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Kirk album
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
Travels in New Zealand / transcribed by J A Bell
Date: 1886, 1993
From: McNab, John, b 1855 : Diary and travel account
Reference: MS-Papers-6235-3
Description: Title continues:`...off for a holiday, or, Glimpses of Maoriland'. McNab recounts his journey with technical details about the transport he took, various points of interest such as lengths of tunnels, Windy Wellington, and he includes poems; he names and describes each geyser at the Pink and White Terraces, particularly notes churches visited and people he met. Relationship complexity - Photocopy of original volume at MS-Papers-6190 and microfilm at Micro-MS-0930 In Feb 1886 McNab left his home in Timaru for a tour of the North Island travelling by train, steamer, and coach from Christchurch, Wellington to Napier, Tauranga, the Pink and White Terraces, Auckland, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Masterton, back to Wellington, Lyttelton, and home to Timaru Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript
Scenic views of New Zealand
Date: [ca 1930-ca 1940]
From: Webb family: Transparency slides of new Zealand scenes
Reference: PA12-6797
Description: Haul of fish on boat deck. Bird eggs (Moa?). Rotomahana crater eight weeks after Tarawera eruption. SS Mata in Sounds with Lord Bledisloe and the Duke of Gloucester on board. Thermal area. Whale skeleton. Deer in forest clearing. Accomodation house, Waimangu, destroyed in the Tarawera eruption. Ariki Maori village, Lake Tarawera. McRae's Hotel, Wairoa, after Tarawera eruption. The Terraces Hotel, Te Wairoa, after Tarawera eruption. View of Mount Tarawera after the eruption. Landscape covered by volcanic ash from the Tarwera eruption. Lord Bledisloe and Alfred Warbrick fishing at Lake Tarawera. Hazards house, Wairoa, after the Tarawera eruption. Boiling lake, Waimangu. Green falls, Orakeikorako. Quantity: 21 b&w original transparency/ies 1 hand coloured images. 2 colour original transparency/ies Dufaycolor.
Evans, I :Photographs of Rotorua and Nelson
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
Webster album 9
Date: [Circa 1890s]
From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection
By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919
Reference: PA1-o-520
Description: Album of tourist views of New Zealand and the sub-Antarctic Islands, chiefly taken by John Richard Morris, Jnr, circa 1890s. Places and subjects listed above where identified. The Sub-Antarctic Island views are all of native flora and fauna of the different islands, listed on the images as mollymawks, albatrosses, sea lions, crested penguins and erect-crested penguins On page 32 there is a view of the SS Knight Templar leaving Lyttelton on February 17, 1900, taking about 260 soldiers and 300 horses of the 3rd Contingent "the New Zealand Roughriders" to Durban, en route to fight in the South African War. The wharf is crowded with people seeing the ship off, soldiers lined up alongside the ship, and bunting flying on two ships nearby. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 24.5 x 32.5 cm
Postcards and stereoscopes of New Zealand and Pacific
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.
Twin Geysers, Wairakei, New Zealand/Pink Terraces, Wairakei, New Zealand
From: Bell, Gully, Buddle, Weir :Panorama of geysers and pink terraces, Wairakei
Reference: PA6-467
Description: Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Twin Geysers, Wairakei, New Zealand; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Pink Terraces, Wairakei, New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Single panoramic print with two images
Rayner, W M :Porridge pots, Rotorua
Date: [ca 1880s]
By: Rayner, Walter Moody, 1869-1939
Reference: PA4-0910
Description: Stereoscopic photograph of porridge pots, Rotorua, taken by W M Rayner ca 180s Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Porridge pots, Rotorua; Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Backing board recto - left of image - W M Rayner - photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print
Salmon album 11
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
Kia-ora Rotorua. Copyright H M Boyd, Iles Kodak Store, Rotorua [1940s?]
Date: 1935 - 1950
From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to Rotorua as a tourist destination. 1940-1949]
Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Rotorua-1940s-02
Description: Wallet of twelve concertina-folded photographs of Rotorua showing the Bath House, the Municipal Buildings, Fairy Springs, Pohutu Geyser, Boiling mud, Guide Rangi, Maori babies, entrance to Whaka[rewarewa], Ohinemutu from Hospital Hill, Poi dancers, "Tama-te-Kapua" carved house, and the entrance to the Government Grounds. Dated 1940s, as the Municipal buildings were newly built in 1940 when the Rotorua Library moved in there. No corroborating documentation in Wises directories 1930-1950s. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph strip 445 x 145 mm, folded into wallet envelope 85 x 145 mm. Provenance: Donated by Michael Clements, Wellington, in 2011.
Anderson, Cecil R, fl 1940s :Photographs of landscapes and aircraft
Date: [ca 1940s-1950s]
By: Anderson, Cecil R, active 1940s; Ashburton Museum
Reference: PAColl-9442
Description: Photographs of Mount Ruapheu erupting, Pohutu Geyser, and aircraft, taken ca 1950s by Cecil R Anderson of Ashburton Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).
Carroll album
Date: 1868
By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933
Reference: PA1-o-094
Description: Views of New Zealand chiefly taken by Daniel Mundy circa 1868, with some taken by Charles S Spencer. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Decorated tan coloured cover "Scraps", 25.5 x 33 cm Provenance: Alexander Turnbull Library donation slip on front page reads: "Scrapbook of old photos collected by Mr Mundy about 1868."
Scenes in New Zealand Album
Date: ca 1909
From: Berwick, S W (Mr) :Albums of New Zealand scenes and coastal towns
Reference: PA1-o-834
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photograph of Pohutu Geyser
Date: [192-?]
By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948
Reference: PA6-720
Description: Panoramic photograph of Pohutu Geyser at Whakarewarewa, taken ca 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Pohutu Geyser in action Rotorua N.Z.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - R.P. Moore 80 Manners Street Wellington All rights reserved Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 25.2 x 101 cm Provenance: Purchase, 2007
[New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department] :New Zealand; new sights, new thrills, n...
Date: 1971
By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Shearer, Archibald Reid, 1914-1997
Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-1971-01
Description: Poster advertising New Zealand tourist attractions with six photographs: Mount Cook, light aircraft flights to glaciers, Waitomo Caves boat trip, Pohutu Geyser at Whakarewarewa, the Wellington Cable Car, dining in a restaurant, picnicking and fishing beside a river. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 810 x 535 mm. Provenance: One copy purchased from Vintage Posters Only, Australia, in 2007.
Pinnell, Karen :Album of motoring tours in New Zealand
Date: ca1945-ca1955
By: Pinnell, Karen, active 2002
Reference: PA1-f-240
Description: Album of scenic photographs taken on motoring tours through the North Island during the 1940s and 1950s. It includes a series of images showing United States Servicemen touring in New Zealand, probably during World War 2. Places visited include the Chateau Tongariro, Ohinemutu, Rotorua and Huka Lodge. Mount Ruapehu is shown in eruption. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: From the collection of the Draper and Brenton families.
A motor tour in the North Island of New Zealand
Date: [ca 1926]
From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays
Reference: PA1-o-1053
Description: A motor tour in the North Island of New Zealand. The album opens at Napier City and includes views of places, bush scenery, rivers, lakes, and camps as the party moves through Hawke's Bay, the Gisborne Region, the Bay of Plenty, then across and into Taranaki via Mount Messenger and back to Wellington via New Plymouth and Wanganui. There are views of Wellington and Newtown Park during the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York in 1926, Wellington Harbour, Haughton Bay, Porirua Hospital, and Khandallah Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Saxby album 1
Date: [1880s]
From: Saxby, Stephen Hector, 1907- :Photograph albums
By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933
Reference: PA1-q-212
Description: Photographs taken during the 1880s, chiefly by George Valentine, and Charles Spencer, both of whom visited Mount Tarawera before and after the eruption of June 1886. Inserted in a pocket at the front of the album are images cut from the paper "Newsview", June 1949, showing historic photographs of the eruption, and another double-page from the Weekly News (June 6, 1951) on the "65th Anniversary of the Mount Tarawera catastrophe". The latter article notes that mud, estimated at 75 ft in depth, covered a vast area. The album includes images taken before the eruption, and shows the same areas irreparable damaged. Many show the Pink and White Terraces, the village of Te Wairoa, and the massive rift in the mountain; also a group led by Sir James Hector to study the aftermath and changes wrought by the eruption. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, impressed design in dark brown; 31 x 27 cm
New Zealand. General Survey Office :The health resorts of New Zealand; the central ther...
Date: 1888
From: New Zealand. General Survey Office :The health resorts of New Zealand; the central thermal springs of the North Island / N.Z. Survey Dept. Wellington, 1888.
Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-1888-01-cover
Description: An arrangement of text, with a circular inset illustration of a geyser. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 225 x 105 mm.
Photograph album containing photomechanical views of New Zealand tourist areas
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