Places

Date: 1905 to 1908

From: Hislop, Harold Stevens, d 1933 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-229

Description: Includes photographs taken by Harold Hislop of friends and family at their home in Wellington and during trips around New Zealand. Possibly contains photograph of Myamym [house?] in Melbourne, Victoria. Album also includes photos of Utauta Webber (nee Wi Parata) and Natanahira Wi Parata, and other relatives, from Waikanae. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown leather cover; 24 x 31 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: 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: 1976

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans for privately-owned Wellington buildings. ca 1960-1982]

By: Holmes, Alexander Colin, 1914-1978

Reference: Plans-96-008-471

Description: Job 681, drawing No 1 - Floor plan, site plan, elevations and sections Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo, 510 x 765 cm

Date: November 1963, April 1964

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7900

Description: Transparencies of Taupo, Lake Taupo, Turangi and the Tongariro River, and National Park, taken 1963-1964 by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

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: 1987

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-362-160/191

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 31 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary.

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: 1973

From: Tole, Charles Holbert Smales, 1903-1988 :[Sketchbook] 1971-1973.

By: Tole, Charles Holbert Smales, 1903-1988

Reference: E-323-q-038

Description: A pattern of hills with green fields in the foreground Other Titles - New Zealand Electricity Department's Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Crayon and pencil with scraping out, 163 x 205 mm

Date: [ca 1903]

By: Rowntree, William Walter, 1873?-1945; Rowntree, John Burgess, 1906-1986

Reference: PA1-o-442

Description: Album of photographs taken by W W Rowntree. They cover a journey between Wairoa and Taupo, travelling on foot with a packhorse, and with two companions between Taihape and Wairoa. The album includes two envelopes with loose photographs, one contains one photograph of a Maori family seated on the ground in front of a thatched building, and the other contains four photographs entitled "Waikaremoana" in pencil on the envelope. Three of these show groups of Maori, and one shows the lake. A handwritten slip inserted in the front of the album gives the following information: "The exact location of Maori homes not known. Note storehouse in actual use; totara bark (?); thatch (in loose photo); Mokau Falls; track at Hopuruahine Bluffs; men's dress (one man wearing a waistcoat with fob watch chain, p 16); Maori boy holding a camera; Earthquake Gully; a road around a lake; Crow's Nest Geyser etc" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, embossed title which reads `Photographs'; 16 x 18 cm Provenance: Donated by John Rowntree, Auckland

Date: 1971-1972

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

Reference: PA1-o-843

Description: The journey begins at Palmerston North and includes Hawke's Bay, Gisborne and the Bay of Plenty. The van follows State Highway two with frequent deviations from it into various back block localities. Another section of the journey is from Wairoa to Taupo via Lake Waikaremoana and the Kaingaroa Forest. Children as library users and at some of the schools where the van stops are featured. There are a number of photos of the power houses at Kaitawa, Tuai, and Piripaua Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1920

Reference: 1/4-003020

Description: SS Tongariro from the starboard side leaving the pier with a small number of passengers. Others on the pier waving them off. Photographer unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1950s]

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

By: Alleman, Land and Verrall (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0811-06-08

Description: Exterior view of the Taupo Memorial Hall (architects: Alleman, Land & Verrall) constructed circa 1950s. Image taken circa 1950s by an unidentified photographer. Wilson collection Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 133 x 82 mm

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: [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).