the moon' and postcard of the Maori carved pulpit at the Maori Mission Church [possibly Ohinemutu?] and a photograph with caption which says 'At the wood-carving school, Horohoro. The carving instructor and the boy who made this decorative "pare" for the top of the doorway.' Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Travels in New Zealand / transcribed by J A Bell
Date: 1886, 1993
From: McNab, John, b 1855 : Diary and travel account
Reference: MS-Papers-6235-3
Description: Title continues:`...off for a holiday, or, Glimpses of Maoriland'. McNab recounts his journey with technical details about the transport he took, various points of interest such as lengths of tunnels, Windy Wellington, and he includes poems; he names and describes each geyser at the Pink and White Terraces, particularly notes churches visited and people he met. Relationship complexity - Photocopy of original volume at MS-Papers-6190 and microfilm at Micro-MS-0930 In Feb 1886 McNab left his home in Timaru for a tour of the North Island travelling by train, steamer, and coach from Christchurch, Wellington to Napier, Tauranga, the Pink and White Terraces, Auckland, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Masterton, back to Wellington, Lyttelton, and home to Timaru Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript
[Photographer unknown] :Bush scene on the Ohinemutu-Tauranga Road. [1883]
Date: 1883
From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]
Reference: E-328-f-084-1
Description: A bush scene on the Ohinemutu-Tauranga Road Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - A bush scene on the Ohinemutu-Tauranga Road Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 150 x 202 mm
[Architect unknown] :Plans of Woodlands House, the residence of William Shaw, Esq. 1885.
Date: 1885
Reference: Plans-80-2289
Description: Plan for Woodlands House, Katikati Owner in the 1970s, (and donor of plan?), Mr F M Voyce, Woodlands Katikati Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on white paper Provenance: Donation: Mr F M Voyce, Katikati, 1970s?
Medley, Mary Catherine (Taylor) b. 1835 :[Rotorua Lake from Ohinemutu]
Date: 1884 - 1886
From: Medley, Mary Catherine 1835- :Mary C. Medley's sketch book ; visit to Rotorua before Tarawera eruption [No.] 12. 1884-1886.
Reference: E-377-013
Description: View of Rotorua Lake showing a church by the lake Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 125 x 210 mm.
Postcards and stereoscopes of New Zealand and Pacific
Date: [ca 1890s-1919]
From: Clark, Morton, fl 1900s :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-9525-2
Description: Postcards collected by Morton Clark and family. Includes a number of postcards addressed to Miss Kathleen Clark (from Fred ?, Harry ?, Uncle Will and Jack Perston) to Mrs Morton Clark (from Fred, possibly a son, and Jack Perston); and Miss Campbell, Nurse at Wellington Hospital (from Sissie Battersby); and stereoscopes of the 1901 royal visit to Rotorua. Quantity: 48 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 9 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) stereoscopes.
Harper, Laura, 1833-1887 :Mud holes at Rotorua No. 1. [ca 1884]
Date: 1884
From: Harper, Laura 1833-1887 :Laura Harper's sketchbook. No. 10 1884
Reference: E-376-021
Description: Shows a bubbling mud hole in Rotorua Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Mud holes at Rotorua No 1 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 140 x 230 mm. (page size)
Medley, Mary Catherine (Taylor) b. 1835 :Ohinemutu. I[slan]d Mokoia of Hinemoa. [1884-1...
Date: 1884 - 1886
From: Medley, Mary Catherine 1835- :Mary C. Medley's sketch book ; visit to Rotorua before Tarawera eruption [No.] 12. 1884-1886.
Reference: E-377-022
Description: A Peninsula overlooking Mokoia Island, showing St Faith's Church which is surrounded by smaller buildings. Shows three people rowing a boat in the water. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Ohinemutu. Id Mokoia of Hine Hinemoa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 125 x 210 mm.
Medley, Mary Catherine (Taylor) b. 1835 :Palace Hotel and pool boiling. [1884-1886]
Date: 1884 - 1886
From: Medley, Mary Catherine 1835- :Mary C. Medley's sketch book ; visit to Rotorua before Tarawera eruption [No.] 12. 1884-1886.
Reference: E-377-017
Description: Shows Palace Hotel with a hot pool in the foreground Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 125 x 210 mm.
Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :Quest for the lost Terraces. [ca 1957].
Date: 1886 - 1956 - 1957
From: Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].
Reference: B-140-010
Description: Six-panelled account of the 1957 discovery by divers of the possible remains of the Pink and White Terraces under the waters of Lake Rotomahana and of exploration (sponsored by Sir Henry Brett) in July 1886, just after the eruption of Mount Tarawera, by Alfred Warbrick and J. A. Philip, with Hau-te-Horo and Toko. Warbrick insisted on abseiling into the still active crater, and was forced to climb up again when it began to erupt. These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Jenny Gibbs, of Auckland, in 1995.
Harper, Laura, 1833-1887 :MacRae's Hotel, Wairoa. [ca 1884]
Date: 1884
From: Harper, Laura 1833-1887 :Laura Harper's sketchbook. No. 10 1884
Reference: E-376-012
Description: A view of MacRae's Hotel and houses in Te Wairoa, surrounded by trees, with a range of hills in the background Other Titles - Te Wairoa Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - MacRae's Hotel, Wairoa Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 140 x 230 mm. (page size)
Interior of Te Rauru meeting house at Whakarewarewa
Date: [ca 1880s]
From: Mair, Gilbert Henry, 1875-1966 :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-2315-08
Description: Interior of Te Rauru meeting house at Whakarewarewa showing kowhaiwhai (rafter patterns), tukutuku (woven lattice panels), carved wooden slabs and flax floor mats. Photograph probably taken by Josiah Martin circa 1880s. Exhibited in 'Collect' exhibition on the role of collection in the Alexander Turnbull Library, mounted in National Library Gallery, 15 December 2006. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Carved Maori House Whakarewarewa Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.1 x 19.8 cm
Artist unknown :Te Papa Cemetery Tauranga [ca 1865]
Date: 1865 - 1869
From: Various artists :[Reproductions by Tauranga District Libraries. 1 Horatio Gordon Robley. Canoe race Tauranga Christmas 1865; 2. Three watercolours by an unknown soldier at Gate Pa; 3. Two watercolours by Emma Mary Vogan. Reproduced 1990s?]
Reference: A-426-082
Description: Shows a view of a small cemetery surrounded by a white picket fence. The location is under a stand of trees, and overlooks the harbour. Mount Maunganui can be seen in the distance at the left. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 70 x 117 mm, on sheet 115 x 155 mm. Provenance: Dr P M Barclay of Middlesborough England donated this and two other works to Tauranga District Libraries in 1989; he had inherited the work from his grandfather who was surgeon to the 43rd Monmouth Light Infantry Regiment, although the surgeon himself did not serve in New Zealand.
Hunter, Norman Mitchell, b 1859 :Pain-killer Hot Spring - Sulphur Point near Ohinemutu....
Date: 1882
From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]
Reference: E-328-f-091-3
Description: Shows a hot spring at Ohinemutu Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - `Pain-killer' Hot Spring - Sulphur Point near Ohinemutu 27/9/82. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 94 x 228 mm
Harper, Laura, 1833-1887 :Sulphur Point, Ohinemutu, from road to Wairoa. [ca 1884]
Date: 1884
From: Harper, Laura 1833-1887 :Laura Harper's sketchbook. No. 10 1884
Reference: E-376-013
Description: A view of Sulphur Point, Ohinemutu seen from road to Wairoa Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 140 x 230 mm. (page size)
Mokoia minute book no 3
Date: 1916-1945
From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-6717-045
Description: Duplicated copy of Mokoia minute book no 3 (1916, 1924, 1945)) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Harper, Laura, 1833-1887 :End of Tiki Tapu. [ca 1884]
Date: 1884
From: Harper, Laura 1833-1887 :Laura Harper's sketchbook. No. 10 1884
Reference: E-376-016
Description: Shows end of Tiki Tapu Lake (Blue Lake) - See page 14 & 15 for remainder of lake in pencil and watercolour Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - end Tiki Tapu Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 140 x 230 mm. (page size)
Series 3 - Papers relating to Maori culture and history
Date: 1877-1972
From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Further papers
Reference: Series-3334
Description: The papers in this series include material such as volumes, papers, research notes, lecture notes, printed matter, letterbooks, partial diaries and letters relating to research in the areas of Maori dance, language and literature, tribal and family genealogy, Christianity, architecture, carving, tukutuku and education. Some materials in this series are from beyond the date range of Ngata's life but came into the library with the collection. Quantity: 49 volume(s) 47 folder(s). Processing information: Series description was updated in January 2020 following query from a researcher.