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Date: 1875 - 1885

By: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927

Reference: A-089-002

Description: Several whare in the middle distance alongside a river, with weeping willows and a small canoe. Hills behind the whare Attributed to Thomas Ryan on stylistic grounds. Ryan was resident in the Taupo area and had a Maori wife, so was visiting marae, pa and kainga Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash 149 x 252 mm Provenance: Unknown

Date: 1850 - 1880

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-084-006

Description: Shows part of the foreshore of Lake Taupo in the foreground, with Mount Ruapehu and Tongariro in the distance. Other Titles - Lake Taupo showing Ruapehu & Tongariro Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Wash sketch, 180 x 255 mm

Date: [1890s-1900s?]

From: Teale, Edmund Oswald (Sir), 1874-1971 : Birell album

By: Charles H Kerry & Company; Shearsby, A J, active 1913-1928; Star Photo Company; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA1-q-029

Description: Postcards, chiefly of Australia, including Tasmania, Adelaide, Queensland, New South Wales, with several showing various tin mines in Tasmania. There is a section of New Zealand postcards in the middle of the album, many taken by an Australian photographic company "Charles H Kerry & Co", labelled "Series 53. Hot Lakes District, New Zealand". These images are tinted, and include views of the Huka Falls, the Pink and White Terraces, Waiotapu, Ohinemutu, Whakarewarewa, Lakes Waikaremoana and Taupo, and the Aratiatia Rapids. The NZ images also include views of the Mount Cook region of the South Island, including Franz Josef Glacier, Hooker Glacier, Mounts Darwin, Sefton and Cook, and Lakes Te Anau and Wakatipu. Many of the postcards show the photographers' names, and include R C Harvey, A J Shearsby, the Star Photo Co., de Tourret, and the New Zealand Tourist Department. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown "Postcard album" with red, green and blue decoration, 285 x 240 mm

Date: 1878 - 1974

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-042-a

Description: Looking south across Lake Taupo towards the volcanic plateau, with Tongariro Reproduction of a watercolour in a private collection. Original measures 320 x 500 mm Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 333 x 508 mm on sheet 530 x 640 mm

Date: 1867

By: Illustrated Sydney news (Newspaper); Calvert, Samuel, 1828-1913

Reference: A-343-032

Description: Shows a general view of a large lake seen through sparse trees, with a group of robed figures in the foreground. Other Titles - Taupo Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 160 x 240 mm.

Date: ca 1890s

From: Donne, Anne, fl 1975 :Photographs mainly of Richard John Seddon in New Zealand and the Pacific

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3329-01

Description: Photographs of: a group of people gathered to watch sports on the Queen's Birthday in Tonga including Seddon; a view of the coast at Cape Foulwind; a letter addressed to "Sire Sedone, Pirima, Neuseland" from Niue; a gathering of Tongans outside a marquee in Nuku'alofa for the Queen's birthday celebrations; Seddon and what are probably other parliamentarians standing on the steps of a building; a large totara; the Seddon family on a visit to the state schoolhouse in Levuka, Fiji; the Seddon family gathered round an ornately framed certificate noting Seddon's achievements; Huka Falls taken by the Burton Brothers; Seddon holding a taiaha seated in a group of seven working men; the recreation ground in New Plymouth looking towards Mount Taranaki; two portraits of Samoan girls; a cart travelling on the Cable Bay Road looking out over the bay taken by Tyree Studio; Lake Taupo from Motutere taken by Burton Brothers; and a group of men, possibly including Seddon, sitting and standing on the steps of a building. Other than the first six, these prints are all stuck to pages from what may have been an album. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Bailey, Conrad, fl 1980 : Photograph albums of New Zealand scenes, one including pressed ferns

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919

Reference: PA1-q-021

Description: Album of pressed ferns, most of which are used to frame images of New Zealand, but some pages consist solely of pressed ferns. The photographs show New Zealand scenes, and include two postcards of collages. One has the legend "Maoridom" and at the base "The old order changeth" with a photograph of Maori king Tawhiao, and various artifacts including taiaha, cloaks, and two preserved heads of Maori. The other shows portraits of a number of Maori men and women, and views of Parihaka and Ohinemutu. Among the views of new Zealand scenery are images of the White Terraces in eruption, the Pink Terraces, Manawatu Gorge, Dunedin, Queen Street (Auckland), Lake Ada, and Tois Tois [sic] Island on the Clinton River, Lake Te Anau. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red cloth-bound album, with gold lettering "New Zealand ferns and scenery"

Date: 1880-1889

By: F Bradley & Company; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA1-o-497

Description: Album of photographs compiled ca 1880s, from print published by F Bradley & Co, of Christchurch. Comprises views of Shag Rock, Timaru, Christchurch, Bealey, Greymouth, Oamaru, Rangitata River bridge, Dunedin, Taupo, Waimakariri River bridge, Governor's Bay, Kaiapoi, Arthur's Pass, Kawau Island, Cheviot, Akaroa Harbour, Alfred Falls, the Pink Terrace, White Island, Otira Gorge, Pigeon Bay, gold mining at Thames, Nelson, Heathcote River, the cable car across the Taramakau River, Sumner, and Tamatekapua meeting house at Ohinemutu. Also included are carte de visite portraits of Maori. Among the photographers whose work is shown are Herbert Deveril and Daniel Louis Mundy. Each photograph has a printed inscription attached on the back of the page. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 25 x 32 cm

Date: 1870 - 1889

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908; New Zealand. Department of External Affairs

Reference: Curios-013-005-2

Description: Painting on a shell, showing a section of Lake Taupo with a whare in the right foreground, a waka on the water near the shore, and the Central Plateau peaks behind, with Mt Ngauruhoe steaming. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - JB Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on shell. Physical Description: Gouache? on shell, 155 x 150 mm (irreg) Provenance: Presented through the External Affairs Department; previously on display at a New Zealand House (London) exhibition in 1956.

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

Reference: A-020-023

Description: Shows part of a pa in the foreground, with a large pataka on the left, a wharenui on the right, palisades and rolling hills leading down to the lake in the middle distance. A faintly-drawn in hill in the distance is marked as Motutaiko Mountain, possibly Motutaiko Island Other Titles - Motutaiko. Te Hiwiherri Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 222 x 333 mm

Date: 1841 - 1847

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-077

Description: Four drawings on one page. At the top, a frontal view of a seated Maori man with facial moko. Below on the left, 'Tutaka moana near Taupo' shows a tent near a small lake among bush-clad hills. Below right, a circular bay, looking out past headlands towards Lake Taupo. Below, centre 'A young chief of Tautari's tribe, Wakatane' shows a standing young man wrapped in a cloak. Other Titles - Whakatane Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of four drawings, various media

Date: 1843 - 1840 - 1841

By: Day & Haghe (Firm)

Reference: B-187-009

Description: Shows a group of Maori at the edge of Lake Taupo, with a long palisade running along the waterfront to the left. Tongariro and Ruapehu mountains are in the distance. Another copy at PUBL-0007-331 Other Titles - Ruapehu Extended Title - From "Travels in New Zealand", by Ernest Dieffenbach. London, John Murray, 1843. Volume 1, opposite page 331. Merrett joined Dieffenbach and his party at Taupo. See the journal of Ensign Best, edited by N Taylor. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 130 x 192 mm (sight)

Date: 1843

By: Haghe, Louis, 1806-1885; Day & Haghe (Firm); Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: B-187-011

Description: View looking south down Lake Taupo towards Mount Tauhara. In the foreground are tree ferns, other trees and a thatched Maori hut with a two Maori men outside Another copy at A-015-005 Extended Title - Published In: Dieffenbach, E Travels in New Zealand. (London: J Murray, 1843) Vol 1, frontispiece Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, b&w and sepia 127 x 194 mm (sight)

Date: 1890

By: New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal; Star Lithographic Works

Reference: C-060-020-a

Description: Identifies features of the landscape, and shows a large Maori canoe beached in front of a decorated whare in the left foreground. Maori men, women and children populate the waterfront. The three volcanoes are in the background, with Ngauruhoe steaming. The view looks south along the lake Supplement to: New Zealand graphic, 20 Dec 1890 Extended Title - View of the southern shore. Auckland New Zealand Graphic, 1890 (Auckland ; Star Lithographic Works) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, coloured, on card 300 x 485 mm

Date: 1862 - 1880

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford and Samuel Deighton. 1860-1880]

Reference: E-926-033

Description: Shows a wide view of the lake with the small island Motu Taika in the centre distance, Mount Tauhara behind, and the delta of the upper Tongariro River at the right. Each of these features is labelled. Extended Title - From his "Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford" [1860-1880], page [33 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash drawing, 145 x 235 mm

Date: 1869

By: Burgoyne, William Henry Daymond, -1871; Brooke-Taylor, Arthur Howard, 1900-1975

Reference: A-176-026

Description: Looking south towards Ruapehu, Tongariro (in eruption) and Ngaruhoe Drawn up on a grid On verso: an unfinished drawing of a ship Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 155 x 290 mm

Date: 1855 - 1890

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-084-007

Description: Shows a view of the lake with a canoe with a triangular sail. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Wash sketch, 178 x 254 mm

Date: 1878 - 1974

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-042

Description: View south across Lake Taupo towards the volcanic plateau, with Mount Tongariro Reproduction of a watercolour in a private collection. Original measures 333 x 508 mm Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 333 x 508 mm, on sheet 530 x 640 mm

Date: 1884 - 1885

From: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm) :[Sample album of greeting cards, produced by A D Willis of Wanganui. ca 1885]

Reference: E-936-f-025-2

Description: Shows a view looking towards the south of the lake, with Tongariro, Ngauruhoe (smoking) and Ruapehu, two houses on a spit of land to the left, two small canoes on the lake in the middle ground. The message included bottom right reads 'A merry Christmas' Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 105 x 145 mm

Date: 1871

Reference: MapColl-832.18gmb/[1871]/Acc.6024-6025

Description: Military map depicting Lake Taupo and surrounding north and east areas, denoting the lake, Maori placenames, Native (Maori) cultivations, dray roads now constructed, Native bridle tracks and constabulatory stations. Library has two photographic copies. Second copy is negative copy, Acc. 6025. Quantity: 2 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale [1:253 440], 52 x 43 cm.