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[Trask, E. E., fl. 1956] :Waikato Lakes [ms map]. Drawn, E.E. Trask, 2/8/56.
Date: 1956
By: Trask, E E, active 1956; Automobile Association (Wellington, N.Z.) Inc.
Reference: MapColl-832.18cdh/1956/Acc.9633
Description: Hand drawn map of the Waikato River from Lake Taupo to Waipapa. Includes Whakamaru and Maraitai Lakes and the proposed Ohakuri, Atiamuri and Waipapa Lake. Settlements and roads are named. Ms map amongst Automobile Association maps donated 1970 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil on card, linen backed, coloured, scale [1:126 720], 47 x 48.6 cm. Provenance: Signature of E.E. Trask, 2/8/56 bottom right corner Handwritten note on bottom right corner - State Hydro Dept., (Mr. Heine) 9/8/56
Rawlins, E :[Ateamuri Bridge on the Waikato River. Schmidt litho. Auckland, Schmidt, 1883]
Date: 1883
By: Rawlins, E, active 1882; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925
Reference: A-104-082
Description: A view of the bridge at Atiamuri with Pohaturoa Rock See Ellis, E M Early prints of New Zealand. No. 974 Other Titles - Atiamuri Extended Title - Illustration from: Picturesque New Zealand by C O Montrose, illustrated by E Rawlins. Auckland, Oct. 1882-April 1883. p. 42 (qPer PIC) Inscriptions: Signed: E R Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Monotone lithograph, 170 x 240 mm
Photograph of Atiamuri Bridge across the Waikato River
Date: [ca 1904]
From: Wells, Joan Mabel, fl 1986 :Photograph album of Japan and photograph of Atiamuri
Reference: PA9-100
Description: Photograph of Atiamuri Bridge across the Waikato River, taken ca 1904 by Thomas Pringle. Shows Pohaturoa Rock in the background. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - top left - Muriel Pringle 6/4/1904; Backing board recto - bottom right - Waikato River at Atiamuri, About 1902 Pohutaroa in Background by Thos Pringle. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 25.6 x 32.7 cm [visible image], in decoratively carved wooden frame 44.5 x 57 cm
Angas, George French, 1822-1886 :Church Missionary Station on the Waikato River, New Ze...
Date: 1864
From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]
By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Angas, George French, 1822-1886
Reference: E-372-f-005-1
Description: Shows Rev B Y Ashwell's first mission station at Pepepe or Taupiri located beside the Waikato River. There are high, bush-clad hills behind the house which has a fenced garden. A canoe is close to the station on the river. A group of Maori are seated in the foreground Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 44, Jan 1864, p.104 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 175 x 240 mm
Fifield, W. E., fl. 1930s :Plan of Rangitoto Tuhua [ms map] H.G., W.E. Fifield. [ca.1930?]
Date: 1930
By: Fifield, W E, active 1930s
Reference: MapColl-832.18cdc/[ca.1930?]/Acc.5829
Description: Hand-drawn map of the area from Taumarunui following the main trunk line and the Ongarue River northwards to Mangeokewa River to the Waikato River and Waihaha River to Waituhi. Creeks, streams and rivers are named, some marked in blue. Watersheds of the Mokau, Wanganui and Waikato Rivers are prominently marked as are land blocks and mountain peaks which include height in feet. Lines of the Taringamotu Company's Tram and the Mangapehe Tram are drawn and the map includes many references to tram formations. Directions with mileages are given to Lake Taupo. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, coloured, scale [1:63 360], 87.5 x 78.2 cm.
[Smith, Maurice Crompton] 1864-1953 :Junction of Waikato and Waipa, Ngaruawahia. [ca 1881]
Date: 1880 - 1885
By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953
Reference: A-174-025
Description: Ngaruawahia on the left with the Waikato stretching into the distance towards hlls Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash sketch 110 x 190 mm
Newman, Frederick Hugh, 1900-1964 :[Plans for electric substations and memorial fountai...
Date: 1949 - 1953
By: Newman, Frederick Hugh, 1900-1964
Reference: Plans-2004-053-001/003
Description: Includes perspective drawings of the Whakamaru Power project, Islington substation, and for a memorial stone and fountain in Manners Street for the Methodist Church, 1939. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, sizes varying up to 520 x 765 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms Maria Newman, of Lower Hutt, in 2004. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1291.
Gisborne, William, 1825-1898 : Journal of a trip by Messrs Petre and Gisborne from Auck...
Date: 11 May-16 Jun 1847
By: Gisborne, William, 1825-1898
Reference: qMS-0844
Description: Gisborne and Petre went by sea to Coromandel and then by land, first up to Thames and travelling up the river, passing through pa, including Opita, then to Matamata, Tauranga, Rotorua, Lake Tarawera and Lake Rotomahana. They returned to Auckland by way of the Waikato River, passing through Maungatautari and Waipa. The journal includes interesting descriptions of Maori life and Gisborne meet the Revs Brown, Spencer, Chapman and Ashville [sic] and various prominent Maori. Variations in title - Binder's title: Gisborne journal The journal is loose in a cover with a typescript and index in an envelope at the back Quantity: 1 volume(s) (38 pages, 30 leaves)). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript (32 cm, blue linen)
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
Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898 :Whangamarino stockade... 2.40 p.m. Overlooks Waikat...
Date: 1864
From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Sketchbook of English and New Zealand scenes] 1860 - 1864
Reference: E-349-051
Description: Drawings of two guardian figures from a pa entrance at Rangiriri. Rough indications of flax bushes from Whangamarino Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, 100 x 320 mm
[Mitford, John Guise] 1822-1854 Attributed works :[Whangape Lake, River Waikato. ca 1845]
Date: 1840 - 1850
By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854
Reference: C-089-017
Description: A view of Whangape Lake from its shores Exhibited in 'Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art' Exhibition at Auckland City Art Gallery, 2 February - 22 April 1990. Title from K.S. Alexander Sketchbook, in Auckland Public Library. On mount: Lake close to Waikato. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 137 x 255 mm Provenance: Purchase: Mr Rich, Farnham Commons, Bucks., 1974.
Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908 :Group on the banks of the Waikato River at Atiamuri
Date: [1880s]
By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908
Reference: PA7-42-06
Description: A posed photograph taken at Atiamuri on the banks of the Waikato River. A group of men have alighted from a horse-drawn carriage. The horses are unharnessed and feeding from a wooden trough. Two groups of men are shaking hands while children and adults look on. A man and a woman are standing nearby. To their right is a wooden cottage with smoke coming from a chimney and another thatch-roofed building. Photograph taken by Frank Arnold Coxhead in 1880s. A similar image at PA7-41-26 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Ateamuri, Waikato; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - F.A.C. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14 x 19.3 cm on mount
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.
Photographs of the Arapuni dam, the Catlins and other views
Date: [ca 1890-1927]
From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); France, J W, active 1890s
Reference: PAColl-0348
Description: Mounted photographs by the Burton Brothers of the junction of Eden and Tees Streets, Oamaru showing St Luke's Church, shops, tram lines and part of the Council Chambers; looking down on the wharves of Port Chalmers with the Presbyterian Church in the right foreground; and the Kakahi Falls, near Tawhata on the Whanganui River. Two smaller mounted photographs of a river in the Catlins District. Three pages from a photograph album holding five photographs of the building of the Arapuni Dam on the Waikato River including the buried forest exposed by the Waikato River diversion. Three loose prints by J W France of an early settlers' cottage made of ponga with a turf roof and with the family outside; a group of six workmen standing on the road they were building with long handled shovels and a boy and a dog in front of them; and the funeral procession of Sir John MacKenzie in 1901 led by a pipe band up the main road in Oamaru working. Finally a loose print of the bridge over the Waiho River. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-68928 to 1/2-068934. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.
Creator of Collection Unknown : Postcards of Hamilton
Date: ca 1925-1935
By: Cartwright, George, active 1900s-1920s
Reference: PAColl-7240
Description: Series of postcards of Hamilton taken by G Cartwright: children swimming and playing in the lake; cars and a bus travelling along Victoria Street with shops on either side including a billiard room and a dentist; the traffic bridge, with the railway bridge in the distance over the Waikato River, with river boats moored next to it; Soldier's Park; the cenotaph; a steam train going over the railway bridge; and the traffic bridge with parkland in the foreground. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-002723 to 002729 Quantity: 6 b&w copy negative(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives
Searle album 2
Date: [Circa 1932]
By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984
Reference: PA1-f-131
Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Roland James Searle, circa 1930s. The first subject is the opening of the Wellington Citizens' War Memorial (Cenotaph), and includes a programme of the dedication and handing over on Sunday 17th April, 1932 (p 001-012). That is followed by the consecration ceremony for the National War Memorial and War Memorial Carillon (again with a copy of the programme), held on Anzac Day, April 25th, 1932 (p 015-023). Pages 029-033 show the arrival of the Wellington Jubilee Dock in 1931, the floating dock which was towed from England by two Dutch tugboats. The next sequence is entitled "The Express pulls out - Thorndon", and follows the Express to Wanganui where views show a river-boat trip up the Whanganui River (p 037-056), and include a map of historical areas on the river compiled by Annabell & Marchant, surveyors of Wanganui (p 055). The train trip is continued in the next section, and includes an illustrated diagram of the Raurimu Spiral, then arrival at the new Beach Road Auckland Railway Station. Photographs of Auckland include the Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland University, Grafton Bridge, a sailing ship at the wharves, and the Auckland Zoo. Further North there are scenes of ploughing, a mine entrance, rock formations at Waro, and the Taheke Falls; before travelling to Rotorua and the surrounding thermal regions. A number of images were taken at Whakarewarewa, including photos of Paul Thomas and his wife, along with scenes showing women washing clothes in hot pools, a woman with a baby on her back holding a rope with a food basket cooking in the pool, children in a hot pool, and men at work carving. Paul Thomas wrote to thank Searle for sending him copies of photographs (p 101, written on May 1st 1932). Later photographs again with the train often in view show timber felling and milling, and views of the Arapuni hydroelectic power station. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured grey cloth cover, entitled "Snapshots"; 28.5 x 39.0 cm
Waikato River, Cambridge
Date: [1920]
From: Andrews, N :Stereoscopic photographs
Reference: PA4-0377
Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Waikato River, Cambridge, taken ca 1920 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print
View of the Waikato River
From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand
Reference: 1/4-091434-F
Description: View of the Waikato River from Inspiration Point photographed by Robert E Wells, date unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.5 x 4.5 inches
Travels of a Country Library Service Bookvan; Waikato trips, 1970s
Date: 1974, 1978
From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation
Reference: PA1-o-848
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).
Wright, Frank W, 1860-1923 :The meeting of the Waipa and Waikato Rivers, 1912 [by] F.W....
Date: 1912 - 1973
By: Wright, Frank, 1860-1923; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)
Reference: C-085-020
Description: The rivers merging with low banks and some bush on both sides. On the right bank are two Maori women, one with a small girl, the other carrying a baby, descending to a canoe and a rowboat at the water's edge Reproduced from original watercolour in the Auckland City Art Gallery Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 355 x 533 mm, on sheet 522 x 636 mm