Places

Date: 1905

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

Reference: 1/1-007043-G

Description: The Champagne Pool, Wairakei, photographed ca 1905 by Thomas Pringle of Wellington. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - No. 585 Champagne Pool, Wairakei Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 8 inches

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: 1917-1971

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

Reference: PAColl-8687

Description: Photographs of Wairakei; the fossil forest at Curio Bay South Otago; Wanganui hospital and nurses (1917-1918); a re-enactment of Captain Cook's landing at Picton (1970); views of Wellington; Otaki River and Otaki Forks; Northland. Title supplied by the Library Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 81199 to 35mm, 81212. Slides at PA12-5487 to PA12-5488 Quantity: 25 b&w original photographic print(s). 14 colour original photographic print(s). 32 colour original transparency/ies. 15 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strips comprising 41 images. Provenance: Photograph of Wanganui Hospital, nurses etc. belonged to Annie Hansen who an aunt of Eileen Tiller. Annie Hansen was the daughter of Anders and Elizabeth (Bessie) Hansen. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Hanson family diaries (MS-Group-0887).

Date: ca 1910

From: Robinson, Mr :Photograph albums containing mainly carte de visite portraits and views of New Zealand

Reference: PA1-f-063

Description: Large format photomechanical tourist views of New Zealand taken by an unidentified photographer, possibly published by Wrigglesworth & Binns in "W & B Series". Places shown are listed above. One photograph shows a young maori woman wearing a feather cloak and a hei tiki, and carrying a mere. Other Titles - Robinson III Album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 430 x 295mm rebound with blue "Library" marbled covers

Date: 1890 - 1900

From: Franklyn, F :[Drawings of New Zealand scenes] / F Franklyn [ca 1900?]

Reference: A-141-027

Description: Looking towards a geyser erupting from rocks Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 190 x 160 mm

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: [1960-1969]

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2906

Description: Transparencies showing views of a group walking at Mount Holdsworth, taken by Cyril Beavis circa 1960s. Also includes views of the Wairakei Power Station, Wairakei, taken by Cyril Beavis in the 1960s. Also includes a transparency with the annotation "airport breakwater"; transparencies of paintings, annotated as "Lake Tarawera | Hutt Rd. paintings"; a transparency showing a portrait of the actor Richard Wordsworth; and transparencies showing construction sites in Wellington. Transparencies showing Wellington constuction sites continue at PA12-2907. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Slides delivered in housing with annotations that read "airport breakwater", "Lake Tarawera | Hutt Rd. paintings" and "1/2 frame colour Minolta". Quantity: 18 colour original transparency/ies. 1 b&w original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in April 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-05.

Date: ca 1900s

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 16

Reference: PAColl-7344-61

Description: Thermal craters next to a bubbling pool with a man looking into it at Wairakei. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 16 February - 21 March 1958

From: Tomsett, Maurice William Henry :Colour slides of New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7764

Description: Phase 7 continued - 123. Lake Taupo; 124. Waikato River, near Huka Falls (outlet of Lake Taupo); 125-128. Huka Falls (Waikato River); 129. Wairaki Geothermal Project (Gen power by nature steam); 130-131. Boiling mud; 132. Natural steam; 133. Tapped outlets; 134. Power house, housing 400 kva generator operated by steam thru 8" diam pipe at 150 lbs per square inch from depth of 1363"; 135. Boiling water run off; 136-145. Scenes of geyser valley near Wairaki, Govt run - guided tour 6/6. Boiling mud - Geysers - Extremely interesting. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

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.

Date: 1956, 1963

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7912

Description: Transparencies of geothermal activity at Wairakei, taken 1956 and 1963 by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: [1970-1975]

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7261-12

Description: File relating to background information on various Tourist Hotel Corporation hotels and venues covering history of the hotels and the use of the surrounding areas; included are the Franz Josef and Fox glaciers, Wairekei Thermal Reserves, Tokaanu Hot Springs, Waitomo Caves including Waitomo, Ruakuri and Aranui caves Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1950 - 1893 - 2020

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Wairakei

Description: Includes ephemera for hotels in Wairakei and the vicinity. Includes an ilustrated envelope, perhaps 1950s? Includes THC circular luggage label to stick to luggage, and THC rectagular label with string, to be tied to luggage Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying up to 250 mm.

Date: 1893

From: [Ephemera relating to hotels, motels, hostels and other accommodation in Wairakei. 1893, and 1900s onwards ]

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Wairakei-1893-01

Description: An arrangement of text on a card describing the attractions of the Wairakei area, whose principle sights were: Tuhuatahi (Great Caldron [sic]), Dragon's Mouth and Cascade Geyser, Lightning Pool, Black Geyser, Eagle's Nest, Devil's Tollgate, Great Wairakei, Prince of Wales' Feathers, The Mirror, Twin Geysers, the Great Blow Hole or Devil's Trumpet, Huka Falls, Arateatea Rapids. Card is reprinted from page 130 of W T Cunningham's "New Zealand as a tourist & health resort : a handbook to the hot lakes, the cold lakes, sounds, etc." (1893) Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Black and white print on card 150 x 96 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in February 2015

Date: [ca 1909-1950s]

Reference: PAColl-10088

Description: A range of photographs taken in New Zealand between 1909-circa 1950s by unidentified photographers, including five taken in the Rotorua/Ohinemutu/Wairakei areas. Comprises: Five images taken in the Rotorua/Ohinemutu/Wairakei areas: one of a group, and Maori guide, by thermal pools taken circa 1942 by Moore and Thompson; one of a collection of Maori artifacts, particularly wood carvings, taken at Ohinemutu circa 1941; one labelled 'Cottage Camp Ohinemutu' taken circa 1920s; one photomechanical print of the Waimangu Geyser; one taken near the Prince of Wales' Feathers geyser at Wairakei Two of a traction engine and caravans, at Blands Wood, Peel Forest, near Geraldine, taken 1919 and 1920. One of composer Alfred Hill and a group of Maori children, taken circa 1950s. Occasion unidentified. Other images show Maori children, possibly in Ohinemutu; Lambton Quay in Wellington in 1931 with tramlines; aerial photographs of Kawerau wood processing plant and workers camp, taken by Wade Studios, Gisborne; one of a Briscoe motor car taken circa 1920s; one copy print of a traction engine and caravan, corner of Beach and Trevors Roads, Ashburton, 21 Dec 1909. Additional biographical information available in the backfile under Gardiner. Contact the Curator for further information. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 photo mechanical print. 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Provenance: Donor is the daughter of Marilyn Gardiner. Some of the photographs were from the collection of Andrea's maternal grandfather (Marilyn's father) Mostyn Phair Thompson, who was interested in history and amassed a private collection, much of it lent for the replica colonial cottage that was at the Rotorua Museum from 1969.

Date: 1961-1980

From: Blumhardt, Doreen (Dame), 1914-2009 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8545

Description: Interior and exterior views of the living area of Doreen Bulmhardt's house, Northland, Wellington. Photographs of Doreen Blumhardt and her clematis in flower, taken 1980. Wairakei hillside, 1966. Forest stream and pratia species in flower, Pukeiti, 1967. Large pot, 1961. Group of unidentified friends. Brown pot 1975. Views of Lake Mapourika, February, 1978. Views of Okarito Lagoon, February 1978. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1955-1969]

From: Conley, Peter Vaizey, 1924-2000 :Transparency slides of New Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-8864

Description: Colour transparency slides of New Zealand scenes, taken ca mid to late 1950s and 1960s by Peter Vaizey Conley. This set are taken in the North Island, chiefly coastal views. All are unidentified but the photographer has described this set as 'Picton to Days Bay', 'Muritai [Road, Lower Hutt?] to Wellington Airport', 'Hamilton to Ngaruawahia', 'Waihi Gorge to Tauranga', 'Whakatane to Rotorua', 'Russell to Bay of Islands,' 'Wairoa', and 'North Auckland to Ohope'. Includes: Views of a harbour, taken onboard a ship, possibly showing the Cook Strait and Malborough Sounds from the inter-island ferry. There are several views of an unidentified bay, possibly Days Bay, Eastbourne. Two slides of geothermal activity, Wairekei, Taupo District. Miscellaneous images show an unidentified woman, sitting on the bonnet of a Volkswagen motorcar, and standing on volcanic rock formations at an unidentified ocean bay. One shows a Ford [Zodiac?] motorcar parked outside a house. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: [ca 1942-1943]

From: Pugh family: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10208-1

Description: Photographs and postcards relating to Mary Helen Pugh (nee Ensor) when she nursed at Rotorua 1942 to 1943. Taken by unidentified photographers. Most prints inscribed on reverse, apparently by Mary Helen. - One set of prints show views of nurses with babies at a nursery. Also views of a group of nurses posing at a kitchen afternoon tea for a nursing sister, and two nurses at the gate to their home 'Casaloma' at 106 Arawa Street, Rotorua. Nurses include Sister Elwood with baby Yoko, B Holland with baby Elizabeth Cooper (at 3 months), E Mitchell with baby B Whatu (premature), Olive Bell, Sister Ford, and Ray McIntosh. - One set of prints show views of Ohinemutu; an interior view of St Faith's Church, a carved figure with a bell, tekoteko figure, carved doorway, and the refurbished Tamatekapua meeting house circa 1943. Also includes a pakeha woman standing underneath a carved gateway, and Guide Tiki (Dick) Papakura. - One set of prints show scenic views taken during cycling and recreational trips including: trees on Hongi's Track, Lake Rotomahana, Tarawera, Lake Rotokawa, Mokia Island on Lake Rotorua, the Green and Blue Lakes, Rainbow Rapids on Waikato River, various geothermal attractions at Orakei Korako, the Wishing Well, Aladdins Cave, Golden Fleece Terrace, Devils Throat, and Artist's Palette. Also includes views of Aratiatia Rapids and Huka Falls, Bridal Cascade geyser at Wairekei Valley, and pine trees surrounding Pohaturoa Peak at Atiamuri. - Also includes memorial service song sheet for opening day of Tamatekapua meeting house at Ohinemutu 1943. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints, printed matter

Date: 1953

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Wairakei-1953-01

Description: Pamphlet promoting Wairakei as a tourist destination, with text and a map. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on both sides of pamphlet. Physical Description: Photolithographs on both sides of pamphlet 223 x 190 mm, folded to 223 x 95 mm.