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Kirk album
Date: [1880s]
From: Kirk, Thomas William, 1856-1936: Photograph album
By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PA1-q-138
Description: Photograph album of New Zealand and Pacific Island scenes. Most were taken by George Dobson Valentine, in the North Island of New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, and Tahiti; a few were taken by the Burton Brothers in the South Island. Within the New Zealand scenes there are a large number of views inside and out of the Waitomo Caves; and another group show the area around Lake Rotomahana with the Pink and White Terraces before and after the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera. Pages 88 to 150 are blank. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown cover, mottled brown corners and spine, with gold lettering on black panel on spine `Kirk. Prints of New Zealand'; a bookplate inside the front cover reads `Thomas William Kirk'; 35.0 x 26.5 cm
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
Webster album 9
Date: [Circa 1890s]
From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection
By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919
Reference: PA1-o-520
Description: Album of tourist views of New Zealand and the sub-Antarctic Islands, chiefly taken by John Richard Morris, Jnr, circa 1890s. Places and subjects listed above where identified. The Sub-Antarctic Island views are all of native flora and fauna of the different islands, listed on the images as mollymawks, albatrosses, sea lions, crested penguins and erect-crested penguins On page 32 there is a view of the SS Knight Templar leaving Lyttelton on February 17, 1900, taking about 260 soldiers and 300 horses of the 3rd Contingent "the New Zealand Roughriders" to Durban, en route to fight in the South African War. The wharf is crowded with people seeing the ship off, soldiers lined up alongside the ship, and bunting flying on two ships nearby. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 24.5 x 32.5 cm
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.
Rayner, W M :Porridge pots, Rotorua
Date: [ca 1880s]
By: Rayner, Walter Moody, 1869-1939
Reference: PA4-0910
Description: Stereoscopic photograph of porridge pots, Rotorua, taken by W M Rayner ca 180s Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Porridge pots, Rotorua; Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Backing board recto - left of image - W M Rayner - photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print
Carroll album
Date: 1868
By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933
Reference: PA1-o-094
Description: Views of New Zealand chiefly taken by Daniel Mundy circa 1868, with some taken by Charles S Spencer. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Decorated tan coloured cover "Scraps", 25.5 x 33 cm Provenance: Alexander Turnbull Library donation slip on front page reads: "Scrapbook of old photos collected by Mr Mundy about 1868."
Saxby album 1
Date: [1880s]
From: Saxby, Stephen Hector, 1907- :Photograph albums
By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933
Reference: PA1-q-212
Description: Photographs taken during the 1880s, chiefly by George Valentine, and Charles Spencer, both of whom visited Mount Tarawera before and after the eruption of June 1886. Inserted in a pocket at the front of the album are images cut from the paper "Newsview", June 1949, showing historic photographs of the eruption, and another double-page from the Weekly News (June 6, 1951) on the "65th Anniversary of the Mount Tarawera catastrophe". The latter article notes that mud, estimated at 75 ft in depth, covered a vast area. The album includes images taken before the eruption, and shows the same areas irreparable damaged. Many show the Pink and White Terraces, the village of Te Wairoa, and the massive rift in the mountain; also a group led by Sir James Hector to study the aftermath and changes wrought by the eruption. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, impressed design in dark brown; 31 x 27 cm
New Zealand. General Survey Office :The health resorts of New Zealand; the central ther...
Date: 1888
From: New Zealand. General Survey Office :The health resorts of New Zealand; the central thermal springs of the North Island / N.Z. Survey Dept. Wellington, 1888.
Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-1888-01-cover
Description: An arrangement of text, with a circular inset illustration of a geyser. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 225 x 105 mm.
Off for a holiday or glimpses of Maoriland
Date: 24 Feb-31 Mar 1886
From: McNab, John, b 1855 : Diary and travel account
Reference: MS-Papers-6190
Description: The journal contains an account of McNab's journey with observations on the places he visited. Includes mention of McNab completing the census aboard the SS `Taiaroa' on the night of 28 Mar 1886. Variations in title - Spine title `Travels in New Zealand' Relationship complexity - Also transcript styled as "Travels in New Zealand" (MS-Papers-6235-3) and microfilm (Micro-MS-0930) In Feb 1886 McNab left his home in Timaru for a tour of the North Island. He travelled by train to Christchurch, by steamer to Wellington and from there by another steamer to Napier. From here he travelled to Taupo via Tauranga by coach and toured the adjacent thermal areas and visited the Pink and White Terraces. Back in Tauranga McNab proceeded by steamer to Auckland from where he took another steamer to New Plymouth. From there he travelled by train to Wanganui and then on to Palmerston North from where he proceeded by coach to Masterton. Arriving in Wellington by train McNab sailed by steamer to Lyttelton and returned home to Timaru by train. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph (photocopies) Copiously illustated with Burton Brother photographs of towns and places of scenic interest described in the text
Harper, Laura, 1833-1887 :View opposite Palace Hotel, Ohinemotu. [ca 1884]
Date: 1884
From: Harper, Laura 1833-1887 :Laura Harper's sketchbook. No. 10 1884
Reference: E-376-009
Description: Shows the Palace Hotel and other buildings beside a hot pool in Ohinemutu Other Titles - ... opposite Palace Hotel, Ohinemutu Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - View opposite Palace Hotel Ohinemutu Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 140 x 230 mm. (page size)
Yeldham album 1
Date: 1880 - 1889
From: Yeldham, A (Mrs), fl 1976 :Photograph albums containing views of New Zealand
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PA1-o-541
Description: Photograph albums entitled 'Views of New Zealand', containing mostly Burton Bros photographs of New Zealand scenes Most of the scenes show the thermal areas around Lake Rotomahana, the Pink and White Terraces, a geyser, and the Mangarewa Gorge. Other areas include a view of North Shore, Auckland, from the water, and Tararu Creek (Thames) in the North Island; and Lake Hayes and Wet Jacket Arm in the South Island. Other Titles - Views of New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon leather cover, with gold decoration, entitled "Views of New Zealand"; 23.5 x 31.5 cm
Smytheman, V :Scenic views of New Zealand
Date: [ca 1890-1950]
From: Smytheman, V :Photographs from World War II and an album of New Zealand scenes
By: Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970
Reference: PAColl-0531-1
Description: Scenic views of New Zealand including a number of the glass houses and parks of Wanganui and New Plymouth. There are also an old photograph of W Stack's Hotel in Hastings with men and horses outside (in poor condition); a woman in what may be a 1930 Chrysler Plymouth with another snow away from the tyres; the gravestone of Julius von Haast; Queen's Wharf, Wellington showing a recently returned troop transport ship; an orchestra performing at the 1907 Christchurch exhibition; men of the No. 19 Platoon with a car at the summit of the Rimutakas; postcard from P B Davis to Mr A French showing a group of First World War soldiers with the message that they are about to leave for France; and six children at the base of a large Maori carving with a bell attached at Ohinemutu. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-053380 Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s).
Duncan, Frank: Views of Mount Ruapehu and Pohutu Geyser, Whakarewarewa
Date: ca 1890s
Reference: PAColl-6546
Description: Views of Mount Ruapehu and the Pohutu Geyser. Two Maori women and a small children are seated next to the geyser. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015090 and 015091 Quantity: 2 Print and negative.
Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand :Assorted photographs
Date: [ca 1885-1945]
By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951
Reference: PAColl-0422
Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).
Sarney album 2
Date: [1880s]
From: Sarney, H F (Mr), fl 1959 :Photograph albums of New Zealand scenes
By: Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933
Reference: PA1-q-211
Description: Album of photographs, all taken by Charles Spencer, in the Rotorua District around Mount Tarawera before and after the volcanic eruption of June 1886; except the last photograph in the album. This was taken by an unidentified photographer, showing "Waitangi Falls where Treaty with Maoris was signed". The views of Mount Tarawera showed the area before the eruption, including the village of Te Ariki, at the head of Lake Tarawera, the Pink and White Terraces, Lake Tarawera and Rotomahana. Views after the eruption showed the first group to ascend Tarawera. This was Percy Smith's party, of which Charles Spencer was a member. These images show the damage done to the village of Te Wairoa, the Pink and White Terraces, and showed the enormous changes to the landscape, including the rift which developed between Mount Tarawera and Rotomahana. Inscriptions: Album page - "Presented to J.F.L. Jetter by his Te Puke Friends. Te Puke, 12th August 1886" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black leather cover, impressed gold bands on spine; 31.0 x 27.5 cm
Stereoscopic postcards by Radcliffe & Stewart
Date: [ca 1890-1910]
From: Lightbourne, Ruth Elizabeth (Dr), 1949- : Photographs
By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Stewart, (Mr?), active 1897?
Reference: PAColl-10177-4
Description: Stereoscopic postcard prints taken circa 1900 around New Zealand, by photographers Radcliffe & Stewart. Prints mainly consist of images taken in the Auckland and Rotorua areas. Images include gum diggers and a bullock team hauling kauri logs in Northland, a man milking a cow and squirting the milk into the mouth of a cat, Kereru Geyser at Whakarewarewa, Twin Geyser at Wairakei, men fishing on Lake Rotorua, Rotorua Sanatorium building and grounds, young girls doing a haka outside Tamatekapua Marae, Ohinemutu, a maori dwelling (Rotorua), Okere Falls on Lake Rotoiti, beehive rock formation at Waiotapu, and a swarm of 50,000 bees at a hive. Quantity: 14 b&w stereoscopic postcards. Physical Description: Stereoscopic postcards
Hoare, E A, fl 1887-1888 :Whakerewarewa. [1888]
Date: 1888
From: Hoare, E A, fl 1887-1888 :Drawings, watercolour sketches, photographs and notes of E A Hoare, Artiste, on board 'S S Tongariro'. December 1887 to March 1888
Reference: E-955-f-025
Description: Shows the Maori village at Whakarewarewa, set amongst hills, bush, and steaming hot pools and geysers Other Titles - Whakarewarewa Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Whakerewarewa [in ink]; Recto - bottom right - E A H [artist's initials in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 177 x 249 mm, on sketchbook page 255 x 370 mm
Hoare, E A, fl 1887-1888 :Lake Rotomahanoo. E A H Feb '87
Date: 1888
From: Hoare, E A, fl 1887-1888 :Drawings, watercolour sketches, photographs and notes of E A Hoare, Artiste, on board 'S S Tongariro'. December 1887 to March 1888
Reference: E-955-f-023
Description: A view of Lake Rotomahana, taken back from the water's edge. Steam rises from geysers in the foreground, and a number of figures can be seen near the water. Possibly Mount Tarawera in the distance, with evidence of scarring from the 1886 eruption E A Hoare's journey was between December 1887 and March 1888, hence the suggestion that 'Feb '87' was recorded incorectly Other Titles - Rotomahana Other Titles - 1888 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Lake Rotomahanoo / E A H / Feb '87 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 180 x 265 mm, on sketchbook page 255 x 370 mm
Hoare, E A, fl 1887-1888 :Lake Rotorua. Creek in foreground. Maoris sitting by a 'steam...
Date: 1888
From: Hoare, E A, fl 1887-1888 :Drawings, watercolour sketches, photographs and notes of E A Hoare, Artiste, on board 'S S Tongariro'. December 1887 to March 1888
Reference: E-955-f-021-1
Description: A view across Lake Rotorua, probably from the top balcony of the Lake House Hotel, Ohinemutu. The 'creek' might be a reference to Utuhina Stream. Two small geysers can be seen, and a Maori family sit beside one of them. Two cottages are also in view in the foreground A very similar view from the watercolour on the previous page, E-955-f-020-6 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Creek from L.H. [Lake House] [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink on paper, 95 x 147 mm, on sketchbook page 255 x 370 mm
Photographer unknown :Lake Rotorua and Mokoia. Tikitere, Rotorua. Tiketapu bush. [1887-...
Date: 1888
From: Hoare, E A, fl 1887-1888 :Drawings, watercolour sketches, photographs and notes of E A Hoare, Artiste, on board 'S S Tongariro'. December 1887 to March 1888
Reference: E-955-f-039-1/3
Description: Top photograph recto shows part of the settlement of Ohinemutu, with the native church (St Faith's) to the right, and Mokoia Island in the middle distance. Bottom image shows Tikitere, or 'Hell's Gate', near Rotorua, known for its many geothermal features including steaming lakes, mudpools and fumaroles. On the verso, a photograph of two men posed against a Tikitapu bush scene Photographs pasted to both sides of a loose sheet of paper, and placed into sketchbook Quantity: 3 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen prints, varied dimensions, on sketchbook page 255 x 370 mm