Places

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: [Between 1880 and 1889]

From: Burton Brothers :New Zealand Through the Camera

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA4-0105

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Tikitere - Brandy Hill bubbling pool, taken in the 1880s by the Burton Brothers of Dunedin. Inscriptions: mat verso - top centre - Handwritten in blue pen: Tikitere - Brandy Hill - Bubbling pool. Burton Brothers, Dunedin, N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

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: 1898

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PA7-19-13

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

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: [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: 1898

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PA7-19-31

Description: Duplicate of PA7-19-13 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1880 and 1889]

From: Burton Brothers :New Zealand Through the Camera

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA4-0102

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Tikitere, taken in the 1880s by the Burton Brothers of Dunedin. Inscriptions: mat verso - bottom left - New Zealand through the camera. Burton Brothers, Photos., Dunedin, N.Z. Tikitere Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: [1900s-1910s?]

From: Mercer, Robert, fl 1964 :Photographs and albums of Maori, New Zealand views, and illustrations

Reference: PA1-o-339

Description: Album of photographs taken by unidentified photographers, taken in central North Island, and Otago and Southland regions, circa 1900s and 1910s. Some of the images are related to railways, including North Island scenes of the first passenger trip on 14th February 1909, during which the train stopped on the Raurimu Spiral because of a lack of engine power to haul it; the railway station at Longburn; a locomotive owned by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company; various engines including one image showing a J Class locomotive and an A Class locomotive with the caption "Note the difference in 20 years". South Island trains are shown in the Catlins District, including the construction of the Catlins River Railway, the Houipapa Quarry on the Catlins River Extension, loading wagons in the Balclutha ballast pit, the viaduct across the Catlins River at Houipapa, the Clutha Railway Bridge, and the Houipapa terminus on the Catlins River Railway. The North Island scenic views include the areas around Lake Rotorua, the Government Sanatorium at Rotorua, Sophia's Whare, a group of Maori boys diving for pennies, Whakarewarewa, Okere and Ohakune. Scenic views in the South Island are mostly around Dunedin (including Telford's country house in the Balclutha District), Clutha River, Balclutha, and the Catlins, including flax swamps and flax mills in the Catlins District. Many of the images are taken with an emphasis on atmosphere, includingGathering storm", "Beside the winding river", "Outward bound", "A heavy pull" and "A calm day". Inscriptions: Album page - "Thus we remember many a sunny hour with bike and camera"-Inside back cover Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with very dark blue cover, black leather corners and spine; 22 x 29 cm

Date: [1890s-1900s?]

From: Teale, Edmund Oswald (Sir), 1874-1971 : Birell album

By: Charles H Kerry & Company; Shearsby, A J, active 1913-1928; Star Photo Company; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA1-q-029

Description: Postcards, chiefly of Australia, including Tasmania, Adelaide, Queensland, New South Wales, with several showing various tin mines in Tasmania. There is a section of New Zealand postcards in the middle of the album, many taken by an Australian photographic company "Charles H Kerry & Co", labelled "Series 53. Hot Lakes District, New Zealand". These images are tinted, and include views of the Huka Falls, the Pink and White Terraces, Waiotapu, Ohinemutu, Whakarewarewa, Lakes Waikaremoana and Taupo, and the Aratiatia Rapids. The NZ images also include views of the Mount Cook region of the South Island, including Franz Josef Glacier, Hooker Glacier, Mounts Darwin, Sefton and Cook, and Lakes Te Anau and Wakatipu. Many of the postcards show the photographers' names, and include R C Harvey, A J Shearsby, the Star Photo Co., de Tourret, and the New Zealand Tourist Department. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown "Postcard album" with red, green and blue decoration, 285 x 240 mm

Date: 1943-1948

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Further papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7575-034

Description: Contains letters to Ngata relating to political affairs, elections, lands and activities to raise funds and establish memorial dining halls such as kapa haka competitions Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1957 - 1958

From: [Turner, Dennis Knight], 1924-2011 :[Illustrations for Legends of Rotorua and the hot lakes. 1958?]

Reference: A-060-073

Description: Shows Huritini disrobed and standing at the side of a mud cauldron about to throw herself in Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Ink, 135 x 200 cm on sheet 190 x 280 cm

Date: [ca 1920s-1940s]

Reference: PA1-o-1247

Description: Album of photographs taken on motor tours in the North and South Islands, mid 1920s-early 1940s. Includes Tourist Series and commercial postcards as well as original photographs by an unknown photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1957 - 1958

From: [Turner, Dennis Knight], 1924-2011 :[Illustrations for Legends of Rotorua and the hot lakes. 1958?]

Reference: A-060-072

Description: Illustration used on title page of Chapter 10 - Tikitere. Shows groups of Maori looking down onto bowling mud pool and thermal area known as Tikitere (also sometimes referred to as The Devil's Cauldron, Hell's Gate, The Inferno, The Devil's Porridge Pot, etc) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Ink, 84 x 200 cm on sheet 190 x 280 cm

Date: 1917-1930

From: Kensington, Jacqueline :Photographs, certificates and theatre programmes relating to the Reeve and Oxley families

By: Kensington, Jacqueline, active 1995; Kensington, Iris Merle, 1905-1982

Reference: PA1-o-730

Description: A lot of Merle Reeve's relatives and friends, views of cities and towns, especially Palmerston North and Wellington, sports teams associated with Wellington Teachers College, Wellington Boys College, and All Saints Anglican Church, Palmerston North, in the late 1920s. Scenic views taken on holidays. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Between 1880 and 1889]

From: Burton Brothers :New Zealand Through the Camera

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA4-0106

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Tikitere, Hot lakes district, taken in the 1880s by the Burton Brothers of Dunedin. Inscriptions: mat verso - bottom left - New Zealand through the camera. Burton Brothers, Photos., Dunedin, N.Z. Tikitere - Hot Lakes District Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: [ca 1900-1920]

By: Walker, George Allen, -1915; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945

Reference: PAColl-0524

Description: Collection comprises: Postcards of scenic attractions in the Rotorua and Waitomo area and others of Auckland and Christchurch including one of a young boy, F Shadbolt, on a pony and trap and a soldier in uniform named Howard Photographs of of an elderly woman called Mrs Stevenson and Miss O'Grady Photographs of soldiers at camp during World War I Photographs of children in hot pools, possibly at Whakarewarewa, and of the Blue and Green Lakes at Rotorua, taken by Blencowe Photograph of F O'Grady in a car belonging to Mr Pountney of Carr, Pountney & Co Photograph of a house in Waihi built 1900-1902 with a mother and two children standing outside Photograph of taxis outside a hotel in Onehunga, taken ca 1911 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). 30 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 2 b&w original photographic print(s) coloured by hand. Physical Description: Photographic prints Provenance: Donated by Charles O'Grady, Wellington, 1964

Date: [ca 1918]-Sep 1966

By: Duncan, Sue, active 2012; Whites Aviation Ltd; New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Navy; Iles, Arthur James, 1870-1943

Reference: PAColl-9997

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenes, taken circa 1918 to 1966, chiefly for the tourist market. Photographers unidentified unless listed below. Includes some postcards. Images comprise: -Taupo area, including Mount Tauhara, Lake Taupo, Karapiti Blowhole -Wellington, with Massey Memorial, ship in Jubilee Dock and SS Rangitira -Tikitere, Rotorua District , with thermal hot springs, taken by Arthur James Iles -Wanganui River with river scene and Pipiriki Hostel and Whanganui town scenes (including Virginia Lake, Lion Monument, and river looking to Durie Hill) -Otaki, Kapiti Coast, with meeting house exterior, and Rangiatea Church interior -Foxton, an aerial view taken by Whites Aviation Unidentified images include sales tent for Dunmac portable glass houses and sailing scenes Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Provenance: Donated by Sue Duncan, 2012 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive: material tranferred from there - To Ephemera Collection - 10 postcards catalogued at various locations including Eph-A-EXHIBITION-1940-01.

Date: 1888

From: Hoare, E A, fl 1887-1888 :Drawings, watercolour sketches, photographs and notes of E A Hoare, Artiste, on board 'S S Tongariro'. December 1887 to March 1888

Reference: E-955-f-039-1/3

Description: Top photograph recto shows part of the settlement of Ohinemutu, with the native church (St Faith's) to the right, and Mokoia Island in the middle distance. Bottom image shows Tikitere, or 'Hell's Gate', near Rotorua, known for its many geothermal features including steaming lakes, mudpools and fumaroles. On the verso, a photograph of two men posed against a Tikitapu bush scene Photographs pasted to both sides of a loose sheet of paper, and placed into sketchbook Quantity: 3 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen prints, varied dimensions, on sketchbook page 255 x 370 mm

Date: [ca 1928]

By: Mayne, Elsie Florence, 1909-1996

Reference: PA1-o-1768

Description: Photograph album documenting a trip to New Zealand in circa 1928 made by Mrs Elsie Florence Mayne (nee Cannan) of Australia and her husband Allan Mayne. Comprises photographs likely to have been taken by Mrs or Mr Mayne, also postcards, and tourist photographs. Album probably compiled by Mrs Mayne. Images comprise scenes taken around New Zealand. North Island locations include Auckland, Rotorua and Taupo districts, the Wanganui River, and Wellington. South Island locations include Blenheim, Nelson, Christchurch city, and the West Coast region, including Franz Josef Glacier. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Soft-covered photograph album, entitled 'Portraiture'; 18 x 25.5 cm, containing 65 images Provenance: Ms Shepherd is the niece of Mrs Elsie Mayne.