Places

Date: 1973

By: Shearer, Archibald Reid, 1914-1997

Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-1973-03

Description: Shows photographs of seven scenes: Aoraki / Mount Cook; Tourist beside light plane on a glacier; Boat in Waitomo Glow-worm carves; Geysr at Whakarewarewa; Wellington cable car; picnic beside an inland reiver with distant snowy mountain; dining in a tourist restaurant with high vaulted ceiling. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on poster 815 x 535 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1982.

Date: 1948

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-002

Description: "Illustrating geological formations, Vol 2". Black & white photographs showing the geology and geomorphology of the Rotorua area, taken while George Leslie Adkin was attending a New Zealand Geological Survey Staff Conference, May 9-22, 1948. Includes images of a thermal spring at Ohaki (near Rotorua), the Hinemaiai Stream; Lakes Taupo and Rotoaira, aerial views of the Tongariro volcanic complex showing Mt Tongariro, Mt Ruapehu and Mt Ngauruhoe with the Waco plane used for the flights; the Tikitere thermal area; Lake Rotoiti; the ignimbrite gorge of the Waikato River at the Maraetai dam site; Whakarewarewa; Maggie Papakura's house at Tuhoromatakaka, Whakarewarewa. He later visited Napier and Hastings (Sept 3-7, and 15-20, 1948), and has images showing Napier City; the shingle beach at the breakwater, Napier; Ahuriri Bluff, and the Manawatu Gorge. On Sept 9th 1948 he took photographs of the Wellington Peninsula from Parkvale Road to Mt Kaukau, and from Mt Kaukau showing the Wellington City hill system and its topographical features.

Date: [ca 15 March 1898]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 12

By: Beattie & Sanderson (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6348-14

Description: Sophia Hinerangi, photographed by Beattie & Sanderson circa 15 March 1898, probably at Whakarewarewa. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Sophia The Guide Whakarewarewa (Protected 15.3.98) Beattie & Sanderson, Auckland Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(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: [ca 1900s-1910s]

By: Leatherby, (Mrs), active 1973; William Beattie & Company; Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-7230

Description: Postcards of New Zealand scenes, taken ca 1900s-1910s. Includes: Auckland Hospital and Grafton Road; rowing boat on the Waikato River; Palmerston North Railway Station taken by Muir & Moodie; Trafalgar Street, Nelson looking towards the cathedral; view over Lake Rotorua with a Maori woman and child in the foreground and St Faith's Church next to the lake (published by W Beattie & Co); port of Onehunga; and High Street, Dunedin Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 postcards. Physical Description: Postcards

Date: 1901

Reference: PA1-f-064

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901. Scenes include the arrival of the royal visitors at various places, by ship, Royal carriages, and Royal train; ceremonies and rites welcoming them; views of triumphal arches erected for the tour, including Marble Arch (Queen Street, Auckland), the Auckland Harbour Board Arch, the Citizen's Arch (Wellesley Street), and the Government Arch (City of Wellington). Other ceremonies are associated with the presentation of war-medals; the laying of foundation stones (Victoria College for Maori Girls, Parnell, Auckland), the Wellington Town Hall, and the Queens Memorial Statue in Dunedin); and the march past and inspection of various guards, troops and veterans. One photograph shows Lord Ranfurly in Auckland, reading the proclamation extending the boundaries of the colony to include the Cook Islands (p 16). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "Visit of Duke of Cornwall and York (King George V.). 1901. Maoris - Auckland. Wellington. Christchurch". Hand-printed in ink on slip attached to front cover.

Date: [197-?]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-6916

Description: Photographs of Whakarewarewa, Rotorua District, including Whakarewarewa Forest, taken ca 1970s by John Ingle Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

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 1900-1910]

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945; Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4534

Description: Postcard of Partington's Mill with Eady's Piano Van in front of it and the junction of Queen and Customs Street with Thames Hotel and trams taken by Frederick Radcliffe; statue of Logan Campbell in Cornwall Park; Lake Tarawera taken by Blencowe; Lyttelton harbour taken by Muir & Moodie; and Evans Bay, photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: One print at PAColl-6181-10.

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: 1909

By: F G L (Artist), active 1909

Reference: Plans-80-2296

Description: Sketch of model Maori pā, Whakarewarewa, showing Puarenga Stream nearby. Areas for various activities and location of various buildings are labelled: pataka, matmaking, carving shed, wharepuni, wharau, large rununga, whareariki, pataki timanga, Ipu pataka, pouwhaka tupua, tuaahu kauhanga-nui, whare tohunga. Some elements of the sketch are drawn in red ink, including a gateway labelled 'Proposed', and some are drawn in black ink, including a gateway labelled 'Present'. Historian Don Stafford described Rotowhio as an early Ngati Tama village which was close to a small 'lake of blue ducks' within the Whakarewarewa Reserve (see 'The history and placenames of Rotorua', 'The new century in Rotorua: a history of events from 1900', and 'The founding years in Rotorua: a history of events to 1900 ' by Donald Murray Stafford). Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Rotorua, Whakarewarewa Pa (Rotowhio) The name Rotowhio for the model pā was taken from the name of an early pā or village known as Rotowhio which is said to have been sited at the Whakarewarewa. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Black and red ink drawing on cream paper, 540 x 380 mm

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.

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 1924-1958]

From: Vogt, Herlof Anton Herlofsen, 1914-1984:Photographs and postcards

By: Vogt, Herlof Anton Herlofsen, 1914-1984; Vogt, Birgette Marie, active 1950s-1990s

Reference: PA1-o-748

Description: Anton Vogt was conceived in 1914 just before his parents returned to Norway from Argentina. His father, Volrath Vogt, had gone to Argentina as a young man of 20 in 1905. There, among other things, he worked as gaucho, herding cattle on the Pampas. In 1912 he married Margot Herlofsen, another Norwegian in Argentina, and in 1913 they had their first child, Sito, Anton's sister. Anton was born in Norway where his parents lived during World War I. His father worked as a business man supplying chemical products to the British Government. After the war the family moved to London where Volrath established what was at first a successful business in the boom of the immediate post war years. When the business failed he moved with his family to the Waterberg district, 200 miles north of Johannesburg in what is today Botswana. There during the early 1920s he managed a 200,000 acre cattle ranch on the edge of the Kalahari desert for a Norwegian consortium When this venture came to an end in 1926 the family came to New Zealand and ran a small shop at Bucklands Beach, Auckland. Anton and his sister worked at various jobs during their late teenage years and largely supported the family financially. In 1931 Anton got a job with the Western Electric Company and they sent him to Hamilton where he Lived for most of the 1930s. He then went to Wellington in the late 1930s still in the employment of Western Electric. In late 1938 Anton married his first wife, Rosalind Lees, and in 1939 entered training college. He Worked in broadcasting during the 1940s. Anton and Rosalind had six children Photographs in this album cover the period from childhood in Norway during the First World War to young parenthood in the late 1940s. It is rich in Norwegian relatives, African cattle ranches and family, friends and colleagues in New Zealand. There is also an interesting personal record of Erling Tambs, a Norwegian yachtsman who sailed from Oslo to Auckland in the "Teddy" ca 1931 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: December 1911 to January 1912

From: Field, Arthur Nelson : Collection of albums and negatives

By: Field, Arthur Nelson, 1882-1963

Reference: PA1-q-076

Description: Photographs taken on a trip leaving Wellington on Christmas Eve 1911, by A N Field and K A Henderson. Itinerary of the trip. Rail to Auckland from Wellington; Steamer from Auckland to Thames; Bicycles from Thames to Waihi, to Tauranga, to Matata, to Rotorua, to Waiotapu, to Wairakei, to Taupo; Steamer from Taupo to Tokaanu (January 15th 1912) Bicycles from Tokaanu for about 10 miles on the Waiouru Road; Coach to Waiouru; Train from Waiouru to Ohakune; On foot from Ohakune, up Mount Ruapehu; Train from Ohakune to Taumarunui; Steamer from Wanganui to Palmerston North (1 1/2 days) Train from Palmerston North to Wellington. Inscriptions: Album page - Trip Xmas 1911. A N Field & K A Henderson. Left Xmas Eve 1911 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey cover, red spine, entitled `Sunny memories'; 32.0 x 27.5 cm

Date: 1884 - 1886

From: Medley, Mary Catherine 1835- :Mary C. Medley's sketch book ; visit to Rotorua before Tarawera eruption [No.] 12. 1884-1886.

By: Harper, Laura, 1833-1887

Reference: E-377-019

Description: Shows a Maori village beneath a range of hills, possibly drawn by Laura Harper Other Titles - Whakarewarewa ... Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Waka rewa rewa - Maori village Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 125 x 210 mm.

Date: 1975

By: Stafford, Donald Murray, 1927-2010; Thermalart Productions

Reference: A-242-015/017

Description: Contents: Carved gateway. - Village storehouse, storehouse. - War memorial gate. All are copies of nineteenth century images of Maori and European constructions Quantity: 3 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, 202 x 254 mm and 254 x 202 mm in envelope, on buff coloured paper.

Date: 1892

Reference: PAColl-0378

Description: All prints are dated 1892 on the backs of the backing boards. Thermal areas include "The Torpedo" hot lakes and the "Brain Pot, Whakarewarewa". Images of Maori include 2 unidentified groups, 1 unidentified woman and child, 1 of Guide Sophia, and 1 of a man noted as "The Bone Scraper. One of the last of the cannibals" Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-071738, 071739, 071741, 071743 to 071746 and 071749 Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. Physical Description: Albumen prints, mounted on to card

Date: 1900s

From: Tourist Department album 5

Reference: PA1-o-499-26

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

Date: 1922 to 1923

By: d'Oisly, Maurice, 1882-1949; Morrison, George Scott, 1918-2004

Reference: PA1-o-351

Description: Photographs, chiefly taken by Maurice D'Oisly, when on tour through New Zealand and Australia with his wife, the singer Rosina Buckman, and her mother Henrietta Buckman. Images begin on the RMS Ionic, travelling from Southampton to New Zealand, including scenes of shipboard life; Panama Canal; various passengers and crew on the ship. Shipboard staff include Captain (also called Commander) Jones, Chief Engineer Scott, Purser Gregson, and Dr Irving. Passengers include Mrs Guthrie-Smith and her daughter Barbara Guthrie-Smith. Inscriptions: Album page - "Tour 1922-23" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown leather cover; initials M. d'O. stamped into leather; 24.5 x 31.5 cm