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Rotorua Post Office
Date: ca 1914
From: Auckland Star :Negatives
Reference: 1/1-003053-G
Description: Rotorua Post and Telegraph Office on the corner of Haupapa and Fenton Streets, circa 1914, photographed by an unidentified photographer for the Auckland Star newspaper. Shows a two storied, half timbered building with a clock tower. Two plane trees are alongside. A man with a bicycle, probably a postman, stands outside. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 3923 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Creator unknown : Postcard with photograph of Arawa House, Rotorua
Date: [ca 1912]
Reference: PAColl-9488
Description: Postcard with a photograph of the hotel 'Arawa House', Rotorua. Photograph taken circa 1912 by an unidentified photographer. Postcard has a postal date stamp of 191(2?), was sent to Mrs J W Court of Birkenhead, and was addressed to 'Rose'. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on item. Quantity: 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Postcard, 9 x 14 cm, including photomechanical print
First Presbyterian mission house at Ruatahuna
Date: ca 1918
From: Henry, Annie (Sister) : Photographs owned by Sister Annie Henry
Reference: 1/2-030939-F
Description: Caption on back of file print reads: "1st mission house (Presbyterian) built by Rev H Fletcher (senior missionary at Taupo) and Rev John George Laughton at Ruatahuna. June 1918." Looks down on a cottage amongst bush. Photograph taken (June 1918?). Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Potiki-tiki-tike, the mission house at Ruatahuna
Date: ca 1930?
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-3039-1-034
Description: Potiki-tiki-tike, the mission house at Ruatahuna, photographed by Albert Percy Godber circa 1930. Shows a single storey wooden house and garden. Inscriptions: Recto - centre - Potiki-tiki-tike; Backing board recto - "Potiki-tiki-tike" Mission House Ruatahuna Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 9.3 x 14.8 cm (top part of image cut away)
First school in Ruatahuna built with pit sawn timber
Date: ca 1920s?
From: Henry, Annie (Sister) : Photographs owned by Sister Annie Henry
Reference: 1/2-030874-F
Description: Captions on back of file print reads "The first school in Ruatahuna built with pit sawn timber." Shows a single storey building, with a porch, sited on a hill. Photograph taken (circa 1920s?). Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Church Missionary Society chapel, The Elms, Tauranga
Date: [ca 1910]
From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives
Reference: 1/1-008530-G
Description: Church Missionary Society chapel, The Elms (Te Papa Mission House), Tauranga, with a bell alongside. Photograph taken circa 1910 by an unidentified staff photographer for The Press newspaper. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.
Rotoiti General Store and car - Photographer unidentified
Date: ca 1920s
From: Hansen Estate :Family photographs
Reference: PAColl-0535-1-01
Description: Rotoiti General Store, and car alongside. Shows a wooden, flat-roofed building on the left, and a car (half obscured) on the right. Photograph taken circa 1920s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.5 x 21.5 cm Processing information: Formerly filed in Turnbull Library Pictures at 16. Rotorua Co. Rotoiti. Businesses. Store
Paling school and residence at Ruatahuna
Date: ca 1920
From: Henry, Annie (Sister) : Photographs owned by Sister Annie Henry
Reference: 1/2-030819-F
Description: Paling school (right) and residence, at Ruatahuna. Photograph taken circa 1920 by an unidentified photographer. Note on back of file print reads: "Paling school and residence built in 1918. First school (and residence) run by the Presbyterian Church at Ruatahuna. Sister Annie Henry was the first teacher. In Feb 1917 the school was started in a whare owned by Chief Taiwera but in 1918 this building was erected." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative
Bank of New Zealand, Opotiki
Date: [ca 1910-1930]
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-001105
Description: View of the Bank of New Zealand on the corner of Church Street and Elliot Street. A group of women and children are standing outside the bank. A horse is being ridden up the road on the right. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Bank of N.Z. Opotiki. No 7529. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches
Tauranga Post and Telegraph Office
Date: 1906
From: New Zealand. Ministry of Works :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-4239-01
Description: Tauranga Post and Telegraph Office, 1906. Post Office employees stand alongside. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.2 x 20.4 cm
Maungapohatu School, formerly Rua Kenana's whare kanikani
Date: ca 1921
From: Henry, Annie (Sister) : Photographs owned by Sister Annie Henry
Reference: 1/2-030908-F
Description: Maungapohatu School photographed circa 1921. The cleared hill to the right of the house is Tukutoromiro. Photographer unidentified. This image was published in J Binney's 'Mihaia', 1979, page 139 with the caption: "The whare kanikani as the school about 1921. It was described as being 30ft in diameter with walls 11 1/2 feet high. It stood about 2 1/2 ft off the ground. In front is the muddy slide made by children. The cleared hill to the right, across the river, and down which the track winds, is Tukutoromiro." This round house was formerly Rua Kenana's whare kanikani (dance house). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Entrance to the Blue Baths, Rotorua
Date: [ca 1930]
Reference: 1/2-154937-F
Description: Entrance to the Blue Baths, Rotorua, circa 1930. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
First school house at Waiohau
Date: ca 1920s?
From: Henry, Annie (Sister) : Photographs owned by Sister Annie Henry
Reference: 1/2-030876-F
Description: Caption on back of file print reads: "The first school house at Waiohau. This was a mission school run by the Presbyterian Church." Shows a cottage with a corrugated iron roof, and flags flying from the verandah. Plants grow up the verandah posts and an unidentified woman stands alongside. Photograph taken (circa 1920s?. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Te Kaha Co-operative Dairy Company building, Bay of Plenty
Date: 12 Jul 1944
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-001100-F
Description: Te Kaha Co-operative Dairy Company building, at Te Kaha, Bay of Plenty. Photograph taken 12 July 1944 by John Pascoe. Other - Pascoe's explanation, in Photographic Archive Pascoe file at TL 6/1/30, for the set of photographs at 1/4-001063 to 001102 reads: "This series of photographs tells something of the hospitable Maori community [at Te Kaha, Bay of Plenty coast] whose social life is focussed in the shelter of the new meeting house (named Tukaki) and of the district in which they live." Other - Pascoe's caption for this image in Photographic Archive Pascoe file at 6/1/30 reads: "The Diary Company which is one of the only two companies on New Zealand wholly to employ Maori labour under Maori directors." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Interior view of the Bath House at the Rotorua Sanatorium
Date: Circa 1916
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-1199-1/2-G
Description: Interior view of the entrance to the Bath House at the Government Sanatorium and Baths, Rotorua, showing tiled floor, wooden staircase and balustrades, and marble sculptures on pedestals. Photographed circa 1916 by A P Godber. Original print at PA1-q-102, page 41. Inscriptions: Album page - Entrance hall. Bath House. Rotorua. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches