Places

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: Evans, I, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-1519

Description: Photographs taken on holiday in New Zealand by woman identified as I Evans. Comprises photographs of men, women and children from Tuhourangi and Arawa iwi, many in traditional costume; Model Village at Whakarewarewa; Ohinemutu Pa; Lake Rotorua; Guide Ruth, Ana Hato; Guide Rangi; Wairakei geysers; Rotomahana; buried forest; Arapuni; Hongi's Track; Lake Taupo; Wellington Harbour from Ngaio; tobacco growing at Riwaka; apple packing shed at Redwood's Valley, Nelson; Devils Boots, Collingwood; Government Buildings, Wellington; Wainui House, Nelson; houseboat, Whanganui River; self-portraity of photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 151 x 202 mm Provenance: Purchase, 2009

Date: 1995 - 2003

By: Taupō Native Plant Nursery

Reference: Eph-B-HORTICULTURE-Taupo

Description: Mail order catalogues listing native plants for sale. Years held are: 1995 (Front cover headed: Terra Firma Limited), 1997-98, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003 Quantity: 6 album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, each around 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 1988

By: Greenfield, John Robert, 1919-1996

Reference: MS-Papers-10379

Description: An unpublished account of Anglican missionary and Church history in the Taupo district, beginning with the first missionary visits in the 1830s, and continuing to 1987. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (spiral bound)

Date: 1905

From: Birch, A E :Scenic negatives and prints taken by Thomas Pringle

Reference: 1/1-007047-G

Description: Geyser in the grounds of the Spa Hotel, Taupo, photographed ca 1905 by Thomas Pringle of Wellington. Dated from other negatives in sequence. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: [Between 1930 and 1941]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-207

Description: Album of photographs (mainly landscapes) taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1930 and 1941. The album is divided into sections (not in chronological order), many relating to camping holidays with an unidentified companion. Areas covered included a Christmas holiday trip in 1937 to the East Coast and thermal regions around Tikitere and Waimangu, the Morere nikau forest, Mount Maunganui beach, Hongi's track, the buried village at Te Wairoa, and Rotorua. A North Auckland trip in December 1938 included camping as far north as Paihia, Russell and Waitangi, the Waitangi Falls, the Waipoua Kauri Forest and Trounson's Kauri Park, also Auckland, the Kaingaroa Plains and Waiouru Valley. Areas of erosion were noted, and mangrove swamps. An Anniversary Day trip (22-23 January 1939) took Salmon to the Putangirua Pinnacles in the Wairarapa; and in September 1941 he went to the Hawke's Bay area. In 1945 he went on a North Island Expedition working on malaria control, with ?Bissett, and William John Phillipps. February 20-27 1939 was a trip across the Napier-Taupo Road, and included a number of images of the silt and desolation caused by a great flood in the Esk Valley in 1938. In 1936 Salmon went on a geological trip to the Rotorua area, and at Orakei Korako he was particularly interested in "sinter formations" (thermal deposits of silica, of which the Pink and White Terraces were examples). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

Date: 1900 - 1920

By: Rood, L A, active 1910s?

Reference: Plans-80-0634

Description: Plan of cottage in Taupo showing side and front elevation. Probably a speculative drawing Additional inscriptions: No plan too much trouble to draw and no job too much trouble to do. Come to Taupo and enjoy its wonders Build the house of your dreams Plans prepared. Estimates given and all work guaranteed Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - L A Rood Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on blue paper

Date: 1980 - 1989

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

Reference: A-403-002

Description: Shows a perspective drawing of a collection of buildings seen from above. Original file numbering was: 004.06.02.004 Quantity: 1 plan(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Photocopy, 211 x 297 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: [ca 1910s-1950s]

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6866

Description: 152 views and portraits. They include: at least 22 of Picton and and the surrounding area showing boating in the harbour, people pic-nicking on the waterfront, people watching a rowing race, a speedboat called Pelorus Jack racing in the Sounds, and ferries coming in to the terminus; 10 images of the geothermal area around Wairakei inlcuding mud pools and geysers; nine images of a Studebaker Commander 6 either parked at scenic views or driving along country roads; eight images of men talking possibly at race meetings; six of the timber industry particularly the building of a timber boom; four aerial views of a liner coming into Auckland harbour; three views of groups of well-dressed men and women wearing what are possibly conference badges in an area decorated with bunting; three similar images of a large group of women photographed at Te Aro School near the Carillon also with conference badges; three general views of Wellington harbour; three images of the Spa Hotel, Taupo; two images of two women in bathing suits; two views of the railway station from The Terrace, Wellington; two views of a girl in Wellington Botanic Gardens; a scene on board the RMS Mononwai with a woman being photographed framed by the life belt; two of Aorangi; one of the ferry Cobar in Wellington Harbour; two of children riding on donkeys; two of the same elderly couple outside their house; two of young men on the boat Starlight; a group of what are probably sheep shearers outside their shed; Aotea Quay, Wellington; the yacht Ilex in Wellington harbour; children playing on swings; a large wooden gothic style house (location unknown); sheep droving; two women on a Bell Bus Company tour; various scenes on board ship including passengers watching an entertainer, a boxing match and a crossing the equator ceremony; a ship's officer climing down a rope ladder on the side of a ship; two of kauri trunks being transported on the Roxen, 1932; and a small child looking at an overturned carved wooden statue. The majority of the remaining images are of unidentified landscapes. Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-030982, 030983, 030985, 030992 to 030996, 030998, 031005, 031007 to 031010, 031012, 031013, 031016 to 031045, 031049, 031051 to 031059, 031154 to 031192, 031198 to 031203, 031205 to 031217, 031227 to 031248, 031737, 031739, 031740, 092294 to 092305 Quantity: 114 b&w original negative(s) film. 38 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: PAColl-6486

Description: Two views of The Spa Hotel, Taupo surrounded by trees with some people on the driveways. The intials JM appear at the bottom right of one of the images which indicates that Josiah Martin was the photographer. The reference numbers on the images are 347 and 347a. Arrangement: Negatives housed at: 1/4-002892 to 002893 Quantity: 2 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-226

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1949-1950. Sculptures exhibited at Royal Society of British Artists Winter Exhibition; block of flats in Finchley Road, London used as secret headquarters of the Rear-Admiral of the Coastal Forces; Peter Scott, painter of wild birds and director of Severn Wild Fowl Trust, England; Faberge ornaments made for Russian royal family on display in London; Anderson family shearing-gang, Rangitoto district near Te Kuiti; goat herd belonging to A Miller of Riccarton (reputed to be only goats in NZ milked by machine). Rev B O Plumb of St Mark's, Opawa, Christchurch; Mr & Mrs E V Gaw who built their own house at Spencer Park; Ted Scott (journalist & boxer) with his mother and sister Mrs A Francis; L M S Bruce (formerly headmaster of the Cathedral and John Connon School for Boys, Bombay) on arrival in NZ with his wife; John Barnicoat of Wellington on return from trip to Tibet; Lyndhurst School; aftermath of fire which destroyed the Lake Hotel, Taupo on 29 Dec 1949; Waitotara Valley where Oswald Palmer crashed his Tiger Moth. Official function for Hon E B Corbett, Minister of Native Affairs, at Puniho Pa; Gower Wingfield of Kaeo, Northland and wife and daughter Myra on his return from Cook Islands where he was formerly the official dentist; Royal Artilleryman Major N W Routledge with his wife (formerly Miss P Grigg) and two children on arrival in Wellington to take up an appointment with NZ Army; Rev A P Stanley at St Columba's Church, Point Howard; old kerosene lamp post in garden of E J Thompson, Arrowtown. Mr & Mrs John Ellis and family on arrival in NZ; wedding group (Mr & Mrs Claude Flemming); Judge J S Blake-Reed; Sam & Ron Sinclair (Sanders Cup veterans); Peter Wilkinson of City of Christchurch Pipe Band; 1887 Te Aute scholars (T W Wills, Toito Poata, P H McDonald); William Williams; Samuel Williams; Harry G Wright of Central Otago (aged 90); girls who attended the Junior Red Cross camp held at Wellington; custom made car built by W Hulme Kerr; RNZAF training centre at Tairei air station near Dunedin; group photo of officers of No 1 Elementary Flying Training School, Taieri aerodrome, Mosgiel. Quantity: 64 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1911

From: Hill, Henry Thomas, 1849-1933 : Papers

By: Mackay, John, 1851-1937; New Zealand. Printing and Stationery Department; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey. Auckland District Office

Reference: MapColl-832.18gbbd/1911/Acc.5768

Description: A base map of rural lands and small grazing runs for lease in the Tauhara Survey District, on the shores of Lake Taupo, has been used by H. Hill to show his own land and other sections leased by him. Several farm blocks include pencilled monetary values while others are shaded and include positions of buildings. H. Hill's own section has handwritten notes 'Afforested & finish', 69 acres, Sold' and adjacent to this section a note states ' Letter to I. Hislop Oct 23/22 re leasing reserve/thermal sp.'. A handwritten pencilled note states 'George Wall, Waitahanui, Tender for fencing' with several pencilled arithmetical sums. The Taupo - Napier Road continues as hand-drawn lines in ink across farm sections. Several sections are marked as withdrawn. A hand-drawn compass indicates the aspect. A letter mounted on the bottom right of the map is a reply from the Commissioner of Crown Lands, K.M. Graham, to H. Hill about lease of extra land. The base map itself is of sections of lands in the Tauhara Survey District, Auckland Land District No. 1095. Includes references to Native Owners and Crown Land, a thermal springs reserve. An extensive statement on the left side of the map begins with the heading Rural Lands and small-grazing runs for lease, and include the date of 24th. October 1911 at the District Lands Office, Auckland. A schedule of the sections includes the valuations, acreages and rent. Instructions to applicants and a caution follow with the printed name of Eric C. Gold Smith, Commissioner of Crown Lands. Includes an abstract of the conditions of lease. Names listed are: G. Wehringo, Sarah E. Clark, Emma Clark, Annie Clark, H. Hill. The inset locality plan has been cut out and removed from the top right corner. Base map: Lands in Tauhara Survey District. [Wellington, N.Z.], John Mackay, Govt. Printer, [1911] Title taken from reverse of map. '1911 Taupo', 'Taupo leased section', 'Taupo lease sections also own' are written on the reverse. See also MS-Papers-0146 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper, backed with brown paper, coloured, 61.3 x 91.5 cm.

Date: [1960s-1970s]

From: Nicholls, Trevor, 1929- :Transparency slides of New Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-7487

Description: Colour slides of various parts of New Zealand, taken 1950s-1970s by Trevor Nicholls. Includes: 1-2. Kiwis, Taradale, 1960s, 3. Atiamuri, Morris 1000, 4. Cutting de Bretts to ? Range, Morris 1100, 1964, 5-6. Taupo Lake front, 7-8. Rogue Gore Road to Kinloch (Poihipi), 1970s, 9-10. Wairakei 1950s, 11. Taupo houses 1950s, 12. Topdressing, Linden 1950s, 13. Looking over Wahi Village, Taupo 1970s, 14-15. Ruapehu 1970s, 16. Ngauruhoe 1950s, 17-18. Aratiatia 1950s, 19. Huka Falls 1960s, 20. From Moult's, Paraparaumu 1950s, 21. Mudpool, 22. Bully Pt, Taupo, 23 Orakei korake? helicopter 1960s-1970s, 24. Cenotaph. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1925-2005

From: Tiller, Eileen, active 1957-2014: Collection

Reference: PAColl-8991

Description: Photographs relating to Anders Hansen. These include a trip to the Auckland Islands on the Government steamer,`Hinemoa' in 1925. Mrs Hamiora's house in Taupo photographed in 1974. Maori artifacts collected by Anders Hansen's family when he was lighthouse keeper at Little Papanui Inlet from 1916 to 1919. In 2005 the Maori artifacts were sold to the Otago Museum where they now form the Anders/Tiller Collection. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-231014-F to 1/2-231020-F. 35mm-84439 to 35mm-84441. 1/4-114246-F. Quantity: 6 b&w copy negative(s). 3 colour original negative(s) strips with 8 images. 3 colour original photographic print(s). 1 colour original negative(s).

Date: 1960 - 1965

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973 :Old homes & sheds, farms made by pioneers in Norsewood. [1950s-1964].

By: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973

Reference: E-029-q-100

Description: View of a cottage with a blue roof and a chimney and lean-to. There is an outbuilding nearby and a thick clump of trees beyond and close to the cottage. An `aerial' [?] is attached to the lean-to and supported by wires attached to the chimney. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour and gum arabic, 245 x 315 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist available.. Provenance: Donated by Mrs J. Brenkley in 1964.

Date: ca1910, 6 November 1928

By: Gallagher, D (Dr), active 1969

Reference: PAColl-4797

Description: One photo shows Sir Apirana Ngata and party on arrival at the Lake Hotel on 6 November 1928, for the presentation of the Humane Society's medal Arrangement: Negatives ctatlogued at 1/2-032005, 032006 Quantity: 2 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: Between 1950 and 1959

From: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.): Photographs

By: Scott, John Colin, 1924-1992

Reference: PAColl-0811-09-08

Description: 3 interior and 5 exterior views of the Anderson holiday house in Taupo (architect: John Scott) constructed during the 1950s. Images taken in the 1950s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1935

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-038903-G

Description: The Presbyterian mission printing press "Te Waka Karaitiana Press" at Taupo. An issue of their magazine "Te Waka Karaitiana" is standing on the press, with a bundle of completed issues. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1935. An original print of this image is in Godber Album Vol 100, p 7 (PA1-o-194) For another view of the printing press see 1/4-038911. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1930 - 1955

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

Reference: Plans-2002-058-053-127

Description: Shows the existing floor plan of a private two-bedroom house that was to be turned into bank premises; three different suggested schemes are shown. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, 490 x 700 mm.

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 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7814

Description: Transparency slides of Wairakei Power Station, Huka Falls, Lake Taupo, Napier and Gisborne, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides.