Places

Date: [between 1890 and ca 1920]

Reference: PAColl-8240

Description: Photograph of The Terraces Hotel in Taupo showing the entrance driveway and surrounding trees; taken between 1890 and circa 1920 by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by library Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Terraces Hotel Taupo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20.5 x 15.3 cm

Date: [ca 1886]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 6

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

Reference: PAColl-5932-20

Description: Maori group at Tapuaeharuru Bay, Taupo, circa 1886, photographed by the Burton Brothers. Other Titles - Lake Taupo from Tapuaeharuru Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 3712 - Lake Taupo - From - Tapuaeharuru Burton Bros Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1879

By: Hawke's Bay herald-tribune (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-D-DRAMA-1879-01

Description: Arrangement of text. Cast of "More free than welcome" include: Mr Beamish, Mr Lyon, Mr J. P. Ward. Cast of "Two gentlemen in a fix!" include: Mr E. Holland and Mr L Stott. Comic song in character by Mr W. Strew. Cast of "Caught by the cuff" include: Mr J.P. Ward, Mr W. Strew, Mr N. Campbell, Mr T. Gordon, Miss T. Claire. Cast of "Sent to the tower" include: Mr W. Strew, Mr J.P. Ward, and Mr G Scammell. There is a report of the performance in the "Hawkes Bay Weekly courier" of 9 January 1880. Other Titles - Poster Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Printed at the Herald Office, Tennyson-street, Napier. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, black on pink, 650 x 287 mm.

Date: 1874

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-036

Description: View looking down onto the roof of a bathhouse over hot springs, a stream winding towards the site with another hidden between cliffs. Mount Tauhara is in the background The watercolour originally accompanied a report by By William Fox 'Hot springs district of the North Island' 1st August 1874 published in the Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives, H. 26, 1874. Fox describes 'About half a mile eastward from the [mouth of the Waikato] River is a small swampy flat ... through which flow two streams ... At the point at which the two unite, a tolerably good bath has been erected by John Loffley, formerly an A.B. sailor in Her Majesty's Navy, who served in the Naval Brigade during the Waikato War. A dressing room is annexed ... Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 233 x 334 mm

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Birnie, J W: Photographs taken in Taupo including the Spa Hotel

Reference: 1/2-028370-F

Description: The grounds of the Spa Hotel in Taupo showing four women on a bridge over a stream. Photograph taken circa 1890. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1880

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :New Zealand scenery; original oil paintings [ca 1880]

Reference: E-053-006

Description: Looking south towards Lake Taupo from near the source of the Waikato River Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on paper, 183 x 203 mm

Date: [186-?]

Reference: PAColl-8423

Description: Photograph showing a group of people standing on the verandah and in the grounds of Noble's Hotel, Taupo, taken during the New Zealand Wars (1860-1872) by an unidentified photographer. Other - Note on back of file print identifies bandaged man as William Noble. Second note suggests: `A different source (another LP) gives: 1. Man by flagpole - A Bush fighter in the kilt; 2. Next man on left - Armed Constabulary; 3. First man past women - Maori Guide; 4. Two men in uniform on verandah - Troopers; 5. Man nearest grass on path - Mine Host of the Pub.' Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 18 x 30.3 cm

Date: 1860 - 1880

Reference: PA2-2622

Description: Inscriptions: Verso - Three Chiefte[..ses] from Lake Taupo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: between 1863-1872

From: Martin, A R :Mundy photographs

Reference: 1/2-082343-F

Description: Photograph shows the large and intricately carved Ngāti Tūwharetoa pātaka named Hīnana ki uta, Hīnana ki tai (search the land and sea), which was built at Waihī on the shores of Lake Taupō in 1855. Shows a Māori group seated alongside, comprising a woman flanked by two men holding guns. People possibly identified (from left to right); Rangitua, Ngaumu, and Aperahama Whetu, also known as Tuatara. Photograph taken by Daniel Louis Mundy between 1863 and 1872. Sources: - Rahui Papa and Paul Meredith, 'Kīngitanga – the Māori King movement - Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, 1858–1860', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/37856/hinana-ki-uta-hinana-ki-tai (accessed 27 September 2017). - From item (file print verso of 1/2-021882). Title supplied by Library. Daniel Louis Mundy was active in New Zealand as a photographer between 1863 and 1872. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Title and description changed in September 2017 as a result of information from a researcher which identified the name of the pātaka. Description updated 14 March 2024.

Date: [ca 1887-1889]

From: Birnie, J W: Photographs taken in Taupo including the Spa Hotel

Reference: 1/2-028367-F

Description: Unidentified man with John Joshua, Sophia Joshua and others outside the wharenui Te Tiki o Tamamutu, taken by an unknown photographer between August 1887 and December 1889. Back row left to right: Hohepa Tamamutu; John Joshua; Mrs Kemp (Sophia Joshua's mother); Sophia Joshua. Front: Midge Joshua (born Louise Martha Salter, adopted daughter of John & Sophia Joshua) Date, and names of wharenui and individuals supplied by a researcher. This meeting house was later to become the dining room of the Joshua's Spa Hotel. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).