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Adkin album 14
Date: 1940s
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
By: Oliver, Robin Langford, 1921-2001
Reference: PA1-o-010
Description: Album of black & white photographs, chiefly of geological formations, with some group photographs of members attending the 7th Pacific Science Congress in 1949. Several images by R L Oliver show an eruption on Mount Ruapehu, probably in 1945, with views of the tholoid in the crater, later views showing vents appearing, and finally the engulfment of the larger part of the tholoid by enlargement of the major vent. Other images include one of Tuna Bay delta in the Marlborough Sounds, shell-beds, group photographs of members of the geological section attending the Pacific Science Congress in 1949, and photographs of White island, including one aerial photograph.
Adkin album 07
Date: Circa 1900s
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-f-003
Description: Album of black & white photographs taken during the early 1900s, showing geological formations in New Zealand. They include images of the Banks Peninsula, Sumner, Heathcote-Avon Estuary, Lyttelton Harbour, and the Halswell River, in several sequences in the album; flooding of the Koputaroa Stream at Levin, on 4 December 1906; Lake Horowhenua; Paekakariki Coast; the Wairarapa, including Orongorongo Valley, Wharekauhau Stream, Wainuiomata, Palliser Bay, Mukamuka Valley, Eglinton's Hut; Tongariro National Park area, including Waiouru (in which the stables of Crowther & McCauley coach services are visible), the source of the Waikato River at the gorge and waterfall of the Mangatoetoenui Stream; Mount Ruapehu, crater lake, the Waihohonu Hut, Te Heuheu Peak, Flounder Glacier and Waikato Glacier; Mount Ngauruhoe, slopes and craters and the source of the Ohinepango Stream; Mount Tongariro, Ketetahi Springs and Ketetahi Hut, craters and crater lakes including the Red crater, and Blue and Green Lakes
Adkin album 03
Date: Between 1948 and 1949
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-o-003
Description: "Illustrating geological observations, Vol 3". Black & white photographs of geological and geomorphological aspects of New Zealand. Includes images taken on a second visit to the Rotorua area (Oct 4-12 1948), showing lakes, thermal areas, mountain rifts and other geological formations. A boring plant testing the ground on the line of the proposed Rimutaka Tunnel; views of The Terrace, Wellington showing the office building of the New Zealand Geological Survey at 156 The Terrace; Mangaroa Basin plain; Hutt River valley; the Wellington fault scarp along Grant Road; the geology of the Paekakariki area of coastal lowland; the new Wellington City number 2 water supply tunnel from the upper Hutt River (14 Jan 1949). Also shows images taken when attending the Seventh Pacific Science Congress held in New Zealand, January-February 1949, including views of Auckland; "Birchlands" (home of Sir Frank Mappin, Mt Eden, where the Congress garden party was held); Mount Mangere; Auckland Ferry Wharf; an excursion in the Wellington area for the Congress to Baring Head & Orongorongo. Water supply in Paraparaumu, March 25 1949; Visit to East Wairarapa beyond Martinborough (a Victoria University excursion led by Dr A R Lillie and R A Couper), showing Dr Lillie, John Marwick, Thomas Ludovic Grant-Taylor); Castlepoint & the Matapihi Trig Station on the Ruamahanga River, April 14-17, 1949; inland pumice deposit at Waitarere Beach (11 Oct 1949); official inspection of the lower course of the Otaki River (21 Oct 1949) showing the Otaki Railway Bridge with piles beneath the piers exposed by erosion; coast of the Miramar Peninsula.
Adkin album 20
Date: February to March 1913
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-q-003
Description: Record of a trip from Woodville to Napier and Taupo via the Napier-Taupo Road, February to March 1913. Views include Dannevirke, the upper reaches of the Manawatu River, Waipukurau Lake, Tavistock Hotel, the rail and foot bridge across the Waipawa River between Waipukurau and Waipawa, Hastings Post Office; motor and horse-drawn buses which run between Hastings and Havelock North; house under construction in Henry Street, Hastings (house named Ackworth, owned by Laurence Denton, accountant); views of Cape Kidnappers and the gannet rookery; Ed James and family at their seaside bungalow at Te Awanga; views of Napier and Ahuriri; the Taradale Road embankment over the Tutaekuri River, the Ahuriri Lagoon and mudflats; Marine Parade, Napier showing Norfolk pines, the Municipal Baths and a monument to "six brave men drowned in floods while rescuing people at Clive". Views on the Napier-Taupo Road including the Mohaka River, Tarawera Hotel in Waipunga Valley; Lake Taupo; Huka Falls; Aratiatia Rapids on the Waikato River; hot pool at the Geyser House Hotel (Wairakei) with a group of children swimming; Wairakei Geyser Valley showing geysers, and mud pools.
Carriage driver with Leonard and Ernest Lancaster, at Waihohonu Hut, Tongariro National...
Date: 12 Feb 1910
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-o-003-105
Description: Horse drawn carriage hired from Crowther and McCauley, and group, outside Waihohonu Hut, Tongariro National Park, during an expedition with George Leslie Adkin. From left to right: carriage driver (unidentified), Leonard Lancaster, and his uncle Ernest Lancaster. The corrugated iron hut backs on to the edge of a beech forest. Photograph taken 12 February 1910 by George Leslie Adkin. Original caption reads: "Arrival at the Waihohonu Hut, a two-roomed structure of corrugated iron." for further information regarding this expedition see "An eye for country, the life and work of Leslie Adkin" by A Dreaver, 1997, pages 60-63 Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Fig 105. Arrival at the Waihohonu Hut, a two-roomed structure of corrugated iron Arrangement: See album PA1-o-003, page 14 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 11 x 15.4 cm, on album page 30.5 x 41.7 cm
Gorge and waterfall of Mangatoetoenui Stream, Taupo district
Date: [190-?]
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-f-003-101
Description: Gorge and waterfall of Mangatoetoenui Stream, Taupo district, as seen from the Waiouru-Tokaanu Road. Photograph taken circa 190-? by George Leslie Adkin. Source of descriptive information - Inscription on album page. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Fig 101. Gorge and fall of Mangatoetoenui Stream - the Ruapehu source of the Waikato River - viewed from the Waiouru-Tokaanu Road. Drifting pumice-sands of the Onetapu Desert in foreground and on right. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 11 x 14.4, on album page
Waihohonu Hut and cooking shelter, set amongst beech forest and mossy tussock, Tongarir...
Date: 12 Feb 1910
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-o-003-106
Description: Waihohonu Hut and cooking shelter, Tongariro National Park, set amongst beech forest and mossy tussock. Photograph taken 12 February 1910 by George Leslie Adkin. Original caption reads: "The Waihohonu Hut and cooking shelter picturesquely situated on the edge of a small patch of beech forest. Grass-steppe with moss in foreground." for further information regarding this expedition see "An eye for country, the life and work of Leslie Adkin" by A Dreaver, 1997, pages 60-63 Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Fig 106. The Waihohonu Hut and cooking shelter picturesquely situated on the edge of a small patch of beech forest. Grass-steppe with moss in the foreground." Arrangement: See album PA1-o-003, page 14 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 9.3 x 15.4 cm
Adkin album 02
Date: 1948
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-o-002
Description: "Illustrating geological formations, Vol 2". Black & white photographs showing the geology and geomorphology of the Rotorua area, taken while George Leslie Adkin was attending a New Zealand Geological Survey Staff Conference, May 9-22, 1948. Includes images of a thermal spring at Ohaki (near Rotorua), the Hinemaiai Stream; Lakes Taupo and Rotoaira, aerial views of the Tongariro volcanic complex showing Mt Tongariro, Mt Ruapehu and Mt Ngauruhoe with the Waco plane used for the flights; the Tikitere thermal area; Lake Rotoiti; the ignimbrite gorge of the Waikato River at the Maraetai dam site; Whakarewarewa; Maggie Papakura's house at Tuhoromatakaka, Whakarewarewa. He later visited Napier and Hastings (Sept 3-7, and 15-20, 1948), and has images showing Napier City; the shingle beach at the breakwater, Napier; Ahuriri Bluff, and the Manawatu Gorge. On Sept 9th 1948 he took photographs of the Wellington Peninsula from Parkvale Road to Mt Kaukau, and from Mt Kaukau showing the Wellington City hill system and its topographical features.