Places

Date: [1900-1910]

From: New Zealand News Ltd :Photographs from the Auckland Star

Reference: PA1-q-013

Description: Views around the Taupo Tongariro area, including Mounts Ngaruahoe and Tongariro, Huka Falls, Aratiatia Rapids, Lake Taupo and Wairakei. There is one image of the Maori interior of Tom Ryan's whare, one of the Terraces Hotel at Lake Taupo, and others of various buildings at the Spa Hotel (Taupo), including the interior of the dining room. This building was the meeting house Te Tiki o Tamamutu, purchased by John Joshua (proprietor of the Spa Hotel) for use as a smoking room and dining room for the hotel guests. Several images show unidentified Maori women in posed groups, or working with flax, and in one case a woman using a treadle sewing machine. An unidentified man is seen, in several images, fishing at pools below the Aratiatia Rapids. Photographs taken by Auckland Star photographers around the turn of the 19th-20th century. Relationship complexity - Most images are represented by original negatives donated to the Library by the Auckland Star in the 1950s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cloth bound album, labelled "This book must be returned to Mr H Brett's room"

Date: [ca 1909]

By: Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: PAColl-7992

Description: Negatives of Rotorua, Whakarewarewa, and Taranaki, taken ca 1909 by R G Marsh of Rotorua. Most of the images are of tourists and guides around the hot springs at Whakarewarewa, but there are also several school portraits taken at Okaiawa School and Convent School, Hawera. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-220000-G to 1/2-220068-G Quantity: 69 b&w original negative(s). Provenance: Purchased at auction, Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, 2003

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Wilson, John C :Photograph collection

By: Cottier, Charles Percy, -1950

Reference: PAColl-4741

Description: Photographs of: two girls next to a tekoteko aro at a meeting house; a parade by sailors, some pulling a gun carriage, along a Christchurch street with the premises of W Strange & Co in the background; sailors in a parade ground marching past some dignitaries; a view of what is probably Wanganui with Hatrick drapers visible in the distance (captioned as Hamilton); three Maori women sitting on the ground at an outdoor event; a group of young poi dancers wearing taniko head bands with two older women wearing cloaks and holding patu in the Wairarapa; Turangarere waterfall; a group of eleven Maori boys dressed as soldiers with sticks as guns; a Maori family with five children and the family dog; two photographs of wire mesh contraptions possibly for trapping; Kaniere bridge and township; Elizabeth Street, Melbourne looking north with the general post office on the right; a basket used for fishing; a view of a bridge over the lake in Pukekura Park taken by C P Cottier; and a Maori family outside their house with a feather cloak over three of the girls. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints