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Auckland Star album 2
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"
Mount Ngauruhoe seen across forest and scrub
Date: [1900-1910]
From: New Zealand News Ltd :Photographs from the Auckland Star
Reference: PA1-q-013-30-2
Description: Mount Ngauruhoe seen across countryside covered in native forest and scrub. A strean runs throught the picture, lower right. Photographed by an unkown photographer between 1900 and 1910. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver geltin print, 20 x 15 cm, on album page