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Date: [1880s]

From: Kirk, Thomas William, 1856-1936: Photograph album

By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-138

Description: Photograph album of New Zealand and Pacific Island scenes. Most were taken by George Dobson Valentine, in the North Island of New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, and Tahiti; a few were taken by the Burton Brothers in the South Island. Within the New Zealand scenes there are a large number of views inside and out of the Waitomo Caves; and another group show the area around Lake Rotomahana with the Pink and White Terraces before and after the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera. Pages 88 to 150 are blank. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown cover, mottled brown corners and spine, with gold lettering on black panel on spine `Kirk. Prints of New Zealand'; a bookplate inside the front cover reads `Thomas William Kirk'; 35.0 x 26.5 cm

Date: 30 Sept 1900 - 31 Oct 1900

From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly

By: Ross, Malcolm, 1862-1930; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953

Reference: PA1-f-143

Description: Arrangement: The album consists of Hill-Trevor's diary of the cruise, with the photographs interspersed with the text. This album documents the cruise of Lord Ranfurly, Governor of NZ, aboard HMS Mildura to the Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga and the Kermadec Islands, in October 1900, in the course of which he annexed the Cook Islands and Niue for the British Crown. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-386

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm

Date: [193-?]

From: Jansen, Nancy (Mrs) : Tourist Dept lantern slides

Reference: PA11-213

Description: Quantity: 13 b&w original transparency/ies.

By: Bartlett, Robert Henry, 1842-1911

Reference: PA7-29-15

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1930-ca 1940]

From: Webb family: Transparency slides of new Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-6797

Description: Haul of fish on boat deck. Bird eggs (Moa?). Rotomahana crater eight weeks after Tarawera eruption. SS Mata in Sounds with Lord Bledisloe and the Duke of Gloucester on board. Thermal area. Whale skeleton. Deer in forest clearing. Accomodation house, Waimangu, destroyed in the Tarawera eruption. Ariki Maori village, Lake Tarawera. McRae's Hotel, Wairoa, after Tarawera eruption. The Terraces Hotel, Te Wairoa, after Tarawera eruption. View of Mount Tarawera after the eruption. Landscape covered by volcanic ash from the Tarwera eruption. Lord Bledisloe and Alfred Warbrick fishing at Lake Tarawera. Hazards house, Wairoa, after the Tarawera eruption. Boiling lake, Waimangu. Green falls, Orakeikorako. Quantity: 21 b&w original transparency/ies 1 hand coloured images. 2 colour original transparency/ies Dufaycolor.

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Christie, Hettie Florence, 1902-1988 :Photographs and album of New Zealand scenes

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA7-41-23

Description: Close up view of a steam vent known as The Whistler. Photograph taken by F A Coxhead. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - The Whistler Wairakei, Taupo, N.Z. 181; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - F.A.C. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.6 x 20 cm

Date: [Early 1880s?]

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Taber, Isaiah West, 1830-1912

Reference: PA1-q-153

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken by various photographers, circa early 1880s. Images include several Maori groups, Maori kainga, meeting houses, carving; a large number of views of mud pools, geysers, hot springs, and in particular views of the Pink and White Terraces before the Tarawera eruption in 1886. Other views show areas of the South Island, including Dunedin City, Oamaru, Christchurch; and the North island including Auckland, Thames District (a number showing aspects of gold mining in the area). The last photograph, of the R.M.S.S. Zealandia was taken by Taber Photo, San Francisco. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with grey blue cover, black corners and spine edged with gold; 30.5 x 25.5 cm

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: [Circa 1890s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919

Reference: PA1-o-520

Description: Album of tourist views of New Zealand and the sub-Antarctic Islands, chiefly taken by John Richard Morris, Jnr, circa 1890s. Places and subjects listed above where identified. The Sub-Antarctic Island views are all of native flora and fauna of the different islands, listed on the images as mollymawks, albatrosses, sea lions, crested penguins and erect-crested penguins On page 32 there is a view of the SS Knight Templar leaving Lyttelton on February 17, 1900, taking about 260 soldiers and 300 horses of the 3rd Contingent "the New Zealand Roughriders" to Durban, en route to fight in the South African War. The wharf is crowded with people seeing the ship off, soldiers lined up alongside the ship, and bunting flying on two ships nearby. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 24.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: [ca 1890s-1919]

From: Clark, Morton, fl 1900s :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9525-2

Description: Postcards collected by Morton Clark and family. Includes a number of postcards addressed to Miss Kathleen Clark (from Fred ?, Harry ?, Uncle Will and Jack Perston) to Mrs Morton Clark (from Fred, possibly a son, and Jack Perston); and Miss Campbell, Nurse at Wellington Hospital (from Sissie Battersby); and stereoscopes of the 1901 royal visit to Rotorua. Quantity: 48 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 9 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) stereoscopes.

From: Bell, Gully, Buddle, Weir :Panorama of geysers and pink terraces, Wairakei

Reference: PA6-467

Description: Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Twin Geysers, Wairakei, New Zealand; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Pink Terraces, Wairakei, New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Single panoramic print with two images

Date: [Circa 1937]

Reference: PA1-f-054

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways between 1937 and 1938 by unidentified photographers. Photographs in the North Island include tours between Stratford and Ongarue; Ngaruawahia celebrations in 1938 (including views of King Koroki's house which was built in 1938); Rotorua and six lakes trip; and opening ceremonies for the Hutt Railway. In the South Island views include Caroline Bay with events at the soundshell; in Timaru, views of a two-storied clubhouse and men playing bowls, a person practising croquet, and several games of tennis on a series of tennis courts; areas in Queen Charlotte Sound, Portage, Pelorus and Kenepuru Sounds and Blenheim Aerodrome; Tasman and Franz Josef Glaciers; Milford Sound; Punakaiki; and Cromwell. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, dark green spine, entitled `Tours 5'; 40 x 60 cm

Date: ca 1900-ca 1925

From: Cox, Thomas George, 1887-1973 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6712-4

Description: Most of the images in this collection are photographic postcards. The largest group are of the Wairakei thermal area taken by Frederick George Radcliffe. Others are of Kawaroa Park, New Plymouth, McRae's Hotel, Te Wairoa, Shannon, a view of the Wellington wharves and Custom House, Mount Egmont, and the Skippers road. One group are of the war memorial erected by Roseneath School, Wellington. Quantity: 27 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: Rayner, Walter Moody, 1869-1939

Reference: PA4-0910

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of porridge pots, Rotorua, taken by W M Rayner ca 180s Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Porridge pots, Rotorua; Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Backing board recto - left of image - W M Rayner - photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

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

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PA7-19-20

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1930-ca 1940]

From: Webb family: Transparency slides of new Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-6798

Description: Sea anemones. Sea turtle laying eggs. Glacier. Native forest, Milford track. Thermal areas. Stalagmites and stalactites (Waitomo?). House and garden. Boiling stream, Waimangu Valley. Thermal area and Waikato River, Orakeikorako. Rainbow trout, Fairy Springs. Gannets. Devil ray fish being hauled onto a boat. Three men hauling a boat ashore. Boat on lake with mountains in background. Tasman Glacier. Southern Alps from the air. Coastal cliffs. Southerland Falls. Portrait of George Bernard Shaw. Quantity: 19 b&w original transparency/ies 7 hand coloured images. 4 colour original transparency/ies Dufaycolor.

Date: [ca 1940s-1950s]

By: Anderson, Cecil R, active 1940s; Ashburton Museum

Reference: PAColl-9442

Description: Photographs of Mount Ruapheu erupting, Pohutu Geyser, and aircraft, taken ca 1950s by Cecil R Anderson of Ashburton Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

By: Bartlett, Robert Henry, 1842-1911

Reference: PA7-29-13

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).