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Date: [ca 1880-1910]

From: Scenery Preservation Board :Scenic photographs of New Zealand

By: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Scenery Preservation Board

Reference: PAColl-0444-1

Description: Photographs of the following: a set of seven photographs by Collis and annotated by F P Corkill, land agent, re landholding around the Waiwhakaiho River; scenic views such as waterfalls, lakes, and the Pink and White Terraces; bridges with annotations re height etc; sixteen numbered photographs mounted two to a card of scenic views in the Taranaki Region, Rotorua and the far north (including ones of Taumaha Gorge, Taranaki and Lake Ora - location unidentified); a set of seven photographs of the Waipu Caves including Lot's wife, the anvil and the sugar loaf in Morrison's Cave; a clipping of St Paul's Cupola and a photograph of Kauri Gully, Northcote with annotations on resolutions passed re the establishment of reservations; a panorama in two photographs of Flagstaff Hill, Dunedin with annotations re a potential reserve; and two of a tramping party of three men and five boys resting at a waterfall. Includes a recent hand-written list of the photographs. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted prints

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: [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: [after 10 June 1886]

By: (W N) Tuttle & Company

Reference: PA7-52-10

Description: View of volcanic ash covering the land showing the effect of the volcanic eruption on trees near the shores of Lake Tikitapu. In the foreground to the right is a man wearing a long white scarf and a hat. Two small wooden buildings are near the newly-formed lake's edge. Two figures can be seen beside the building on the left in the middle distance. Photograph taken by shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera on 10 Jun 1886. Compare with image at PA7-37-27 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Tuttle & Co for Simpson & Co; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Tikitapu Lake & Mt Tarawera eruption Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15.5 x 21 cm on mount 24.4 x 27.5 cm

Date: [after 10 June 1886]

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

Reference: PA7-37-27

Description: View of volcanic ash covering the land and effect of the volcanic eruption on trees near the shores of Lake Tikitapu. In the foreground to the right is a man wearing a long white scarf walking towards the photographer. Two small wooden buildings are near the newly-formed lake's edge. Two figures can be seen beside the building on the left in the middle distance. Photograph taken by Burton Brothers, shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera on 10 Jun 1886. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4070 - Tikitapu Lake - after eruption June 10 1886. Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.2 x 19.8 cm on mount 22.7 x 29 cm

Date: [1886]

By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA7-54-18

Description: View in the Tiki Tapu bush, near Blue Lake, Whakarewarewa, after the Mount Tarawera eruption of 10 June 1886, taken by George Dobson Valentine in October 1886. The two men in the foreground are possibly Charles Chapman and Joseph McRae who are known to have accompanied Valentine at this time. Indentical image at PA7-54-03 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Tiki-Tapu Bush. After eruption. 119. GV Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 28.9 x 18.7 cm

Date: 1957 - 1958

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

Reference: A-060-090

Description: Shows the two tohungas at the entrance to the cave on shores of Lake Tikitapu chanting a karakia to overcome the taniwha Kataore Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Ink, 305 x 200 cm on sheet 380 x 280 cm

Date: 1884

From: Harper, Laura 1833-1887 :Laura Harper's sketchbook. No. 10 1884

Reference: E-376-016

Description: Shows end of Tiki Tapu Lake (Blue Lake) - See page 14 & 15 for remainder of lake in pencil and watercolour Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - end Tiki Tapu Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 140 x 230 mm. (page size)

Date: ca 1912 and ca 1941

By: Stevens, Catherine, active 1983

Reference: PAColl-0282

Description: One group portrait of the Absolum family and five coloured pritns of Rotorua, Ohinimutu and the Blue lake. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1868 and 1885?]

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

Reference: PA1-o-083

Description: Photograph album titled 'New Zealand land of loveliness'. Includes photographs of the Wairoa and Rotorua Districts, taken by the Burton Brothers of Dunedin. Other Titles - Land of loveliness Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Cloth cover entitled "Land of loveliness. New Zealand. Photographed by Burton Bros. Dunedin"

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

Date: 1906 - 1912

By: Howorth, Charles Henry, 1856-1945

Reference: G-691

Description: View from the shore with bush and several cows at the lake's edge, hills surrounding the lake on the left and in the background Howorth's Thermal Region paintings were likely to have been completed between 1906, when he left Invercargill and 1912. Around 1908 is the most likely date Inscriptions: Signed: C. H. Howorth Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil 60 x 905 mm Provenance: Donation: New Zealand High Commission, London: 28.4.76

Date: 1890 - 1900

From: Franklyn, F :[Drawings of New Zealand scenes] / F Franklyn [ca 1900?]

Reference: A-141-017

Description: View of the lake with steep bare cliffs, topped with bush Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 210 x 154 mm

Date: [ca 1880-1920]

By: Sievwright, J D, active 1987; Berry, William, active 1877-1926; Falk Studio; Hemus, Charles, 1849-1925; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Talma Studio (Australia); W & D Downey (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-3409

Description: Collection also includes an invitation for Mr and Mrs J D Sievwright to meet the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, 1901. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 item of ephemera. Transfers: To Ephemera Collection - Eph-A-BIRD-1900-01 : Invitation to 18th annual exhibition of the Wellington Poultry, Pigeon, and Canary Society.

Date: 1884 - 1886

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

Reference: E-377-029

Description: A view of Lake Tikitapu Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Blue Lake - Tikitapu Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 125 x 210 mm.

By: Bartlett, Robert Henry, 1842-1911

Reference: PA7-29-12

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

Date: 1884 - 1886

By: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922; Harper, Laura, 1833-1887; Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975

Reference: E-377

Description: Contains sketches from a visit to Rotorua 1884 to 1886. Also includes sketches of Lake Tarawera, Ohinemutu, Green Lake, Blue Lake, Wairoa, Picton, Auckland, Mount Egmont. Also contains some sketches possibly by Laura Harper. Mount Tarawera erupted in 1886. Inscriptions: Pages are numbered at top left, and title is given below image. See shelf list for details of works attributed to Laura Harper.(Nos. 10,19,20,27,36,37,39-43,45,50.) Laura (Taylor) Harper was a sister of Mary Catherine (Taylor) Medley, and died in 1887. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 29 pencil, and 20 pencil & watercolour works, in sketchbook 135 x 220 mm.

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).

By: (W N) Tuttle & Company

Reference: PA7-22-05

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

Date: 1957 - 1958

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

Reference: A-060-091

Description: View of men diving from canoes into the Blue Lake in search of a tiki that had been lost by the daughter of a high-born chief. The sacred greenstone ornament was a treasured heirloom of the tribe. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Ink, 150 x 200 cm on sheet 190 x 280 cm