Places

Date: [ca 1904-ca 1940]

From: Stuart, Henrietta, fl 1950s :Postcard albums

Reference: PA1-q-1018

Description: Postcards of hotels at - Roxburgh. Timaru. Wanganui. Onekeneke. Henley. Taupo. Kaikoura. Pembroke. Waitomo. Rotorua. Rakaia. Skippers. Winchester. Kamo. Queenstown. Napier. Hastings. Mount Cook. Riverton. Opunake. Tapanui. Paeroa. Wellington. Invercargill. Masterton. Te Aroha. Auckland. Whakarewarewa. Hanmer Springs. Hunterville. Dannevirke. Bluff. Orepuke. Portobello. Southbrook. Waiau. Nelson. Oamaru. Blenheim. Mount Egmont. General views and street views of cities and towns. Many of these include hotels, public gardens, and beaches. Places included are - Middlemarch. Nelson. Oamaru. Invercargill. Blenheim. Napier. Hastings. Gisborne. Taihape. Waimate. Waipukurau. Lower Hutt. Rangiora. Opotiki. Wellington. Pahiatua. Akaroa. Timaru. Wanganui. Kaikoura. Ashburton. Dunedin. Feilding. Leeston. Te Aroha. Geraldine. Gore. Dannevirke. Oponake. Hamilton. Havelock. Port Chalmers. Bluff. Hunterville. Rotorua. Opononi. Clinton. Havelock. Picton. Roxburgh. Tapanui. Auckland. Cromwell. Masterton. Hanmer. Waitara. Wairoa. New Plymouth. Westport. Havelock North. Some snow scenes. These include - The Tasman Glacier and Maltebrun Hutt. Muller Hut and glacier, Mount Cook. Skiers at Fairlie. Horses in snow at Naseby. Snow scene, Wanganui district. Snow scene, Upongaro. Other postcards include - A man on a horse-drawn cab beside a gas lamp. A Woman with a decorated bicycle. Pelorus Jack. Two women in a carriage. Charabanc full of women. Mansion House Kawau Island. There are five coloured novelty cards in the album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: Between 1900 and 1910

From: Matthews, Edward J :Photographs of Ann Diamond and the Diamonds Hotel, Red Jacks

Reference: 1/2-190585-F

Description: Diamond's Hotel at Red Jacks, Grey District, photographed in the 1900s by an unknown photographer. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate copy negative 10 x 12.5 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: 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: 1903

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketches

Reference: E-346-3-051

Description: View along the Hutt Road, with possibly the Kaiwharwhara Hotel in the foreground, a boat in the harbour (or at the water's edge?), Somes Island and the Hutt Valley in the distance Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 163 x 224 mm

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-102

Description: A hotel called Star of the South beside a road, the Rangitata River in the foreground, a horse and cart on the road and hills in the background. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm

Date: ca 1900

Reference: 1/2-002777-F

Description: The Wesleyan mission station at Kaeo showing other houses in the town and what is probably the hotel. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1996-1975

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

Reference: MS-Papers-7261-56

Description: Comprises memo relating to history of Vacation Hotels with abbreviated history of the company (1966-1973); report of THC (1975); report, Waitomo Resort Hotel and Waitomo Caves; and notes on the early history of the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts (1901-1915) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca 1890s

Reference: 1/2-002774-F

Description: The hotel at Inangahua on the bank of the river with a man up a ladder fixing the roof. People, horses and carts are in the yard in front and other out-buildings and houses surround it. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [1960?s]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-7261-57

Description: Scrapbook of brochures, information sheets for guests, photographs and other papers relating to the various hotels within the THC organisation and the services they provide Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1900]

Reference: PA4-0621

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Otira Gorge Hotel, showing a horse-drawn coach with passengers. Photograph taken by B W Kilburn ca 1900. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Otira Gorge Hotel, New Zealand; Verso - Photographed and published by B W Kilburn.... Littleton N.H. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: ca 1900

Reference: PAColl-7444

Description: A Newmans coach and four outside the accommodation house at the Hope Saddle. A woman and four men are standing outside it, one of the men holding a bucket. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1880s-1900s

Reference: PAColl-7220

Description: Photographs of Clarke, Graham and Fyfe who first climbed Mount Cook on Christmas Day 1894, with their mountaineering equipment; the sheep dog of James MacKenzie the sheep-stealer; a bullock team pulling wool bales; the Fairlie to Mount Cook coach with John Rutherford driving; the bridge over the river at Lake Tekapo with the hotel next to it; Mount Cook Station, originally built by A Burnett, with a thatched roof and the family outside it; a drawing of the ferry crossing Lake Pukaki and the original accommodation house on the shore; hay-making in front of the Balmoral homestead; the yard of Haldon station surrounded by trees showing the out-buildings and men with dogs; Levels homestead with a man with a hoe and others outside; and a group of men and women picnicking in front of two tents at Governor's Bush in Mount Cook township being the first party conveyed by the Mount Cook Motor Company ca 1880s. Images were used in the "History of the Mackenzie county to 1912" and all have similar typed captions beneath them. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-007817 to 007827 Quantity: 11 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1862-1906

Reference: MS-Papers-0173

Description: Mainly applications for publican and accommodation licences, judgment summons, and plaints. Also some papers from the magistrate's court, Napier, and a copy of a statement made by Hohaia Ngahiwi, 1885. There is also a court book, written in English and Maori recording charges and verdicts of Maori offenders heard in the courts in the Taupo district, 1863-1873; cash book of the magistrate's court, Taupo, 1871-1878; and a general order book of the Taupo police station containing copies of circulars and memos, 1883-1906. Language - Court book written in English and Maori Quantity: 26 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 4 Dec 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile.. Provenance: Previously in the collection of Henry Thomas Hill (1849-1933).

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-073

Description: View from lower Wadestown, looking along the Hutt Road towards Petone. A steamer in the foreground and Kaiwharawhara with the Kaiwharawhara Hotel. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 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: 1900 - 1910

From: Mair, Gilbert Henry, 1875-1966 :Photographs

Reference: PA4-1365

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the remains of the Terrace Hotel, Te Wairoa, after the eruption of Tarawera Inscriptions: Mount verso - beneath image - Handwritten in pen (slightly faded): Terrace Hotel Te Wairoa after the eruption of Tarawera 18-6 Rotorua Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1903 - 1909

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Waimate-1905-01

Description: Circular gummed label shows an arrangement of text around the border, and a space in which the owner could write name and address. Twomey was the proprietor of this hotel around 1903-1910. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on circular gummed label, diameter 85 mm.

Date: Feb - Dec 1903

From: Andersen, Johannes Carl, 1873-1962: The 9.5 am

Reference: MSY-8157

Description: Volume two of 'The 9.5 am' magazine (Vol 2 No 1, Feb 1903 - Vol 2 No 11, Dec 1903). Contains whimsical articles about 'colonial' life. Includes jokes, poems, extracts, and illustrations. The illustrations include drawings, paintings, and photographs. The Oct 1 1903 issue includes a poem, photograph, and autographs relating to the 'Civil service bicycle race'. Images include: - 'Kurow' which includes a scene of hills, mountains and a wooden building. - Valley of the Hawdon River. - Upper Waimakariri and "Glaciers at the head of the Waimakariri (from Bealey)". - Hakataramea Station. - A full page photograph of a cricket match between England and Canterbury, Feb 6, 7 and 9, 1903, at Lancaster Park in Christchurch. Also an article relating to this match. - Images relating to the "Australasian Squadron in Lyttelton Harbour" including HMS 'Ringarooma' and HMS 'Karrakatta' and sailboats going out to "salute the flagship". - Photographs of a 'Manuka flower' and a 'Posy of grasses'. - "Lumpers shed of Lyttelton". - Photographs relating to the "Disposal of the Annan Settlement" which took place in Waiau, North Canterbury in November 1903. - Also images of Sumner, the Avon River, and "Part of Canterbury College". Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Black leather bound volume, 35 cm x 24 cm. Contains some original black and white photographic prints, original drawings and copies of artworks cut out from publications and pasted in to this volume.

Date: 1904

From: Ephemera relating to hotels, motels, hostels and other accommodation in Taupo and the surrounding area

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Taupo-1904-01

Description: Postcard shows a two photographs of the Spa, one of each side of the postcard. One side shows an exterior view of the Spa buildings, and one an interior view of the dining room. The address and message are handwritten, to Miss Baker, Napier Terrace, Napier. The message is: "Dear Miss Baker, Just a line leaving here tomorrow. Weather fair. Good time. Will drop another card later. Yours truly, M O O'Connor[?]" Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 91 x 137 mm. Provenance: Purchased from the Complete Stamp Company, Auckland, in 2013.